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Why Seth Rollins injured Rey Mysterio's eye

Mysterio and Rollins

WWE played a trick by getting Seth Rollins to injure Rey Mysterio's eye, according to Dave Meltzer. He reports that the company knew that the Biggest Little Man was going to be out of contract soon and didn't want him to appear on another promotion. Hence, they made it sound like he was actually injured and it was a way to write him off if he did not resign.

The whole original storyline talking about an infection which was then dropped, and potentially losing his sight in the eye was a way to write him out, and I guess make it appear to WWE fans that if he shows up elsewhere that he’s medically unfit and the other company is sleazy for putting a guy with a medical condition out there.

If it was just Mysterio, at this point he would just probably go to who paid him the best, which would probably come down to either WWE, AEW or a Moxley/Jericho like deal of AEW and New Japan which he is a big enough star to get if that’s what he wanted.