Dr. Wagner Jr.

Name Dr. Wagner Jr.
Nicknames El Galeno del Mal (The Evil Doctor) / El Galeno del Bien (After he became Tecnico)
Name history Dr. Wagner Jr. (debut - )
Family Dr. Wagner (father), Silver King (brother), Rossy Moreno (former wife), Leon Del Ring (nephew)
Trained by: Gran Markus, Dr. Wagner
Born: August 12, 1965 - Torreón, Coahuila
Pro Wrestling Debut: April 7, 1986 - Monterrey, Nuevo León
Height 5'10"/177 cms
Weight 216 lbs/98 kg
Signature wrestling moves: Wagner Driver (Michinoku Driver II), Death Valley Driver, Niagara Driver, Top-Rope Diamond Cutter, Flying Splash, Flying Senton, Tiger Driver, Running Lariat, Running Somersault Plancha (off the apron), Running Somersault Plancha (off the ramp)
Titles: Northern Mexico Heavyweight Title, UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title, CMLL World Light Heavyweight Title, CMLL World Trios Titles (3, with Gran Markus Jr. & El Hijo del Gladiador - La Ola Blanca, with Blue Panther & Black Warrior - Los Laguneros, with Fuerza Guerrera & Blue Panther), CMLL World Tag Team Titles (4, with Canek, with Silver King, with Emilio Charles Jr., with Último Guerrero), New Japan Pro Wrestling: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles (with Kendo Kashin), WWC Hardcore Title, UWA World Heavyweight Title

Juan Manuel Gonzalez Barron is a Mexican professional wrestler who has achieved fame in CMLL and worldwide as Dr. Wagner, Jr. He is the son of Dr. Wagner and brother of Silver King.

Dr. Wagner, Jr. first started wrestling for the Universal Wrestling Association in April 1986 at 20 years of age. The elder Wagner achieved his success in CMLL, and so would it be for the son who adopted his gimmick.

On the day that Dr. Wagner, Jr. was to make his in-ring debut as his father's tag-team partner, Wagner Sr. was involved in a car accident that killed his long-time partner Angel Blanco, leaving Wagner Sr. disabled and unable to continue his wrestling career. When he regained his mobility he took up a job as a taxi driver to earn a living, but continued to actively follow the career of his sons, including his in-ring namesake and a wrestler best known in the United States as Silver King. The two real-life brothers would actually team together to win the CMLL World Tag Team Titles in February 1997, although the titles were vacated six months later when Silver King left CMLL to join the growing lucha roster of World Championship Wrestling.

Wagner's star has continued to rise in Mexico ever since. He has won a variety of different titles for the CMLL promotion. Besides holding the CMLL World Light Heavyweight title he has also been a Trios championship at least four times, including with Gran Markus. Jr. & Hijo del Gladiador and also with Blue Panther & Black Warrior. He has also wrestled extensively in Japan, challenging (and ultimately being defeated by) Jushin Liger for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight belt and tagging with various partners such as his brother and Kendo Kashin, the latter of which he won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team championship with. He has also competed in the U.S. as recently as January 2006, teaming with Rey Bucanero in a losing effort against L.A. Park & Místico at an FMLL show in Chicago. He is most popular when competing in the famed Arena México though, where his charismatic style and popular gimmick cause fans to blow airhorns three times and chant "WAG-NER!" when he's in the ring. Given the fan reaction in Mexico and increasing awareness of the lucha libre style in the United States, his star will surely continue to rise.

In the 2007 Dr.Wagner Jr to be one of the polemics wrestlers in Mexico due to its constant mass media declarations diverse in where he expressed its anger with the CMLL not to program it in fights against Mistico, Atlantis, Ultimo Guerrero or Hijo del Perro Aguayo.

In October 8 of the 2007 sport newspaper "Estadio" publish an interview with Dr.Wagner Jr in where the same one confirmed his departure of the CMLL, which untie surprise during several days and speculations on their future and were not up to one week later that the magazine "Super Luchas" publish another interview with the own Wagner in where this it confirmed his departure of the company and that as of that date was going to be an Free Agent but who was going to fulfill all the presentations that even tapeworm pending with the CMLL.

Dr.Wagner Jr also denied the rumors on his possible incorporation to the AAA (the other big lucha libre company in Mexico) and is speculated on that along with the their brother Silver King fought in shows of TNA that were carried out in the month of December in Mexico City and Monterrey.

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Villano V

Luchador Villano V (Villano Quinto, "Fifth Villain"), was born Raymundo Díaz Mendoza Jr on March 22, 1962 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Villano V is the son of Ray Mendoza, the brother of Los Villanos (Villano I, Villano II, Villano III (Arturo Díaz Mendoza), and Villano IV) and the brother in law of luchadora La Infernal.
He was trained by his father Ray Mendoza and his brother Villano I and made his lucha libre debut in May of 1976 at Arena Naucalpan in Naucalpan, Mexico State.
Villano V worked for many wrestling promotions in Mexico including Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), Grupo Internacional Revolucion (IWRG), World Wrestling Association (WWA), Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).
If you are a long time wrestling fan, you may recognize Villano V from his time he spent working for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the 1990s.
On March 20th, 2009, he lost his mask to Ultimo Guerrero in a match at Arena México in Mexico City.
Since losing his mask Villano V often uses the the Rey Mendoza, Jr. in honor of his father who passed away in 2003.

Villano IV

Wrestlers Name Villano IV (Villano Cuarto)
Nicknames La Pantera Rosa (The Pink Panther)
Name history Leopardo Negro [II] (debut - 83), Villano IV (83 - ), Ray Mendoza Jr. (WCW, 1996), Tony Peña (WCW, 1996)
Family Ray Mendoza (father), Villanos I, II, III, V (brothers), La Infernal (sister-in-law)
Trained by: Ray Mendoza, Villano I
Birth date December 19, 1969 in Tijuana, Mexico
Pro Wrestling Debut 1979 - Arena Naucalpan - Naucalpan, Mexico State
Height 5'8"/172 cms
Weight 209 lbs/95 kg
Signature Wrestling moves Hucararrana, Diamond Cutter, DDT, Senton, Octopus Hold
Titles: Yucatán Welterweight Title, Yucatán Middleweight Title, Naucalpan Welterweight Title, Naucalpan Middleweight Title, WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title, Universal/FULL UWF Super Middleweight Title, UWA World Trios Titles (4, with Villanos I & V), National Atomicos Titles (with Pierroth Jr. & Villanos III & V), AAA Americas Trios Titles (with Villanos III & V), UWA World Tag Team Titles (with Villano V), WWA World Tag Team Titles (with Villano V), IWRG Trios Titles (with Villanos III & V), IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Title, Arena Aztahuacan Tag Team Titles (with Villano V)

Villano IV is a Mexican professional wrestler. Within the stable Los Villanos, he wrestled for Universal Wrestling Association, Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, and World Championship Wrestling. While more popular in the south, he frequently performed as a jobber in WCW, usually appearing on shows like WCW Saturday Night.

He played the role of a heel and would occasionally tag team with a fellow Villano, with whom he could cheat by switching places while the referee was distracted (all Villanos wore identical attire, aside from their Roman numeral distinctions). However, while working for WCW, Villano IV was severely injured by a botched move, by Kanyon and Raven, that would become known as the "Villano breaker."

The other sons of Ray Mendoza who have used the name "Villano" include Villano I, Villano II, Villano III (Arturo Díaz Mendoza), and Villano V.


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Villano III

Wrestler Name Villano III (Villano Tercero)
Real name Arturo Díaz Mendoza
Nicknames El Rey Arturo (King Arthur), La Pantera Rosa (The Pink Panther)
Name history Ray Rosas (debut), Pulpo Blanco, Mancha Roja, Búfalo Salvaje, Rokambole (?? - 01/73), Villano III (01/73 - )
Family Ray Mendoza (father), Villanos I, II, IV, V (brothers), La Infernal (wife)
Trained by: Felipe Ham Lee, Ray Mendoza
Born: March 23, 1952 - Mexico City
Pro Wrestling Debut January 29, 1970 - Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State
Lost mask to Atlantis - March 17, 2000 - Arena México
Height 5'7"/170 cms
Weight 211 lbs/96 kg
Signature wrestling moves DDT, Legdrop, Media Cerrajera, Senton
Titles: UWA World Welterweight Title, UWA World Light Heayvweight Title (2), WWF World Light Heavyweight Title (7), UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title, WWC Puerto Rican Title (2), CMLL World Light Heavyweight Title, National Trios Titles (with Villano V & Dos Caras), National Atomicos Titles (withVillanos IV & V & Pierroth Jr.), AAA Americas Trios Titles (with Villanos IV & V), IWRG Trios Titles (with Villanos IV & V)

Arturo Díaz Mendoza is a Mexican professional wrestler best known for performing under the stage name Villaño III (In Spanish Villano Tercero) where he is most famous for teaming with one or more of his brothers: Villaño I, Villaño II, Villaño IV and Villaño V.

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Villano II

Wrestler Name: Villano II (Villano Segundo)
Real name: José Alfredo Díaz Mendoza
Name history: Bestia Negra II (debut - ??), Búfalo Salvaje II (1969), Villano II (late 70/early 71 - death)
Family: Ray Mendoza (father), Villano I, III, IV, V (brothers), La Infernal (sister-in-law)
Trained by: Bobby Bonales, Ray Mendoza
Born in Mexico City
Died: April 17, 1989
Pro Wrestling Debut: Early 1969 - Mexico City
Titles held : Arena Coliseo Tag Team Wrestling Titles (with Villano I)

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Villano I

Wrestler Name Villano I (Villano Primero)
Real name José de Jesús Díaz Mendoza
Nicknames La Pantera Rosa (The Pink Panther)
Name history Bestia Negra I (debut - ??), Búfalo Salvaje I (1969), Toro Bill, El Villano, Villano I (late 70/early 71 - death)
Family Ray Mendoza (father), Villano II, III, IV, V (brothers), La Infernal (sister-in-law)
Trained by: Bobby Bonales, Ray Mendoza
Born June 28, 1950 - Mexico City
Obituary date January 4, 2001
Pro Wrestling Debut Early 1969 - Mexico City
Titles: Distrito Federal Heavyweight Wrestling Title, Arena Coliseo Tag Team Wrestling Titles (with Villano II), UWA World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Title, UWA World Trios Title (4, with Villanos IV & V)

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Rolando Vera - Luchador

Rolando Hernández Verástegui, better known as Rolando Vera, was a Mexican professional wrestler and wrestling trainer from Monterrey.

Vera was born on February 1, 1915, in Monterrey, Nuevo León.

Vera was the first local star in Nuevo León. He got his training in wrestling in Tampico, Tamaulipas, while working in a petroleum plant.

During his rookie year, he was a recognizable face among the other local wrestlers, since he had been an amateur wrestler before becoming a professional. Vera has a legendary reputation as a tough wrestler, but he was not always a master of submission. Vera traveled to the United States where he learned the art of holds from a Turkish man named Joe Stanley.

Also, Vera had a four-year reign as NWA World Middleweight Champion at a time when that belt was the greatest prize worldwide in lucha libre. He won the belt from El Santo on October 19, 1956 in his home town of Monterrey, and lost it there on October 13, 1960 to his student René Guajardo.

He also wrestled in Germany, Cuba, France, England and the United States. Nevertheless, many consider the most important part of his career to be the time he spent as a trainer. He left as his legacy many great wrestlers, such as Blue Demon, René Guajardo, Mr. Lince, and Benny Morgan. He was a great técnico, an innovative wrestler (he created moves such as the Reinera and the Regiomontana). He died on March 29, 2001 at 11:30 pm after a heart attack while he slept in his home in Colonia Cumbres ('Colony Summits') in Monterrey. This created a great commotion in Monterrey, where he is considered a legend as big as El Santo and Blue Demon.

El Texano

Juan Aguilar (November 26, 1958 - January 15, 2006), better known by his ring name El Texano, was a Mexican professional wrestler. From the early 1970s to the early 2000s, he wrestled under masked and unmasked monikers for various promotions including Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

Aguilar is perhaps best known as part of a lucha libre trio known as Los Misioneros de la Muerte (Missionaries of Death). Comprised of El Signo, Negro Navarro, and himself as El Texano, a cowboy themed gimmick (professional wrestling)character]], the groundbreaking team performed together throughout the 1980s and eventually broke the trio style into main event status.

Later on that decade, Texano was paired up with César González, better known as Silver King, to create Los Cowboys (The Cowboys). The duo became Mexico's premiere tag team, feuding with Los Villanos, among others, and achieving UWA and WWA World Tag Team title reigns.

Los Cowboys later worked for the Universal Group in Japan, where they feuded with the likes of the Brasos, the Villanos, El Gran Hamada & Perro Aguayo, and Santo Jr. & Kendo.

Performing as Silver King II, Aguilar again teamed with González at WCW's Clash of the Champions XIX, fighting a losing effort to the Fabulous Freebirds. The following year, the team entered CMLL where they won tag team gold again.

Throughout much of 2005, Aguilar had been in poor health and complained of difficulty breathing, indigestion, and overall malaise. On November 10 that year, he was hospitalized in the Intensive Care wing at Hospital Obregon. He'd reportedly put on substantial weight and was adamant about "not using steroids or any junk."

Finally, on the evening of January 15, 2006, Aguilar was rushed to the hospital in Guadalajara, Mexico for emergency surgery. At the age of 47, he was pronounced dead upon arrival due to lung and respiratory failure.


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El Terrible

Damián Gutiérrez Hernández is a Mexican professional wrestler currently performing for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre under the ring name Damián el Terrible or simply El Terrible.

Gutiérrez began wrestling in his native Monterrey and elsewhere for smaller independent promotions under a mask as El Engendro del Mal (The Bad Boy). In 2002, he debuted in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre without a mask as Damián El Terrible but later the "Damián" part of his name was dropped, possibly to alleviate any confusion with Damián 666. He was part of Shocker's first "University of 1000% Guapos," a group of undercarders competing for a spot in Shocker's Los Guapos group. El Terrible was chosen to be the third of the trio with Shocker and Máscara Mágica and the group feuded with Los Talibanes (Emilio Charles, Jr., Bestia Salvaje & Scorpio, Jr.), who were previously known as "Los Guapos." The two groups faced off in a cage match in August 2003 where Terrible and Bestia Salvaje were the last two left in the cage. Terrible pinned Salvaje, meaning Salvaje would have his head shaved. Over the winter, Los Guapos started feuding with Los Capos leading to Terrible teaming with Perro Aguayo, Jr. against Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000 on CMLL's big March show in 2004 in a double hair vs hair match. Terrible and Aguayo won but Terrible started breaking off from Los Guapos.

He fully turned rudo (heel) and feuded with Máscara Mágica, taking his hair the following month in a main event match in Arena México. The natural feud with Shocker never really took off as expected and Terrible ended up joining Perro Aguayo's La Furia del Norte group. He formed a trio with Héctor Garza and Tarzan Boy that won the CMLL World Trios Championship by defeating titleholders Canek, Black Warrior and Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. in November. Terrible joined Aguayo's new Los Perros del Mal group in early 2005 but suffered an orbital fracture while wrestling in Puerto Rico for the World Wrestling Council. He returned in September and immediately became involved in Los Perros' feud with Los Guerreros del Infierno.

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Tarzan Boy (Toscano)

Tarzan Boy (or Toscano) was born Oziel Toscano Jasso on December 20th, 1973 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
He is a Mexican professional wrestler who has worked for Mexican wrestling promotions like Promo Azteca, IWRG and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

Besides Tarzan Boy, he has wrestled under the names Baby Toscano, Zorro, Armando Fernandez, Toscano and Tarzan Toscano.

Tarzan Boy was trained as a "técnico" (face) by Blue Fish and he made his lucha libre debut on November 27th, 1993 in Monterrey under the name Baby Toscano.
He was turned rudo (heel) and joined luchadores Rey Bucanero and Último Guerrero to form the stable Los Guerreros del Infierno.
Los Guerreros del Infierno feuded with another stable Los Nuevos Infernales (Satánico, Averno, and Mephisto), which Bucanero and Ultimo had recently abandoned.

Tarzan feuded with Satánico, while Bucanero and Último feuded with Averno and Mephisto.
The rudo turn proved to be a great move for Tarzan Boy, because he was finally accepted as a headliner and the fans took to his heel turn (since they had already been booing him as a face).
Tarzan later went on to join other stables like La Furia del Norte with Héctor Garza, Perro Aguayo, Jr., and El Terrible; Los Perros del Mal with Perro Aguayo, Jr., Héctor Garza and Legion Extranjera with Pierroth and Vampiro Canadiense.

During his career, Tarzan has been wildly successful in Luchas de Apuestas wrestling matches, winning fourteen matches in a row before finally losing to Shocker in 2003 at the Arena México.
Among the luchadors that have lost their hair (or masks) to him are Satanico (twice), Angel O Demonio, Pirata Morgan and Negro Casas.
Besides the Mexican wrestling promotions, Tarzan also worked for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as Armando Fernandez in 1998 and 1999 on their Lucha libre focused WWF Super Astros television program.

Tarzan Boy has held the World Wrestling Organization (WWO) World Tag Team Titles (with Zorro), the NWA World Light Heavyweight Title, the CMLL World Trios Titles (once with Héctor Garza and El Terrible and once with Ultimo Guerrero and Atlantis), and he was the Second Annual Leyenda de Azul Champion.

Super Crazy

Francisco Pantoja Islas (born December 3, 1973) is a Mexican professional wrestler best known by his ring name Super Crazy. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment and performing on the RAW brand.

Super Crazy was a mainstay on the Mexican independent circuit for years, before signing with the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración promotion in 1995. Between 1996 and 1997, he wrestled as Histeria I alongside Maniaco (Perro Silva), Mosco de la Merced I (Pierroth Jr. II) and Mach 1 (Felinito and Punch Power) as part of the Rudos de la Galaxia stable, which also had a short run in WWF during the Spring of 1997 with matches on RAW is WAR and Shotgun.

In September 1997, he left his Histeria gimmick to a mid-carder known as Quarterback and moved to the Promo Azteca promotion where booker Konnan made him the focus of the Cruiserweight Division. While there, Super Crazy had a legendary feud with Venum Black, which culminated in a mask vs hair match, which Crazy won.

Super Crazy was picked up by Paul Heyman after displaying excellent physical abilities. He was signed in 1998 and had many matches with other smaller wrestlers in ECW, such as Yoshihiro Tajiri and Little Guido Maritato. His Mexican Death Match with Tajiri was voted ECW Match of the Year for 1999 by Pro Wrestling Illustrated.

Crazy won the ECW Television Championship at Living Dangerously 2000. The title had been vacated by Rob Van Dam due to injury, and a tournament was held to crown a new champion. After defeating Little Guido in the semi-finals earlier in the night, Super Crazy went on to defeat Rhino in the tournament final. Crazy lost the title a month later to Yoshihiro Tajiri.

After ECW folded, Super Crazy wrestled for different promotions like Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, Xtreme Pro Wrestling, as well as International Wrestling Association.

At Ring of Honor's debut show, The Era of Honor Begins on February 23, 2002, Crazy defeated Eddie Guerrero to become the inaugural IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion. He was defeated for the title on April 6 by Andy Anderson. Crazy regained the title on April 13 when Anderson forfeited it due to injury. Crazy lost the title once more on April 20, when he was defeated by Anarchy.

Crazy also appeared on the March 5, 2003 edition of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's weekly PPV's as one of Konnan's authentic luchador challengers, where he lost to Jerry Lynn.



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Sugi Sito

Sugi Sito (born Francisco Javier Mar Hernández) is a Mexican professional wrestler. He was born in León, Guanajuato to a Mexican father and Chinese mother.

In November 1949, Sugi Sito defeated Jacobo Macías on an Arena Mexico card. Sito then left Mexico and gained a measure of great success wrestling in Houston. Danny McShain suffered a skull fracture during one of his matches against Sugi Sito due to Sito's stiff strikes to the head.

In the early 1970s, Sugi Sito and Chin Lee worked for Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling as a tag team. Sugi Sito later returned to Mexico where he became a promoter.

Sugi Sito was part of a large lucha libre family. His three brothers (Huroki Sito, Panchito Robles and Manuel Robles) were all luchadores, as with his son-in-law (El Mexicano), nephews (Black Cat, El Jabato and Pánico) and even his daughter La Briosa.

Lucha Libre Legend, Santo, part 4

Santo wound up appearing in a total of 52 films in all, two of which were just cameo appearances. The style of the movies was essentially the same throughout the series, with Santo as a superhero fighting supernatural creatures, evil scientists, various criminals/ secret agents and so on. The tones were reminiscent of U.S. B-movies and TV shows, perhaps most similar to the old Republic Pictures serials of the 1940s.

His best-known movie outside of Mexico is also considered one of his best, 1962s Santo vs. las Mujeres Vampiro (Santo vs. the Vampire Women), which was also featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. In this movie, the production values were better, and there was an attempt at creating more a mythos and background for Santo, as the last of a long line of fighters against evil. It was an enormous success at the box office, and was one of the 4 Santo films ever to be dubbed in English.

 Some of these English films were imported to the United States through the efforts of K. Gordon Murray who changed the name of Santo to Samson for some of his releases. Santo's most financially successful film however was "The Mummies of Guanajuato" (1970), which co-starred Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras. Many Mexi-movie fans consider it to be the greatest Mexican wrestling film ever made.

The Santo film series inspired the production of similar series of movies starring other well-known Mexi-wrestlers such as Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Superzan and the Wrestling Women, among others. Santo even co-starred with Blue Demon & Mil Mascaras in several of his movies. When Blue Demon invited Santo to co-star with him and Mil Mascaras in the "Champions of Justice" movie trilogy, however, Santo was just too busy making other films to participate.

By 1977, the masked wrestler film craze had practically died off, but Santo continued to appear in more films over the next few years. His last film was "FURY OF THE KARATE EXPERTS", shot in Florida in 1982, the same year he retired from the ring. Santo officially retired from wrestling on Sept. 12, 1982 (a week before his 65th birthday). His last match was at the El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos in Mexico. All told, his professional wrestling career spanned a total of 48 years.

Santo appeared as a guest on Contrapunto, a Mexican television program and, completely without warning, removed his mask just enough to expose his face. It is the only documented case of Santo ever removing his mask in public. Santo died from a heart attack on Feb. 5, 1984, at 9:40 p.m. (about a week after his Contrapunto TV appearance). He was 66 years old. As per his wishes, he was buried wearing his famous silver mask.

Santo is immortalized in the rockabilly band Southern Culture on the Skids' 1996 album Santo Swings!/Viva el Santo. Santo is often resurrected in Southern Culture's live performances when an audience member jumps onstage donning Santo's mask.




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Lucha Libre Legend, Santo, part 3

In 1952, the artist and editor José G. Cruz started a Santo comic book, turning Santo into the first and foremost character in Mexican popular literature, his popularity only rivalled by the legendary Kalimán character. The Santo comic book series (4 different volumes) ran continuously for 35 years, only ending in 1987.

That same year, a superhero motion picture serial was made entitled "The Man in the Silver Mask", which was supposed to star el Santo, but he declined to appear in it, because he thought it would fail commercially. The film was made instead with well-known luchador El Medico Asesino in the lead role, wearing a white mask similar to Santo's silver one. A villain named "The Silver-Masked Man" was introduced into the plot at the last minute, thus the title of the film strangely became a reference to the villain, not the hero.

In 1958, Fernando Osés, a wrestler and actor, invited Santo to work in movies, and although Santo was unwilling to give up his wrestling career, he accepted, planning to do both at the same time. Oses was planning on playing the hero in these films, with Santo appearing as his costumed sidekick. Fernando Osés and Enrique Zambrano wrote the scripts for the first two movies, el Cerebro del Mal (The Evil Brain) and Hombres Infernales (The Infernal Men), both released in 1958, and directed by Joselito Rodríguez. Filming was done in Cuba, and ended just the day before Fidel Castro entered Havana and declared the victory of the revolution. Santo played a masked superhero-type sidekick to the main hero (who was called El Incognito) in these two films, and was not the main character (nor was he depicted as a wrestler in these 2 films). The films did poorly at the box office when they were released, and deservedly so as the films were extremely low budget and not very interesting. Years later however, when Santo's film career took off, the distributors of these two films quietly added Santo's name into the titles. Most people feel Santo's film career really took off in 1961, with his third movie "Santo Vs The Zombies." Santo was given the starring role with this film, and was shown for the first time as a professional wrestler moonlighting as a superhero.


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Lucha Libre Legend, Santo, part 2

In the early 1940s, Guzmán married María de los Ángeles Rodríguez Montaño (Maruca), a union that would produce 10 children; their names were Alejandro, María de los Ángeles, Héctor Rodolfo, Blanca Lilia, Víctor Manuel, Miguel Ángel, Silvia Yolanda, María de Lourdes, Mercedes, and the youngest child Jorge, who also became a famous wrestler in his own right, El Hijo del Santo (Son of Santo). One of his grandsons (not a son of Jorge) wrestled under the name El Nieto Del Santo (Grandson of Santo), but after Son of Santo took legal action against him using the name Santo, he changed it to Axxel, but people still refer to him as Nieto del Santo.

In 1942, Rodolfo's manager, Don Jesús Lomelí, was putting together a new team of wrestlers, all dressed in silver, and wanted Rodolfo to be a part of it. He suggested three names, El Santo (The Saint), El Diablo (The Devil), or El Angel (The Angel), and Rodolfo chose the first one. On the 26th of June at the age of 25, he wrestled at the Arena Mexico for the first time as El Santo. Under this new name he quickly found his style, and his agility and versatility made him very popular.

One of Santo's greatest matches was in 1952, when he fought a tag-team known as Los Hermanos Shadow (which consisted of famed luchadors Blue Demon and the Black Shadow). Santo beat and unmasked The Black Shadow in the ring, which triggered Blue Demon's decision to become a técnico, as well as a legendary feud between The Blue Demon and Santo that culminated in Blue's beating Santo in a well-publicized series of matches in 1952 and again in 1953. Their rivalry never really ended in later years, although they appeared together in a number of action/adventure films, since Santo always remembered his defeat at the Blue Demon's hands.


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Lucha Libre Legend, Santo, part 1

Santo and Blue Demon, How cool are they?

Santo is the professional name of Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (September 23, 1917 - February 5, 1984), more widely known as Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata ("Santo, the Silver-Masked Man" in English) who was a Mexican wrestler, film actor, and folk hero.

El Santo, along with Blue Demon & Mil Mascaras, is perhaps the most famous and iconic of all Mexican luchadores, or free wrestlers, and has been referred to as "the greatest legend in Mexican sports". His wrestling career spanned nearly five decades, during which he became a folk hero and a symbol of justice for the common man through his appearances in comic books and movies. He and Blue Demon are said to have popularized professional wrestling in Mexico just as Rikidozan did in Japan and Hulk Hogan did in the United States.

Born in Tulancingo in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, to Jesús Guzmán Campuzano and Josefina Huerta (Márquez) de Guzmán as the fifth of seven children, Rodolfo came to Mexico City in the 1920s, where his family settled in the Tepito neighbourhood. He practiced baseball and American football, and then became interested in wrestling. He learned Ju-Jitsu, then classical wrestling, and although accounts vary as to exactly when and where he first wrestled competitively, either in Arena Peralvillo Cozumel on the 28th of June 1934, or Deportivo Islas in the Guerrero colony of Mexico City in 1935, but by the second half of the 1930s, he was established as a wrestler, using the names Rudy Guzmán, El Hombre Rojo (the Red Man), El Demonio Negro (The Black Demon) and El Murcielago II (The Bat II). The last name was a rip-off of the name of a famous wrestler Jesus Velazquez named "El Murcielago" (The Bat), and after an appeal by the Bat to the Mexican boxing and wrestling commission, the regulatory body ruled that Guzmán could not use the name.


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Sangre Chicana

Sangre Chicana (Spanish for Chicano Blood) is the ring name of Mexican professional wrestler Andrés Durán Reyes. Born November 30, 1951 in Paredón, Coahuila, he currently works for the Mexican promotion Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración (AAA).

Reyes made his professional debut in 1973 wearing a red mask with a gold stripe (Antifaz) and calling himself Lemus. A year later, still wearing the same mask, he decided to change names and became Sangre Chicana. He first gained fame in an infamous triple threat mask vs. mask match, against El Cobarde and Fishman. As the rookie, Chicana lost his mask that night, but rose to fame after unmasking other wrestlers and winning numerous championships. Also, he was one of the very few to work for both Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) (now known as Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)) and Francisco Flores' promotion Toreo Cuatro Caminos Independants. In the following years the Chicana family grew as "Lemus I" debuted in the 1980s as well as "Lemus II" in the 1990s. In the year 2000, both "Lemus Jr" and "Sangre Chicana Jr" made their pro wrestling debut.


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Wolf Rubinsky - Latvian Luchador

Wolf Rubinsky (also known as Wolf Ruvinskis) was born on October 30th, 1921 in Riga, Latvia, a pretty good distance from Mexico. Wolf was an actor and luchador. He was married to Beatriz Perez, the dancer Armida Herrera and to actress Lilia Michel.

Born to Jewish parents, they relocated to Argentina during World War II.
In spite of living in extreme poverty he excelled in sports and as a professional wrestler he toured South America, the United States and Mexico.
This last country became his place of residence where he stayed in the ring well into the 1960s, wrestling El Santo, Black Shadow, El Médico Asesino and Lobo Negro.
As a wrestler he was introduced to Mexican film playing luchadores, in particular the masked Neutrón a character he created.
Neutron appeared in five films.
One of his most memorable roles was in La bestia magnífica ("The Magnificent Beast") in 1953.
He also appeared in well over 100 films during his career.
Wolf was so good that he won the Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Film for Best supporting actor in the film Juego limpio (1996).
And he also appeared on the American TV show, I Spy (with Robert Culp and Bill Cosby) in the episode "Shana" as Andreyev.



You can watch Neutrón el Enmascarado Negro (1960) in in entirety on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t69HCjwHXZo

Mexico's El Hijo del Santo fights outside the ring

Mexico's El Hijo del Santo fights outside the ring
By Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 14, 2007

MEXICO CITY -- During his long, sweaty career as a lucha libre wrestler and occasional B movie actor, El Hijo del Santo has grappled with borderland outlaws, green-faced vampire assassins and such fearsome adversaries as Negro Casas and Heavy Metal.

Now he's battling opponents that are as hazardous and hard to pin down as any foe he has faced in the ring, including environmental radiation, child poverty and a system that he believes neglects the needs of many of his fellow stretchy-panted warriors.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-wrestler14aug14,1,5218995.story?ctrack=1&cset=true


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Rey Bucanero

Arturo García Ortiz is a Mexican professional wrestler currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre under the ring name Rey Bucanero (Spanish for "Buccaneer king").

After being trained by his uncles and spending several years working undercards for independents and undercards for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, he got his first push in late 1996 after winning the Gran Alternativa tournament with Emilio Charles, Jr. In March 1997, he won the CMLL World Trios Championship with Satánico and Emilio Charles but the group were transitional champions to take the Trios championship off the Héctor Garza, who was preparing to leave the promotion. The push quickly cooled down and Bucanero began work on World Wrestling Federation's short lived Telemundo project, Los Super Astros, without his mask and under the name "Rey 'Pirata' Ortiz."

He returned to CMLL in 1999 and feuded extensively with Olímpico and the build up pointed to a mask vs. mask match between the two. However, Bucanero teamed with Shocker, another up and coming rudo (heel), in a "Ruleta de la Muerte" tournament where the losers advance and the final losing team has to fight amongst themselves in a mask vs. mask match. Shocker and Bucanero lost in the last round and Shocker took Bucanero's mask. At this time he also started teaming with Último Guerrero and the duo were recruited by Satánico for his new stable, Los Nuevos Infernales. The team of Bucanero and Guerrero was pushed in 2000 with a tournament win for the vacant CMLL World Tag Team Championship.

In 2001, Guerrero and Bucanero turned on Satánico by costing him a match with Tarzan Boy and the trio of Guerreo, Bucanero and Tarzan starting calling themselves "Los Infernales." Satánico recruited Averno and Mephisto, two undercarders with new gimmicks, for his own Infernales group and the two groups feuded over who could use the name. Injuries kept Bucanero and Tarzan out at times so Máscara Mágica was brought in as an alternate member of the group. Bucanero's group lost a seven man cage match and they settled on the name Los Guerreros del Infierno. They spent the rest of the year feuding with Negro Casas and El Hijo del Santo over the CMLL World Tag Team Championship. After a match with an inconclusive finish in October, Los Guerreros lost to Santo and Casas on November 2.

In 2002, Guerrero and Bucanero regained their tag team titles from Santo and Casas in May. The team successfully defended their titles against Damián 666 and Halloween of La Familia de Tijuana in July. Los Guerreros spent the rest of the year feuding with Vampiro Canadiense and Shocker. Los Guerreros successfully defended their tag team titles against the duo but Bucanero lost his hair to Vampiro in a singles hair vs. hair match in December to close out the year. In 2003, they defended their titles successfully against Vampiro & Lizmark, Jr. and Negro Casas & Perro Aguayo, Jr. but were defeated in December by the team of Shocker and the newly arrived L.A. Park.

Los Guerreros regained their tag team titles in early 2004 but Bucanero suffered a knee injury and was temporarily replaced by Black Warrior. Los Guerreros lost the tag titles to Atlantis and Blue Panther on June 25. Bucanero and new Guerreros member Olímpico challenged Atlantis and Panther for the tag team titles on the first Arena México show of 2005 but they lost and Olímpico injured his neck while attempting a dive. He teamed with Guerrero in a feud with newcomer Místico and recently turned Dr. Wagner, Jr. early in the year, losing a main event tag match on March 11. In September, Bucanero and Olímpico teamed up again to unsuccessfully challenge the visiting Hiroshi Tanahashi and Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP World Tag Team Championship. After Atlantis turned heel and Los Guerreros became known as Los Guerreros del Atlántida, it was teased that Bucanero would break up with Guerrero but Bucanero stayed and Los Guerreros feuded with Perro Aguayo, Jr.'s Los Perros del Mal faction into 2006. At the end of April, he teamed with Tarzan Boy to win a double hair vs. hair match against Mr. Águila and Damián 666 in the main event of an Arena México show.

The following week, he teamed with Atlantis against Último Dragón and Keiji Mutoh but his team lost after Atlantis hit him by accident. For the following weeks, Bucanero kept having trouble with his teammates and magazines hinted at a possible face turn. Later that month, Averno and Mephisto turned on him during an Arena México match. Shortly afterwards, Tarzan Boy and Guerrero turned on him as well, ripping his tights, signifying he was no longer a member of Los Guerreros. On July 14, he defeated Guerrero for his CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship, ending Guerrero's three and a half year title reign. Actually, he is teaming with Dos Caras jr. and Hijo de Lizmark as a tecnico; he has a notorious feud with Kenzo Suzuki and Ultimo Guerrero.

Outside of Lucha Libre, he has also worked in Japan for New Japan Pro Wrestling, Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling, Toryumon and Dragondoor.

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Rito Romero

Name Rito Romero
Real name Rito Romero Loza
Nicknames Rayo Mexicano
Name history Fideo Romero (debut - ??), Rito Romero (?? - death)
Family Pablo Romero (brother), Kiko Van Dick (father-in-law)
Trained by: Diablo Velazco
Born: March 19, 1927 - Tepatitlán, Jalisco
Died: January 18th 2001
Pro Wrestling Debut 1942 - Arena Nilo - Guadalajara, Jalisco
Signature wrestling moves: Romero Special/La Tapatia
Titles: Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title, NWA Texas Heavyweight Title (3), NWA Texas Junior Heavyweight Title (2), NWA Texas Tag Team Titles (8, with Black Guzmán three times, with Carlos Moreno, with Sugi Sito, with George Drake, with Pepe Mendieta, with Pepper Gomez)

Rito Romero Loza was a successful luchador who wrestled in Mexico and in the NWA territories of Texas and Los Angeles. In common with a number of luchadors, he appeared in several films in his native country. He is perhaps best remembered for his innovation of the Romero Special submission manoeuver, also known as the Surfboard.

Romero was trained as a luchador by Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame member Diablo Velasco, a man also responsible for the training of Mil Máscaras and Gory Guerrero. His early career was spent in Mexico, making his debut in Guadalajara at aged just 15, having been in training for the previous 3 years.

He began finding title success upon becoming a regular in NWA Texas (which would become World Class Championship Wrestling. With tag-team partner Miguel "Black" Guzmán (brother of El Santo) he would win the NWA Texas Tag Team titles 3 times, winning the same belts a further 5 times with different partners. He would also co-hold the NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version) twice (the belts being recognised as World Championships by WCCW and Dory Funk's Amarillo territory. As a singles competitor he had the distinction of being the inaugural NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Champion of the Los Angeles territory in 1953 as well as being a two-time NWA Texas Jr. Heavyweight Title back in the region in which he remained a perennial star. In between his first title reign in 1949 and his retirement there was only one year (1960) during which Rito Romero did not enjoy at least some time with a championship.

During his career he became friends with the legendary Lou Thesz (against whom he had his biggest match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at a time when he was NWA Texas Heavyweight Champion) and travelled Europe with him. Thesz esteemed Romero so highly as to rate him as a better performer than his contemporaries El Canek and Gory Guerrero.

Romero was married to Yolanda and had 4 children: Diana, Sandy, Yolanda Verónica and Rito Alberto, none of whom became involved in professional wrestling.

Rito Romero suffered a fatal heart attack on January 18th 2001. He had gone into hospital in his hometown of Guadalajara on the 16th with high blood-sugar levels where it was discovered he was suffering from appendicitis. Bored of being in hospital he decided to check himself out on the 18th. While remonstrating with the hospital workers who were trying to make him return to his bed he collapsed.

http://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Rito_Romero

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Halloween: Manuel Ortiz Partida

Name Halloween
Real name Manuel Ortiz Partida
Nicknames La Calabacita (The Little Pumpkin)
Name history Rocky Boy (debut - 08/93), Halloween (08/93 - ), Ciclope/Cyclope (03/97 - 99), Elvis González (a "brilliant" WCW idea, 12/04/98)
Trained by: Fobia, Rey Misterio
Birth date May 22, 1971 - Tijuana, Baja California
Wrestling Debut 1990 - Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California
Lost mask to Super Parka - December 24, 1999 - Auditorio de Tijuana; Antifaz - 1999 (as Ciclope)
Height 5'9"/174 cms
Weight 207 lbs/94 kg
Signature moves La Calabaza, Michinoku Driver II, Power Bomb, Spear, F-5, Double Underhook Piledriver, various other WWE finishers
Titles: AAA Baja California Light Heavyweight Title, LAWA World Middleweight Title, WWO Tag Team Titles (w/ Damian 666), WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title, IWC Middleweight Title, WWEA Extreme Title, XLAW Tag Team Titles (w/ Damian 666) (2), National Trios Titles (w/Damian 666 & Mr. Aguila and w/ Damian 666 & Nicho), Revolution Pro Tag Team Titles (w/ Damian 666), NGX Tag Team Championship (w/ Damian 666), XPW Tag Team Championships (2) (w/ Damian 666)

Manuel Ortiz Partida is a professional wrestler who is currently wrestling the Independent Circuit in Mexico, particularly in the Tijuana area. He is better known by his stage name Halloween.

Manuel Ortiz Partida, debut in the pro's in 1990, spent his time in the Independent Circuit. He wrestled as "Halloween" for most of his career but switched to "Ciclope" in 1996 when he went to World Championship Wrestling. Ciclope was neglected in WCW, even compared to other luchadors. His biggest moment in wrestling was part of the feud between Chris Jericho and Dean Malenko. Malenko, who had been inactive for a few months prior, dressed up as Ciclope to win a Cruiserweight battle royale to determine the number one contendership to Chris Jericho's Cruiserweight Title. Jericho had been refusing to grant Malenko contendership, making the disguise necessary. All Ciclope got out of the deal was a singles match with Jericho on Nitro, which he lost.

After his time there was over, he lost the Ciclope mask to Antifaz del Norte early in 1999. He quickly reverted back to his Halloween character but lost his mask again on December 24, 1999 in a match against Super Parka. He has wrestled in many United States promotions over the years including for USA Pro Wrestling, FCW and Luchamania. In 2002 he along with La Familia de Tijuana (a group consisting of himself, Damián 666, Nicho el Millionario and Rey Misterio, Sr. although Rey did not come for the tour) came to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in Mexico City. The trio won the National Trios title but Nicho had a falling out with management and La Familia soon left entirely. They continued to work for independent promoters until CMLL called them back in 2005 to wrestle against Negro Casas, Heavy Metal and Felino on a show celebrating Negro's 25 years of wrestling. Perro Aguayo, Jr. recruited him and Damián for his Los Perros del Mal group. However, Halloween suffered a leg injury and his role was minimalized. After Universo 2000 used the illegal martinete on Damián 666, Halloween challenged Universo to a hair vs. hair match on the December 2 show. After losing the match and his hair, Halloween underwent knee surgery that would put him out of action for several months.

http://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Halloween


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Octagon

Wrestlers Name: Octagon
Nicknames El Amo de los Ocho Ángulos (The Master of the Eight Angles)
Name history La Amenaza Elegante (debut - 05/89), Octagon (05/89 - )
Trained by: Raúl Reyes
Birth date March 27, 1961 - Jalapa, Veracruz
Wrestling Debut December 6, 1981 - Arena Azteca - Mexico City
Height 5'8"
Weight 189 lbs
Signature wrestling moves: La Escalera (Russian Legsweep into armbar submission), La Jarocha (spinning over his opponent's back armdrag), Quebradora con Giro (spinning backbreaker)
Titles: National Trios Titles (2, w/ Atlantis & Máscara Sagrada, w/ Rey Misterio Jr. & Super Muñeco), National Middleweight Title (4), IWC/PNW/AAA World Tag Team Titles (w/ El Hijo del Santo), WWA World Heavyweight Title, National Tag Team Titles (w/ La Parka AAA)

Octagón is a Mexican professional wrestler currently working for AAA

He formed a tag team with El Hijo Del Santo to take on Los Gringos Locos (Eddie Guerrero and Art Barr) in a double mask vs hair match during 1994.

He became really famous in Mexico's AAA achieving great fame during the mid-90's.

http://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Octag%C3%B3n

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Negro Casas

Name Negro Casas
Real name José Casas Ruiz
Nicknames "El 4:40"
Name history Negro Casas (debut - )
Family Pepe Casas (father), Felino and Heavy Metal (brothers), Veneno (brother-in-law), Black Star (cousin), Kid Tiger & Puma King (nephews)
Trained by: Pepe Casas, Raúl Reyes, Tony Sugar, Rodolfo Ruiz
Birth date January 10, 1960 - Mexico City
Wrestling Debut March 1979 - Arena Azteca - San Lorenzo Tezonco, Mexico State
Height 5'8"/172 cms
Weight 185 lbs/84 kg
Signature moves La Casita (Magistral Cradle), Scorpion Deathlock, Rikilariato (lariat), La Silla, Running Corner Dropkick, Dropkick to the Knee
Titles: Estado de Guerrero Lightweight Title, Distrito Federal Lightweight Title, UWA World Lightweight Title, UWA World Middleweight Title, WWA World Welterweight Title (2), NWA World Welterweight Title, CMLL World Tag Team Titles (4, with Santo thrice, Mistico), CMLL World Middleweight Title, 3rd Annual Leyenda de Plata Champion

José Casas Ruiz is a Mexican professional wrestler currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre under the ring name Negro Casas. He is the son of wrestler and referee Pepe Casas and brother of Felino and Heavy Metal. He is considered, by his charisma, the Shawn Michaels of lucha libre.

http://luchawiki.com/?title=Negro_Casas


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Luchador - Apolo Dantés

Name Apolo Dantés
Real name José Luis Amezcua Muñoz

Name history Apolo Dantés (debut - )
Family Alfonso Dantés (father), Cesar Dantés/All Star (brother), Septiembre Negro/Vick Amezcua (grand uncle), Al Amezcua (grandfather), Alberto Muñoz/White Man (uncle), Indio Jerónimo (uncle)
Pro Wrestling Training: Alfonso Dantés, Diablo Velazco, Alberto Muñoz
Birth date September 28, 1968 - Guadalajara, Jalisco
Wrestling Debut December 4, 1988 - Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco
Height 5'11"/180 cms
Weight 222 lbs/101 kg
Signature moves Flying Splash, Apollo 13 (Nudo), Northern Lights Suplex
Titles: Occidente Middleweight Title, NWA World Light Heavyweight Title, CMLL World Middleweight Title, CMLL World Heavyweight Title (2)

Jose Munoz, known by his ringname Apolo Dantes, is an Mexican professional wrestler who has been a longtime mainstay of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre throughout the 1990s. The son of Alfonso Dantés, himself a legenday luchadore during the 1960s and 70s, Munoz has toured Japan and often teamed with El Hijo del Santo and Dr. Wagner, Jr. in six-man tag team matches against The Headhunters during the late 1990s. He has also appeared on WWF Super Astros.

As of 2006, Apolo Dantes is mostly inactive as in-ring wrestler. Instead, he's running the weekly Tuesday and Saturday CMLL shows at Arena Coliseo Guadalajara. He'll work the occasional DF show as a member of the Capos or to fill out a rudo side, and the odd Guadalajara area show.


http://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Apolo_Dant%C3%A9s

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Luchador - Místico

Místico (born December 22, 1982) is a Mexican professional wrestler currently working for the lucha libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), and the biggest star of Lucha Libre.

Raised in the notorious Tepito district of Mexico City, he began his career wrestling under his father's name as Dr. Karonte, Jr. at the age of 15. In 2000, he adopted the name of Astro Boy and started getting noticed working undercards for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. In 2004, he was repackaged as "Místico" with a religious gimmick. He debuted in Arena México in June and spent much of the following months teaming with Volador, Jr. and Misterioso II in the second or third matches on the card. He participated in the 6th Annual Leyenda de Plata tournament but his push didn't take off until he won the Gran Alternativa tag team tournament with established star, El Hijo del Santo, claiming "Místico es chévere". Shortly afterwards, the bookers began teaming him with other established técnicos (faces) such as Negro Casas and Shocker against the big rudo (heel) groups, Los Guerreros del Infierno and La Furia del Norte. His stature made him an underdog and his high flying moves such as diving armdrags made him popular with Mexico City crowds.

In 2005, he continued working against Los Guerreros, winning important singles matches against Rey Bucanero, Mephisto and Tarzan Boy in CMLL's secondary arena, Arena Coliseo. He won his first title by defeating Guerreros member Averno for the NWA Middleweight championship on February 11. The match was well received by the audience in attendance and fans near the ring threw money into the ring as a sign of appreciation. Two weeks later, he participated in his first singles main event match when he faced Guerreros leader Último Guerrero in Arena México. He won the fall in two falls after Guerrero was disqualified in the first fall and was pinned in the second with a small package. The match sparked a program with the recently turned Dr. Wagner, Jr. teaming with Místico against Último Guerrero and Rey Bucanero. After that program died down, Místico became involved in a feud with Perro Aguayo, Jr. and his Los Perros del Mal group. After defeating Aguayo in a singles match, the two exchanged hair vs. mask challenges so Místico was added to the already planned eight-man cage match where the last man in the cage lost his hair or mask. Místico joined Negro Casas, Heavy Metal, Universo 2000 and Máscara Mágica against Aguayo's group consisting of Damián 666, Halloween and Héctor Garza leading up to the match but neither Místico or Aguayo were involved in the finish of the match where Damián pinned Máscara Mágica.

In September, he reheated his feud with Último Guerrero with another singles match but in the third fall, he was attacked by Atlantis, turning Atlantis heel. Místico worked a short program with Atlantis but after he defeated Atlantis in a singles match in October, Atlantis focused more on former tag partner Blue Panther.

In 2006, Místico was the biggest star in Mexico. He main evented eighteen events during the year that drew more than ten thousand people. In the early part of the year, he teamed up with Black Warrior in two unsuccessful CMLL Tag Team Championship challenges. In the second one, Black Warrior turned on Místico and the two began a feud. While Black Warrior was wrestling in Japan, Místico and Negro Casas defeated Averno and Mephisto for the CMLL Tag titles on April 14. When Warrior returned, the feud picked up again and Black Warrior handed Místico his first major singles defeat when he pinned him and took his NWA Middleweight Championship on a May 12 Arena México show. On September 29, Místico defeated Black Warrior in a mask vs. mask match in the main event of the CMLL 73rd Anniversary show, his first major mask win.

After winning a singles match versus Averno, he won the right to fight him in a mask vs mask match. No date has been set yet.

On April 10, 2007, Místico defeated Mephisto to capture the CMLL World Welterweight Championship.

Místico was given a tryout for World Wrestling Entertainment on February 27, 2007 at the ECW/Smackdown! tapings in San Jose, CA, wrestling Jamie Noble in a dark match. Místico was thought to be in contract negotiations with the WWE but negotiations could not take place when he admitted to John Laurinaitis that he still has a CMLL contract, however those close to Místico believe he would be able to get out of his contract and still join WWE. There are concerns with his working visa, not being able to speak English, and being unfamiliar with the WWE ring style.

WWE is once again considering to sign Místico after Rey Mysterio expressed that Místico is a great wrestler.

That bothers me, because I would hate to see a man thats shaping up to become a Lucha Libre legend, ruined by Vince McMahon.


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Mil Mascaras Films

Mil Mascaras has made 17 movies and actually has one now in production called "Wrestling Women vs. the Brainiac"
You can see a trailer of it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wo7pcALu84
Now this is just a college film, but I wonder what kinda strings he had to pull to get Mil in it? And it is Mil, his movements are unmistakable.



Mil's first movie was Los Canallas back in 1966 ( Batman!)
His next movie was Mil Máscaras in 1969. It was followed by Las Vampiras released the same year, as was Enigma de muerte. Enigma co-stared the legendary John Carradine as a mad scientist.


Then came Los Campeones Justicieros, with Mil, Blue Demon,La Sombra Vengadora,Tinieblas and El Médico Asesino! Kind of a Super Friends of Lucha Libre.


Las Momias de Guanajuato was released in 1972 and starred Mil, Blue Demon and SANTO! Okay, Santo is kind of a last minute addition, but he does show up.


El Robo de las momias de Guanajuato was also released in 1972, as was Vuelven los campeones justicieros another Lucha Super Friend movie with Mil, Blue Demon,El Rayo de Jalisco,El Fantasma Blanco and El Avispon Escarlata.

Una Rosa sobre el ring and Las Bestias del terror came out in 1973.

Leyendas macabras de la colonia was released in 1974 as was Los Vampiros de Coyoacán ( in which Mascaras and Superzan wrestle a mob of vampire dwarves!)

Las Momias de San Ángel and El Poder negro were both released in 1975.


Misterio en las Bermudas.1977 starred Santo, Mil and the Blue Demon. The infamous " Unmasking at the border crossing" happened when filming this movie. The idea of three luchadores riding across country with their masks on still trips me out! The story goes that they were stopped at the border and the guard asked them to unmask. Mil and Demon did it, but Santo refused until Mil and Demon averted their eyes and only the guard saw Santo's true face.
The man was hardcore!


El Hijo de Santo en frontera sin ley was released in 1983, and La Verdad de la lucha was released in 1990.

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Luchador - Rey Misterio, Sr

Ring name(s) Reyman,Rey Misterio,Bull Rider
Nickname: Mystery King
Billed height 1.68 m
Billed weight 217 lb (98 kg)
Born January 8, 1958,Tijuana, Baja California
Trained by: Chamaco Martínez, El Egipcio, El Faraón, Enrique Torres
Wrestling Debut January 6, 1976

Miguel Ángel López Díaz (born January 8, 1958), better known by his ring name Rey Misterio, Sr., is a famous Mexican Lucha Libre professional wrestler.
On March 25, 1988, Rey Misterio Sr. lost his mask to Fishman.
He is the uncle of current WWE superstar, Rey Mysterio.
Rey Misterio Sr. is the father of Mexican wrestler El Hijo de Rey Misterio.

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Luchador - Mil Máscaras

Aaron Rodríguez Arellano (born July 15, 1942), best known as Mil Máscaras (meaning "One Thousand Masks" in Spanish), is a Mexican professional wrestler. He was born in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. He is also an actor.

Mil Máscaras made his wrestling debut in April 1965 in Guadalajara.

He made his international debut in 1968 at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, getting involved in great rivalries against the likes of Ernie Ladd, John Tolos, Black Gordman and Goliath. In Mexico City he unmasked El Halcon in a triangular tournament that included Alfonso Dantes in the 1970s, plus he continued wrestling in Japan and had a great feud with The Destroyer. In his Japanese debut on February 19, 1971, Máscaras defeated Kantaro Hoshino in Tokyo under the name Kamen Kizoku, meaning "The Masked Noble". His first movie was Mil Máscaras, released a year after his wrestling debut. Máscaras has been wrestling in lucha libre for many years, for now he is in his early 60s. He was inducted into the Southern California Pro-Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2001.

He wrestled in the 70s for All-Japan were he had his most known international feud with American masked wrestler The Destroyer.

Máscaras also appeared in the World Wrestling Federation, competing in Madison Square Garden several times after a ban on masked wrestlers was lifted, making Mil Mascaras the very first masked wrestler in Madison Square Garden, wrestling were he feuded with Superstar Billy Graham; he also wrestled in World Championship Wrestling, where his most notable match was a match with Cactus Jack at Clash of the Champions X: Texas Shootout on February 6, 1990 in the Memorial Coliseum in Corpus Christi, Texas. His first American Pay-Per-View appearance was competing as one of the 30 entrants in the 1997 Royal Rumble match. He eliminated himself, diving off the top rope out of the ring onto Pierroth, whom he himself had just eliminated. An off-the top rope dive is common in Lucha Libre in Mexico, but it is technically a mistake in the Royal Rumble as it leads to elimination.

An interesting fact is Mil became popular in Mexico for being one of the first wrestlers to have a bodybuilder type body, he competed under the heavyweight division, a division that was dominated by foreigners in Mexico. It was also his size which permitted him to wrestle in the USA and Japan, where he took his lucha moves like top rope plancha and tope suicida to the outside of the ring, making him famous in the USA and Japan (and the lucha style of wrestling) as one of the first high flyers, something he was not considered in Mexico, where he fell under the mat-power wrestler category, compared to the speed and moves of the smaller luchadores (cruiserweights).

He is a controversial figure within the wrestling business, as multiple wrestlers have publically complained of his unwillingness to "sell" moves (make them appear effective when performed on him), and an unwillingness to "put opponents over" (allowing them to win the match, or look good when in the ring with him). One of the most vocal critics was Mick Foley who, in his book "Have a Nice Day!" complained over Mascaras' refusal to sell in a match they had and called him a prima donna.

He is probably the best known Mexican luchador in the world, he is as popular as legends El Santo and Blue Demon in Mexico, El Santo is considered an icon of not only wrestling and cinema but also of popular culture.

Máscaras has two brothers who wrestled, Dos Caras and El Sicodélico. His nephew Dos Caras Jr., is beginning to have a successful career, not only in lucha libre, but also in mixed martial arts fighting, as he was a legitimate Greco-Roman wrestler before turning pro.

His name means Thousand Masks, he almost always enters the ring wearing a different mask, which he removes to reveal his more known design mask. In Japan, he throws the mask he takes off when his name is announced to the public who go crazy trying to get it, something he does not do in Mexico. One of his favorite masks is the "Shark" mask.

Mil Mascaras had feuds also with many Mexican wrestlers, to mention a few, such as TNT, Canek & Angel Blanco. These feuds took place mostly in Mexico and the US, where Mil's matches used to be televised in Los Angeles on Channel 34, an Hispanic channel (now Univision), that used to air wrestling matches from the Olympic Auditorium on Wednesday nights during the 70's.

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Luchador - Ricky Marvin

Ricky Marvin (born Ricardo Fuentes Romero) is a Mexican professional wrestler, best known for his work in the Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling NOAH, where he is one half of the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions with Kotaro Suzuki. He occasionally wrestles as the masked Mushiking Joker, the archenemy of Mushiking Terry, also played by Suzuki.

Kotaro Suzuki and Ricky Marvin are the first Japanese-foreigner (and Japanese-Mexican) combo to win the GHC junior tag team title and the first to win a Japanese tag team title since Kendo Ka Shin and Dr. Wagner Jr.'s IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in 1999. Marvin, however, has never had the name value Wagner has in Mexico.

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Luchador - Casanova

Mario Galvan Jaramillo, best known for his ringname Casanova, is a Mexican professional wrestler who wrestles primarily for the Monterrey-based Federación Internacional de Lucha Libre and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración.

Originally making his debut as Latin Heart, began wrestling under his present ring name after losing to Konan Big in a mask vs. mask match in 2004.
He has often been compared to Latin Lover, a prominent Asistencia Asesoría y Administración luchadore, as his counterpart due to their similar in ring characters as a sex symbol.

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Luchador - Javier Llanes

Name Javier Llanes
Real name Javier Augusto Yañez Corona
Nicknames Gusano (Worm), Gusano de Seda (Silkworm)
Name history Javier Llanes (debut - )
Family Enrique Llanes (father), Gori Guerrero (uncle), Eddy, Mando, Héctor & Chavo Guerrero (cousins)
Pro wrestling training by: Enrique Llanes, Gori Guerrero
Birth date September 6, 1952 - Mexico City
Wrestling Debut August 28, 1973
Signature moves La Cerrajera
Titles: CMLL World Middleweight Title

Javier Llanes is a Hispanic professional wrestler and is the son of Enrique Llanes and nephew of Mario & Sergio Llanes.

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Luchador - Enrique Llanes

Name Enrique Llanes
Real name Enrique Juan Yañez González
Nicknames El Sol de Otumba (Otumba's Sun)
Name history Enrique Llanes (debut - death)
Family Javier Llanes (son), Mario and Sergio Llanes (brothers), Gori Guerrero (brother-in-law), Chavo, Mando, Eddy and Héctor Guerrero (nephews)
Pro wrestling training by: Tarzán López
Birth date August 24, 1919 - Otumba, Mexico State
Obituary date September 18, 2004 - Mexico City
Wrestling Debut June 21, 1942 - Arena México - Mexico City
Signature moves La Cerrajera
Titles:1-time Mexico National Light Heavyweight Champion, 1-time NWA World Middleweight champion

Enrique Juan Yañez González (August 24, 1919 – September 18, 2004) was one of the premier Hispanic professional wrestlers in the early days of Lucha Libre when most wrestlers were imported from outside of Mexico.

Enrique Juan Yañez González was born on August 24th, 1919 in Otumba, a Mexico State municipality with a current population of about 8,000. He was the son of José Yañez López, a telegraphist aligned with the Mexican revolutionists, and María González Moreno, a direct descendant of Pedro Moreno, a famous insurgent of the early 19th century.

Enrique Llanes is the brother-in-law to Gory Guerrero and uncle to Mando Guerrero, Chavo Guerrero, Hector Guerrero and Eddie Guerrero, his brothers Mario & Sergio also wrestled as did his son Javier Llanes.

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