10 Major WWE Stars The Internet Completely Turned A Corner On 5

5. Rey Mysterio

When it comes to being an innovator, few wrestlers of the last 20 years can touch Rey Mysterio. He’s a guy that helped change American wrestling because he brought the cruiserweight style to the forefront. Before him, little guys were barely getting any attention. There were moments of greatness like when the 1-2-3 Kid was getting the occasional push in WWE, but for the most part the smaller guys were being looked down on because as we all know it’s a big man’s business.
Fans loved Mysterio when he started in WCW in 1996. For the next five years he did things nobody else could do. His matches were as good as anybody in the world and he was still such a young guy. Then he went to WWE in 2002. He was immediately loved by the fans. Maybe some hated that he was a smaller guy beating bigger wrestlers, but he always found a way to make it entertaining.
In the last few years things have changed. Injuries have slowed down Mysterio’s career so much that we don’t know if we’ll ever see him in WWE again. There are stories that he’s trying to get out of his WWE deal because he’s so unhappy.
A lot of fans don’t seem to care about what he did in his career. All they want to do is make fun of him for injuries. It’s sad, but true. Wrestling fans a lot of the time have the “what have you done for me lately” kind of attitude and for Mysterio that means they ignore what he’s done.


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