20 years of Rey Mysterio: His eight best WWE matches ranked as he reaches huge milestone

Rey Mysterio will tonight celebrate twenty years since he made his WWE debut on SmackDown in July 2002. 

The master of the 619 will be in action as he teams with son Dominik to face The Judgement Day’s Finn Balor and Damian Priest as Raw takes place from the famous Madison Square Garden, less than a week before Saturday’s SummerSlam event. 

GiveMeSport rolls back the two decades and picks the best eight matches of Rey’s legendary WWE career… 

Rey Mysterio and Edge vs Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit 

No Mercy 2002 

WWE Tag Team Championships

A masterclass in tag team wrestling, in a match that is regarded as one of the best tag team bouts ever put on in WWE, as four of the biggest names fought for the new WWE Tag Team titles on SmackDown. 

Mysterio, who was in his debut year with WWE, and Edge were the perfect babyfaces and super over against the clever and calculated heel tandem of Benoit and Angle. The results saw an all-action tag team affair, with Edge and Rey combining for some standout double-team manoeuvres, and Mysterio delving into his box of tricks to the delight of the crowd in Arkansas. Angle and Benoit ended-up walking away with the straps, but all four men were winners thanks to the show they put on. 

Rey Mysterio vs Shawn Michaels 

Raw, 2005 

A dream match pitting two of the greatest to ever lace-up a pair of boots, however it came under the most sombre of circumstances. 

Just days after the passing of Rey’s lifelong friend Eddie Guerrero, Mysterio and HBK locked horns during the episode of Raw that was dedicated to the memory of the WWE star. Both sporting the ‘EG’ black armbands, the pair put on a showcase in tribute to the former WWE Champion, which was a textbook example of what they could both do in