Rey Mysterio could soon have a second child following him into a WWE ring. The AAA general manager and WWE Hall of Famer revealed that his daughter Aalyah is now training at the WWE PC, opening the door to what he believes would be a historic moment, during an appearance on The Undertaker’s Six Feet Under podcast, a Fanatics and WWE original production.
Aalyah is training at the WWE Performance Center
Mysterio said Aalyah, who graduated from UC San Diego with a degree in human biology in July, has done multiple two-week tryouts at the Performance Center and is now committing to it full time. “She did two weeks, and she really loved it. I said, okay, I wasn’t expecting that,” Mysterio said, explaining she first stepped in the ring in October, returned in February, and is establishing herself at the PC as of May.
He stressed that, as with his son Dominik, he never pushed wrestling on her. “The cool thing is, I’ve never pushed the sport down their throat, it’s all came out of them like they wanted to be a part of this,” Mysterio said. “If you would have told me your kids are gonna grow up and become wrestlers, both of them, I think you’re wrong.”
A historic father-daughter, father-son scenario
Mysterio lit up at the idea of sharing the ring with both children. “I would love to create some history,” he said. “To be able to have shared the ring with my son, become the first father and son tag team champions in WWE, and then later on feud against each other, and now with my daughter, it’s like, what can we do there? This is a historical moment.”
He noted the unique nature of it: “We’ve had so many dynasties of families in wrestling, the Von Erichs, the Guerreros in Mexico, the Wagners, the Brazos, but I don’t know if there’s ever been a father wrestler that has been able to share the ring with their son and their daughter at the same time in the same match.” Asked about his own resume in that context, Mysterio joked, “I really don’t have that many accolades, I mean, just Hall of Fame, GM, bring to the table.”
Dominik’s transformation: “What happened? What went wrong?”
Mysterio marveled at how his son Dominik, now the AAA Mega Champion, became one of WWE’s most hated heels. The Undertaker recalled Dominik as a sweet kid backstage, asking, “What happened? What went wrong?” Mysterio pointed to Dominik finding his own path after a directionless stretch in college. “He just got lazy after graduating, and pulled my sides, like, bro, what are you doing with your life,” Mysterio said. “The fact that it came randomly from him, and I never insisted, I think that has to speak for the individual that he is now.”
Mysterio said Dominik needed to separate from him to thrive. “I did feel that there was a bit of awkwardness, or maybe even a struggle, right before he became the person he became, like he didn’t feel like he was fitting in, being by my side,” he said. “So the best thing for him to have done is to detach from his own father, and embrace that character.” He added that Dominik still occasionally asks for advice, “to hear what I have to say, then at the end, like anybody else, he’ll make his own decision.”
The only active Hall of Famer on the roster
Mysterio reflected on being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame around his WrestleMania match with Dominik in Los Angeles while remaining an active competitor. He said he initially balked when Triple H raised it. “Hunter, but I’m like, I’m not ready to retire, like I want to keep going,” Mysterio recalled telling him, before Hunter clarified it was about timing, not retirement. “Little did I know that I would be the only active Hall of Famer in the roster that’s still going,” he said, noting he wrestled and beat Dominik within roughly 24 hours of his induction.
From sleeping under the ring to running AAA
Mysterio traced his journey from debuting at 14 in Tijuana, when he “looked like a kid with the mask on,” to becoming AAA’s general manager. He confirmed he dropped out of high school with his parents’ blessing after Konnan, who he met at age 11, recruited him for the launch of AAA at 17. “He goes, don’t worry, I’ll talk to them. What about my girlfriend? Well, if she loves you, she’ll wait,” Mysterio said. That girlfriend, Angie, waited, and the couple recently celebrated 30 years of marriage.
He recalled the early hardship of breaking into AAA, when his group ran out of money. “When the money was gone, they gave us a place to stay at one of the wrestlers’ gym. We would sleep under the ring,” Mysterio said, describing tearful payphone calls home. “I want to go back home, like I can’t do this anymore. I was crying, 17 year old kid.” Angie, he said, put her own career aside and took a part-time job to send him money until AAA took off.
Mysterio credited Konnan as the first to believe in him and paid tribute to a key early partner: “There would be no Rey Mysterio without Psicosis. He made my work look so crisp and clean.”
Eddie, Angle, and learning to tell a story in WWE
Mysterio said the move to WWE in 2002 forced him to evolve from the fast, directionless pace of WCW into a storyteller. He said Kurt Angle hand-picked him for his first WWE pay-per-view, SummerSlam, and took him under his wing, while Eddie Guerrero constantly pulled him aside. “It was such a learning experience for me that it made my work much more easier and believable,” Mysterio said, adding that learning to sell for bigger opponents helped him “redefine what a top guy looks like” and open doors for smaller and Hispanic talent.
The Undertaker’s broken nose, and his own post-concussion doubt
In a candid exchange, The Undertaker again took accountability for breaking Mysterio’s nose in their match in Cleveland, joking that when he stood up, “there were three of you, do I pick, go for the one in the middle, and hopefully I can catch him.” Mysterio said he felt awful, and The Undertaker recalled telling him, “Ray, you know how much I love you, and if you apologize one more time, then we’re gonna have a problem.”
The Undertaker also opened up about the self-doubt that crept in late in his career, especially after the concussion he suffered in his WrestleMania match with The Rock. “It was like I was a rookie, I had never,” he said of his anxiety heading into a subsequent match with Bray Wyatt. He said even Triple H tried to reassure him (“Dude, you’re the effing Undertaker”), but “I couldn’t hear it.” Both men agreed the hardest part of aging in the ring is accepting that the reflexes change. “You don’t give yourself grace,” The Undertaker said.
Health, biohacking, and what’s next
Both wrestlers compared notes on staying healthy, with Mysterio crediting stem cell treatments as a “game changer” that erased his chronic pain and even his carpal tunnel for years, plus a daily cold plunge routine. The Undertaker detailed the Birmingham hip resurfacing procedures that allowed him to keep wrestling, and said he competed until age 54.
Asked what is left for him, Mysterio said there was never a checklist, and that his focus now is being present for his children and giving back to AAA, “the company where everything pretty much began for me.” He named Dragon Lee, El Hijo del Vikingo, and rising stars Hijo del Vikingo’s contemporaries, along with Mistico’s circle, pointing to Dragon Lee and the luchador Panther as among the next great ones. “There would be no Rey Mysterio without Psicosis,” he reiterated of his roots, before adding of the next generation, “we’re seeing them now.”
Mysterio also gave an update on his animated series, “Rey Mysterio vs. The Darkness,” a 10-episode season released in Latin America in late 2023 and early 2024. He said he has since bought the project back and is seeking a U.S. distributor, having recorded the voiceovers himself in both English and Spanish.
