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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Luchador - Lizmark Jr.

Juan Carlos Baños was born October 16, 1972, in Acapulco, Guerrero. He is better known by his ring name Lizmark, Jr. or El Hijo del Lizmark (Son of Lizmark). He is currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre as a Rudo and is part of the Los Perros del Mal stable.

Lizmark, Jr. is actually the son of the luchadore Lizmark, and thus a true "Junior" in every sense of the word. Lizmark was a big star in Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s.

Outside of Mexico, Lizmark, Jr. is probably best remembered for his stint in WCW, where he was part of the groups cruiser weight division in the late 1990s. In the 2000s Lizmark, Jr. started working for CMLL, Mexico's top wrestling promotion and the oldest promotion still active today. Lizmark, Jr. turned Rudo, joined up with Los Perros del Mal and has been moving up the ranks to main eventing on a regular basis.

On September 28, 2007 Lizmark, Jr. lost his mask in the main event of CMLL’s 74th Anniversary Show, in a match called "Infierno en el Ring" ("Hell in the Ring"). Lizmark, Jr. was pinned by Blue Panther, in a match that also involved Mistico, Dr. Wagner, Jr., Perro Aguayo, Jr., Atlantis, Ultimo Guerrero and Villano V, and took place inside a Steel Cage.

Luchador - Lizmark

Name Lizmark
Nicknames El Geniecillo Azul (The Little Blue Genius)
Name history Lizmark (debut - )
Family Lizmark Jr. (son), Júpiter/Lizmark II (brother)
Pro wrestling training by: Braulio Mendoza, Abundio Radilla, Hércules
Birth date September 18, 1949 - Llano Grande, Oaxaca
Pro Wrestling Debut March 14, 1976 - Arena Coliseo - Acapulco, Guerrero
Height 5'8"/172 cms
Weight 205 lbs/93 kg
Signature moves Plancha, Plancha Suicida, Frankensteiner, Power Bomb, Springboard Armdrag
Titles: Guerrero Middleweight Title, Guerrero Tag Team Titles (with Bowman), NWA World Light Heavweight Title (4), NWA World Middleweight Title, NWA World Welterweight Title, WWA World Light Heavyweight Title (3), National Light Heavyweight Title, National Middleweight Title (2), National Welterweight Title, CMLL World Tag Team Titles (with Atlantis), CMLL World Trios Titles (with Atlantis & Mr. Niebla)

Lizmark is a Mexican professional wrestler. He grew up in Acapulco, and started a career in hotel management. He was trained to be a boxer by his uncle, and made his professional wrestling debut on March 14, 1976. He chose to wear a mask to hide his wrestling identity from his clients and co-workers at the Hilton Hotel. He named himself either after the German general Otto von Bismarck or after the warship of the same name. He is a multiple-time world champion. In the 1980s he was a main-event level star for the dominant Mexican promotion, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), where he won championships from stars such as El Satánico and Cien Caras. In 1992, he jumped to Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) and had a long feud with La Parka. In 1995, however, he returned to EMLL and fought El Satánico once again. In 2001, Lizmark was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame. His nickname is "El Geniecillo Azur", which means The Little Blue Genius. His son also wrestles, under the name Lizmark, Jr..

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

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Luchador - Latin Lover

Name: Latin Lover
Real name: Víctor Manuel Resendiz Ruiz
Nicknames: El Mister Nuevo León
Pro wrestling training by: El Vasco, Blue Fish, and Shibata
Born: October 25, 1967 - Monterrey, Nuevo León
Lucha Libre Debut: June 7, 1992 - Arena Solidaridad - Monterrey, Nuevo León
Lost mask to: Sangre Chicana and Sanguinario on August 1st, 1992 at Plaza de Toros Monumental de Monterrey
Height: 6'1"/185 cms
Weight: 216 lbs/98 kg
Signature wrestling moves: La Casita, La Patada del Cabrito (Superkick), La Mecedora, Stripping
Titles: National Tag Team Wrestling Titles (once with Heavy Metal, once Panterita del Ring), FILL Light Heavyweight Title, National Light Heavyweight Title (twice), National Heavyweight Title, AAA Campeón de Campeones, AAA Rey de Reyes

Victor Manuel Resendiz Ruis is a Mexican actor and professional wrestler formerly wrestling for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) in Mexico. He is better known by his stage name Latin Lover. In 2005, he competed in and won the Mexican version of Dancing with the Stars. He announced his retirement on January 26th after a serious injury requiring surgery.

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

Luchadore: Shocker

José Luis Jair Soria is a Mexican-American professional wrestler who wrestles under the name Shocker. He has in the past branched out into the United States, working for TNA Wrestling.

Shocker first made a name for himself in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and got his first push when he won the Gran Alterntiva tournament along with his partner, Silver King, in 1995. He capped off the year by defeating veteran Kahoz for his mask. The push continued when he won the NWA Light-Heavyweight for first time when he defeated Black Warrior for the title in 1997. In 1998, he and Mr. Niebla won the CMLL World Tag Team Wrestling championship but were stripped due to Niebla's injury. In 1999, Shocker really picked up when he turned heel and feuded with Mr. Niebla. The feud culminated in a match at the CMLL 66th Anniversary Show where Shocker and Mr. Niebla wrestled together in a Parejas Suicidas match against another pair of feuding partners, Atlantis and Villano III. The rules were that the members of the team that lost faced each other in a mask vs. mask match. Shocker and Niebla lost the match and Shocker lost his mask.

After losing his mask, he was pushed even more, capitalizing on his good looks. He took the nickname "1000% Guapo". He joined Bestia Salvaje and Scorpio, Jr. in Los Guapos in 2000 but he later had a falling out with the veterans and he had a heel vs. heel feud along with partners like Los Capos and Satánico. He continued wrestling in heel vs. heel feuds, the most notable being against the group that would eventually become Los Guerreros del Infierno. His matches with Guerreros leader Último Guerrero were some of the most acclaimed matches of the year. In 2003, he started his own version of Los Guapos with frequent partner Máscara Mágica and El Terrible and feuded with the original Guapos of Bestia Salvaje, Scorpio, Jr. and Emilio Charles, Jr. who were now wrestling as Los Talibanes ("the Taliban"). The feud peaked with a six man cage match where Terrible took Bestia Salvaje's hair in August. By 2004, Shocker was a full-time babyface teaming with L.A. Park and trading the CMLL World Tag Team titles with Último Guerrero and Rey Bucanero. In June of that year, El Terrible broke away from Los Guapos and won the hair of Máscara Mágica. Terrible's replacement, Alan Stone, did not meet expectations and Los Guapos was effectively ended. For most of the summer, he joined up with Perro Aguayo, Jr. and Negro Casas in a feud against Pierroth, Jr., Vampiro Canadiense and Tarzan Boy. After feud ended in a steel cage match where Perro Aguayo, Jr. defeated Negro Casas for his hair, Shocker had a program with Terrible with speculation of a hair vs. hair match on the year end show but the feud didn't take off like expected and the match was replaced with Vampiro and Pierroth vs. Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000.

In 2005, he started out the year well winning the "Junior Cup," a trophy for second generation wrestlers with a finals win over another popular face, Dr. Wagner, Jr.. However, CMLL didn't build up on it and Shocker was used against the various regular trios like La Furia del Norte and Los Guerreros del Infierno. In April, he joined Total Nonstop Action, seemingly replacing Héctor Garza who was blocked from entering the company after steroid problems. He quickly and unsuccessfully challenged Christopher Daniels for his TNA X Division Championship. While continuing to work in TNA, he shocked some by jumping from CMLL, who he had been with for ten years, for CMLL's rival AAA with Vampiro and various other wrestlers. In AAA, he started a feud with LLL members Abismo Negro and Cibernético with an angle involving Cibernético attacking his father. After saving his hair in a four way cage match against Cibernético, Latin Lover and Chessman, Shocker turned rudo again and feuded with veteran Sangre Chicana with Shocker claiming that he was the real "Amo de escandalo" ("master of scandal"), Chicana's moniker. The two faced off in a hair vs. hair match in El Toreo de Cuatros Caminos in Naucalpan on the last AAA show of the year with Shocker winning the match.

He was captain of Team Mexico in the 2006 TNA World X Cup Tournament.

Shocker recently jumped from AAA back to CMLL again.

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Luchador - Huracán Ramírez

Huracán Hernandez had possibly one of the coolest of the Lucha Libre Masks, along with Fishman and Mil Mascaras

Huracán Hernandez was a fictitious character invented for the 1952 Mexican wrestling movie of the same name. In the film a young Mexican, whose father is a professional wrestler, decides to follow in his father's footsteps by adopting the secret identity of Huracán Ramírez, a masked luchador, and he fights in the ring in spite of his father's wishes to the contrary.

Although actor David Silva played the role of the young man in the film, the masked wrestler scenes were played by real-life luchador Eduardo Bonada. Following the film's release, Bonada continued to wrestle as Huracan Ramirez in the ring in real life until 1959, when he tired of the gig and was replaced by the film's producers by 43-year-old wrestler Daniel García.

García wrestled in the ring wearing the Huracán Ramírez costume for more than 30 years, and played the role in all of the movie sequels that followed (with the exception of "Huracan Ramirez Vs. The Terrorists"). Daniel García was a very close personal friend of El Santo, and when Santo died in 1984, Daniel Garcia was one of the Silver-Masked Man's pall bearers. Garcia died on November 1, 2006 at the age of 80.

A total of eight "Huracán Ramírez" movies were made in all, although the films tended to focus more on dramatic subplots and musical numbers, and never really gave the Huracán Ramírez character a lot to do in the films from a heroic standpoint. Eduardo Bonada played Huracan only in the first film, and Daniel Garcia played Huracan in the other films (with the exception of the last film made in 1989).

Hurricane Hernandez (1952) starring Eduardo Bonada as Huracan
The Mystery of Hurricane Hernandez (1962) introducing Daniel Garcia as Huracan
The Son of Hurricane Hernandez (1966)
The Revenge of Hurricane Hernandez (1967)
Hurricane Hernandez and the Black Nun (1973)
De Sangre Chicana (1974)
El Torito Puños de Oro (1979) Daniel Garcia's last film
Hurricane Hernandez Vs. the Terrorists (1989) (Note* - A different actor played Huracan in this later movie)

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El Hijo del Santo, part 2

The object of the jump was to revitalize his feud with Negro Casas. Santo lost a match to Casas at the CMLL 63rd Anniversary show in September, 1996 via disqualification and took a brief hiatus. While gone, Negro Casas turned técnico (face) and his former allies, Scorpio, Jr. and Bestia Salvaje said they had a surprise for Casas. In a shocking angle, the long time babyface Santo turned rudo (heel). The set-up was a trios match with Negro Casas, El Dandy and Héctor Garza on the face side against Felino, Scorpio, Jr. and Bestia Salvaje on the heel side. Felino was Casas' brother and when he came to the ring, he halted before entering and watched as his brother was attacked by Scorpio and Salvaje. The fans were expecting Felino to help his brother but Felino took off his cape and mask, revealing himself to be El Hijo del Santo in disguise.

The fans were irate and fist fights broke out in the crowd as Santo attacked Casas. The feud helped ease sagging business caused by the split with AAA and the downturn of the Mexican economy. The following week, the two trios had a rematch and both Dandy and Casas challenged Santo to a hair vs. mask match. The match was made a triangle match on December 6, 1996. Santo took El Dandy's hair in a bloody match in front of sold out crowd in Arena Mexico. The feud would continue until the 64th anniversary show in September 1997 where Casas and Santo faced off in a dramatic hair vs. mask match. Santo won the match and Santo began a slow face turn.

Although the angle was very successful and drew a lot of money for CMLL, Santo continued to wrestle as a babyface throughout the country, even teaming with Rey Mysterio in Tijuana. Santo began to be at odds with his heel allies, namely Scorpio, Jr. and Bestia Salvaje. Finally, in September 1998, the face turn was made official when Santo's partners, Villano III and Fuerza Guerrera turned on Santo. Scorpio, Jr. and Bestia Salvaje joined in on the beat down, leading Santo's next big feud.

Casas and Santo began teaming together and chased Scorpio and Salvaje's recently won CMLL Tag Team titles. Santo and Casas defeated Scorpio and Salvaje for the titles on February 5, 1999 by disqualification but Santo and Casas refused to accept the titles. The big match in the feud was a mask/hair vs. mask/hair tag match between the two teams. Santo and Casas were victorious and eventually took the tag titles as well. Santo would have a brief falling out with management and the tag titles were vacated. He returned and won the tag titles with Casas from Los Guerreros del Infierno (Último Guerrero and Rey Bucanero) but later lost them back to Los Guerreros in 2002. Santo took another sabbatical from CMLL with Perro Aguayo, Jr. filling in his spot on the roster. He returned to CMLL in the summer of 2004, initially to the rub to Místico and to feud with Perro Aguayo, Jr. and his La Furia del Norte group. After the feud ended, he had a program with young Guerreros recruit Averno and they had a WWA Welterweight title match on October 22 where Santo retained and ended his tour with the company. Other than teaming with Místico and Último Dragón for a few matches at the end of the year, Santo has continued wrestling as an independent. According to Santo, he caught the eye of WWE while doing a tour of Mexico, however he turned down a lucrative contract to stay independent.

Other than his work as a wrestler, he is the subject of a comic book, starred in three films, the most recent being Infraterrestere in 2003, and appeared on the Mexican reality show Día de Perros.

He was also the star of a 5 episode animated series on the Mexican version of Cartoon Network titled Santo Contra Los Clones (Santo Vs The Clones)

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El Hijo del Santo, part 1

El Hijo del Santo ("The Son of the Saint") is a Mexican professional wrestler and one of the most successful stars in Lucha Libre. He is the son of legendary wrestler/actor, El Santo (Santo had eleven children total) , and his real name is Jorge Guzmán.

"Santito," as he is sometimes referred, was the only one out of El Santo's eleven children to become a professional wrestler. He began wrestling without his father's consent in February, 1982 as "El Korak" but he made his official debut as "El Hijo del Santo" in October of that year after he earned his college degree in Communication Science as per his father's request. He shared his father's look, the silver mask, tights and cape, and moves but he was shorter and, although he would never become the same cultural icon, he would become a better in-ring performer than his father.

Early in his career, he was wrestled mainly for WWA (The Tijuana circuit) and UWA (a promotion that worked in the Mexico City area) but he did make his debut for EMLL (the promotion that later became Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre) in Arena Mexico in the summer of 1983. He also was voted 'Rookie of the Year."

He won his first title, the UWA World Lightweight title, on October 1985 and traded the title with Aristóteles. He next feuded with Espanto, Jr. (whose father feuded with the original El Santo) and Santo took his mask. Espanto took Santo's title but Santo regained it in 1988 and took Espanto's hair as well. During this time, he also feuded with Negro Casas, who would become his most important opponent, and took his hair in a 1987 match in the Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium.

In 1990, he debuted in Japan for Gran Hamada's Universal Lucha Libre promotion and moved up a weight class by winning the UWA Welterweight title as well as the WWA Welterweight title. In late 1991, he left WWA and vacated the Welterweight title but continued to wrestle for UWA until the formation of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. Santo regained the WWA Welterweight title and brought it with him to AAA. One of the first feuds he was put in was again Negro Casas' youngest brother, Heavy Metal. Heavy took Santo's WWA Welterweight title and won the National Welterweight title but Santo would come out on top of the feud and took both titles from Heavy before he lost them again to another young star, Psicosis.

His most memorable feud during his time with AAA was against the obnoxious American team, Los Gringos Locos. Eddie Guerrero's stiffer Japanese style offense, combined with Art Barr's cocky mannerisms made Los Gringos Locos a very exciting tag team. During the feud, the played up the old Pareja Atómica tag team which consisted of the original El Santo and Eddie's father, Gory Guerrero. Eddie turned on Santo, leading to a hair vs. mask challenge for the When Worlds Collide Pay-Per-View. The match was changed at the last minute when Art Barr pleaded with AAA officials to be included on the show which would be broadcasted in the United States. The new match was a double hair vs. double mask match with Santo teaming with Octagón against Los Gringos. Santo and Octagón were victorious in the critically acclaimed match but it was the last stand for Los Gringos Locos. Art Barr died shortly afterwards and the group broke up abruptly. AAA owner Antonio Peña tried to run an angle with an evil version of El Santo called "El Santo Negro" who supposedly came from South America. When the other members of Santo's family objected, the feud was scrapped and El Hijo del Santo jumped to CMLL in 1995.

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Jesse Hernandez - Lucha Libre Wrestling

Wrestler: Jesse Hernandez
Hometown: San Bernardino, California
Pro wrestling training: Great Goliath
Wrestling Debut: 1981
Previous Gimmicks: El Fraile (Mexico),Friar #1,Jesse Cortez (WWF)

Jesse Hernandez worked as wrestler and referee for the old Mike Lebell promotion in California..
Jesse Hernandez also wrestled in Mexico and the Western Staets as the Friar #1 with Juan Hernandez as Friar #2..
1984-97: Jesse Hernandez also refereed and wrestled for WWF sometimes using the name Jesse Cortez and The Intruder..
1996: Jesse Hernandez was one of the referees at the WOW Women of Wrestling Unleashed Pay Per View in California..
Jesse Hernandez runs and operates The Empire Wrestling Federation & School of Hard Knocks in San Bernardino, California..
WWE Superstar Rico Constantino and developmental talent Melina Perez are both former students of Hernandez..
March 4, 2007--EWF: Jesse Hernandez (sub for Mando Guerrero) defeated Charles Mercury in a Barbed Wire Match..
Jesse Hernandez subbed for Mando Guerrero after Mando was unable to wrestle due to a case of strep throat..

http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/j/jesse-hernandez.html

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Luchador - Rey Misterio, Jr.

Óscar Gutiérrez Rubio (born December 11, 1974), better known by the ring name Rey Misterio, Jr. or Rey Mysterio, is an American professional wrestler signed to World Wrestling Entertainment currently appearing on its SmackDown brand.

Mysterio is known for his high flying style, which helped kick-start the cruiserweight revolution in the United States of America in the late 1990s - during his time in World Championship Wrestling.

Born in San Diego, California, Gutiérrez trained for professional wrestling with his Uncle, Rey Misterio, Sr.. He debuted as a wrestler on April 30, 1989 at the age of 14 in a small church in Tijuana, Mexico. Technically, he was too young to receive a license, but enforcement was generally low. He began a feud with Psicosis (who had also been trained by Rey Misterio, Sr.) using the ring name Colibrí (Spanish for hummingbird). The feud lasted several years, continuing even after Gutiérrez's career moved to the U.S.

When Gutiérrez turned 18, his Uncle allowed him to use the ring name Rey Misterio, Jr.. In Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) he feuded with Juventud Guerrera including a tag match with Rey Misterio Jr. and Sr. taking on Juventud and his father, Fuerza Guerrera.

For almost all WWE appearances, Mysterio keeps his face covered by a variety of masks. The colors of the masks vary, and he also wears contact lenses to match the color of his ring attire.

During non-wrestling appearances he generally wears a black mask, but has occasionally been seen with highly custom masks such as one made by Louis Vuitton.

Mysterio has been unmasked three times while in the WWE. The most recent occurred during SummerSlam 2006 where his entire mask came off as the result of a punch delivered by Chavo Guerrero. He also removed his mask in his testimonial video on the Eddie Guerrero RAW tribute show, but put his head down so nobody could see his face.

To keep up with the lucha tradition of the mask, the WWE refuses to replay matches of Mysterio while he was unmasked in WCW. Also, on the WWE Home Video Rey Mysterio: 619, when any candid footage is shown where Rey is not wearing a mask (for example, the WWE Confidential segment wherein Rey gives WWE cameras a tour of his home), his face is blurred out.

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Luchador - Mando Gurrero

Ring name(s) Mando Gurrero
Billed height 5 ft 8 1/2 in (173 cm)
Billed weight 228 lb (102 kg)
Born: July 7, 1954,Guadalajara, Jalisco
Pro wrestling training by Gory Guerrero
Wrestling Debut 1974

Armando (Mando) Guerrero is a retired professional wrestler. He is the son of Gory Guerrero and the brother of Chavo, Hector Guerrero and Eddie Guerrero. His nephew, Chavo Guerrero, Jr., also wrestles.

Mando Guerrero started wrestling in 1974 and competed primarily in the NWA America's promotion in California, where he frequently teamed with his brother, Hector.

Mando spent some time in the American Wrestling Association with brother Chavo and feuded with Diamond Dallas Page's team of Badd Company but never could win the tag team titles.

Mando trained wrestler Lisa Moretti, better known as "Ivory".

He still makes appearences for Empire Wrestling Federation.

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