Rey Wagner and El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr

Juan Manuel González Barrón aka Dr. Wagner Jr.aka Rey Wagner and his son El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.

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Hernandez and Johnny Mundo - Lucha Libre

Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide stars Hernandez and  Johnny Mundo.
Yeah I know they have wrestled a LOT of other places too like WWE, the Indy circuit, TNA (Impact Wrestling), Lucha Underground

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Pagano Luchador

José Julio Pacheco Hernández aka Pagano, is a Mexican luchador working for the Mexican AAA promotion.
Besides lucha libre, Jose is also a MMA fighter.
Fighting under the name "Pagano" he defeated Juan Carlos Riquelme by KO in the first round of his first fight.
You may have also seen him in Impact Wrestling here in the US.

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Aero Star Luchador

With outfits like this, how can you not like Lucha Libre?
It's like superheroes wrestling.
This is luchador Aero Star, who has been wrestling since 2003.
And he has worked for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide the whole time, though he has also done some work here in the US as well.
You might know him from Lucha Underground.

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Gronda - The Most Popular Luchador in 2015

Yes the most popular luchador here in 2015 was Gronda.
This 6 foot tall, 220 pound beast beat out Máscara Divina, Angel Azteca Jr., Pimpinela Escarlata and Angel de Oro for the top spot.
But he has not only been Gronda.
He was also called Gran Master, Groond XXX, Gronda XXX and Groon XXX.
Although he is offically retired, he still pops up now and then in International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), Federacion Universal de Lucha Libre (FULL) and other wrestling promotions.

El Texano, Jr. - Lucha Libre Luchadores

This is Juan Aguilar Leos, better known to lucha libre fans as El Texano, Jr.
He was born on July 31st, 1984 in Mexico City, Mexico and was trained by the original (his father) El Texano, El Satánico and Shocker.
Juan made his debut in February of 1999 and has worked for both Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA).

AAA Luchador Aerostar

AAA Luchador Aerostar has been wrestling since 2006.
He actually debuted back in 2003 as another masked luchador, El Chamagol

AAA Luchador Heavy Metal

Luchadors A to Z - Heavy Metal
http://www.bubblews.com/news/2152684-luchadors-a-to-z-heavy-metal

Triple AAA Luchador - Gronda

Not a lot is known about the masked luchador Gronda. I mean not a lot at all! We don’t know his real name, but we know when and where he was born...August 20th, 1960 in Mexico City, Mexico. I imagine this is because of some disclosures the wrestling promotions have to make to the Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. (the Mexican commission of Boxing and Professional Wrestling)
Anyway, yep...Gronda will be turning 54 this year. But you wouldn’t know it by just looking at him. This guy is Batista/bodybuilder big. He's 6 feet tall and weighs 220 and it looks like all of that is solid muscle.
Gronda was trained by luchadors Flash, Aullido and Fuerza Guerrera. He has always wrestled masked. First as Maximo el Gladiador, then Drago, the El Magnate (once), then Luzbel and finally Gronda.
Actually there are two Grondas now, similar to the situation they had with La Parka and LA Park. And to tell you the truth...neither are really good wrestlers.
They are just REALLY big!

Octagón in the Hall of Fame

On December 11th, 2013, legendary Mexican luchador Octagón was inducted into the Hall of Fame in Miguel Hidalgo, D.F.
Octagón (Juan Escalera) has been wrestling December 1981 and in his 32 years in the ring has held a lot of titles.
This is his second such honor because in 2011 he was inducted into the AAA Hall of Fame.

Octagón was involved in one of the greatest Lucha Libre matches of all time when he and El Hijo del Santo took on La Pareja del Terror (the late Art Barr and the late Eddie Guerrero) at AAA When Worlds Collide on November 6th, 1994.
The event was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California and was sponsored by AAA and the WCW.

Luchador Averno - CMLL

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.

Atlantis - CMLL

It's been quite a while since I have done anything on masked luchador Atlantis.
2007 actually.
Of course no one knows Atlantis' real name as is the case with most masked wrestlers.
We do know that he was born on September 28th, 1962 in Los Altos, Jalisco and his brother wrestled under the name Atlántico.

He made his debut back on June 12th, 1983 and was trained by "Diablo" Velazco.
Atlantis has worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) since his debut, actually starting out when they were still called Empressa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL).
He has held almost every major title in CMLL as well as titles in Lucha Libre Azteca, Michinoku Pro Wrestling and Universal Wrestling Entertainment.
Besides wrestling, he has appeared in three movies, La Fuerza Bruta ("The Brute Power") in 1991, Octagón y Atlantis, la revancha ("Octagón and Atlantis, the revenge") in 1992 and Atlantis al rescate ("Atlantis to the rescue") in 2007.

Relampago - Lucha Libre AAA

This interesting looking masked man is Asistencia Asesoría y Administración luchador Relámpago (Lightning).
Relámpago was born on February 14, 1981 in Hermosillo, Sonora.
So happy early birthday!
He was trained by luchadors Ráfaga de Oro, Latino, El Mexicano and Gran Apache, and made his lucha libre debut on May 23rd, 2003 at Arena Obreros del Progreso in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
Relámpago won the 2010 AAA/FMF Lucha Futbolistica (Soccer Fight) a joint event put on by the Mexican Football Federation and AAA.
There he was known as Mexico.

There was also a Relampago comic book superhero published in the 1970s.
That character was the first Mexican American superhero in the American comic book industry.

AAA Lucha Libre Wrestling: Gato Eveready, Relampago and Lasser Boy vs. Poder del Norte (Rio Bravo, Tigre Cota and Tito Santana)

Relampago - Lucha Libre AAA, posted to http://theluchadores.blogspot.com/ on February 13th, 2011

Luchadores - Chessman

It's been a while since I did a write up on Chessman (2007 to be exact) so here are some updates.....

Chessman was born Kevin Citlali Zamora on July 2, 1975 in Villa Nicolás Romero, Mexico State.
He was trained by luchadores Super Taka, El Canek and Pepe Casas and made his lucha libre debut on July 3, 1996 at the Arena López Mateos in Tlalnepantla, Mexico State, wrestling masked as M-357 (357 Magnum) .
During his wrestling career, he has been known as M-357, Magnum, Quinto Elemento (The Fifth Element) and finally Chessman.
He took the name Chessman, not from the game, but from the notorious criminal, Caryl Chessman.
Chessman works for the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) wrestling promotion, and has been a part of many wrestling stables such as The Black Family, Lucha Libre Latina (LLL), La Secta Cibernetica, La Secta del Mesías and Los Hell Brothers.
During his career he has been nicknamed El Apostol de la Maldad" ("The Bad Apostle"), "El Asesino de la luz Roja" ("The Red Light Assassin"), Dark Chessman and El Asesino de la luz Negra" ("The Black Light Assassin").
Chessman has held the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship (with Tiffany), the Mexican National Tag Team Championship (with Electroshock) the Mexican National Atómicos Championship (3 times, once with Ozz, Escoria and Cuervo and twice with The Psycho Circus (Killer Clown, Psycho Clown and Zombie Clown) and the UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship.

Here is a video of Chessman taking on El Mesias



You can find out more about Chessman at the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) website here.

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.

Sangre Azteca

Sangre Azteca (Aztec Blood) was born on October 5, 1975, in Mexico City, Mexico.
He is a Mexican pro wrestler (luchadore) who works as a "rudo", or heel, for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).
Sangre is part of the "Poder Mexica" stable along with Dragon Rojo Jr. and Black Warrior.
He trained with Scorpio and Raúl Reyes, and made his pro wrestling debut on October 5, 1997, at the Arena Naucalpan.
He started out with International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) and moved to CMLL in 1988.
There he became a member of "Grupo Cibernetico" and was further trained by Guillermo "Memo" Díaz and Negro Casas.

He has held the Mexican National Trios Championship twice, once with Dr. X and Nitro, and once with Dragon Rojo Jr. and Black Warrior.
He has also held the Mexican National Welterweight Championship.
Sangre and Ramstein also held the Distrito Federal Tag Team Championship at one time.

Rey Cometa - Lucha Libre

Rey Cometa was born on March 11, 1983 in Queretaro, Queretaro Mexico.
He is a luchadore that works as a tecnico (face) for the Lucha Libre promotion, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).
When he wrestled for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) he was a member of the stable "Real Fuerza Aerea".
Rey started wrestling at the age of 16, and was trained by Kaoma Jr., Atomico de Oro, Dragon De Oriente I and Dragon de Oriente II.
He made his pro wrestling debut on April 30, 1999 in Cadereyta, Queretaro, Mexico.

After wrestling for AAA, he left with Pegasso to go to CMLL.

  Puma King vs. Rey Cometa

Pegasso

Pegasso (or Pegaso) was born on February 25, 1978 in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
He was trained by Gran Apache, Sombra Salvaje and Irasu.
Pegasso started out in the Indy wrestling promotions in Mexico until he caught the interest of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración.
He went to AAA in 2006 and joined a group called Real Fuerza Aerea.
Pegasso left AAA in 2008 and went to IWRG.
When Rey Cometa went to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Pegasso went with him.
By all accounts he is a sound technical wrestler, but really hasnt received a "push".
This may be because of rumored attitude problems backstage.

Here is a video from YouTube of Billy Boy, Pegasso and Super Fly wrestling Gran Apache, Gallego and Cóndor

Molotov

Molotov is a luchador that works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).
He was born in 1979 in Mexico City.
Molotov is the cousin of luchador Olimpus, and he was trained by Olimpus and Jose Luis Feliciano.
He made his pro wrestling debut on May 11, 2004 at the Arena Coliseo.
Molotov has tag teamed with Sensei, Starman, Leono and Metalico.

Mistico Updates

Since the last entry I did on Mistico, thankfully he didn't go to WWE.
I say thankfully because I think Mistico is a great wrestler, and the WWE doesn't have a great track record with lucha libre stars.

Even though Mistico didn't go to the WWE, he and Hector Garza became CMLL World Tag Team champions by defeating Averno and Mephisto on March 10, 2008.
But they did turn around and lose the titles in December 2008.

In July 2008, Místico had a huge opportunity as he went to China and participated in the Beijing International Martial Arts Training Camp.
The event was covered by Televisa and shown during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Mistico made his debut for New Japan Pro Wrestling at Wrestle Kingdom III on January 4, 2009.

Negro Casas took Mistico's CMLL Welterweight Championship on March 20, 2009.