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The Sessions with Renée Paquette

216: The Sessions - Samuray del Sol (Kalisto)

The Sessions with Renée Paquette

Renée Paquette

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4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Good lucha things are incoming on The Sessions as we are joined by none other than Samuray del Sol, fka WWE’s Kalisto. The world-renowned luchador is breaking his silence on a near-death bout with Covid that led right into his AEW debut, his friendship and partnership with Mercedes Moné, as well as a strangely infamous tribute tweet to Brodie Lee. Plus, could we see him as a producer in WWE? Only one way to find out.

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0:00.0

The volume.

0:06.0

Lucha! Lucha! Lucha! Lucha!

0:08.0

Welcome to the sessions, everybody!

0:11.0

Lucha-style!

0:12.0

Today, I have got on Samurai Del Sol, formerly known as Calisto, in WWE.

0:19.0

Manian, just a gentleman.

0:23.0

Great human being.

0:25.0

I was really happy to have him on just to reconnect.

0:28.0

I was able to see him in a while, so it was really fun to just kind of catch up.

0:31.0

He has been a thorough, rude, it.

0:34.0

Oh my gosh, just like physically, emotionally, mentally, more than anything on the physical side of things.

0:41.0

He got hit with COVID, really, really bad.

0:44.0

It really affected him.

0:45.0

So he's just been, you know, rebuilding himself.

0:49.0

Essentially, since everything that he has been through,

0:52.0

I mean, whether it's getting back in the ring, working on his CBD company

0:55.0

that he has with Mercedes Monet, to his time going to Japan, Pakistan, Poland.

1:01.0

He's been kind of everywhere, just getting booked and busy,

1:05.0

and getting more Samurai Del Sol into the world.

1:09.0

But yeah, just like such an optimistic, sweet, happy person,

1:13.0

I honestly don't think that I've ever seen him in a bad mood,

1:16.0

or like, mad, or he's just always, he's always happy.

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