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WCW just pissing potential merchandise money down the drain.

Rey Mysterio | WCW Thunder - November 8th 2000

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Ok so...I don't know if I have any business doing this but I made a podcast. This is chronicling my journey into learning about Lucha Libre. If this interests you, please check it out.

https://open.spotify.com/show/4bRopl7pMdVAOOaPGCWRiW?si=JWaOhpRLSG603R563L-Ipw

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Bryan is based for this. It was a really nice showcase for Hechicero and that was mostly in part to him destroying Bryan.

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i'm not giving up on maid despy

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HOLY FUCK the CMLL guys are going NWO on our asses!

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Rush. Spotting the camera and obscuring Bandido's face. This is iconic behaviour. King shit. Love to see it. The little finger wag as well, like 'no no no'.

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https://twitter.com/luchablog/status/1753814031939391639?t=Ja3c7KDAkGPWBajwqEykNg&s=19

If anyone wants to learn about Hechicero before tonight then this twitter thread is the place to do so. Lucha Blog I'd incredible and is really helping me on my journey to learn about Lucha.

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A surprisingly nice twitter reaction. Good on you random guy.

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I was not ready for AEW to be partnering this hard With CMLL. I had this long plan to slowly teach myself about lucha but then these four well dressed men showed up during my Wednesday night television watching.

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Little does he know Mox doesn't tweet.

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Rey Mysterio Jr VS Psicosis

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I am so not normal about the Pentagon gimmick being cursed but Pentagon Jr not caring about no curse and making the idea of having zero fear his whole thing.

THIS IS LIKE MY FAVOURITE FACT IN WRESTLING.

I DEFINITELY LOVE PENTA A NORMAL AMOUNT GUYS!

You do not know how much I marked out for him at Wembley.

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Mysterio, Guerrero, Malenko, Juventud, Psycosis were all leagues better than the people WCW were putting in the main event. With good booking, any one of them could have been a main eventer seriously.

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As you can guess from my pfp, I like the Halloween Havoc '97 Mysterio/Guerrero match.

And one of the most interesting things about it is that Rey was originally booked to lose the match and his mask by WCW. But Mysterio fought against this idea and was able to get the finish changed under the condition he lost his mask later on down the line because why make money on merch sales.

Now I don't know if Eddie Guerrero would have wanted to unmask Rey, but I feel like he wouldn't. And although him losing the mask sucked, at least we got this absolute gem.