10 AEW Wrestlers WWE Should Fear The Most

8. Fénix

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Thought infallible at the turn of the year, when he was wrestling weekly bangers opposite Andrade, the 44 year-old Rey Mysterio showed the first dent in his stem cell armour just prior to WrestleMania by suffering an ankle injury. Rey, an absurd physical specimen, is still mortal.

No iconic superhero gear can obscure that.

WWE is aware of this, and has spent roughly the last decade in a futile, often blackly hilarious crusade to succeed him. Sin Cara translated to 'Faceless', and it was half-right. It was as if he didn't have eyes, he botched that frequently and spectacularly, but he wasn't anonymous. He was iconically bad. WWE did display the nous to sign the incredible Gran Metalik, but then displayed the depressing negligence to relegate him in favour of Kalisto, who could wrestle 4676 more of his d*mn good 205 offerings and still never shake the good lucha things stigma.

Fénix does miraculous lucha things. Fénix does unique lucha things with ring ropes that were once thought impossible, ignoring their dangerous elasticity and the scope for total embarrassment by somehow using them as a platform to deliver state-of-the-art offence and heart-in-mouth psycho bumps.

WWE covets a Mexican market in which it performs strongly. Fénix boasts the immense talent and star aura to divert some attention towards his new home.

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