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Originally Posted by Xero Limit 126
Yeah, except Rey shat all over that tradition when he put the mask back on.
Not saying WWE wouldn't do that, but tradition went out long ago.
And while we're at it, why would Rey have to come out unmasked? He's had like 50 different masks. Does he throw them away after each match and buys a new one?
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I think it's not that he lost a mask, it's that someone ELSE was the one that STOLE a mask. Hence the symbolism of the whole thing. Rey could have masks in storage for sure, but the tradition is, as far as I remember it, is that part of the cred of a wrestler is symbolic within the mask (or something like that).
That and as someone else pointed out, it may be the current character of Mysterio that is "dead", and the mask is the most symbolic with the current Mysterio gimmick. Remember how the core ECW crowd shat all over Psycosis when he came out without a mask at the first ONS in 1995. They were ready to boo him out of the building because the mask is so symbolic to the character they remembered him as. The Rey unmasked thing didn't do THAT with too many people, though it might NOW for a few people who hang onto tradition.