Hello, Mario.
Hi, Ellen.
I missed you.
I miss you.
I don't see you as much anymore.
Unfortunately.
You've been injured.
Yeah, I know.
I got to--
I'm sort of like-- remember that movie, Blues Brothers, where
the car at the end just collapses?
Uh-huh.
That's me right now.
That's you.
Because I literally tore my rotator cuff one year.
Then the next year, I tore my Achilles.
Right.
And then I tore my bicep this last--
And this is all from boxing?
It's all from boxing, which, ironically,
I've always said has made me feel younger and I feel alive.
But I'm breaking down now.
Yeah.
So I got to chill a little bit.
I'm not ready to play golf.
Which was the worst of the--
[LAUGHTER]
You know what I mean?
I feel like you play golf when you're all broken down
and decrepit.
Yeah, you--
[LAUGHTER]
You know?
With all due respect to golfers.
And then it's long, Ellen.
It takes like five hours to play one game.
There are a lot football players that play golf.
There are a lot of athletes that play golf.
Well, that's because they can't--
they're not allowed to do anything else that's
really physical--
Oh, Is that right?
--getting hurt, yes.
I see.
They got to keep them-- as an insurance policy.
But still, it's a game of skill and--
No, absolutely.
--you would like it.
The level of skill and finesse, no.
Yeah.
But it takes a long time.
Right.
And who has got like five hours for that day?
And I'm too hyper.
Too hyper.
Well, just do nine holes.
Don't do 18.
Well, I guess I could.
Yeah, I guess I could.
It's just I just am worried about your health.
Yeah, I know.
[LAUGHS]
Which was the worst of all the injuries?
The Achilles probably took the longest.
But this was the most painful post surgery.
Yeah.
Got a lot of nerves upper body, I guess.
Yeah.
But I bounced back quick.
Oh, look, that's when I was at the--
every Emmy's, I'm injured.
That's when I'm rocking the boot,
and I wore the shorts on that one right there.
And then--
That looks good, though.
And then there's my sling this year.
Wow.
Next year, I'm going to be in a body cast.
Yeah.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Hopefully, God forbid--
Somehow--
--that doesn't happen.
--you manage to keep having children.
I mean--
Yes.
That's not broken.
[LAUGHTER]
That's all right.
All right.
[LAUGHS] How old is this newest one?
The newest one-- I can't believe we didn't bring them.
That is Santino Rafael Lopez, Sonny, in the middle,
and then my son, Dominic, on the left and Gia on the right.
Yeah, I know that--
we're so happy.
That just-- obviously the highlight of 2019.
And yeah, I'm trying to negotiate one more.
That's our first born, Julio Cesar Chavez Lopez.
You know, he was our dog--
Yes, exactly.
--in the beginning.
He's 10 now.
He's doing great.
Getting a little chubby, but he's doing great.
I want to show a picture of you as a baby,
because this baby looks exactly like you--
Oh, speaking of chubby.
--as a baby.
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
That's the arms.
Look at the rubber band arms right there.
I think I was about eight or nine months.
My son's barely five months right now.
He's a chunker already at five months.
He's 19 pounds in five months.
Wow.
So he's going-- yeah, he's my biggest baby so far.
So he's going to get there.
But I love chub--
I mean, what's better than a little chubby
baby with the rolls?
And they smell so-- you just want
to eat them up with a spoon.
All babies are like that.
They're all adorable.
I love it.
Now you're coaching your son's wrestling team?
Yeah, as busy as I am, I love that I still
get to be able to be a coach on his team, which is great.
Because you used to wrestle.
Yes.
Does he wear anything like you used to wear?
Only when he's going to compete in the singlets.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, those little-- it sort of looks
like a tank top and a shorts.
Yeah, like that.
Oh, that's old school.
That's when I was wrestling for the Chula Vista Boys Club.
We were such a ghetto club like the Bad News Bears.
Look, I'm missing letters.
[LAUGHTER]
Yeah.
The whole thing is just bad.
That's Chula Vista right there.
That's Tijuana behind me, literally.
That is.
Yeah, my fro was on point.
Yep.
I won Outstanding Wrestler that trip.
That's why I got the big one.
You've always been an athlete.
Yeah, growing up.
Yeah.
So that's why I've always needed that sort of outlet
to still get that energy out.
And you're working out every single day.
Are you still boxing?
Can you get back to that yet?
I'm not sparring, because these happened
when I was actually sparring.
So not yet, not yet.
But I think I'm going to chill out a little bit,
or not be as intense about it.
Smart, smart.
Yeah, thank you.
You look good, though.
I saw pictures of you.
You were at-- where were you?
On a beach in Mexico or something with your family.
Oh, yeah, we recently went down to Punta Mita.
[WHOOPING]
And it was awesome just to get away and recharge a little bit.
That was Sonny's first time on the beach,
and it was a lot of fun.
You all have matching suits on.
That's so cute.
--matching suits.
He's got holes in his face like me, too.
He's got little dimples and stuff.
That's adorable.
Yeah.
And is this real that Saved by the Bell is coming back?
Yeah, it is, actually.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
[CHEERING]
It's going to be--
I won't be rocking those pants.
But it's going to be on the new NBC streaming service, Peacock.
Uh-huh.
And yeah, it's a big reboot.
We've got a great writer, Tracy Whitwell,
who did 30 Rock and The Mindy Project.
Wow.
It's a great team.
And it's single-camera, as opposed to the traditional
three camera that we did--
How many episodes are you doing?
We're doing 10 this first installment.
So yeah, I'm back in class.
Will you be rocking a mullet again, or--
It's funny that you say that.
Well, I'm supposed to not say anything.
I feel like when you're on Game of Thrones,
you're not supposed to say anything.
They told me not to say anything.
But I guess we'll just have to see?
Is that what I'm supposed to say?
Uh-huh.
Oh--
We'll just have to see.
--so you will have a mullet?
So we'll have to see.
[LAUGHS] You're a busy man.
You're doing how many shows?
Access-- three shows.
Yes, yeah.
Well, and I'm also doing my Netflix show,
The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia, which
is coming out this summer.
But yeah, at NBC, I love--
I'm doing three shows over on Access.
We've got Access Daily during the day, and Access Hollywood,
and All Access.
So I'm sort of like Universal's Mickey Mouse.
Yeah.
I'm just kind of there all the time.
And because you're there all the--
because you used to shoot Extra there, too.
Right, right.
And so I've remained at Universal.
Yeah, that's amazing.
Everybody moved but me.
Yeah.
[LAUGHS] I just stayed.
But yeah, I'm having a lot of fun, staying busy.
That's what's ironic is I still get to be there
for my son's wrestling team and all those other projects
and stuff.
Yeah.
[CHEERING]
All right.
You can watch Mario weeknights on Access Hollywood.
We'll be right back.