Lucha Underground Champion Johnny Mundo continues to make the media rounds to promote Lucha Underground being available on Netflix and recently appeared on Ring Rust Radio to talk about various topics.
Lucha Underground is on a midseason hiatus, but the company is still making news with the announcement that it will begin airing on Netflix March 15th, becoming the first sports product Netflix has launched and the first wrestling product on the platform. What does the jump to Netflix mean for the company and how do you feel about the move as a performer?
“For me as a performer, it means more people are going to be able to see Lucha Underground, Season 1 and 2, which is awesome because the work I’ve done in Lucha Underground is some of the best work I’ve done in my wrestling career. Netflix has around 100 million subscribers in the U.S. and Canada. That means the potential audience now for Lucha Underground could exceed any other wrestling promotion besides the WWE. It puts us in a category where we have the potential to heat up, get really hot and build Lucha Underground into something bigger than anyone ever thought. For the network, anything I’m saying now for what it could be is just speculation, but it’s kind of fun to speculate. Just so you know, there’s going to be more Lucha Underground regardless. This could lead to more Lucha Underground as it becoming a weekly show, as in an hour and a half or two-hour show, really any of those things could happen. The most exciting thing for me is the idea that all those people now have the option to watch Lucha Underground and watch the full episodes. There’s tons of people when I travel abroad that seek out clips on YouTube and try to watch it before they get pulled in foreign countries where there are not supposed to be posted. The real exciting thing is that so many people will now get to watch the show that I believe in so much.”
Lately a lot of big-name talent has been hitting the free-agent market in the wrestling world with the Hardy Boyz standing out as the biggest example. Is there anyone out there that you’d like to see Lucha Underground go after? Anyone you’d like to mix it up with or think could have a positive impact on the product?
“It’s tough to pick anyone person because the Lucha Underground roster is so deep already. I think with Rey Mysterio, PJ Black, Pentagon, Fenix, Jack Evans and Angelico, the roster that we have now is so deep. I don’t know if we need any specific star to help Lucha. As far as people that I would like to see in Lucha Underground just to wrestle them, I’ve always been a big fan of the Hardy Boys, I had great matches with Jeff and Matt. Kenny Omega, a lot of the New Japan guys would be cool. Ethan Carter, ACH, there’s so much good talent out there that any of them would be cool because I would get to have matches with them in Lucha. I don’t really know if any of those guys are free agents though. I don’t know if they signed somewhere by now or what they plan on doing. I don’t think we plan to tape Season 4 until the fall, so it really is all speculation for now.”
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