Frank Rivera, 26, stages some of the most surprising in-car performances straphangers will ever witness.
A few months back, as the Manhattan-bound R train cruises past Forest Hills-67th Avenue at the tail end of the evening rush, wrestling greats Sting and Mankind entered the ring — make that, the second car from the last — to both puzzled stares and rousing cheers. The WWE stars, or rather, the performers pretending to be them struggled for dominance as planted extras and cameramen jockeyed for position in the increasingly packed house, riding the train all the way to Manhattan.
“I had an idea with a friend to go on the train and play as The Rock with an official wrestling belt. It went viral [on YouTube], and people began to ask, ‘Where’s the match?’ It was supposed to be a one-time thing,” Rivera told The Post.A couple of times a year, Rivera and the small supporting cast of three or four characters comprising Subway Mania, as he calls it, will seize on a single car, trailed by three videographers, to film an episode of the underground professional wrestling homage.
That match, staged in 2018 on a Manhattan-bound N train, and climaxing in a faux brawl in Union Square, won by a performer playing Steve Austin, became the template for future Subway Mania tapings. They’re heavily scripted and recorded using Black Magic cameras with DSLR lenses, during a single ride across a few stations. Reshoots are rare.
For the Sting and Mankind match earlier this year, the 50 or so people in attendance only knew the meetup location, and that Rivera, with a cart of makeup and costumes in tow, would guide them to wherever they needed to be.
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