Chavo Guerrero recently appeared on The Ross Report. Here are the highlight:
On The Writers Having Creative Freedom: Yeah. He is really good and Chris Roach, and Matt Stowman, everyone contributes. They were all ex-WWE writers. They are really good and it’s amazing when you just let them run and what they come up with. Just the stories are different. We have a very unique interaction with Lucha Underground because it is on the El Rey Network, which is a Robert Rodriguez network. We have a different bosses, and they have different inputs. They let us run with it, and let the writers do their own thing, giving them some freedom. We have a little freedom because we are on our own network that the old WCW and Turner thing, where we are on our own network, so we can get away with certain things than you would on other networks, but of course you still have to run it by the executives, but they let us run with it a little more. If you see the show, we shoot things like a movie with backstage vignettes and that being said, we can suspend your belief a little bit more; I mean, we’ve killed people on the show, and you can’t kill people in wrestling, we have characters that is a dragon that flies away, we have someone who is a space traveler.
On The Talent In Lucha Underground: A lot of the talents we have, they were passed over by many different organizations, but when we got them and I actually, the first season I got these guys and I was blown away by how incredible they were, how could they overlook these guys. Sexy Starr is also a boxer, she has fire in the ring, she can go, she comes from AAA, and has that Lucha Libre background, so one thing that is a little different too; I am in charge of a lot of the wrestling, and I got these guys from AAA, which are so good at Lucha Libre, but they had never been taught how to play to the cameras, stuff that we learned, stuff that you [Ross] taught me, and by getting them a show, and slowing down, letting them know that their facials are everything. If the camera doesn’t catch you, it never happened, and they would say, oh, we didn’t know, no one has ever taught us that. I was trying to get them to sell these moves, sell because they are working too hard, and once they started doing that–they’re still learning it, but man, they have come a long way.