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Alberto Del Rio Reveals the Wild Story of Running Over Santa on Christmas Eve

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7797 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this unforgettable Wrestling History clip, Alberto Del Rio shares the unbelievable and controversial real-life story of running over Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Del Rio looks back on how the bizarre incident happened, the aftermath, and why the story has followed him throughout his wrestling career. It’s one of those moments that sounds too wild to be true—but absolutely is. Wrestling history is full of strange tales, and this one stands out as a holiday story fans will never forget.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the wrestling history channel.

0:03.1

I'm Steve Fall, and on today's edition, I'm going to give you a classic interview with one of your favorite wrestlers.

0:10.1

Enjoy.

0:11.5

You tried, or by accidentally tried to injure Santa Claus on December 20th.

0:19.3

I saw your tweet about it. That is, that was the, when I was like, oh, I saw your tweet. I saw your tweet about it.

0:22.1

That is, that was the, when I was like, oh, I get to interview him.

0:25.4

First question.

0:26.2

Why did you run over Santa Claus on Christmas Eve?

0:28.5

That was one of the highlights.

0:30.5

Honest to God, like I've watched wrestling since 1992, and that is still one of my top five

0:35.2

favorite moments ever of you coming out and running over Santa by accident. It was by accident. It was an accident. It was an accident. But it was on Christmas Eve. And I'm thinking to myself, Christmas Eve, 8 o'clock at night, you ran over Santa. Okay. Now, the story throughout the night is, is Santa alive? Like, is he going to make it?

0:54.7

I'm thinking to myself, like, if a kid is watching this, are they freaking out wondering,

0:59.7

well, I'm going to get presents from Santa? Like, did the WWE or yourself ever receive letters or

1:06.6

angry notes from parents saying, how could you do this to me on Christmas Eve?

1:11.6

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they did.

1:14.0

I have my share of that.

1:17.2

My Joseph was a baby at the time, and he got so mad at me.

1:23.5

And then the next day in school, I had parents approaching to me and saying, oh, how could, how could you and your company do these things for children?

1:35.1

My kids were crying all night.

1:37.4

And I was like, it's entertainment.

1:41.7

It's entertainment.

1:43.1

And as you could see, if you watch the whole show,

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