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.

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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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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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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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Luchadore: Silver King

Height: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight: 217 lb (98 kg)
Birthday: January 9, 1968
Hometown: Torreón, Coahuila
Trained by: Dr. Wagner & Gran Markus
Debut: November, 1985
Previous identities: El Invasor, Silver King, Dr. Wagner, Jr. (for one New Japan tour), Black Tiger III, Bronco

César Cuauhtémoc González Barrón is a Mexican pro wrestler known best as Silver King or Black Tiger III. He is the son of luchador Dr. Wagner and the brother of Dr. Wagner, Jr..

He began his career as Silver King in the Universal Wrestling Association and lost his mask early to El Hijo del Santo. He formed a tag team with El Texano called "The Cowboys" and the tandem saw success with a UWA and WWA World Tag Team title reigns and an appearance on WCW's Clash of the Champions XIX in 1992 being defeated by The Fabulous Freebirds. In 1993, Texano and Silver King jumped to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre where they continued their success by winning the vacant CMLL tag titles. In singles competition, Silver King feuded with veterans such as Scorpio and Emilio Charles, Jr. and he won the CMLL World Heavyweight title by defeating Black Magic Norman Smiley in 1994. In 1996, he and his brother Dr. Wagner, Jr. defeated Dos Caras and Último Dragón to win the vacant CMLL World Tag-Team titles but in 1997, Silver King joined WCW full time and gave up his half of the title.

Other than a Cruiserweight title challenge against Juventud Guerrera on the 1998 Fall Brawl pay-per-view, he did not receive much of a push, mostly wrestling in opening matches, even though he was a member of the short-lived Latino World Order. He began teaming with El Dandy as Los Fabulosos with Stacy Keibler managing but when Vince Russo took over booking, most of the luchadores in WCW's employ were released or given a much smaller role. After leaving WCW, he returned to CMLL and began wrestling for CMLL's Japanese affiliate, New Japan Pro Wrestling. In 2001, he adopted the Black Tiger character previously used by Eddie Guerrero. As Black Tiger, he wrestled several tours with New Japan and had an unsuccessful IWGP Tag Team Championship attempt with his brother against Jushin Liger and El Samurai in 2001. In 2003, New Japan used Mexican wrestlers less and less so Black Tiger wrestled mostly for CMLL, usually as Dr. Wagner, Jr.'s back-up. However, since Black Tiger was supposed to be Japanese (for the Mexican storyline - New Japan had always given the Black Tiger character to a foreigner), the relationship was not publicly recognized by CMLL even when Tiger, Wagner and Universo 2000 won the CMLL World Trios title that year.

After losing the title to Canek, Black Warrior and Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. in 2004, Dr. Wagner, Jr. turned técnico (face) when Dr. Wagner, Sr. died. This left Tiger without much to do and he wrestled mainly in IWRG, Arena Coliseo, CMLL's secondary arena, or he filled in holes in Arena Mexico cards. In 2005, Rocky Romero debuted as New Japan's new Black Tiger. González continued to use the name but CMLL decided to repackage him as "El Bronco." His debut, where he teamed with Elektro (a wrestler from AAA) and L.A. Park against the original members of Los Guerreros del Infierno, was a huge failure. The crowd did not buy Elektro or Bronco and a rematch set for next week on top of the Gran Alterntiva tournament was quickly changed with Hijo del Lizmark and Místico filling in and Bronco replacing Lizmark in the tournament. Elektro was never used again and Bronco was used occasionally in midcard roles. Despite the name change in CMLL, he continued to wrestle as "Black Tiger" in IWRG and in independent promotions. After months of delays due to injuries, he finally lost the Black Tiger mask to L.A. Park in his hometown of Torreón and began wrestling as Silver King again. He stars in the Paramount Pictures Production Nacho Libre as Ramses, in which he dons a golden mask; since then, he has gone on to wrestle in Mexico as the Ramses character.

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Luchadore: Héctor Garza

Héctor Garza (born Héctor Solano Segura) is a Mexican professional wrestler currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

Solano began wrestling as Héctor Garza in 1992 after being trained by his two uncles for the FILL promotion in his native Monterrey. In 1995, he brought to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre on the técnico (face) side as part of CMLL's rebuilding after the split with Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. He was put over veteran rudos (heels) like Bestia Salvaje and Satánico in hair matches and Garza quickly became one of the top técnicos in the company. In the following year, he teamed with Dos Caras and La Fiera to win the CMLL World Tríos Title and won the "Copa Junior," a tournament for the sons of wrestlers. However, after being a part of the shocking El Hijo del Santo heel turn, he jumped for a short period to rival AAA.

His stay in AAA was short although he did participate in a match on the 1997 World Wrestling Federation Royal Rumble pay-per-view when the WWF and AAA had a working agreement. He went to World Championship Wrestling later in the year and WCW added "Jr." to his name although his father wrestled as Humberto Garza. He was best known in WCW for his twirling turnbuckle to floor plancha called The Corkscrew Plancha, a move he botched more than he hit. Other than a victory over Scott Hall, he did not receive any push, mostly wrestling on WCW's minor shows, even when he became part of the Latino World Order. On February 25, 1999 he suffered the weirdest of wrestling injuries in a match against Psicosis on WCW Thunder when he tore his scrotum[1]. Later in 1999, he returned to AAA and became part of a multi-man feud with other younger wrestlers like Heavy Metal, Latin Lover and Perro Aguayo, Jr.. Different combinations of the four battled in various gimmick matches with Garza winning Metal's hair in 2001. In 2002, the focus of the feud became Latin Lover and Héctor Garza. In 2003, the two faced each other in a hair vs. hair match and, for the first time in Garza's career, he lost.

In 2004, he returned to the United States for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling during AAA's working agreement with the company. Along with Abismo Negro, Juventud Guerrera, Mr. Aguila and later Heavy Metal, "Team Mexico" was successful in winning the America's X-Cup. After Team Canada was repackaged, Team Mexico became faces, with Garza getting particularly good reactions from the crowd. In Mexico, he also turned face when he teamed with Latin Lover in a program with Abyss. In June, he jumped back to CMLL, claiming that AAA owner Antonio Peña owed him money for Garza's dates in TNA.

While the AAA-TNA deal was still in effect, Garza wrestled exclusively in Mexico. In CMLL, he helped Perro Aguayo turn heel and became involved in Aguayo's feud with El Hijo del Santo. Eventually, he would help found La Furia del Norte with El Terrible and Tarzan Boy. Teaming with Tarzan and Terrible, La Furia chased after and defeated the CMLL Tríos champions Black Warrior, Canek and Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. Meanwhile in the United States, the AAA-TNA deal was dead so TNA decided to bring Garza back. He returned for TNA Victory Road 2004, TNA's first three hour pay-per-view when he won a Twenty Man X-Division Gauntlet. The push continued with a match against NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett on TNA's weekly TV show. In 2005, he was set to wrestle Scott Hall at TNA Final Resolution 2005 but was arrested in Houston, Texas with steroids that were legal in Mexico but illegal in the United States (He used these steroids because of a knee surgery he had). Garza was deported, effectively ending his career in the United States. Garza claimed that he did not know the steroids were illegal in the United States and that he was humiliated by the guards. Garza would later sell t-shirts that read "If Pepe el Toro is innocent, so is Héctor Garza," alluding to the story of an old movie where a carpenter is incriminated on a murder and goes to jail where he finds the true assassins and fights with them and pops out the eye of the master mind to make him confess "Pepe el Toro es inocente".

After being deported, he returned to working full time in Mexico for CMLL. He teamed with Perro Aguayo, Jr. against Los Capos and became a major part of the new group, Los Perros del Mal along with members of La Furia del Norte, Los Pierroths and La Familia de Tijuana. In August, Pierroth was kicked out of the group and Garza volunteered to face him in a hair vs. hair match, which Garza won. After the Dr. Wagner, Jr. vs. Atlantis mask vs. mask match fell through, CMLL decided to go with Héctor Garza and Perro Aguayo, Jr. vs. Universo 2000 and Máscara Año 2000 double hair vs. hair matchas the main event of the EMLL 72nd Anniversary show. Three weeks before the show, Garza hit Máscara Año 2000 with a "Martinete" (tombstone piledriver), a move that takes wrestlers out for weeks in Lucha Libre. The match for the anniversary show was changed to a triangle match with Universo 2000 vs. Perro Aguayo, Jr. vs. Héctor Garza where the last man to get pinned gets his hair shaved. In the end, Universo pinned Garza with help of a low blow from his brother, Cien Caras, and Pierroth's valet, La Nazy.

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Luchadore: Super Calo

Name Super Calo
Real name Rafael García
Nicknames El Rapero (The rapper)
Name history El Greco Jr. (debut - ??), El Hijo de Superzán (90 - 91?),El Diabólico Chucky (91 - 92), Super Caló (05/92 - ), Love Warrior (96 - 97)
Family Bello Greco (father), Alan & Chris Stone (brothers)
Trained by: Bello Greco, Pepe Casas
Birth date February 22, 1971 - Guadalajara, Mexico
Wrestling Debut August 5, 1990 - Arena San Juan Pantitlán - Mexico City
Height 5'8"/173 cms
Weight 192 lbs/87 kg
Signature moves Top-Rope Headscissors, Tope Con Giro, Flying Dropkick, Slingshot somersault senton plancha
Titles: Distrito Federal Trios Titles (w/ Alan & Chris Stone), Aztecas Middleweight Title

Rafael García (born February 22, 1971) is a Mexican professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Super Calo. A longtime mainstay of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración during the 1990s, he also competed in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW).

Pro Wrestling Illustrated ,PWI ranked him # 273 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003

Calo's brother Chris Stone may have worked under the Super Calo name in 2005 when he jumped to AAA. Chris jumped back to CMLL a few months later, and Calo was last reported retired and not living in Mexico, so it's unclear who's currently using the name and image.

http://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Super_Cal%C3%B3

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Luchadore: Fray Tormenta

Fray Tormenta (born Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, 1945) is a Mexican priest who supported an orphanage for 23 years by taking up a career in Lucha Libre. While performing, he wore a mask with red and yellow colors. He is currently retired.
He never lost his mask.
The videogame characters King from Tekken, Tizoc from Fatal Fury and Greco from Chrono Cross were inspired by his story, as was the movie Nacho Libre .

Fray Tormenta has appeared in CMLL in recent years, acting as a padrino to debuting devout wrestlers Sagrado and Mistico. Due to Mistico's success, Tormenta is more often associated with him, and has appeared with him on CMLL's TV show. Fray Tormenta plays a big role in Sagrado's purported background; when Sagrado was unable to decide between wrestling and the priesthood, it was Tormenta who pointed him towards CMLL.

The 2006 US Movie, Nacho Libre, is loosely based on Tormenta's life. Both Fray and the main character of the movie are priests who also become luchadores, but the similarities appear to end there - the movie just uses the concept as a jumping off point to tell its own story.

There have been other movies on Fray Tormenta's life, including one from a film company in France.

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Luchadore: Fishman

Name Fishman
Real name José Ángel Nájera Sánchez
Nicknames El Hombre Pez (The Fish Man), El Pez Volador, (The Fly Fish),El Veneno Verde, (The Green Poison), El Látigo Lagunero (The Lagunero Whip)
Name history Goliath Reyes (11/69 - 70), Titán (70 - 71), Fishman (71 - )
Family El Hijo de Fishman -por debutar- (son), El Único de Cd. Juárez (son), Fishman Jr. (nephew)
Trained by: Marco Tulio, Bulldog Villegas, El Rebelde, Sunny War Cloud
Birth date April 6, 1951 - Torreón, Coahuila
Wrestling Debut November 1969 - Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua
Lost mask to Máscara Sagrada - August 27, 2000 - Palacio de los Deportes
Height 5'8"/173 cms
Weight 218 lbs/99 kg
Signature wrestling moves Lariat, Senton, Second Rope Splash, Patadas de Canguro (kangaroo dropkick), Cavernaria
Titles: National Welterweight Title (3), NWA World Welterweight Title, UWA World Light Heavyweight Title (4), WWF World Light Heavyweight Title (2), WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title

José Ángel Nájera Sánchez, best known under the ring name of Fishman, was a Mexican professional wrestler who became one of Lucha Libre's biggest stars during the 1980s with the Universal Wrestling Association. Fishman retired in 2000

Fishman debuted in late 1969 under the name Goliath Reyes but changed it during 1970 to Titán. In 1971 he changed his name once again this time to Fishman and it is under this name and mask that he achieved his fame.

Fishman rose to notoriety in the UWA, holding the federation’s Lightheavyweight Title 4 times (tied with Karloff Lagarde for most title reigns). In his time in the UWA Fishman competed in many “Mask Vs Mask" matches always coming out with his trademark green and yellow mask in place beating such well known Luchadors as Sangre Chicana and Rey Misterio Sr .

After the UWA folded, he went with some of the other UWA wrestlers to AAA through the mid 1990s and later on also wrestled independently in Mexico. On August 28, 2000 Fishman put his mask on the line against Máscara Sagrada and lost, after he was unmasked Fishman retired from wrestling.

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Luchadore: Jerry Estrada

Name Jerry Estrada
Real name Gerardo Hernández Estrada
Nicknames El Puma
Name history Jerry Estrada (debut - )
Trained by: Alberto Mora, Herodes
Birth date January 10, 1958 - Monclova, Coahuila
Wrestling Debut 1978 - Monclova, Coah
Height 5'10"/178 cms
Weight 191 lbs/87 kg
Signature wrestling moves Media Cerrajera, Flying Senton, Tope Suicida, Salida de Bandera
Titles: National Middleweight Title, National Trios Title (with Pirata Morgan & Hombre Bala), CMLL World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Title, National Light Heavyweight Title, Puerto Rico: WWC World Junior Heavyweight Title (2)

Jerry Estrada (full name, Gerardo Hernández Estrada; born January 10, 1958, Monclova, Coahuila), is a Mexican professional wrestler. Estrada was a major star for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre during the 1980s but was one of the first stars to jump to Antonio Peña's AAA promotion during the 1990s. He had a brief run in WWF when AAA and WWF had a working agreement. In 2003, he was forced to retire due to chronic injuries caused by his bumps to the outside of the ring.

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Luchadore: Canek

Height: 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight: 242 lb (110 kg)
Birthday: June 19, 1952
Hometown: Frontera, Tabasco
Trained by: Ham Lee, Indio Azteca, Maciste, El Remington I and El Chacal
Professional wrestling debut: 1972
Previous identities: El Universitario, Príncipe Azul, Canek
Finishing and signature move(s): Gorilla Press

Canek is a Mexican professional wrestler currently performing part time for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. As one of Mexico's few true heavyweights (above 220 pounds), he became one of Lucha Libre's biggest attractions during the 1980s with the Universal Wrestling Association. Although Lucha Libre Internacional, the promotion administering the UWA titles, ceased to exist in 1995, Canek continues to defend and trade the UWA title wherever he goes, although his June 2004 loss at the hands of former partner Dr. Wagner Jr. may signal a long break in Canek's monopoly.

Canek holds victories over several international stars including Lou Thesz, Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, Yokozuna, Big Van Vader and Japanese stars Tatsumi Fujinami, Riki Chōshū and Kim Duk; however, these are rarely mentioned outside of Mexico. He bodyslammed Andre the Giant and Yokozuna (under the name Kokina).

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
1-time CMLL World Tag Team Wrestling Champion (with Dr. Wagner, Jr.)
1-time CMLL World Tríos champion (with Black Warrior & Rayo de Jalisco, Jr.)

Universal Wrestling Association
15-time UWA World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion

Wrestling Observer Newsletter
He is a member of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (inducted in 1996).

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Luchadore: Dos Caras Jr.

Wrestler Name Dos Caras Jr. (Two Faces Jr.)
Nicknames Hercules Potosino
Name history Dos Caras Jr./El Hijo de Dos Caras (debut - )
Family Dos Caras (father), Mil Máscaras & Sicodelico (uncles), Sicodelico Jr. (cousin)
Trained by: Dos Caras
Birth date May 25, 1977 - San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí
Wrestling Debut August 11, 2000 - Shimonoseki, Japan
Height 6'5 1/2"/197 cms
Weight 211 lbs/96 kg
Signature wrestling moves Plancha, Side suplex, German Suplex, Enzuigiri, Olympic Suplex
Titles: CMLL La Copa Jr 2006

Dos Caras Jr., Dos Caras (meaning "Two Faces" in Spanish), is a Mexican Professional Wrestler and Mixed Martial Artist. He was born in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

Made his pro-wrestling debut on October 11, 2000, teaming with his father Dos Caras to defeat El Azteca and Chiba, in an event promoted by the Japanese independent promotion Pro Wrestling Kageki. This card was held in Shimonoseki and reports said that the junior looked very good for a rookie.

Before turning pro, Caras Jr. was a member of the Mexican national team in Greco-Roman wrestling for five years, and he placed third at the World Junior Championships in 1997 (held in Czech Republic), won the Central American and Caribbean Games three times and also won a medal at the Pan American Games. He was looking forward to compete in the Sydney 2000 Olympics, but due to lack of support, politics and government problems Mexico could not send any representatives to the Olympic wrestling competition so he turned pro instead.

Made his AAA debut on 9/4 when he ran-in during a match involving his father, that was getting beat up by Texano, Pirata Morgan and Espectro Jr., but his first actual match was on September 29, 2000, in AAA's "Verano de Escándalo" supershow. He teamed with Alebrije, Sangre Chicana and La Parka Jr. to beat "Los Consagrados" (Pirata Morgan, Espectro Jr., El Texano and El Cobarde).

During his first months he has feuded with the veteran stable of "Los Consagrados" and on January 21, 2001, he failed (teaming with his father) to conquer Texano and Pirata Morgan's National Tag Team Titles.

Dos Caras Jr. has been pushed as a top heavyweight tecnico since joining CMLL, but he lacks a notable feud at the moment. He's had mini feuds with Ultimo Guerrero, Universo 2000, Kenzo Suzuki and Mark "Marco Corleone" Jindrak, formed a team with Lizmark Jr. and Rey Bucanero, and done some work as a trio with Dr. Wagner Jr. and Mistico, but really hasn't had a monumental feud.
Dos is always on the side of good, and pushed as an agile guy for his size. Dos has also done some MMA fighting - sometimes with his mask and sometimes without - for DEEP promotions in Japan and for PRIDE, his MMA training included training at Marco Ruas gym. He's incorporated submissions to his fighting style. He's still an unfinished guy in lucha libre - and in MMA too -, but he's likely the best of guys in CMLL his size and his age.
Dos comes from a family of Wrestlers, he is a worthy heir of a dynasty of great wrestlers: His father Dos Caras Sr., uncles Sicodelico and Mil Mascaras, and his cousin Sicodelico Jr. are World-Wide Superstars as professional wrestlers.
Dos is a graduated of the UNAM where he earned a degree in architecture.

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Luchadore: Dos Caras

Name Dos Caras (Two Faces)
Nicknames El Two Faces
Name history Dos Caras (debut - )
Family Dos Caras Jr. (son), Mil Máscaras & Sicodélico (brothers), Sicodélico Jr. (nephew)
Trained by: Rafael Salamanca, Gory Medina
Birth date February 20, 1951 - San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí
Wrestling Debut January 6, 1970 - Arena KO Algusto - Naucalpan, Mexico State
Height 5'10"/178 cms
Weight 211 lbs/96 kg
Signature moves Plancha, Plancha Suicida, Flying double chest chop, Ground Octopus Hold, Octopus Hold
Titles: National Light Heavyweight Title, National Trios Titles (with Villano III and Villano V), UWA World Heavyweight Title (3), WWA World Heavyweight Title, CMLL World Trios Titles (with La Fiera & Héctor Garza)

Jose Luis Rodriguez is a Mexican professional wrestler who wrestles under the name Dos Caras (Spanish for Two faces). Dos Caras was active mostly in the 1970s and 80s, and achieved his greatest success in Mexico's Universal Wrestling Alliance (UWA), where he carried the heavyweight title three times. He has been called "the greatest heavyweight ever to come out of Mexico."

Rodriguez made his debut on January 6, 1970 at the age of 18. He wrestled for the Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre (EMLL) for five years, before helping start the UWA. In the UWA he had a very successful feud against frequent champion, El Canek. He held the UWA Heavyweight Championship three times between 1984 and 1992.

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Luchadore: "Diablo" Velazco

Name "Diablo" Velazco
Real name Cuauhtémoc Velazco Vargas
Nicknames Diablo (Devil)
Name history Telmo Velazco (debut - ??), Diablo Velazco (?? - death)
Trained by: Raúl Romero
Birth date 1919 - Guadalajara, Jalisco
Obituary date June 13, 1999 - Guadalajara, Jalisco
Wrestling Debut 1937
Titles: Occidente Lightweight Title, Occidente Welterweight Title, Occidente Middleweight Title

Diablo Velasco, born Cuahutémoc Velasco in Guadalajara, Jalisco, was a famous Mexican trainer of professional wrestlers. He trained many famous Mexican wrestlers, including Gory Guerrero, Perro Aguayo, and Mil Mascaras. In 2001, Velasco was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in recognition of his career and extensive influence on lucha libre.

Famous trainees of Diablo......
Atlantis, Alfonso, Apolo and César Dantés, Emilio Charles Sr. and Jr., El Dandy, Irma Aguilar and Irma González, Ringo and Cachorro Mendoza, Satánico, Perro Aguayo, Cavernario Galindo, Angel Blanco Sr. and Jr., Los Hermanos Dinamita (Cien Caras, Máscara Año 2000, Universo 2000), Tarzán López, Javier "Monarca" Cruz, Javier "Américo" Rocca, Gran Markus Jr., Bestia Salvaje, Corazón Salvaje, Mosco de la Merced, Zorro, Solar I & II, Rayo de Jalisco Sr. & Jr., Valentín Mayo, Arkángel de la Muerte, Oro, Plata, El Piloto Suicida, Rito Romero, Hiro Matsuda, Mano Negra, Black Man, Black Terry (Guerrero Maya), El Texano, El Gladiador, El Hijo del Gladiador, Bobby Bonales, Rolando Vera, Gory Guerrero, Alberto Muñoz (White Man), Pepe Vargas, Vic Amezcua, Tony Salazar (Ulises), Enrique Vera, Franco Colombo, Sangre India, Águila India, Gran Cochisse (Espectro de Ultratumba), Espectro Jr., El Supremo I, César Curiel, El Solitario, Mil Máscaras, and his last major trainées, Shocker and Mr. Águila.

Luchadore: El Dandy

Ring name(s) El Dandy
Billed height 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Billed weight 91 kg (200 lb)
Born October 2, 1962,Tijuana, Baja California
Trained by Diablo Velasco, Pedro Anguiano
Pro Wrestling Debut March 1981

Roberto Gutiérrez Frías is a Mexican pro wrestler who has had most of his success in Lucha Libre as El Dandy.

He was a mainstay with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre with feuds with major stars like Satánico, El Hijo del Santo and Emilio Charles, Jr. He also had a run with World Championship Wrestling and had a hand in training WWE's Lita. He had a brief run in WCW with Silver King as Los Fabulosos in which they were managed by Stacy Keibler and he was also a member of the Latino World Order. Dandy became somewhat of a cult figure in smark circles after Bret Hart said "Who are you to doubt El Dandy? during an interview where Gene Okerlund was asking about challengers for his U. S. title. After leaving WCW, he went back to Mexico as part of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración but left after a year to work as an independent. In 2004, his match against L.A. Park was voted Box y Lucha's match of the year.

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Los Warriors

Los Warriors

Los Warriors are an AAA stable comprised of:

Brandon
Kevin
Vangelis
They all have odd looks which fit right into the AAA mold. When they first made their debut in 2001, they had a member who has long since been forgotten - Uri.

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Vipers Revolution

Vipers Revolution is an AAA stable, based off the old Vipers stable. The members, particularlly when Electroshock was part of the group, pushed the idea that there was no leade and they were all equals. In practice, Abismo's the top guy.
Current members:

Abismo Negro
Charly Manson
Histeria
Kaoma Jr.
Antifaz

Former members include:

Electroshock (jumped to CMLL)
Psicosis II (for a very short time, left to join Mexican Powers)
Extreme Tiger (for a very short time, jumped to RXLL)

De Blue Demon y los podcasts

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"De Blue Demon y los podcasts
February 26th, 2007 por Victor Alvarado
Muchos ya lo sabrán, otros no… pero Blue Demon Jr. tiene su podcast en Dixo.
Sigo de manera regular el blog de Mariana H vía RSS en Dixo, pero hoy que entré me topé con los podcasts de una de las leyendas del “pancracio” mexicano.
Algo muy bueno que viene a reiterarnos el caracter global, sin barreras y para todos los gustos que ofrece la red. Si bien me gusta el show que hay detrás de la lucha libre, estos modernos heroes representan muchos sueños de niños, adolescentes y adultos, por lo que acercarse de esta forma es algo digno de señalar.
Enhorabuena por esta iniciativa. Sobre todo al oir al “Demonio Azul” hablar sobre el 14 de Febrero. "