[2001-02-05-WCW-Nitro] Chavo Guerrero Jr vs El Nino

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El Nino is tiny, dressed head to toe in black.  He was scouted by Ric Flair and Chavo Guerrero Sr south of the border, a guy who is going to take Chavo Jr to the limit but is going to make him the champion he is.  Tony Schiavone drops a Bugsy McGraw reference when Nino outstretches his arms and turns around on the spot.  Chavo kicks him down into the corner and then scrapes his boot across his face.  Belly to back with authority.  He catches Nino on the springboard crossbody and drops him across his knee.  Nino backdrops Chavo out onto the apron, a forearm smash sending him to the arena floor.  Pescado, Nino then does a lap of the ring like he’s a child imitating a plane.  Chavo reverses the whip into the guardrail, Nino flying over it and almost wiping out some old boy in the front row.  He suplexes him back over the barricade, but as he heads upstairs Nino swipes a leg away.  El Nino does slip on the ropes before hitting the top rope Frankensteiner for a two count.  Tilt-a-whirl backbreaker.  After running into a big boot Chavo launches him under the bottom rope to the outside, the ringsiders getting a close up look as he dishes out some European uppercuts.  Sunset flip by Nino for a near fall.  Chavo catches him over his shoulder on the Asai moonsault, goes to run him into the corner but Nino slips out and sends him into it.  Headscissors takeover.  Quesadora bulldog, at which point the penny starts to drop, Scott Hudson saying how that was very reminiscent.  Springboard guillotine legdrop and Nino with the “upset” win.  Immediately after the win he unmasks to reveal himself as Rey Mysterio Jr.  Chavo does try to jump him but comes out on the wrong end of things.  The commentary team think that was a great swerve and that Rey has garnered the psychological advantage prior to his upcoming title match.

Rey doesn’t wrestle as he normally would for the vast majority of this, trying to hide his identity, which can’t be easy.  There were a couple of slips which I would attribute to that, but I saw enough to expect big things come the PPV.