Summary

Dominik Mysterio says a recent chairshot in AAA left him with a head wound that had to be sealed with medical glue after he turned down staples and stitches.

Speaking in a new interview, Mysterio said the cut measured roughly seven or eight centimeters and happened when he did not get his hands up in time to protect himself. He said the wound was glued shut during a TV taping day in Puebla, but the cut reopened later during the same set of shows and needed another layer of glue.

The update adds another rough chapter to a stretch in which Mysterio also said he refused to stop an AAA match after suffering a shoulder injury.

Quote from Dominik Mysterio

"It's hanging in there. I made the crucial mistake of, so it was about a seven or eight centimeters long, big ass gash on my head. For those of you who don't know, I took a chair shot to the head and I did, I didn't put my hands up (to) protect it and, uh, yeah, sliced me across the head. At the time I was thinking- cause we're in Mexico and Puebla and I was like, man, I was like, for whatever reason, they want to shave my head. I was like, 'no staples, no stitches.' I was like, 'just glue me.' I was like, worst case scenario, and you guys got to like shave around it or something. I was like, don't touch it. I was like, don't touch the hair. So what they did was they glued it together. So like they just glued it with medical glue and closed it. But the issue was we were filming three shows that day. This happened on the first show. So I did the first show. Clean me up. They glued it. Went back out. Did something for the second show. It reopened. So they put a second layer of glue on it. So now I just have a shit ton of glue stuck in my hair. There's just glue in there. So like, it's all healed up, the scar and stuff, but it's just like the glue has outgrown from my hair. So now I just got to figure out how to get this fucking glue out of my hair."

What the AAA injury says about Dominik Mysterio's run

Dominik Mysterio being able to laugh about the glue stuck in his hair is one thing, but the bigger takeaway is that he worked through a nasty cut during a three-show taping day as AAA Mega Champion. That underlines how heavily he has been featured in that environment, even while remaining one of WWE's most visible younger stars.

It also keeps the focus on the physical toll of Mysterio's recent AAA work. Between the head wound and the shoulder issue he discussed separately, the story around his appearances there is becoming as much about durability as it is about championship status.

Sources

Dominik Mysterio while speaking on Burn Factory