The luchadores de lucha libre, past and present like Pimpinela Escarlata, Texano jr, Black Abyss, Juventud Guerrera, Gronda, Averno, El Apache and more.
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The last time I did a write up on masked luchador Averno he was masked.
That was back in 2007.
But on June 17th, 2011 at Juicio Final, Averno was defeated by La Máscara in a Mask vs Mask match and he revealed that his real name was Renato Ruíz Cortes (his father is CMLL referee Rodolfo Ruíz) and that he was 34 years old and originally from Mexico City.
Renato is still wrestling and on April 26th, 2013 at the Arena Mexico 57th Anniversary Show Averno defeated Místico La Nueva Era to win the vacant Mexican National Welterweight Championship.
I don't have a lot of info about CMLL luchador Àngel del Mal.
He's a rudo (heel).
He was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
And he held the Occidente Welterweight Championship until being defeated by Metal Blanco on April 4th, 2010 in Arena Coliseo Guadalajara.
Masked luchador Angel Azteca Jr. is not really the son of the original Angel Azteca, but he did get permission to use the name before the Angel passed away in 2007.
He was trained by Angel Azteca, El Indio Chirikawa and Satánico and made his pro wrestling debut in 1995 at the age of 15 as Cobrita Oriental ("Little Asian Cobra").
After that he took on the name Fantastico II and teamed with Fantastico I to form Los Fantasticos.
As Angel Azteca Jr., he is part of a team called Los Ángeles Celestiales ("The Celestial Angels") along with Ángel de Oro and Ángel de Plata.
He currently works for CMLL.
Now for a luchador who is a bit different from the others I have profiled here in the past. Mario González Lozano was born on April 18th, 1969 in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico. He works as Pimpinela Escarlata, an Exotico for the Mexican Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) wrestling promotion. Exoticos are ...well...different from the wrestlers we have here in the WWE or TNA, with the possible exception of the old Billy and Chuck tag team.
Exoticos are not new in Lucha Libre. They have been around since the 1950s, with luchadores like Adorable Rubí, Sergio el Hermoso and Bello Greco, but Pimpinela Escarlata has helped give legitimacy to this style of luchador, having held the Pista Arena Revolucion Welterweight Title, the IWA Light Heavyweight Title, the National Light Heavyweight Title, the National Middleweight Title, and one half of the AAA Mixed Tag Team Titles with Fabi Apache.
He was trained by Halcón Suriano and Héctor López, and made his debut in Lucha Libre on June 15th, 1988 in Matamoros, Coahuila.
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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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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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.
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..
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..
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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Hector Manuel Guerrero Llanes (born October 11, 1954) is a Mexican-American professional wrestler, better known simply by his paternal name, Hector Guerrero. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a Spanish color commentator and road agent.
Guerrero was born in Mexico City, Mexico, but his family relocated to El Paso, Texas in the United States of America when he was young. Guerrero attended the University of Texas at El Paso, graduating with a bachelor's degree in physical education.
Guerrero trained as a wrestler under his father, Gory, and debuted in 1977 as Hector Guerrero. Early in his career, he wrestled primarily in California, often teaming with his brothers Chavo and Mando.
In the mid-1980s, Guerrero wrestled for NWA: Jim Crockett Promotions as the masked Lazer-Tron. Guerrero teamed with Jimmy Valiant and feuded with the New Breed. Guerrero went on to feud with Denny Brown for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship, and teamed with Manny Fernandez as "The Latin Connection" until Fernandez turned on him to join Rick Rude and Paul Jones.
In the late 1980s, Guerrero wrestled in the American Wrestling Association, winning the AWA World Tag Team Championship with Dr. D.
After leaving the NWA, Guerrero joined the United States Wrestling Association, where he became known for throwing a compound (supposedly extracted from jalapeño) in the eyes of his opponents to temporarily blind them. Guerrero teamed with Dr. Diablo until inadvertently throwing the extract in Diablo's eyes and blinding his own partner, causing the team to split.
In 1990, Guerrero appeared in the World Wrestling Federation at the 1990 Survivor Series, wearing a turkey costume and performing under the name Gobbledygooker. Although the costume was new, he did reappear as the Gobbledygooker in the Gimmick Battle Royal at WrestleMania X-Seven.
Guerrero appeared with the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion in 1995, unsuccessfully challenging 2 Cold Scorpio for the ECW Television Championship at Return of The Funker.
Guerrero appeared in World Championship Wrestling in 1997 to confront his brother Eddie about his onscreen behavior. He left the promotion after losing to his brother in a singles match on an episode of WCW Saturday Night. Eddie Guerrero stated in his autobiography that Hector left WCW because he was unhappy with the way he was treated.
On March 1, 2007, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling announced that Guerrero had been hired by TNA as a Spanish color commentator and road agent. On March 8, 2007, he was presented with an award for "achievements in the sport of professional wrestling" by TNA and the Hispanic Legacy Foundation. [2] At Lockdown 2007, Hector helped Team 3-D defeat LAX in an Electric Steel Cage Tag Team Match for the NWA World Tag Team Championship when he stopped Konnan from entering the cage.
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Salvador "Gory" Guerrero Quesada (January 11, 1921 – April 18, 1990) was one of the premier Hispanic professional wrestlers in the early days of Lucha Libre when most wrestlers were imported from outside of Mexico.
Gory was born in Ray, Arizona but his family moved shortly thereafter to California where he went to an English school. His family moved to Guadalajara, Jalisco in Mexico and Gori used his language skills at a pottery shop. In Guadalajara, he joined the local "Box y Lucha" club (intending to learn boxing) and was trained by the legendary trainer Diablo Velasco as one of his first protegés. He made his debut shortly after in 1937 in Guadalajara.
Over the next few years, he would make important friends, learn more about the tricks of the trade and amateur wrestling. He made his debut for the Mexico City promotion Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre in 1943. He quickly rose the ranks, being named "Rookie of the Year" and winning two titles in 1945, the National Welterweight title (which he never lost) and the National Middleweight title. His feud with Cavernario Galindo is considered to be one of the first true blood feuds in the history of professional wrestling. The feud later evolved into a tag feud, with El Santo on the side of Gori Guerrero, forming the legendary tag team La Pareja Atómica, and Black Shadow teaming with Galindo.
He continued his success, defeating Tarzán López for the NWA Middleweight title and even wrestling a match with NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz. He broke away from EMLL and worked as an independent in the mid-sixties, also beginning to branch out into booking. As he got older he was wrestling less and less until he retired in the 1980s. He died at the age of 69 in 1990 in El Paso, Texas.
Gori is best remembered for his aggressive technical style and he is credited with the invention of La de a Caballo (or "Camel Clutch" as it is known in the U.S. since it was used by Middle Eastern heels like The Sheik) and the Gori Special, a back to back stretch hold which has been modified into a facebuster move (Gory Bomb) or a neckbreaker/backbreaker (Widow's Peak). He was well respected by several generations of luchadores for his toughness and ability.
A key part of his legacy are his children, Chavo Guerrero Sr. (whose son Chavo Guerrero Jr. is also a wrestler), Hector, Mando, and Eddie Guerrero. He also has two daughters, Cuqui and Linda. His wife Herlinda was the sister of Mexican wrestler Enrique Llanes. He was a born-again Christian and raised his children in the Baptist Church.
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Chavo Guerrero, Jr. (born Salvador Chavito Guerrero III on October 20, 1970) is a third generation American professional wrestler and member of the famed Guerrero wrestling family.
He is the grandson of Gory Guerrero; the son of Chavo Guerrero, Sr.; the nephew of Eddie Guerrero, Hector Guerrero, Mando Guerrero and Enrique Llanes; and the cousin of Javier Llanes and Hector Mejia. He is currently working on the SmackDown! brand of World Wrestling Entertainment, where he is the reigning WWE Cruiserweight Champion.
His grandfather Gory Guerrero was one of the most famous wrestlers in Mexican history. His father, Chavo Guerrero, Sr., was also a legendary wrestler in Mexico, and worked in WWE as a part-time wrestler and full-time manager. One of his uncles, Eddie Guerrero, was one of WWE's biggest stars. Eddie performed for the SmackDown! brand, as did Chavo Sr. (aka Chavo Classic). Chavo Jr. has two other uncles (Mando and Hector) who have had successful careers in the business.
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Chavo Guerrero, Sr. (born Salvador Guerrero Llanes on January 7, 1949) is a former professional wrestler.
Earlier in his career, Chavo had feuded with Roddy Piper in California and Atsushi Onita in Japan over lighter-weight titles.
He usually teamed with his brothers, Mando and Hector wherever he wrestled. Prior to wrestling for World Wrestling Entertainment, his biggest exposure was in the late 1980s wrestling in the American Wrestling Association on ESPN. He was teaming with his brother Mando to go after the AWA World Tag Team Championship held by Diamond Dallas Page's team of Badd Company (Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka).
Chavo Guerrero began working for World Wrestling Entertainment. He debuted on the January 15, 2004 episode of SmackDown! coming in to join with his son Chavo, Jr. in feud with his brother Eddie. While with WWE, Guerrero had a brief reign as Cruiserweight Champion, becoming the oldest Cruiserweight Champion in history. On June 15, 2004, he was fired by WWE for no-showing a SmackDown! house show two days earlier.
His son Salvador Chavito Guerrero III, better known as Chavo Jr. (also known as Chavo Guerrero) continues to perform for WWE. His youngest brother, Eduardo, better known as Eddie Guerrero, also performed in WWE until his death in November 2005.
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Wrestler: Heavy Metal
Real name Erick Francisco Casas Ruiz
Name history Canelo Casas (debut - 92/05), Heavy Metal (92/05 - )
Family Pepe Casas (father), Negro Casas and Felino (brothers), Black Star (cousin), Kid Tiger (nephew)
Trained by: Pepe Casas, Raúl Reyes, Negro Casas, Felino
Birth date October 4, 1970 - Mexico City
Pro Wrestling Debut February 14, 1988 - Arena Azteca Budokan - Mexico City
Height 5'8"/173 cms
Weight 194 lbs/88 kg
Signature moves La Casita (Magistral Cradle), Plancha, Slingshot somersault bodyblock, Heavy Punch (punch to the face), Running Corner Dropkick
Titles: Naucalpan Tag Team Wrestling Titles (as Canelo Casas, with Arkangel), National Welterweight Title (twice, once as Canelo Casas), WWA World Welterweight Title, National Tag Team Titles (with Latin Lover), UWA World Light Heavyweight Title, AAA Campeón de Campeones Championship, IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Title, IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship (withNegro Casas & Felino)
Erick Francisco Casas Ruiz is a Mexican pro wrestler currently working under the ring name Heavy Metal for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
He has since moved to AAA.
Ring name(s) Perro Aguayo
Billed height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Billed weight 98 kg (215 lb)
Born January 18, 1946,Nochistlán, Zacatecas
Trained by Apolo Romano,Diablo Velasco
Debut 1968
Pedro Aguayo better known as Perro Aguayo, was a famous Mexican wrestler in the 1970s and 1980s. His son also wrestles as Perro Aguayo, Jr. or El Hijo Del Perro Aguayo. He is one of the biggest box office attractions in Lucha Libre history and was the last major rival of El Santo. Often prone to blading, he has been described by American pundits as a cross between Terry Funk and Bruno Sammartino (for his willingness to brawl and overpower opponents). He was the first person ever crowned the WWF Light Heavyweight Champion, though pre-1997 title reigns are not included in WWE's official "canon" for that title.
He was synonymous with the Universal Wrestling Association as one of its top heels and one of the top heels lucha libre overall. In the 1990s, he helped found Asistencia Asesoría y Administración and his three way feud with Konnan and Cien Caras proved to be one of the most successful programs in terms of box office receipts. He stayed with AAA until 2000, even making an appearance on WWF's Royal Rumble in 1997 in a match that featured lucha libre legends like Canek, Mil Máscaras and up and comers who would later make names for themselves like Héctor Garza and Heavy Metal. He came to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre to feud with Los Capos. He was successful in taking the hair of Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000 but he lost his slated retirement match against Universo 2000. He remained in retirement until his son began feuding with Los Capos as well. Cien Caras claimed he could not retire until his business with Aguayo was finished so a double hair vs. hair match was set with Perro Aguayo and Perro Aguayo taking on Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000. The Aguayos were successful and Perro Aguayo returned to retirement and Cien Caras went into semi-retirement.
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