Lucha Underground’s sudden “Mas?” teaser had fans thinking the Temple might be opening again — but that doesn’t seem to be the case at all.
After the official Lucha Underground account posted its first real activity in years with a “Soon” tease, speculation immediately exploded about a possible revival. Harvey addressed the situation on MMM Show 225, explaining that the confusion wasn’t just coming from fans — even people who actually worked on the original series were asking him what was going on.
Harvey said his inbox blew up after the teaser dropped, and the funniest part was that some of the people asking him for answers were former Lucha Underground crew members themselves.
“I got like 80 DMs about this thing. Everybody’s asking me. The funniest part about that is several of the people DMing me are people who worked on the show. And I’m not just talking about stagehands and whatever—some of them were people who were actually on the teams.”
He then explained that the questions started coming from people with real connections to the series, including someone from the original production side who assumed Harvey might know what was happening.
“The original AD was one of my ADs back in the day, and he was like, ‘Hey man, you know what’s going on with Lucha Underground?’ I was like, ‘Okay, yeah, that makes sense that he hit me up.’”
Things got even more interesting when Christa Joseph — one of the key creative names behind the show’s characters and mythology — reached out as well. Harvey said Joseph thought he might be involved somehow, only for both of them to realize they were equally in the dark.
“But then Christa Joseph hit me up—he wrote the show and created all the characters and everything you know and love about Lucha Underground—and he’s like, ‘Dude, people are blowing me up. You’ve got to know what’s going on, right?’ He just assumes I know. He halfway thought I was responsible for it. I’m like, ‘Dude, I don’t know anything about it.’ And he didn’t know anything either.”
From there, Harvey said they went straight to one of the biggest names tied to the original production: executive producer and showrunner Eric Van Wagenen. That answer made the situation even clearer — this wasn’t some secret MGM-backed revival that the old team was quietly building.
“Then we both hit up Eric Van Wagenen, who was the executive producer and showrunner, and he’s like, ‘No, I don’t know anything about it, and there’s nothing coming out of the MGM world that I know about either.’”
Harvey said he kept digging after that, reaching out to multiple real sources connected to Lucha Underground to figure out what the teaser actually meant. According to him, there may be some products tied to the brand, but that does not mean a new television show or fresh wrestling content is in production.
“I asked around to everybody and found out everything there is to get—I got it directly from real sources. In talking to various people, I found out a few things. A, there are some new Lucha Underground products potentially out there.”
The biggest point Harvey stressed was simple: no talent has been contacted. He said there is no evidence that wrestlers, managers, or production people have been approached for a new Lucha Underground project, which is the clearest sign that a true revival is not happening right now.
“But I remind everyone—you don’t know a single wrestler who’s been approached to be on a new version of Lucha Underground. That’s the key factor. There is no new wrestling show with new material in the works.”
He doubled down on that point, making it clear that if a new version of Lucha Underground were actually happening, people in the wrestling and TV production world would have heard something by now.
“Not a single wrestler, manager, or TV production person has been contacted. It hasn’t happened—it’s just not a thing.”
So what is happening? Harvey pointed to Skip Chaisson, the man heavily tied to Lucha Underground’s visual style, and said the current plan appears to involve bringing the original episodes back out in some form rather than launching a new show.
“One of the people who got back to me was Skip Chaisson, who’s been on the show before. He’s a great guy, and I’m not trying to ruin whatever surprise he has planned. But it looks like, for now, Lucha Underground is going to put the old show back out in some form.”
Harvey explained that rights issues have long been the biggest problem with Lucha Underground, since different parts of the property were spread across multiple places. Now, it appears at least enough of the broadcast rights may have been brought together to allow the old episodes to return.
“I don’t know all the details, but it looks like enough rights have gone to one place—which has always been the issue, because Lucha Underground had rights spread across multiple places. But at least the rights to broadcast the show, which hasn’t been in circulation, seem to be consolidated.”
He then gave the practical answer fans were waiting for: the old series may be coming back to a platform where people can actually watch it again. Since the teaser came from YouTube, Harvey believes that could be where the episodes return.
“Right now, the only place you could get it was to buy it on Amazon, but it looks like it’s coming back in some form. I’m assuming YouTube—that’s where they made the announcement. The channel is back, it’s live again.”
Harvey closed by making the situation plain: this is not a confirmed reboot, revival, or new season. For now, it sounds like Lucha Underground’s original episodes are being prepared for some kind of syndication or re-release.
“So that’s the word coming from El Rey’s Chief Creative Officer—the property is coming back in some form of syndication for the old episodes. That’s the scoop. That’s it.”
Bottom line — Lucha Underground may be coming back, but not in the way fans first hoped. The Temple isn’t being rebuilt yet. Instead, the original show looks set to return to circulation, which is still a big deal considering how hard it has been to legally watch the series in recent years.
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