Briefcase Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 I remember when he first joined WWE people were saying he was slowing down. How old is he now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 7 minutes ago, Briefcase said: I remember when he first joined WWE people were saying he was slowing down. How old is he now? He’s 43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
returner82 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Is it possible that it's a preemptive approach to putting him in the hall of fame and then keeping him around as a legend in residence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted September 19, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2018 I think as well as the "not being Daniel Bryan at the Royal Rumble" heat some of the fans were getting tired of his whole gimmick being that he's paying tribute to Eddie Guerrero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, King Pitcos said: I recall very little of Rey's career after about 2011, was he ever getting the boos much apart from that Royal Rumble with the tantrum about him not being Daniel Bryan? I think the Eddie stuff and the following shitty title reign damaged him a lot. I remember a match at the Rumble vs heel Edge with Vickie where the crowd were almost unanimously on Edge's side. Also remember people cheering heel Y2J for their (fucking awesome and not remembered enough) title vs. mask feud. WWE have an uncanny ability to make anybody boring, especially good guys. Edited September 19, 2018 by sj5522 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted September 19, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2018 20 minutes ago, jazzygeofferz said: I think as well as the "not being Daniel Bryan at the Royal Rumble" heat some of the fans were getting tired of his whole gimmick being that he's paying tribute to Eddie Guerrero. The 619 had been getting boos from the smarks for years, for some reason. They hated that move after a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted September 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 20, 2018 Rey against Joe could be superb. The work Joe has been doing with AJ Styles has been fantastic, but imagine it against someone as good at garnering audience sympathy as Rey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted September 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 20, 2018 Has Rey had any good 1-on-1 matches since he sorted his knees out? I've seen him pop up in NJPW and, of course All In and he seems to only do a few spots in tag matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaitoRyo Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 He's had a few that I've seen, yeah. Check out his WCPW/Defiant stuff against Ricochet/Ospreay (it's on YouTube). Also his Lucha Underground stuff against Ricochet/Prince Puma. Rey's been having stem cell injections in his knees the last little while and it seems to have done him the world of good. He's also got in incredible shape and lost a lot of the flab/water weight he was carrying at points during his WWE run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted September 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 20, 2018 9 minutes ago, ColinBollocks said: Has Rey had any good 1-on-1 matches since he sorted his knees out? I've seen him pop up in NJPW and, of course All In and he seems to only do a few spots in tag matches. Didn't he have a match over here with Styles before he was signed? I wonder if that was any good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Accident Prone Posted September 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 20, 2018 Rey got tons of hate at ONS '06 from what I remember, where the fans booed him for some reason during his match against Sabu. I can't see where he fits in the roster though unless he becomes the flag bearer of 205 Live. Sticking him on that show gives him an excuse to not wrestle a TV-style match every week considering how short it is. Stick the the title on him, give people who normally wouldn't care about 205 a reason to tune in. One week he can be wrestling a 10 minute match, the next he's doing an angle or interview, then the next week he's involved in some sort of tag or multi-man before his next singles match. It's be easy on his body, thats for sure. Perhaps he is being used to helm the Mexico expansion that HHH keeps dribbling on about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted September 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 20, 2018 9 minutes ago, Accident Prone said: Rey got tons of hate at ONS '06 from what I remember, where the fans booed him for some reason during his match against Sabu. I'd imagine that was down to 1. Sabu not having been seen for a while, and not having been on WWE TV as frequently as Rey (sort of an "absence makes the fart go Honda" type thing), and 2. whilst he was in ECW, he'd been long enough in WWE to establish himself as having fit right in as a crowd-pleasing, kid-friendly, colourful cartoon character - everything that ECW fans supposedly hated and saw as the opposite of what ECW stood for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Accident Prone Posted September 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 20, 2018 2 minutes ago, Carbomb said: I'd imagine that was down to 1. Sabu not having been seen for a while, and not having been on WWE TV as frequently as Rey (sort of an "absence makes the fart go Honda" type thing), and 2. whilst he was in ECW, he'd been long enough in WWE to establish himself as having fit right in as a crowd-pleasing, kid-friendly, colourful cartoon character - everything that ECW fans supposedly hated and saw as the opposite of what ECW stood for. I felt bad for Rey. He came out, kitted out in black and with the ECW logo embezzled on him, killed himself and worked a harder style than usual, only for the backwash edgelords to boo him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted September 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 20, 2018 (edited) 36 minutes ago, SaitoRyo said: He's had a few that I've seen, yeah. Check out his WCPW/Defiant stuff against Ricochet/Ospreay (it's on YouTube). Also his Lucha Underground stuff against Ricochet/Prince Puma. Rey's been having stem cell injections in his knees the last little while and it seems to have done him the world of good. He's also got in incredible shape and lost a lot of the flab/water weight he was carrying at points during his WWE run. 31 minutes ago, PunkStep said: Didn't he have a match over here with Styles before he was signed? I wonder if that was any good. Thanks. I'll definitely have a look for some of those matches later. He's definitely good for a few spots a match. I was wondering if he's had stem cell injections, considering how useless his knees were for so long after so many surgeries, and now he's back in the tights and his legs are not mostly made up of braces now. Same with The Undertaker, seeing as he seems to be good for a few matches a year now without his body breaking. Edited September 20, 2018 by ColinBollocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted September 20, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted September 20, 2018 2 minutes ago, Accident Prone said: I felt bad for Rey. He came out, kitted out in black and with the ECW logo embezzled on him, killed himself and worked a harder style than usual, only for the backwash edgelords to boo him. That's more like something Heyman would do. But yeah, I felt bad for him too. Whilst I don't completely dismiss the motivations of ECW fans to leave WWE or WCW to watch ECW, as there were some legitimate complaints about the mainstream products at the time, they were the original neckbeards/fappers/Dem Wans (strike out which do not apply) who created this culture of deluded snobbery as regards independent wrestling and which wrestlers fit the "scene". I'm not a Cena fan, but even I found that bit hilarious where he's holding the belt, laughing and grinning this massive shit-eating smile while some scrote screams and boos right in his face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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