why didn't this fake mask gimmick work but Gable did bros?
>>20597686Mistico is a complete shitter. Mexicans only latched onto him because they didn't know better.
>>20597686Because no one cares about luchadors
>>20597686Is Mistico the OG sin cara or the hunico sin cara and what happened to the other guy?
>>20597686Good Lucha things
>>20597686If you think about it a lot of masked luchadors have no gimmick past “I wear a mask and I lucha good”Rey got away with it being the only masked luchador in WWE for a long time.
>>20597686I remember him. He wasn't too bad whatever happened to him?
Gable didn'tWWE actually lucked with his injury, then Ludwig and AAA crowds embraced the meme
>>20597686because OPs picrel happened in America and gable/kaiser happened in the third world
>>20597686They tried to explain the original's shittiness away by saying it was an impostor all along but no one bought it.>shittinessYes it do be like that for one reason or another. He couldn't adapt to the crushing pressure of burger wrasslin. Language barrier, stature, all the botches..... one can come up with many excuses
>>20597686It worked. They sold a lot of masks, figures and other merch. Then there was the Lucha Dragons team that got the fans hyped and they would chant LU-CHA
>>20597751vince ludo kino
>>20597715He was in CMLL as their top star until the Tone attacked and stole him to grow his toy collection
He never got any mic time or chances to do any character or talking segments because he couldn't speak English. They also weren't doing subtitles back then. So he was just a guy having matches and that never works out so well in WWE.
>>20597686https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJtRyf4QDwI
>>20597714The best luchadors had gimmicks tho>parkaUndead dancing skeleton >Santo and Blue demonClassic superheroes. Basically the Mexican Superman and Batman >octagonJapanese martial artist >abismo negroÀ demon from the abyss>CiberneticoCibernetically enhanced wrestler from the future>psicosisUnhinged nutcase>ElegidoThe protagonist of lucha libre>GrondaA hellbeast
>>20597714the mysterio gimmick was having a ton of mask designs which made him a vince darling
>>20597686Nobody cares about luchashitters outside of them being a nice, marketable maskChad and Kaiser have full gimmicks and characters associated with their masks
>>20597805Nah that was Mil Mascara’s gimmick. As the man of a thousand masks. Rey’s gimmick is in his name. “king of mystery”, which makes WCW’s decision to unmask him double stupid
>>20597791Exactly, good mask and good gimmicks are memorable. Dragon Lee, Kalisto, Metalik, Lince, whoever else wears a mask in WWE has no gimmick past “mi mascara”. I believe Santo got over with movies not his ring work, Demon got over as his arch nemesis otherwise they didn’t technically have gimmicks.
>>20597686Because Mistico had bad rep and because he didn't want to learn english and was behaving like a diva at the time
>>20597714Rey has charisma and can storytell and is a servicable promo fluent in English and knows how to save stuff for later so you see something new every match and don't get the same routine every single time. You can't be serious dude.
>>20597806This. The reason why Gable became a legend after the match is because we knew all the struggles he had gone through to get there. We know the wrestler behind the mask. Revealing a random faggot no one knows wouldn't have the same effect.
Because both sin Cara’s were mask shitters who never cut promos or did anything to make people care about them. All they did was flips which don’t matter when everyone does them
>>20597806i member creating sin cara in svr2011 and pushing him to the moon in the universe mode
>>20598223What's your point dumbass, Rey only did all that you said during his time in WWE. in WCW he was just Konnan's friend.
>>20597686He could not see properly through the mask and had to fight in dim lighting. The older I get and more I find out about this character, the more wildly impressed I am that he was able to put together matches at all.
>>20597686Wasn't booked by MainerCarder
On a more serious note how would the lucha expertismos in /pw/ say Mistico in Mexico compares to the great draws in America? Who's level is he?
>>20601330Von Erichs maybe? Giga draws but regional giga draws
>>20597694He actually does suck
>>20597686is this the bitch that stopped a match because he hurt his finger?
Mistico is over in Mexico, just like El Grande Americano. it's all about the presentation
>>20597686He was sin aura and sin dimes back then
