12 Cursed Comparisons That DOOMED Promising Wrestlers
4. Dominik Mysterio (Eddie Guerrero)
ARGH! This is a painful one, because Dominik Mysterio is still figuring things out and is hardly terrible. If anything, he's pretty good and blossomed into one of WWE's hottest onscreen characters for a spell. However, once the Judgment Day bubble faded, it became evident that he'd need more than Eddie Guerrero comparisons.
Those haven't aided him over the piece, they really haven't.
Guerrero was one of those talents who could do practically everything asked of him - he was a titan in the ring, he could cut fiery promos, Eddie could do comedy and he forged that all important connection with the audience organically through sheer hard graft as well as passionate performances.
'Dirty Dom' isn't quite there, and yet here he is being compared to 'Latino Heat' like someone poured water into water and asked you to spot the difference. That's completely unfair. How could someone 6 years into his career be expected to match the best of Eddie freakin Guerrero?!
WWE has leaned on the Guerrero goodness for years though, and so has Dom himself. He grew out a mullet, fashioned an Eddie-style moustache, and he even mimicked EG's merchandise and moveset. There have been real high points for Mysterio, but he's been struggling for direction lately.
Triple H doesn't appear to know what to do with Dominik going forwards. A seemingly inevitable babyface turn was abandoned in favour of more JD content, and now he's fairly rudderless on a stacked roster. Maybe the Guerrero parallels were drawn too soon then?