I used to love Rey Mysterio and he was easily my favorite superstar when I started watching wrestling again back in 2005. In fact if it weren't for his feud with Eddie that summer (ridiculous Dominick plot aside, they were in a ton of great matches) I don't know if I WOULD have gotten back into wrestling. I was just so amazed by his moves, even the 619, which were just so incredibly different from what I was used to, not having watched wrestling in over a decade, since before the Monday Night Wars began.
I still LIKE him, but he's understandably lost a step over the years and the problem is he hasn't improved on the mic to make up for what he's lost in the ring. He still puts on great PPV matches, but he's usually terrible to watch on regular TV, and he hasn't had an interesting storyline in I don't even know how long. And making it worse is that lately he's been facing rising heel stars and killing them with his inability to cut a promo and how he practically never loses. He's gotten better about the whole constant winning thing since moving to Raw (in fact now he seems to lose most of the time), but he still can't talk.
Also not a fan of the half-mask he's been wearing in recent years. I didn't mind it when he started wearing it during his feud with Kane a few years ago (the one where Kane had Mysterio's mask in that burlap sack, remember?), because I thought it was supposed to be like a takeoff on Kane's old mask but with a Mysterio face. But then he kept it and maybe the Kane connection was just in my imagination and I just don't like it at all anymore.
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