216: The Sessions - Samuray del Sol (Kalisto)

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Renée Paquette

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🗓️ 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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