Penta has built his career on Zero Miedo, which is his catchphrase and motto, but in WWE: Unreal Season 2, the luchador is showing fans a vulnerable side of himself.
The second season of the Netflix documentary series premiered on January 20th, and it gives a behind-the-scenes look at the WWE world, filled with drama, storytelling, and how the production of the live shows and main events happen. This also includes featuring WWE Superstars and writers as they develop storylines, put matches together, and manage to put together the entire creative process, while giving a real and raw closer look at it all.
Born in Ecatepec, Mexico, Penta, widely known to longtime fans as Pentagón Jr., began gaining national attention in AAA (Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide) in the early 2010s before breaking out internationally in Lucha Underground in 2014, where he became a cult favorite. He played a crucial role in establishing the company’s tag team division, AEW, in 2019. A year after his 2025 WWE debut on Monday Night Raw, he has continued to elevate lucha libre within mainstream American wrestling culture.
Remezcla caught up with Penta to talk about pulling back the curtain on his journey into WWE, his daughter joining the wrestling world, working alongside his and fellow wrestler Rey Fénix, and his memorable Money in the Bank ladder match. He also shared his recent appearance in Bad Bunny’s La Casita during the Puerto Rican artist’s Mexico shows and how the return of WWE’s Backlash to Puerto Rico could lead to sharing the ring with Benito.
We’re used to Penta being Zero Miedo, aka without fear. But in the new season of WWE Unreal, we get to see another side of the Mexican wrestler and share a bit of his personal life. And for him, it was a different process to be so vulnerable and open.
“Unreal has been a big part of my career because, to begin with, it’s a dream come true, and I’m very proud because my daughter is in this episode. Being able to share that my daughter is in it because she wants to be a wrestler, so starting to involve her in this kind of thing fills me with a lot of pride and satisfaction,” he said.
While many WWE stars have starred in reality shows like Total Divas, Total Bellas, Miz & Mrs, Love & WWE: Bianca & Montez, and many more. For Penta, putting his personal life out for the world to see wasn’t something he was fully open to at first, growing up in a culture where things are kept private, but he knows that to be a star, traditions and norms have to change. “As a Mexican wrestler, you know, in Mexico our culture is very closed off when it comes to lucha libre. And it was a little difficult for me when we were filming because my old-school side was, in a way, reluctant. Why are you filming me when I’m putting on my makeup? Why are you filming me when I’m putting on my mask? Why are you filming me when I’m doing things? But I also understand that everything in the world is evolving today, and part of this evolution has been this type of program. Well, at the end of the day, Penta has to evolve with the world day by day.”
With less than six months of his WWE debut, Penta took on the Money in the Bank in June 2025. He was one of six competitors in the men’s Money in the Bank ladder match with Seth Rollins, LA Knight, Solo Sikoa, Andrade, and El Grande Americano.
We saw him hit his signature move, the Mexican Destroyer, on a ladder and climbed several times toward the briefcase. Despite coming close, Seth Rollins became a two-time Money in the Bank winner, while Penta finished the night without the contract. Nevertheless, Penta gained significant momentum from his standout performance that holds a lot of responsibility for the wrestler striving in the WWE world.
“I understand the responsibility I have on my shoulders to represent Mexico and all of Latin America, because just a few days after arriving at WWE I started having commitments that are extremely important there, and they make me happy, they excite me, but above all, they make me strive every day to be the best in the world and not let down all the people who support me, because I understand that preparation is extremely important for me to be able to have the results I want to have here in WWE,” he breaks down.
Penta gets to take on WWE while also representing Mexico and Latin America in everything he does.
“I feel happy, I feel proud of myself, I feel very, very satisfied with what I’ve done for myself and therefore for Mexicans and all of Latin America,” he said. “But what I can tell you is that I haven’t finished where I want to go and where I want to put Mexico’s name on high. This is just the beginning of where I really want to go, and that’s why I keep striving and pushing my mind and body to the limit every day to be and become the great superstar I want to be.”
For Penta, wrestling is a family sport he gets to say he started, and he’s sharing the ring with his brother, Rey Fénix.
“I’m very happy because my brother and I started in this sport together. We’re six years apart in age, but we started training on the same day, we have the same coaches, we’ve been in the same companies, we’ve won many tag team championships from different companies, and we’re only missing the best one in the world, which is WWE,” he shared. “I’m excited and waiting for the moment when the Lucha Brothers are together again, now in the best company in the universe, which is WWE, and of course, to conquer the tag team championships with my brother.”
The wrestling family lineage doesn’t end with the brothers either.
Like many great WWE families who have cemented their legacies in the franchise, Penta is also establishing his legacy with his own daughter, who also appears in the new season of the Netflix series and joined him during the interview as he spoke proudly of her following in his footsteps.
“Everything evolves in this world, and my daughter is eleven years old, and she’s training. She wants to be a wrestler, but if at some point she decides to dedicate herself to something else or truly finds her passion in another sport, I’ll accept that too. I’m happy that she’s here, wants to dedicate herself to this, wants to be with me right now during the interviews, and that she’s going to be at ‘Unreal,’” he tells us. “That fills me with pride as her dad. But at the end of the day, she has the right to decide what she wants to dedicate herself to or what sport she wants to practice, right?”
Penta isn’t always in the ring; in fact, last year, during Bad Bunny’s Mexico shows for the Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour, the luchador was not only in attendance, but he got to be in the infamous casita. And we all may not be able to a part of it at least we have folks like Penta to share the experience.
“I’m so happy because, as an artist, he’s someone I admire and respect immensely. His show is one of the best I’ve ever seen. I went because it was one of my daughters’ birthdays, and that was her gift, taking her to the Bad Bunny concert,” he proudly shared. “I think we had a great time. I had the chance to say hello, give him a mask, and we chatted a bit. Well, imagine seeing him back in WWE in the future. For me, it would be truly special to share a dressing room with him.”
WWE Backlash is returning to Puerto Rico. And as we know, Bad Bunny got to live out his dream of being a WWE wrestler on multiple occasions, including Backlash on the island in 2023. While we know he has been nonstop with the Super Bowl halftime show and his histroic Grammy win. We wouldn’t mind his entering the ring again. And it seems like Penta wouldn’t either.
Penta said, “He’s one of the great Latin American artists who represent us worldwide, and to have him on the same show as Penta, and why not even being in the same match or something like that, would be very rewarding for my career.”
Before we can possibly see this duo take over WWE’s Backlash, the franchise had their upcoming main WrestleMania 42 happening April 18, 2026 to April 19, 2026. Until then, you can see Penta on Monday Night Raw.