6 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 29)
2. Defying The Laws Of Physics
This item is not an indictment on Rey Mysterio defeating Samoa Joe – though we could complain about WWE once again employing its usual 50/50 booking strategy to set up another match.
Samoa Joe is billed at 282 pounds, while Mysterio is billed at 170. So, watching Rey roll up Joe and cover him for a three count without an offensive move to stun him was… stretching reality, to say the least. While Mysterio is a grown man, his opponent simply outweighs him by 112 pounds, or 65% more than the smaller luchador.
Simply put, there’s no reasonable way the much smaller Mysterio should have been able to hold down a fully alert and unfazed Joe for a three count. Worse, Joe was close enough to the rope to reach out and grab them easily.
It just all-around looked stupid. If Mysterio had knocked Joe loopy, then it would have been more acceptable, but this was just too unrealistic, even for professional wrestling.