![]() ![]() It feels like we are going to get a verdict on the Dominik Mysterio experiment soon. Dominik’s inexperience cost him, though, as he hesitated on a 619 attempt only to run right into the 1D for the pin. Dom also took out Jey Uso with a big tope, which looked Arena México–worthy as opposed to the running hugs that often pass for topes in the WWE. The post-commercial Rey hot tag was great stuff he still has one of the fastest head scissors of all time, and there is a great near fall with the Mysterios hitting a double 619, followed by Dom drilling a frog splash with great height. Dominik attempted a pescado and got caught and driven spine-first into the ringpost, leading to a second heat section by the Usos, which was mostly during the commercial break. The Usos took over during the commercial break and worked over Rey, which led to Dominik’s energetic hot tag. Watching Rey is like seeing a band for the 20th time, and still being amazed at the variations they put on their biggest hits. That baseball-slide setup is something Rey has been doing for years, and he has a bunch of cool variations on it-taking it as a nasty bump, using it as an offensive splash, and whipping out variations of his roll-through counter. The opening section of the match was some classic Rey, as he danced around both Usos, including one move in which he turned a chest-first, baseball-slide-style throw into a somersault onto his feet. They looked great working over both Rey and Dominik Mysterio and showed enough moments of vulnerability to sell the crowd on the possibility of a big upset. They were tasked here with stewarding a long, traditional tag match, where the babyface team would have some big moments, but fall obviously short. They keep getting showcase spots on both Raw and SmackDown as well as all the premium live events, and they deliver every time. ![]() The Usos have been consistently great for years now as well, and they are in the middle of a great heel run. Rey is 47 years old now, and still looks great if the company keeps him as a member of a tag team, where his partner can shoulder some of the work, it wouldn’t shock me if he had another decade-plus in his body. He is a master of the seven-to-15-minute television match, and is also perfectly able to step into a showcase role on a big show. Wrestlers rarely retire, but if you had asked me in 1999, I would have guessed that Rey would be hobbling his way through lucha indie shows in five years, not about to embark on one of the greatest runs of the 21st century. Rey Mysterio celebrated his 20-year WWE anniversary, which is pretty amazing considering he looked broken down during the end of his WCW stint in the late ’90s. The main event of the first Helmsley-era Raw, however, was a pair of old reliable teams, with three of the wrestlers having been WWE in-ring mainstays for decades. The match lengths seemed boosted as well, with five matches on Raw going over 10 minutes. It really did feel like someone else had their hand on the tiller (it wasn’t a great sign for Vince McMahon projects like Omos and Ezekiel that they were facing off in the opener of Main Event). We got renewed pushes for NXT favorites like (Tommaso) Ciampa and Shayna Baszler, and returns from the wilderness placed in big roles like Dakota Kai and Karrion Kross. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.The first real week of Triple H–booked WWE had his fingerprints all over it. Stay tuned to the Last Word on Pro Wrestling for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. Speaking of that promotion, Chris Brookes’ final match in the UK before jetting off to Japan for a year will be a SCHADENFREUDE & Friends event in February. The group have also started up their own promotion, SCHADENFREUDE & Friends, based in Manchester, with Brookes starting up a rivalry of sorts for Dani Luna that saw the pair engage in a Cumulative 20 Count Match on the promotion’s second show. As part of the SCHADENFREUDE group in Fight Club: Pro (FCP), he became a two-time Tag Team Champion with Kid Lykos and then with Kyle Fletcher, as well as being a one-time FCP Champion. ![]() Back in the UK, Brookes was always one of the biggest names on the scene, but he’s really become an even bigger asset since the likes of Pete Dunne, Trent Seven, and Tyler Bate all started appearing for WWE on a more regular basis.
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