Dominik Mysterio walked into the WrestleMania 42 Kickoff Show with a complaint and walked out with a more dangerous match. During the show, he told Monday Night Raw General Manager Adam Pearce that when he signed the contract, he agreed to face Finn Bálor in a singles match, not The Demon.
Pearce sided with Mysterio and added a Street Fight stipulation to the bout. The change puts more chaos into a match already set for night two of WWE WrestleMania 42, where The Demon Finn Bálor and Dominik Mysterio were already scheduled to meet.
The exchange mattered because it shifted the terms of a match that had been framed as a straight singles contest. Mysterio, the AAA Mega Champion, made clear he was not signing up for Bálor’s alter ego, and Pearce accepted that argument without delay. The result is a WrestleMania booking that now carries fewer rules and more room for damage when the two finally meet.
That twist also deepens a storyline that has been building around Bálor’s Demon return. For more on that angle, see Dominik Mysterio and the problem with Finn Bálor’s Demon return. The match was already on the card before the stipulation change, but the addition of a Street Fight changes the rhythm and likely the tone of night two.
What happens next is set: the two will go into WrestleMania 42 with no disqualification-style safeguards and no ambiguity about what Mysterio thought he had agreed to. The complaint was about The Demon, and Pearce’s ruling made sure the issue will be settled in the ring.
