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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)

Thursday, April 9, 2009

El Zorro


El Zorro was born Jesus Cristóbal Martínez Rodriguez on July 20th, 1975 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
He was trained by Jorge Rodríguez and Flash, and he made his pro wrestling debut (as Neurosis) on October 2, 1993 at the Plaza de Toros Jorge Rivera in Zapopan, Jalisco.
He lost the Neurosis mask to Cesar Dantés and soon after adopted the El Zorro gimmick.
El Zorro has has some colorful story lines involving luchador Charly Manson, a cursed Mayan mask and mind control.

He is currently in Konnan's La Legión Extranjera, claiming that he is a Spaniard, not a Mexican.

El Zorro has wrestled for the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F., Comisión de Box y Lucha de Guadalajara, IWA Puerto Rico, Universal Wrestling Association, World Wrestling Organization wrestling promotions, and also made a few brief appearances for the old WWF show, WWF Super Astros.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Konnan



Charles Ashenoff doesn't sound much like a luchador's name does it?
But in Lucha Libre and wrestling circles he is better known as Konnan.
Konnan was born on June 6, 1964 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

Before becoming a wrestler, Konnan was a boxer (Californian Middleweight Amateur Boxing Champion in 1982 and 1983) and a bodybuilder.

He was trained in Tijuana, Mexico by varvious luchadors alongside Psicosis, Rey Mysterio, Jr., Halloween and Damián 666.

"The Mexican Hulk Hogan" started out wrestling for Universal Wrestling Alliance as a masked wrestler called El Centurión ("The Centurion").
Leaving UWA, he then went to Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre (EMLL). It was in EMLL that he took on the name Konnan El Barbaro ("The Barbarian").
On June 9, 1991, Konnan became the first ever CMLL World Heavyweight Champion.

Konnan left EMLL and went to Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) in 1992.
For AAA he worked as a booker, became the first AAA Americas Heavyweight Champion and helped set the all-time attendance record for a Mexican wrestling event, 48,000 people at TripleMania on April 30, 1993.
In 1994, Konnan formed an alliance known as Los Gringos Locos with Eddie Guerrero, Art Barr and Madonna's Boyfriend (Louie Spicolli).

Konnan left Mexico in 1992 and wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

In early 2007, he returned to AAA.

Besides wrestling, Konnan has appeared on soap operas and TV shows in Mexico, and has recorded Rap music.

You can check out Konnan's MySpace here:
http://www.myspace.com/konnan619

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