10 Incredible Wrestlers Fans WROTE-OFF Before They Were Famous

10. Dominik Mysterio

'Dirty Dom' is a wonderful heel. He exhibits all the cocksure smart-arsery one could want from a smug little coward who lies through his front teeth but somehow comes up shining despite it. WWE know when to give Mysterio Jr Jr his comeuppance though, that's worth saying. His win/loss record isn't actually that sparkling, and nor should it be. Win or lose, wrestling fans gave Dominik a rough time of it when he was first breaking in.

Go back through old social media posts from the mega-weird ThunderDome days of 2020 and you'll see patience wearing thin with young Dom almost immediately as he lived out a fantasy of teaming with his famous father in tag bouts on television. In reality, Dominik was giving his all and learning from daddy dearest. To fans, he was the latest nepo baby who didn't deserve to be charging out in front of literally hundreds of hardworking indy or NXT stars propping up the rear.

That harsh gaze wasn't fair in 2020, but things have been smoothed out five years on.

Today, Mysterio is considered to be one of the best blossoming heels on Raw. His work alongside Rhea Ripley and Liv Morgan in respective Judgment Day incarnations has been stunning, and there was a period when Dom Dom got some of the most searing heat in the biz - the man could barely raise a mic to his lips without being booed out of the building.

Looking back, maybe those writing him off so swiftly should feel foolish. Here's the other point: Dominik is only going to get better. It's surely only a matter of time before he's holding more singles gold inside WWE rings and wearing a 'slap me' grin whilst doing it.