Dominik Mysterio is overdelivering for WWE
Investing everything in young stars in pro wrestling can go one of two ways, either it works perfectly or the company spends years trying to repair the image of talent they once thought to be an automatic star. We have seen WWE recently give this push to stardom to names such as Dominik Mysterio, Grayson Waller, and Austin Theory.
The only one that has truly delivered? Dominik Mysterio. At face value, he may seem like the least likely option to achieve massive levels of success of the three rising stars named above, but he is delivering in his first big chance on the main roster. The Judgement Day is currently being, in my opinion, over-relied on by WWE, but you can’t deny the captivating segments and matches they are currently putting out multiple times a week on nearly every WWE show.
The key to this run for the faction has been the pairing of Rhea Ripley and Dominik Mysterio. The pair has massive heat and you can hear it every time Mysterio even tries to mutter any line out of his mouth in a promo. WWE has basically put the Women’s World Championship picture on hold to feature Rhea and Dom more and more every week. Something that would never be possible if Dominik Mysterio wasn’t knocking it out of the park in this heel run.
There is great heels all over the place in wrestling today, but they typically exist only on one brand or show per week. Just a week ago Dominik Mysterio outdid all of them main-eventing Raw, Smackdown, and even NXT. Tell me WWE actually thought Dom could main-event three shows a week when they turned him heel at Clash at the Castle 11 months ago. There is no way they expected this good of a run from Dominik.
Mysterio is now the NXT North American Champion and is on every episode of Raw getting one of the biggest reactions of the night. He is helping out the developmental brand, all the while still working on developing himself on the main roster, something almost unheard of in WWE.
WWE invested everything in Dominik by putting him in the second biggest faction WWE has to offer behind the Bloodline, and he has taken the opportunity and made WWE regret not putting him in the Judgement Day act sooner. To think Dominik basically had no character other than being the son of a hall of famer a year ago, to now looking at ‘Dirty’ Dominik Mysterio, the transformation has been mind-blowing. WWE has struck gold with Dominik and should make him the leader of the Judgement Day one day.