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WWE's massive mistake in 2006

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#1 ·
I'll still to this day never understand why Rey mysterio won the 2006 rumble. Hell the guy only won it because Eddie died.

Why the hell wouldn't taker win it? He returned that night. He could have won it and saved an epic wrestlemania match with Kurt angle. Because who all remembers taker/angle great match from NWO? Sure us do but it was the wrong decision. Taker/Angle at wrestlemania 22 would have been a special thing to see.
 
#62 · (Edited)
I have always failed to understand why it upset people so much that Mysterio won the Rumble. I'm not going to be ignorant and say that Mysterio winning had nothing to do with Eddie's death, but I also have this to say about the situation: so what? One of the greatest wrestlers of all time passes away and WWE lets one of his best friends win the Rumble in his honor and wrestling fans are complaining about that? Compared to some of the other things they did after Eddie's death, I'd say having Mysterio win the Rumble was quite tasteful.

Besides, people act like Mysterio was some sort of jobber at the time. He has always been one of the top guys in the company because of his fanfare and merchandise sales and 2006 was no different. And I truly believe that if Mysterio hadn't won the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 22, he would have won it some time after that. Probably sooner rather than later. WWE probably just moved his title victory up to pay tribute to Eddie.

Another problem I have with this argument is that nobody ever seems to take issue with a similar situation that happened recently with Christian. Now, don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of Christian and I was very happy to see him finally win the World Heavyweight Championship. However, while the situation wasn't exactly the same since Edge didn't pass away, it is in the same realm. Christian was pushed to the World Heavyweight Championship because of Edge's retirement. You could say his title reign was solely a tribute to Edge. A "thank you" from WWE. But nobody complains about that one.

Get over it already. Tribute to Guerrero or not, Mysterio deserved and merited than Rumble win.
 
#72 ·
I have always failed to understand why it upset people so much that Mysterio won the Rumble. I'm not going to be ignorant and say that Mysterio winning had nothing to do with Eddie's death, but I also have this to say about the situation: so what? One of the greatest wrestlers of all time passes away and WWE lets one of his best friends win the Rumble in his honor and wrestling fans are complaining about that? Compared to some of the other things they did after Eddie's death, I'd say having Mysterio win the Rumble was quite tasteful.

Besides, people act like Mysterio was some sort of jobber at the time. He has always been one of the top guys in the company because of his fanfare and merchandise sales and 2006 was no different. And I truly believe that if Mysterio hadn't won the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 22, he would have won it some time after that. Probably sooner rather than later. WWE probably just moved his title victory up to pay tribute to Eddie.

Another problem I have with this argument is that nobody ever seems to take issue with a similar situation that happened recently with Christian. Now, don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of Christian and I was very happy to see him finally win the World Heavyweight Championship. However, while the situation wasn't exactly the same since Edge didn't pass away, it is in the same realm. Christian was pushed to the World Heavyweight Championship because of Edge's retirement. You could say his title reign was solely a tribute to Edge. A "thank you" from WWE. But nobody complains about that one.

Get over it already. Tribute to Guerrero or not, Mysterio deserved and merited than Rumble win.
its not "thank you edge" its more like "ur buried again christian"
 
#63 ·
We'll never know if Eddie's death really did play a reason as to why Mysterio won the 2006 Royal Rumble. For all we know, the plan all along may have been for Mysterio to win the Royal Rumble, and go on to win the World Title at Wrestlemania 22. We don't know that for sure, I'm just saying.

As for the writers having Mysterio say everything he did after was for Eddie, and Orton saying "Eddie is in hell" and The chances of Myterio beating me as as good as Eddie coming back to life", or something like that, was just distasteful if you ask me.

They should have just had Mysterio win the Royal Rumble, then maybe say he did it for Eddie, and him winning the World Title was for Eddie, but that's it. They didn't have to use Eddie's name as part of the underdog storyline.
 
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#64 ·
We'll never know if Eddie's death really did play a reason as to why Mysterio won the 2006 Royal Rumble. For all we know, the plan all along may have been for Mysterio to win the Royal Rumble, and go on to win the World Title at Wrestlemania 22. We don't know that for sure, I'm just saying.
According to Rey himself, it was some time before Rumble IIRC where they called him to the office and said he was gonna become WHC. So one thing is for sure, it wasn't the plan "all along".
 
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Re: Wwe's massive mistake in 2006

And the guy's been making a career out of Eddie's death ever since. Fucking joke.
sounds more like chavo to me, with rey it has more to do with the very marketable mask that he isn't really supposed to wear anymore thanks to bischoff
 
#3 ·
Re: Wwe's massive mistake in 2006

Well, I do agree that Angle Vs Undertaker should have happened at WM. NWO match was incredible, and the WHC triple threat match we got at WM was terrible. I also don't like that Rey's big push to the title was essentially through Eddie's death.

HOWEVER, it seemed pretty clear to me that Rey was getting a big push around the time anyway. Half of 2005 was spent with Rey beating Eddie in pretty much every match they had (did Eddie actually get a single win in that feud?). He was over as fuck too. That being said I doubt he would have won the RR and the the title at WM, but I definitely think he would have won the WHC at some point in 2006.
 
#82 ·
Re: Wwe's massive mistake in 2006

did Eddie actually get a single win in that feud?.
Eddie won the last match they had. It was a steel cage match on SmackDown.....

But I digress. I also agree. Rey was getting pushed hard in 2005. It was very likely that he would get a title run in '06. But he was definitely not going to win the Rumble. Had Batista not got injured, Orton would have won it, which would have been great in retrospect.

Orton would have been a good choice to drop the title to Rey at say, SummerSlam or The Bash.
 
#6 ·
Yea, Eddie died, but who was the next biggest face on Smackdown at the time? Taker was on hiatus (right?) and Eddie was to have a real proper face turn against Batista, who was going out temporarily for injury recoveries...
Then not long after they pushed Angle as a face, kind of, so they kinda split it to those two.

I have my own thoughts about it too, but Chavo, the guy who was originally given Eddie's position, respectfully declined, so Mysterio was given it. Chavo would NOT be friends with Rey if he took it in a disrespectful manner, so as far as we know Eddie could have told Rey that he thinks he's better than the low-card, etc, etc, and they may have thought "Eddie would've wanted it this way."
 
#7 ·
The biggest problem was that they booked him to go 60 minutes. It defied logic and realism that such a small guy could last that long against guys like Show, Viscera, Kane and Lashley.

Triple H was playing the iron man in the match. Mysterio should have come in at something like 28.
 
#33 ·
The biggest problem was that they booked him to go 60 minutes. It defied logic and realism that such a small guy could last that long against guys like Show, Viscera, Kane and Lashley.
He has such a big heart! This Rumble, and the win at Mania really made my hatred for Mysterio grow to an insane level. The buildup sucked, the fact that he won it solely because Eddie died sucked, and all of the "Do it for Eddie" shit really sucked.
 
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i think a few things came into play when making the decsion to pick Rey
Eddies death yes played a HUGE role but only because it was circumstantial to the time that WWE wanted to make Rey one of the "faces" of SD like Taker
the 2006 Royal Rumble only had about 6-8 plausible guys who WWE could have won (rey included)
They wanted to build up that "ultimate underdog" name that Cole was screaming every 5 seconds
In the end I dont believe looking back on it he should have won but hey its in the past
 
#18 ·
Because Rey ultimately deserved it. He deserves to have won a RR, maybe not particularly that one but overall. He deserves much more than he got imo. He should've been a multiple-time WWE-champion by now...

And I do think Rey was bigger than Eddie before they came to WWE, but that's just my opinion.
 
#23 ·
Rey just rode the "Eddie's dead" wagon for pretty much all of 2006, as harsh as that sounds. But if you really want someone who made a career in Eddie's shadow and has milked his image and memory for all it's worth, look no further than his freaking nephew Chavo.

To my recollection, the plan WAS to do Taker/Angle at Mania 22, and Taker even wanted Kurt to end the streak. I think WWE's push of Mysterio was what killed that plan, though.
 
#27 ·
No, I disagree, he was a great call. Two reasons. First, WWE needs their big Mexican star, and there's nothing wrong with that. They need their 'token' characters: giants, monsters, pretty boys, etc. If they had a great arrogant pretty boy, Ziggler wouldn't be as needed. If they had their big bodybuilder that was your friendly buddy (Batista), they wouldn't need Sheamus. And, they need someone kiddies can relate to, and kids LOVE Rey Mysterio.

Also, there are some stars that just need one or two title reigns because they have the credibility to have that to their name, so just give them a title reign to permanently enhance them as characters. Big Show, Mark Henry, Christian (who I can't stand, but ppl love him), and Mysterio. They don't carry storylines well, but they don't devalue the belt cuz they're extremely over, and they're permanently more sellable as stars after they have the belt. So, in a world where world champions don't sell the entire show by themselves anyway, they should carry the strap at some point and have "former world champion" to their name.

Also, putting the belt on Taker is a bit of a waste, cuz his Mania match is a main event no matter what. Use the belt so that Mania can have 3 or 4 main events.
 
#31 ·
after jobbing three times to kurt angle prior to that? they were just making as much money from Eddies death as they could

Because Rey ultimately deserved it. He deserves to have won a RR, maybe not particularly that one but overall. He deserves much more than he got imo. He should've been a multiple-time WWE-champion by now... .
maybe before he started f'ing his knees up

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Chavo is one of the greatest wrestlers to ever grace the WWE, and he was a relatively important mid carder for the entirety of his American career.
undercarder is more like it, the only time he gets higher is because they had no-one left to push or they feel like using undertones Eddie again for cheap heat
 
#41 ·
I'm not sure why it's so hard to believe that they let him win. Up until that point, he was a loyal WWE superstar that provided many great matches for the promotion. Rey was HUGELY popular at the time and perhaps the biggest draw in Mexico to come from the States, so it was a no brainer to let him have a go at the strap. Eddie's death might've had something to do with it, but I think it was just a matter of time before they gave him the ball.
 
#47 ·
The Eddie=ploitation stuff got unnevering and hard to watch. I didn't have a problem with Rey winning the Rumble...but I did have a problem with him talking to Eddie when he drew his number for the Rumble. "Oh, you got me again Eddie!". That was just uncomfortable.

And don't even get me started on what they did with Orton. Jeez.
 
#54 ·
Had no problem with him winning the Rumble or the title but him saying, "Oh, Eddie, you got me" and shit like that was cringeworthy. They made it seem like Eddie was "protecting" him or like his damn spirit was with him at all times. I think they even had someone who lost the Rumble or lost a match to Rey say that it was unfair and that he had "help". It was like every damn match with the "Eddie's watching my back or Eddie's smiling down on me". And, every feud he had in 2006, revolved around Eddie in someway. With Orton saying that "Eddie's in hell" and saying that Rey's chance of winning their match at NWO was as good as Eddie's chances of coming back alive. Then the feud with JBL was built off Rey not deserving to be champion and saying how he beat Eddie and how Eddie couldn't help him. He even pointed out that the crowd didn't even chant Rey's name. They chanted Eddie's name. Then Chavo turns on him for trying to leech off of Eddie's name. It was ridiculous.Then they booked him like shit anyways and didn't even make it look like he really won the title on his own. He didn't even have one completely clean title defense on ppv and needed Chavo's help and had to use the frog splash to beat JBL.
 
#55 ·
He was booed in Chicago because of him milking Eddie's exploitation. He was booed at ONS because he didn't join ECW and was a "WWE guy". The right guy won the Rumble and the title. The biggest mistake--and there were plenty of them--was ECW on SciFi.
 
#56 ·
yep, I was in attendance at wrestlemania 22. Very mixed reaction, but when he won he got a pretty big pop.
 
#57 ·
Yeah sure, pushing someone who was massively over is a massive mistake. I love the mindset of the IWC. Reminds me why it's best WWE never listens to us.

Rey Mysterio is an all-time great and deserves every single push he got if not more so. Haters can piss up a rope.
 
#59 ·
wasn't mad about Rey being pushed. But they could have waited till after mania. Wrestlemania is supposed to feature classic battles. Undertaker/angle would have been way bigger then than triple threat at mania.
 
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