Rey Mysterio has addressed the idea of retiring and passing his mask down to Dominik, so we’ll
see what he had to say.
We’ll also take a look at what Ronda Rousey is continuing to tease
Let’s start things off with The Mysterios
Rey Mysterio’s WWE career just turned 20 years old and there’s no doubt in anyone’s
mind about just how important his legacy is in WWE
His list of accomplishments is endless and he’s one of the most popular and globally
known superstars out there
Even people who aren’t that familiar with WWE most likely are aware of who Rey Mysterio
actually is
Rey Mysterio will be turning 48 in December 2022 and retirement has been on his mind for
a few years now
Rey has even hinted at the idea that he would’ve been retired a few years ago if it wasn’t
for his son Dominik joining the family business inside of the wrestling ring
When Dominik said that he wanted to wrestle, it gave Rey Mysterio a reason to keep competing
in the ring and be by Dominik’s side
Ever since Dominik debuted, Rey’s entire focus has obviously been on helping Dominik
perfect his craft in his very young career
That’s all Rey Mysterio wanted to do, just to guide Dominik into the business and show
him the way to start him off on the right foot
Dominik and Rey even won the tag team titles along the way as the first ever father-son
pair of champions in WWE history
so you already know that Rey probably ranks that tag team title reign with Dominik much
higher than even his world title reigns
And like we’ve been discussing a lot lately, it seems like WWE is continuing to push and
hint at the idea of Rey Mysterio and Dominik going their separate ways
The Judgment Day has really been pushing Dominik into a corner with that entire situation in
recent weeks
Well Rey Mysterio was recently speaking with Sports Illustrated and he once again addressed
the topic of his retirement, he had this to say, quote:
“My next goal is to eventually be able to look for a great plan of retirement.
I also want to make sure my son is set.
I’m really enjoying his evolution.
We’re still seeing a lot of growth with Dominik.
I always have to remind myself he hasn’t been doing this for very long.
He’s doing very well, and I push him to do better every single time he’s in the
ring, I want to hang up the mask down the road, and hopefully see Dominik carry that
mask and continue with the Mysterio legacy.”
End quote
And Rey is completely right
Dominik is still in his mid 20s, he didn’t have this long history of wrestling in the
independent scene or anything like that
He was always around the business because of his father and just became a full time
superstar in 2020
Dominik didn’t even have his first match in front of a crowd until July 2021
So being on the road and competing in front of these big crowds is still all new to Dominik,
it’s only been one year that he’s been on the full time road schedule
But like Rey Mysterio said, everyone is seeing the evolution that Dominik is going through
Obviously, he’s only gonna get better and better as time goes on and he gets more experience
As far as Rey Mysterio’s retirement from the ring goes, it sounds like Rey is basically
saying that the timing of his retirement will be based on Dominik’s development as a wrestler
and WWE superstar
As soon as he sees that Dominik is more than able to hold his own in WWE, that’s probably
when Rey Mysterio will enter his own retirement and let Dominik go freely in WWE
A popular topic for years now involving Dominik has been the idea of him wearing a mask
The most popular fan theory, and what Rey has even talked about multiple times, is that
Dominik will receive the mask upon Rey Mysterio’s actual retirement
Maybe it’ll happen on-screen, maybe it’ll be off-screen, but Rey Mysterio will most
likely take that mask off and hand it over to Dominik to continue to wear and to continue
the family legacy
Dominik wearing a mask right now really wouldn’t make any sense or serve any purpose, but if
we do eventually see a situation like that down the line where Rey puts that mask in
Dom’s hands, that obviously changes everything
That’ll give Dominik the best story and purpose to start wearing the mask for the
first time in his WWE career
The only thing that may get in the way of seeing this go down is if Dominik heels turns
and splits from his father
If Dominik eventually takes out his father, it may start to get a bit tricky story-wise
for Rey to peacefully pass the mask down
So in order for this theory to come true, Dominik would have to remain as a babyface
and never turn on his father
So we’ll have to see how all that will plan out, but according to Rey, Dominik will wear
that mask one day
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A lot of fans feel like a full heel turn may be on the way for Ronda Rousey in the near
future
For having to lose her title due to a cash-in, Ronda Rousey handled it surprisingly well
Usually if you’re a champion that just successfully survived a long battle and then you lose thanks
to a cash-in, you’re obviously not gonna be in the best mood
But Ronda lost her title to a cash-in roll up and was just calm and collected and proceeded
to congratulate Liv Morgan with a handshake
So it seemed like Ronda Rousey was taking the high road and remaining babyface, but
the closer we get to Summerslam, the more Ronda appears to be teasing a full heel transition
Liv Morgan and Ronda Rousey had a backstage face-to-face segment this week where Ronda
sounded a lot more like her 2019 heel self than her current babyface character
Instead of taking the usual and friendly route of “may the better woman win”, Ronda proceeded
to say that Liv better shake her hand after she wins back her title and how she was definitely
winning at Summerslam because her name is Ronda Rousey is Liv Morgan is just “Liv
Morgan”
So yeah, definitely not type of promo and dialogue you hear from your everyday babyface
character
Definitely sounds like Ronda was leaning more on the heel side there with those words that
she exchanged with Liv Morgan
So this recent shift in Ronda’s character has fans wondering if a full blown heel turning
moment could be coming up soon for Ronda Rousey
Summerslam could be a great spot for this heel turn
Maybe it’s that cockiness that Ronda Rousey has that ends up costing her this title match
Even though she’s the defending champion, Liv Morgan is playing with house money and
really has no pressure on her
Looking at the match on paper, Ronda Rousey should definitely win this match, no question
about that
But maybe Liv Morgan does pull off another upset victory over Ronda Rousey and this is
the one loss that takes Ronda over the edge
After Liv got that upset win over Ronda at Money In The Bank, Ronda shook her hand and
congratulated her
Maybe Ronda would go in for another hand shake after Summerslam, but end up attacking Liv
Morgan after the match
Ronda is in a tweener sort of state right now, so if she does attack Liv Morgan at Summerslam
after another fair and square loss, maybe we will see Ronda finally pick a side and
go full heel
The problem with a hypothetical Ronda Rousey heel turn is that the depth of the babyfaces
in the Smackdown woman’s division would seriously be thinning out
You would have Liv Morgan, Raquel Rodriguez, and Aliyah as the only babyfaces on the Smackdown
roster
And the heels would just dominate the Smackdown womens roster with heels like Charlotte, Lacey
Evans, Natalya, Shotzi, Shayna, Sonya Deville, Xia Li, and now potentially Ronda Rousey
So that’s the one big downside to a Ronda Rousey heel turn, they’ll barely be any
babyfaces left on the Smackdown womens roster
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