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Tito Santana Speaks Out on the WWE El Matador Gimmick: PRIME TIME VAULT

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Arriba!! We open Mooney’s Vault for another legendary conversation, this time with WWE Hall of Famer Tito Santana. Tito reflects on his early life growing up in a family of migrant workers and how those experiences helped shape his legendary work ethic. He also looks back on his path into professional wrestling, the rapid rise of WWE during the Golden Era, and his unique place in company history. From unforgettable moments in the ring to honest reflections on his career and character evolution, Tito shares stories and perspectives you won’t hear anywhere else.

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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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