So after watching Raw on Monday night, and two excellent tv matches both bookended by Rey Rey, I realized Rey is one glaring ommission from the Defining Moments series. Monday's Raw certainly marked a "Defining Moment" in the career of Rey Mysterio, in winning his first WWE Championship(and third overall World Heavyweight Championship) and losing it in the very same night.
What truly makes for a "Defining Moment", if you will? They're the ones that one would look back on following the end of a wrestlers career and remember, for a variety of reasons. With Rey, like any other, it can be a promo, a backstage segment, and most certainly a match. In the case of Rey here, it's due to him being only the 4th wrestler to win a major World Championship and then lose it on the very same night. The wrestler doesn't have to be a favorite or even one you like for this to work: Its simply a moment you'll look back upon years from now when their career is over and remember. In the "defining moment" it will be that one place where one will look back andc remember more then any other moment of the wrestler's career. A moment that we look back on with fondness and respect, whether we like the wrestler or not. These moments are what truly make us wrestling fans. We all have our reasons for getting into wrestling, but it's safe to say that a certain wrestler influenced it, some more than others. And it's because of certain things, or "defining moments", that have occurred in said wrestler's career and is that special moment that sticks with us through time.
Rey Mysterio serves as another reminder of a career that has spanned decades, with countless moments, matches, and spectacular spots. Rey had some spectacular matches in ECW and WCW with the likes of Dean Malenko, Juventad Guerrero, Psychosis, and Eddie Guerrero, as well as classics within WWE with the likes of Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, Edge, and Chris Jericho, amongst others. But the match to me that truly defines Rey's career was one in which Rey literally overcame 29 other superstars. In the build leading up to the match, we saw some Alberto Del Rio like talk from Rey, claming that his winning the match was destined to be as a result of his close friendship with the late Eddie Guerrero. And when Rey Mysterio started the Royal Rumble match of 2006 at #2, he literally overcame 29 others to win it, his guaranteed shot at the title at Wrestlemania, and his first World Championship.
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This match would be the beginning of Rey's journey to show he truly belonged in the upper echelon of WWE wrestler's, as it lead to his match with Randy Orton for his title shot at No Way Out, and he winning the title against Orton and Kurt Angle at WM 22. This cememted Rey at the top of the card, as he'ld go on to win two more major titles, first in a Fatal Four Way at last year's PPV of the same name, and finally on last week's Raw. In a career full of highlights, this may have been the biggest of them all, and his "defining moment" in my eyes.
But what say you? What was the defining moment in Rey Mysterio's career, and why? Feel free to use YouTube to validate your choice if you'ld like, but most of all, have fun with this.
What truly makes for a "Defining Moment", if you will? They're the ones that one would look back on following the end of a wrestlers career and remember, for a variety of reasons. With Rey, like any other, it can be a promo, a backstage segment, and most certainly a match. In the case of Rey here, it's due to him being only the 4th wrestler to win a major World Championship and then lose it on the very same night. The wrestler doesn't have to be a favorite or even one you like for this to work: Its simply a moment you'll look back upon years from now when their career is over and remember. In the "defining moment" it will be that one place where one will look back andc remember more then any other moment of the wrestler's career. A moment that we look back on with fondness and respect, whether we like the wrestler or not. These moments are what truly make us wrestling fans. We all have our reasons for getting into wrestling, but it's safe to say that a certain wrestler influenced it, some more than others. And it's because of certain things, or "defining moments", that have occurred in said wrestler's career and is that special moment that sticks with us through time.
Rey Mysterio serves as another reminder of a career that has spanned decades, with countless moments, matches, and spectacular spots. Rey had some spectacular matches in ECW and WCW with the likes of Dean Malenko, Juventad Guerrero, Psychosis, and Eddie Guerrero, as well as classics within WWE with the likes of Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, Edge, and Chris Jericho, amongst others. But the match to me that truly defines Rey's career was one in which Rey literally overcame 29 other superstars. In the build leading up to the match, we saw some Alberto Del Rio like talk from Rey, claming that his winning the match was destined to be as a result of his close friendship with the late Eddie Guerrero. And when Rey Mysterio started the Royal Rumble match of 2006 at #2, he literally overcame 29 others to win it, his guaranteed shot at the title at Wrestlemania, and his first World Championship.
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This match would be the beginning of Rey's journey to show he truly belonged in the upper echelon of WWE wrestler's, as it lead to his match with Randy Orton for his title shot at No Way Out, and he winning the title against Orton and Kurt Angle at WM 22. This cememted Rey at the top of the card, as he'ld go on to win two more major titles, first in a Fatal Four Way at last year's PPV of the same name, and finally on last week's Raw. In a career full of highlights, this may have been the biggest of them all, and his "defining moment" in my eyes.
But what say you? What was the defining moment in Rey Mysterio's career, and why? Feel free to use YouTube to validate your choice if you'ld like, but most of all, have fun with this.
