-I started wrestling as amateur wrestling when I was 15.

I wanted to be one day, wear this mask, wear my father's mask.

[música] -My dad had many battles, defending his titles, defending his hair against great wrestlers.

My dad was my idol.

-Un foul en cualquier momento.

Proyecta Misterio a Fishman, lo aprehende.

-Basically, I grew up here.

I wasn't like the other kids, that they went to the park or played soccer.

This is where I grew up.

This was my playground.

[música] -Family legacy of Rey Misterio is a bit confusing because there's Rey Misterio Sr., and Rey Misterio Jr.

is not his son; he's his nephew.

--Ticketmaster and Saturday, January 30th, in Los Angeles at the Great Western Forum.

-Then Dominik becomes his grandnephew.

-Misterio chopping down the beast.

Look at this.

Repeated after-- Wait a minute.

Hey.

-The person who's continuing the Misterio name in Mexico and in the southern states of the United States, who is Hijo de Rey Misterio, who is the legitimate son of Rey Misterio Sr.

-I debuted as Hijo de Rey Misterio back in December of 2006.

I got to wrestle next to my dad.

18 years later, here I am.

I like to wear his old school masks that I know new fans haven't seen, or they didn't get to see my dad, but they heard about him.

It's like I become him.

-It's not a copy because he's doing his own thing, but there's a lot of little things you can see, "Hey, that's part of the dad's legacy."

-I'm not here to imitate nobody.

I'm here to do my own story, but I don't want my dad to be forgotten.

I want the people that got to see my father wrestle, I want them to keep seeing my father in me.

-Como yo acostumbré a la gente a dar lo mejor de mí, quiero irme dignamente bien.

Sin aferrarme a querer seguir viviendo de la lucha libre cuando ya no tengo ni capacidad física, ni técnica, ni resistencia.

Ya cuando el traje ya te quede flojo, que los pellejitos ya te cuelguen, mejor es irte dignamente.

-A legacy en lucha libre or pro wrestling, it starts with one wrestler, and either his family continues in the style of it, or his style you can see in other people.

-There's a saying between us wrestlers that we always know how we go up the step in the ring, but we never know if we're going to come down the same way.

-Sabes el riesgo que llevas, sabes que te vistes en un vestidor.

Sabes que te persignas, haces una oración.

Tienes que salir a entregar, aunque te gane el nervio muchas veces, lo mejor de ti.

-Unfortunately, in the 2000s, he had an accident that basically retired him from wrestling.

-Nosotros vivimos una pasión; no es un gusto, no es un oficio.

Yo siempre me dije que yo era bendecido por Dios, lo sigo siendo aún y lesionado.

Yo hacía lo que yo siempre quise ser; me pagaban, viajaba a muchas partes.

Conozco casi todo Estados Unidos, toda la República Mexicana.

Si yo hubiera tenido algún otro oficio, no hubiera conocido lo que conocí como luchador.

-He still kept on being a wrestling teacher, a mentor for a lot of generations.

That's where a lot of his legacy really starts, as a teacher.

-En mis primeros inicios, sus palabras que me dijo antes de subir a luchar: "Tú vas a demostrar de lo que estás hecha.

Ahí no está la niña que está aquí ahorita; ahí está Lady Lee, y Lady Lee va a salir.

Creo que son cosas que se quedan en el corazón.

En cada evento que yo voy y que voy a pisar una nueva arena, digo: "Voy a salir a demostrar.

Tienes que demostrarte a ti misma que puedes luchar contra quien sea".

-Unfortunately, we lost him in December of 2024.

That made people remember and recognize the importance that he had for lucha libre in Mexico and in the States.

-Rey Misterio, que impuso un estilo, hoy por hoy todavía se sigue ese estilo y ese legado de Rey Misterio.

Tú vas a cualquiera de estos dos países, Estados Unidos o México; la lucha es el lenguaje internacional.

Varía un poquito el estilo, pero ¿sabes qué?

La magia es la misma.

-I am a world fighter because I took it upon myself to go out and see the whole world, and that includes Mexico.

I just want to say that all of those people make this country great.

They make lucha libre la mejor.

-Aquí en el sur de California se ve esa magia en el público.

Ya seas latino, ya seas americano, lo vuelvo a decir, ese hybrid mixto de gente.

Eso es lo que hace bonito y espectacular a la lucha libre.

-For a generation of fans, Rey Misterio is basically lucha libre in the Californias.

He was a maestro in the ring, and he was also a maestro outside of it.

He was the teacher of a generation.

-Every single time I stepped out of that curb before I stepped out of that curtain, I prayed to him to take care of me.

I always throw a kiss up in the sky because I know that my father is with me.

I know I'm blessed by him, I know he watches over me.

-Mi nombre es Miguel Ángel López Díaz, soy nativo de Tijuana.

De ocupación: luchador profesional.

Yo represento el personaje de Rey Misterio en la lucha libre profesional.

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