Whether it’s turning on his family or hiding behind his on-screen girlfriend, Rhea Ripley, Dominik Mysterio is an enigma people love to hate. He’s essentially Ziggy from The Wire (If you know, you know).
Cowardly saboteurs are commonplace in wrestling. MJF does a great job in the role in AEW as their world champion.
However, MJF drips with arrogance because he’s as good as he says he is but chooses to cheat. On the other hand, Dominik’s hubris immensely exceeds his station, exacerbating the crowd heat he garners.
After focusing his long-running daddy issues on Cody Rhodes, Dominik has a date with “The American Nightmare” on July 1st at Money in the Bank. The match-making segment on Raw ended with Rhodes calling Brock Lesnar a coward for not answering his challenge for a third encounter.
Like Wile E. Coyote, a lightbulb went on in my head. Rhodes’ crack about Lesnar was the spark. It’s all so clear now.
Cody Rhodes is going into the match with Dominik with a broken arm, which increases the odds of an unlikely win for The Judgement Day’s young comrade. However, where there’s a will, there’s a Beast Incarnate.
Brock Lesnar will not let Rhodes get away with calling him a coward. A trip to London is in Lesnar’s future as he will make the trek to cost Rhodes the match.
This means Dominik Mysterio wins.
All roads will lead to SummerSlam, where Rhodes/Lesnar III is expected to occur. That leaves World Champion Seth Rollins with an empty dance card for “the biggest party of the summer.”
Not so fast!
Dominik Mysterio beat Cody Rhodes. Never mind that he does it with a much need assist from Lesnar. Wrestling rarely concerns itself with how a wrestler wins. Dominik’s win over Rhodes will make him the unlikely challenger for Seth Rollins.
Seth Rollins will defend the World Heavyweight Championship against, of all people Dominik Mysterio at SummerSlam in Detriot, MI.
Such a match might sound ridiculous, but don’t let the wrapper fool you, friend. While Dominik won’t beat Rollins for the title, it’s the journey that sells the story here and not the end result.
Rollins will accept the match against Dominik and take him lightly in the lead-up to SummerSlam.
On Raw, WWE will beg the question, what if.
What if Dominik Mysterio becomes the World Heavyweight Champion? The question is absurd as it is ingenious. Again, he won’t win, but close your eyes and picture Dominik getting booed by 45,000 people at Ford Field.
The decibel levels would be off the scale, rivaling the loudest volumes ever heard in a stadium for a sporting event. Half of what made Sami Zayn/Roman Reigns at Elimination Chamber memorable was the Montreal faithful cheering on their hometown hero in Zayn.
Flip the script from cheers to boos, and the heat Dominik would get is something many heels dream of. Add Rollins’ popularity to the equation, and the volume in the stadium for that match alone would make for a legendary night.
Wrestling is a business that conjures ideas that are a special kind of crazy. Some purists would say Dominik Mysterio wrestling for the World Heavyweight Championship at one of the biggest shows, in front of one of the year’s largest crowds, goes against the sanctity of wrestling.
I prefer sport over spectacle with my professional wrestling, but Rollins/Dominik at SummerSlam is a surefire spectacle that would fire on all cylinders. Dominik is still growing as a professional, but he’d be in the ring with a stellar worker in Rollins, who is on the run of his career.
Maybe Dominik gets dwarfed by the enormity of the moment, and perhaps Rollins has a bad night. One thing working as a wrestler and promoter taught me is that wrestlers feed off the energy from the crowd.
The type of crowd reaction for the too-big-for-his-britches Dominik Mysterio and the white-hot Seth “Freakin” Rollins will feed both wrestlers for days, making for one heck of a meal everyone will enjoy.
Could I be wrong? Sure, but how do you not boo someone who allows himself to be called Dom Dom?
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