Rey Mysterio

Rey Mysterio is a Mexican wrestler from the ECW, WCW, WWE, AAA and Lucha Underground promotion.

Rey is the nephew of Rey Misterio Sr. who helped train the young wrestler. Starting his career on the independent circuit of Tijuana after being trained by his Uncle, he was picked by a newly established major promotion called AAA, which in turn lead to Mysterio going to ECW in 1992, where his high-flying style attracted the attention of Eric Bischoff - who was scouting for lucha wrestlers in order to give WCW a more unique feel to it. Along with other luchadores and cruiserweights, Mysterio caught the attention of the crowd with the fast paced and risk taking matches, becoming one of the high points of WCW all the way up to its demise.

After WCW collapsed, Mysterio competed for various independent circuits - including wrestling against future world champions Eddie Guerrero and CM Punk in IWA Mid-South - before signing with WWE in 2002, where he has since become one of its biggest stars and a main eventer on the company's SmackDown brand, up until he was drafted to Raw in 2011.

When his WWE contract expired in 2015, Mysterio returned to AAA and is also making appearances in Lucha Underground.

Later returning in Royal Rumble 2018, Mysterio is looking forward to work for WWE again as a part-timer. This also applies to New Japan Pro-Wrestling as of a segment taped for The New Beginning in Osaka 2018, making him the second performer behind Chris Jericho to form working ties simultaneously with both companies in the 21st century.

Personality
Rey has spent almost his entire career as a face. Even his stint in the heel stable the Filthy Animals, he came across more as a tweener going along with the heel thing because it's what his friends were doing. Since joining the WWE, Rey has never been anything but a pure face, a shockingly rare feat in the land of Heel–Face Revolving Door that is pro wrestling. He's effectively the Ricky Steamboat of his generation.

Abilities
With the very brief exception of Blitzkrieg in WCW, Mysterio has always been the fastest man in the match while wrestling in the USA. Rey is a skilled high flyer and often utilizes the ring ropes to his advantage.

Trivia

 * Fans are fond of calling him "Rey-Rey".


 * A rare case of a bad What Could Have Been being averted - Vince McMahon was not at all interested in Mysterio, didn't think WWE fans would be interested in small flippy wrestlers, and it took his entire creative team arguing against him to convince him to bring Mysterio in at a reduced rate.
 * A former WWE writer said in a shoot interview that Vince never planned on letting Rey keep the World Heavyweight Championship as long as he did. John Bradshaw Layfield was supposed to win the title, but injuries kept JBL from having a run with it.
 * Also, the Sin Cara character was meant to capitalize off Rey's popularity and serve as an eventual Spiritual Successor. The plan for Rey and Sin Cara was to team them together (and put the Tag Titles on them, depending on who you ask) or a time, which would have eventually culminated in a Teacher vs. Student match at WrestleMania, where WWE would have attempted to set a Guinness World Record for most people wearing masks at a televised event - potentially HSQ-breaking match notwithstanding. But between Sin Cara's botching and both wrestlers' injuries, WWE ended up being forced to give up on the experiment entirely.