[1997-07-22-WCW-Tuesday Nitro] Konnan and Rey Misterio Jr

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Rey is out on crutches and has declined surgery. He has a torn ligament. Rey seems a little nervous cutting a promo, but Rey obviously doesn't need to be a great promo to be effective as a babyface. He just needs to seem sincere, and he does. Konnan kicks his crutches away before other Psicosis, La Parka and the Villanos make the save. Lucha guys vs NWO seems like a weird missed opportunity in some ways, even if the lucha guys got squashed.

[Kevin Ridge]

Konnan is so unlikeable. The luchadores make the save for Mysterio.

[soup23]

Mysterio's promo was timid but kind of worked. KOnnan is able to look like a bully which is effective for him. Luchadores making the save for Rey was a cool moment since it has been engrained that Konnan gave them all a chance in WCW.

[Robert S]

Rey is out on crutches and has declined surgery. He has a torn ligament. Rey seems a little nervous cutting a promo, but Rey obviously doesn't need to be a great promo to be effective as a babyface. He just needs to seem sincere, and he does. Konnan kicks his crutches away before other Psicosis, La Parka and the Villanos make the save. Lucha guys vs NWO seems like a weird missed opportunity in some ways, even if the lucha guys got squashed.

Reading this it makes we wonder why they never did a latino section of the nWo. The could have Konnan recruited three of the more noteworthy rudos (like Psicosis) and have them feud with Rey and a bunch of tecnicos.

[El-P]

Konnan was more effective as a spokesman and an angle-only worker than he was in the ring. Yeah, too bad it didn't lead to the luchadors not getting better used. I didn't remember Rey had been hurt in 97 too. He was out every year in WCW with a knee injury, no wonder he's in the shape he is now.

[PeteF3]

There are worse Rey promos out there. The splintering of the NWO continues, as Konnan despite claiming to be a Wolfpack member is sort of in his own world.