As a result of an injury sustained during Friday Night SmackDown, Rey Mysterio was unable to participate in his scheduled match at WrestleMania 41 (Night One).
Rey Fenix stepped in to take the place of the WWE Hall of Famer and faced off against El Grande Americano, who ultimately emerged victorious in his WrestleMania debut.
On the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, it was reported that Mysterio is currently out of action due to a groin injury.
Dave Meltzer said, “It was a groin. You were right.”
Alvarez replied, “I was right.”
Meltzer added, “Yeah, he initially tore his groin. He thought he was going to be able to make the match, and then when they examined him, it was like, you just can’t…….Yeah, like, is he going to be able to go? Is he going to be able to go on in the end? Because the first thing I heard was that he was going to be able to go, and then I heard this morning that, no, he’s not going to be able to go. So it was one of those things where he was like, I’m going to be able to make it. I’m going to be able to make it.”
Alvarez continued, “So what happened with Rey is we got the report that he got hurt at SmackDown, and he was helped to the back, so everyone immediately thought it had to be a knee injury. So I went and watched SmackDown, because I was like, Okay, where did he get hurt? And I could not figure out where the hell he got hurt, and so there was nothing. And so I went back to the last time we saw him do anything, and he had gotten yanked out of the ring by Julius, and it was everyone you’ve ever seen. No one did anything wrong. Julius just pulled him and Rey, like, kind of turned, he didn’t want to land on his stomach, and he landed flat on his back, but as soon as he landed, he like, grabbed, like, towards his groin, and they immediately, like, cut to the next thing. And he never got up, and his knees and his feet never touched the ground. So I knew it couldn’t have been his legs, and I figured it was his groin, and that’s what it was.”
There is no word on when Mysterio will return to the ring.
