8 Wrestling Game-Changers Who Became JOBBERS!
7. Sin Cara
Mistico's success in pro wrestling wasn't a matter of opinion before he arrived, slightly retooled as Sin Cara in WWE in 2011.
A white hot box office draw for CMLL in the second half of the 2000s, he was credited most for the boom the company experienced at the time, building a Hall-Of-Fame case in terms of being a needle-mover before he'd even turned 30. The work backed up the numbers too - his matches with the likes of Black Warrior, Volador Jr and Negro Casas were important, influential and era-defining. So much so that when Triple H was given the opportunity to prove his scouting chops for the first time, he presented a reasonable case for having found the "next Rey Mysterio" WWE were constantly looking for.
Man behind the mask Luis Ignacio Urive Alvirde signed on and Sin Cara was born, but Mistico in just about every sense was almost instantly dead.
Given a trampoline-based entrance elaborate enough for him to blow it on his debut, Cara's intro botch remains one of the only things fans from the time actually recall about the character. That, and...the other botches. He slightly misjudged the height of the ropes the first night, seemed to misjudge how to balance on them in subsequent appearances. and the more the character suffered credibility hits, the more the bells-and-whistles weren't enough. A tag team with Rey Mysterio was a well-intentioned but ultimately quite demeaning attempt to quick-fix what was obviously broken between the two sides, and the lucha libre icon ended his days with wrestling's global market leader working NXT shots as often as he did WWE ones. A loser who simply just lost, and a lost cause.
After very little went right from his 2011 debut onwards, he remarkably trudged on with the facade of a run until 2013, when he was released. With Hunico taking the Sin Cara label off his hands, Mistico got to work reclaiming so much of the credibility that had been lost. First working as Myzteziz, then Caristico, he finally reclaimed the Mistico name after Mistico II left CMLL in 2021. As of 2026, he's now a celebrated legend of the game once again, in both Mexico and as a semi-regular in All Elite Wrestling.