Rey Mysterio will always be associated with his iconic mask. which the veteran has worn throughout his WWE career. Back in WCW, however, he was eventually unmasked, leading to his heel run as part of the Filthy Animals stable. Mysterio lost his mask at WCW SuperBrawl IX after losing to Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, and according to Nash in an episode of his “”Click this“The podcast, the unmasking, was his whole idea.
“I think I ordered it,” Nash said. “WCW was doing a huge advertising campaign… The advertising people had seen Rey without a hat and they wanted. you’re not going to be in Times Square wearing a luminary mask on an ad.” Nash said at the time he believed the move would make Mysterio more marketable.
“To me, the mask doesn’t make Rey Mysterio, the mask makes Rey Mysterio money because he can sell a new one every day,” Nash added, admitting that he could have hurt Mysterio financially by losing merchandise from his masks, except WCW didn’t have the machinery to make such merchandise for him. “So I looked at it then, let me reveal this beautiful mother’s face, and I mean, I was the first boy of that size to be the king; he beat me right in the middle of the ring.”
Nash announced this as he put Mysterio in a match that took place at Mask vs. Mysterio, on the other hand, pulled off the move earlier this year, claiming that he was strongly against it because it was offensive to him and other luchadores, suggesting that WCW and Eric Bischoff made a bad move by giving the green light.
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