Rey Mysterio is far from the biggest wrestler on the WWE roster, but he’s take on his fair share of giants over the course of his career.
At the Backlash pay-per-view in 2003 Rey Mysterio was defeated by Big Show, but it was what happened after the match that people remember most.
Big Show made his exit after beating Rey, but he returned shortly after Rey Mysterio was strapped to a stretcher, and Big Show swung the stretcher into the ring post while Rey was still attached to it.
During an appearance on the Not About Wrestling show Rey Mysterio talked about the aftermath of the stretcher spot and he said that Big Show didn’t feel bad about sending him to the hospital.
“So I had this match against The Big Show and for some reason he thought it was a good idea to put me and strap me onto a stretcher and he picked that sucker up from the ground, I was strapped up to the board and he swung it like a baseball bat across the pole on the outside. When it hit, obviously he let it go. I was strapped and my head just went boom and it hit on the ground. I had to go to the hospital that day but that was probably one of the worst times.
Not really [Big Show didn’t feel bad afterwards]. But you know what? That’s how I was raised. I was raised tough and I was the only kid in the wrestling class that was eight-years old. I was training with 16, 18, obviously 20-year olds, and I was the only kid in there and I was raised that way. I was always the smallest in training and still to this day in the ring when I wrestle.”
H/T Post Wrestling
