Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Lucha Libre: El Texano, Jr.


Lucha Libre star El Texano, Jr. was born Juan Aguilar Leos on July 31th, 1984 in Mexico City, Mexico.
He mainly works for the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) wrestling promotion in Mexico, though he has toured with New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW).
Juan is the son of luchador Juan Conrado Aguilar Jáuregui, who wrestled as El Texano until his death in 2006.
Juan started out as wrestling masked as Kempo Kid.
This went on for two years until he was unmasked by Stuka in Monterrey, Nuevo León, in a match.
After the match, he was recognized as the son of El Texano and began working as El Texano, Jr.
Juan was trained by El Texano, Rambo, Satanico and Shocker.
He made his pro wrestling debut in 2001 in Arandas, Jalisco (as Kempo Kid).
Besides his late father, Juan's brother wrestles as Super Nova and his cousin, Jonathan de Jesus Navarro Gimenez, wrestles as Mictlan.

In Lucha Libre, Juan has held the Mexican National Trios Championship with Sagrado and Maximo, the Occidente Tag Team Titles with Terrible and the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

La Sombra (The Shadow)


The Luchador La Sombra (The Shadow) that wrestles for CMLL is not the first to use that name.
The first La Sombra was Tony Lopez who wrestled in the 80s.
The second La Sombra was Hector Navarro who wrestled in the 90s.
And the current La Sombra's real name is unknown, other than his last name is Andrade and he was born on November 3, 1989 in Gómez Palacio, Durango, Mexico.
And we also know that he has one of the coolest masks in Lucha Libre.

The current La Sombra was trained by Moro III, Brillante Sr., Satanico, Stuka and Franco Colombo (the luchador, not the bodybuilder).
He made his wrestling debut on October 18, 2003 in his hometown of Gomez Palacio.
Before adopting the La Sombra idenity, he wrestled as Brillante Jr., Rey Azteca (II) , and Guerrero Azteca.

He has held the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) World Tag Team Championship with Volador, Jr., the Mexican National Trios Championship with El Sagrado and Volador, Jr., the NWA World Welterweight Championship and he won the Torneo Gran Alternativa in 2007 with Místico.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Satanico / El Satanico


Daniel López López was born on October 26, 1949 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, but he is better known in Lucha Libre as Satánico or El Satánico.
After a long career as a luchador, he is now a trainer for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).
He was trained by Diablo Velazco and made his pro wrestling debut on June 17, 1973 in his hometown of Guadalajara.

In his long career, Satánico has held many titles including.....

The Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. Mexican National Trios Championship twice, once with Mephisto and Averno, and once with MS-1 and Pirata Morgan.
The Mexican National Middleweight Championship three times.
The CMLL World Middleweight Championship once.
The CMLL World Trios Championship three times, once with MS-1 and Pirata Morgan, once with Emilio Charles Jr. and Rey Bucanero, and once with Averno and Mephisto.
He was the CMLL World Welterweight Champion.
He held the NWA World Middleweight Championship five times.
The NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship four times.
And he won the Copa de Arena Mexico Tournament in 1999 with Rey Bucanero and Ultimo Guerrero.
Satánico also held the Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship.
And he held the Universal Wrestling Association World Middleweight Championship.

He was also inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 2001.