King of Luchadores Dominik Mysterio Wins AAA Mega Championship | WWE Worlds Collide 2025

0:00 So welcome, welcome. My name is Ryder Maven. I am the host of The Best Thing to See the podcast. I cover all things Judgment Day, Dom Webber, Kill Finn, JD, Roxanne and poor Kaluto. You acknowledge Dirty Dom as the King of the Luchadors. You acknowledge Dirty Dom as your new mega champion of AAA. Yes, Dirty Dom did it. He won with the assist from the Great American El Grande Americano and is apparently now his new best buddy, seemingly almost ignoring the Judgement day for him. It's very interesting. And while Liv was in Las Vegas, she did not appear. And I'm going to be honest with y'all. You know, I said I was going to always going to be honest with y'all.

0:45 And I'm going to be honest here. As much as I want Liv Morgan back, I'm glad she did not show up here tonight. Why do I, why am I saying that I wanted this moment for Dom to be about Dom and Dom only, You know, You know how I've talked about like how it seems like everything overshadows Dom, like everybody wants us to attach whatever Dom does to live and all that, yada, yada, yada. But this was Dom's moments. This was Dom's alliances. This was Dom's plan and this was Dom's time to shine. Liv has already gotten her moments to shine. Dom was there, but he was just like the flavor. He was the participator.

1:35 Now here with Dom, it's on his own and he's allowing to shine. I mean, I'm not sure if people have got this if Liv had not been injured, but it is what it is. You know, he's been rocketed on his own. We might have to have that conversation if he better, you know how he's he doing better without Liv. But for right now, he got the win with his alliances and his own plans. And like I said, as much as I want live back, and I do want live back, believe me, I'm happy. This was Dom's moment. This was his moment. This should have been a triple Mania cause like people said, 'cause that he he would have blown a roof off in Mexico. But this was Dom's moment to shine. I'm going to break down as much as I can. Like I said, I haven't had the time to break down all that I want to cover.

2:30 So I'm going to give them my brief notes and then I'll probably break down a little bit more on Sunday when I've thought about it. And then I'll have probably the Monday Night Raw preview and what's going on there. But instead we got Dirty Dom, Daddy Dom as the double champ, intercom middle champion and mega champion and all thanks to El Grande Americano. My plan C did not come into fruition, but you know, I'll take it. You know, if they're going to keep El Garde Americana with Dom and they're going to bring like his army along with Dom like I had an originally predicted, then this is fine. This is his army. He's a king.

3:12 He has a king. So let's get into something, shall we? Pre World Collide, Liv Morgan did appear at the announcement for WrestleMania in Saudi Arabia. She was looking good. She was not wearing a sling, but that's too expected because Donald didn't wore a sling last year when he had his injury. She did not look like she wanted to be there at that press conference. None of the women did. You know Bianca got to talk but but Liv, Charlotte definitely care. They didn't get to do, they didn't do much at all. And I said in my postings about this is that this whole press conference should have been an e-mail. Did they really need to have a press conference with no press and no fans just to announce that they're going to Saudi Arabia?

4:05 We knew that they were going to Saudi Arabia. It was already leaked. And then here you have to see Liv, Stephanie and Charlotte stand around and say nothing, looking miserable, looking like they didn't want to be there. It was just so it was just it was offensive actually. So, you know, Liv was there, like I said in my group chat, like we have come around to the we have come around to just say like how we didn't really want live around this main, this main event, this Dom match. And it was funny because we would accept it live there at SummerSlam.

4:46 Like if Liv had showed up at SummerSlam, like when he was there on his own and there was no then or nothing like that and we were expecting her to be back then, it would have been fine. Like I would have expected that. I almost would have expected her like a triple mania. Like I wouldn't have minded it there either. But here now where we have things rolling for Dom, like I said, I'm kind of glad she wasn't there. And like I was saying on the X this week, like just because she's not there doesn't mean she's going to pop up. And lo and behold, she may not. She didn't pop up. Now, that does not mean that Liv and Dom can't get pictures. It does not mean that they can do like a special, like a social media thing.

5:29 But they go out on a date 'cause they're in Las Vegas right now. So they can that's so they can do like a date or something like that. Just to please Live Down fans. And I would like that, too. I'd like to see a date with them like I should've. I was, I was saying again to my group chat, like Liv should've been doing some video chats or video promos in the interim right now. You know, you could be furthering things along and they still not have lived there. But yeah, she was there. But she didn't pop up here at Worlds Collide. And I'm OK with that. During Smackdown, actually.

6:11 Yeah. You know what? Yeah, during Smackdown we had a backstage promo with Rey Mysterio with Vero, Ben's wife, and she was interviewing Ray. When Dom rolls up, Dom says that he wants Ray to went put the Mega championship on him like around his waist after he went and Ray says that he will and he's a man of his word. So this was significant. I'm like OK, he's going to win it now because pretty Ray pretty much said that I'm a man of my word. I'll put the title on you, I'll put the title on him. So I'm like, OK, Dom's winning and then here comes then the snake, that demented demon rolling up and he says if Dom wants respect, Dom should win this on his own. Now what happened later on tonight? Why was he out there?

7:03 Do you see how contradictory this is? So now I'm confused. I'm going to have to break, Like I said, I'm going to have to break it down more and I'll talk about this more when I get to Dom's match. But it's just like, like, why? Why did you say that? And then you still show up Like where you, I don't know, I'll get into it. And then during the promo for World Collide, we had a sick looking Dom Mysterio playing card as the King of Luchadors. And it's really cool. I have a little picture of it and I'll probably put it in my YouTube video. But going back to Finn, here's some other little things. Dom called Finn his stepdad.

7:44 Now remember when Dom starts calling people that, what happens to him? Ray got his, you know, got his, almost got his head taken off. Damien was pretty much compared to Ray by he, by Don saying you're almost like my you, you know, you're almost just like my deadbeat dad. And then here is Dom calling Ben instead. Dad, What happens to Daddy? Figures for Dom ain't pretty and I said here in my notes Finn saying Dom needs to win on his own is laughable because Finn Velour his own damn self, has not won a title on his own. The first tag team title for after he lost the first one, the first tag team titles he won was due to Dom. The second set of tag team titles will do to live and the third tag team titles were I would almost say that was was that Dom or did they somebody somebody helped him right there. I forgot who but Finn has been having help with his matches, like Finn won against Dragon lead with the help of JD. So, you know, Finn saying that people respect you if you win on your own is completely and utterly laughable. And again, note that when Finn said this, he was the only one saying this.

9:07 The rest of Judgment Day was nowhere to be found. We don't know if it's going to be significant or not until Monday, but I think it will be. Even though Desert Day wasn't really looking too happy with El Grinder getting hugged like that. But like I said, I'll get into that. Now we're going to go into Worlds to live. I loved this show top to bottom. The matches were great, I was invested. I love them all. I do want to get into the other matches for Worlds Collide, but I'm going to take yesterday's 1st and then I'll get into the rest of the matches later. But I love the show. It's energetic, I guess.

9:47 I love lucha libre. Doctor Wagner Junior. Oh my gosh. But I just I just love lucha libre and this was a really great show from the kickoff from team AAA to versus team WWE to Dom versus Vikingo. It was just a great show. This is what we needed, especially after this, after that cluster spark of what happened on Smackdown earlier tonight. But let's get into the mixed tag team match of Doctor and Doctor. I see I got Doctor Wagner on the brain. This was Mr. Ugwano and load of ice. First is Roxanne Perez and Finn Blore.

10:28 Now we see Finn had carried has diminito in his little bag there and big mommy cool was looking good and fine like she she was looking amazing. I keep telling y'all look Raquel be looking good and she's been she's been putting off some good looks. I can't deny that and then I always like Roxanne's black and white gear that she has. So I really like this look on her as well. This was a nice fun match. I actually like Lola Vice and Mr. Iguana together. So they have they have a fun energy. It's kind of reminds me of and that is Alito. This is like another mix.

11:10 I'm trying to think of a really good mixed tag pair, not really dumb and live. This is this is another one they have an energy of and I can't really place it right now. Diminito and La Lyesko incorporated into this match. Match was fun mystery. Iguana threw Lyeska at Diminito where where Finn was holding it on the outside and that was a picture perfect Taupe on from miss from La Lyeska on to Diminito and I'm not sure Diminito will be able to recover from that suicide. Suicidal. But we got to see Dimito come alive on his own. Like Finn wasn't controlling him.

11:51 Somebody was controlling Dimito. I was joking that hey, maybe Liz took control of Dimito to distract Finn there and because Dimito was moving on his own. Freaked the heck out of Roxanne. It was, it was funny to me, actually, and it was just funny. Of course when we get the pulp of fire of Myeshka and Dimito, Finn was taking Jessica out. Yes, good was all being tossed around as distraction, taking people out. At one time Finn had Diminito tied on his back and was going to do the coop to the grass and I think like Jessica was tossed at him. Or was it lullabies?

12:35 No lullabies pulled him off the top rows and kind of hit had him strung up there for La Escha. Oh and Raquel was able to do a power move on Mr. Iguana, have you? See, this is what I was saying that Raquel should have been doing in the 1st place when she first got here. Like when Damien Priest was beating up on Dom last year, I was saying like, how is it now that Raquel wasn't allowed to interfere on Dom's behalf like Rhea was able to do? And I was like, it would have been a nice establishing moment for her to get into Damien's face and stuff like that.

13:16 So here now she was able to do a match or a move on Mr. Iguana. And this is something that she should be doing. She's she's strong, she's tall. She should be doing this stuff. And I was really happy that she's able to do it. Lola wins with a spinning back fix on Roxanne. So if you listen to Finn, you lose. This set the toe for Judgment Day losing because Roxanne took the pin and I know a certain somebody was really upset that Roxanne took the pin, but that was my prediction of the night. It's like Desmond Day is going to lose and then Donna's going to win and that's what ended up happening. Like I said, this was a nice, fun little match.

13:57 I like the energy that Lullabies and Mystery going to bring. I do like Diminito. I need to see Diminito some more if they want to run thin and Mr. Iguana some more. I would not be, I wouldn't complain. I was expecting La Hazra. But since we still have that whole restraining order like from Stephanie Vergara against La Hazra, then I'm guessing that's that's probably the reason why she stayed away at least this time because triple mania is in Mexico and that's different here in the States. You probably couldn't do that. Next up after that was the Latin American in championship with he hold a doctor Wagner junior versus Ethan Page versus JD McDonough versus Dragon Lee.

14:49 This was great lucha ship fate. This was the good fatal four way. Everybody was getting in all their stuff. I like that JD McDonough was able to show out. I am really pulling for him, for him to show out and be able to do stuff and not just be stuck in a tactic. So I was really happy that he was able to do that even though you know, he gets called out for his big humongous head diagno. Wagner wins by pinning JD McDonough, which is what I predicted in my little prediction video. So once again, JD is judgment Day is losing again. And but yeah, it was a nice little match. We saw Ethan Page got to show out some more Dragon Lee. I am really hoping they continue to build Dragon Lee. And it's funny now.

15:42 I'll I'll get into later, but it's funny now how Ray can reattach himself to Dragon Lee. Now I'm like, oh, now you're being the good dad. I didn't want to reattach yourself to Dragon Lee when he's on the upstream deadbeat death. But yeah, I want Dragon Lee to keep going with this momentum. Hopefully now that Ray Ray, I guess is healed up or whatever he's or whatever it is now, Ray Ray can be around to help him. And I'm hoping this, whatever this alliance Dragon Lee has with AJ Styles help some is out as well 'cause I do like Dragon Lee and I do one Dragon Lee back in around the Intercontinental Championship picture with Dom because they, him and Dom have a fight forever feel. And then we get into the Menace Championship. We had Don sporting the gold skeleton, which is really, really cool.

16:38 We have Vikingo who's getting booed out the building because, like I said, people do not like Vikingo. This had big match feel. I'm going to have to go back and watch it again properly one since I'm so I won't be since I'm not going to be nervous as a cat, but it did what it needed to do. It's not the most perfect match but it did what it needed to do. 1st we get the interference with JD and Finn and again, if you said that fit is Dom needed to win on his own, why did you come out there to interfere Finn or unless she just saying that you were out there to make sure Dom loses. See what I mean?

17:24 Like were you out there to prevent Don from winning? Were you out there to screw things up? Like it seems like something is missing there. I'm not sure what, but something seems like it got lost in translation there. And then when they were interfering here comes dragon Lee. Now I expected dragon Lee. I thought it was going to be El Grande Americano first and then this brings out Don's plan C like a Tony or a Ilya or Roxanne or a Lil but I thought that was going to happen but it wasn't. It was just the day first and then here come and then Dom got himself not loopy because he was trying to load the mask and stuff like that. And then here comes Dragon Leaf and he's fighting off JD and Finn. And then here comes the deadbeat dad, Ray Ray, who starts fighting off Finn and and JD and they chase him off to the back. And then after that, here comes my Kingo. He hits the was that the 450 splash on Dom? And then he's going to pin and then who pulls the referee out? But our good buddy, Oh God damn Americano, the Great American. And then and then Don goes for the Frog flashed a pen by Kingo, but since the referee got pulled out, the referee was out of position or he couldn't recover so they had to send out the alternative referee, you know.

18:51 And then so Dom didn't get the three count there. So here comes the Grande trying to get things situated and here comes like Kingo to start trying to RIP off El Grande's mask 'cause remember at the Elaine Ella's the AAA show on last Saturday, it was Vikingo interrupting El Grande after his match. So Vikingo came out to interrupt El Grande. So there is some connection here between El Grande and Vikingo. And Vikingo was going after El Grande's mask because Vikingo thinks he's a fake Mexican by Kingo. I mean not by Kingo.

19:34 A Grande takes what he was going to load into the mask and slides it back so Dom can get it and put it in his mask. So with like Kingo finally releases a Grande and turns around Dom him some with the loaded mask. Don gets up, hits the frog, flash on by Kingo 123 and we got the new mega champion and we get the celebration. Here comes Ray Ray looking all sad. I'm like, why you looking outside Ray Ray like be happy for your son at least a little bit, just a little bit, just a little bit like you don't have to enjoy agree with his choices, but get happy for your son just a little bit. So he you know, Don was getting into space and still note that Don is still acting healish. There was a little moment there where Don kind of accepted the belt from Ray, but he really switched back to being healed and you might see that little softening there a little bit, but I and I think that's a nice touch. But other than that, Don was talking his shit and being ass. And that's what you want.

20:38 If you want Don versus Ray Ray. And you know that Ray Ray is not really gonna get booed. I mean, he might now since Dom is getting cheered up the building, but it's gonna you're gonna have to have gone keep it up being this ungrateful son to Ray. And like I always keep saying like if you want Dom and Ray to reconcile, Ray has to get over himself and have some have some reconciliation attempt. But I think I saw it best where somebody said that Ray just needs to accept Dom as is. And then if you could, if you get to that point, then yeah, you can see about a reconciliation because it shouldn't be just Dom changing back for Ray because Ray didn't accept Dom as he was before he turned heel. So now it should be on brain to accept Dom as he is right now, but you know Don was just being asked about it, demanding head, butting him, wanting him to put the bottle on him. And Ray finally puts the Megas championship around Don. This cues the Judgement Day because JD and Finn, who have been chased back by Dragon Lady and Ray previously, come back out along for Brickell and Roxanne, and then they're all hugging him.

21:58 And then who comes out behind them or who comes out or goes into the rain? It's El Conde Americano. And what I love about this is that Dom after Dom's hugging Judgment Day, he sees El Conde and he just makes a beeline to hug, to hug El Grande Americano and then Judgment Day. So I'm looking at like, I'm like, well, you mean he said that, you know, you know, y'all got yourself banned from ringside and then he, you know, he developed in the great Dominic Mysterio need help and he's just happy and did El Grande Grande was all happy for him. He was raising his arm and just pretty much in the face of judgment day and I I was tickled pink.

22:41 I I loved it. So if they see that's going to be a point of contention. Now finally with this Judgment Day storyline, I guess they might go with Judgment Day getting this well held and maybe Judgment Day not liking Dom. But like I keep saying with Judgment Day, when it comes to this situation, it's not like Judgment Day was. It was doing fine under Finn's leadership. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, you can run Dom getting as well headed. Yeah, you can kick Dom out and stuff like that, but you're going to have Judgment Day there without Dom and you're probably going to lose your title soon with JD and Finn. So you kick out dumb then what else is there for you to do? So they got to treat, they got to trend really carefully on how they how they can go for with the storyline because yeah, you can go with straw head.

23:42 Yeah, you can go with King and Dom out. But it shouldn't be simplistic like that right now you got Dom as king of the luchadors. So you can't just do like Dom is just gullible about judgment day. Now you see what I mean? You can't have Dom is king of the luchadors now. He is the self-proclaimed king of the luchadors with two belts now double belt Dom. So he cannot be gullible. You can't run a gullible Dom now you can't. That's just going to go. That's takes Dom's character backwards. If you wanted Don to get kicked out, you should have ran it when it should have been ran right after probably WrestleMania or something like that when he wasn't as sure and as confident as he was now at King of Luchadors as Double Bell Dom with an ally in El Granny Americano and his army.

24:35 Then you can't run a gullible Dom. So either Dom's going to have to leave or Dom's going to have to see the betrayal coming and he bounces. So if you're not going to run Dom leaving Jasmine Day and kicking Fan, which is what he should have been doing in the 1st place, then you have to run with Dom leaving Judgment Day on his own and spotting the betrayal coming. Because right now what does it betrayal? What right now, what does Finn betraying Dom do for Finn? Won't do that much. Will it get on a little bit of heat? Yeah, but will they carry over where thing get reaps benefits of it?

25:17 It's gonna probably be like a more like a brown breaker Bronson Reed situation where you got all this heat with like Seth and Becky now. But look at what's going on with Braun Bricker and Bronson Reed. It's not going to be beneficial. And like I said, I think fit that's better as a face. So that was the judgement day segment. Like I said, I'm going to have to break this down. Think about a little bit more come Sunday because I need to go back and watch it. I need to break it down. I got to break down my thoughts. These are just my quick thoughts here. So I'm going to bring it down, bring it out a little bit more and then I'll think think about it, think up some series for Sunday going into Monday Night Raw. But for the rest of the for the card of Triple Natural Mania, World's Live, we had Team AAA versus Team WWE. I love that match.

26:09 Seriously, that was a great opener. Vascarina Segreda, that dude, I love him. He was in there showing out. It was really, it was really funny to see the LWO of Joaquin Wild and Cruz Del Toro get booed. I was so happy to see Octagon Junior flying around 'cause he didn't look like he was. He didn't get injured that badly this past Saturday, so I was really happy to see him. It was nice seeing La Parka. I love La Parka, so it's nice to see La Parka there. It was nice to see the throttle there too.

26:49 It's just nice to see these groups of people because they were just flying around flippy lucha shit slingshots everything in this match was going on. And then and then Mascaritas wins the wins the match with by pinning Negro Negro there. And like I said, it was just it was just a nice, great, fun match. Fun opening Monster Energy. I was happy to see Octagon junior running around there and I was really nice. It was really good to see Mascaritas Tikarana 'cause he was he brought, he brought a nice energy to that match and his what he was doing in the ring was really cool too. So I love that match. Second up was Bobby Apache versus Natty instead of Natalia.

27:33 That was my sleeper pick. I loved that match. I am falling in love with Fabi Apache and I love her. I love her. I like her style is a nice. It's it's just really different from all the other women now. And I know she's from an older generation, but I just really like her. She's you know, her and Natty just Jill where they just want to beat the crap out of each other. And I loved it. Natty wins to be the number one contender for the Renis and Renis championship. I wasn't really expecting that, but I'm not going. But I'm not too mad about the I'm not too mad about the outcome because you can't have the the the title Renis the Venice go to Natty and then you can still have her and Fabi Apache.

28:21 Just keep fighting just like they're getting like fight forever feels for me like if you want to like pass, you know, get the belt off of the toxica and get it to Natty and then natty to Fabi Apache again. You could do something like that. So then after that we had the AAA tag team championship bat between Pagano instead of Co clown versus a new day. Now Javier Woods is injured, so they subbed in Grayson Waller for him. So is Grayson Waller and Kofi Kingston. And then we had a really funny backstage bit with Kofi Kingston's Grayson Waller and and Xavier Woods because Grayson was going on and on about his opportunity to win with the new day. And he said this, you know, and you know Woods, the friend of clowns and they call this like and then Javier Woods is just horrifying.

29:17 Like, now, why did you say that? So that was hilarious. So we get into the match. It was a pretty decent match. I mean, it wasn't really standing out, but it's A tag team match. And then when Xavier Woods is like this, you know, tie up with Psycho Clown. Psycho Clown does the gnarly thing like he did at Romania and peels the skin off his mask. It was so gnarly. His mask is so gnarly when he peels that skin off and I'm just going and I'm cringing. It's a cool visual, but I'm cringing and Baby Wood turns around, looks at his screams and runs off. I'm like, you know what, baby?

30:03 I don't blame you for running off for seeing that. And then so that mean that allows Pagato and cycle kind of wins by pinning Grayson and then we get the shock while shocks by seeing the black sticks pop up. So we got psychos versus clowns. I'm here for I wasn't expecting it, but I kind of like it. I it it brings the white sticks to AAA. It gives that crowd the whole bit with the Wyatt sticks, because I think they will, the Lucha Libra crown would accept like a Wyatt sticks, like spookiness and otherworldliness a little bit more than United States crowds.

30:46 So I think it would be a good fit. And they went right after the cycle clown at Pagano, you know, just tore them apart, sending them through tables and Sister Abigail on the chair for I think that was Pagano there. So. And they what held up the AAA titles. So they're coming after those titles as well. So I have no problem with it. It would be nice. It would be just be nice to see, you know, psychos versus clowns or cycles versus clowns. So. Yeah, that was world's polite. Like I said, it was a great show from top to bottom. Some matches were better than others, but it it comments what it needed to do. We got the storyline progression finally with some of Judgment Day stuff.

31:31 We will have to see what happens on Monday again, but I want judgment. I will say just pre before I break down my thoughts, I really really really want to see El Grande posted up in the clubhouse now. I need to see him but he needs to be sitting there. I want him and Don to be cheeky keeing and laughing and just having a grand old time. Maybe those other El Grande's tres and quattro around there bouncing around. I I want to see him and then maybe this can pull in maybe dragon me and maybe AJ. Oh, good thing AJ didn't pop up here tonight. But maybe this brings in like jaggedly and AJ style challenging of Finn and JD for their tag team titles or something like that and we get those titles off of them. There we go.

32:26 But 30 Don is your mega champion. We have a double champ now and we're we're good for fun. We're flying high. That's all I can say at this particular moment. I got to break down everything. I gotta figure out something. It feels like something was lost in translation with Ben coming out there tonight to assist Dom, quote UN quote. But I think we got some nice progression between Dom and Ray and then Dom and El Grande. And while I'm disappointed we didn't get like a Tony D'Angelo or an Ilia or even a Roxanne, I'm taking it because we got Dom as double champ. That's my goal. Like no matter how who assisted Dom, as long as he won the championship I would be fine. And he won the championship.

33:14 I am not going to complain about how things didn't play out the way I wanted it to because I pretty much thought he was going to get some assistance anyway. So it was going to be either El Grande or somebody else. They just happened to be El Grande, his new best buddy, and that was World Collide.