#10: Rey Mysterio

by EricR

Rey was really only active for 5 months (2 at the beginning, 2 at the end), as his knees are made of putty and his muscles tear as often as 40 yr. old Filipino bodybuilders, but damn if he isn't great at making adjustments to cover up his injuries. His selling is great, he works nice and stiff, and he's the greatest underdog babyface I've ever seen in my life. Earlier in the year he worked a match against Chavo, and the story of the match was Rey getting his arm worked over as he had a biceps tear and his arm was just hanging by a thread. Well, he went down injured not too long after, so either he insanely worked a match with one arm, or his selling was so spectacular that my rube ass got tricked into going "Shit, why is he working this match with only one good arm?" Rey is also really great at covering up size differences, and is one of the only people (maybe the ONLY?) in wrestling that looks cool in vinyl indy pants. That has to be worth something.

~Recommended 2008 Matches:

~vs. Chavo Guerrero (WWE Smackdown, 1/11/08)
~vs. Edge, (WWE Royal Rumble, 1/27/08)
~w/ CM Punk vs. Chavo Guerrero/Edge (WWE Smackdown, 2/1/08)
~vs. Chavo Guerrero (WWE Smackdown, 2/22/08)
~w/ Evan Bourne vs. John Morrison/The Miz (WWE Raw, 9/8/08)
~w/ Finlay/Batista/Jeff Hardy vs. JBL/The Brian Kendrick/Kane/MVP (WWE Smackdown, 10/3/08)
~vs. Evan Bourne (WWE Raw, 10/27/08)
~vs. CM Punk (WWE Armageddon, 12/14/08)

~Recommended Career Matches:

~vs. Eddy Guerrero (WWE Smackdown, 11/14/02)
~vs. Matt Hardy (WWE Smackdown, 6/5/03)
~vs. Eddy Guerrero (WWE Smackdown, 3/18/04)
~vs. Chavo Guerrero (WWE Great American Bash, 6/27/04)
~vs. Chavo Guerrero (WWE Smackdown, 5/5/05)
~vs. Eddy Guerrero (WWE Smackdown, 6/23/05)
~w/ Batista vs. MNM (WWE Smackdown, 12/16/05)
~vs. Mark Henry (WWE Smackdown, 1/20/06)
~vs. Fit Finlay (WWE Smackdown, 3/24/06)
~vs. Randy Orton (WWE Smackdown, 4/7/06)
~vs. King Booker (WWE Smackdown, 7/23/06)
~vs. Fit Finlay (WWE Smackdown, 9/5/06)
~vs. Fit Finlay (WWE Smackdown, 11/9/07)

~2009 Outlook: I can easily see him going up. Right now he seems like a top 3 pick, possibly #1. He's been healthy a long stretch of the year and has continued his trend of having good to great matches with every size opponent. As long as he doesn't get caught with a lapsed pain pill subscription, he'll go up. If he doesn't work the rest of the year, finishing higher is still not out of the question.