4 Reasons WWE Should Have Hired The Great Muta

1. His Mastery of Ring Psychology

Muta is one of the greatest masters of ring psychology of an entire generation of wrestlers. To this day, he has this uncanny ability to get a wrestler behind him or his opponent with great ease. As a prime example, consider the match he had against Jushin ‘Thunder’ Liger from 1996.

Muta played the heel in that match, and got the fans behind him by doing the unthinkable: he ripped Liger’s mask off. Doing this could’ve had the same impact on Liger as it did for Mysterio. Unmasking is a major shame in lucha libre wrestling, and to be unmasked could spell the end of one’s career. But Muta not only ripped Liger’s mask off, he attacked Liger over and over again until his face was exposed (well, sort of):

Muta was able to rally a crowd behind him with tremendous ease, but was even more capable of putting his opponents over. This would’ve made him an excellent veteran for WWE to use to elevate younger stars. It would’ve been very easy for WWE to create simple yet effective storylines with the following premise:

‘Wrestler X has dreams of becoming WWE Champion. But before he can, he must overcome the wily, dangerous and unpredictable Great Muta in singles competition. Can Wrestler X achieve his dream, or will he succumb to Muta’s experience and veteran instinct?’

Simply replace the words ‘wrestler X’ with names like John Cena, Randy Orton, Edge, etc., and you have ready-made storylines that would’ve yielded two great results. First, you’d have a rising star that could become even bigger after facing off against a fantastic wrestling legend that knew how to have a great match with a broom. Second, you’d have matches filled with incredible and detailed wrestling psychology, which are, sadly, lacking significantly in modern WWE.

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All in all, if WWE had signed the Great Muta in 2000, there’s a good chance he would’ve made a huge impact on the WWE product, and there’d be many more fans that would know his name today.