Rey Mysterio's WWE Tag Team Partners - From Worst To Best
Great singles competitor but an under-rated tag team wrestler too...
When one thinks about Rey Mysterio and his WWE accomplishments (as I'm sure you do often), you're most likely to hark back to his record-setting 2006 Royal Rumble victory, his World Heavyweight Title triumph at WrestleMania 22, series of awesome matches with Chris Jericho or that time he fought for the custody of his actual child in a ladder match.
Mysterio had a singles career in WWE that few could have predicted when the former WCW Cruiserweight Champion walked through the doors of Titan Towers in mid-2002. He was small by the standards of the time, had an 'unconventional' ring style and wore a freaking mask, for goodness' sake. How was he going to get over?
Get over he did, mainly thanks to his exciting style, unique mask and the fact that he can produce a good-to-great match with just about anyone. What often gets overlooked from Rey's time in WWE is that he spent a significant portion of it tag-teaming with a wide variety of different partners.
Indeed, the master of the 619 capture tag team gold with four separate partners and came close to doing so with three others. Here they all are, ranked in order from worst.
7. Big Show
Mysterio's final full-time WWE team, the Biggest Little Man and the World's Largest Athlete formed a short-lived duo towards the end of 2013. The two men had teamed up on occasion in the past, but this time around they were presented as being a legit tag team and even challenged for the WWE Tag Team Titles (in a four-team match at TLC 2013).
They were particularly active in December of that year, having a handful of decent televised matches against teams like the Goldust & Cody Rhodes and The Real Americans. Their big man/little man act was simple, but effective. Rey would do most of the running around and take a beating before making a hot tag to Show, who would then come in and clean house.
Rey and Show quietly stopped teaming with one another in early 2014 and Mysterio was gone from the company later that year. They didn't achieve any real kind of success, hence their low placing. One thing they did have going for them, mind, was their awesome finisher - a splash from Mysterio, who was standing on Big Show's shoulders.