16 Match Star Ratings For WWE WrestleMania 39
11. Rey Mysterio Vs. Dominik Mysterio
Remember the WWE of 2019?
It was horrendous.
Vince McMahon had to pretend to relinquish a bit of power because the numbers were so sh*tty. Paul Heyman tried to use that power to push Cedric Alexander, Buddy Murphy, Andrade and the like. It was all so loveless: a mid and soulless version of an approach to wrestling that WWE held no interest in.
Dominik Mysterio Vs. His Deadbeat Dad, Rey Mysterio is what WWE is.
It was perversely funny, dumb soap opera intelligently crafted. It knew exactly what it was. It was sports entertainment so insanely fun that AEW really ought to stop parodying it; WWE at its best is better and even more self-aware than the Jericho Appreciation Society suggests. This was WWE at its best. The first three seconds of Dom's police escort entrance elevated this to greatness. Rey's entrance was somehow even better. There is a special sort of dumb magic only WWE can conjure, and this was it.
The action was shockingly great - and the dynamic was so well established that it didn't really need to be - but this was an all-fronts triumph. Mysterio took a reverse powerbomb face-first onto the bottom turnbuckle in an awesome spot. Rey made Dominik Mysterio, who is dire mechanically, look like the business. The drama on the outside, between the Mysterio family and the interfering Judgment Day, made it feel like 65,000 people were sitting in the Jerry Springer studio. This was a quintessential, only-in-WWE spectacle, the best of its kind since Mr. McMahon worked his own son at WrestleMania X-Seven - and frankly, this was better. Rey is such a great worker that it felt like he was in trouble before he was outnumbered.
Have you watched Dominik Mysterio before Saturday night?
Star Rating: ★★★★