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WWE announced tonight that former WWE and WWE World Champion Rey Mysterio will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2023 on 3/31 in Los Angeles, CA as part of Wrestlemania 39 weekend.
A more than worthy inductee, Mysterio broke barriers as a Cruiserweight performer, originally for Lucha Libre AAA in the early 1990s as a teenager before breaking through in the original ECW with excellent feud against Psicosis in the Fall of 1995. By the summer of 1996, he was signed by WCW, having classic matches with Eddy Guerrero and Dean Malenko, among others. Mysterio remained with the promotion until it shuttered in March 2001.
Mysterio signed with WWE in 2002, becoming one of the most popular performers for the company and a major part of the Smackdown brand for a bit part of his run. Over the course of his WWE career, Mysterio again feuded with Eddy Guerrero and battled everyone from Randy Orton to The Undertaker to CM Punk to Kurt Angle. From a tag team perspective, he had a tremendous team with Edge and also held Tag Team titles with Batista, Rob Van Dam and his son, Dominik Mysterio. He remains a vital part of WWE storylines and is currently being built to a showdown against Dominik, something that will likely happen Wrestlemania 39 weekend.
Easily one of the greatest masked performers of all time and a groundbreaking aerial performer who continuously evolved as a character that made fans invest in him and his storylines, there's zero argument against Mysterio in any Hall of Fame. Later this month in his native California, he will be enshrined by WWE.
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