During an AMA session on Reddit, John
“Morrison” Hennigan spoke about why he joined Lucha Underground, where he
competes as Johnny Mundo. Here are highlights:
On Luncha Underground: “Lucha Underground is a combo of
Lucha (which is bad ass) Gritty Action Films (again, bad ass) & American
Style Pro Wrestling (bad ass) a trifecta of badassery! Couldn’t say no to
it.”
On his “We’re going to eat your lunch” catchphrase”:
“Okay… so… I took Tae Kwon Do for a few months as a kid & the instructor was
this bad ass (he seemed bad ass, but then I was only 8) who would sit around
after class and talk about his former tournament fights to the kids… his
favorite way to say he was kicking ass was “Man, lemme tell you, I was EATING
THIS GUYS LUNCH… so this was the semi final match, I slipped a round, got inside
and BOOM! bam! bam! BOOM! I was EATING THIS DUDES LUNCH when out of now where he
threw a hook kick! Bam! caught me in the temple, I was out… man… I would killed
the guy in the finals too…”
Most of his stories after class to small groups of children went something
like that… that phrase made me laugh ever since. – WWE Merch people, &
Stephanie all said the phrase was stupid and would never sell, they thought the
moneys on the shirt were too weird- All that made me want the damn shirt made
ever more so I insisted! … I love that shirt… but no one else did… Lol”
On if he would return to WWE: “Indubitably! I’m really
happy with Lucha Underground now though, I think it’s a great forum for me to
perform in my hometown -LA!, with great talent & great peeps.”
