Chavo Guerrero was the latest guest on the Steve Austin Show and the “Mexican Warrior” had a great deal of topics to touch upon, including partnering with Alberto El Patron on the new promotion in Mexico, Nacion Lucha Libre. Chavo also talks about his major involvement with the production of the hit Netflix series GLOW, wrestling style nowadays, the potential for AEW and plenty more in this hour-plus interview. Some quotes and full audio of the episode are below:
Chavo Guerrero on AEW’s potential as competition:
“People want an alternative which is great for AEW. AEW’s coming in and I think they’ll be able to compete with WWE? I don’t think anybody can, but they’re going to come in and do their product and running once a month or every couple of weeks is one thing, running eight shows a week like WWE does, that’s a completely different animal as you know, so to get to that point, that’s just tough, that’s really tough.
I just think that with New Japan coming out, Ring Of Honor doing well, with like a AAA doing well—people running The Garden, you know what I mean? That’s crazy.”
On working with Alberto El Patron on his new Mexican-based promotion, Nacion Lucha Libre:
“Me and Alberto Del Rio started our own little company called Nación Lucha Libre. We just started, we had our first show last week and we got a TV deal. We got the third biggest network which is called Imagine TV. They’re the number third biggest network, but the first in our demographic, the wrestling demographic. AAA has been trying to get on there, CMLL has been trying to get on there and they went with us. So we got a TV deal and everything. So we filmed two episodes last week, last Thursday in Mexico City. It went well. Some hiccups for sure, but I’m super OCD when it comes to wrestling. I like things neat, I like things ‘this is the way you’re supposed to do it, this is the way we’re doing it.’ With backstage, with everything. The way we set up matches, the way we agent, all that stuff. I’m so used to having such a structure and it’s a little Mexican style, which is kind of little outlaw-y, they kind of fly by the seat of their pants. When they say they start at 8, I start at 8. They start 8:45, 9:00, 9:15, people still coming in. We kinda did that and I just think we can compete real fast with these guys.
Alberto came up to me and goes ‘Hey man we got this company that we’re doing we started with a couple other guys, a couple big wigs,’ and he’s like, ‘I want you to be a part of it.’ Technically I guess I’m third in charge, but it’s one of those I guess we’ll see what happens, man.
It’s lucha, but it’s not lucha. Lucha libre kind of all over the place if you see it sometimes. I like more of a structure, more in what we did in like a Lucha Underground to where I love the high-flying and kind of the the freestyle of Lucha Libre, but I like the ref meaning something, the ref has got to mean something. You can’t job the ref out.”
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