10 Reasons WWE Will NEVER Be Able To Replace Rey Mysterio
2. Rey Was A Perfect Underdog Babyface
So, yeah. For as many people say that Ricky Steamboat, Hulk Hogan or Ricky Morton were great underdog babyfaces because of their ability to sell being beaten upon (say, when he wrestled the Great Khali), in Rey Mysterio looking like a child being beaten by a grown man upped the ante. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_DgTcUgWk One of Rey's best WWE feuds was against Dave Batista. A lot of it worked because they were established as being friends on TV, but it also worked because a 6'4" 300 pound man was brutally assaulting a 5'2" 170 pound guy, and even while wearing a mask, the smaller man could convey the pain of the assault.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
