The original plans for Punk and Mysterio

[Double J]

Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter

The involvement of Rey Mysterio's family in his storyline with CM Punk was proposed to the creative team by Mysterio and was the original idea of a fellow wrestler. Mysterio's daughter Alliyah is actually a model and actress and has impressed everybody with her performing so far.

According to a backstage source, the original idea for the storyline with Rey's family was to be something like the Raven-Sandman angle in the original ECW but a lot of that idea was nixed because of WWE being kid-friendly. Punk would have became friendly with Rey's children and eventually turn them against their father. Another idea would have had Punk cut Rey's daughter's hair but that was nixed as well.

Punk was pushing for a Mask vs. Hair match, but WWE wasn't interested and didn't think anybody would believe Mysterio would lose and remove his mask.

Mysterio has been working with a bad knee for several months and it will require surgery after WrestleMania. Right now the plan is for Rey to stick around and work as long as possible before he needs the procedure. The feud with CM Punk is scheduled to go past WrestleMania.

Stupid PG rating...

 

[the408kid]

I'm not surprised that they nixed the idea of the children because:

1. The pg rating as you said
2. I heard when they did the Eddie Guerrero Rey Mysterio angle that Dominic at the time was having a hard time dealing with it backstage. And they're probably worried that the same may happen to Alliyah.

 

[The Rated R CMStar]

That really doesnt make sense. WWE itself came up with an idea they knew THEMSELVES would reject? I don't buy it

 

[Kaptain KnicKy]

I'm just glad they ditched the Hair VS Mask idea. Like they said, it's too hard to see Rey lose at Mania with those stips. This way, you really can see it go either way...

 

[gatesoftanhauser]

Rey never loses a mask match (other than the short time in wcw) so what's the point of a mask match? We all know he's not going to take it off.

Also: JUST LEAVE FAMILY ANGLES OUT OF WRESTLING! They've been shitting in Eddie's grave for far too long with the use of Vickie, and I'm sick of family members getting involved to sell an angle because the writers can't think up better dialogue.

 

[Double J]

Rey never loses a mask match (other than the short time in wcw) so what's the point of a mask match? We all know he's not going to take it off.

Also: JUST LEAVE FAMILY ANGLES OUT OF WRESTLING! They've been shitting in Eddie's grave for far too long with the use of Vickie, and I'm sick of family members getting involved to sell an angle because the writers can't think up better dialogue.

Yeah no one wants to see Punk bald...

Also while I agree they should leave the family angles out of wrestling for the most part, I don't think they're disrespecting Eddie anymore. It was crap when they kept bringing him up, but (while I would rather Vickie not be there) I think they've done a decent job of making her her own character without mentioning Eddie.

 

[seX-Power]

Punk was pushing for a Mask vs. Hair match, but WWE wasn't interested and didn't think anybody would believe Mysterio would lose and remove his mask.

Stupid Punk.

 

[Charismatic Edge]

Family angles are dicey. I think they work best when they're not on camera and just being run down verbally. Punk has the vocal skills to make people care about Rey's family without ever seeing them. As far as I'm concerned, Punk interrupting that terrible birthday song was enough to almost make him face again!!

 

[JurassicBonez]

Also: JUST LEAVE FAMILY ANGLES OUT OF WRESTLING!.

Thank you. It's like the desperate way of making feuds interesting/personal, just bring in family. Enough already.

 

[monkeystyle]

Come on. The Raven/Sandman feud involving his wife and son was amazingly well done.

Punk probably could have easily pulled this off and gotten even more heat out of the deal.

 

[LKP]

He could have poured alcohol down Dominick's mouth..... And made rey's daughter smoke in the attitude era lol.

 

[JurassicBonez]

Come on. The Raven/Sandman feud involving his wife and son was amazingly well done.

Punk probably could have easily pulled this off and gotten even more heat out of the deal.

Does he honestly need it though? Him Jericho and The Miz get the biggest heel reactions. No one comes close to those guys. I could kinda see this happening if Punk were losing his steam or something, but at this point, there's no need for them to go that route.

 

[monkeystyle]

You can never have too much heat.

 

[MizMasta3000]

^Good point there.

This PG rating sucks ass. Screw the money, I miss being interested in a non title feud. Punk could have made this gold and they screwed it up. Glad they didn't go with hair vs. mask because that's a dead give away on who would win there.

 

[Airfixx]

^^^^Dude, keep your sense of perspective here. It's still amongst the best built WM fueds this year and to be honest the stip we do have is far more compelling than some crappy hair v mask deal or some shit as it ACTUALLY has further storyline potential.

+ They'll work a killer match.... Armageddon 2008 anyone?


I know I'm not alone on this, but I thought the segment with Rey's family was really well done.. They even had Stryker (by far the most heel-like announcer) condemning Punk for his actions.