Andrade says Mexican wrestlers don’t get the same opportunities in WWE as Samoans

When WWE decides it wants to make you a star, they’ll make you one. And I feel like I never got that opportunity. But whenever I was on television, whether I won or lost, I would take advantage of those 10 minutes, those 20 minutes, those 15 minutes. I would sell myself because I would think, ‘The audience is watching me, and I’m still relevant.’ That’s how I thought about it, but no, I wasn’t given the opportunity.

Yes, I did win a championship in WWE and all that, but no. I saw other guys who were given opportunities, and they continue to be given opportunities. And with the Mexicans, that’s somewhat what they’re given—the opportunity.

It’s that simple. I tell you, they have Humberto and Garza. They’re very good friends of mine. I say, ‘They haven’t been given the opportunity.’

When I was in WWE, the second time I came back, they told me, ‘Hey, we want you for AAA.’

I told them, ‘I signed with WWE. I don’t want to go back to AAA.’ I know AAA is a great company, but it’s at a national level, at the Mexico level. I mean, there are one or two places around the world where they know about it, but it’s not WWE.

You want to be a star in WWE. You don’t want to be a star in AAA.

I mean, it’s about the work here. But if you go to Saudi Arabia, they don’t know what AAA is. If you go to, let’s say, Scotland, they don’t know AAA either.

But I see that they have Berto and they [Angel and Berto] both have good physiques. They look good, they have height, and they work well.

And I tell them, ‘Both of them have charisma, they have everything it takes to become superstars in WWE, why aren’t they being given the opportunity?’

They haven’t given them the chance. Santos Escobar never got the opportunity either. I mean, there are a lot of them who haven’t.

Maybe this is going to sound bad… you talk about the Samoans, but a lot of them—the majority, not all of them, right? Roman Reigns, obviously, he did achieve it. He made it. But there are several of them who don’t, and they keep getting opportunities, and they’re there, they’re there, they’re there.

I tell them, ‘This guy has been doing this for 20 years. and he still hasn’t gotten it.'”