7 Ups And 3 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 39 Night 1

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7. Mysterio Intros Pitch Perfect

WWE WrestleMania 39 Rey Mysterio Snoop Dogg
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This writer suggested a bit ago that if Dominik Mysterio really wanted to play the Eddie Guerrero hand to the hilt, he would have entered WrestleMania in a lowrider.

It turns out that’s what happened, but it was Rey Mysterio who entered the stadium via Snoop Dogg’s lowrider to Eddie’s theme. It was a perfect little tribute, especially after Rey dedicated a good portion of his Hall of Fame speech Friday night to Guerrero. It connected him to his longtime friend who sadly passed away 18 years ago.

Dom, meanwhile, gave us a full Hollywood trailer treatment, with a pre-taped video of him in prison being released from his cell and loaded up into a corrections van. This gave way to the van backing into the stadium and Dominik emerging… handcuffed and in a purple Mysterio mask. Holy crap.

The younger Mysterio would remove the mask (which resembled Rey’s mask from his Halloween Havoc classic against Eddie) and have officers uncuff him after being led through the crowd, clearly too dangerous to be left alone.

While it would’ve been nice to be 100% correct, we’ll take partial credit for the Eddie tribute and enjoy the intros nonetheless.

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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.