In 2002, Rey signed with the WWE, and promos began hyping his epic debut. And in what came as a surprise to many wrestling enthusiasts, Vince McMahon requested that Mysterio wear his mask again. In Mexico, one could be fined or even have their license suspended in lucha libre by the Box y Lucha Commission for this; there, once a wrestler loses his mask, he cannot regain it. In deference to this tradition, Mysterio continues to not wear a mask when performing in Mexico. This includes non-wrestling appearances in the Rey Mysterio: 619 DVD produced by WWE, although he wore a mask on the recent tour in Mexico. Rey Mysterio began his WWE career on SmackDown! as a babyface in a feud with Kurt Angle.Rey later teamed up with Edge to win the WWE Tag Team Championship but after the team lost the titles they soon stopped tagging together. Rey challenged WWE Cruiserweight champion Matt Hardy at WrestleMania XIX in Seattle, but was unsuccessful after numerous interferences by Shannon Moore. Mysterio finally beat Hardy for the title in an emotional match broadcasted on June 3rd,taped in his hometown. He later lost the title to Tajiri. Rey later began to feud with Chavo Guerrero, Jr. and his father, again over the WWE Cruiserweight Championship. During this time, Mysterio teamed on occasion with Rob Van Dam, or Spike Dudley to face off against the Dudley Boyz. However, while Rey Mysterio was Cruiserweight Champion, Spike Dudley turned heel and joined with the other Dudleys before soon taking the Cruiserweight title from Mysterio.Rey continued to team with Rob Van Dam, and before long the team was able to take the WWE Tag Team Championship from Kenzo Suzuki and Rene Dupree. However, RVD became injured and Rey soon lost the titles to The Basham Brothers. Rey would team up with longtime friend (real-life as well as on-screen) Eddie Guerrero, and the new tandem defeated Doug and Danny Basham for the belts at WWE No Way Out 2005. However, in a departure from traditional booking, the new champions did not defend their titles at WrestleMania 21 on April 3, 2005, but instead faced one another, with Rey winning. This led to a storyline in which the team broke up and had Guerrero turn heel due to being frustrated by being unable to defeat Mysterio on various occasions.Guerrero and Rey continued to feud, with Guerrero threatening to reveal a secret he and Rey shared involving Rey's son, Dominic. Unless Rey deferred to Guerrero's authority, he threatened to go public with the secret. Guerrero later revealed that he was Dominic's (kayfabe) biological father, giving reason that Rey "fired a lot of blanks".On January 29, 2006 Rey Mysterio competed in the Royal Rumble' "Royal Rumble match" entering in the number 2 position, lasting over an hour in the ring to finally eliminate Randy Orton and win the match. By winning the Royal Rumble match, Mysterio gained a World Heavyweight title shot at that years WrestleMania which would be the first time he competed for a World Title during a pay-per-view event. Also, Mysterio set a Royal Rumble record by lasting over 62 minutes in the match.The challenge took place at No Way Out with Randy Orton defeating Rey Mysterio while illegally using the ropes to aid the pin. Having lost the title shot at WrestleMania 22, Rey cried backstage with a few of Guerrero's close family. However on the next edition of Smackdown!, the SmackDown! General Manager Theodore Long declared the World Title match would include Mysterio, making the match a Triple Threat that would see Rey face off against both Randy Orton and then-World Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle. Mysterio would go on to win the match and become World Heavyweight Champion.On August 25, 2006, Vickie Guerrero made her first heel turn by becoming the third Guerrero to turn on Rey. When Chavo grabbed a steel chair from outside the ring and prepared to hit Rey, Vickie tried to stop him, and ended up taking the chair from him and intentionally hitting Mysterio herself. Both Guerreros hugged as Rey lay hurt in the ring. The next week on SmackDown!, Vickie confirmed that she was now Chavo's business manager, slapping Mysterio afterwards. On the October 20th edition of SmackDown, the rivalry finally ended as Chavo defeated Rey Mysterio in a "I Quit" match after hanging Rey upside down and repeatedly battering on Mysterio's exposed knee, using the Smackdown stage set. This storyline provided an on-camera explanation for Mysterio's real-life knee surgery, said to sideline him 3 to 4 months.I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts!
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