Dominik Mysterio on Wanting To Regain WWE Intercontinental Title at WrestleMania 42 & Proposes Stip for Potential Match, Being John Cena’s Final WWE PLE Opponent, Fan Reaction to His AAA Debut Appearance

A recent episode of The Collection with Brad Gilmore podcast featured Dominik Mysterio as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Mysterio’s thoughts about his upcoming match against El Hijo del Vikingo for the AAA Mega Championship at this Saturday’s AAA Rey de Reyes 2026 event. Mysterio also gave his thoughts about his quest to regain the WWE Intercontinental Championship and proposed a Hair vs. Mask match against Penta for the title at WrestleMania 42.

“So first things first, I gotta retain my AAA Mega Campionato this Saturday at Rey de Reyes, which obviously is not a problem. But I think going into it, I want my IC Championship back. I don’t care what I have to do. I know Penta’s an ugly, ugly dude. So, I’m willing to put my hair up on the line against his mask and that IC Championship if he’s more than willing to. You know, hell, I’ll even put up my mustache, whatever it takes to get my IC title back, because at the end of the day, I beat this dude probably seven or eight times already. He got lucky on this last one because of Finn Balor’s dumba**. But, anyways, I would like to walk in as a double champ or walk out as double champ of WrestleMania.”

Mysterio also gave his thoughts about his match against John Cena for the WWE Intercontinental title at this past November’s Survivor Series WarGames 2025 event and getting to be Cena’s final WWE PLE opponent in Cena’s wrestling career.

“Super, super surreal. Not only was it John Cena’s last PLE, last Survivor Series, it was the first wrestling event ever held at Petco Park in San Diego. Bro, I’m born and raised in San Diego. I’ve gone to (San Diego) Padres games my whole life. I lived there. Did a bunch of sh*t I shouldn’t have done downtown San Diego as well, but, got some great stories I can’t tell. But man, that was just so surreal for me. Walking in, in the city where I’m from, walking out as a double champion, beating John Cena, that sh*t’s insane. You can’t write it. Stuff like that, it just writes itself. It’s like a fairytale ending for me.”

Mysterio also gave his thoughts about the fan reactions he has received throughout his wrestling career and how his AAA debut appearance last year produced the loudest crowd response he has ever received.

“You want to know something crazy? I think the wildest one for me was showing up in AAA for the first time in Juan de la Barrera. Obviously, winning my I.C. Championship at WrestleMania, insane. Beating John Cena at Survivor Series, insane. WrestleMania against my deadbeat dad, two hours from San Diego in L.A., insane. But the reaction, the thing is all of those were very large, open stadiums. Like, massive, massive crowds. Juan de la Barrera, AAA, people weren’t expecting me. I showed up, I think that show was on a Saturday. The show started at 8. I got to the arena at like 8:15. So, no one knew I was coming, and I showed up, it was insane.

What I was told, this could all be bullsh*t, but I was told this. Allegedly, when they were recording, the speakers, it was so loud that the speakers blew out of the cameras. They couldn’t capture the full audio of it because it was so loud, and it gave me goosebumps and for me, it was just something that I always wanted to do and it was like wrestle in Mexico with AAA, and getting that reaction, showing up randomly, out of nowhere, nobody knew about it. It was f*cking insane, and showing up with the I.C. Championship too, of all things.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com 1 & 2