Lucha Underground’s Matanza Discusses Not Liking Wearing a Mask at First, Reveals That He Had a Tryout With WWE, and That WWE Wanted Him to Get Bigger

– Sean Waltman’s podcast recently interviewed Lucha Underground star The Monster Matanza Cueto (aka Jeff Cobb), who is a former Olympic wrestler. During the interview, Cobb discussed his tryout with WWE and how WWE officials wanted him to get bigger. Below are some highlights.

Cobb on how he met with WWE who wanted him to get bigger: “Everybody wants to get to the WWE so I did a little thing with them and they wanted me to get bigger. … Yeah, this is when I was only like 215-220 so I was like well I got to get bigger I’ll get bigger so I just started lifting more and less cardio.”

Cobb on potentially working in Japan: “I just feel my style would work there great. I think the Japanese fans would be really receptive too. Like, someone compared me once to Gary Albright obviously a shorter version and probably with better hair. I can’t grow a mullet. That is definitely on my foreseeable future list or my to-do list.”

Cobb on not liking having to wear a mask at first: “At first I was kind of bummed about being under a mask. At the time when they (Lucha Underground) told me the character, I didn’t really comprehend or grasp what it was but at the time I was just looking for any exposure to get my name out there and I just figured it’s something to expand on me personally instead of just being the same person over and over in every indie company.”