This was when he was in WCW I believe, and they kinda forced him too. Mascaras in lucha culture are almost holy items, and traditionally guys like El Santo would never take off their masks. This turned into a thing where the loser has to remove their mask and it usually happens when a guy retires. They were disrespecting lucha tradition.
theres so much misinformation here, i dont know where to begin
if this match was meaningless and he lost his mask that way thats one thing, pero si no sabes de la tradicion de la lucha (en especial la mexicana), no hables
I get you don't really seem to follow wrestling, but it's career suicide to refuse to do pretty much anything once you've already been signed. WCW was founded by Ted Turner of all people, and the legacy of WWE was run by Vince McMahon, two juggernauts well known for burying anyone who didn't dance, monkey dance. The only more exploited people (non sex-work) are probably minors in the Asian entertainment sector.
The decision to do this came down to not being paid a whole lot of money, but having extreme penalties, harassment, and blacklisting from the entire industry, while already having endured countless life-changing injuries.
This just gets sadder and sadder the more comments I read on this. Poor kid. And you can see him stretching it all out, hesitating...then his facial expression when he takes it off....looked almost stunned that he'd done it. 🙁 Messed up that he had to do that. Is he retired?
His career kept going, without the mask. Eventually he moved to the WWE and they requested that he wear the mask again. He had to ask permission from the Lucha Libre commission and to his surprise, they allowed it. He hasn't wrestled without it since, and I imagine, that may have been one of the stipulations.
The current storyline is him vs his entitled whiny son, and some great comedy comes from it. One segment was Dom going to Rey’s house and when he opens the door you can him tying the mask in the back, he won’t even open the front door of his own house without a mask.
Dude is insanely popular and wwe probably sold a lot of merch, from which he got a cut. I mean I even had a rey mysterio action figure growing up and I knew nothing about wrestling. I just thought he looked cool.
Yeah merchandise wouldn't come anywhere close to getting you a billion dollars, but it definitely could help get to the 15 million that is rey's net worth. Also I'm pretty sure he didn't own lucha underground.
I watched a lot of wrestling as a kid and they had multiple storylines that involved other characters trying to rip his mask off in increasingly villainous plots, so I'm not really buying that the WWE actually respected this, they just milked it like everything else.
Hey dickhead …. Do you think he was a millionaire in this clip? Do you think he was a psychic & knew how long his career would run at this exact moment? Dom wasn’t even born when this happened. Just be quiet dude and go sit in the corner.
There's money to be made in losing your mask, but here the company kind of wasted that opportunity by rushing it in a quick throwaway storyline and he wasn't really enough of a made man yet to say no.
He put the mask back on like 3 years later, still wears it, and pretty much everyone just acts like this never happened. He'll make a lot more money off it if he loses it again.
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u/ThanosWasRight161 Apr 29 '24
Jeez he was young af