{"id":27894,"date":"2018-10-09T23:58:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T03:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=27894"},"modified":"2018-10-09T23:58:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T03:58:35","slug":"breaking-rey-mysterio-officially-back-in-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/10\/09\/breaking-rey-mysterio-officially-back-in-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Rey Mysterio Officially Back in WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The speculation is over. After many months of rumors, reports and teases,\u00a0<strong>Rey Mysterio<\/strong> is back in WWE. Not just for <strong>Smackdown 1000<\/strong> or any other special appearances. WWE finally put to rest all doubts by releasing an official statement on Mysterio&#8217;s status.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors began to swirl all the way back in January of 2018 with him as a surprise entrant in the <em><strong>Royal Rumble<\/strong><\/em>. He made a couple more appearances after that, fueling the speculative fire. Arguably it reached fever pitch in the summer, when Rey was announced as a special character in <strong>WWE 2K19<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rey Mysterio makes a shocking return in the Royal Rumble Match: Royal Rumble 2018 (WWE Network)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IBVo8dfqTBc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now he is set to take part in not only the festivities of <em>SmackDown 1000<\/em>, but the show itself as well. It was also announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/10\/09\/dream-match-set-for-smackdown-live-next-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rey would be facing <strong>Shinsuke Nakamura<\/strong><\/a> in a WWE World Cup qualifying match. This dream match will go down at SmackDown 1000 on October 16th. With Rey Mysterio returning to the brand he helped put on the map, what mysteries will he have in store this time around? We&#8217;ll just have to tune in on Tuesdays to <em><strong>SmackDown Live<\/strong><\/em> to see!<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/worldwide\/article\/rey-mysterio-returns-full-time-wwe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE&#8217;s release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Rey Mysterio\u00a0is back with WWE on a full-time basis, meaning the WWE Universe will have the opportunity to see The Master of The 619 live and in person in the very near future.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The masked marvel\u2019s return begins on SmackDown 1000 next Tuesday when he faces Shinsuke Nakamura in a WWE World Cup Qualifying Match. In addition, WWE fans in the following cities will get to see Mysterio in action on the below dates:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hartford, Conn. \u2013 Oct. 20<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Boston, Mass. \u2013 Oct. 21<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>White Plains, N.Y. \u2013 Oct. 22<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Cardiff, Wales \u2013 Nov. 3<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Aberdeen, Scotland \u2013 Nov. 4<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Birmingham, England \u2013 Nov. 5<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The speculation is over. After many months of rumors, reports and teases,\u00a0Rey Mysterio is back in WWE. Not just for Smackdown 1000 or any other special appearances. WWE finally put to rest all doubts by releasing an official statement on Mysterio&#8217;s status. Rumors began to swirl all the way back in January of 2018 with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2695,"featured_media":27898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26,3],"tags":[886,234,118,52,3213,148],"class_list":["post-27894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-smackdown","category-wwe-universe","tag-rey-mysterio","tag-rey-mysterio-jr","tag-shinsuke-nakamura","tag-smackdown","tag-smackdown-1000","tag-smackdown-live"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}