Arguably the greatest masked wrestler of all time, Rey Mysterio will be immortalized by the world’s largest professional wrestling promotion.
This spring, Mysterio will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, as announced by the promotion on Friday during a SmackDown broadcast. Mysterio, a San Diego native who helped popularize Mexican struggle wrestling style in the United States, is the most famous masked wrestler of all time and one of the greatest young heavyweights in business history.
The 2023 WWE entry ceremony is scheduled for March 30 in Los Angeles, the day before WrestleMania 39.
LAST NEWS: @Rey Mysterio is the 1st inductee for 2023. #VVEHOF! pic.twitter.com/hvT9xARFa4
— WWE (@WWE) March 11, 2023
Mysterio, whose real name is Oscar Gutierrez, has been in professional wrestling since 1989 when he was 14 years old. He has had 23 championship titles between WWE and WCW and was also the winner of the WWE Royal Rumble in 2006.
Mysterio, 48, is a former WWE Champion and a two-time former World Heavyweight Champion. He is a WWE Grand Slam champion, which means he has won every significant title in the promotion. Measuring just 5ft 6in and weighing 175lbs, Mysterio first made a name for himself in the United States back in the 1990s by winning the WCW heavyweight title five times. He is a three-time WWE Heavyweight Champion.
Legendary Mexican-American athlete from a family of wrestlers. His uncle, the real Rey Mysterio, was his first trainer in Tijuana and passed on his mask and bloodline, which is a tradition in Tijuana. struggle. Mysterio’s son Dominic is currently a WWE wrestler and the two are involved in a storyline against each other leading up to WrestleMania 39 which takes place over two days on April 1 and 2.
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