John Morrison On ‘Lucha Underground,’ Wrestling Cage [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO]

I would say Lucha Underground is the evolution of pro wrestling. It’s Lucha libre, American storytelling psychology, with a gritty action film vibe of Rob Rodriguez all combined to a really polished hour of television. The best way to describe it really is to see it. If you haven’t seen Lucha Underground you gotta check it out, it’s on the El Rey Network, Wednesday nights at 8 pm.

I would say Lucha Underground is certainly more respectable of your time. A lot of the feedback I’ve been getting from people that watch Lucha is they’re shocked that they don’t have to fast forward on their Tivo, they can actually watch the whole show. Aside from that, Lucha, the world we’ve created in Lucha Underground, is a more larger than life world than WWE. There’s elements of supernatural characters, there’s elements of horror, there’s the gritty action film vibe, in the vignettes there’s elements of old Kung-fu movies, and it’s all blended into this comic-booky type of world and the way that it’s presented is also different in that the way we film the backstage vignettes is similar to how you would film a TV show or a movie, with coverage, which enable the characters and actors to be a lot more subtle in their performances, which gives characters more intricate nuances for example, than you might see in other wrestling shows.

Dealing with this stupid meathead Cage. He thinks he’s a machine, which doesn’t make any sense to me. So me and Taya — who is the current champion of AAA, she’s got my back — are dealing with Cage because personally I feel like I deserve to be Lucha Underground champion, but I never get the title shot that I deserve. So, Cage is standing in the way of my title shot, basically is what’s happening right now in season two. I don’t know if I’m supposed to say this, but about a week from today, next Wednesday, I think one of the best matches of my career is gonna be on TV. The build up for it is tonight, it’s me versus Cage and that’s all I’ll say about it. It’s been really fun working with Taya and Cage is alright — when he doesn’t smell like hard-boiled eggs.

That’s always a tough question, you know, it’s like ‘name your most this,’ or ‘your favorite that,’ it’s always hard to pick one thing. There’s been a lot this season — hitting Cage in the head with the cinderblock was pretty awesome and also being in the Temple when Rey Mysterio came out for the first time — gave me goosebumps, so to speak, to put it in pro wrestler’s terms. Seeing Rey walk out and walk into the ring in the Temple was a moment for me that is no equal.

It’s amazing. The crowd at the Temple has become one of my favorite crowds I’ve ever worked in front of. The people there are so energetic and they know all the wrestlers by name. Everybody has crazy different chants and it feels like home now. Like it’s a great ring, there’s all kinds of different cool places and obstacles and things around the ring that you could use in different ways, and outside of that, the talent and the roster is, I believe, the best in the world.