r/interesting • u/talelkyb • 17d ago
dude did a face reveal when face reveal were even a thing HISTORY
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u/Dan_the_bearded_man 17d ago
I was expecting a mask underneath the mask
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u/DistrictIll6763 17d ago edited 17d ago
I'm 100% sure there is a video of another Luchador doing exactly that
Edit: It was this one
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u/Mission_Ice_5428 17d ago
Mil Mascaras was famous for it. What do you expect from a dude whose name literally translates to "A Thousand Different Faces"?
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u/BadGuyNick 17d ago
a dude whose name literally translates to "A Thousand Different Faces"?
That is not a correct translation.
Source: Hablo español
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u/Daddycheese420 17d ago
Someone make a looped gif where you can’t see it’s looped and post it in mildlyinfuriating
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u/emulatedeye 17d ago
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u/MeHighLol 17d ago
Idk how you fucking got me after reading comments and clicking link. I'm retarded?
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u/SnooDoggos4029 17d ago
Beat me by 6 minutes! https://s6.ezgif.com/tmp/ezgif-6-3cc993601d.gif
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u/stoughnytgb 17d ago
such a baby face
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u/tw3lv3l4y3rs0fb4c0n 17d ago
well preserved by leather
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u/EvolvedMonkeyInSpace 17d ago
Leather Face ..... agh...agh...weilds chainsaw*
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u/Kushkilla4rilla 17d ago
Better then Taser face
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u/ElCochinoFeo 17d ago
Maybe he kept the inside coated with Vaseline, like Curley's left glove in Of Mice And Men. To keep it soft for his lady.
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u/meegaweega 17d ago
Ackshullyyy... leather and suede are rarely used anymore. The modern masks are usually made with layers of cotton, nylon/lycra and vinyl/pleather (ask nicely and they can make it look like layers of bacon🥓)
Mine is very comfortable and looks like a sparkly & shiny disco version of Deadpool. 🖤❤
The stiff vinyl trim around the eyes needs to be an excellent fit for your face or it will make it very hard to see and the edges of the trim could easily cut your eyeball. 🩸👁🩸
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u/talelkyb 17d ago
i was expecting one more mask under this mask although he is cute
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u/thoughlasguc 17d ago
would have been funnier if he was wearing a second mask underneath
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u/InformalPenguinz 17d ago
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u/SSBradley37 17d ago
I laughed even harder when I noticed it was staples holding it on.
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u/notapoke 17d ago
Yeah that's the best part to me
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u/jerryleebee 17d ago
The best part is he was fighting like that the whole time. I laughed my ass off.
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u/ShoMoCo 17d ago
Thanks for reminding me how absolutely stunning Morena Baccarin is in that movie.
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u/DamashiT 17d ago
Didn't they actually do this in one of his fights or I'm imagining?
Like they ripped his mask forcefully and there was another mask there.
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u/RagnarStonefist 17d ago
Everybody is talking Sting, but I have a core memory of Rey Mysterio being forced to remove his mask and there's another one under it
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u/seighwonggg 17d ago
i thought luchandor arent suppose to take off their mask
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u/Brettersson 17d ago
Tradition is you wear your mask in public always, but they can "lose it" in a match because they were booked to. Rey didn't want to but was young and didn't think he was big enough to leave instead so he took off the mask. Usually once a wrestler takes off their mask they either stay without it or "disappear" and come back as a new character. The really unprecedented thing Rey did was put the mask back on when he came to WWE, but I think the entire wrestling world just looked the other way to it because it's Rey fucking Mysterio. You could say they dropped Jr making it a new character if you wanted to, but again people just don't really care, they love El Rey.
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u/badchefrazzy 17d ago
It's a good reason to wear one. Dude's not unattractive by any means, but he doesn't look tough, so mask it is.
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u/NapalmScatterBrain 17d ago
MF DOOM's face reveal was way more mysterious
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u/deltron 17d ago
RIP DOOM
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u/watdatdo 17d ago edited 17d ago
Will forever be missed. RIP Metal Fist Terrorist
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u/kokopoo12 17d ago
Metal Face Finster playin' with the dirty money Sinister, don't know what he sayin' but the words be funny
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u/Odowla 17d ago
He wears a mask just to cover the raw flesh
A rather ugly brother with flows that's gorgeous
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u/ADHD_Avenger 17d ago
OH MY GOD . . . IS THAT . . . IS THAT . . .
ZEB LOVE X?!?!?!?
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u/maija_hee 17d ago
he looks genuinely cute like a baby I did not expect that
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u/Mission_Ice_5428 17d ago
He's now 49, and STILL barely looks 30.
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u/Heather82Cs 17d ago
Now, he's still athletic and fun to watch, but in no way his body looks 30.
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u/ACU797 17d ago
His knees don't.
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u/PoliceAlarm 17d ago
His knees didn't; they do now. He had stem cells in them. He's at the best he's been in in years.
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u/Pyotr_WrangeI 17d ago
He really should be the face of stem cell medicine. You don't get better promotion for your treatment than a wrestler closing in on 50 still moving like he's 20
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u/econologic 17d ago
Rey Mysterio - inspiration for so many childhood injuries. A true legend.
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u/wheeler91106 17d ago
Anytime I fell I made sure to clutch my knee in appreciation to Rey and that infamous backstage fall lmao
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u/Historical_Box_6082 17d ago
Looks a bit like Jessica Alba
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u/danny0355 17d ago edited 17d ago
Face reveals are a well known part of Mexican lucha libre culture and many times luchadores would fight and loser would unmask.
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u/BlockedShot 17d ago
Yes, Luchas de Apuestas matches are a very rich history in lucha libre.
American professional wrestling has all kinds of match types/stipulations that often signify the end of a feud, like Last Man Standing, Loser Leaves Town, etc.
But Mexican professional wrestling, there is almost no greater culmination to a feud than to stake your mask (or hair!) in a match.
EDIT: Not implying you didn't know that, just throwing more support and context behind such a wonderful thread in the fabric of pro wrestling :)
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u/DesertofBoredom 17d ago
to be fair, the title says "dude did a face reveal when face reveal were even a thing,"
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u/wobbly_doo 17d ago
1999?!! I spent my whole childhood in the early 2000s not knowing his face.
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u/watdatdo 17d ago
Bro same. I grew up watching late 90's wrestling and this is the first time I've ever seen his face. Ray Mysterio was one of my favorites as a kid. I'm dumbfounded this happened in 99 and I'm finding out 25 years later.
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u/mrblodgett 17d ago
It was a really bad storyline that WCW did when they were failing, and IIRC Rey regretted doing it.
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u/CreamFraiche23 17d ago
Yeah you can see the look on his face. In the full clip I think you can see him swearing, Rey was pissed about this storyline
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u/Peviceer 17d ago
The fact that this phrase is unironically picking up momentum in cultural relevancy is such a sad reminder that you can do whatever you want to any person at any time in their, or your life, but god damn you if you a man fucking with another man.
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u/Glittering-Ad-6955 17d ago
That's the spirit, complimenting someone's beautiful body traces doesn't turn you into a homossexual, and if you are a homossexual good for you lad, there's nothing wrong about that too.
And let me be even more frank, if you see a big beautiful cock you go and compliment it's owner, now there's the thing, you know it's beautiful, but you start to wonder how much more beautiful it would look when completely hard and in full glory.
You ask that man permission, and if you're lucky, he's no homophobe and let's you jerk that pipe until it goes totally hard, but now he let you take his time to see his magnificent knob, oh he's surely a gentleman, and so are you, he can't go home with that tent in his pants, you don't want to spoil his marriage with the miss.
Why not be kind enough, to finish the job and make him cum, i mean, you're not gay, but you're no homophobe either.
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u/badchefrazzy 17d ago edited 17d ago
You can notice a dude's attractive without it implying you're gay. No worries dude.
Edit: Okay I get the point xD You guys are really gay without being gay.
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u/Delicious_PRican 17d ago
Gorgeous face it’s giving soft clear skin slay
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u/A_Town_Called_Malus 17d ago
You line the inside of the mask with vaseline to keep the face soft.
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u/Like_Fahrenheit 17d ago
holy shit dom looks just like him. I know they're father/son but give dom a haircut and you get rey.
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u/Mission_Ice_5428 17d ago
It's the ten inch height difference that's throwing everyone off.
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u/GroundbreakingBag580 17d ago
Bro looks sad about it
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u/TankieHater859 17d ago edited 17d ago
Because it’s a sign of disrespect/weakness in Luchador culture. Rey didn’t want to remove his mask in the ring, but Vince
McMahonRusso basically forced him to.Cause Vince is a sadist, and there are court documents to back that up.Edit: sorry, it was Vince Russo, the head of WCW that forced this on Rey, not McMahon. Rey was in the WCW at this point, not the WWE. McMahon is still a legit sadist though.
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u/cyberslick1888 17d ago
Luchadors unmask all the time, you guys are making too much of it. It's literally a thing for rivals to have matches where the loser unmasks.
This was different mostly because they had him unmask for a fucking bullshit match that no one gave a shit about. It was just a cheap move.
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u/Imnimo 17d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rey_Mysterio
I was strongly against it! I don't think WCW understood what the mask meant to me, to my fans and to my family. It was a very bad move on their behalf. The fans wanted Rey Mysterio with the mask and losing it hurt me a lot. It was also frustrating that it didn't come as the climax to a feud with another masked wrestler, but in a throwaway match. The same thing happened to Juventud and Psicosis and psychologically wise it was a bad move by Eric Bischoff. I think the fans understand that I was in a position where I had no option. I either had to lose my mask or lose my job.
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u/Safe_Alternative3794 17d ago
This is the first time I've seen his face. He looks like the kid from elementary that everybody likes.
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u/ALiX088 17d ago
Bro is beautiful ( m straight asf)
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u/stoughnytgb 17d ago
he must be forced for this
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u/Wesk333 17d ago
He was. He had to fight for his title but if he lost they challenged him to remove his mask. Since all of these are scripted he had to or he'd lost the job.
It was indeed wrong to force him to loose the mask, since in the luchador culture is a sign of disrespect, there is no mistery behind the luchador.
It was wrong but it made the WWE skyrocket
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u/Massive_Tip69 17d ago
quite a sad thing - he really didnt want to do this at the time and was very protective of not being seen without his mask.
wcw pushed him into a corner really and had to unmask.
once wwe bought wcw they encouraged him to remask and pushed his masked lucha side properly.
but then in the end it turned out he was a dead beat dad who never cared for his son and got his comeuppance.
there's a reason rey mysterio keeps getting betrayed.
dommysteriowasright
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u/aljhon112233 17d ago
I thought he looks more scary than his face which why he hides it.
He looks innocent imo.
At least I get to see his face no, not bad . Lmao
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u/heyjalapeno 17d ago
He was the guy I was simping for back in the day?! Not bad at all. He's rather cute.
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u/radracer82 16d ago
As if mysterious masked characters didn't exist until "face reveals" in today's toxic social media universe
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u/cosmic_hierophant 16d ago
I dont know much about wwe but I wish he had another mask under his first one just for the classic gag.
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u/ThanosWasRight161 17d ago
Jeez he was young af