10 Scrappiest WWE Underdogs

5. Rey Mysterio

This probably seems like a no-brainer - after all, he€™s been called €˜the biggest little man in the WWE€™ for so long that he might as well have changed his name to €˜Underdog€™ and barked his way to the ring. Still, it€™s often forgotten that Rey Mysterio has had a tough road at times in US wrestling. In WCW, he became incredibly popular but still found himself marginalised and disrespected by the office, forced to remove his mask in a nothing angle, heedless of the cultural significance that that had for a luchador. In WWE, they had more respect for him and his traditions: but they will always be the land of the giants. Every wrestler under six foot tall has to prove themselves ten times over to earn the spot that a bigger guy might be handed overnight, and Rey is significantly under six foot tall. Mysterio ended up in a peculiar position: he was a superhero, not a traditional wrestler. He never played a heel again, and as a virtuous, sweetheart babyface a good foot shorter than even his more middle-sized opponents, WWE would take some serious convincing to book him as a serious threat to any of the larger men on the roster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhoWR9u6mk8 That went on for nearly thirteen years. Given Mysterio€™s status in the company over that time, picking one match or one feud as an example of his underdog position is ludicrous - but then it€™s fairly ludicrous that a character so over, a performer so talented, a wrestler with such frenetic, superlative offence, was booked as a perennial underdog in the first place.