Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff who is also the first ever General Manager of Monday Night RAW recently talked about WWE Legend Rey Mysterio and explained why he never won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
Rey Mysterio is one of the biggest legends of professional wrestling who is also considered as one of the biggest underdogs in the history of professional wrestling to win the WWE World Championship multiple times. He was the first wrestler to set an example that everyone can win World Championships in WWE.
Eric Bischoff Explains Why Rey Mysterio Never Won World Title At WCW
But the journey to become a world champion was never easy for Mysterio. He got his early fame from WCW and not from WWE where he was mostly portrayed as a cruiserweight wrestler and he was one of the biggest attraction of the Cruiserweight division WCW. He won the prestigious WCW Cruiserweight Championship for a total number of five times.
Apart from the Cruiserweight title, he won WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Championship one time and the WCW Tag Team Championship 3 times in total. He kept on working in the promotion till the very end of it and he joined WWE in 2002 to become one of the biggest Legends of the promotion.
At first he was treated as a Cruiserweight in WWE as well as he focused on the Cruiserweight title of WWE mostly. But with his increasing popularity, WWE had no other option but to promote him as a main event star and he went on to win the Royal Rumble match of 2006.
At WrestleMania 22 he challenged for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and he surprised the entire world when he won the title. He became the first of his kind to win the world title of WWE, and throughout his WWE career he was mostly treated as a main event star.
Eric Bischoff who is also the first ever General Manager of Monday Night RAW recently spoke on AdFreeShows where he talked about WWE Legend Rey Mysterio and explained why he never won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. He said;
“At that time, Rey was about, what, 5’6″, whatever he is, 5’7″, and I don’t think he weighed 175 pounds at that point and how are you going to book him with Bill Goldberg and Kevin Nash and Lex Luger and Hulk Hogan and do it in a way that’s believable? It would’ve been tough and I don’t think I would’ve seen it.”
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