6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE WrestleMania Backlash

4. Mysterios Make Believers Of Us

Rey Mysterio Dominik Mysterio
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If there’s one thing that Rey Mysterio has excelled at (aside from being an incredible wrestler overall) is his ability to make you believe in him as an underdog facing overwhelming odds.

That’s exactly what happened on Sunday night, when Rey went into the SmackDown Tag Team Championship match alone because of a pre-match attack on his son Dominik by Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode. Rey fought valiantly, absorbing a ton of abuse until Dominik made his way to ringside to take a tag. The injured duo continued to battle against the champs, until Dom was able to hit a frog splash to pick up the win.

And just like that, Rey and Dominik became the first father-son tag team champions in WWE history. It was a great moment for the family, after a horrific feud against Seth Rollins last year and various fits and starts. The fact we got a nice match out of it too didn’t hurt matters either.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.