I think he's one of the best over the last 10 years in wwe.
I think Punk said he was his favourite person to work with as well. Injuries and age have taken their toll but he can still pull off a better match than a lot of the current roster.
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I think he's one of the best over the last 10 years in wwe.
I think Punk said he was his favourite person to work with as well. Injuries and age have taken their toll but he can still pull off a better match than a lot of the current roster.
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Perspicacity
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I don't think anyone hated Rey, but I do recall hating his Superman shit.
Especially grating because his offense never looks that great, but he apparently always gets criticals when the 619 hits
Especially grating because his offense never looks that great, but he apparently always gets criticals when the 619 hits
Nocturnowl
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SPEAR! SPEAR! SPEAR! SPEAR!
Wait does this mean that the fans are being made to chant BROGUE! BROGUE! BROGUE!?
I guess i'll find out later.
I find him kind of grating in storylines and such since he's always in the same role and he usually comes out on top in the end because he's the ultimate underdog.
Removed from stories and taking his matches on their own he's pretty great even if his knees are knackered, basically I enjoy him infinitely more on dvd compilations. Right now he's off tv so I kind of miss him but honestly i'll probably grow weary of his act shortly after he returns since WWE wont change anything about him, but the matches will still likely be great (excluding the uncanny flops into the second rope that only happen when he's about).
Superman in what sense? I'd wager he's lost more feuds, and matches, than just about any other established face on the roster.
The 619 needs to be nerfed.
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Sheeit, I wouldn't say that. I'd make a bet on that. Though Batista did come out on top in Glorious Batista Era so I shouldn't complain.
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He had that Final Fantasy music.
Psicosis is by far the superior luchador. Same with Juvi. Juicy juicy juice.
Nocturnowl
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For some reason I always think of him winning all the time but he does at least have his fair share of losses, especially if he's in range of the title or champion himself.
Remember how he won the WWE title last year and then Super Cena unjustly got a title shot for no good reason in the same night and stole away Rey's glory? yeah Rey does not mix well with the title.
Generally though he finishes most feuds as the victor on a whole, well he is a face so I guess it makes sense.
I would say most of the luchadors that were around in WCW were better than Mysterio.
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Mysterio was still really good back then, though. I enjoyed the 'heavy lucha' of El Dandy and Ciclope as well.
Actually, after seeing Danny's heel turn and the relationship they are showing with AJ, I'm thinking he is looking more and more like Edge, the heel Edge, not the weak-face spear-chants-hating (he hated that chant btw) Edge.
I hope their relationship isn't cut short, both characters are completing and helping each other immensely.
Was he? He won 2/3 matches with Punk at the start of the year, won the belt at Fatal Fourway with Swagger, lost the belt to Kane at MITB, lost to Kane at SummerSlam, and then lost to Del Rio a week later. That was by August in 2010.
Basically. Of any face that gets strapped with the prefix "Super", Rey seems the least deserving. He's only had two real title reigns, and he got continuously brutalised in both.
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I seem to remember in either 08 or 09 just brutally abusing Jericho every single time they met up (non-PPV) - in fact, non-PPV will probably paint a very different picture of Rey.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D59GIQVtwOI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D59GIQVtwOI
Evening Musuko
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It looks like people were trying to get it to trend. Hope the WWE universe doesn't try this too often. WWE will up like Justin Bieber and not be allowed to trend at all.
Same here. It was pretty dumb for WCW to do that. Apparently Bischoff said he'd be a bigger draw if he lost the mask. (?!?!)
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Yeah, he also expressed regret about it. He didn't realize the importance of the mask at all. But it did give us this gem:
This is how their feud went on
Mysterio executed a 619 on Jericho and then attempted to pin him with a seated senton. Jericho retaliated by throwing a chair at Mysterio and was disqualified. This sparked a feud between the two.
-Mysterio pinned Jericho after a 619 at Judgment Day to retain the Intercontinental Championship.
-Jericho defeated Mysterio in a No Holds Barred Match at Extreme Rules to win his ninth Intercontinental Championship, breaking his own record again.
-At The Bash Jericho lost the Intercontinental title to Mysterio.
Reneledarker
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Gaf in general was mad at him for not dropping the intercontinental tittle to Ziggler, specially after some internet rumor that said Mysterio didn't want to drop the tittle to him.
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He never did, either. Grrr...
2009 was when the two feuded for the intercontinental title. I'm looking at their non-PPV history now - Jericho beat Rey on Raw to win the IC title, and a couple of months later Rey beat Jericho to retain the IC title. Everything else was them interfering in each other's matches (unsurprisingly, Jericho did more of that) or tag team matches. Playah.
He might not have dropped the belt to Ziggler, but he did to Morrison.
I've always liked Rey. He's the reason I'm even a wrestling fan at all now. My middle school friends convinced me to watch WCW even though I hadn't watched since I was 6. Rey was doing some of the most incredible moves I had ever seen. Dude was like a super hero to me at the time. Unfortunately for him my two favorite Rey moments involve him getting beat up.
1. Jericho reverses top rope Hurricanrana into the Lion Tamer.
2. Finlay pretends to be injured and Rey gets all upset when he has to get carried off on a stretcher. Then Finlay gets up and beats the crap out of Rey. Haha.
1. Jericho reverses top rope Hurricanrana into the Lion Tamer.
2. Finlay pretends to be injured and Rey gets all upset when he has to get carried off on a stretcher. Then Finlay gets up and beats the crap out of Rey. Haha.
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Wah
Then why did I hate him so? Dammit. I still have a lot of hate for him, but he can put on good matches. I hate his character.
did Gaf like Ziggler back then? wasnt he just doing " Hi! Im Dolph Ziggler." *handshake
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You're darn tootin'. The match where Rey dropped the belt to Morrison on SmackDown was also off the hook. Basically, buy this:
Or, if you prefer your Rey Mysterio DVDs to be more WCW heavy:
I don't actually like ECW Rey Mysterio. All the matches I've seen are Rey and his lucha buddies doing a flip every three seconds and no-selling like crazy. Like Rey says on his DVD, ECW pretty much just provided a playground for him.
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Rey's a good worker. Of course he used to be better, but he's gotten older. He is still a reliable person to go out there and put on a decent match.
People on GAF are the only time I've seen anyone really hate on him though.
People on GAF are the only time I've seen anyone really hate on him though.
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I'm still butthurt that he came out on top of the SES feud. Forcing someone into the SES would have been a neat thing. But nooooo~
Punk's kicking and screaming when he got his head shaved was a fucking sight to behold, I'll say that much.
Evening Musuko
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lol. Aww Puppet H was the reason why I watched AYS.
I think that was a year after. IIRC he stopped doing that not long after his first suspension.
I wasn't on Gaf back then (though I did lurk WrassleGaf) but I really liked him even back then. I think he really started getting a following after his SummerSlam 09 match with Rey.
I've seen Rey hate in various places, though it's the typical "face hate" you typically see in the IWC.
Professor Beef
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I don't know about GAF, but I wasn't too big on Ziggler until he beat the piss out of Khali with a steel chair. That's when I started paying attention.
billy beane
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Yeah, the only problem I can see someone have with Rey is that the WWE booking of him has been suspect probably since Eddie passed. But I'm more talking about seeing some people on here say Rey is a bad worker, which is far from the truth in my honest opinion.
He's a marketing machine targeted towards little kids. Every company either has one, or wishes they do. Nothing wrong with, especially if he's still a good wrestler. New Japan has Tiger Mask IV, who is the same thing as Rey, except he's actually lazy in the ring, but was getting huge pushes for the Jr Heavyweight title. (Although that has stopped probably in the last couple of years.)
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Rey is definitely victim to booking and merchandising. It limits his storylines. He can't turn heel. He can't be unmasked (so all ___ vs mask match is obvious anyhow) and he's stuck in a cage. It sucks, because I like a real element of unpredictability.
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I understand that, and I myself enjoy unpredictable booking, but I don't think predictability is a bad thing. Sometimes it's better for something to be predictable, rather than unpredictable just to be unpredictable. (Which is something we complain about at various times with the WWE.)
I think I don't mind too much either because he's never really been THE top guy. He's held World titles, but he's still never been at the level of Cena and Orton in terms of how the company looks at them.
http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/USFL0316:1:US
I know alot can change with the weather between now and April 1st, but it's still something to take note of....
Rey's not predictable in terms of heel turns or unmaskings (though I'd question the extent to which either actually limit him), but he can feasibly win or lose any match he's in. I was as surprised when he won the world title from Jack Swagger as I was when the lost to Kane at SummerSlam.
Evening Musuko
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http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/USFL0316:1:US
I know alot can change with the weather between now and April 1st, but it's still something to take note of....
I remember they were expecting scattered Thunderstorms in Orlando the day of WM 24 but nothing happened. Hopefully the weather isn't a problem this year.
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That he would, I mean he's already had an entrance that involved him being torched by fire so rain wouldn't phase him.
holeeshit. what if Undertaker harnesses the power of the thunder!
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