"I'm not locked up to any company. I'm an independent contractor, as we say," Mysterio said in an interview with ESPN.com. "I could go work wherever I want. That's the beautiful thing about being on this side of the fence. You don't have a commitment with only one company. You can go around and pretty much wrestle wherever you want. You can choose when you want your off-days to be. That was one of my main priorities when I left WWE."
Mysterio has spent those two-plus years wrestling across the independent scene and satisfying dream matchups many fans never thought possible.
Mysterio has wrestled AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy and Kurt Angle outside WWE walls. He's also had the chance to face dynamic high-fliers Will Ospreay and Ricochet several times across various promotions. Mysterio has taken full advantage of having control of his dates, something that is increasingly more important given the eight surgeries he's undergone on his left knee.
"I told myself, once I started feeling aching and I was having hard times getting up from my bed in the morning when I woke up, it was gonna start getting close to that time [to quit]. I was feeling that right towards my end of the last year or so of WWE," Mysterio said. "It came to the point where I was feeling like that constantly. I didn't want to fall into another phase of taking either medication to ease my pain. I wanted to use the rest way to heal my body up. Believe it or not, the last two years, I don't think I've felt better."
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