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I was paid $5k as a kid to appear on WWE TV before brutal Brock Lesnar beating
Dominik Mysterio is enjoying the high life as one of WWE’s top champions. The star is the son of wrestling icon Rey Mysterio, and has followed in his father’s footsteps in making major waves in WWE. Intercontinental Champion Dominik Mysterio is on quite the run in WWEGetty Making his in-ring debut in the summer of 2020, he’s already racked up well over 300 matches in his career as one o the company’s most ever-present in-ring stars. An underrated workhorse, he was truly celebrated and given a moment to shine at WrestleMania last month, winning the coveted Intercontinental Championship. In holding that gold, he carries a title previously held by Bret ‘Hitman’ Hart, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Macho Man Randy Savage and Shawn Michaels. That is proof enough that WWE holds the 28-year-old in high esteem and, in recent weeks, his popularity with fans has boomed despite his positioning as a villain in storylines. If ‘Dirty Dom’ is emerging as one of WWE’s best all-round performers, it might well be due in part to his deep grounding in the industry, having starred in wrestling storylines long before he was able to wrestle himself. An iconic storyline of the Ruthless Aggression era in WWE in the early-to-mid 2000s was the battle between Rey Mysterio and lifelong pal Eddie Guerrero – with Dom at the heart of it. Mysterio and Guerrero were on-screen enemies at the time, with the latter claiming to be young Dom’s real father – the two even wrestling for his custody. Just eight at the time, the future grappler played the role of a torn and terrified youngster to a tee. In a new interview with Intoxicados Podcast, the younger Mysterio recalled some of his memories of working with his father and the iconic Guerrero, who died in 2005, aged 38. Not least among his highlights was the fact he was paid by WWE for his early work – and handsomely at times, too. Babyfaced Dom made good money as a kid in WWE, even if he couldn’t spend it allWWE Naturally the cash earned was retained by his parents given Dom’s age, but one appearance during the long-running saga netted him a cool $5,000 – not a bad chunk of pocket money for any child. He recalled with a smile: “I got paid; I’ll tell you exactly how much I got paid. “I got paid five grand. Five grand – and that was just for one of the events. My parents, normally they wouldn’t tell me, they would just tell me they put it to the side. “They told me about this because I was asking: ‘How much did I get paid for this?’ “I knew something was coming. They said: ‘You got paid five grand.’” More than understandably, Dom immediately had plans for his new dough, and was keen to spend it the way any eight-year-old would. Dom was in training to begin his own career in 2019 and got involved with storylinesWWE Of his response, he explained he’d said: “’Cool, let’s go to Toys R Us.’ I go to Toys R Us. I get myself a bike and, I’ve always been into old-school Universal monsters, so they had these Frankenstein heads. “[I said]: ‘Let me get a couple of those.’ Long story short, it totalled out to maybe $400, maybe $300, if that.” Alas, that was the end of his spending spree, thanks to a sensible intervention from his mother. Dom went on: “As soon as we got home, I’m like, ‘Hey, can we go to Target?’ “My mom goes, ‘That’s it. That’s all your money.’” After featuring in a future storyline involving his father and CM Punk, Dominik was back on the WWE scene, and for good, by beginning wrestling training in 2018. Brock Lesnar didn’t exactly take it easy on the rookie when the two clahedWWE Dom’s beat down at the hands of Lesnar came before the veteran’s match with Rey MysterioWWE View Tweet: https://twitter.com/BrockLesnar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw He made his debut in a match against Seth Rollins at SummerSlam in 2020 but, in between, continued to learn his trade by taking an almighty beating at the hands of Brock Lesnar. Rey Mysterio challenged Lesnar for the WWE title in November 2019 and, a feud which had its seeds planted months earlier when Lesnar wiped out both father and son during an episode of Raw. Pulled from the front row of the crowd, Dom was thrown to the floor by The Beast before taking a charge into the ring post. The pummelling then continued in the ring as the rookie ate a humungous suplex and Lesnar’s trademark finisher, the F5. It’s easy to say the hard-hitting bumps took at the hands of Lesnar helped prepare Mysterio for the rigors that would follow, but one can only hope he was compensated with another healthy sum for his troubles.
Dominik Mysterio is enjoying the high life as one of WWE’s top champions.
The star is the son of wrestling icon Rey Mysterio, and has followed in his father’s footsteps in making major waves in WWE.
Making his in-ring debut in the summer of 2020, he’s already racked up well over 300 matches in his career as one o the company’s most ever-present in-ring stars.
An underrated workhorse, he was truly celebrated and given a moment to shine at WrestleMania last month, winning the coveted Intercontinental Championship.
In holding that gold, he carries a title previously held by Bret ‘Hitman’ Hart, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Macho Man Randy Savage and Shawn Michaels.
That is proof enough that WWE holds the 28-year-old in high esteem and, in recent weeks, his popularity with fans has boomed despite his positioning as a villain in storylines.
If ‘Dirty Dom’ is emerging as one of WWE’s best all-round performers, it might well be due in part to his deep grounding in the industry, having starred in wrestling storylines long before he was able to wrestle himself.
An iconic storyline of the Ruthless Aggression era in WWE in the early-to-mid 2000s was the battle between Rey Mysterio and lifelong pal Eddie Guerrero – with Dom at the heart of it.
Mysterio and Guerrero were on-screen enemies at the time, with the latter claiming to be young Dom’s real father – the two even wrestling for his custody.
Just eight at the time, the future grappler played the role of a torn and terrified youngster to a tee.
In a new interview with Intoxicados Podcast, the younger Mysterio recalled some of his memories of working with his father and the iconic Guerrero, who died in 2005, aged 38.
Not least among his highlights was the fact he was paid by WWE for his early work – and handsomely at times, too.
Naturally the cash earned was retained by his parents given Dom’s age, but one appearance during the long-running saga netted him a cool $5,000 – not a bad chunk of pocket money for any child.
He recalled with a smile: “I got paid; I’ll tell you exactly how much I got paid.
“I got paid five grand. Five grand – and that was just for one of the events. My parents, normally they wouldn’t tell me, they would just tell me they put it to the side.
“They told me about this because I was asking: ‘How much did I get paid for this?’
“I knew something was coming. They said: ‘You got paid five grand.’”
More than understandably, Dom immediately had plans for his new dough, and was keen to spend it the way any eight-year-old would.
Of his response, he explained he’d said: “’Cool, let’s go to Toys R Us.’ I go to Toys R Us. I get myself a bike and, I’ve always been into old-school Universal monsters, so they had these Frankenstein heads.
“[I said]: ‘Let me get a couple of those.’ Long story short, it totalled out to maybe $400, maybe $300, if that.”
Alas, that was the end of his spending spree, thanks to a sensible intervention from his mother.
Dom went on: “As soon as we got home, I’m like, ‘Hey, can we go to Target?’
“My mom goes, ‘That’s it. That’s all your money.’”
After featuring in a future storyline involving his father and CM Punk, Dominik was back on the WWE scene, and for good, by beginning wrestling training in 2018.
He made his debut in a match against Seth Rollins at SummerSlam in 2020 but, in between, continued to learn his trade by taking an almighty beating at the hands of Brock Lesnar.
Rey Mysterio challenged Lesnar for the WWE title in November 2019 and, a feud which had its seeds planted months earlier when Lesnar wiped out both father and son during an episode of Raw.
Pulled from the front row of the crowd, Dom was thrown to the floor by The Beast before taking a charge into the ring post.
The pummelling then continued in the ring as the rookie ate a humungous suplex and Lesnar’s trademark finisher, the F5.
It’s easy to say the hard-hitting bumps took at the hands of Lesnar helped prepare Mysterio for the rigors that would follow, but one can only hope he was compensated with another healthy sum for his troubles.
