Nobody with the last name Mysterio has said a word about any of this, and the wrestling internet decided months ago it didn’t need them to. It signed her anyway, cake and all, with zero help from WWE’s PR department.
PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported this week, via Wrestleview, that Aalyah Mysterio — real name Aalyah Gutierrez, Rey Mysterio’s daughter — is “currently expected to be joining and starting at WWE’s Performance Center soon.” Wrestleview includes the caveat that actually matters: “neither Aalyah, Rey or WWE has publicly confirmed it.”
That hasn’t stopped anyone from celebrating like it’s official. Per tpww.net, friends have been posting cakes that read “Florida’s about to get 619’d” and captions warning Florida to get ready for the next Mysterio. None of it is coming from Aalyah, Rey, or WWE. All of it is doing WWE’s marketing for free.
This isn’t a question of whether Aalyah trained at the Performance Center. Rey already confirmed that part himself, on Undertaker’s podcast, describing an October session and a two-week February stay that left him surprised by how hard she took to it. Postwrestling has the full account, and it’s real. The full-time signing is the part still living entirely in group chats and Instagram comments.
She didn’t stumble into this, either. Aalyah graduated UC San Diego with a human biology degree in July 2025, then showed up at the Performance Center three months later, and trained separately with Natalya and TJ Wilson at their dungeon on top of it. Rey’s said the same thing about both his kids for years: “I’ve never pushed the sport down their throat. It’s all came out of them.”
I wrote wrestling recaps for $50 a pop for two years before anyone paid me a real rate, and I can tell you this much: the audience has always been faster and more accurate at reporting this stuff than the company is at confirming it.
If it holds, Aalyah would be the third Mysterio to walk into that building. Rey, a Hall of Famer, built the name. Dominik Mysterio turned it into the heel act propping up Judgment Day, the stable that made him must-see TV, and picked up the AAA Mega Championship on his way there. The wrestling internet already cast the next Mysterio, with or without a press release, and her brother’s already weighing in.
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Dominik says he hopes she listens to him more than to their dad. Given how the last 25 years apparently went, that’s not exactly a selling point.
WWE’s talent pipeline runs on names it can already market, and a company that just posted $1.6 billion in a single quarter doesn’t need Aalyah Mysterio to confirm a thing.
The wrestling internet beat WWE to its own press release.
