Lince Dorado is getting candid about not getting a fair chance in WWE.
After singing with WWE in 2016 following the Cruiserweight Classic, Lince Dorado was quickly casted as one of the head stars of the 205 Live brand. For a short time in 2017, 205 Live stars were featured as a part of Monday Night Raw, meaning Dorado and the entire cruiserweight roster got to showcase their skills as a part of a main roster show. When Dorado, alongside Lucha House Party members Kalisto and Gran Metalik, moved to the SmackDown brand a few years, the group was being featured the most they had been in their entire WWE run, but mainly in short tag team matches alongside appearances on Main Event.
On a new episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Dorado got very personal about his WWE run and how he felt he was looked at as just another masked wrestler.
“I think at first that might have been the case and I knew that coming in. I tried really hard to break that. I tried really hard to be brother brother with the producers. [I made it known I spoke English]. I tried to be good brothers with everybody so they can think of me as other than Rey [Mysterio] or just a generic luchador and it really did help us for a little bit, being able to communicate with the bosses and not just hide in the locker room or hide in catering. Anytime we had a problem or wanted to speak, they were there to listen to us. It did help that we were able, well me personally, was able to speak really good English so we could communicate and kind of get away from that idea that he’s just another masked guy or just Rey [Mysterio]." Lince said. "But at the end of the day, WWE is kind of like Disneyland. They need one of everything on each show and if you fit the bill, you fit the bill. It’s really hard to convince the beast that you're different man, it really is. I remember conversations, heart to heart conversations. Me, Metalik and Vince. It was very intense and emotional. Homie was biting, Vince was biting on everything but it’s like as soon as we left that door, it was kind of like ‘Alright, what’s the next problem, what’s the next issue for him?’. Doing things on show days wasn’t beneficial for us. If we had had any appointments to go to Stamford or outside of TV, I think that we could have been something bomb, something fire in WWE. It’s just hard to communicate during show time, that’s the only time we were able to communicate really.”
Since leaving WWE, Dorado has wrestled in top companies like MLW, CZW, and Warrior Wrestling.
In the past, Sin Cara has shared similar thoughts about WWE's mistreatment of not only luchadors, but Latino talent in general. Click here to see Cara's full comments on the matter.
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