Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Lucha Libre - Virus


The Luchador known as Virus was born Ricardo Amezquita Cardeño on December 9, 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico.
He is unique in that he started out as a "Mini"( a division that I have overlooked here and I will be correcting that soon) and moved into the regular division.
Ricardo was trained by Luchador El Fuerza Aérea, and made his Lucha Libre debut on April 20, 1986 at Auditorio Municipal de Ozumba in Estado de Mexico.
He started out in the Universal Wrestling Association promotion as "Bird Boy" and usually worked the low end of the card because of his size (5'5, 170 pounds).
On July 27, 1991 he won the UWA World Featherweight Championship (even though the feather weight class in Lucha Libre is usually 130-140 pounds).

Even before he lost the UWA World Featherweight Championship to El Coralillo on August 25, 1992, Ricardo had started wrestling for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). After he lost the title, he became a CMLL luchadore full time. And when booker Antonio Peña left CMLL to form his own promotion, Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), Virus stayed with CMLL to try to revive the Minis Division since most of them left with Pena.
Since most of the Minis are "minature" versions of the big names, Ricardo was renamed Piratita Morgan, a mini version of Pirata Morgan.
The original Piratita Morgan that had left CMLL to join AAA.
When Pirata Morgan left CMLL to join AAA, Ricardo was renamed "Damiancito El Guerrero" after CMLL wrestler "Damian El Guerrero".
During this time he toured Japan, and when he returned he defeated Máscarita Mágica to win the CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship on February 27, 1996.

But in 1998, he moved to the regular division as "Virus" and no mention was made that Virus was also Damiancito El Guerrero and held the CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship.
Virus then proceeded to defeat Akira to win the Mexican National Lightweight Championship.
The CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship problem was resolved when CMLL announced that Ultimo Dragoncito had won the title on an undisclosed day in October, 1999.

Virus has held several wrestling titles during his career:
Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) World Featherweight Championship
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) Japan Super Lightweight Championship
CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship
CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship
Mexican National Lightweight Championship
Reyes del Aire ("King of the Air") Tournament (2007)

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Luchadores, Universo 2000


Andrés Reyes González was born on April 18th, 1963, in Santa Anita, Jalisco, Mexico.
He is a Mexican Luchador best known in Lucha Libre as Universo 2000.
Universo was trained by Diablo Velazco and Rafael Salamanca, and made his wrestling debut on June 15, 1985 at Arena Ecatepec in Ecatepec, Mexico State wrestling under the name Espacial.
Like many other lucha libre stars he comes from a wrestling family. Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000 are both his brothers, and Máscara Año 2000 Jr. is his nephew.
Universo wrestled masked until September 17, 2004, when he lost his mask to Canek at Arena México.
During his career, he has held the National Trios Titles (with his brothers Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000), the WWO World Heavyweight Title, the CMLL World Heavyweight Title (three times), the CMLL World Trios Titles (with Black Tiger and Dr. Wagner Jr.), and won the 3rd Annual Leyenda de Azul Tournament.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Luchadores, Último Guerrero


Último Guerrero (The Last Warrior) is a Mexican Luchador that wrestles for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).
Ultimo is not related to the famous Gory Guerrero or any of his children.
"Guerrero" is the Spanish word for warrior.
He was trained at "Gimnasio El Ranchero" by Tinito and Halcón Suriano and made his lucha libre debut as "Halcón Dorado" in September 1990 at the Gómez Palacio, Durango.

Último Guerrero is a charter member of Los Guerreros de Infierno / Los Guerreros de Atlantida and besides CMLL, he has worked for TNA where he was part of Team Mexico, and won the 2008 World X Cup.

Ultimo has held sevral titles during his lucha libre career including the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship, the CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship, the CMLL World Tag Team Championship (5 times), the CMLL World Trios Championship (2 times), he won the Copa de Arena Mexico Tournament in 1999 with Rey Bucanero and Satanico, he won the Junior Grand Prix in 2006 and 2007, he won the Torneo Gran Alternativa twice, once with Blue Panther in 1999 and with Dragón Rojo, Jr. in 2008 and he won the Universal Tournament in 2009.

Outside of CMLL, he won the World Wrestling Association (WWA) World Tag Team Championship with Perro Aguayo, Jr.

And of course he won the TNA 2008 World X Cup with his partners Volador Jr., Rey Bucanero and Averno.

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