5 Tragedies for Alberto Del Rio over the past year

#3. Being buried with stupid gimmicks

MexAmerica was a cringe worthy gimmick

However good a talent you are, bad booking can bury the topmost star. Alberto Del Rio was packaged as belonging to ‘MexAmerica’ with Zeb Colter as his manager. A gimmick that meant absolutely nothing and went absolutely nowhere.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, Del Rio was subsequently booked as a part of the heel faction ‘League of Nations’. Of the four members of the stable, Rusev and Sheamus have somewhat rehabilitated their careers. But the damage it did to Del Rio and Wade Barrett was beyond repair.

From a man who looked like he’d wrestle John Cena in a singles match at Wrestlemania, Del Rio was relegated to a 6-man tag team match and subsequently was beaten up by Foley, Austin, and Michaels.