DDP is that dude, but Rey is/was the better performer.
lmao yeeeaaahhh bytch it's my legit 2nd most hated wrestler of all time.
I swear one of my favorite times as a WWE fan was watching Del Rio DECIMATE his ass week in and week out.
Funny how one of the things that made me realize just how far off the deep end WWE had gotten was Rey winning that tournament for the belt and a fresh and clean Cena came out and beat him for it.... in the same night.
And one of the most pathetic was that year he made his grand return at the rumble and he CLEARLY wasn't ready.
with that said
-Mic work/promos: 5. But hey, his ring work spoke for him, and his legacy in this sport of ours speaks for him today. And it speaks VOLUMES. That 5 really comes from his Lucha Underground work, though. Right now he's pulling an honest 7 on the mic, so it evens out. I would have given him a 2 otherwise. Only Ken Patera gets a 1.
-Personality/gimmicks: 8. He's a Lucha wrestler. That's his gimmick and he embodies it in damn near every way possible. He literally is what lil luchadors want to be when they grow up.
Too bad by age 8 they're already the same size.
-Ring work (along with some of your favorite matches/feuds): 8. I'm not gonna list my favorite feuds, cause really I was always happy to see him get beat the fukk up. But he damn near singlehandedly made cruiserweights and the lucha style mainstream. But we all know Chris Jericho made the cruiserweights known by embarrassing them twice a week, right? Right????
-Overall rating (which doesn't have to be an average of the above scores): 9.
Look, man.... they say if you don't have nothing nice to say, then don't say shyt.
Everyone that knows me knows that I only hate his little rata ass just because he's the perennial babyface ambassador of his school of style and the underdog that does pull out the wins.
I can't stand it.
But I'm ALSO not one of those types to shyt on someone's accomplishments just because I don't like their moral fiber. Rey really is one of those people in wrestling who's legend is built off his skill level and purely that alone. He really did singlehandedly cause somewhat of a paradigm shift in the american view of what wrasslin' could be. And he did that by pure skill at his craft. A school of craft that was very niche in North America before he got here.
And yes, I AM enjoying his run in Lucha Underground at the moment.
But on the real, fukk Rey Mysterio, jr.
oh, and fukk rey mysterio.
I had to go back and rep that quoted postI hate Rey Mysterio so much man....
Outside of his Lucha Underground work, I mean
At the same time, I was only watching WCW for DDP and Flair during the Monday Night Wars.
But really....
As much of a fan that I am of DDP when he was on,
He ain't touching the skills, level, impact and legacy that Rey Rey is on.