Dominik Mysterio is not any completely different from WWE followers by rewatching his dad’s epic SummerSlam conflict with Eddie Guerrero on a regular basis.
‘Soiled Dom’ is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the custody match between his father, Rey Mysterio, and Guerrero in becoming vogue.
Dominik, who has been one in all WWE’s prime heels since turning on his icon dad at Conflict on the Citadel in 2022, faces AJ Types this Sunday.
The Phenomenal One has beforehand named Guerrero, who died in 2005, because the star he wished he had the possibility to share the ring with.
Dominik could characterize the following neatest thing – having adopted the late wrestling nice’s ‘Latino Warmth’ gimmick in each appears to be like and persona since aligning himself with the Judgement Day.
The 28-year-old’s first direct involvement in WWE got here whereas working with Guerrero mere months earlier than the latter’s passing.
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Dominik was the guts of a long-running feud between his Corridor-of-Fame father and Rey’s former tag-team associate, Guerrero.
The stakes of the rivalry reached better heights coming into SummerSlam 2005 when the custody of the then-eight-year-old Mysterio Jr was placed on the road in a bonkers ladder match.
Dominik watched from ringside as his dad claimed the briefcase of authorized paperwork following interference from Guerrero’s spouse, Vickie.
The 20-minute encounter has gone down as one of many biggest SummerSlam matches of all time, with nobody a much bigger fan than Dom.
Throughout an unique talkSPORT interview in February, when requested if he rewatches the ladder contest, Dominik replied: “In fact. In fact.
“I’m a 20-year veteran on this enterprise. I began in 2005. I’m going again and watch that match on a regular basis.
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“I’m going again and examine Eddie Guerrero.
“He is the very best, if not the best of all time, in my private opinion.
“So I examine every thing that he did to that deadbeat.
“I attempt to mimic it. As a result of every time I get an opportunity, his document in opposition to my dad, or my deadbeat, was fairly spectacular.”
As a teen, Dominik was entrance and centre for the household celebrations with Rey Mysterio after his win at SummerSlam.
Nonetheless, 20 years on, the present Intercontinental Champion would have needed the other end result for kayfabe functions.
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Dominik, who has admitted that WWE initially needed to hold him from a cage for the match, claimed he needed Guerrero to have gained.
“He was nicer to me,” the reigning two-time WWE Slammy Villain of the Yr award winner added to talkSPORT.
“He gave me sweet and stuff. So far as my deadbeat, he would carry me to work and put me up for… What was that woman? [the social services worker who put Dominik into kayfabe foster care after Rey and Eddie had signed their SummerSlam contracts].
“She took me away from my household… Horrible. Yeah, who does that? However I did receives a commission.”
Mysterio additionally took a number of photographs at his dad, Rey, throughout our interview as a part of the pair’s long-running rivalry on display screen.
He informed talkSPORT: “Dude wears a masks as a result of he is ugly, proper? He has no hair.
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“He shaved his head when he was what, 21? S*** by no means grew again.
“I shaved my head after I was like what, 22? Folks did not see this, however I shaved my head and it grew again, I grew a good looking mullet.
“So, I imply, I haven’t got any… Yeah, I feel he is a deadbeat. He is a horrible man.”