10 Biggest Heat Magnets In WWE History
9. Sin Cara
One of the WWE’s biggest ever talent acquisitions when he arrived in early 2011, Luis Urive Alvirde (aka Místico) was one of Mexico’s biggest ever lucha libre stars, and was considered an incredibly talented técnico. Then he arrived in the USA to work for WWE, almost immediately failed the Wellness Policy and proceeded to stink the place up when he returned thirty days later.
Sin Cara became synonymous with the hamfisted botch, with fragility and with a poor attitude backstage. He refused to learn to speak English, something which would have assisted him in acclimating himself to the North American style he’d need to be using… but then he wasn’t that interested in doing that either. The company even hired a friend of his to work with him and help him adjust, but to no avail.
Urive rubbed many of his colleagues up the wrong way, not least José ‘Alberto Del Rio’ Rodríguez, another former luchador with plenty of experience working with técnicos. In another life, when both men had worked for CMLL in Mexico, Urive had one of his entourage pull a gun on the bigger man. When they worked together again in WWE, the two came to a truce largely because Rodríguez was one of the only people Urive could have a conversation with.
That more or less ended on the night that was the final straw for the original Sin Cara in WWE. During a match with Del Rio on RAW in August 2013, Sin Cara dislocated his finger and, rather than fighting past it to finish the match as planned, immediately called the referee over and had the match stopped.
Del Rio was livid and laid in some reasonably stiff kicks before the referee separated them. After the match, he cut an impromptu promo declaring himself a Mexican hero the Latino community could be proud of (the implication being that the babyface Sin Cara wasn’t).
Vince McMahon had had enough. All the backstage issues, the attitude problem, the language barrier, and now Sin Cara couldn’t be bothered to finish a match. Jorge ‘Hunico’ Arias found himself working under the Sin Cara hood shortly afterwards and Urive ended up back in Mexico.