Tito Santana Speaks Out on the WWE El Matador Gimmick: PRIME TIME VAULT
Prime Time with Sean Mooney
Prime Time with Sean Mooney
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Prime Time with Sean Mooney production. |
| 0:03.8 | All right. |
| 0:04.3 | It's time to get to the main event. |
| 0:06.7 | Well, everybody, I'm really excited to welcome our guests this week on primetime. |
| 0:11.0 | One of the absolute most popular superstars to ever step into the ring for the WWF slash |
| 0:16.8 | WWE. |
| 0:18.7 | Tito Santana, thank you so much for coming on with us. How are you, my friend? |
| 0:24.2 | I'm doing great, and thank you for having me on your show. |
| 0:28.7 | You know, when you think about it, and, you know, people remember you, of course, during that period of time, |
| 0:35.6 | like they think in many people's minds is the greatest era of wrestling ever, 80s and 90s. But, you know, I was, as I do my prep work for these, for these podcasts, and I was saying, man, I didn't realize how much you accomplished in the WWF with there. I mean, what has become the WW, of course. |
| 0:55.7 | But between that period of time, there was 79 to 93, and you had a couple little breaks in |
| 1:01.4 | there. |
| 1:01.6 | But you were two-time WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion, a two-time WWF tag team |
| 1:07.6 | champion. |
| 1:08.9 | You won the 89 King of the Ring tournament. |
| 1:14.4 | And this is quite a, you know, a standout record is that you wrestled in all of the first nine WrestleMania events. There's |
| 1:21.0 | only one other superstar who did that, and that was Hulk Hogan. Do you, would you hear someone tell you that, does, what kind of memories does that bring back? |
| 1:32.7 | And do you realize how much you did? |
| 1:36.7 | Now that I sit back and look and think about, you know, the hard work that went into that, |
| 1:43.5 | you know, day in and day out, you know, the hard work that went into that, you know, day in and day out. |
| 1:46.5 | You do appreciate, you know, the accomplishments that I had. |
| 1:50.8 | And I was so very lucky that, you know, I didn't go through, you know, any serious, serious injuries. |
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