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|birthdate=[[October 4]], [[1931]]<br />
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|name=El Santo<br />
|realName=Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta<br />
|nicknames=El Enmascarado de Plata (The man of the silver mask), El Profe (The Professor)<br />
|nameHistory=Rudy/Ruddy Guzmán (debut - 36), Hombre Rojo (36 - 11/36), El Enmascarado, Murciélago Enmascarado II, El Demonio Negro, El Santo (06/42 - death)<br />
|family=[[El Hijo del Santo]] (son), [[Santo Jr.]] (nieto), [[Black Guzmán]], [[Pantera Negra]] and [[Jimmy Guzmán]] (brothers), [[Los Rockets]], [[Axxel]] (grandsons); see [[The Family of El Santo]]<br />
|maestro=[[Black Guzmán]]<br />
|birthdate=[[September 23]], [[1917]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]<br />
|obituarydate=[[February 5]], [[1984]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|debut=[[June 28]], [[1934]] - [[Arena Peralvillo-Cozumel]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
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|height= 5' 9"/175 cm<br />
|weight= 209 lb/95 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=[[La de a Caballo]] (camel clutch), [[Tope de Cristo]] (flying somersault headbutt), [[Plancha]], [[Running Tope Suicida]]<br />
|titles=[[National Welterweight Title]], [[National Middleweight Title]] (4), [[NWA World Welterweight Title]] (2), [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (2), [[National Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[Rayo de Jalisco]]), [[National Light Heavyweight Title]]<br />
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== Biography == <br />
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To say that El Santo is just a lucha legend would a huge understatement. He was more than a luchador with a parallel acting career. Santo is a cultural icon, a social phenomenon whose impact in the Mexican society is enormous in many different ways. Santo was a superhero like Superman, Batman or Spiderman - but with the difference that Santo was real and you could go to watch him wrestle every week, while the others were just comic characters. It's safe to say that Santo is the most popular wrestler ever in his home country, and he's more popular than [[Antonio Inoki]], [[Riki Choshu]], [[Lou Thesz]], [[Hulk Hogan]], [[Steve Austin]] and many others were and are. The only one that comes close to Santo is Japanese cultural hero [[Rikidozan]], and he's actually Korean.<br />
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Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta was born [[September 23]], [[1917]] in [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]. Son of Jesús Guzmán Campuzano and Josefina Huerta Márquez, he was the fifth of seven children. When he was still a little kid, his family moved to [[Mexico City]] and he kept studying at the Abraham Castellanos elementary school. During his youth, Rodolfo practised many sports, like baseball and (American) football.<br />
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Several of his brothers were wrestlers. [[Black Guzmán|(Miguel) "Black" Guzmán]] was the most popular one as he captured several National titles and a few NWA titles in both [[Mexico]] and [[Texas]]. Jesús wrestled as [[Pantera Negra]] but he died in the ring, while Javier wrestled as [[Jimmy Guzmán]] at some small arenas. When Rodolfo was working at a stockings factory he decided to become a luchador like his brothers so he learnt the martial art known as jujutsu (jiu-jitsu) and later he practised some Greco-Roman (amateur) wrestling.<br />
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After a few months of training with his brother Black, he made his professional debut teaming with him as Rudy Guzmán on [[June 28]], [[1934]] in the [[Arena Peralvillo Cozumel]] of the [[Peralvillo]] district in [[Mexico City]]. He was 17 years old. But it was in [[Arena Pachuca]], of [[Pachuca]], [[Hidalgo]], where [[EMLL]] superstar [[Jack O'Brien]] saw the talent that Rudy and Miguel had and recommended them to EMLL's main talent scout, the referee [[Jesús Lomelí]].<br />
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Jesús took both brothers to [[Mexico City]] and got them signed to EMLL contracts. Miguel kept wrestling under his old name and became fairly popular, in fact in [[1939]] he was voted "rookie" of the year. On the other hand, Rodolfo wasn't so successful and rather than being "somebody else's brother" he decided to become his own self.<br />
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He started wrestling unmasked as El Hombre Rojo (Red Man) but this one wasn't a really memorable stint even though during that year he wrestled three times in the Arena Modelo (now known as [[Arena Mexico]]). In the meanwhile he had to work in many different places as carpenter, painter and other jobs to earn enough money to make a decent living.<br />
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In November of [[1936]], he left EMLL as he didn't feel he was getting a good push. Jesús Lomelí also left La Empresa and started promoting on his own at the [[Fronton México]] and when looking for young talent for his shows he didn't think it twice and called Rodolfo, who started wrestling under the mask of El Murciélago Enmascarado II (The Masked Bat II) as Jesús didn't want him to be Hombre Rojo anymore. The original [[Murciélago Velázquez]] didn't like the fact that a rookie was using his name without his permission so he complained to the [[Box y Lucha Commission]] and Rodolfo had to drop the gimmick.<br />
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Things weren't really working the right way. As soon as he started to get some heel heat (up to this point he had always been wrestling as a rudo) he had to drop the name and the hood. Also, his father had just recently died. Things were getting worse by the moment. Now if he wanted to keep wrestling he'd have to get a new name, so he had a meeting with his Lomelí, a man he had already developed a good friendship with. Lomelí suggested several names, like El Angel, but the most interesting one, considering he was a merciless rudo, was El Santo (The Saint in Spanish). Rodolfo loved the name and decided he'd become Santo.<br />
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El Santo's debut was on [[July 26]], [[1942]] in the old [[Arena Mexico]]. Lomelí told him to buy a silver mask and tights so with help of maskmaker [[Antonio Martinez]] he got his first outfit. Rodolfo didn't have a lot of money so it was a cheap one, but at least it would be good enough to wrestle until he could afford getting a new one. But back to his first match under this new identity, it was an eight man Battle Royal with [[Bobby Bonales]], [[Lobo Negro]], [[Gorila Macías II]], [[Bobby Rood]], [[Murciélago Velázquez]], [[Pavilivsky]] and [[Ciclón Veloz]]. The last two men in the ring were Santo and Ciclón so they fought in a regular 2 out of 3 falls match. Santo defeated Veloz in the first fall. Veloz took the second one, and during the third fall, Santo was giving Veloz such a beating that the referee Jesús Lomelí tried to stop it, but then Santo attacked him too and got himself DQ'd.<br />
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Around a week later Veloz and Santo fought each other in a rematch in which Santo upset Veloz, as everybody thought that the tecnico would get his revenge. The following week he wrestled another wild rudo, El Lobo Negro, who couldn't stop the silver hooded rudo either. But Santo's first big match was on [[August 16]], [[1942]], when he faced Bobby Bonales in the main event of an [[Arena Mexico]] card. Bonales, already an stablished star, defeated Santo that night, however the young man was already making a big impact with his style.<br />
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On [[December 4]], Santo defeated Lobo Negro in a "superlibre" (no rules) fight but one of the most memorable moments of the early Santo career was during his match against [[Dientes Hernández]], as Santo gave his poor opponent EIGHT straight "fauls" (low blows). Dientes' wife sure wasn't happy about that one, but Santo's name was all over the lucha section of the papers now, and he soon became one of the most hated rudos of Mexico.<br />
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Santo got his first title ever on [[February 21]], [[1943]] when he defeated his old enemy Ciclón Veloz to win the [[Mexican National Welterweight Championship]]. Santo kept that title for almost a year as he lost it on [[Feburary 18]], [[1944]] against Jack O'Brien.<br />
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On [[March 19]], Santo got his revenge of Murciélago Velázquez, as he defeated him to get the [[Mexican National Middleweight Title]], thus become double National champion. Santo's first big mask defense also was against Velázquez, who got a free haircut courtesy of the silver masked one.<br />
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On [[April 2]], [[1943]], [[Salvador Lutteroth]] opened a new building called [[Arena Coliseo]], and for its first card ever, he booked a Santo vs. [[Tarzán López]] main event. López probably was the biggest star in Mexico back then, and as expected, he defeated Santo in that match. And as if that big loss wasn't enough, on [[June 11]], Bobby Bonales defeated him for the Middleweight title. But he found the right way again and on [[September 24]], at the EMLL Anniversary show at Arena Coliseo, Santo defeated Bonales in a mask vs. hair match.<br />
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During the first months of [[1944]], Santo didn't have a lot of luck as on May he had an auto accident that could have killed him. But soon after that accident he defeated Jack O'Brien in a mask vs. hair match and his career picked up again. A few months later, Santo broke up his relationship with his regular tag team partner, [[El Charro Aguayo]], so he decided to look for a new tag team partner. He studied the talent available and he chose to team with a promising youngster that was just starting to get noticed.<br />
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So on November 19, "[[La Pareja Atómica]]" (The Atomic Pair) of El Santo and [[Gory Guerrero|Salvador "Gory" Guerrero]] was born as that day they teamed for the first time ever to defeat Bobby Bonales and Jack O'Brien. La Pareja Atómica sure was a very explosive combo. Santo was a wild rudo brawler, but on the other hand Guerrero was a great technician.<br />
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Gory and Santo defeated everybody that crossed their path: O'Brien and Bonales, and O'Brien and López tried to stop them several times but they never could defeat them.<br />
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On [[May 15]], [[1946]], Santo won his first World title. After the American [[Jack Reynolds]] vacated the [[NWA Welterweight Title]], [[EMLL]] asked Col. Landry (from the NWA) to let them run a tournament for that title. They were given the nod, though the first two wrestlers in the official NWA welterweight rankings, the Bulgarian [[Pete Pancoff]] and the American [[Red Garner]], had to participate in that tournament as well. Santo reached the finals by defeating Murciélago Velázquez and Jack O'Brien. On the other side of the brackets, Pancoff defeated Dientes Hernandez and [[Emilio Charles Sr.]] to get to the final match. Santo defeated Pancoff after the Bulgarian submitted to a [[Boston crab]] in the legendary final match. When Pancoff submitted, the crowd exploded in a huge "SANTO! SANTO! SANTO!" chorus.<br />
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This was one of the turning points of the career of Santo because even though he was a natural heel, and wrestled and acted like a rudo, by defeating a foreign wrestler to get a world title he was defending the country's pride and that made him a national hero.<br />
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But after that big win, things didn't work as expected. On [[September 20]], [[Wolf Rubinskis]], who was making his [[Arena Mexico]] debut, crushed him the same way he crushed Ciclón Veloz when he made his debut. But the worst thing is that during this match Santo got injured and had to take a few weeks off.<br />
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His career wasn't going as expected after his return in [[1947]] either. On [[February 14]], Jack O'Brien defeated him for the NWA Welterweight title. Again, Santo was the chosen one to give the welcome to a new wrestler that was making debut: [[Black Shadow]], and yes, Santo lost to Shadow clean in the middle of the ring too.<br />
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Santo's next big profile match was on [[1949]], when he had to face his friend and partner Gory Guerrero. It was March when Lutteroth announced that there would be a tournament to decide the number one contender for the NWA Welterweight title that O'Brien still held. The storyline says that Santo encouraged Gory, a natural Middleweight, to lose weight and participate in the tournament. Both men reached the finals of the tournament, and the day of the friend vs. friend match, EMLL sold-out the building (Arena Coliseo). Gory won this memorable fight by making his partner Santo submit. Many thought that jealousy would break their friendship but this match did nothing but make it stronger. In fact Santo was the second of his compadre when on [[April 29]], Gory defeated O'Brien in the title match.<br />
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During 1949, Santo also wrestled a few matches in [[Houston]], [[Texas]]... but without his mask on! He eventually returned to Mexico but a few things changed.<br />
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While Santo was gone, the young undercard team of [[Blue Demon]] and Black Shadow, "Los Hermanos Shadow", was getting more popular by the day so the promoters obviously decided to face them to the reformed team of Gory and Santo. On [[April 9]], [[1950]], the atomic pair made quick work out of the masked "brothers" in a tag match.<br />
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Shadow claimed he'd avenge that loss and he started feuding extensively with Santo. The Shadow/Santo rivalry reached its higher point on [[November 7]], [[1952]] when both men faced each other in the mask vs. mask match that is considered the most important one in the history of lucha libre in Mexico. Arena Coliseo was the place in which Black Shadow was revealed to be Alejandro Cruz Ortíz, from [[León de los Aldama]].<br />
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Again somebody was anxious to get revenge on Santo, but this time it Blue Demon who wanted to avenge the mask loss of his wrestling brother, Black Shadow. After Demon humilliated Santo, winning him in two straight falls during a non-title match held on [[August 7]], [[1953]], Demon challenged Santo to a match with the NWA Welterweight title at stake. On [[September 27]], in what many consider the biggest loss in his career, Santo lost the title to Blue Demon.<br />
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But it was around this time when Santo was starting to become the myth he is now. Thanks to the TV coverage, lucha libre had its first ever "boom", and Santo's character was successfully marketed in comics and other merchandising. Also, at this time there was a huge nationalism among the Mexican population, and Santo always defented the colors of his country, like on the [[January 1|first day]] of the new year [[1954]], when he defeated Chinese wrestler [[Sugi Sito]] to capture the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship]].<br />
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It was in [[1962]] that Santo made the decision to become a técnico. After all, he was way too loved to be hated. During a match in which he teamed with [[Los Espantos]] (I & II) against [[Rayo de Jalisco]], [[Henry Pilusso]] and [[Rito Romero]], his partners turned on him and left him alone in the ring against the three tecnicos that obviously defeated him. On his first match as a good guy, held on [[July 5]], he teamed with Pilusso against the Espantos. That night Santo gave such an exhibition of high flying and ring knowledge that he was given an unanimous standing ovation by the crowd.<br />
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Another important fact in Santo's career is that on [[April 19]], [[1963]], he teamed with Blue Demon for the first time ever. From then on, the dream team wrestled together many other times all over Mexico, though they never were a regular tag team.<br />
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Around this time Santo also was a film star, as in [[1958]] he filmed his first movie. After that cinematic debut, he starred in other 50+ movies. Even though those films didn't exactly have great production values (even by the 60s standards) and the plots of them weren't mindbogglingly great either, the people flocked over to the cinema to watch them all. Those movies were quite a hit in other countries as well, as they were really popular all over Latin America, [[Spain]] and even Lebanon, where there's a cinema with a huge Santo statue in the entrance. Many cinema critics loved to hate Santo, but a proved fact is that the three most successful stars of the Mexican cinema history are Pedro Infante, Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" and El Santo. There's an anecdote that says that once, representants of a Chinese company came to Mexico looking for Mexican films. They were shown a few productions that were considered among the best in the history of Mexican cinema, but the Chinese said that they didn't want those films. They wanted Santo, because they claimed that "Santo represented the perfect hero fighting against the evil".<br />
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== Journey towards Retirement ==<br />
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Santo was also getting older, so now he mainly wrestled in six-men tag matches rather than singles or tag team bouts. He formed a successful team with a young good worker called Rayo de Jalisco and they captured the [[Mexican National Tag Team Titles]] twice over the decade (of the 60s). In [[1975]], his "tercia" with [[El Solitario]] and [[Mil Mascaras]] was such a huge hit that it was voted team of the year even though they didn't team together extensively. Unlike other EMLL wrestlers, Santo had special privileges, for instance he was allowed to appear in cards of the rival promotion [[UWA]], but in [[1977]] there was a big EMLL break down and many wrestlers, including Santo, left "La Empresa".<br />
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In [[1980]], during a match vs. Los Misioneros ([[El Signo]], [[Negro Navarro]] and [[Texano]]), Santo fell unconscious, and he was later diagnosed with a coronary problem. A year later, in [[1981]], Santo suffered a heart attack when teaming with [[Huracán Ramirez]] and Black Shadow against Los Misioneros de la Muerte (Signo, Texano & Negro Navarro). Santo's wrestling license was revoked so he decided it was time to say goodbye. After this incident, Santo secretly had an operation.<br />
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Santo's last feud was against a young masked superstar called [[Bobby Lee]]. Lee said that Santo wouldn't leave the business masked and challenged him to a mask vs. mask match. The challenge was accepted and Santo took Lee's mask revealing him to be Carlos Alvarado. Lee had his feet on the ropes when Santo made him submit to the camel clutch, but the referee didn't see it. Santo failed to defeat Lee in a match for the [[UWA Welterweight Championship]] Bobby held, but later he took his hair in a hair vs. mask match.<br />
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In [[1982]], Santo had a three match retirement tour. In the first match he teamed with Solitario against [[Villano III]] and Rokambole ([[Villano V]]) at the [[Palacio de los Deportes]]. In the second match, held in Arena Mexico, he teamed with [[Gran Hamada]] to defeat [[Villano I]] and [[Scorpio]] in the first round of a losers advance tournament (where all the teams were comprised of a masked man and an unmasked wrestler) in which the final losers would get his hair shaved or his mask removed. And in the final match of his career, held on [[September 12]] at the [[Toreo de Cuatro Caminos]], he teamed with his old friend Gory Guerrero (who was already retired but returned for this one-time deal), Huracán Ramírez and El Solitario to defeat Los Misioneros, and his last major opponent, [[Perro Aguayo]], in two straight falls, both won via DQ.<br />
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Now that he was retired, Santo kept active doing other things. A month later one of his sons debuted under the [[Hijo del Santo]] mask, and Santo was at ringside during all the matches of his son's debut tour.<br />
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On [[January 26]], [[1984]] he appeared in the lucha special of the talk program "Contrapunto" (Counterpoint), and partially removed his mask in a totally unexpected way. Some say that he did this because he felt that he had little time to live.<br />
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== A Mortal Saint with an Immortal Legacy == <br />
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On [[February 5]], two weeks after he took his mask off on a national TV program, Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta felt a tremendous pain in the chest after his debut as an escapist at the Teatro (teather) Blanquita. He was taken to the Mosel Hospital but nothing could be done. Santo was dead. The following day this was the biggest piece of news all over the country. Each and every magazine and newspaper extensively covered the news in the first pages, and all the TV and radio stations had special Santo programs.<br />
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During his life, Rodolfo had the opportunity to be two different individuals, but he chose to be Santo in death. The following day he was buried with his mask on in what is considered to be the biggest burial in the history of Mexico. Proof that the whole country mourned Santo's death was that an estimated crowd of 10,000 showed up and literally blocked the streets to the point that it took several hours until the coffin made it to the mausoleum. Several wrestlers like [[Mil Mascaras]] and [[Blue Demon]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Charles Bronson Mexicano]], [[Enrique Llanes]] and a teary [[Wolf Ruvinskis]] showed up to give Santo his last goodbye. [[Hijo del Santo]] and [[Huracán Ramírez]] among others, carried the coffin to the Mausoleo (mausoleum) María del Ángel where Santo rests in peace.<br />
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To this day, Santo is still an important piece of the history of the country and also a relevant part of the Mexican folklore. Even now, more than fifteen years after his death, everybody in Mexico knows about El Santo. His films are still shown on TV from time to time and they still generate ratings after all these years. Many magazines (not just lucha or movie magazines) still publish Santo articles or even special issues. In November of [[1999]], Somos ("We are") published a Santo special that included several pictures of Rodolfo Guzmán without his mask. El Hijo Del Santo threatened to sue [[Televisa]] (owners of the magazine) but since the source of the pictures was one of his brothers the lawsuit was dropped.<br />
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One could say that as long as there is lucha libre in Mexico, there will be Santo, but even if there wasn't lucha, Santo would still be alive in the heart of the Mexican citizens.</font><br />
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===Filmography===<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro del Mal (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Hombres Infernales (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Zombis (1961)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Rey del Crimen (1961)]] <br />
#[[Santo en el Hotel de la Muerte (1961)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro Diabólico (1962)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs las Mujeres Vampiro (1962)]] <br />
#[[Santo en el Museo de Cera (1963)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs el Estrangulador (1963)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Espectro (1963)]]<br />
#[[Blue Demon Contra el Poder Satánico (1964)]] <br />
#[[El Hacha Diabólica (1964)]]<br />
#[[Atacan las Brujas (1964)]] <br />
#[[Profanadores de Tumbas (1965)]] <br />
#[[El Barón Brákola (1965)]] (three episodes)<br />
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs la Invasión de Los Marcianos (1966)]] <br />
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs Los Villanos del Ring (1966)]]<br />
#[[Operación 67 (1966)]]<br />
#[[El Tesoro de Moctezuma (1966)]]<br />
#[[Santo en el Tesoro de Drácula (1968]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Capulina (1968)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlántida (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos (1969)]] <br />
#[[El Mundo de los Muertos (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs Los Cazadores de Cabezas (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo Frente A la Muerte (1969)]] (coproduced in Colombia and Spain)<br />
#[[Santo en la Venganza de las Mujeres Vampiro (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Jinetes del Terror (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo vs la Mafia del Vicio (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo en la Venganza de la Momia (1970)]]<br />
#[[Las Momias de Guanajuato (1970)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Asesinos de Otros Mundos (1971)]] <br />
#[[Santo vs la Hija de Frankenstein (1971)]]<br />
#[[Misión Suicida (1971)]] <br />
#[[Santo y el Aguila Real (el águila real) (1971)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra la Magia Negra (1972)]] (coproduced in Haití) <br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (1972)]]<br />
#[[Las Bestias del Terror (1972)]] <br />
#[[Anónimo Mortal (1972)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Secuestradores (1972)]] (coproduced with Ecuador) <br />
#[[Santo vs las Lobas (1972)]] <br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra el Doctor Frankestein (1973)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Doctor Muerte (1973)]] (coproduced in Spain) <br />
#[[Santo en el Misterio de la Perla Negra (1974)]] (coproduced in Colombia & Spain) <br />
#[[La Venganza de la Llorona (1974)]] <br />
#[[Santo en Oro Negro (1975)]] (coproduced in part in Puerto Rico) <br />
#[[México de Mis Amores (1976)]] (documentary)<br />
#[[Misterio en las Bermudas (1977)]]<br />
#[[Santo en la Frontera del Terror (1979)]]<br />
#[[Chanoc y el Hijo del Santo vs Los Vampiros Asesinos (1981)]] (special) <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Asesino de la Televisión (1981)]]<br />
#[[El Puño de la Muerte (1982)]]<br />
#[[La Furia de Los Karatecas (1982)]]<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
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{{aline|??/??/??|mask<ref>[[Box y Lucha 3339]]</ref>|[[El Santo]]|[[Sombra Blanca]]|[[Veracruz]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask<ref>[[Box y Lucha 3339]]</ref>|[[El Santo]]|[[Bolchevique]]|[[Salamanca]], [[Guanajuato]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Cavernario Galindo]]|[[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|[[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Raúl Torres]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gorilita Flores]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Judas Colombiano]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Arturo Chávez]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Araña (Antonio Vazquez)]]|[[Torreón]], [[Coahuila]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Monstruo (Mario Ceron)]]|[[Guatemala City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Cara Cortada]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dr. X (original)]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1943]]/01/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Murciélago Velázquez]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1943]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[02/09]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[04/08]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jack O'Brien]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1949]]/[[12/25]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Golden Terror]]|[[Arena Canada Dry]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1949]]/[[07/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Enrique Llanes]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1951]]/[[02/11]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chico Casaola]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1952]]/[[11/07]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Black Shadow]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1955]]/[[12/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Halcón Negro (50s)|Halcón Negro]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1956]]/[[September 21|09/21]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|1957|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Imperio Rojo]]|Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/[[10/29]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Monje Loco (50s)|Monje Loco]]|[[Plaza de Toros el Progreso, Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/[[12/10]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Monje Loco (50s)|Monje Loco]]|[[Plaza de Toros el Progreso, Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/??/??|mask|El Santo|Sombra Vengadora ([[Octavio Gaona Jr.]])|[[Morelia, Michoacán]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1959]]/[[02/22]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Alberto Reyes|El Tercer Hombre]]<ref>Tercer Hombre would lose his mask multiple times - [http://superluchas.com/2015/02/22/en-un-dia-como-hoy-1959-el-regreso-de-henry-pilusso-el-tercer-hombre-vuelve-a-perder-la-mascara-ahora-ante-el-santo/ SuperLuchas]</ref>|[[Arena Canada Dry]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|masks|[[El Santo]] & [[Dr. X (original)]]|Infernales [[Infernal I (Tomas Riande)|I (Riande)]] & [[Infernal II (Paulino Mar)|II (Mar)]]|?|[[Leon]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Cebra (Antonio Rey)]]|?|[[Colombia]]|}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Momia]] (Salvadoreño)|?|[[San Salvador]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Rubén Juárez]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto II]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[04/26]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Benny Galant]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[10/25]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto I]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be after the Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dragón Rojo (Luis Gonzalez)|Dragón Rojo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1965]]/[[04/05]]<ref>[http://i.imgur.com/hST7eLP.png Lucha Libre 78]</ref>|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Chacal (Guatemala)|El Chacal]]|[[Guatemala City]], [[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1965]]/[[11/05]]<ref>Lucha Libre 109</ref>|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gory Casanova]]|[[Guatemala City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1966]].[[09.18]]<ref>Lucha Libre 167</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[The Spider]]|[[Morelia, Michocan]]}}<br />
{{aline|12/?/1967|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Samurai I]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1967]].[[12.17]]<ref>http://superluchas.net/2014/12/17/en-un-dia-como-hoy-el-santo-rapo-chino-chow/</ref><br />
|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chino Chow]]|[[Arena Danubio Azul, Tijuana, Baja California]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dick Angelo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/10]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[René Guajardo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/11]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jorge Allende]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1970]]/[[07/26]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Alex de Alba]]|[[Arena Sindicato Clemente Jacques]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[10/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Perro Aguayo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 3|09/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/[[March 30|03/30]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Urco]]|[[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/[[June 2|06/02]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Judas]]|[[Gimnasio Olímpico]], [[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Remolino]]|[[Gimnasio Municipal Obregon|Gimnasio Municipal - Cd. Obregón]], [[Sonora]]}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
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[[Category:La Arena bios]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Santo&diff=182571El Santo2020-06-25T02:48:35Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
{{bioFields|<br />
|image=elsanto.jpg<br />
|name=El Santo<br />
|realName=Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta<br />
|nicknames=El Enmascarado de Plata (The man of the silver mask), El Profe (The Professor)<br />
|nameHistory=Rudy/Ruddy Guzmán (debut - 36), Hombre Rojo (36 - 11/36), El Enmascarado, Murciélago Enmascarado II, El Demonio Negro, El Santo (06/42 - death)<br />
|family=[[El Hijo del Santo]] (son), [[Santo Jr.]] (nieto), [[Black Guzmán]], [[Pantera Negra]] and [[Jimmy Guzmán]] (brothers), [[Los Rockets]], [[Axxel]] (grandsons); see [[The Family of El Santo]]<br />
|maestro=[[Black Guzmán]]<br />
|birthdate=[[September 23]], [[1917]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]<br />
|obituarydate=[[February 5]], [[1984]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|debut=[[June 28]], [[1934]] - [[Arena Peralvillo-Cozumel]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height= 5' 9"/175 cm<br />
|weight= 209 lb/95 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=[[La de a Caballo]] (camel clutch), [[Tope de Cristo]] (flying somersault headbutt), [[Plancha]], [[Running Tope Suicida]]<br />
|titles=[[National Welterweight Title]], [[National Middleweight Title]] (4), [[NWA World Welterweight Title]] (2), [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (2), [[National Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[Rayo de Jalisco]]), [[National Light Heavyweight Title]]<br />
}}<br />
{{WONHOF}}<br />
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== Biography == <br />
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To say that El Santo is just a lucha legend would a huge understatement. He was more than a luchador with a parallel acting career. Santo is a cultural icon, a social phenomenon whose impact in the Mexican society is enormous in many different ways. Santo was a superhero like Superman, Batman or Spiderman - but with the difference that Santo was real and you could go to watch him wrestle every week, while the others were just comic characters. It's safe to say that Santo is the most popular wrestler ever in his home country, and he's more popular than [[Antonio Inoki]], [[Riki Choshu]], [[Lou Thesz]], [[Hulk Hogan]], [[Steve Austin]] and many others were and are. The only one that comes close to Santo is Japanese cultural hero [[Rikidozan]], and he's actually Korean.<br />
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Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta was born [[September 23]], [[1917]] in [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]. Son of Jesús Guzmán Campuzano and Josefina Huerta Márquez, he was the fifth of seven children. When he was still a little kid, his family moved to [[Mexico City]] and he kept studying at the Abraham Castellanos elementary school. During his youth, Rodolfo practised many sports, like baseball and (American) football.<br />
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Several of his brothers were wrestlers. [[Black Guzmán|(Miguel) "Black" Guzmán]] was the most popular one as he captured several National titles and a few NWA titles in both [[Mexico]] and [[Texas]]. Jesús wrestled as [[Pantera Negra]] but he died in the ring, while Javier wrestled as [[Jimmy Guzmán]] at some small arenas. When Rodolfo was working at a stockings factory he decided to become a luchador like his brothers so he learnt the martial art known as jujutsu (jiu-jitsu) and later he practised some Greco-Roman (amateur) wrestling.<br />
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After a few months of training with his brother Black, he made his professional debut teaming with him as Rudy Guzmán on [[June 28]], [[1934]] in the [[Arena Peralvillo Cozumel]] of the [[Peralvillo]] district in [[Mexico City]]. He was 17 years old. But it was in [[Arena Pachuca]], of [[Pachuca]], [[Hidalgo]], where [[EMLL]] superstar [[Jack O'Brien]] saw the talent that Rudy and Miguel had and recommended them to EMLL's main talent scout, the referee [[Jesús Lomelí]].<br />
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Jesús took both brothers to [[Mexico City]] and got them signed to EMLL contracts. Miguel kept wrestling under his old name and became fairly popular, in fact in [[1939]] he was voted "rookie" of the year. On the other hand, Rodolfo wasn't so successful and rather than being "somebody else's brother" he decided to become his own self.<br />
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He started wrestling unmasked as El Hombre Rojo (Red Man) but this one wasn't a really memorable stint even though during that year he wrestled three times in the Arena Modelo (now known as [[Arena Mexico]]). In the meanwhile he had to work in many different places as carpenter, painter and other jobs to earn enough money to make a decent living.<br />
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In November of [[1936]], he left EMLL as he didn't feel he was getting a good push. Jesús Lomelí also left La Empresa and started promoting on his own at the [[Fronton México]] and when looking for young talent for his shows he didn't think it twice and called Rodolfo, who started wrestling under the mask of El Murciélago Enmascarado II (The Masked Bat II) as Jesús didn't want him to be Hombre Rojo anymore. The original [[Murciélago Velázquez]] didn't like the fact that a rookie was using his name without his permission so he complained to the [[Box y Lucha Commission]] and Rodolfo had to drop the gimmick.<br />
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Things weren't really working the right way. As soon as he started to get some heel heat (up to this point he had always been wrestling as a rudo) he had to drop the name and the hood. Also, his father had just recently died. Things were getting worse by the moment. Now if he wanted to keep wrestling he'd have to get a new name, so he had a meeting with his Lomelí, a man he had already developed a good friendship with. Lomelí suggested several names, like El Angel, but the most interesting one, considering he was a merciless rudo, was El Santo (The Saint in Spanish). Rodolfo loved the name and decided he'd become Santo.<br />
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El Santo's debut was on [[July 26]], [[1942]] in the old [[Arena Mexico]]. Lomelí told him to buy a silver mask and tights so with help of maskmaker [[Antonio Martinez]] he got his first outfit. Rodolfo didn't have a lot of money so it was a cheap one, but at least it would be good enough to wrestle until he could afford getting a new one. But back to his first match under this new identity, it was an eight man Battle Royal with [[Bobby Bonales]], [[Lobo Negro]], [[Gorila Macías II]], [[Bobby Rood]], [[Murciélago Velázquez]], [[Pavilivsky]] and [[Ciclón Veloz]]. The last two men in the ring were Santo and Ciclón so they fought in a regular 2 out of 3 falls match. Santo defeated Veloz in the first fall. Veloz took the second one, and during the third fall, Santo was giving Veloz such a beating that the referee Jesús Lomelí tried to stop it, but then Santo attacked him too and got himself DQ'd.<br />
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Around a week later Veloz and Santo fought each other in a rematch in which Santo upset Veloz, as everybody thought that the tecnico would get his revenge. The following week he wrestled another wild rudo, El Lobo Negro, who couldn't stop the silver hooded rudo either. But Santo's first big match was on [[August 16]], [[1942]], when he faced Bobby Bonales in the main event of an [[Arena Mexico]] card. Bonales, already an stablished star, defeated Santo that night, however the young man was already making a big impact with his style.<br />
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On [[December 4]], Santo defeated Lobo Negro in a "superlibre" (no rules) fight but one of the most memorable moments of the early Santo career was during his match against [[Dientes Hernández]], as Santo gave his poor opponent EIGHT straight "fauls" (low blows). Dientes' wife sure wasn't happy about that one, but Santo's name was all over the lucha section of the papers now, and he soon became one of the most hated rudos of Mexico.<br />
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Santo got his first title ever on [[February 21]], [[1943]] when he defeated his old enemy Ciclón Veloz to win the [[Mexican National Welterweight Championship]]. Santo kept that title for almost a year as he lost it on [[Feburary 18]], [[1944]] against Jack O'Brien.<br />
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On [[March 19]], Santo got his revenge of Murciélago Velázquez, as he defeated him to get the [[Mexican National Middleweight Title]], thus become double National champion. Santo's first big mask defense also was against Velázquez, who got a free haircut courtesy of the silver masked one.<br />
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On [[April 2]], [[1943]], [[Salvador Lutteroth]] opened a new building called [[Arena Coliseo]], and for its first card ever, he booked a Santo vs. [[Tarzán López]] main event. López probably was the biggest star in Mexico back then, and as expected, he defeated Santo in that match. And as if that big loss wasn't enough, on [[June 11]], Bobby Bonales defeated him for the Middleweight title. But he found the right way again and on [[September 24]], at the EMLL Anniversary show at Arena Coliseo, Santo defeated Bonales in a mask vs. hair match.<br />
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During the first months of [[1944]], Santo didn't have a lot of luck as on May he had an auto accident that could have killed him. But soon after that accident he defeated Jack O'Brien in a mask vs. hair match and his career picked up again. A few months later, Santo broke up his relationship with his regular tag team partner, [[El Charro Aguayo]], so he decided to look for a new tag team partner. He studied the talent available and he chose to team with a promising youngster that was just starting to get noticed.<br />
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So on November 19, "[[La Pareja Atómica]]" (The Atomic Pair) of El Santo and [[Gory Guerrero|Salvador "Gory" Guerrero]] was born as that day they teamed for the first time ever to defeat Bobby Bonales and Jack O'Brien. La Pareja Atómica sure was a very explosive combo. Santo was a wild rudo brawler, but on the other hand Guerrero was a great technician.<br />
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Gory and Santo defeated everybody that crossed their path: O'Brien and Bonales, and O'Brien and López tried to stop them several times but they never could defeat them.<br />
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On [[May 15]], [[1946]], Santo won his first World title. After the American [[Jack Reynolds]] vacated the [[NWA Welterweight Title]], [[EMLL]] asked Col. Landry (from the NWA) to let them run a tournament for that title. They were given the nod, though the first two wrestlers in the official NWA welterweight rankings, the Bulgarian [[Pete Pancoff]] and the American [[Red Garner]], had to participate in that tournament as well. Santo reached the finals by defeating Murciélago Velázquez and Jack O'Brien. On the other side of the brackets, Pancoff defeated Dientes Hernandez and [[Emilio Charles Sr.]] to get to the final match. Santo defeated Pancoff after the Bulgarian submitted to a [[Boston crab]] in the legendary final match. When Pancoff submitted, the crowd exploded in a huge "SANTO! SANTO! SANTO!" chorus.<br />
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This was one of the turning points of the career of Santo because even though he was a natural heel, and wrestled and acted like a rudo, by defeating a foreign wrestler to get a world title he was defending the country's pride and that made him a national hero.<br />
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But after that big win, things didn't work as expected. On [[September 20]], [[Wolf Rubinskis]], who was making his [[Arena Mexico]] debut, crushed him the same way he crushed Ciclón Veloz when he made his debut. But the worst thing is that during this match Santo got injured and had to take a few weeks off.<br />
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His career wasn't going as expected after his return in [[1947]] either. On [[February 14]], Jack O'Brien defeated him for the NWA Welterweight title. Again, Santo was the chosen one to give the welcome to a new wrestler that was making debut: [[Black Shadow]], and yes, Santo lost to Shadow clean in the middle of the ring too.<br />
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Santo's next big profile match was on [[1949]], when he had to face his friend and partner Gory Guerrero. It was March when Lutteroth announced that there would be a tournament to decide the number one contender for the NWA Welterweight title that O'Brien still held. The storyline says that Santo encouraged Gory, a natural Middleweight, to lose weight and participate in the tournament. Both men reached the finals of the tournament, and the day of the friend vs. friend match, EMLL sold-out the building (Arena Coliseo). Gory won this memorable fight by making his partner Santo submit. Many thought that jealousy would break their friendship but this match did nothing but make it stronger. In fact Santo was the second of his compadre when on [[April 29]], Gory defeated O'Brien in the title match.<br />
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During 1949, Santo also wrestled a few matches in [[Houston]], [[Texas]]... but without his mask on! He eventually returned to Mexico but a few things changed.<br />
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While Santo was gone, the young undercard team of [[Blue Demon]] and Black Shadow, "Los Hermanos Shadow", was getting more popular by the day so the promoters obviously decided to face them to the reformed team of Gory and Santo. On [[April 9]], [[1950]], the atomic pair made quick work out of the masked "brothers" in a tag match.<br />
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Shadow claimed he'd avenge that loss and he started feuding extensively with Santo. The Shadow/Santo rivalry reached its higher point on [[November 7]], [[1952]] when both men faced each other in the mask vs. mask match that is considered the most important one in the history of lucha libre in Mexico. Arena Coliseo was the place in which Black Shadow was revealed to be Alejandro Cruz Ortíz, from [[León de los Aldama]].<br />
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Again somebody was anxious to get revenge on Santo, but this time it Blue Demon who wanted to avenge the mask loss of his wrestling brother, Black Shadow. After Demon humilliated Santo, winning him in two straight falls during a non-title match held on [[August 7]], [[1953]], Demon challenged Santo to a match with the NWA Welterweight title at stake. On [[September 27]], in what many consider the biggest loss in his career, Santo lost the title to Blue Demon.<br />
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But it was around this time when Santo was starting to become the myth he is now. Thanks to the TV coverage, lucha libre had its first ever "boom", and Santo's character was successfully marketed in comics and other merchandising. Also, at this time there was a huge nationalism among the Mexican population, and Santo always defented the colors of his country, like on the [[January 1|first day]] of the new year [[1954]], when he defeated Chinese wrestler [[Sugi Sito]] to capture the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship]].<br />
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It was in [[1962]] that Santo made the decision to become a técnico. After all, he was way too loved to be hated. During a match in which he teamed with [[Los Espantos]] (I & II) against [[Rayo de Jalisco]], [[Henry Pilusso]] and [[Rito Romero]], his partners turned on him and left him alone in the ring against the three tecnicos that obviously defeated him. On his first match as a good guy, held on [[July 5]], he teamed with Pilusso against the Espantos. That night Santo gave such an exhibition of high flying and ring knowledge that he was given an unanimous standing ovation by the crowd.<br />
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Another important fact in Santo's career is that on [[April 19]], [[1963]], he teamed with Blue Demon for the first time ever. From then on, the dream team wrestled together many other times all over Mexico, though they never were a regular tag team.<br />
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Around this time Santo also was a film star, as in [[1958]] he filmed his first movie. After that cinematic debut, he starred in other 50+ movies. Even though those films didn't exactly have great production values (even by the 60s standards) and the plots of them weren't mindbogglingly great either, the people flocked over to the cinema to watch them all. Those movies were quite a hit in other countries as well, as they were really popular all over Latin America, [[Spain]] and even Lebanon, where there's a cinema with a huge Santo statue in the entrance. Many cinema critics loved to hate Santo, but a proved fact is that the three most successful stars of the Mexican cinema history are Pedro Infante, Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" and El Santo. There's an anecdote that says that once, representants of a Chinese company came to Mexico looking for Mexican films. They were shown a few productions that were considered among the best in the history of Mexican cinema, but the Chinese said that they didn't want those films. They wanted Santo, because they claimed that "Santo represented the perfect hero fighting against the evil".<br />
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== Journey towards Retirement ==<br />
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Santo was also getting older, so now he mainly wrestled in six-men tag matches rather than singles or tag team bouts. He formed a successful team with a young good worker called Rayo de Jalisco and they captured the [[Mexican National Tag Team Titles]] twice over the decade (of the 60s). In [[1975]], his "tercia" with [[El Solitario]] and [[Mil Mascaras]] was such a huge hit that it was voted team of the year even though they didn't team together extensively. Unlike other EMLL wrestlers, Santo had special privileges, for instance he was allowed to appear in cards of the rival promotion [[UWA]], but in [[1977]] there was a big EMLL break down and many wrestlers, including Santo, left "La Empresa".<br />
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In [[1980]], during a match vs. Los Misioneros ([[El Signo]], [[Negro Navarro]] and [[Texano]]), Santo fell unconscious, and he was later diagnosed with a coronary problem. A year later, in [[1981]], Santo suffered a heart attack when teaming with [[Huracán Ramirez]] and Black Shadow against Los Misioneros de la Muerte (Signo, Texano & Negro Navarro). Santo's wrestling license was revoked so he decided it was time to say goodbye. After this incident, Santo secretly had an operation.<br />
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Santo's last feud was against a young masked superstar called [[Bobby Lee]]. Lee said that Santo wouldn't leave the business masked and challenged him to a mask vs. mask match. The challenge was accepted and Santo took Lee's mask revealing him to be Carlos Alvarado. Lee had his feet on the ropes when Santo made him submit to the camel clutch, but the referee didn't see it. Santo failed to defeat Lee in a match for the [[UWA Welterweight Championship]] Bobby held, but later he took his hair in a hair vs. mask match.<br />
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In [[1982]], Santo had a three match retirement tour. In the first match he teamed with Solitario against [[Villano III]] and Rokambole ([[Villano V]]) at the [[Palacio de los Deportes]]. In the second match, held in Arena Mexico, he teamed with [[Gran Hamada]] to defeat [[Villano I]] and [[Scorpio]] in the first round of a losers advance tournament (where all the teams were comprised of a masked man and an unmasked wrestler) in which the final losers would get his hair shaved or his mask removed. And in the final match of his career, held on [[September 12]] at the [[Toreo de Cuatro Caminos]], he teamed with his old friend Gory Guerrero (who was already retired but returned for this one-time deal), Huracán Ramírez and El Solitario to defeat Los Misioneros, and his last major opponent, [[Perro Aguayo]], in two straight falls, both won via DQ.<br />
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Now that he was retired, Santo kept active doing other things. A month later one of his sons debuted under the [[Hijo del Santo]] mask, and Santo was at ringside during all the matches of his son's debut tour.<br />
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On [[January 26]], [[1984]] he appeared in the lucha special of the talk program "Contrapunto" (Counterpoint), and partially removed his mask in a totally unexpected way. Some say that he did this because he felt that he had little time to live.<br />
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== A Mortal Saint with an Immortal Legacy == <br />
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On [[February 5]], two weeks after he took his mask off on a national TV program, Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta felt a tremendous pain in the chest after his debut as an escapist at the Teatro (teather) Blanquita. He was taken to the Mosel Hospital but nothing could be done. Santo was dead. The following day this was the biggest piece of news all over the country. Each and every magazine and newspaper extensively covered the news in the first pages, and all the TV and radio stations had special Santo programs.<br />
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During his life, Rodolfo had the opportunity to be two different individuals, but he chose to be Santo in death. The following day he was buried with his mask on in what is considered to be the biggest burial in the history of Mexico. Proof that the whole country mourned Santo's death was that an estimated crowd of 10,000 showed up and literally blocked the streets to the point that it took several hours until the coffin made it to the mausoleum. Several wrestlers like [[Mil Mascaras]] and [[Blue Demon]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Charles Bronson Mexicano]], [[Enrique Llanes]] and a teary [[Wolf Ruvinskis]] showed up to give Santo his last goodbye. [[Hijo del Santo]] and [[Huracán Ramírez]] among others, carried the coffin to the Mausoleo (mausoleum) María del Ángel where Santo rests in peace.<br />
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To this day, Santo is still an important piece of the history of the country and also a relevant part of the Mexican folklore. Even now, more than fifteen years after his death, everybody in Mexico knows about El Santo. His films are still shown on TV from time to time and they still generate ratings after all these years. Many magazines (not just lucha or movie magazines) still publish Santo articles or even special issues. In November of [[1999]], Somos ("We are") published a Santo special that included several pictures of Rodolfo Guzmán without his mask. El Hijo Del Santo threatened to sue [[Televisa]] (owners of the magazine) but since the source of the pictures was one of his brothers the lawsuit was dropped.<br />
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One could say that as long as there is lucha libre in Mexico, there will be Santo, but even if there wasn't lucha, Santo would still be alive in the heart of the Mexican citizens.</font><br />
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===Filmography===<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro del Mal (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Hombres Infernales (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Zombis (1961)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Rey del Crimen (1961)]] <br />
#[[Santo en el Hotel de la Muerte (1961)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro Diabólico (1962)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs las Mujeres Vampiro (1962)]] <br />
#[[Santo en el Museo de Cera (1963)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs el Estrangulador (1963)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Espectro (1963)]]<br />
#[[Blue Demon Contra el Poder Satánico (1964)]] <br />
#[[El Hacha Diabólica (1964)]]<br />
#[[Atacan las Brujas (1964)]] <br />
#[[Profanadores de Tumbas (1965)]] <br />
#[[El Barón Brákola (1965)]] (three episodes)<br />
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs la Invasión de Los Marcianos (1966)]] <br />
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs Los Villanos del Ring (1966)]]<br />
#[[Operación 67 (1966)]]<br />
#[[El Tesoro de Moctezuma (1966)]]<br />
#[[Santo en el Tesoro de Drácula (1968]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Capulina (1968)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlántida (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos (1969)]] <br />
#[[El Mundo de los Muertos (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs Los Cazadores de Cabezas (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo Frente A la Muerte (1969)]] (coproduced in Colombia and Spain)<br />
#[[Santo en la Venganza de las Mujeres Vampiro (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Jinetes del Terror (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo vs la Mafia del Vicio (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo en la Venganza de la Momia (1970)]]<br />
#[[Las Momias de Guanajuato (1970)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Asesinos de Otros Mundos (1971)]] <br />
#[[Santo vs la Hija de Frankenstein (1971)]]<br />
#[[Misión Suicida (1971)]] <br />
#[[Santo y el Aguila Real (el águila real) (1971)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra la Magia Negra (1972)]] (coproduced in Haití) <br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (1972)]]<br />
#[[Las Bestias del Terror (1972)]] <br />
#[[Anónimo Mortal (1972)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Secuestradores (1972)]] (coproduced with Ecuador) <br />
#[[Santo vs las Lobas (1972)]] <br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra el Doctor Frankestein (1973)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Doctor Muerte (1973)]] (coproduced in Spain) <br />
#[[Santo en el Misterio de la Perla Negra (1974)]] (coproduced in Colombia & Spain) <br />
#[[La Venganza de la Llorona (1974)]] <br />
#[[Santo en Oro Negro (1975)]] (coproduced in part in Puerto Rico) <br />
#[[México de Mis Amores (1976)]] (documentary)<br />
#[[Misterio en las Bermudas (1977)]]<br />
#[[Santo en la Frontera del Terror (1979)]]<br />
#[[Chanoc y el Hijo del Santo vs Los Vampiros Asesinos (1981)]] (special) <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Asesino de la Televisión (1981)]]<br />
#[[El Puño de la Muerte (1982)]]<br />
#[[La Furia de Los Karatecas (1982)]]<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask<ref>[[Box y Lucha 3339]]</ref>|[[El Santo]]|[[Sombra Blanca]]|[[Veracruz]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask<ref>[[Box y Lucha 3339]]</ref>|[[El Santo]]|[[Bolchevique]]|[[Salamanca]], [[Guanajuato]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Cavernario Galindo]]|[[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|[[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Raúl Torres]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gorilita Flores]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Judas Colombiano]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Arturo Chávez]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Araña (Antonio Vazquez)]]|[[Torreón]], [[Coahuila]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Monstruo (Mario Ceron)]]|[[Guatemala City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Cara Cortada]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dr. X (original)]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1943]]/01/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Murciélago Velázquez]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1943]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[02/09]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[04/08]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jack O'Brien]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1949]]/[[12/25]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Golden Terror]]|[[Arena Canada Dry]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1949]]/[[07/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Enrique Llanes]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1951]]/[[02/11]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chico Casaola]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1952]]/[[11/07]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Black Shadow]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1955]]/[[12/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Halcón Negro (50s)|Halcón Negro]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1956]]/[[September 21|09/21]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|1957|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Imperio Rojo]]|Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/[[10/29]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Monje Loco (50s)|Monje Loco]]|[[Plaza de Toros el Progreso, Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/[[12/10]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Monje Loco (50s)|Monje Loco]]|[[Plaza de Toros el Progreso, Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/??/??|mask|El Santo|Sombra Vengadora [[Octavio Gaona Jr.]]|[[Morelia, Michoacán]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1959]]/[[02/22]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Alberto Reyes|El Tercer Hombre]]<ref>Tercer Hombre would lose his mask multiple times - [http://superluchas.com/2015/02/22/en-un-dia-como-hoy-1959-el-regreso-de-henry-pilusso-el-tercer-hombre-vuelve-a-perder-la-mascara-ahora-ante-el-santo/ SuperLuchas]</ref>|[[Arena Canada Dry]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|masks|[[El Santo]] & [[Dr. X (original)]]|Infernales [[Infernal I (Tomas Riande)|I (Riande)]] & [[Infernal II (Paulino Mar)|II (Mar)]]|?|[[Leon]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Cebra (Antonio Rey)]]|?|[[Colombia]]|}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Momia]] (Salvadoreño)|?|[[San Salvador]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Rubén Juárez]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto II]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[04/26]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Benny Galant]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[10/25]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto I]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be after the Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dragón Rojo (Luis Gonzalez)|Dragón Rojo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1965]]/[[04/05]]<ref>[http://i.imgur.com/hST7eLP.png Lucha Libre 78]</ref>|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Chacal (Guatemala)|El Chacal]]|[[Guatemala City]], [[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1965]]/[[11/05]]<ref>Lucha Libre 109</ref>|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gory Casanova]]|[[Guatemala City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1966]].[[09.18]]<ref>Lucha Libre 167</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[The Spider]]|[[Morelia, Michocan]]}}<br />
{{aline|12/?/1967|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Samurai I]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1967]].[[12.17]]<ref>http://superluchas.net/2014/12/17/en-un-dia-como-hoy-el-santo-rapo-chino-chow/</ref><br />
|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chino Chow]]|[[Arena Danubio Azul, Tijuana, Baja California]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dick Angelo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/10]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[René Guajardo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/11]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jorge Allende]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1970]]/[[07/26]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Alex de Alba]]|[[Arena Sindicato Clemente Jacques]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[10/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Perro Aguayo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 3|09/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/[[March 30|03/30]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Urco]]|[[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/[[June 2|06/02]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Judas]]|[[Gimnasio Olímpico]], [[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Remolino]]|[[Gimnasio Municipal Obregon|Gimnasio Municipal - Cd. Obregón]], [[Sonora]]}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
{{bioFields|<br />
|image=elsanto.jpg<br />
|name=El Santo<br />
|realName=Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta<br />
|nicknames=El Enmascarado de Plata (The man of the silver mask), El Profe (The Professor)<br />
|nameHistory=Rudy/Ruddy Guzmán (debut - 36), Hombre Rojo (36 - 11/36), El Enmascarado, Murciélago Enmascarado II, El Demonio Negro, El Santo (06/42 - death)<br />
|family=[[El Hijo del Santo]] (son), [[Santo Jr.]] (nieto), [[Black Guzmán]], [[Pantera Negra]] and [[Jimmy Guzmán]] (brothers), [[Los Rockets]], [[Axxel]] (grandsons); see [[The Family of El Santo]]<br />
|maestro=[[Black Guzmán]]<br />
|birthdate=[[September 23]], [[1917]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]<br />
|obituarydate=[[February 5]], [[1984]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|debut=[[June 28]], [[1934]] - [[Arena Peralvillo-Cozumel]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height= 5' 9"/175 cm<br />
|weight= 209 lb/95 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=[[La de a Caballo]] (camel clutch), [[Tope de Cristo]] (flying somersault headbutt), [[Plancha]], [[Running Tope Suicida]]<br />
|titles=[[National Welterweight Title]], [[National Middleweight Title]] (4), [[NWA World Welterweight Title]] (2), [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (2), [[National Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[Rayo de Jalisco]]), [[National Light Heavyweight Title]]<br />
}}<br />
{{WONHOF}}<br />
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== Biography == <br />
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To say that El Santo is just a lucha legend would a huge understatement. He was more than a luchador with a parallel acting career. Santo is a cultural icon, a social phenomenon whose impact in the Mexican society is enormous in many different ways. Santo was a superhero like Superman, Batman or Spiderman - but with the difference that Santo was real and you could go to watch him wrestle every week, while the others were just comic characters. It's safe to say that Santo is the most popular wrestler ever in his home country, and he's more popular than [[Antonio Inoki]], [[Riki Choshu]], [[Lou Thesz]], [[Hulk Hogan]], [[Steve Austin]] and many others were and are. The only one that comes close to Santo is Japanese cultural hero [[Rikidozan]], and he's actually Korean.<br />
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Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta was born [[September 23]], [[1917]] in [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]. Son of Jesús Guzmán Campuzano and Josefina Huerta Márquez, he was the fifth of seven children. When he was still a little kid, his family moved to [[Mexico City]] and he kept studying at the Abraham Castellanos elementary school. During his youth, Rodolfo practised many sports, like baseball and (American) football.<br />
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Several of his brothers were wrestlers. [[Black Guzmán|(Miguel) "Black" Guzmán]] was the most popular one as he captured several National titles and a few NWA titles in both [[Mexico]] and [[Texas]]. Jesús wrestled as [[Pantera Negra]] but he died in the ring, while Javier wrestled as [[Jimmy Guzmán]] at some small arenas. When Rodolfo was working at a stockings factory he decided to become a luchador like his brothers so he learnt the martial art known as jujutsu (jiu-jitsu) and later he practised some Greco-Roman (amateur) wrestling.<br />
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After a few months of training with his brother Black, he made his professional debut teaming with him as Rudy Guzmán on [[June 28]], [[1934]] in the [[Arena Peralvillo Cozumel]] of the [[Peralvillo]] district in [[Mexico City]]. He was 17 years old. But it was in [[Arena Pachuca]], of [[Pachuca]], [[Hidalgo]], where [[EMLL]] superstar [[Jack O'Brien]] saw the talent that Rudy and Miguel had and recommended them to EMLL's main talent scout, the referee [[Jesús Lomelí]].<br />
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Jesús took both brothers to [[Mexico City]] and got them signed to EMLL contracts. Miguel kept wrestling under his old name and became fairly popular, in fact in [[1939]] he was voted "rookie" of the year. On the other hand, Rodolfo wasn't so successful and rather than being "somebody else's brother" he decided to become his own self.<br />
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He started wrestling unmasked as El Hombre Rojo (Red Man) but this one wasn't a really memorable stint even though during that year he wrestled three times in the Arena Modelo (now known as [[Arena Mexico]]). In the meanwhile he had to work in many different places as carpenter, painter and other jobs to earn enough money to make a decent living.<br />
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In November of [[1936]], he left EMLL as he didn't feel he was getting a good push. Jesús Lomelí also left La Empresa and started promoting on his own at the [[Fronton México]] and when looking for young talent for his shows he didn't think it twice and called Rodolfo, who started wrestling under the mask of El Murciélago Enmascarado II (The Masked Bat II) as Jesús didn't want him to be Hombre Rojo anymore. The original [[Murciélago Velázquez]] didn't like the fact that a rookie was using his name without his permission so he complained to the [[Box y Lucha Commission]] and Rodolfo had to drop the gimmick.<br />
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Things weren't really working the right way. As soon as he started to get some heel heat (up to this point he had always been wrestling as a rudo) he had to drop the name and the hood. Also, his father had just recently died. Things were getting worse by the moment. Now if he wanted to keep wrestling he'd have to get a new name, so he had a meeting with his Lomelí, a man he had already developed a good friendship with. Lomelí suggested several names, like El Angel, but the most interesting one, considering he was a merciless rudo, was El Santo (The Saint in Spanish). Rodolfo loved the name and decided he'd become Santo.<br />
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El Santo's debut was on [[July 26]], [[1942]] in the old [[Arena Mexico]]. Lomelí told him to buy a silver mask and tights so with help of maskmaker [[Antonio Martinez]] he got his first outfit. Rodolfo didn't have a lot of money so it was a cheap one, but at least it would be good enough to wrestle until he could afford getting a new one. But back to his first match under this new identity, it was an eight man Battle Royal with [[Bobby Bonales]], [[Lobo Negro]], [[Gorila Macías II]], [[Bobby Rood]], [[Murciélago Velázquez]], [[Pavilivsky]] and [[Ciclón Veloz]]. The last two men in the ring were Santo and Ciclón so they fought in a regular 2 out of 3 falls match. Santo defeated Veloz in the first fall. Veloz took the second one, and during the third fall, Santo was giving Veloz such a beating that the referee Jesús Lomelí tried to stop it, but then Santo attacked him too and got himself DQ'd.<br />
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Around a week later Veloz and Santo fought each other in a rematch in which Santo upset Veloz, as everybody thought that the tecnico would get his revenge. The following week he wrestled another wild rudo, El Lobo Negro, who couldn't stop the silver hooded rudo either. But Santo's first big match was on [[August 16]], [[1942]], when he faced Bobby Bonales in the main event of an [[Arena Mexico]] card. Bonales, already an stablished star, defeated Santo that night, however the young man was already making a big impact with his style.<br />
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On [[December 4]], Santo defeated Lobo Negro in a "superlibre" (no rules) fight but one of the most memorable moments of the early Santo career was during his match against [[Dientes Hernández]], as Santo gave his poor opponent EIGHT straight "fauls" (low blows). Dientes' wife sure wasn't happy about that one, but Santo's name was all over the lucha section of the papers now, and he soon became one of the most hated rudos of Mexico.<br />
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Santo got his first title ever on [[February 21]], [[1943]] when he defeated his old enemy Ciclón Veloz to win the [[Mexican National Welterweight Championship]]. Santo kept that title for almost a year as he lost it on [[Feburary 18]], [[1944]] against Jack O'Brien.<br />
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On [[March 19]], Santo got his revenge of Murciélago Velázquez, as he defeated him to get the [[Mexican National Middleweight Title]], thus become double National champion. Santo's first big mask defense also was against Velázquez, who got a free haircut courtesy of the silver masked one.<br />
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On [[April 2]], [[1943]], [[Salvador Lutteroth]] opened a new building called [[Arena Coliseo]], and for its first card ever, he booked a Santo vs. [[Tarzán López]] main event. López probably was the biggest star in Mexico back then, and as expected, he defeated Santo in that match. And as if that big loss wasn't enough, on [[June 11]], Bobby Bonales defeated him for the Middleweight title. But he found the right way again and on [[September 24]], at the EMLL Anniversary show at Arena Coliseo, Santo defeated Bonales in a mask vs. hair match.<br />
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During the first months of [[1944]], Santo didn't have a lot of luck as on May he had an auto accident that could have killed him. But soon after that accident he defeated Jack O'Brien in a mask vs. hair match and his career picked up again. A few months later, Santo broke up his relationship with his regular tag team partner, [[El Charro Aguayo]], so he decided to look for a new tag team partner. He studied the talent available and he chose to team with a promising youngster that was just starting to get noticed.<br />
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So on November 19, "[[La Pareja Atómica]]" (The Atomic Pair) of El Santo and [[Gory Guerrero|Salvador "Gory" Guerrero]] was born as that day they teamed for the first time ever to defeat Bobby Bonales and Jack O'Brien. La Pareja Atómica sure was a very explosive combo. Santo was a wild rudo brawler, but on the other hand Guerrero was a great technician.<br />
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Gory and Santo defeated everybody that crossed their path: O'Brien and Bonales, and O'Brien and López tried to stop them several times but they never could defeat them.<br />
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On [[May 15]], [[1946]], Santo won his first World title. After the American [[Jack Reynolds]] vacated the [[NWA Welterweight Title]], [[EMLL]] asked Col. Landry (from the NWA) to let them run a tournament for that title. They were given the nod, though the first two wrestlers in the official NWA welterweight rankings, the Bulgarian [[Pete Pancoff]] and the American [[Red Garner]], had to participate in that tournament as well. Santo reached the finals by defeating Murciélago Velázquez and Jack O'Brien. On the other side of the brackets, Pancoff defeated Dientes Hernandez and [[Emilio Charles Sr.]] to get to the final match. Santo defeated Pancoff after the Bulgarian submitted to a [[Boston crab]] in the legendary final match. When Pancoff submitted, the crowd exploded in a huge "SANTO! SANTO! SANTO!" chorus.<br />
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This was one of the turning points of the career of Santo because even though he was a natural heel, and wrestled and acted like a rudo, by defeating a foreign wrestler to get a world title he was defending the country's pride and that made him a national hero.<br />
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But after that big win, things didn't work as expected. On [[September 20]], [[Wolf Rubinskis]], who was making his [[Arena Mexico]] debut, crushed him the same way he crushed Ciclón Veloz when he made his debut. But the worst thing is that during this match Santo got injured and had to take a few weeks off.<br />
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His career wasn't going as expected after his return in [[1947]] either. On [[February 14]], Jack O'Brien defeated him for the NWA Welterweight title. Again, Santo was the chosen one to give the welcome to a new wrestler that was making debut: [[Black Shadow]], and yes, Santo lost to Shadow clean in the middle of the ring too.<br />
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Santo's next big profile match was on [[1949]], when he had to face his friend and partner Gory Guerrero. It was March when Lutteroth announced that there would be a tournament to decide the number one contender for the NWA Welterweight title that O'Brien still held. The storyline says that Santo encouraged Gory, a natural Middleweight, to lose weight and participate in the tournament. Both men reached the finals of the tournament, and the day of the friend vs. friend match, EMLL sold-out the building (Arena Coliseo). Gory won this memorable fight by making his partner Santo submit. Many thought that jealousy would break their friendship but this match did nothing but make it stronger. In fact Santo was the second of his compadre when on [[April 29]], Gory defeated O'Brien in the title match.<br />
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During 1949, Santo also wrestled a few matches in [[Houston]], [[Texas]]... but without his mask on! He eventually returned to Mexico but a few things changed.<br />
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While Santo was gone, the young undercard team of [[Blue Demon]] and Black Shadow, "Los Hermanos Shadow", was getting more popular by the day so the promoters obviously decided to face them to the reformed team of Gory and Santo. On [[April 9]], [[1950]], the atomic pair made quick work out of the masked "brothers" in a tag match.<br />
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Shadow claimed he'd avenge that loss and he started feuding extensively with Santo. The Shadow/Santo rivalry reached its higher point on [[November 7]], [[1952]] when both men faced each other in the mask vs. mask match that is considered the most important one in the history of lucha libre in Mexico. Arena Coliseo was the place in which Black Shadow was revealed to be Alejandro Cruz Ortíz, from [[León de los Aldama]].<br />
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Again somebody was anxious to get revenge on Santo, but this time it Blue Demon who wanted to avenge the mask loss of his wrestling brother, Black Shadow. After Demon humilliated Santo, winning him in two straight falls during a non-title match held on [[August 7]], [[1953]], Demon challenged Santo to a match with the NWA Welterweight title at stake. On [[September 27]], in what many consider the biggest loss in his career, Santo lost the title to Blue Demon.<br />
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But it was around this time when Santo was starting to become the myth he is now. Thanks to the TV coverage, lucha libre had its first ever "boom", and Santo's character was successfully marketed in comics and other merchandising. Also, at this time there was a huge nationalism among the Mexican population, and Santo always defented the colors of his country, like on the [[January 1|first day]] of the new year [[1954]], when he defeated Chinese wrestler [[Sugi Sito]] to capture the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship]].<br />
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It was in [[1962]] that Santo made the decision to become a técnico. After all, he was way too loved to be hated. During a match in which he teamed with [[Los Espantos]] (I & II) against [[Rayo de Jalisco]], [[Henry Pilusso]] and [[Rito Romero]], his partners turned on him and left him alone in the ring against the three tecnicos that obviously defeated him. On his first match as a good guy, held on [[July 5]], he teamed with Pilusso against the Espantos. That night Santo gave such an exhibition of high flying and ring knowledge that he was given an unanimous standing ovation by the crowd.<br />
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Another important fact in Santo's career is that on [[April 19]], [[1963]], he teamed with Blue Demon for the first time ever. From then on, the dream team wrestled together many other times all over Mexico, though they never were a regular tag team.<br />
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Around this time Santo also was a film star, as in [[1958]] he filmed his first movie. After that cinematic debut, he starred in other 50+ movies. Even though those films didn't exactly have great production values (even by the 60s standards) and the plots of them weren't mindbogglingly great either, the people flocked over to the cinema to watch them all. Those movies were quite a hit in other countries as well, as they were really popular all over Latin America, [[Spain]] and even Lebanon, where there's a cinema with a huge Santo statue in the entrance. Many cinema critics loved to hate Santo, but a proved fact is that the three most successful stars of the Mexican cinema history are Pedro Infante, Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" and El Santo. There's an anecdote that says that once, representants of a Chinese company came to Mexico looking for Mexican films. They were shown a few productions that were considered among the best in the history of Mexican cinema, but the Chinese said that they didn't want those films. They wanted Santo, because they claimed that "Santo represented the perfect hero fighting against the evil".<br />
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== Journey towards Retirement ==<br />
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Santo was also getting older, so now he mainly wrestled in six-men tag matches rather than singles or tag team bouts. He formed a successful team with a young good worker called Rayo de Jalisco and they captured the [[Mexican National Tag Team Titles]] twice over the decade (of the 60s). In [[1975]], his "tercia" with [[El Solitario]] and [[Mil Mascaras]] was such a huge hit that it was voted team of the year even though they didn't team together extensively. Unlike other EMLL wrestlers, Santo had special privileges, for instance he was allowed to appear in cards of the rival promotion [[UWA]], but in [[1977]] there was a big EMLL break down and many wrestlers, including Santo, left "La Empresa".<br />
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In [[1980]], during a match vs. Los Misioneros ([[El Signo]], [[Negro Navarro]] and [[Texano]]), Santo fell unconscious, and he was later diagnosed with a coronary problem. A year later, in [[1981]], Santo suffered a heart attack when teaming with [[Huracán Ramirez]] and Black Shadow against Los Misioneros de la Muerte (Signo, Texano & Negro Navarro). Santo's wrestling license was revoked so he decided it was time to say goodbye. After this incident, Santo secretly had an operation.<br />
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Santo's last feud was against a young masked superstar called [[Bobby Lee]]. Lee said that Santo wouldn't leave the business masked and challenged him to a mask vs. mask match. The challenge was accepted and Santo took Lee's mask revealing him to be Carlos Alvarado. Lee had his feet on the ropes when Santo made him submit to the camel clutch, but the referee didn't see it. Santo failed to defeat Lee in a match for the [[UWA Welterweight Championship]] Bobby held, but later he took his hair in a hair vs. mask match.<br />
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In [[1982]], Santo had a three match retirement tour. In the first match he teamed with Solitario against [[Villano III]] and Rokambole ([[Villano V]]) at the [[Palacio de los Deportes]]. In the second match, held in Arena Mexico, he teamed with [[Gran Hamada]] to defeat [[Villano I]] and [[Scorpio]] in the first round of a losers advance tournament (where all the teams were comprised of a masked man and an unmasked wrestler) in which the final losers would get his hair shaved or his mask removed. And in the final match of his career, held on [[September 12]] at the [[Toreo de Cuatro Caminos]], he teamed with his old friend Gory Guerrero (who was already retired but returned for this one-time deal), Huracán Ramírez and El Solitario to defeat Los Misioneros, and his last major opponent, [[Perro Aguayo]], in two straight falls, both won via DQ.<br />
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Now that he was retired, Santo kept active doing other things. A month later one of his sons debuted under the [[Hijo del Santo]] mask, and Santo was at ringside during all the matches of his son's debut tour.<br />
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On [[January 26]], [[1984]] he appeared in the lucha special of the talk program "Contrapunto" (Counterpoint), and partially removed his mask in a totally unexpected way. Some say that he did this because he felt that he had little time to live.<br />
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== A Mortal Saint with an Immortal Legacy == <br />
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On [[February 5]], two weeks after he took his mask off on a national TV program, Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta felt a tremendous pain in the chest after his debut as an escapist at the Teatro (teather) Blanquita. He was taken to the Mosel Hospital but nothing could be done. Santo was dead. The following day this was the biggest piece of news all over the country. Each and every magazine and newspaper extensively covered the news in the first pages, and all the TV and radio stations had special Santo programs.<br />
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During his life, Rodolfo had the opportunity to be two different individuals, but he chose to be Santo in death. The following day he was buried with his mask on in what is considered to be the biggest burial in the history of Mexico. Proof that the whole country mourned Santo's death was that an estimated crowd of 10,000 showed up and literally blocked the streets to the point that it took several hours until the coffin made it to the mausoleum. Several wrestlers like [[Mil Mascaras]] and [[Blue Demon]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Charles Bronson Mexicano]], [[Enrique Llanes]] and a teary [[Wolf Ruvinskis]] showed up to give Santo his last goodbye. [[Hijo del Santo]] and [[Huracán Ramírez]] among others, carried the coffin to the Mausoleo (mausoleum) María del Ángel where Santo rests in peace.<br />
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To this day, Santo is still an important piece of the history of the country and also a relevant part of the Mexican folklore. Even now, more than fifteen years after his death, everybody in Mexico knows about El Santo. His films are still shown on TV from time to time and they still generate ratings after all these years. Many magazines (not just lucha or movie magazines) still publish Santo articles or even special issues. In November of [[1999]], Somos ("We are") published a Santo special that included several pictures of Rodolfo Guzmán without his mask. El Hijo Del Santo threatened to sue [[Televisa]] (owners of the magazine) but since the source of the pictures was one of his brothers the lawsuit was dropped.<br />
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One could say that as long as there is lucha libre in Mexico, there will be Santo, but even if there wasn't lucha, Santo would still be alive in the heart of the Mexican citizens.</font><br />
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===Filmography===<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro del Mal (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Hombres Infernales (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Zombis (1961)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Rey del Crimen (1961)]] <br />
#[[Santo en el Hotel de la Muerte (1961)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro Diabólico (1962)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs las Mujeres Vampiro (1962)]] <br />
#[[Santo en el Museo de Cera (1963)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs el Estrangulador (1963)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Espectro (1963)]]<br />
#[[Blue Demon Contra el Poder Satánico (1964)]] <br />
#[[El Hacha Diabólica (1964)]]<br />
#[[Atacan las Brujas (1964)]] <br />
#[[Profanadores de Tumbas (1965)]] <br />
#[[El Barón Brákola (1965)]] (three episodes)<br />
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs la Invasión de Los Marcianos (1966)]] <br />
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs Los Villanos del Ring (1966)]]<br />
#[[Operación 67 (1966)]]<br />
#[[El Tesoro de Moctezuma (1966)]]<br />
#[[Santo en el Tesoro de Drácula (1968]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Capulina (1968)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlántida (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos (1969)]] <br />
#[[El Mundo de los Muertos (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs Los Cazadores de Cabezas (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo Frente A la Muerte (1969)]] (coproduced in Colombia and Spain)<br />
#[[Santo en la Venganza de las Mujeres Vampiro (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Jinetes del Terror (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo vs la Mafia del Vicio (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo en la Venganza de la Momia (1970)]]<br />
#[[Las Momias de Guanajuato (1970)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Asesinos de Otros Mundos (1971)]] <br />
#[[Santo vs la Hija de Frankenstein (1971)]]<br />
#[[Misión Suicida (1971)]] <br />
#[[Santo y el Aguila Real (el águila real) (1971)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra la Magia Negra (1972)]] (coproduced in Haití) <br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (1972)]]<br />
#[[Las Bestias del Terror (1972)]] <br />
#[[Anónimo Mortal (1972)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Secuestradores (1972)]] (coproduced with Ecuador) <br />
#[[Santo vs las Lobas (1972)]] <br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra el Doctor Frankestein (1973)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Doctor Muerte (1973)]] (coproduced in Spain) <br />
#[[Santo en el Misterio de la Perla Negra (1974)]] (coproduced in Colombia & Spain) <br />
#[[La Venganza de la Llorona (1974)]] <br />
#[[Santo en Oro Negro (1975)]] (coproduced in part in Puerto Rico) <br />
#[[México de Mis Amores (1976)]] (documentary)<br />
#[[Misterio en las Bermudas (1977)]]<br />
#[[Santo en la Frontera del Terror (1979)]]<br />
#[[Chanoc y el Hijo del Santo vs Los Vampiros Asesinos (1981)]] (special) <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Asesino de la Televisión (1981)]]<br />
#[[El Puño de la Muerte (1982)]]<br />
#[[La Furia de Los Karatecas (1982)]]<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask<ref>[[Box y Lucha 3339]]</ref>|[[El Santo]]|[[Sombra Blanca]]|[[Veracruz]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask<ref>[[Box y Lucha 3339]]</ref>|[[El Santo]]|[[Bolchevique]]|[[Salamanca]], [[Guanajuato]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Cavernario Galindo]]|[[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|[[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Raúl Torres]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gorilita Flores]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Judas Colombiano]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Arturo Chávez]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Araña (Antonio Vazquez)]]|[[Torreón]], [[Coahuila]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Monstruo (Mario Ceron)]]|[[Guatemala City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Cara Cortada]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dr. X (original)]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1943]]/01/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Murciélago Velázquez]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1943]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[02/09]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[04/08]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jack O'Brien]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1949]]/[[12/25]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Golden Terror]]|[[Arena Canada Dry]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1949]]/[[07/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Enrique Llanes]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1951]]/[[02/11]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chico Casaola]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1952]]/[[11/07]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Black Shadow]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1955]]/[[12/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Halcón Negro (50s)|Halcón Negro]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1956]]/[[September 21|09/21]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|1957|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Imperio Rojo]]|Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/[[10/29]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Monje Loco (50s)|Monje Loco]]|[[Plaza de Toros el Progreso, Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/[[12/10]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Monje Loco (50s)|Monje Loco]]|[[Plaza de Toros el Progreso, Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/??/??|mask|El Santo|Sombra Vengadora [[(Octavio Gaona Jr.)]]|[[Morelia, Michoacán]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1959]]/[[02/22]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Alberto Reyes|El Tercer Hombre]]<ref>Tercer Hombre would lose his mask multiple times - [http://superluchas.com/2015/02/22/en-un-dia-como-hoy-1959-el-regreso-de-henry-pilusso-el-tercer-hombre-vuelve-a-perder-la-mascara-ahora-ante-el-santo/ SuperLuchas]</ref>|[[Arena Canada Dry]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|masks|[[El Santo]] & [[Dr. X (original)]]|Infernales [[Infernal I (Tomas Riande)|I (Riande)]] & [[Infernal II (Paulino Mar)|II (Mar)]]|?|[[Leon]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Cebra (Antonio Rey)]]|?|[[Colombia]]|}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Momia]] (Salvadoreño)|?|[[San Salvador]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Rubén Juárez]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto II]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[04/26]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Benny Galant]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[10/25]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto I]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be after the Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dragón Rojo (Luis Gonzalez)|Dragón Rojo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1965]]/[[04/05]]<ref>[http://i.imgur.com/hST7eLP.png Lucha Libre 78]</ref>|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Chacal (Guatemala)|El Chacal]]|[[Guatemala City]], [[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1965]]/[[11/05]]<ref>Lucha Libre 109</ref>|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gory Casanova]]|[[Guatemala City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1966]].[[09.18]]<ref>Lucha Libre 167</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[The Spider]]|[[Morelia, Michocan]]}}<br />
{{aline|12/?/1967|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Samurai I]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1967]].[[12.17]]<ref>http://superluchas.net/2014/12/17/en-un-dia-como-hoy-el-santo-rapo-chino-chow/</ref><br />
|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chino Chow]]|[[Arena Danubio Azul, Tijuana, Baja California]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dick Angelo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/10]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[René Guajardo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/11]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jorge Allende]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1970]]/[[07/26]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Alex de Alba]]|[[Arena Sindicato Clemente Jacques]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[10/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Perro Aguayo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 3|09/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/[[March 30|03/30]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Urco]]|[[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/[[June 2|06/02]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Judas]]|[[Gimnasio Olímpico]], [[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Remolino]]|[[Gimnasio Municipal Obregon|Gimnasio Municipal - Cd. Obregón]], [[Sonora]]}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
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{{Gallery|name=SantoStatue.jpg|caption=Statue made in memory of Santo. It stands 3.70 mts &weighs over 1500 kilos}}<br />
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|name=Octavio Gaona Jr.<br />
|realName=Francisco Gaona Quezada<br />
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|nameHistory=Octavio Gaona Jr., Sombra Vengadora (1957)<br />
|family=[[Octavio Gaona]] (father), [[Tamba]] (stepbrother), [[Arturo Gaona]] (son), [[Arturo Gaona Jr.]] (grandson)<br />
|maestro=[[Octavio Gaona]]<br />
|birthdate=[[October 4]], [[1931]]<br />
|debut=[[February 2]], [[1951]] - on the Televicentro lucha program, versus [[Luis Rangel]]<br />
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|height=170 cm<br />
|weight=94 kg<br />
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
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|name=El Santo<br />
|realName=Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta<br />
|nicknames=El Enmascarado de Plata (The man of the silver mask), El Profe (The Professor)<br />
|nameHistory=Rudy/Ruddy Guzmán (debut - 36), Hombre Rojo (36 - 11/36), El Enmascarado, Murciélago Enmascarado II, El Demonio Negro, El Santo (06/42 - death)<br />
|family=[[El Hijo del Santo]] (son), [[Santo Jr.]] (nieto), [[Black Guzmán]], [[Pantera Negra]] and [[Jimmy Guzmán]] (brothers), [[Los Rockets]], [[Axxel]] (grandsons); see [[The Family of El Santo]]<br />
|maestro=[[Black Guzmán]]<br />
|birthdate=[[September 23]], [[1917]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]<br />
|obituarydate=[[February 5]], [[1984]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|debut=[[June 28]], [[1934]] - [[Arena Peralvillo-Cozumel]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height= 5' 9"/175 cm<br />
|weight= 209 lb/95 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=[[La de a Caballo]] (camel clutch), [[Tope de Cristo]] (flying somersault headbutt), [[Plancha]], [[Running Tope Suicida]]<br />
|titles=[[National Welterweight Title]], [[National Middleweight Title]] (4), [[NWA World Welterweight Title]] (2), [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (2), [[National Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[Rayo de Jalisco]]), [[National Light Heavyweight Title]]<br />
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== Biography == <br />
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To say that El Santo is just a lucha legend would a huge understatement. He was more than a luchador with a parallel acting career. Santo is a cultural icon, a social phenomenon whose impact in the Mexican society is enormous in many different ways. Santo was a superhero like Superman, Batman or Spiderman - but with the difference that Santo was real and you could go to watch him wrestle every week, while the others were just comic characters. It's safe to say that Santo is the most popular wrestler ever in his home country, and he's more popular than [[Antonio Inoki]], [[Riki Choshu]], [[Lou Thesz]], [[Hulk Hogan]], [[Steve Austin]] and many others were and are. The only one that comes close to Santo is Japanese cultural hero [[Rikidozan]], and he's actually Korean.<br />
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Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta was born [[September 23]], [[1917]] in [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]. Son of Jesús Guzmán Campuzano and Josefina Huerta Márquez, he was the fifth of seven children. When he was still a little kid, his family moved to [[Mexico City]] and he kept studying at the Abraham Castellanos elementary school. During his youth, Rodolfo practised many sports, like baseball and (American) football.<br />
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Several of his brothers were wrestlers. [[Black Guzmán|(Miguel) "Black" Guzmán]] was the most popular one as he captured several National titles and a few NWA titles in both [[Mexico]] and [[Texas]]. Jesús wrestled as [[Pantera Negra]] but he died in the ring, while Javier wrestled as [[Jimmy Guzmán]] at some small arenas. When Rodolfo was working at a stockings factory he decided to become a luchador like his brothers so he learnt the martial art known as jujutsu (jiu-jitsu) and later he practised some Greco-Roman (amateur) wrestling.<br />
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After a few months of training with his brother Black, he made his professional debut teaming with him as Rudy Guzmán on [[June 28]], [[1934]] in the [[Arena Peralvillo Cozumel]] of the [[Peralvillo]] district in [[Mexico City]]. He was 17 years old. But it was in [[Arena Pachuca]], of [[Pachuca]], [[Hidalgo]], where [[EMLL]] superstar [[Jack O'Brien]] saw the talent that Rudy and Miguel had and recommended them to EMLL's main talent scout, the referee [[Jesús Lomelí]].<br />
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Jesús took both brothers to [[Mexico City]] and got them signed to EMLL contracts. Miguel kept wrestling under his old name and became fairly popular, in fact in [[1939]] he was voted "rookie" of the year. On the other hand, Rodolfo wasn't so successful and rather than being "somebody else's brother" he decided to become his own self.<br />
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He started wrestling unmasked as El Hombre Rojo (Red Man) but this one wasn't a really memorable stint even though during that year he wrestled three times in the Arena Modelo (now known as [[Arena Mexico]]). In the meanwhile he had to work in many different places as carpenter, painter and other jobs to earn enough money to make a decent living.<br />
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In November of [[1936]], he left EMLL as he didn't feel he was getting a good push. Jesús Lomelí also left La Empresa and started promoting on his own at the [[Fronton México]] and when looking for young talent for his shows he didn't think it twice and called Rodolfo, who started wrestling under the mask of El Murciélago Enmascarado II (The Masked Bat II) as Jesús didn't want him to be Hombre Rojo anymore. The original [[Murciélago Velázquez]] didn't like the fact that a rookie was using his name without his permission so he complained to the [[Box y Lucha Commission]] and Rodolfo had to drop the gimmick.<br />
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Things weren't really working the right way. As soon as he started to get some heel heat (up to this point he had always been wrestling as a rudo) he had to drop the name and the hood. Also, his father had just recently died. Things were getting worse by the moment. Now if he wanted to keep wrestling he'd have to get a new name, so he had a meeting with his Lomelí, a man he had already developed a good friendship with. Lomelí suggested several names, like El Angel, but the most interesting one, considering he was a merciless rudo, was El Santo (The Saint in Spanish). Rodolfo loved the name and decided he'd become Santo.<br />
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El Santo's debut was on [[July 26]], [[1942]] in the old [[Arena Mexico]]. Lomelí told him to buy a silver mask and tights so with help of maskmaker [[Antonio Martinez]] he got his first outfit. Rodolfo didn't have a lot of money so it was a cheap one, but at least it would be good enough to wrestle until he could afford getting a new one. But back to his first match under this new identity, it was an eight man Battle Royal with [[Bobby Bonales]], [[Lobo Negro]], [[Gorila Macías II]], [[Bobby Rood]], [[Murciélago Velázquez]], [[Pavilivsky]] and [[Ciclón Veloz]]. The last two men in the ring were Santo and Ciclón so they fought in a regular 2 out of 3 falls match. Santo defeated Veloz in the first fall. Veloz took the second one, and during the third fall, Santo was giving Veloz such a beating that the referee Jesús Lomelí tried to stop it, but then Santo attacked him too and got himself DQ'd.<br />
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Around a week later Veloz and Santo fought each other in a rematch in which Santo upset Veloz, as everybody thought that the tecnico would get his revenge. The following week he wrestled another wild rudo, El Lobo Negro, who couldn't stop the silver hooded rudo either. But Santo's first big match was on [[August 16]], [[1942]], when he faced Bobby Bonales in the main event of an [[Arena Mexico]] card. Bonales, already an stablished star, defeated Santo that night, however the young man was already making a big impact with his style.<br />
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On [[December 4]], Santo defeated Lobo Negro in a "superlibre" (no rules) fight but one of the most memorable moments of the early Santo career was during his match against [[Dientes Hernández]], as Santo gave his poor opponent EIGHT straight "fauls" (low blows). Dientes' wife sure wasn't happy about that one, but Santo's name was all over the lucha section of the papers now, and he soon became one of the most hated rudos of Mexico.<br />
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Santo got his first title ever on [[February 21]], [[1943]] when he defeated his old enemy Ciclón Veloz to win the [[Mexican National Welterweight Championship]]. Santo kept that title for almost a year as he lost it on [[Feburary 18]], [[1944]] against Jack O'Brien.<br />
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On [[March 19]], Santo got his revenge of Murciélago Velázquez, as he defeated him to get the [[Mexican National Middleweight Title]], thus become double National champion. Santo's first big mask defense also was against Velázquez, who got a free haircut courtesy of the silver masked one.<br />
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On [[April 2]], [[1943]], [[Salvador Lutteroth]] opened a new building called [[Arena Coliseo]], and for its first card ever, he booked a Santo vs. [[Tarzán López]] main event. López probably was the biggest star in Mexico back then, and as expected, he defeated Santo in that match. And as if that big loss wasn't enough, on [[June 11]], Bobby Bonales defeated him for the Middleweight title. But he found the right way again and on [[September 24]], at the EMLL Anniversary show at Arena Coliseo, Santo defeated Bonales in a mask vs. hair match.<br />
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During the first months of [[1944]], Santo didn't have a lot of luck as on May he had an auto accident that could have killed him. But soon after that accident he defeated Jack O'Brien in a mask vs. hair match and his career picked up again. A few months later, Santo broke up his relationship with his regular tag team partner, [[El Charro Aguayo]], so he decided to look for a new tag team partner. He studied the talent available and he chose to team with a promising youngster that was just starting to get noticed.<br />
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So on November 19, "[[La Pareja Atómica]]" (The Atomic Pair) of El Santo and [[Gory Guerrero|Salvador "Gory" Guerrero]] was born as that day they teamed for the first time ever to defeat Bobby Bonales and Jack O'Brien. La Pareja Atómica sure was a very explosive combo. Santo was a wild rudo brawler, but on the other hand Guerrero was a great technician.<br />
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Gory and Santo defeated everybody that crossed their path: O'Brien and Bonales, and O'Brien and López tried to stop them several times but they never could defeat them.<br />
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On [[May 15]], [[1946]], Santo won his first World title. After the American [[Jack Reynolds]] vacated the [[NWA Welterweight Title]], [[EMLL]] asked Col. Landry (from the NWA) to let them run a tournament for that title. They were given the nod, though the first two wrestlers in the official NWA welterweight rankings, the Bulgarian [[Pete Pancoff]] and the American [[Red Garner]], had to participate in that tournament as well. Santo reached the finals by defeating Murciélago Velázquez and Jack O'Brien. On the other side of the brackets, Pancoff defeated Dientes Hernandez and [[Emilio Charles Sr.]] to get to the final match. Santo defeated Pancoff after the Bulgarian submitted to a [[Boston crab]] in the legendary final match. When Pancoff submitted, the crowd exploded in a huge "SANTO! SANTO! SANTO!" chorus.<br />
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This was one of the turning points of the career of Santo because even though he was a natural heel, and wrestled and acted like a rudo, by defeating a foreign wrestler to get a world title he was defending the country's pride and that made him a national hero.<br />
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But after that big win, things didn't work as expected. On [[September 20]], [[Wolf Rubinskis]], who was making his [[Arena Mexico]] debut, crushed him the same way he crushed Ciclón Veloz when he made his debut. But the worst thing is that during this match Santo got injured and had to take a few weeks off.<br />
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His career wasn't going as expected after his return in [[1947]] either. On [[February 14]], Jack O'Brien defeated him for the NWA Welterweight title. Again, Santo was the chosen one to give the welcome to a new wrestler that was making debut: [[Black Shadow]], and yes, Santo lost to Shadow clean in the middle of the ring too.<br />
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Santo's next big profile match was on [[1949]], when he had to face his friend and partner Gory Guerrero. It was March when Lutteroth announced that there would be a tournament to decide the number one contender for the NWA Welterweight title that O'Brien still held. The storyline says that Santo encouraged Gory, a natural Middleweight, to lose weight and participate in the tournament. Both men reached the finals of the tournament, and the day of the friend vs. friend match, EMLL sold-out the building (Arena Coliseo). Gory won this memorable fight by making his partner Santo submit. Many thought that jealousy would break their friendship but this match did nothing but make it stronger. In fact Santo was the second of his compadre when on [[April 29]], Gory defeated O'Brien in the title match.<br />
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During 1949, Santo also wrestled a few matches in [[Houston]], [[Texas]]... but without his mask on! He eventually returned to Mexico but a few things changed.<br />
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While Santo was gone, the young undercard team of [[Blue Demon]] and Black Shadow, "Los Hermanos Shadow", was getting more popular by the day so the promoters obviously decided to face them to the reformed team of Gory and Santo. On [[April 9]], [[1950]], the atomic pair made quick work out of the masked "brothers" in a tag match.<br />
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Shadow claimed he'd avenge that loss and he started feuding extensively with Santo. The Shadow/Santo rivalry reached its higher point on [[November 7]], [[1952]] when both men faced each other in the mask vs. mask match that is considered the most important one in the history of lucha libre in Mexico. Arena Coliseo was the place in which Black Shadow was revealed to be Alejandro Cruz Ortíz, from [[León de los Aldama]].<br />
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Again somebody was anxious to get revenge on Santo, but this time it Blue Demon who wanted to avenge the mask loss of his wrestling brother, Black Shadow. After Demon humilliated Santo, winning him in two straight falls during a non-title match held on [[August 7]], [[1953]], Demon challenged Santo to a match with the NWA Welterweight title at stake. On [[September 27]], in what many consider the biggest loss in his career, Santo lost the title to Blue Demon.<br />
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But it was around this time when Santo was starting to become the myth he is now. Thanks to the TV coverage, lucha libre had its first ever "boom", and Santo's character was successfully marketed in comics and other merchandising. Also, at this time there was a huge nationalism among the Mexican population, and Santo always defented the colors of his country, like on the [[January 1|first day]] of the new year [[1954]], when he defeated Chinese wrestler [[Sugi Sito]] to capture the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship]].<br />
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It was in [[1962]] that Santo made the decision to become a técnico. After all, he was way too loved to be hated. During a match in which he teamed with [[Los Espantos]] (I & II) against [[Rayo de Jalisco]], [[Henry Pilusso]] and [[Rito Romero]], his partners turned on him and left him alone in the ring against the three tecnicos that obviously defeated him. On his first match as a good guy, held on [[July 5]], he teamed with Pilusso against the Espantos. That night Santo gave such an exhibition of high flying and ring knowledge that he was given an unanimous standing ovation by the crowd.<br />
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Another important fact in Santo's career is that on [[April 19]], [[1963]], he teamed with Blue Demon for the first time ever. From then on, the dream team wrestled together many other times all over Mexico, though they never were a regular tag team.<br />
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Around this time Santo also was a film star, as in [[1958]] he filmed his first movie. After that cinematic debut, he starred in other 50+ movies. Even though those films didn't exactly have great production values (even by the 60s standards) and the plots of them weren't mindbogglingly great either, the people flocked over to the cinema to watch them all. Those movies were quite a hit in other countries as well, as they were really popular all over Latin America, [[Spain]] and even Lebanon, where there's a cinema with a huge Santo statue in the entrance. Many cinema critics loved to hate Santo, but a proved fact is that the three most successful stars of the Mexican cinema history are Pedro Infante, Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" and El Santo. There's an anecdote that says that once, representants of a Chinese company came to Mexico looking for Mexican films. They were shown a few productions that were considered among the best in the history of Mexican cinema, but the Chinese said that they didn't want those films. They wanted Santo, because they claimed that "Santo represented the perfect hero fighting against the evil".<br />
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== Journey towards Retirement ==<br />
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Santo was also getting older, so now he mainly wrestled in six-men tag matches rather than singles or tag team bouts. He formed a successful team with a young good worker called Rayo de Jalisco and they captured the [[Mexican National Tag Team Titles]] twice over the decade (of the 60s). In [[1975]], his "tercia" with [[El Solitario]] and [[Mil Mascaras]] was such a huge hit that it was voted team of the year even though they didn't team together extensively. Unlike other EMLL wrestlers, Santo had special privileges, for instance he was allowed to appear in cards of the rival promotion [[UWA]], but in [[1977]] there was a big EMLL break down and many wrestlers, including Santo, left "La Empresa".<br />
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In [[1980]], during a match vs. Los Misioneros ([[El Signo]], [[Negro Navarro]] and [[Texano]]), Santo fell unconscious, and he was later diagnosed with a coronary problem. A year later, in [[1981]], Santo suffered a heart attack when teaming with [[Huracán Ramirez]] and Black Shadow against Los Misioneros de la Muerte (Signo, Texano & Negro Navarro). Santo's wrestling license was revoked so he decided it was time to say goodbye. After this incident, Santo secretly had an operation.<br />
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Santo's last feud was against a young masked superstar called [[Bobby Lee]]. Lee said that Santo wouldn't leave the business masked and challenged him to a mask vs. mask match. The challenge was accepted and Santo took Lee's mask revealing him to be Carlos Alvarado. Lee had his feet on the ropes when Santo made him submit to the camel clutch, but the referee didn't see it. Santo failed to defeat Lee in a match for the [[UWA Welterweight Championship]] Bobby held, but later he took his hair in a hair vs. mask match.<br />
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In [[1982]], Santo had a three match retirement tour. In the first match he teamed with Solitario against [[Villano III]] and Rokambole ([[Villano V]]) at the [[Palacio de los Deportes]]. In the second match, held in Arena Mexico, he teamed with [[Gran Hamada]] to defeat [[Villano I]] and [[Scorpio]] in the first round of a losers advance tournament (where all the teams were comprised of a masked man and an unmasked wrestler) in which the final losers would get his hair shaved or his mask removed. And in the final match of his career, held on [[September 12]] at the [[Toreo de Cuatro Caminos]], he teamed with his old friend Gory Guerrero (who was already retired but returned for this one-time deal), Huracán Ramírez and El Solitario to defeat Los Misioneros, and his last major opponent, [[Perro Aguayo]], in two straight falls, both won via DQ.<br />
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Now that he was retired, Santo kept active doing other things. A month later one of his sons debuted under the [[Hijo del Santo]] mask, and Santo was at ringside during all the matches of his son's debut tour.<br />
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On [[January 26]], [[1984]] he appeared in the lucha special of the talk program "Contrapunto" (Counterpoint), and partially removed his mask in a totally unexpected way. Some say that he did this because he felt that he had little time to live.<br />
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== A Mortal Saint with an Immortal Legacy == <br />
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On [[February 5]], two weeks after he took his mask off on a national TV program, Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta felt a tremendous pain in the chest after his debut as an escapist at the Teatro (teather) Blanquita. He was taken to the Mosel Hospital but nothing could be done. Santo was dead. The following day this was the biggest piece of news all over the country. Each and every magazine and newspaper extensively covered the news in the first pages, and all the TV and radio stations had special Santo programs.<br />
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During his life, Rodolfo had the opportunity to be two different individuals, but he chose to be Santo in death. The following day he was buried with his mask on in what is considered to be the biggest burial in the history of Mexico. Proof that the whole country mourned Santo's death was that an estimated crowd of 10,000 showed up and literally blocked the streets to the point that it took several hours until the coffin made it to the mausoleum. Several wrestlers like [[Mil Mascaras]] and [[Blue Demon]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Charles Bronson Mexicano]], [[Enrique Llanes]] and a teary [[Wolf Ruvinskis]] showed up to give Santo his last goodbye. [[Hijo del Santo]] and [[Huracán Ramírez]] among others, carried the coffin to the Mausoleo (mausoleum) María del Ángel where Santo rests in peace.<br />
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To this day, Santo is still an important piece of the history of the country and also a relevant part of the Mexican folklore. Even now, more than fifteen years after his death, everybody in Mexico knows about El Santo. His films are still shown on TV from time to time and they still generate ratings after all these years. Many magazines (not just lucha or movie magazines) still publish Santo articles or even special issues. In November of [[1999]], Somos ("We are") published a Santo special that included several pictures of Rodolfo Guzmán without his mask. El Hijo Del Santo threatened to sue [[Televisa]] (owners of the magazine) but since the source of the pictures was one of his brothers the lawsuit was dropped.<br />
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One could say that as long as there is lucha libre in Mexico, there will be Santo, but even if there wasn't lucha, Santo would still be alive in the heart of the Mexican citizens.</font><br />
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===Filmography===<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro del Mal (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Hombres Infernales (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Zombis (1961)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Rey del Crimen (1961)]] <br />
#[[Santo en el Hotel de la Muerte (1961)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro Diabólico (1962)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs las Mujeres Vampiro (1962)]] <br />
#[[Santo en el Museo de Cera (1963)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs el Estrangulador (1963)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Espectro (1963)]]<br />
#[[Blue Demon Contra el Poder Satánico (1964)]] <br />
#[[El Hacha Diabólica (1964)]]<br />
#[[Atacan las Brujas (1964)]] <br />
#[[Profanadores de Tumbas (1965)]] <br />
#[[El Barón Brákola (1965)]] (three episodes)<br />
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs la Invasión de Los Marcianos (1966)]] <br />
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs Los Villanos del Ring (1966)]]<br />
#[[Operación 67 (1966)]]<br />
#[[El Tesoro de Moctezuma (1966)]]<br />
#[[Santo en el Tesoro de Drácula (1968]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Capulina (1968)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlántida (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos (1969)]] <br />
#[[El Mundo de los Muertos (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs Los Cazadores de Cabezas (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo Frente A la Muerte (1969)]] (coproduced in Colombia and Spain)<br />
#[[Santo en la Venganza de las Mujeres Vampiro (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Jinetes del Terror (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo vs la Mafia del Vicio (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo en la Venganza de la Momia (1970)]]<br />
#[[Las Momias de Guanajuato (1970)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Asesinos de Otros Mundos (1971)]] <br />
#[[Santo vs la Hija de Frankenstein (1971)]]<br />
#[[Misión Suicida (1971)]] <br />
#[[Santo y el Aguila Real (el águila real) (1971)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra la Magia Negra (1972)]] (coproduced in Haití) <br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (1972)]]<br />
#[[Las Bestias del Terror (1972)]] <br />
#[[Anónimo Mortal (1972)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Secuestradores (1972)]] (coproduced with Ecuador) <br />
#[[Santo vs las Lobas (1972)]] <br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra el Doctor Frankestein (1973)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Doctor Muerte (1973)]] (coproduced in Spain) <br />
#[[Santo en el Misterio de la Perla Negra (1974)]] (coproduced in Colombia & Spain) <br />
#[[La Venganza de la Llorona (1974)]] <br />
#[[Santo en Oro Negro (1975)]] (coproduced in part in Puerto Rico) <br />
#[[México de Mis Amores (1976)]] (documentary)<br />
#[[Misterio en las Bermudas (1977)]]<br />
#[[Santo en la Frontera del Terror (1979)]]<br />
#[[Chanoc y el Hijo del Santo vs Los Vampiros Asesinos (1981)]] (special) <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Asesino de la Televisión (1981)]]<br />
#[[El Puño de la Muerte (1982)]]<br />
#[[La Furia de Los Karatecas (1982)]]<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
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{{aline|??/??/??|mask<ref>[[Box y Lucha 3339]]</ref>|[[El Santo]]|[[Bolchevique]]|[[Salamanca]], [[Guanajuato]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Cavernario Galindo]]|[[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|[[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Raúl Torres]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gorilita Flores]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Judas Colombiano]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Arturo Chávez]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Araña (Antonio Vazquez)]]|[[Torreón]], [[Coahuila]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Monstruo (Mario Ceron)]]|[[Guatemala City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Cara Cortada]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dr. X (original)]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1943]]/01/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Murciélago Velázquez]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1943]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[02/09]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[04/08]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jack O'Brien]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1949]]/[[12/25]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Golden Terror]]|[[Arena Canada Dry]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1949]]/[[07/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Enrique Llanes]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1951]]/[[02/11]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chico Casaola]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1952]]/[[11/07]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Black Shadow]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1955]]/[[12/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Halcón Negro (50s)|Halcón Negro]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1956]]/[[September 21|09/21]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|1957|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Imperio Rojo]]|Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/[[10/29]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Monje Loco (50s)|Monje Loco]]|[[Plaza de Toros el Progreso, Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/[[12/10]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Monje Loco (50s)|Monje Loco]]|[[Plaza de Toros el Progreso, Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/??/??|mask|El Santo|Sombra Vengadora [[(Octavio Gaona jr)]]|[[Morelia, Michoacán]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1959]]/[[02/22]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Alberto Reyes|El Tercer Hombre]]<ref>Tercer Hombre would lose his mask multiple times - [http://superluchas.com/2015/02/22/en-un-dia-como-hoy-1959-el-regreso-de-henry-pilusso-el-tercer-hombre-vuelve-a-perder-la-mascara-ahora-ante-el-santo/ SuperLuchas]</ref>|[[Arena Canada Dry]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|masks|[[El Santo]] & [[Dr. X (original)]]|Infernales [[Infernal I (Tomas Riande)|I (Riande)]] & [[Infernal II (Paulino Mar)|II (Mar)]]|?|[[Leon]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Cebra (Antonio Rey)]]|?|[[Colombia]]|}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Momia]] (Salvadoreño)|?|[[San Salvador]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Rubén Juárez]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto II]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[04/26]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Benny Galant]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[10/25]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto I]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be after the Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dragón Rojo (Luis Gonzalez)|Dragón Rojo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1965]]/[[04/05]]<ref>[http://i.imgur.com/hST7eLP.png Lucha Libre 78]</ref>|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Chacal (Guatemala)|El Chacal]]|[[Guatemala City]], [[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1965]]/[[11/05]]<ref>Lucha Libre 109</ref>|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gory Casanova]]|[[Guatemala City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1966]].[[09.18]]<ref>Lucha Libre 167</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[The Spider]]|[[Morelia, Michocan]]}}<br />
{{aline|12/?/1967|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Samurai I]]|unknown}}<br />
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|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chino Chow]]|[[Arena Danubio Azul, Tijuana, Baja California]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dick Angelo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/10]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[René Guajardo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/11]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jorge Allende]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1970]]/[[07/26]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Alex de Alba]]|[[Arena Sindicato Clemente Jacques]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[10/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Perro Aguayo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 3|09/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/[[March 30|03/30]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Urco]]|[[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/[[June 2|06/02]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Judas]]|[[Gimnasio Olímpico]], [[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Remolino]]|[[Gimnasio Municipal Obregon|Gimnasio Municipal - Cd. Obregón]], [[Sonora]]}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
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{{Gallery|name= 51465.jpg|caption=Mexican National Welterweight & Middleweight Champion 1944}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Welter.nwa.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Welterweight Championship |NWA WELTER Champ]]}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=El-santo_nwa-midd.JPG|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]]}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=SantoStatue.jpg|caption=Statue made in memory of Santo. It stands 3.70 mts &weighs over 1500 kilos}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=arenamextag_santomendoza.png|caption=[[Arena Mexico Tag Team Champion|Arena Mexico Tag Team Championship]] (w/[[Ray Mendoza]])}}<br />
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[[Category:La Arena bios]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Dos_Caras&diff=181795Dos Caras2020-06-08T01:59:25Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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|image=Doscaras.jpg<br />
|name=Dos Caras (Two Faces) <br />
|nicknames=Two Faces, El Hércules Potosino, El Birrostro<br />
|nameHistory=Dos Caras (debut - ) <br />
|family=[[Dos Caras Jr.]] & [[El Hijo de Dos Caras]] (son), [[Mil Máscaras]] & [[Sicodélico]] (brothers), [[Sicodélico Jr.]] and [[Hijo Del Sicodelico]] (nephews) <br />
|maestro=[[Rafael Salamanca]], [[Gory Medina]]<br />
|birthdate=[[February 20]], [[1951]] - [[San Luis Potosí]], [[San Luis Potosí State|San Luis Potosí]]<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|debut=[[January 6]], [[1970]] - [[Arena KO Algusto]] - [[Naucalpan]], [[Mexico State]]<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height=5'10"/178 cms <br />
|weight=211 lbs/96 kg <br />
|signatureMoves=[[Plancha]], [[Plancha Suicida]], [[Flying double chest chop]], [[Ground Octopus Hold]], [[Octopus Hold]], [[Dos Caras Clutch]]<br />
|titles=[[National Light Heavyweight Title]], [[National Trios Titles]] (w/ [[Villano III]] and [[Villano V]]), [[UWA World Heavyweight Title]] (3), [[WWA World Heavyweight Title]], [[CMLL World Trios Titles]] (w/ [[La Fiera]] & [[Héctor Garza]]), Tokyo World Tag Team Title (w/ [[Mil Máscaras]])<br />
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{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Dos Caras]]|[[Sugi Sito]]|Arena Apatlaco - Iztapalapa, Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hairs|[[Rayo Dorado]] & [[Dos Caras]]|[[Gori Medina]] & [[Anaul Kalif]]|??}}<br />
{{aline|[[1972]]/[[08/06]]|hair<ref>[http://superluchas.com/2015/08/06/en-un-dia-como-hoy-1972-dos-caras-rapa-a-ulises-onassis-cinco-cabelleras-mas-caen-a-lo-largo-de-mexico/ SuperLuchas]</ref>|Dos Caras|[[Ulises Onassis]]|[[Arena San Juan Pantitlán]] - [[Mexico State]]}}<br />
{{aline|75/??/??|hair|[[Dos Caras]]|[[Renato Torres]]|[[Cancha de San Pedro]], [[Puebla]]}}<br />
{{aline|75/[[September 15|09/15]]|masks (1)|Dos Caras & [[El Cóndor]]|[[Juan Colorado]] & [[El Jíbaro]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|75/12/10|mask|[[Dos Caras]]|[[Mazambula El Brujo]]|Palacio de los Deportes - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|79/04/22|mask|[[Dos Caras]]|[[Astro Rey]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|82/??/??|mask|[[Dos Caras]]|[[El Salvaje]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|83/06/05|mask (2)|[[Dos Caras]]|[[Kendo|El Brillante]]|Palacio de los Deportes - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|85/??/??|mask|[[Dos Caras]]|[[La Pantera]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|88/05/29|hair|[[Dos Caras]]|[[Scorpio]]|Arena Ecatepec - Ecatepec, Morelos}}<br />
{{aline|93/08/01|mask (3)|[[Dos Caras]]|[[Yamato (UWA)|Yamato]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|06/06/18|mask (4)|Dos Caras|[[El Impala|Black Man II]]|Sala De Armas Deportiva Mixhuca - Iztacalco}}<br />
{{aend|<b>(1)</b> Finals of a ruleta de la muerte tag team tournament; <b>(2)</b> 12 man ruleta; <b>(3)</b> Triangle match with [[Canek]]; <b>(4)</b> Finals of an 8 man ruleta de la muerte tag team tournament}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=Milmascaras doscaras villano3 1985.jpg|caption=Mil & Dos & V3 - 1985}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=Campanita.jpg|caption=vs. [[Hijo del Santo]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Brazaso_jalon.jpg|caption=vs. [[Blue Demon Jr.]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=FakeCibernetico.jpg|caption=one-time appearence as a fake [[Cibernetico]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=131204 kak kizoku main pict22.jpg|caption=as Tokyo World Tag Team Champion w/[[Mil Máscaras]]}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]][[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]][[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]][[Category:Todo X El Todo wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Tinieblas&diff=181316Tinieblas2020-05-23T05:45:16Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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|image=Tinieblass.JPG<br />
|name=Tinieblas (Darkness)<br />
|nicknames=El Gigante Sabio (The Wise Giant), El Capitán Aventura (Captain Adventure)<br />
|nameHistory=Tinieblas (debut- )<br />
|family=[[Tinieblas Jr.]] (son)<br />
|maestro=[[Rafael Salamanca]], [[Dick Medrano]]<br />
|birthdate=[[June 8]], [[1939]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|obituarydate=n/a<br />
|debut=[[August 20]], [[1971]] - [[Arena México]]<br />
|lostmaskto=n/a<br />
|height=6'3"/190 cms<br />
|weight=240 lbs/109 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=El Abrazo del Oso ([[Bearhug]]), [[Plancha]]<br />
|titles=Guatemala:World Junior Heavyweight Title, [[WWA World Heavyweight Title]]<br />
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== Biography == <br />
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Tinieblas was born on June 8, 1939 (not 1945 like he'll tell you) in Mexico City. Even though his family name shouldn't be revealed at this point, he's the brother of a famous Mexican bullfighter of the past.<br />
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From the 60s to the early 90s, there was a very popular magazine in Mexico called "Lucha Libre", run by Valente Pérez (though it was renamed "Lucha Libre Mundial" when Benjamín Mora Jr. took over, and not coincidentially, the magazine didn't last a lot with Mora in charge). LL also had a bodybuilding sister magazine called "Muscle Power", whose editor also was Valente Pérez. Pérez, who was well liked and respected in the business and had a very good relationship with the Lutteroth family, had a special talent to come up with names and personalities for new luchadores, the most successful one being Mil Máscaras.<br />
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At the same time, a young man who had entered "Mister Jalisco" contests in Guadalajara, was scouted by Black Shadow and Dory Dixon. Both saw a future star in the youngster, especially because he was very tall for a Mexican. Shadow and Dixon convinced him to get into pro wrestling and he went under training with EMLL's maestros Rafael Salamanca and Dick Medrano.<br />
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Before wrestler, he was an actor and extra, participating in films with capulina, santo and bluedemon's movies as frankeinstain, ''satanas'' tne mommia in las momias de Guanajuato. He made his debut as tinieblas in the movie Los Campeones Justicieros (1970. A year later made his debut as luchador. He participate some other films<br />
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#[[1982 El puño de la muerte]] as Tinieblas <br />
#1982 [[La furia de los karatecas]] as Tinieblas. <br />
#1975 [[El investigador Capulina]] as Tinieblas. <br />
#1975 [[Las momias de San Ángel]] (as Tinieblas 'El Gigante') .<br />
#1974 [[Macabre Legends of the Colony]] (as Tinieblas el Gigante) .<br />
#1973 [[The Castle of Mummies of Guanajuato]](as Tinieblas El Gigante) .<br />
#1973 [[Una rosa sobre el ring]] (uncredited) .<br />
#1972 [[Kalimán el hombre increible]] (as the egypcian Mummy)<br />
#1971 [[The Champions of Justice]](as Tinieblas el Gigante) .<br />
#1971 [[Superzan el invencible]] .<br />
#1970 [[Las momias de Guanajuato]] (as Satán)<br />
#1969 [[Modisto de señoras]] (uncredited) .<br />
#1969 [[Santo y Blue Demon contra los monstruos]] (as Franquestain) .<br />
#1963 [[Kings of the Sun]] (uncredited) .<br />
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Also filmed Las Aventuras de Capulina with alushe in the 70s and 80s.<br />
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In 1968, Pérez came up with a new character that had money written all over it. He thought about an ultimate heel nemesis for Mil Mascaras, and what better for that than the subject of darkness? He had even designed the perfect mask for this wrestler - a faceless hood. That's how Tinieblas was born, but in the end, he made his debut (and spent the rest of his career) as a tecnico and not as a rudo. In his first match, he teamed with Dixon and Shadow to face Dr. Wagner, El Solitario and Renato Torres in the main event of the August 20, 1971 Arena Mexico card.<br />
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In a way, Tinieblas can be seen as a disappointment, because even though he has had a very respectful career and nobody can deny that he is a legend, it was thought that through the movies he'd eventually reach the legendary status of El Santo and Blue Demon just like Mil Mascaras did.<br />
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He made a few movies (he had actually been a stunt man and an "extra" in many films before his lucha debut, with perhaps his most relevant work being in the Tarzan TV series of the 60s), and he was often used as a villain due to his size (he was Dr. Frankenstein in the 1973 "Santo y Blue Demon contra el Dr. Frankenstein") but he never really became a successful movie star. However he became a pioneer of an alternative art form that is still strong today - the weekly comic books. At their peak of popularity, those small books released issues on several stars, but he was the first one, other than Santo, to get his own weekly comic. He had a series released from 1976 to 1979, which is considered the best and most successful one. In the early 90s (1991 and 1992 to be more concrete) there was a "lucha magazine boom", as more than 20 WEEKLY publications were released in the country. But the one that easily was the largest selling magazine of them all, was the little comic booklet called "Sensacional de Luchas a Color". This book, published by Editorial Ejea, featured an history with a masked wrestler every week. While Rayo de Jalisco Jr., Misterioso, Atlantis, Octagon and others were heavily featured on those, the only wrestler that had his own comic was Tinieblas. This series called "Tinieblas, El Hijo de la Noche" (Son of the night) lasted from 1991 to 1995 (when the boom was long dead, economy went down and production costs went up). The comic was relaunched in the year 2000 by Editorial Shilbalba, but now it had a bigger page format and far better production (so not to look cheap and outdated compared to the Japanese and American comics). At this point, he's the last wrestler to have the honor of having his own comic book. In Japan, Tinieblas is described as a "Modern Comic Hero"<br />
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The lack of titles and big singles main events during his career tells us that Tinieblas' biggest strength wasn't his ringwork. It was adequate, though, but as he had a very late debut, age caught him faster than it does with other luchadores.<br />
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Either way, Tinieblas was a big draw and achieved huge success as a "lucha embassador" in countries like Panama, Guatemala and many of the Caribbean islands. He also was one of the first luchadores to tour Japan when he came for an August of 1974 tour as "El León Tinieblas", but he didn't return to Japan until 1991, when he was used by the W*ING promotion in a tag team with his son, Tinieblas Jr.<br />
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As mentioned before, there's a general lack of big trophies in Tinieblas' career. In March of 1980, he won the Junior Heavyweight Title in [[Jose Azzari]]'s Guatemalan UWA, defeating La Furia and losing it back in Guatemala to Edgar Echeverría after 15 successful defenses. He also briefly held the WWA World Heavyweight Title (defeating Bill Anderson on January 31, 1987 in Los Angeles) until losing it to Super Halcón, but that's about it, as he has never been in a big "lucha de apuestas".<br />
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He also was one of the very first men that left EMLL in December of 1974 to form the UWA. Since then, he has spent the rest of his career as an independent contractor. He had long runs in Tijuana with Mora but he was loyal to the UWA until it was in its last legs. In June of 1992 he jumped to AAA. Other than some work for EMLL in 1996, he stayed with AAA until he and his son left in August of 1997. The junior jumped to Promo Azteca and the senior became a true freelancer again (though he now had ties with Promo Azteca). Today, he can often be seen competing for EMLL and the IWRG.<br />
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Tinieblas' popularity is still high today among kids. In order to keep his name strong, in 1988 he added his "mini-mascot" Alushe to his act, and in the late 80s and early 90s he appeared in the Capulina TV show for kids. Nowadays he follows the Mil Mascaras routine of wrestling everywhere, but just a few dates to avoid burning out.<br />
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It's not known how long will Tinieblas stay in the business. He has little athleticism left but he has shown no signs of retirement and it looks like he will be able to get work at almost all the big arenas for a few more years, relying on name value and Alushe's comedy.<br />
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As a fun fact, one of Tinieblas' nicknames is "El Gigante Sabio" (The Wise Giant). In the Lucha Libre magazine, and more recently in Luchas 2000, there was a "Pregúntale a Tinieblas" (Ask Tinieblas) section where people would supposedly send him general culture questions and he'd answer them. After reading Tinieblas' answers and seeing how accurate they are, you can bet that an encyclopedia was used to answer those, but in reality, Tinieblas is a very intelligent man with a tremendous cultural knowledge!<br />
During 2010 he made a retirement tour in AAA CMLL and independients arenas. Later he changed his mind and continued wrestling. He said in an interview by el Hijo del Santo's program that he might retire in 2012 or 2013. After 45 years wrester ,finally, he retired. He says won about 10 masks and 15 hairs matches. </font><br />
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=== not [[Dr. Alfonso Morales]] ===<br />
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On the week Tinieblas debuted, lucha announcer Dr. Alfonso Morales was absent. Dr. Morales missing a show is a strange event, he's a tall man, and Tinieblas is a tall man, so some believed the announcer was actually under the mask. <br />
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This is not true. Morales is not Tinieblas, and has done commentary on his matches. Still, the rumor persists and is running joke among the announcers.<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|Mask|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Fuerza War]]|?? - , [???], [[México]]}}<br />
{{aline|70's/??/??|Mask|[[Tinieblas]]|Atila (local wrester)|?? - , [[Guatemala]], [[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|Mask|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Simio]] |? [[Guatemala?]]}}<br />
{{aline|70's|masks |[[Superzan]] & [[Tinieblas]]|[[Los Hermanos Corzo|Los Tigres del Ring]] |Cd Victoria, Tamaulipas}}<br />
{{aline|73/07/24|hair|[[Tinieblas]]|[[TNT]]|Palacio de los Deportes <br />
{{aline|75/07/03|mask |[[Tinieblas]]|Asesino Negro|Auditorio Municipal Cd Victoria, Tamaulipas}} - Mexico}}<br />
{{aline|1978|mask|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Bulldozer]]|[[??]]}}<br />
{{aline|82/04/24|mask|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Red Terror]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|83/11/13|hair|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Super Máquina]]|Palacio de los Deportes - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|1984|mask (1)|[[Tinieblas]], [[Villano III]] & [[Rocky Star]]|[[Flama Roja]], [[El Legionario (original)]] & [[Superzan]] |Ciudad Juarez}}<br />
{{aline|[[1986]]/[[10/18]]|hair|[[Tinieblas]]|Bill Anderson|[[Olimpic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California]]}}<br />
{{aline|87/??/??|hair|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Abdullah Tamba]]|L.A. Olympic Auditorium - Los Angeles, CA, USA}}<br />
{{aline|80's|mask|[[Tinieblas]]|[[El Internacional]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|90s/??/??|mask|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Ice Man]]|Gimnasio Municipal - [[Cd. Juarez]], [[Chih]], [[Mexico]]}}<br />
{{aline|99/04/04|mask (2)|[[Tinieblas]] & [[Alushe]]|[[Médico Asesino Jr.]] & [[Enfermerito]]|[[Auditorio Municipal Torreón]]}}<br />
{{aline|01/01/21|mask (3)|[[Tinieblas]]|[[El Enfermero 2001]]|Gimnasio José Neri Santos - Cd. Juarez, Chih.}}<br />
{{aline|03/01/24|mask (4)|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Zombie II]]|Campo Antonio Palacios - Ensenada, B.C.}}<br />
{{aend|<b>(1)</b> Relevos australianos suicidas, in this match Superzan loss the mask, but it is not known who's the winner of the mask of Superzan and if it was the original Alfonso Mora or an imposter, <B>(2)</b> Medico Asesino walked off without unmasking; mascots masks were on the line as well. <b>(3)</b> Relevos Suicidas vs. [[Máscara Sagrada]] & [[Fishman Jr.]]; <b>(4)</b> 12 wrestler ruleta}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
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{{Gallery|name=White Tinieblas.jpg|caption=dressed in white}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=tinieblas.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=wwaheavy_tinieblas.jpg|caption=as ([[Guatemala]]) World Junior Heavyweight Champ}}<br />
{{Gallerywide|name=guatemala-uwa-old-belt.jpg|caption=the belt that Tinieblas acquired this before}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Blue and tinieblas.JPG|caption=with [[Blue Demon]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Screenshot_20190317-102118~2.png}}<br />
{{Gallerywide|name=Tin.jpg|caption=with [[Alushe]] & [[Tinieblas Jr.]]}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=719.jpg|caption=w [[Tinieblas Jr.]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=865.jpg|caption=w [[Tinieblas Jr.]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=TODOXELTODO.jpg|caption=Todo X El Todo}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Tini.jpg|caption=with Alushe }}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Tinie.jpg|caption=with Alushe }}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Tinieblassryjr.jpg|caption=Junto [[Mil Mascaras]], [[Hijo del Santo]], [[Tinieblas Jr.]] & [[Alushe]]}} <br />
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{{Gallery|name=VSTINIEBLAS.jpg|caption=vs. [[Mil Mascaras]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Milaudaz.jpg|caption=w/ [[Mil Mascaras]] & [[El Audaz]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Tinieblas01.jpg|caption=70`S}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Imagen 6.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Tinieblas 3.jpg|caption=}}<br />
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]][[Category:Former AAA/PAP wrestlers]][[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]][[Category:Former IWRG wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:La Arena bios]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Bulldozer&diff=181315Bulldozer2020-05-23T05:43:30Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Lucha de Apuestas record */</p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=FB IMG 1499713605252.jpg <br />
|name=Bulldozer<br />
|realName=Fernando Molina Perez<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=Bulldozer<br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=[[Zebra Kid]]<br />
|birthdate=<br />
|debut=[[1978]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Mr. Tempest (70s)]]<br />
|height=<br />
|weight=150 kg/331 lb<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=<br />
|titles=<br />
|}}<br />
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]<br />
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== Lucha de Apuestas record ==<br />
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{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|197?|mask|[[Bulldozer]]|[[Sr. Tormenta]]|[[??]]}}<br />
{{aline|197?|mask|[[Bulldozer]]|[[Black Phanter]]|[[??]]}}<br />
{{aline|197?|mask|[[Bulldozer]]|[[Rey America]]|[[??]]}}<br />
{{aline|197?|mask|[[Bulldozer]]|[[Hulk]]|[[??]]}}<br />
{{aline|197?|mask|[[Bulldozer]]|[[Black King]]|[[??]]}}<br />
{{aline|197?|hair|[[Bulldozer]]|[[Zebra Kid]]|[[??]]}}<br />
{{aline|197?|mask|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Bulldozer]]|[[??]]}}<br />
{{aline|1978|mask|[[Mr. Tempest (70s)|Mr. Tempest]]|[[Bulldozer]]|[[Tampico, Tamaulipas]]}}<br />
{{aend}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=Bulldozer.jpg|caption=}}</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=C%C3%A9sar_Silva&diff=180830César Silva2020-05-08T13:51:40Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=cesarsilva.jpg<br />
|name=César Silva<br />
|realName=César Laperuta Silva<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=César Silva<br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=[[Benny Llamas]], [[Emilio Charles]]<br />
|birthdate=[[September 8]], [[1938]] - [[Nuevo Leon]]<br />
|debut=[[1958]] - [[Nuevo Laredo]], versus Difunto<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height=170 cm/5'6"<br />
|weight=78 kg/172 lb<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=<br />
|titles=[[Nuevo Leon State Welterweight Championship]]<br />
|}}<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Kasak]]|[[César Silva]]|Coliseo Monterrey NL}}<br />
{{aline|7??/??/??|hair|[[El Justicero]]|[[César Silva]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|73/??/??|hair|[[César Silva]]|[[El Rebelde]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|75/??/??|hair|[[César Silva]]|[[King I]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|75/09/21|hair|[[César Silva]]|[[Pantera China]]|unknown}}<br />
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{{aend|}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=cesarsilvall112.png|caption=Lucha Libre 112}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Cesar Silva]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Kasak&diff=180829Kasak2020-05-08T13:51:18Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|name=Kasak<br />
|image=Kasak.jpg<br />
|realName=<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=Kasak<br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=<br />
|birthdate=<br />
|debut=<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height=<br />
|weight=<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=<br />
|titles=<br />
|}}<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Kasak]]|[[César Silva]]|Coliseo Monterrey NL}}<br />
<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|<br />
|name=Kasak1.jpg<br />
|caption=1978}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=C%C3%A9sar_Silva&diff=180828César Silva2020-05-08T13:50:17Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=cesarsilva.jpg<br />
|name=César Silva<br />
|realName=César Laperuta Silva<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=César Silva<br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=[[Benny Llamas]], [[Emilio Charles]]<br />
|birthdate=[[September 8]], [[1938]] - [[Nuevo Leon]]<br />
|debut=[[1958]] - [[Nuevo Laredo]], versus Difunto<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height=170 cm/5'6"<br />
|weight=78 kg/172 lb<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=<br />
|titles=[[Nuevo Leon State Welterweight Championship]]<br />
|}}<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Kasak]]|[[César Silva]]|Colisro Monterrey NL}}<br />
{{aline|7??/??/??|hair|[[El Justicero]]|[[César Silva]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|73/??/??|hair|[[César Silva]]|[[El Rebelde]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|75/??/??|hair|[[César Silva]]|[[King I]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|75/09/21|hair|[[César Silva]]|[[Pantera China]]|unknown}}<br />
<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=cesarsilvall112.png|caption=Lucha Libre 112}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Cesar Silva]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Astro_II&diff=178124El Astro II2020-03-13T01:02:04Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: Undo revision 178123 by Heroe de leyenda (talk)</p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=12ELASTROII.jpg<br />
|name=El Astro II<br />
|realName=<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=El Astro II<br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=<br />
|birthdate=<br />
|debut=<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height=<br />
|weight=<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=<br />
|titles=<br />
|}}<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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Photo taken from a [[Super Luchas]] article displaying pictures of masked men from the early days of Lucha Libre. No records exist of him in any match.<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Astro II]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Astro_II&diff=178123El Astro II2020-03-13T01:00:38Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: </p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=12ELASTROII.jpg<br />
|name=El Astro II<br />
|realName=<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=[[Tony Sugar]],El Astro II<br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=<br />
|birthdate=<br />
|debut=<br />
|lostmaskto= [[Tauro]]<br />
|height=<br />
|weight=<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=<br />
|titles=<br />
|}}<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
<br />
Photo taken from a [[Super Luchas]] article displaying pictures of masked men from the early days of Lucha Libre. No records exist of him in any match.<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Astro II]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Rostro&diff=177886El Rostro2020-03-08T02:41:18Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Profile */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
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{{bioFields||image=Elrostro.jpg<br />
|name=El Rostro (The Face)<br />
|nicknames=none<br />
|nameHistory=El Rostro (debut - retirement)<br />
|family= [[sicodelico]] (brother in law)<br />
|maestro=[[Diablo Velazco]]<br />
|birthdate=[[May 16]], [[1947]] - [[San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí]]<br />
|debut=[[1967]] - [[Guadalajara, Jalisco]]<br />
|height=6'1"/185 cms<br />
|weight=227 lbs/103 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=[[Cristo]]<br />
|titles=none<br />
|}}<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Rostro]]|[[Manuel Robles]]|Arena Coliseo}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Rostro]]|[[Leo Lopez]]|???}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Rostro]]|[[Marco Tulio]]|???}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
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{{Gallery|name=ElRostroolder.jpg|caption=60s}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Elrostro02.jpg|caption=60s}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Elrostro01.jpg|caption=70s}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Elrostro03.jpg|caption=2005}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1490931481894.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1502058664089.jpg|caption=}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1511843882898.jpg|caption=}}<br />
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Rostro]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Dr._Karonte_(Uribe)&diff=177829Dr. Karonte (Uribe)2020-03-05T00:47:33Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Profile */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Dr. Karonte (Uribe)_2019.jpg<br />
|name=Dr. Karonte (Uribe)<br />
|realName=Miguel Uribe<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=Gorhk (debut), Dr. Karonte III/Dr. Karonte<br />
|family=[[Mistico]], [[Astro Boy II]], [[Dr. Karonte Jr.]], [[Argenis]], [[Argos]] (sons), see [[Almanza/Salazar Family]]<br />
|maestro=<br />
|birthdate=[[February 14]], [[1957]] - [[Mexico City]] (billed from El Salvador) <ref>Box y Lucha #3400</ref><br />
|debut= 1970<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height=<br />
|weight=<br />
|obituarydate=[[August 26]], [[2019]]<br />
|signatureMoves=<br />
|titles=<br />
|}}<br />
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== Profile ==<br />
<br />
The patriarch of the Karonte family. Billed himself in later years as the original [[Dr. Karonte]], which was not actually accurate.<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallerywide|name=Dr karonte uribe.jpg|caption=}}<br />
[[category:Mexican wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Matem%C3%A1tico&diff=177306El Matemático2020-02-14T03:43:27Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Gallery */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
<br />
{{bioFields||image=Matematico.jpg<br />
|name=El Matemático (The Mathematician)<br />
|realName=Rodolfo García Pedrosa<br />
|nicknames=El Números (The Number)<br />
|nameHistory=Rudy García Jr. (debut - 10/68), El Matemático (10/68 - retirement)<br />
|family=[[Rudy García]] (father), [[Huracán Ramírez]], [[Demonio Rojo]], [[Pantera Roja]] (uncles), [[El Catedrático]], [[Dr. Zeta]] (brothers),<br />
[[Matemático Jr.]], [[Matemático II]] & [[Matemático III]], [[Matematico Americano]] (sons), [[Huracan Jr.]], [[Rayo Colombiano]], [[Príncipe de Seda]] (nephews)<br />
|maestro=[[Rudy García]]<br />
|birthdate=[[April 20]], [[1943]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|debut=[[1968]] - [[Arena KO Al Gusto]], [[Naucalpan]], [[Mexico State]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Blue Demon]] - [[August 27]], [[1989]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]<br />
|height=5'6"/168 cms<br />
|weight=165 lbs/75 kg<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=[[Salto Mortal]], [[El Álgebra]], [[Tope Suicida]]<br />
|titles=[[UWA World Lightweight Title]], [[UWA World Welterweight Title]]<br />
|}}<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|60's?/??/??|mask|[[El Matemático]]|[[Gran Terry]]|Arena López Mateos - Tlalnepantla, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|60's/??/??|mask|[[El Matemático]]|Rubi([[Cuchillo]])|Arena López Mateos - Tlalnepantla, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|60's?/??/??|mask|[[El Matemático]]|[[Jungla Negra]] original?|Arena López Mateos - Tlalnepantla, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Matemático]]|[[Rocky Santana]]|Arena López Mateos - Tlalnepantla, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|74/[[September 27|09/27]]|masks|[[Villano III]] & Matemático|[[Los Hermanos Corzo]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}<br />
{{aline|74/10/??|hairs|[[Villano III]] & Matemático|[[Los Hermanos Corzo]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}<br />
{{aline|74/11/08|mask|Matemático|[[El Hijo de Frankenstein]]|Tampico, Tamaulipas}}<br />
{{aline|78/01/29|hair|[[Black Man]] & Matemático|[[El Signo]] & [[Lobo Rubio]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|79/01/28|mask (1)|[[Blue Panther]] & Matemático|[[La Bestia]] & [[Simio Blanco]]|Monterrey, Nuevo León}}<br />
{{aline|79/12/02|mask|Matemático|[[Corsario Negro]]|[[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo Leon]]}}<br />
{{aline|81/12/20|hair|Matemático|[[Lobo Rubio]]|Auditorio Municipal - Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua}}<br />
{{aline|82/07/20|mask|Matemático|[[Rey América]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|83/01/22|mask|Matemático|[[Águila Roja]]|Pachuca, Hidalgo}}<br />
{{aline|89/08/27|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|Matemático|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}<br />
{{aline|89/[[September 6|09/06]]|hair (2)|[[Blue Demon]]|Matemático|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aend|<b>(1)</b> Torneo de la Muerte; <b>(2)</b> Triangle match with Rayo de Jalisco}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematicoolder.jpg|caption=origin design}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematico 12345.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matemático begins.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematicodesign.jpg|caption=origin design}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematico.jpg|caption=circa 1983}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematico01.jpg|caption=1985}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=matematico_plancha.jpg|caption=Plancha}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=matematico_doublearmdrag.jpg|caption=Double armdrag}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Tate23.jpg|caption=Showing off his robe}}<br />
{{Gallerywide||name=Matemático entrance.jpg|caption=}}<br />
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{{Gallery||name=mat.JPG|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=MATEMATICO9.jpg|caption=Black and white photo}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=BlackmanVsElMatematico1-p.jpeg|caption= vs Blackman}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematicounmasked.JPG|caption= unmasked}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=uwalight_matematico.jpg|caption=[[UWA World Lightweight Championship|UWA World Lightweight Champion]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematicouwa.jpg|caption=UWA World Welterweight champion}}<br />
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{{Gallery||name=Matemático v3.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Scannedimage54.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallerywide||name=Ola de luchadores LA.jpg|caption=2018 Tribute Event with Ola de Luchadores LA}}<br />
{{Gallerywide||name=Tmp-cam--1487228575.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallerywide||name=lastmask89.png|caption=}}<br />
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Matematico]]<br />
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers|Matematico]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=File:Lastmask89.png&diff=177305File:Lastmask89.png2020-02-14T03:41:10Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: Magazine tells about demon victory.</p>
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<div>== Summary ==<br />
Magazine tells about demon victory.</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Matem%C3%A1tico&diff=177304El Matemático2020-02-14T03:39:09Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Profile */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
<br />
{{bioFields||image=Matematico.jpg<br />
|name=El Matemático (The Mathematician)<br />
|realName=Rodolfo García Pedrosa<br />
|nicknames=El Números (The Number)<br />
|nameHistory=Rudy García Jr. (debut - 10/68), El Matemático (10/68 - retirement)<br />
|family=[[Rudy García]] (father), [[Huracán Ramírez]], [[Demonio Rojo]], [[Pantera Roja]] (uncles), [[El Catedrático]], [[Dr. Zeta]] (brothers),<br />
[[Matemático Jr.]], [[Matemático II]] & [[Matemático III]], [[Matematico Americano]] (sons), [[Huracan Jr.]], [[Rayo Colombiano]], [[Príncipe de Seda]] (nephews)<br />
|maestro=[[Rudy García]]<br />
|birthdate=[[April 20]], [[1943]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|debut=[[1968]] - [[Arena KO Al Gusto]], [[Naucalpan]], [[Mexico State]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Blue Demon]] - [[August 27]], [[1989]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]<br />
|height=5'6"/168 cms<br />
|weight=165 lbs/75 kg<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=[[Salto Mortal]], [[El Álgebra]], [[Tope Suicida]]<br />
|titles=[[UWA World Lightweight Title]], [[UWA World Welterweight Title]]<br />
|}}<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|60's?/??/??|mask|[[El Matemático]]|[[Gran Terry]]|Arena López Mateos - Tlalnepantla, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|60's/??/??|mask|[[El Matemático]]|Rubi([[Cuchillo]])|Arena López Mateos - Tlalnepantla, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|60's?/??/??|mask|[[El Matemático]]|[[Jungla Negra]] original?|Arena López Mateos - Tlalnepantla, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Matemático]]|[[Rocky Santana]]|Arena López Mateos - Tlalnepantla, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|74/[[September 27|09/27]]|masks|[[Villano III]] & Matemático|[[Los Hermanos Corzo]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}<br />
{{aline|74/10/??|hairs|[[Villano III]] & Matemático|[[Los Hermanos Corzo]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}<br />
{{aline|74/11/08|mask|Matemático|[[El Hijo de Frankenstein]]|Tampico, Tamaulipas}}<br />
{{aline|78/01/29|hair|[[Black Man]] & Matemático|[[El Signo]] & [[Lobo Rubio]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|79/01/28|mask (1)|[[Blue Panther]] & Matemático|[[La Bestia]] & [[Simio Blanco]]|Monterrey, Nuevo León}}<br />
{{aline|79/12/02|mask|Matemático|[[Corsario Negro]]|[[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo Leon]]}}<br />
{{aline|81/12/20|hair|Matemático|[[Lobo Rubio]]|Auditorio Municipal - Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua}}<br />
{{aline|82/07/20|mask|Matemático|[[Rey América]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|83/01/22|mask|Matemático|[[Águila Roja]]|Pachuca, Hidalgo}}<br />
{{aline|89/08/27|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|Matemático|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}<br />
{{aline|89/[[September 6|09/06]]|hair (2)|[[Blue Demon]]|Matemático|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aend|<b>(1)</b> Torneo de la Muerte; <b>(2)</b> Triangle match with Rayo de Jalisco}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematicoolder.jpg|caption=origin design}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematico 12345.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matemático begins.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematicodesign.jpg|caption=origin design}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematico.jpg|caption=circa 1983}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematico01.jpg|caption=1985}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=matematico_plancha.jpg|caption=Plancha}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=matematico_doublearmdrag.jpg|caption=Double armdrag}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Tate23.jpg|caption=Showing off his robe}}<br />
{{Gallerywide||name=Matemático entrance.jpg|caption=}}<br />
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{{Gallery||name=MATEMATICO9.jpg|caption=Black and white photo}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=BlackmanVsElMatematico1-p.jpeg|caption= vs Blackman}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematicounmasked.JPG|caption= unmasked}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=uwalight_matematico.jpg|caption=[[UWA World Lightweight Championship|UWA World Lightweight Champion]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Matematicouwa.jpg|caption=UWA World Welterweight champion}}<br />
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{{Gallerywide||name=Ola de luchadores LA.jpg|caption=2018 Tribute Event with Ola de Luchadores LA}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Matematico]]<br />
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers|Matematico]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Astro_II&diff=177037El Astro II2020-02-02T05:50:06Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: </p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=12ELASTROII.jpg<br />
|name=El Astro II<br />
|realName=<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=El Astro II, [[Tony Sugar]]<br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=<br />
|birthdate=<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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Photo taken from a [[Super Luchas]] article displaying pictures of masked men from the early days of Lucha Libre. No records exist of him in any match.<br />
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**This profile already exists. He is Tony sugar. But I don't know why is the BIOS separated as different person . Could someone fixed ? <br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Astro II]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Astro_II&diff=177036El Astro II2020-02-02T05:49:50Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: </p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=12ELASTROII.jpg<br />
|name=El Astro II<br />
|realName=<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=El Astro II [[Tony Sugar]]<br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=<br />
|birthdate=<br />
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|lostmaskto=<br />
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|}}<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
<br />
Photo taken from a [[Super Luchas]] article displaying pictures of masked men from the early days of Lucha Libre. No records exist of him in any match.<br />
<br />
**This profile already exists. He is Tony sugar. But I don't know why is the BIOS separated as different person . Could someone fixed ? <br />
<br />
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Astro II]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Astro_II&diff=177035El Astro II2020-02-02T05:48:25Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Notes */</p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=12ELASTROII.jpg<br />
|name=El Astro II<br />
|realName=<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=El Astro II<br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=<br />
|birthdate=<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
<br />
Photo taken from a [[Super Luchas]] article displaying pictures of masked men from the early days of Lucha Libre. No records exist of him in any match.<br />
<br />
**This profile already exists. He is Tony sugar. But I don't know why is the BIOS separated as different person . Could someone fixed ? <br />
<br />
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Astro II]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Supremo&diff=176520El Supremo2020-01-12T02:02:13Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Gallery */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
{{bioFields|<br />
|image=elsupremoface.jpg<br />
|name=El Supremo (Supreme)<br />
|realName=Salvador Cuevas Ramírez<br />
|nicknames= <br />
|nameHistory=Power Man (1977, briefly), El Magnífico (debut - 03/77), El Supremo/El Supremo I (03/77 - )<br />
|family=[[El Supremo Jr.]](son)<br />
|maestro=[[Diablo Velazco]]<br />
|birthdate=[[July 8]], [[1942]]<ref>[http://djspectro.blogspot.com/2010/05/el-supremo.html "El Supremo" by DJ Spectro]; may have been announced [[1950]] at unmasking</ref> - [[Tijuana]], [[Baja California]]<br />
|obituarydate=[[May 4]], [[2010]] - [[Tijuana]], [[Baja California]]<br />
|debut=[[July 8]], [[1976]] - [[Auditorio de Tijuana]] - [[Tijuana]], [[Baja California]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Pierroth Jr.]] - [[December 18]], [[1992]] - [[Arena México]]<br />
|height=5'8"/175 cm<br />
|weight= 206 lbs/93 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=[[Plancha Suicida]], Supremo Special ([[Cerrajera variant]])<br />
|titles=[[Distrito Federal Welterweight Title]], [[NWA World Welterweight Title]], [[National Welterweight Title]]<br />
}}<br />
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== Biography == <br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|[[1979]]/[[10/19]]|mask (1)|[[El Supremo]]|[[El Rebelde|Robot R-2]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/[[02/29]]|mask|[[El Supremo]]|[[Lawrence de Arabia]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1987]]/04/??|mask|[[El Supremo]]|[[Guerrero Azteca]]|[[Arena Coliseo Monterrey|Arena Coliseo - Monterrey, Nuevo León]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1992]]/[[12/18]]|mask|[[Pierroth Jr.]]|[[El Supremo]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aend|<b>(1)</b> Santo & R-2 vs. Supremo & Vikingo, pinned man loser must unmask}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
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{{Gallery|name=Supremo.jpg|caption=Supremo}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=7ELMAGNIFICO.jpg|caption=as EL Magnífico 70s}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Elsuremo-nwawelter.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Welterweight Championship|NWA WELTER Champ]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=mexwelter_supremo.jpg|caption=[[Mexican National Welterweight Championship|Mex Welter Champ]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Lossupremos.jpg|caption=Supremo I & II}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Supremo80S.jpg|caption=El Supremo vs. [[Gran Cochisse]], Arena Coliseo 1984}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Supremodorado.jpg|caption=vs [[El Dorado]]}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=Supremomaskmatch.jpg|caption=Versus [[Pierroth Jr.]] in Mask Match}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Supremounmasked.jpg|caption=Unmasked in Arena Mexico}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=SupremoUnmasked.JPG|caption=Unmasked}}<br />
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== Source ==<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Supremo]]<br />
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers|Supremo]]<br />
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers|Supremo]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Rizado_Ruiz&diff=176503Rizado Ruiz2020-01-11T01:00:10Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Rizadoruizx.jpg<br />
|name=Rizado Ruiz<br />
|realName=Herlberto Ruiz Sanchez<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=Heriberto Ruiz (Debut-?)Rizado Ruiz<br />
|family=[[Rodolfo Ruiz]] (brother), [[Averno]] (nephew)<br />
|maestro=[[Gonzalo Avendano]]<br />
|birthdate=[[July 11]], [[1935]] - [[Sombrerete]], [[Zacatecas]]<br />
|debut=[[December 20]], [[1958]] - [[Arena Coliseo]] vs [[Rudy Mar Allah]]<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height=170 cm/5'7"<br />
|weight=88 kgs/194 lbs<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=<br />
|titles=[[Mexican National Welterweight Championship]]<br />
|}}<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
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{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Red Terror]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Chucho Villa]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Monarca]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[Rambo]]|Monterrey, Nuevo León}}<br />
{{aline|61/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[El Rebelde]]|Arena Coliseo - México City}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[Chucho Villa]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|60/04/12|hair|[[El Rebelde]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|Arena Coliseo - México City}}<br />
{{aline|66/??/??|hair|[[Alberto Muñoz]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|67/??/??|hair|[[Angel Blanco]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|76/04/04|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[César Silva]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|83/03/13|hair|[[La Sombra (1st version)]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|88/05/04|hairs|[[El Dandy]] & [[Javier Cruz]]|Rizado Ruiz & [[Rudy Reyna]]|Arena Coliseo - Acapulco, Guerrero}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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Arena 362 (which lists the Rebelde date) says Ruiz also lost his hair on April 13, 1961, but does not list an opponent.<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=mexwelter_rizadoruiz.jpg|caption=as [[Mexican National Welterweight Championship|Mexican National Welterweight Champion]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=ReynaRuizSharon.JPG|caption=w/[[Rudy Reyna]] and [[Babe Sharon]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=NaziRizardoRodolfo.JPG|caption=with [[El Nazi]] & [[Rodolfo Ruiz]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Rizadoruiz.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Ruizbrothers.PNG|caption=w/[[Rodolfo Ruiz]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=RizadoRuiz2019.png|caption=2019}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]][[Category:Exoticos]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Rizado_Ruiz&diff=176502Rizado Ruiz2020-01-11T00:58:54Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Gallery */</p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Rizadoruizx.jpg<br />
|name=Rizado Ruiz<br />
|realName=Herlberto Ruiz Sanchez<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=Heriberto Ruiz (Debut-?)Rizado Ruiz<br />
|family=[[Rodolfo Ruiz]] (brother), [[Averno]] (nephew)<br />
|maestro=[[Gonzalo Avendano]]<br />
|birthdate=[[July 11]], [[1935]] - [[Sombrerete]], [[Zacatecas]]<br />
|debut=[[December 20]], [[1958]] - [[Arena Coliseo]] vs [[Rudy Mar Allah]]<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height=170 cm/5'7"<br />
|weight=88 kgs/194 lbs<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=<br />
|titles=[[Mexican National Welterweight Championship]]<br />
|}}<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Red Terror]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Chucho Villa]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Monarca]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[Rambo]]|Monterrey, Nuevo León}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[El Rebelde]]|Arena Coliseo - México City}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[Chucho Villa]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|60/04/12|hair|[[El Rebelde]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|Arena Coliseo - México City}}<br />
{{aline|66/??/??|hair|[[Alberto Muñoz]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|67/??/??|hair|[[Angel Blanco]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|76/04/04|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[César Silva]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|83/03/13|hair|[[La Sombra (1st version)]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|88/05/04|hairs|[[El Dandy]] & [[Javier Cruz]]|Rizado Ruiz & [[Rudy Reyna]]|Arena Coliseo - Acapulco, Guerrero}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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Arena 362 (which lists the Rebelde date) says Ruiz also lost his hair on April 13, 1961, but does not list an opponent.<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=mexwelter_rizadoruiz.jpg|caption=as [[Mexican National Welterweight Championship|Mexican National Welterweight Champion]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=ReynaRuizSharon.JPG|caption=w/[[Rudy Reyna]] and [[Babe Sharon]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=NaziRizardoRodolfo.JPG|caption=with [[El Nazi]] & [[Rodolfo Ruiz]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Rizadoruiz.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Ruizbrothers.PNG|caption=w/[[Rodolfo Ruiz]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=RizadoRuiz2019.png|caption=2019}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]][[Category:Exoticos]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=File:RizadoRuiz2019.png&diff=176501File:RizadoRuiz2019.png2020-01-11T00:32:00Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: </p>
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<div></div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Tinieblas&diff=176087Tinieblas2019-12-29T01:13:50Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Tinieblass.JPG<br />
|name=Tinieblas (Darkness)<br />
|nicknames=El Gigante Sabio (The Wise Giant), El Capitán Aventura (Captain Adventure)<br />
|nameHistory=Tinieblas (debut- )<br />
|family=[[Tinieblas Jr.]] (son)<br />
|maestro=[[Rafael Salamanca]], [[Dick Medrano]]<br />
|birthdate=[[June 8]], [[1939]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|obituarydate=n/a<br />
|debut=[[August 20]], [[1971]] - [[Arena México]]<br />
|lostmaskto=n/a<br />
|height=6'3"/190 cms<br />
|weight=240 lbs/109 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=El Abrazo del Oso ([[Bearhug]]), [[Plancha]]<br />
|titles=Guatemala:World Junior Heavyweight Title, [[WWA World Heavyweight Title]]<br />
}}<br />
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== Biography == <br />
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Tinieblas was born on June 8, 1939 (not 1945 like he'll tell you) in Mexico City. Even though his family name shouldn't be revealed at this point, he's the brother of a famous Mexican bullfighter of the past.<br />
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From the 60s to the early 90s, there was a very popular magazine in Mexico called "Lucha Libre", run by Valente Pérez (though it was renamed "Lucha Libre Mundial" when Benjamín Mora Jr. took over, and not coincidentially, the magazine didn't last a lot with Mora in charge). LL also had a bodybuilding sister magazine called "Muscle Power", whose editor also was Valente Pérez. Pérez, who was well liked and respected in the business and had a very good relationship with the Lutteroth family, had a special talent to come up with names and personalities for new luchadores, the most successful one being Mil Máscaras.<br />
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At the same time, a young man who had entered "Mister Jalisco" contests in Guadalajara, was scouted by Black Shadow and Dory Dixon. Both saw a future star in the youngster, especially because he was very tall for a Mexican. Shadow and Dixon convinced him to get into pro wrestling and he went under training with EMLL's maestros Rafael Salamanca and Dick Medrano.<br />
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Before wrestler, he was an actor and extra, participating in films with capulina, santo and bluedemon's movies as frankeinstain, ''satanas'' tne mommia in las momias de Guanajuato. He made his debut as tinieblas in the movie Los Campeones Justicieros (1970. A year later made his debut as luchador. He participate some other films<br />
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#[[1982 El puño de la muerte]] as Tinieblas <br />
#1982 [[La furia de los karatecas]] as Tinieblas. <br />
#1975 [[El investigador Capulina]] as Tinieblas. <br />
#1975 [[Las momias de San Ángel]] (as Tinieblas 'El Gigante') .<br />
#1974 [[Macabre Legends of the Colony]] (as Tinieblas el Gigante) .<br />
#1973 [[The Castle of Mummies of Guanajuato]](as Tinieblas El Gigante) .<br />
#1973 [[Una rosa sobre el ring]] (uncredited) .<br />
#1972 [[Kalimán el hombre increible]] (as the egypcian Mummy)<br />
#1971 [[The Champions of Justice]](as Tinieblas el Gigante) .<br />
#1971 [[Superzan el invencible]] .<br />
#1970 [[Las momias de Guanajuato]] (as Satán)<br />
#1969 [[Modisto de señoras]] (uncredited) .<br />
#1969 [[Santo y Blue Demon contra los monstruos]] (as Franquestain) .<br />
#1963 [[Kings of the Sun]] (uncredited) .<br />
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Also filmed Las Aventuras de Capulina with alushe in the 70s and 80s.<br />
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In 1968, Pérez came up with a new character that had money written all over it. He thought about an ultimate heel nemesis for Mil Mascaras, and what better for that than the subject of darkness? He had even designed the perfect mask for this wrestler - a faceless hood. That's how Tinieblas was born, but in the end, he made his debut (and spent the rest of his career) as a tecnico and not as a rudo. In his first match, he teamed with Dixon and Shadow to face Dr. Wagner, El Solitario and Renato Torres in the main event of the August 20, 1971 Arena Mexico card.<br />
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In a way, Tinieblas can be seen as a disappointment, because even though he has had a very respectful career and nobody can deny that he is a legend, it was thought that through the movies he'd eventually reach the legendary status of El Santo and Blue Demon just like Mil Mascaras did.<br />
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He made a few movies (he had actually been a stunt man and an "extra" in many films before his lucha debut, with perhaps his most relevant work being in the Tarzan TV series of the 60s), and he was often used as a villain due to his size (he was Dr. Frankenstein in the 1973 "Santo y Blue Demon contra el Dr. Frankenstein") but he never really became a successful movie star. However he became a pioneer of an alternative art form that is still strong today - the weekly comic books. At their peak of popularity, those small books released issues on several stars, but he was the first one, other than Santo, to get his own weekly comic. He had a series released from 1976 to 1979, which is considered the best and most successful one. In the early 90s (1991 and 1992 to be more concrete) there was a "lucha magazine boom", as more than 20 WEEKLY publications were released in the country. But the one that easily was the largest selling magazine of them all, was the little comic booklet called "Sensacional de Luchas a Color". This book, published by Editorial Ejea, featured an history with a masked wrestler every week. While Rayo de Jalisco Jr., Misterioso, Atlantis, Octagon and others were heavily featured on those, the only wrestler that had his own comic was Tinieblas. This series called "Tinieblas, El Hijo de la Noche" (Son of the night) lasted from 1991 to 1995 (when the boom was long dead, economy went down and production costs went up). The comic was relaunched in the year 2000 by Editorial Shilbalba, but now it had a bigger page format and far better production (so not to look cheap and outdated compared to the Japanese and American comics). At this point, he's the last wrestler to have the honor of having his own comic book. In Japan, Tinieblas is described as a "Modern Comic Hero"<br />
<br />
The lack of titles and big singles main events during his career tells us that Tinieblas' biggest strength wasn't his ringwork. It was adequate, though, but as he had a very late debut, age caught him faster than it does with other luchadores.<br />
<br />
Either way, Tinieblas was a big draw and achieved huge success as a "lucha embassador" in countries like Panama, Guatemala and many of the Caribbean islands. He also was one of the first luchadores to tour Japan when he came for an August of 1974 tour as "El León Tinieblas", but he didn't return to Japan until 1991, when he was used by the W*ING promotion in a tag team with his son, Tinieblas Jr.<br />
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As mentioned before, there's a general lack of big trophies in Tinieblas' career. In March of 1980, he won the Junior Heavyweight Title in [[Jose Azzari]]'s Guatemalan UWA, defeating La Furia and losing it back in Guatemala to Edgar Echeverría after 15 successful defenses. He also briefly held the WWA World Heavyweight Title (defeating Bill Anderson on January 31, 1987 in Los Angeles) until losing it to Super Halcón, but that's about it, as he has never been in a big "lucha de apuestas".<br />
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He also was one of the very first men that left EMLL in December of 1974 to form the UWA. Since then, he has spent the rest of his career as an independent contractor. He had long runs in Tijuana with Mora but he was loyal to the UWA until it was in its last legs. In June of 1992 he jumped to AAA. Other than some work for EMLL in 1996, he stayed with AAA until he and his son left in August of 1997. The junior jumped to Promo Azteca and the senior became a true freelancer again (though he now had ties with Promo Azteca). Today, he can often be seen competing for EMLL and the IWRG.<br />
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Tinieblas' popularity is still high today among kids. In order to keep his name strong, in 1988 he added his "mini-mascot" Alushe to his act, and in the late 80s and early 90s he appeared in the Capulina TV show for kids. Nowadays he follows the Mil Mascaras routine of wrestling everywhere, but just a few dates to avoid burning out.<br />
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It's not known how long will Tinieblas stay in the business. He has little athleticism left but he has shown no signs of retirement and it looks like he will be able to get work at almost all the big arenas for a few more years, relying on name value and Alushe's comedy.<br />
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As a fun fact, one of Tinieblas' nicknames is "El Gigante Sabio" (The Wise Giant). In the Lucha Libre magazine, and more recently in Luchas 2000, there was a "Pregúntale a Tinieblas" (Ask Tinieblas) section where people would supposedly send him general culture questions and he'd answer them. After reading Tinieblas' answers and seeing how accurate they are, you can bet that an encyclopedia was used to answer those, but in reality, Tinieblas is a very intelligent man with a tremendous cultural knowledge!<br />
During 2010 he made a retirement tour in AAA CMLL and independients arenas. Later he changed his mind and continued wrestling. He said in an interview by el Hijo del Santo's program that he might retire in 2012 or 2013. After 45 years wrester ,finally, he retired. He says won about 10 masks and 15 hairs matches. </font><br />
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On the week Tinieblas debuted, lucha announcer Dr. Alfonso Morales was absent. Dr. Morales missing a show is a strange event, he's a tall man, and Tinieblas is a tall man, so some believed the announcer was actually under the mask. <br />
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This is not true. Morales is not Tinieblas, and has done commentary on his matches. Still, the rumor persists and is running joke among the announcers.<br />
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{{aline|??/??/??|Mask|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Simio]] |? [[Guatemala?]]}}<br />
{{aline|70's|masks |[[Superzan]] & [[Tinieblas]]|[[Los Hermanos Corzo|Los Tigres del Ring]] |Cd Victoria, Tamaulipas}}<br />
{{aline|73/07/24|hair|[[Tinieblas]]|[[TNT]]|Palacio de los Deportes <br />
{{aline|75/07/03|mask |[[Tinieblas]]|Asesino Negro|Auditorio Municipal Cd Victoria, Tamaulipas}} - Mexico}}<br />
{{aline|82/04/24|mask|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Red Terror]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|83/11/13|hair|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Super Máquina]]|Palacio de los Deportes - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|1984|mask (1)|[[Tinieblas]], [[Villano III]] & [[Rocky Star]]|[[Flama Roja]], [[El Legionario (original)]] & [[Superzan]] |Ciudad Juarez}}<br />
{{aline|[[1986]]/[[10/18]]|hair|[[Tinieblas]]|Bill Anderson|[[Olimpic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California]]}}<br />
{{aline|87/??/??|hair|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Abdullah Tamba]]|L.A. Olympic Auditorium - Los Angeles, CA, USA}}<br />
{{aline|80's|mask|[[Tinieblas]]|[[El Internacional]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|90s/??/??|mask|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Ice Man]]|Gimnasio Municipal - [[Cd. Juarez]], [[Chih]], [[Mexico]]}}<br />
{{aline|99/04/04|mask (2)|[[Tinieblas]] & [[Alushe]]|[[Médico Asesino Jr.]] & [[Enfermerito]]|[[Auditorio Municipal Torreón]]}}<br />
{{aline|01/01/21|mask (3)|[[Tinieblas]]|[[El Enfermero 2001]]|Gimnasio José Neri Santos - Cd. Juarez, Chih.}}<br />
{{aline|03/01/24|mask (4)|[[Tinieblas]]|[[Zombie II]]|Campo Antonio Palacios - Ensenada, B.C.}}<br />
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[[Category:La Arena bios]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Santo&diff=175920El Santo2019-12-21T03:53:43Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
{{bioFields|<br />
|image=elsanto.jpg<br />
|name=El Santo<br />
|realName=Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta<br />
|nicknames=El Enmascarado de Plata (The man of the silver mask), El Profe (The Professor)<br />
|nameHistory=Rudy/Ruddy Guzmán (debut - 36), Hombre Rojo (36 - 11/36), El Enmascarado, Murciélago Enmascarado II, El Demonio Negro, El Santo (06/42 - death)<br />
|family=[[El Hijo del Santo]] (son), [[Santo Jr.]] (nieto), [[Black Guzmán]], [[Pantera Negra]] and [[Jimmy Guzmán]] (brothers), [[Los Rockets]], [[Axxel]] (grandsons)<br />
|maestro=[[Black Guzmán]]<br />
|birthdate=[[September 23]], [[1917]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]<br />
|obituarydate=[[February 5]], [[1984]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|debut=[[June 28]], [[1934]] - [[Arena Peralvillo-Cozumel]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height= 5' 9"/175 cm<br />
|weight= 209 lb/95 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=[[La de a Caballo]] (camel clutch), [[Tope de Cristo]] (flying somersault headbutt), [[Plancha]], [[Running Tope Suicida]]<br />
|titles=[[National Welterweight Title]], [[National Middleweight Title]] (4), [[NWA World Welterweight Title]] (2), [[NWA World Middleweight Title]], [[National Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[Rayo de Jalisco]]), [[National Light Heavyweight Title]]<br />
}}<br />
{{WONHOF}}<br />
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== Biography == <br />
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To say that El Santo is just a lucha legend would a huge understatement. He was more than a luchador with a parallel acting career. Santo is a cultural icon, a social phenomenon whose impact in the Mexican society is enormous in many different ways. Santo was a superhero like Superman, Batman or Spiderman - but with the difference that Santo was real and you could go to watch him wrestle every week, while the others were just comic characters. It's safe to say that Santo is the most popular wrestler ever in his home country, and he's more popular than [[Antonio Inoki]], [[Riki Choshu]], [[Lou Thesz]], [[Hulk Hogan]], [[Steve Austin]] and many others were and are. The only one that comes close to Santo is Japanese cultural hero [[Rikidozan]], and he's actually Korean.<br />
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Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta was born [[September 23]], [[1917]] in [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]. Son of Jesús Guzmán Campuzano and Josefina Huerta Márquez, he was the fifth of seven children. When he was still a little kid, his family moved to [[Mexico City]] and he kept studying at the Abraham Castellanos elementary school. During his youth, Rodolfo practised many sports, like baseball and (American) football.<br />
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Several of his brothers were wrestlers. [[Black Guzmán|(Miguel) "Black" Guzmán]] was the most popular one as he captured several National titles and a few NWA titles in both [[Mexico]] and [[Texas]]. Jesús wrestled as [[Pantera Negra]] but he died in the ring, while Javier wrestled as [[Jimmy Guzmán]] at some small arenas. When Rodolfo was working at a stockings factory he decided to become a luchador like his brothers so he learnt the martial art known as jujutsu (jiu-jitsu) and later he practised some Greco-Roman (amateur) wrestling.<br />
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After a few months of training with his brother Black, he made his professional debut teaming with him as Rudy Guzmán on [[June 28]], [[1934]] in the [[Arena Peralvillo Cozumel]] of the [[Peralvillo]] district in [[Mexico City]]. He was 17 years old. But it was in [[Arena Pachuca]], of [[Pachuca]], [[Hidalgo]], where [[EMLL]] superstar [[Jack O'Brien]] saw the talent that Rudy and Miguel had and recommended them to EMLL's main talent scout, the referee [[Jesús Lomelí]].<br />
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Jesús took both brothers to [[Mexico City]] and got them signed to EMLL contracts. Miguel kept wrestling under his old name and became fairly popular, in fact in [[1939]] he was voted "rookie" of the year. On the other hand, Rodolfo wasn't so successful and rather than being "somebody else's brother" he decided to become his own self.<br />
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He started wrestling unmasked as El Hombre Rojo (Red Man) but this one wasn't a really memorable stint even though during that year he wrestled three times in the Arena Modelo (now known as [[Arena Mexico]]). In the meanwhile he had to work in many different places as carpenter, painter and other jobs to earn enough money to make a decent living.<br />
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In November of [[1936]], he left EMLL as he didn't feel he was getting a good push. Jesús Lomelí also left La Empresa and started promoting on his own at the [[Fronton México]] and when looking for young talent for his shows he didn't think it twice and called Rodolfo, who started wrestling under the mask of El Murciélago Enmascarado II (The Masked Bat II) as Jesús didn't want him to be Hombre Rojo anymore. The original [[Murciélago Velázquez]] didn't like the fact that a rookie was using his name without his permission so he complained to the [[Box y Lucha Commission]] and Rodolfo had to drop the gimmick.<br />
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Things weren't really working the right way. As soon as he started to get some heel heat (up to this point he had always been wrestling as a rudo) he had to drop the name and the hood. Also, his father had just recently died. Things were getting worse by the moment. Now if he wanted to keep wrestling he'd have to get a new name, so he had a meeting with his Lomelí, a man he had already developed a good friendship with. Lomelí suggested several names, like El Angel, but the most interesting one, considering he was a merciless rudo, was El Santo (The Saint in Spanish). Rodolfo loved the name and decided he'd become Santo.<br />
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El Santo's debut was on [[July 26]], [[1942]] in the old [[Arena Mexico]]. Lomelí told him to buy a silver mask and tights so with help of maskmaker [[Antonio Martinez]] he got his first outfit. Rodolfo didn't have a lot of money so it was a cheap one, but at least it would be good enough to wrestle until he could afford getting a new one. But back to his first match under this new identity, it was an eight man Battle Royal with [[Bobby Bonales]], [[Lobo Negro]], [[Gorila Macías II]], [[Bobby Rood]], [[Murciélago Velázquez]], [[Pavilivsky]] and [[Ciclón Veloz]]. The last two men in the ring were Santo and Ciclón so they fought in a regular 2 out of 3 falls match. Santo defeated Veloz in the first fall. Veloz took the second one, and during the third fall, Santo was giving Veloz such a beating that the referee Jesús Lomelí tried to stop it, but then Santo attacked him too and got himself DQ'd.<br />
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Around a week later Veloz and Santo fought each other in a rematch in which Santo upset Veloz, as everybody thought that the tecnico would get his revenge. The following week he wrestled another wild rudo, El Lobo Negro, who couldn't stop the silver hooded rudo either. But Santo's first big match was on [[August 16]], [[1942]], when he faced Bobby Bonales in the main event of an [[Arena Mexico]] card. Bonales, already an stablished star, defeated Santo that night, however the young man was already making a big impact with his style.<br />
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On [[December 4]], Santo defeated Lobo Negro in a "superlibre" (no rules) fight but one of the most memorable moments of the early Santo career was during his match against [[Dientes Hernández]], as Santo gave his poor opponent EIGHT straight "fauls" (low blows). Dientes' wife sure wasn't happy about that one, but Santo's name was all over the lucha section of the papers now, and he soon became one of the most hated rudos of Mexico.<br />
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Santo got his first title ever on [[February 21]], [[1943]] when he defeated his old enemy Ciclón Veloz to win the [[Mexican National Welterweight Championship]]. Santo kept that title for almost a year as he lost it on [[Feburary 18]], [[1944]] against Jack O'Brien.<br />
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On [[March 19]], Santo got his revenge of Murciélago Velázquez, as he defeated him to get the [[Mexican National Middleweight Title]], thus become double National champion. Santo's first big mask defense also was against Velázquez, who got a free haircut courtesy of the silver masked one.<br />
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On [[April 2]], [[1943]], [[Salvador Lutteroth]] opened a new building called [[Arena Coliseo]], and for its first card ever, he booked a Santo vs. [[Tarzán López]] main event. López probably was the biggest star in Mexico back then, and as expected, he defeated Santo in that match. And as if that big loss wasn't enough, on [[June 11]], Bobby Bonales defeated him for the Middleweight title. But he found the right way again and on [[September 24]], at the EMLL Anniversary show at Arena Coliseo, Santo defeated Bonales in a mask vs. hair match.<br />
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During the first months of [[1944]], Santo didn't have a lot of luck as on May he had an auto accident that could have killed him. But soon after that accident he defeated Jack O'Brien in a mask vs. hair match and his career picked up again. A few months later, Santo broke up his relationship with his regular tag team partner, [[El Charro Aguayo]], so he decided to look for a new tag team partner. He studied the talent available and he chose to team with a promising youngster that was just starting to get noticed.<br />
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So on November 19, "[[La Pareja Atómica]]" (The Atomic Pair) of El Santo and [[Gory Guerrero|Salvador "Gory" Guerrero]] was born as that day they teamed for the first time ever to defeat Bobby Bonales and Jack O'Brien. La Pareja Atómica sure was a very explosive combo. Santo was a wild rudo brawler, but on the other hand Guerrero was a great technician.<br />
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Gory and Santo defeated everybody that crossed their path: O'Brien and Bonales, and O'Brien and López tried to stop them several times but they never could defeat them.<br />
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On [[May 15]], [[1946]], Santo won his first World title. After the American [[Jack Reynolds]] vacated the [[NWA Welterweight Title]], [[EMLL]] asked Col. Landry (from the NWA) to let them run a tournament for that title. They were given the nod, though the first two wrestlers in the official NWA welterweight rankings, the Bulgarian [[Pete Pancoff]] and the American [[Red Garner]], had to participate in that tournament as well. Santo reached the finals by defeating Murciélago Velázquez and Jack O'Brien. On the other side of the brackets, Pancoff defeated Dientes Hernandez and [[Emilio Charles Sr.]] to get to the final match. Santo defeated Pancoff after the Bulgarian submitted to a [[Boston crab]] in the legendary final match. When Pancoff submitted, the crowd exploded in a huge "SANTO! SANTO! SANTO!" chorus.<br />
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This was one of the turning points of the career of Santo because even though he was a natural heel, and wrestled and acted like a rudo, by defeating a foreign wrestler to get a world title he was defending the country's pride and that made him a national hero.<br />
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But after that big win, things didn't work as expected. On [[September 20]], [[Wolf Rubinskis]], who was making his [[Arena Mexico]] debut, crushed him the same way he crushed Ciclón Veloz when he made his debut. But the worst thing is that during this match Santo got injured and had to take a few weeks off.<br />
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His career wasn't going as expected after his return in [[1947]] either. On [[February 14]], Jack O'Brien defeated him for the NWA Welterweight title. Again, Santo was the chosen one to give the welcome to a new wrestler that was making debut: [[Black Shadow]], and yes, Santo lost to Shadow clean in the middle of the ring too.<br />
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Santo's next big profile match was on [[1949]], when he had to face his friend and partner Gory Guerrero. It was March when Lutteroth announced that there would be a tournament to decide the number one contender for the NWA Welterweight title that O'Brien still held. The storyline says that Santo encouraged Gory, a natural Middleweight, to lose weight and participate in the tournament. Both men reached the finals of the tournament, and the day of the friend vs. friend match, EMLL sold-out the building (Arena Coliseo). Gory won this memorable fight by making his partner Santo submit. Many thought that jealousy would break their friendship but this match did nothing but make it stronger. In fact Santo was the second of his compadre when on [[April 29]], Gory defeated O'Brien in the title match.<br />
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During 1949, Santo also wrestled a few matches in [[Houston]], [[Texas]]... but without his mask on! He eventually returned to Mexico but a few things changed.<br />
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While Santo was gone, the young undercard team of [[Blue Demon]] and Black Shadow, "Los Hermanos Shadow", was getting more popular by the day so the promoters obviously decided to face them to the reformed team of Gory and Santo. On [[April 9]], [[1950]], the atomic pair made quick work out of the masked "brothers" in a tag match.<br />
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Shadow claimed he'd avenge that loss and he started feuding extensively with Santo. The Shadow/Santo rivalry reached its higher point on [[November 7]], [[1952]] when both men faced each other in the mask vs. mask match that is considered the most important one in the history of lucha libre in Mexico. Arena Coliseo was the place in which Black Shadow was revealed to be Alejandro Cruz Ortíz, from [[León de los Aldama]].<br />
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Again somebody was anxious to get revenge on Santo, but this time it Blue Demon who wanted to avenge the mask loss of his wrestling brother, Black Shadow. After Demon humilliated Santo, winning him in two straight falls during a non-title match held on [[August 7]], [[1953]], Demon challenged Santo to a match with the NWA Welterweight title at stake. On [[September 27]], in what many consider the biggest loss in his career, Santo lost the title to Blue Demon.<br />
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But it was around this time when Santo was starting to become the myth he is now. Thanks to the TV coverage, lucha libre had its first ever "boom", and Santo's character was successfully marketed in comics and other merchandising. Also, at this time there was a huge nationalism among the Mexican population, and Santo always defented the colors of his country, like on the [[January 1|first day]] of the new year [[1954]], when he defeated Chinese wrestler [[Sugi Sito]] to capture the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship]].<br />
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It was in [[1962]] that Santo made the decision to become a técnico. After all, he was way too loved to be hated. During a match in which he teamed with [[Los Espantos]] (I & II) against [[Rayo de Jalisco]], [[Henry Pilusso]] and [[Rito Romero]], his partners turned on him and left him alone in the ring against the three tecnicos that obviously defeated him. On his first match as a good guy, held on [[July 5]], he teamed with Pilusso against the Espantos. That night Santo gave such an exhibition of high flying and ring knowledge that he was given an unanimous standing ovation by the crowd.<br />
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Another important fact in Santo's career is that on [[April 19]], [[1963]], he teamed with Blue Demon for the first time ever. From then on, the dream team wrestled together many other times all over Mexico, though they never were a regular tag team.<br />
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Around this time Santo also was a film star, as in [[1958]] he filmed his first movie. After that cinematic debut, he starred in other 50+ movies. Even though those films didn't exactly have great production values (even by the 60s standards) and the plots of them weren't mindbogglingly great either, the people flocked over to the cinema to watch them all. Those movies were quite a hit in other countries as well, as they were really popular all over Latin America, [[Spain]] and even Lebanon, where there's a cinema with a huge Santo statue in the entrance. Many cinema critics loved to hate Santo, but a proved fact is that the three most successful stars of the Mexican cinema history are Pedro Infante, Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" and El Santo. There's an anecdote that says that once, representants of a Chinese company came to Mexico looking for Mexican films. They were shown a few productions that were considered among the best in the history of Mexican cinema, but the Chinese said that they didn't want those films. They wanted Santo, because they claimed that "Santo represented the perfect hero fighting against the evil".<br />
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== Journey towards Retirement ==<br />
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Santo was also getting older, so now he mainly wrestled in six-men tag matches rather than singles or tag team bouts. He formed a successful team with a young good worker called Rayo de Jalisco and they captured the [[Mexican National Tag Team Titles]] twice over the decade (of the 60s). In [[1975]], his "tercia" with [[El Solitario]] and [[Mil Mascaras]] was such a huge hit that it was voted team of the year even though they didn't team together extensively. Unlike other EMLL wrestlers, Santo had special privileges, for instance he was allowed to appear in cards of the rival promotion [[UWA]], but in [[1977]] there was a big EMLL break down and many wrestlers, including Santo, left "La Empresa".<br />
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In [[1980]], during a match vs. Los Misioneros ([[El Signo]], [[Negro Navarro]] and [[Texano]]), Santo fell unconscious, and he was later diagnosed with a coronary problem. A year later, in [[1981]], Santo suffered a heart attack when teaming with [[Huracán Ramirez]] and Black Shadow against Los Misioneros de la Muerte (Signo, Texano & Negro Navarro). Santo's wrestling license was revoked so he decided it was time to say goodbye. After this incident, Santo secretly had an operation.<br />
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Santo's last feud was against a young masked superstar called [[Bobby Lee]]. Lee said that Santo wouldn't leave the business masked and challenged him to a mask vs. mask match. The challenge was accepted and Santo took Lee's mask revealing him to be Carlos Alvarado. Lee had his feet on the ropes when Santo made him submit to the camel clutch, but the referee didn't see it. Santo failed to defeat Lee in a match for the [[UWA Welterweight Championship]] Bobby held, but later he took his hair in a hair vs. mask match.<br />
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In [[1982]], Santo had a three match retirement tour. In the first match he teamed with Solitario against [[Villano III]] and Rokambole ([[Villano V]]) at the [[Palacio de los Deportes]]. In the second match, held in Arena Mexico, he teamed with [[Gran Hamada]] to defeat [[Villano I]] and [[Scorpio]] in the first round of a losers advance tournament (where all the teams were comprised of a masked man and an unmasked wrestler) in which the final losers would get his hair shaved or his mask removed. And in the final match of his career, held on [[September 12]] at the [[Toreo de Cuatro Caminos]], he teamed with his old friend Gory Guerrero (who was already retired but returned for this one-time deal), Huracán Ramírez and El Solitario to defeat Los Misioneros, and his last major opponent, [[Perro Aguayo]], in two straight falls, both won via DQ.<br />
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Now that he was retired, Santo kept active doing other things. A month later one of his sons debuted under the [[Hijo del Santo]] mask, and Santo was at ringside during all the matches of his son's debut tour.<br />
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On [[January 26]], [[1984]] he appeared in the lucha special of the talk program "Contrapunto" (Counterpoint), and partially removed his mask in a totally unexpected way. Some say that he did this because he felt that he had little time to live.<br />
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== A Mortal Saint with an Immortal Legacy == <br />
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On [[February 5]], two weeks after he took his mask off on a national TV program, Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta felt a tremendous pain in the chest after his debut as an escapist at the Teatro (teather) Blanquita. He was taken to the Mosel Hospital but nothing could be done. Santo was dead. The following day this was the biggest piece of news all over the country. Each and every magazine and newspaper extensively covered the news in the first pages, and all the TV and radio stations had special Santo programs.<br />
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During his life, Rodolfo had the opportunity to be two different individuals, but he chose to be Santo in death. The following day he was buried with his mask on in what is considered to be the biggest burial in the history of Mexico. Proof that the whole country mourned Santo's death was that an estimated crowd of 10,000 showed up and literally blocked the streets to the point that it took several hours until the coffin made it to the mausoleum. Several wrestlers like [[Mil Mascaras]] and [[Blue Demon]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Charles Bronson Mexicano]], [[Enrique Llanes]] and a teary [[Wolf Ruvinskis]] showed up to give Santo his last goodbye. [[Hijo del Santo]] and [[Huracán Ramírez]] among others, carried the coffin to the Mausoleo (mausoleum) María del Ángel where Santo rests in peace.<br />
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To this day, Santo is still an important piece of the history of the country and also a relevant part of the Mexican folklore. Even now, more than fifteen years after his death, everybody in Mexico knows about El Santo. His films are still shown on TV from time to time and they still generate ratings after all these years. Many magazines (not just lucha or movie magazines) still publish Santo articles or even special issues. In November of [[1999]], Somos ("We are") published a Santo special that included several pictures of Rodolfo Guzmán without his mask. El Hijo Del Santo threatened to sue [[Televisa]] (owners of the magazine) but since the source of the pictures was one of his brothers the lawsuit was dropped.<br />
<br />
One could say that as long as there is lucha libre in Mexico, there will be Santo, but even if there wasn't lucha, Santo would still be alive in the heart of the Mexican citizens.</font><br />
<br />
===Filmography===<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro del Mal (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Hombres Infernales (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Zombis (1961)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Rey del Crimen (1961)]] <br />
#[[Santo en el Hotel de la Muerte (1961)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro Diabólico (1962)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs las Mujeres Vampiro (1962)]] <br />
#[[Santo en el Museo de Cera (1963)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs el Estrangulador (1963)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Espectro (1963)]]<br />
#[[Blue Demon Contra el Poder Satánico (1964)]] <br />
#[[El Hacha Diabólica (1964)]]<br />
#[[Atacan las Brujas (1964)]] <br />
#[[Profanadores de Tumbas (1965)]] <br />
#[[El Barón Brákola (1965)]] (three episodes)<br />
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs la Invasión de Los Marcianos (1966)]] <br />
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs Los Villanos del Ring (1966)]]<br />
#[[Operación 67 (1966)]]<br />
#[[El Tesoro de Moctezuma (1966)]]<br />
#[[Santo en el Tesoro de Drácula (1968]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Capulina (1968)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlántida (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos (1969)]] <br />
#[[El Mundo de los Muertos (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo vs Los Cazadores de Cabezas (1969)]]<br />
#[[Santo Frente A la Muerte (1969)]] (coproduced in Colombia and Spain)<br />
#[[Santo en la Venganza de las Mujeres Vampiro (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Jinetes del Terror (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo vs la Mafia del Vicio (1970)]] <br />
#[[Santo en la Venganza de la Momia (1970)]]<br />
#[[Las Momias de Guanajuato (1970)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Asesinos de Otros Mundos (1971)]] <br />
#[[Santo vs la Hija de Frankenstein (1971)]]<br />
#[[Misión Suicida (1971)]] <br />
#[[Santo y el Aguila Real (el águila real) (1971)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra la Magia Negra (1972)]] (coproduced in Haití) <br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (1972)]]<br />
#[[Las Bestias del Terror (1972)]] <br />
#[[Anónimo Mortal (1972)]]<br />
#[[Santo Contra Los Secuestradores (1972)]] (coproduced with Ecuador) <br />
#[[Santo vs las Lobas (1972)]] <br />
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra el Doctor Frankestein (1973)]] <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Doctor Muerte (1973)]] (coproduced in Spain) <br />
#[[Santo en el Misterio de la Perla Negra (1974)]] (coproduced in Colombia & Spain) <br />
#[[La Venganza de la Llorona (1974)]] <br />
#[[Santo en Oro Negro (1975)]] (coproduced in part in Puerto Rico) <br />
#[[México de Mis Amores (1976)]] (documentary)<br />
#[[Misterio en las Bermudas (1977)]]<br />
#[[Santo en la Frontera del Terror (1979)]]<br />
#[[Chanoc y el Hijo del Santo vs Los Vampiros Asesinos (1981)]] (special) <br />
#[[Santo Contra el Asesino de la Televisión (1981)]]<br />
#[[El Puño de la Muerte (1982)]]<br />
#[[La Furia de Los Karatecas (1982)]]<br />
<br />
== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask<ref>[[Box y Lucha 3339]]</ref>|[[El Santo]]|[[Sombra Blanca]]|[[Veracruz]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask<ref>[[Box y Lucha 3339]]</ref>|[[El Santo]]|[[Bolchevique]]|[[Salamanca]], [[Guanajuato]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Cavernario Galindo]]|[[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|[[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Raúl Torres]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gorilita Flores]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Judas Colombiano]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Arturo Chávez]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Araña (Antonio Vazquez)]]|[[Torreón]], [[Coahuila]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Monstruo (Mario Ceron)]]|[[Guatemala City]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Cara Cortada]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dr. X (original)]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1943]]/01/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Murciélago Velázquez]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1943]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[02/09]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[04/08]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jack O'Brien]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1949]]/[[12/25]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Golden Terror]]|[[Arena Canada Dry]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1949]]/[[07/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Enrique Llanes]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1951]]/[[02/11]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chico Casaola]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1952]]/[[11/07]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Black Shadow]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1955]]/[[12/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Halcón Negro (50s)|Halcón Negro]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1956]]/[[September 21|09/21]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|1957|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Imperio Rojo]]|Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/[[10/29]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Monje Loco (50s)|Monje Loco]]|[[Plaza de Toros el Progreso, Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1957]]/[[12/10]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Monje Loco (50s)|Monje Loco]]|[[Plaza de Toros el Progreso, Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1959]]/[[02/22]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Alberto Reyes|El Tercer Hombre]]<ref>Tercer Hombre would lose his mask multiple times - [http://superluchas.com/2015/02/22/en-un-dia-como-hoy-1959-el-regreso-de-henry-pilusso-el-tercer-hombre-vuelve-a-perder-la-mascara-ahora-ante-el-santo/ SuperLuchas]</ref>|[[Arena Canada Dry]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|masks|[[El Santo]] & [[Dr. X (original)]]|Infernales [[Infernal I (Tomas Riande)|I (Riande)]] & [[Infernal II (Paulino Mar)|II (Mar)]]|?|[[Leon]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Cebra (Antonio Rey)]]|?|[[Colombia]]|}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be prior to Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Momia]] (Salvadoreño)|?|[[San Salvador]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Rubén Juárez]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto II]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[04/26]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Benny Galant]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[10/25]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto I]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|?<ref>part of a list in [[Lucha Libre 82]], implied to be after the Espanto I match</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dragón Rojo (Luis Gonzalez)|Dragón Rojo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1965]]/[[04/05]]<ref>[http://i.imgur.com/hST7eLP.png Lucha Libre 78]</ref>|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Chacal (Guatemala)|El Chacal]]|[[Guatemala City]], [[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1965]]/[[11/05]]<ref>Lucha Libre 109</ref>|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gory Casanova]]|[[Guatemala City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1966]].[[09.18]]<ref>Lucha Libre 167</ref>|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[The Spider]]|[[Morelia, Michocan]]}}<br />
{{aline|12/?/1967|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Samurai I]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1967]].[[12.17]]<ref>http://superluchas.net/2014/12/17/en-un-dia-como-hoy-el-santo-rapo-chino-chow/</ref><br />
|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chino Chow]]|[[Arena Danubio Azul, Tijuana, Baja California]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dick Angelo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/10]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[René Guajardo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/11]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jorge Allende]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1970]]/[[07/26]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Alex de Alba]]|[[Arena Sindicato Clemente Jacques]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[10/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Perro Aguayo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 3|09/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/[[March 30|03/30]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Urco]]|[[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/[[June 2|06/02]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Judas]]|[[Gimnasio Olímpico]], [[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Remolino]]|[[Gimnasio Municipal Obregon|Gimnasio Municipal - Cd. Obregón]], [[Sonora]]}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
<references/><br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=9demonionegro.jpg|caption=as Demonio Negro}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Mask24-04.jpg|caption=wearing Mexican National Welterweight & Middleweight Belts 1943-44}}<br />
{{Gallery|name= 51465.jpg|caption=Mexican National Welterweight & Middleweight Champion 1944}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=El-santo_nwa-midd.JPG|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]]}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=De_acaballo.jpg |caption=Winning mask match vs EL ESPANTO I 1963}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name= Rodolfo_guzman.jpg|caption=Don Rodolfo Guzman Huerta-EL SANTO 1965}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=SantoStatue.jpg|caption=Statue made in memory of Santo. It stands 3.70 mts &weighs over 1500 kilos}}<br />
{{Gallery|name= 13281.jpg|caption= Another Santo statue}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name= Sandemon.jpg|caption= with [[Blue Demon]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name= Milsanto.jpg|caption= with [[Mil Mascaras]] [[1976]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name= Domingo12.jpg|caption= his last lucha Program, Sept. 1982}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=El_santo_sinmask.jpg |caption=Unmasking during Contrapunto Talk show aired on TV on Jan.1984}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Elsanto.JPG|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=SANTO1.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=SANTOrecord.jpg|caption= El Santo most complete listing of luchas de apuestas record}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1506152109315.jpg|caption=displaying his won masks}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1485732548825.jpg|caption=as El Hombre Rojo}}<br />
{{Gallerywide|name=Received 1586492531399309.jpeg|caption=in Bolivia}}<br />
{{Gallerywide|name=FB IMG 1539311949204.jpg|caption=}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Santo]]<br />
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers|Santo]]<br />
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers|Santo]]<br />
[[Category:La Arena bios]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Universo_2000&diff=175321Universo 20002019-11-28T19:42:22Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Profile */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Universo_2000_2007.jpg<br />
|name=Universo 2000 (Universe 2000) <br />
|realName=Andrés Reyes González <br />
|nicknames= "El asesino del ring"<br />
|nameHistory=Espacial (debut - 87?), Universo 2000 (87? - ) <br />
|family=[[Cien Caras]], [[Máscara Año 2000]] (brothers), [[Universo 2000 Jr.]] (son)<br />
|maestro=[[Diablo Velazco]], [[Rafael Salamanca]]<br />
|birthdate=[[April 18]], [[1963]] - [[Santa Anita]], [[Jalisco]]<br />
|obituarydate=[[May 1]], [[2018]]<br />
|debut=[[June 15]], [[1985]] - [[Arena Ecatepec]] - [[Ecatepec]], [[Mexico State]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Canek]] - [[September 17, 2004]] - [[Arena México]]<br />
|height=6'1"/185 cms <br />
|weight=216 lbs/102 kg <br />
|signatureMoves=Black Hammer ([[Piledriver]]), [[Power Bomb]], [[Abdominal Stretch]], [[Low Blow]], [[Tope Suicida]]<br />
|titles=[[National Trios Titles]] (w/ [[Cien Caras]] & [[Máscara Año 2000]]), [[WWO World Heavyweight Title]], [[CMLL World Heavyweight Title]] (3), [[CMLL World Trios Titles]] (w/ [[Black Tiger III|Black Tiger]] & [[Dr. Wagner Jr.]]), 3rd Annual [[Leyenda de Azul]] Tournament<br />
}}<br />
<br />
== Bio ==<br />
<br />
=== Los Invasors ===<br />
After fading out from CMLL around September of 2009 (and only turning up occasionally previously), Universo returned to CMLL in May of [[2010]] as part of [[The Invasors]]. [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]] returned with him, and the two picked up their old feud. Universo appeared occasionally in June and July, but seemed to be downplayed as they switched Rayo's feud to [[Atlantis]] instead.<br />
<br />
Outside of CMLL, Universo 2000 was training a group of wrestlers near his home.<br />
<br />
== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|01/03/30|hair|[[Universo 2000]]|[[Perro Aguayo]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|02/09/20|mask (1)|[[Universo 2000]]|[[Bulldog (Steelman)|Bulldog]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|03/12/05|hair|[[Universo 2000]]|[[Pierroth Jr.]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|04/[[September 17|09/17]]|mask (2)|[[Canek]]|[[Universo 2000]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|05/[[September 16|09/16]]|hair (3)|[[Universo 2000]]|[[Héctor Garza]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|05/12/02|hair|[[Universo 2000]]|[[Halloween]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|06/03/17|hair|[[Perro Aguayo Jr.]]|[[Universo 2000]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|06/12/15|hair|[[Shocker]] & Universo 2000|[[Marco Corelone]] & [[Kenzo Suzuki]]|[[Arena Mexico]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|07/03/30|hair|[[Marco Corleone]]|[[Universo 2000]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|13/06/22|hair (4)|[[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]]|[[Universo 2000]]|[[Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera]]}}<br />
{{aend|<b>(1)</b> 12 mask Cibernetico tournament; <b>(2)</b> 4 way match with Wagner Jr. & Rayo Jr.; <b>(3)</b> Triangle match with Perro Aguayo Jr.; <b>(4):</b> Finals of [[TxT Ruleta de la Muerte, 2013#Men|Ruleta de la Muerte]]}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery||name=ElEspecial.jpg|caption=as El Especial in rookie year}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=FB IMG 1484192703647.jpg|caption=as El Espacial}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=universo2000.jpg|caption=1992}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Uni.jpg|caption=Universo with mask}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Dinamitasmook.jpg|caption=Los Hermanos Dinamitas}}<br />
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{{Gallery||name=Menoru.jpg|caption=in Arena Coliseo Guadalajara, Jalisco}}<br />
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{{Gallery||name=Andresreyes.jpg|caption=without mask}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Ganador.jpg|caption=3ra. [[Leyenda de Plata]]}}<br />
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[[category:Deceased wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=The_Killer&diff=175292The Killer2019-11-26T05:58:12Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Thekiller1.jpg<br />
|name=The Killer<br />
|realName=Jose Luis Perez Rodriguez [http://postimg.org/image/phr1sthex/]<br />
|nicknames=El Asesino de Bronx, El Asesino de New York<br />
|nameHistory=Siglo XX (debut- 1988), The Killer (1988 - )<br />
|family=[[Enrique Vera]] (brother), [[Enrique Vera Jr.]] (nephew)<br />
|maestro=[[Diablo Velasco]]<br />
|birthdate=[[1953]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]<br />
|debut=[[1975]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]<br />
|lostmaskto=(as Siglo XX) [[Cien Caras]] - [[April 12]], [[1987]] - [[Arena Mexico]]<br />
|height=1.78 m <br />
|weight=100 kg<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=[[Senton]], [[Cangrejo]] <br />
|titles=[[UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship]] (3)<br />
|}}<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|79/??/??|mask (1)|Siglo XX|[[Destructor Negro]] (Doberman)|Guadalajara, Jalisco}}<br />
{{aline|79/08/30|mask|Siglo XX|[[La Momia]]|[[Matamoros]], [[Tamaulipas]]}}<br />
{{aline|79/10/13|mask|Siglo XX|[[Kingo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|87/12/04|mask|[[Cien Caras]]|Siglo XX|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aend|<b>(1)</b> This match happened at least 4 times in several GDL arenas}}<br />
{{Stub}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=sigloxx.jpg|caption=as Siglo XX}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=SigloXXss.jpg|caption=as Siglo XX}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=siglo20.jpg|caption=as Siglo XX}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=killer1987.jpg|caption=introduction as Killer}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Killer.jpg|caption=as the Killer, Late 90s}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Asesinos.jpg|caption=with [[Enrique Vera]] & [[Andy Barrow]]}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Killer]]<br />
[[Category:Former AAA/PAP wrestlers|Killer]]<br />
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[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers|Killer]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Masakre&diff=175291Masakre2019-11-26T05:54:43Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Biography */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
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{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Masakre.jpg<br />
|name=Masakre (Massacre)<br />
|realName=Aristóteles Radamés Coccó Flores<br />
|nicknames=El Rudo Petrolero (The Petrol Rudo)<br />
|nameHistory=Masakre (debut - ), MS-2 (83 - 84), Drakula (AAA, 94 - 03/95), Yeti (AAA, 95 - 96), Coco Rosa (AAA)<br />
|family=none<br />
|maestro=[[Lázaro García]], [[Rafael Salamanca]], [[Raúl Reyes]]<br />
|birthdate=[[May 13]], [[1955]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|obituarydate=[[April 12]], [[2012]]<br />
|debut=[[May 1]], [[1983]] - [[Pista Arena Revolución]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Kiss]] - [[August 29]], [[1986]] - [[Arena México]]<br />
|height=6'/182 cms<br />
|weight=220 lbs/100 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=[[Gory Special]], [[Senton]]<br />
|titles=[[National Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[MS-1]]), [[CMLL World Trios Championship]] (w/[[Pierroth Jr.]] & [[Jaque Mate]])<br />
}}<br />
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== Biography == <br />
* Little is known about Masakre's current whereabouts, but he's remembered as an excellent wrestler of the 80s. Masakre was a polite man out of the ring, but a rudo in it.<br />
<br />
Masakre was a vital part of [[Los Intocables]] as well as [[Los Infernales]]. His career didn't start because he loved lucha libre, but because he was looking for a way to get in shape. At the beginning of his career, Masakre was also working as a fireman, but dropped that occupation as lucha grew on him.<br />
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Source (translated: http://rayoblack.mx.tripod.com/biografiasygaleriasdelasleyendasdelring<br />
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* Was [[CMLL]] booker from late [[1993]] until late [[1994]].Later he wrestled in AAA and retired around 2000<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Águila Solitaria]]|[[MS-2]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Masakre]]|[[Herodes]]|Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|83/10/15|mask|MS-2|[[Pájaro de Fuego]]|Querétaro, Querétaro}}<br />
{{aline|86/08/29|mask|[[Kiss]]|[[Masakre]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|88/06/17|hair|[[MS-1]]|[[Masakre]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|90/[[September 7|09/07]]|hair|[[El Faraón]] & [[Ringo Mendoza]]|[[MS-1]] & Masakre|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|91/12/15|hair|[[Masakre]]|[[MS-1]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|92/02/28|hair|[[Pirata Morgan]]|[[Masakre]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=MasakreMasked.jpg|caption=Masked}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=MASAKRE.jpg |caption=red mask}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Infernales3.jpg|caption=Infernales: [[Satánico]], [[Masakre]] y [[MS-1]] punish [[La Fiera]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Masakre01.jpg|caption=1993}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Masacre.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Drakula.jpg|caption=as Drakula}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=ms2.jpg |caption=as MS-2}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Yeti.jpg|caption=as Yeti}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Yeti2.JPG|caption=as Yeti}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Former AAA/PAP wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Masakre&diff=175290Masakre2019-11-26T05:53:47Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Profile */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
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{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Masakre.jpg<br />
|name=Masakre (Massacre)<br />
|realName=Aristóteles Radamés Coccó Flores<br />
|nicknames=El Rudo Petrolero (The Petrol Rudo)<br />
|nameHistory=Masakre (debut - ), MS-2 (83 - 84), Drakula (AAA, 94 - 03/95), Yeti (AAA, 95 - 96), Coco Rosa (AAA)<br />
|family=none<br />
|maestro=[[Lázaro García]], [[Rafael Salamanca]], [[Raúl Reyes]]<br />
|birthdate=[[May 13]], [[1955]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|obituarydate=[[April 12]], [[2012]]<br />
|debut=[[May 1]], [[1983]] - [[Pista Arena Revolución]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Kiss]] - [[August 29]], [[1986]] - [[Arena México]]<br />
|height=6'/182 cms<br />
|weight=220 lbs/100 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=[[Gory Special]], [[Senton]]<br />
|titles=[[National Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[MS-1]]), [[CMLL World Trios Championship]] (w/[[Pierroth Jr.]] & [[Jaque Mate]])<br />
}}<br />
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== Biography == <br />
* Little is known about Masakre's current whereabouts, but he's remembered as an excellent wrestler of the 80s. Masakre was a polite man out of the ring, but a rudo in it.<br />
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Masakre was a vital part of [[Los Intocables]] as well as [[Los Infernales]]. His career didn't start because he loved lucha libre, but because he was looking for a way to get in shape. At the beginning of his career, Masakre was also working as a fireman, but dropped that occupation as lucha grew on him.<br />
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Source (translated: http://rayoblack.mx.tripod.com/biografiasygaleriasdelasleyendasdelring<br />
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* Was [[CMLL]] booker from late [[1993]] until late [[1994]].<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Águila Solitaria]]|[[MS-2]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Masakre]]|[[Herodes]]|Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|83/10/15|mask|MS-2|[[Pájaro de Fuego]]|Querétaro, Querétaro}}<br />
{{aline|86/08/29|mask|[[Kiss]]|[[Masakre]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|88/06/17|hair|[[MS-1]]|[[Masakre]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|90/[[September 7|09/07]]|hair|[[El Faraón]] & [[Ringo Mendoza]]|[[MS-1]] & Masakre|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|91/12/15|hair|[[Masakre]]|[[MS-1]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|92/02/28|hair|[[Pirata Morgan]]|[[Masakre]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=MasakreMasked.jpg|caption=Masked}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=MASAKRE.jpg |caption=red mask}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Infernales3.jpg|caption=Infernales: [[Satánico]], [[Masakre]] y [[MS-1]] punish [[La Fiera]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Masakre01.jpg|caption=1993}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Masacre.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Drakula.jpg|caption=as Drakula}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=Coco Rosa.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=ms2.jpg |caption=as MS-2}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Yeti.jpg|caption=as Yeti}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Yeti2.JPG|caption=as Yeti}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Former AAA/PAP wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Tony_Sugar&diff=174985Tony Sugar2019-11-13T14:31:02Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Gallery */</p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Astrosx.jpg<br />
|name=Tony Sugar<br />
|realName=<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=El Astro, Corsario Negro, Ciclon Tapatio, Tony Sugar<br />
|family=[[Rayo de Jalisco]] and [[Black Sugar]] (brothers), [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]] (nephew), [[Rayman]] (nephew), [[Ultra Rayo]], [[Mister Rayo]], [[Rayo Star]] (nephews or sons?)<br />
|maestro=<br />
|birthdate= 1930?<br />
|debut=<br />
|lostmaskto=(as Ciclon Tapatio) [[Principe Casanova]] - [[July 30]], [[1965]] - [[Guatemala City]]<br />
(as El Astro) [[Tauro]] - [[December 4]], [[1971]] - [[Pista Arena Revolucion]]<br />
(as Corsario Negro) - [[March 30]], [[1975]] - [[Destino Negro]]<br />
|height=<br />
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|titles=<br />
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== Profile ==<br />
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As Astro I and formed a great partner with the Astro II, both were important victories in Spain, France, Portugal, England, Scotland.<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|65/07/30|mask|[[Gori Casanova]]|[[Tony Sugar|Ciclon Tapatio]]|[[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|71/12/04|mask|[[Tauro]]|[[Tony Sugar|El Astro]]|Pista Arena Revolucion}}<br />
{{aline|75/03/30|mask|[[Destino Negro]]|Corsario Negro|Pachuca}}<br />
{{aline|75/06/29|mask|[[Tarasco I]]|Corsario Negro|Toluca}}<br />
{{aline|75/07/22|mask|[[Zeus]]|Corsario Negro II|Cuautitlan}}<br />
{{aline|82/??/??|hair<ref>In 1982 a cuadrangular de mascaras is programmed in the Palacio de los deportes, the match ended in draw and the referee (Tony Sugar) was shaved</ref>|[[Blue Demon]], [[Mil Mascaras]], [[Gran Markus]], [[Super Maquina]]|Tony Sugar|Palacio de los Deportes}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=tonysugarastro.jpg|caption=as El Astro}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Screenshot_20190414-212055~2.png|caption=Tony Sugar (right) & brothers [[Rayo de Jalisco]]&[[Black Sugar]]}}<br />
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=File:Screenshot_20190414-212055~2.png&diff=174984File:Screenshot 20190414-212055~2.png2019-11-13T14:26:21Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: Rayo de Jalisco Black Sugar & Tony Sugar .</p>
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<div>== Summary ==<br />
Rayo de Jalisco Black Sugar & Tony Sugar .</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Tony_Sugar&diff=174972Tony Sugar2019-11-13T04:45:59Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: </p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Astrosx.jpg<br />
|name=Tony Sugar<br />
|realName=<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=El Astro, Corsario Negro, Ciclon Tapatio, Tony Sugar<br />
|family=[[Rayo de Jalisco]] and [[Black Sugar]] (brothers), [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]] (nephew), [[Rayman]] (nephew), [[Ultra Rayo]], [[Mister Rayo]], [[Rayo Star]] (nephews or sons?)<br />
|maestro=<br />
|birthdate= 1930?<br />
|debut=<br />
|lostmaskto=(as Ciclon Tapatio) [[Principe Casanova]] - [[July 30]], [[1965]] - [[Guatemala City]]<br />
(as El Astro) [[Tauro]] - [[December 4]], [[1971]] - [[Pista Arena Revolucion]]<br />
(as Corsario Negro) - [[March 30]], [[1975]] - [[Destino Negro]]<br />
|height=<br />
|weight=<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
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|titles=<br />
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== Profile ==<br />
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As Astro I and formed a great partner with the Astro II, both were important victories in Spain, France, Portugal, England, Scotland.<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|65/07/30|mask|[[Gori Casanova]]|[[Tony Sugar|Ciclon Tapatio]]|[[Guatemala]]}}<br />
{{aline|71/12/04|mask|[[Tauro]]|[[Tony Sugar|El Astro]]|Pista Arena Revolucion}}<br />
{{aline|75/03/30|mask|[[Destino Negro]]|Corsario Negro|Pachuca}}<br />
{{aline|75/06/29|mask|[[Tarasco I]]|Corsario Negro|Toluca}}<br />
{{aline|75/07/22|mask|[[Zeus]]|Corsario Negro II|Cuautitlan}}<br />
{{aline|82/??/??|hair<ref>In 1982 a cuadrangular de mascaras is programmed in the Palacio de los deportes, the match ended in draw and the referee (Tony Sugar) was shaved</ref>|[[Blue Demon]], [[Mil Mascaras]], [[Gran Markus]], [[Super Maquina]]|Tony Sugar|Palacio de los Deportes}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=tonysugarastro.jpg|caption=as El Astro}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Halc%C3%B3n&diff=174971El Halcón2019-11-13T04:42:08Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
{{bioFields||image=Elhalcon.jpg<br />
|name=El Halcón (The Hawk)<br />
|realName=José Luis Melchor Ortiz<br />
|nicknames=none<br />
|nameHistory=Orfeo Negro (debut-69), Bengala (69 - 70), Argos (70 - 12/71), Danny Ortiz (12/71 - 73), El Halcón (73 - 78), Halcón Ortiz (07/77 - 06/84), Horus/Super Halcón (06/84 - )<br />
|family=[[Super Halcón Jr.]] (son)<br />
|maestro=[[César del Rio Gil]], [[Ángel Negro]], [[Pedro Nieves]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Rafael Salamanca]]<br />
|birthdate=[[July 23]], [[1947]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|debut=[[1968]] - [[Cancha San Pedro]] - [[Puebla]], [[Puebla]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Mil Máscaras]] ([[July 26]], [[1977]] in Mexico, [[1978]] in Japan) as Halcón<br />
|height=5'10"/179 cms<br />
|weight=231 lbs/105 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=Dandina ([[La Magistral]]), [[Running Tope Suicida]], [[Flying elbowdrop]]<br />
|titles=[[Puebla Tag Team Championship]] (w/[[Tony Garcia]]), [[Arena Mexico Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[El Solitario]]), [[National Heavyweight Title]] (5, three times as Halcón, once as Halcón Ortiz, once as Super Halcón), [[Northern Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[Ciclón Veloz Jr.]]), [[NWA Americas Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[Chavo Guerrero]]), World Class/Texas: NWA American Tag Team Titles (4, w/ [[Jose Lothario]] three times, w/ Kerry Von Erich), World Class: NWA American Heavyweight Title, [[WWA World Heavyweight Title]] (as Super Halcón), [[Mexican National Tag Team Championship]] (w/[[Falcón]]), [[MAWA World Heavyweight Championship]]<br />
|}}<br />
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== Bio ==<br />
He wanted to be a football player, he enrolled in the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, he found the offices closed and he passed by the gymnasium and saw people training Olympic Wrestling and he thought it was easy, but he learned that it was not. He trained with that group and he was beaten. Later on he learned Cesar del Rio Gil was selected to participate in the Olympic Games of Tokyo 1964, since then he wanted to become a professional wrestler, but there was no one who train formally in that discipline. The spent time practicing Olympic and Greco-Roman wrestling where he began to outstand his inspiration were [[Black Shadow]], [[Rolando Vera]], [[Rene Guajardo]] and [[Apolo Curiel]]. He combined Lucha Libre with Olympic Wrestling. He was invited by his maestro [[Pedro Nieves]] to an event at [[Cancha de San Pedro]] in Puebla, Puebla. There was a wrestler missing for the first match, Pedro Nieves asked him if he could take that place and he accepted and made his debut. Three months later he was main eventer in that arena wrestling alongside [[Bobby Bonales]], Espectro and the best wrestlers of that time. The wrestler's name who missed that date was Orfeo Negro and he took that identity for four years. As Orfeo Negro he won the [[Puebla Tag Team Championship]] with [[Tony Garcia]] against Los Hermanos Buitre. <br />
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Sometime later he was training at Arena Mexico, and he wanted to be a professional wrestler formally, in order to do so he was helped by [[Ray Mendoza]]. Went under different identities, such as Bengala, then he assumed another identity. [[Atila]] gave him a mask which he modified to assume the gimmick of Argos, he used that name for a season in Cancha de San Pedro and other places. He met Angel Negro ([[Karloff Lagarde]]'s brother) and [[El Pulpo]] helped him in is early career. Practiced both disciplines Lucha Libre and Olympic Wrestling at the same time. He was national champion in Greco Roman wrestling and represented Mexico in Panamerican Games. He took the decision to become professional, and was supported by Ray Mendoza. He continued his training with [[Rafael Salamanca]] and prior his debut Salamanca recommended a name him there was a Danny Hass and Salamanca thought in the name of Danny Ortiz for his trainee.<br />
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His debut as Danny Ortiz was on [[December 8]], 1971 in a tag tournament with [[Tino Herrera]]. He wrestled under that name for about a year with his ups and downs. There was a contest at El Halcon Magazine, to find a new luchador and they required a wrestler to be the image of the magazine. He was selected among the 12 candidates, he made his debut as Halcon on 1973. He became a big draw and received championship opportunites. There were conflicts between wrestling magazines with the use name of the name El Halcon, nevertheless this did not damage him in any way. He was still a draw and supported by the crowd. After his mask loss on 1977 against [[Mil Máscaras]], he turned into a rudo. He kept winning Championships and received many opportunities. He had epic matches against [[Sicodelico]], [[Dos Caras]], [[Espanto II]], [[Black Man]], and more. There was another notable feud against [[Los Hermanos Dinamita]], particularly with [[Cien Caras]]. On 1984, they protagozied a championship match with a controversial result in which Cien Caras became the new Mexican National Heavyweight Champion. Wrestled against [[Harley Race]] many times for the [[NWA World Heavyweight Championship]] in Mexico and all over Texas and they always tied. Harley Race himself stated that the best luchadors of Mexico were [[Alfonso Dantes]] and Halcon. He made tours in the United States and Japan. Even when he remasked as Super Halcon, he was supported by the people. His retirement match was on 1989 in the lucha de apuestas against [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]] He made special appearances his last match was on 2000 in the event of "Las Cuatro Decadas", there was another in Arena Naucalpan and the last was in [[El Audaz]]'s retirement event.<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|70's/??/??|mask|[[El Halcón]]|[[Spoiler]]|[[Texas]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Halcón|Super Halcón]]|[[El Macho I]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Halcón]]|[[El Gran Davis|Gran Davis]]|[[Mexicali]], [[Baja California]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[05/01]]|masks|[[Dr. Wagner]] & [[El Halcón]]|[[Los Gemelos Diablo]]|[[Plaza Mexico]] - [[México City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[11/07]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Raul Reyes]]|[[Arena Mexico]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1977]]/[[07/29]]|mask|[[Mil Máscaras]]|[[El Halcón]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1977]]/[[12/02]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Herodes]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 13|09/13]]|mask|[[Mil Máscaras]]|[[El Halcón]]|Japan}}<br />
{{aline|[[1979]]/[[03/02]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Pak Choo]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1981]]/[[06/12]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Adorable Rubí]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1981]]/[[06/26]]|hair|[[Alfonso Dantés]]|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1981]]/[[September 23|09/23]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Herodes]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1982]]/[[04/30]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Tony Benetto]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1982]]/[[06/18]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Adorable Rubí]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1983]]/[[11/28]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Tony Benetto]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1984]]/[[04/08]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Pirata Morgan]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1988]]/[[January 28|01/28]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortíz]]|[[Jose Luis Feliciano]]|[[Arena Ecatepec de Morelos]], [[Ecatepec]], [[Mexico State]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1989]]/[[04/23]]|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]]|[[El Halcón|Super Halcón]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=matsuda-vs-halcon.jpg|caption=vs [[Hiro Matsuda]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Elhalconmexhevy.jpg|caption=as [[Mexican National Heavyweight Championship|MEX Heavyweight Champ]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Elhalcon02.jpg|caption=Halcón Ortiz}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Elhalcon01.jpg|caption=Super Halcón}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Superhalconmask.jpg|caption=Super Halcon}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Super02.jpg|caption=Super Halcón}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=ELHALCON aHALCON PWI 0001-211343466.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Halcon-belts.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=SUPERHALCON zpsd7b1e564.jpg|caption=}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1490843198775~01.jpg|caption=winning [[Los Gemelos Diablo]]s' masks}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1515948248834.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallerywide|name=FB IMG 1522698088675.jpg|caption=with [[Lizmark]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1523173342681.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=FB IMG 1528738022859.jpg|caption=in [[Arena Tijuana 72]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Halcones.jpg|caption=father and son}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=El Halcón Ortiz.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Halcon chavo guerrero.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallerywide|name=Received 527303301125048.png|caption=with [[Jose Lothario]] as World Class/Texas: NWA American Tag Team Champions}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=Received 2554075541286122.png|caption=winning Spoiler's mask}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Received 799666203709431~2.png|caption=as Argos}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Received 581135125684202~2.png|caption=as Orfeo Negro}}<br />
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== Source ==<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk2sEZohjr4&t=436s Leyendas de Lucha Libre: Super Halcon]<br />
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Halcon]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=El_Halc%C3%B3n&diff=174970El Halcón2019-11-13T04:40:16Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
{{bioFields||image=Elhalcon.jpg<br />
|name=El Halcón (The Hawk)<br />
|realName=José Luis Melchor Ortiz<br />
|nicknames=none<br />
|nameHistory=Orfeo Negro (debut-69), Bengala (69 - 70), Argos (70 - 12/71), Danny Ortiz (12/71 - 73), El Halcón (73 - 78), Halcón Ortiz (07/77 - 06/84), Horus/Super Halcón (06/84 - )<br />
|family=[[Super Halcón Jr.]] (son)<br />
|maestro=[[César del Rio Gil]], [[Ángel Negro]], [[Pedro Nieves]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Rafael Salamanca]]<br />
|birthdate=[[July 23]], [[1947]] - [[Mexico City]]<br />
|debut=[[1968]] - [[Cancha San Pedro]] - [[Puebla]], [[Puebla]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Mil Máscaras]] ([[July 26]], [[1977]] in Mexico, [[1978]] in Japan) as Halcón<br />
|height=5'10"/179 cms<br />
|weight=231 lbs/105 kg<br />
|signatureMoves=Dandina ([[La Magistral]]), [[Running Tope Suicida]], [[Flying elbowdrop]]<br />
|titles=[[Puebla Tag Team Championship]] (w/[[Tony Garcia]]), [[Arena Mexico Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[El Solitario]]), [[National Heavyweight Title]] (5, three times as Halcón, once as Halcón Ortiz, once as Super Halcón), [[Northern Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[Ciclón Veloz Jr.]]), [[NWA Americas Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[Chavo Guerrero]]), World Class/Texas: NWA American Tag Team Titles (4, w/ [[Jose Lothario]] three times, w/ Kerry Von Erich), World Class: NWA American Heavyweight Title, [[WWA World Heavyweight Title]] (as Super Halcón), [[Mexican National Tag Team Championship]] (w/[[Falcón]]), [[MAWA World Heavyweight Championship]]<br />
|}}<br />
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== Bio ==<br />
He wanted to be a football player, he enrolled in the Instituto Politécnico Nacional, he found the offices closed and he passed by the gymnasium and saw people training Olympic Wrestling and he thought it was easy, but he learned that it was not. He trained with that group and he was beaten. Later on he learned Cesar del Rio Gil was selected to participate in the Olympic Games of Tokyo 1964, since then he wanted to become a professional wrestler, but there was no one who train formally in that discipline. The spent time practicing Olympic and Greco-Roman wrestling where he began to outstand his inspiration were [[Black Shadow]], [[Rolando Vera]], [[Rene Guajardo]] and [[Apolo Curiel]]. He combined Lucha Libre with Olympic Wrestling. He was invited by his maestro [[Pedro Nieves]] to an event at [[Cancha de San Pedro]] in Puebla, Puebla. There was a wrestler missing for the first match, Pedro Nieves asked him if he could take that place and he accepted and made his debut. Three months later he was main eventer in that arena wrestling alongside [[Bobby Bonales]], Espectro and the best wrestlers of that time. The wrestler's name who missed that date was Orfeo Negro and he took that identity for four years. As Orfeo Negro he won the [[Puebla Tag Team Championship]] with [[Tony Garcia]] against Los Hermanos Buitre. <br />
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Sometime later he was training at Arena Mexico, and he wanted to be a professional wrestler formally, in order to do so he was helped by [[Ray Mendoza]]. Went under different identities, such as Bengala, then he assumed another identity. [[Atila]] gave him a mask which he modified to assume the gimmick of Argos, he used that name for a season in Cancha de San Pedro and other places. He met Angel Negro ([[Karloff Lagarde]]'s brother) and [[El Pulpo]] helped him in is early career. Practiced both disciplines Lucha Libre and Olympic Wrestling at the same time. He was national champion in Greco Roman wrestling and represented Mexico in Panamerican Games. He took the decision to become professional, and was supported by Ray Mendoza. He continued his training with [[Rafael Salamanca]] and prior his debut Salamanca recommended a name him there was a Danny Hass and Salamanca thought in the name of Danny Ortiz for his trainee.<br />
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His debut as Danny Ortiz was on [[December 8]], 1971 in a tag tournament with [[Tino Herrera]]. He wrestled under that name for about a year with his ups and downs. There was a contest at El Halcon Magazine, to find a new luchador and they required a wrestler to be the image of the magazine. He was selected among the 12 candidates, he made his debut as Halcon on 1973. He became a big draw and received championship opportunites. There were conflicts between wrestling magazines with the use name of the name El Halcon, nevertheless this did not damage him in any way. He was still a draw and supported by the crowd. After his mask loss on 1977 against [[Mil Máscaras]], he turned into a rudo. He kept winning Championships and received many opportunities. He had epic matches against [[Sicodelico]], [[Dos Caras]], [[Espanto II]], [[Black Man]], and more. There was another notable feud against [[Los Hermanos Dinamita]], particularly with [[Cien Caras]]. On 1984, they protagozied a championship match with a controversial result in which Cien Caras became the new Mexican National Heavyweight Champion. Wrestled against [[Harley Race]] many times for the [[NWA World Heavyweight Championship]] in Mexico and all over Texas and they always tied. Harley Race himself stated that the best luchadors of Mexico were [[Alfonso Dantes]] and Halcon. He made tours in the United States and Japan. Even when he remasked as Super Halcon, he was supported by the people. His retirement match was on 1989 in the lucha de apuestas against [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]] He made special appearances his last match was on 2000 in the event of "Las Cuatro Decadas", there was another in Arena Naucalpan and the last was in [[El Audaz]]'s retirement event.<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|70's/??/??|mask|[[El Halcón]]|[[Spoiler]]|[[Texas]]}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Halcón|Super Halcón]]|[[El Macho I]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Halcón|Super Halcón]]|[[The Spoiler]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Halcón]]|[[El Gran Davis|Gran Davis]]|[[Mexicali]], [[Baja California]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[05/01]]|masks|[[Dr. Wagner]] & [[El Halcón]]|[[Los Gemelos Diablo]]|[[Plaza Mexico]] - [[México City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[11/07]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Raul Reyes]]|[[Arena Mexico]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1977]]/[[07/29]]|mask|[[Mil Máscaras]]|[[El Halcón]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1977]]/[[12/02]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Herodes]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 13|09/13]]|mask|[[Mil Máscaras]]|[[El Halcón]]|Japan}}<br />
{{aline|[[1979]]/[[03/02]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Pak Choo]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1981]]/[[06/12]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Adorable Rubí]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1981]]/[[06/26]]|hair|[[Alfonso Dantés]]|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1981]]/[[September 23|09/23]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Herodes]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1982]]/[[04/30]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Tony Benetto]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1982]]/[[06/18]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Adorable Rubí]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1983]]/[[11/28]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Tony Benetto]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1984]]/[[04/08]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortiz]]|[[Pirata Morgan]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1988]]/[[January 28|01/28]]|hair|[[El Halcón|Halcón Ortíz]]|[[Jose Luis Feliciano]]|[[Arena Ecatepec de Morelos]], [[Ecatepec]], [[Mexico State]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1989]]/[[04/23]]|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]]|[[El Halcón|Super Halcón]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=matsuda-vs-halcon.jpg|caption=vs [[Hiro Matsuda]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Elhalconmexhevy.jpg|caption=as [[Mexican National Heavyweight Championship|MEX Heavyweight Champ]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Elhalcon02.jpg|caption=Halcón Ortiz}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Elhalcon01.jpg|caption=Super Halcón}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Superhalconmask.jpg|caption=Super Halcon}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Super02.jpg|caption=Super Halcón}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=ELHALCON aHALCON PWI 0001-211343466.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Halcon-belts.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=SUPERHALCON zpsd7b1e564.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1497280505062.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1483745791280.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1490843198775~01.jpg|caption=winning [[Los Gemelos Diablo]]s' masks}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1488597101218.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1515943569624.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1515948248834.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallerywide|name=FB IMG 1522698088675.jpg|caption=with [[Lizmark]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=FB IMG 1523173342681.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=FB IMG 1528738022859.jpg|caption=in [[Arena Tijuana 72]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Halcones.jpg|caption=father and son}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=El Halcón Ortiz.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Halcon chavo guerrero.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallerywide|name=Received 527303301125048.png|caption=with [[Jose Lothario]] as World Class/Texas: NWA American Tag Team Champions}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=Received 2554075541286122.png|caption=winning Spoiler's mask}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Received 799666203709431~2.png|caption=as Argos}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Received 581135125684202~2.png|caption=as Orfeo Negro}}<br />
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== Source ==<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk2sEZohjr4&t=436s Leyendas de Lucha Libre: Super Halcon]<br />
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Halcon]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Rizado_Ruiz&diff=174882Rizado Ruiz2019-11-09T18:42:02Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: </p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Rizadoruizx.jpg<br />
|name=Rizado Ruiz<br />
|realName=Herlberto Ruiz Sanchez<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=Heriberto Ruiz (Debut-?)Rizado Ruiz<br />
|family=[[Rodolfo Ruiz]] (brother), [[Averno]] (nephew)<br />
|maestro=[[Gonzalo Avendano]]<br />
|birthdate=[[July 11]], [[1935]] - [[Sombrerete]], [[Zacatecas]]<br />
|debut=[[December 20]], [[1958]] - [[Arena Coliseo]] vs [[Rudy Mar Allah]]<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height=170 cm/5'7"<br />
|weight=88 kgs/194 lbs<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=<br />
|titles=[[Mexican National Welterweight Championship]]<br />
|}}<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Red Terror]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Chucho Villa]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Monarca]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[Rambo]]|Monterrey, Nuevo León}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[El Rebelde]]|Arena Coliseo - México City}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[Chucho Villa]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|60/04/12|hair|[[El Rebelde]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|Arena Coliseo - México City}}<br />
{{aline|66/??/??|hair|[[Alberto Muñoz]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|67/??/??|hair|[[Angel Blanco]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|76/04/04|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[César Silva]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|83/03/13|hair|[[La Sombra (1st version)]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|88/05/04|hairs|[[El Dandy]] & [[Javier Cruz]]|Rizado Ruiz & [[Rudy Reyna]]|Arena Coliseo - Acapulco, Guerrero}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
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Arena 362 (which lists the Rebelde date) says Ruiz also lost his hair on April 13, 1961, but does not list an opponent.<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=mexwelter_rizadoruiz.jpg|caption=as [[Mexican National Welterweight Championship|Mexican National Welterweight Champion]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=ReynaRuizSharon.JPG|caption=w/[[Rudy Reyna]] and [[Babe Sharon]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=NaziRizardoRodolfo.JPG|caption=with [[El Nazi]] & [[Rodolfo Ruiz]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Rizadoruiz.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Ruizbrothers.PNG|caption=w/[[Rodolfo Ruiz]]}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]][[Category:Exoticos]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Rizado_Ruiz&diff=174881Rizado Ruiz2019-11-09T18:39:45Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Rizadoruizx.jpg<br />
|name=Rizado Ruiz<br />
|realName=Herlberto Ruiz Sanchez<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=Rizado Ruiz<br />
|family=[[Rodolfo Ruiz]] (brother), [[Averno]] (nephew)<br />
|maestro=[[Gonzalo Avendano]]<br />
|birthdate=[[July 11]], [[1935]] - [[Sombrerete]], [[Zacatecas]]<br />
|debut=[[December 20]], [[1958]] - [[Arena Coliseo]] vs [[Rudy Mar Allah]]<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height=170 cm/5'7"<br />
|weight=88 kgs/194 lbs<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=<br />
|titles=[[Mexican National Welterweight Championship]]<br />
|}}<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Red Terror]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Chucho Villa]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Monarca]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[Rambo]]|Monterrey, Nuevo León}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[El Rebelde]]|Arena Coliseo - México City}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[Chucho Villa]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|60/04/12|hair|[[El Rebelde]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|Arena Coliseo - México City}}<br />
{{aline|66/??/??|hair|[[Alberto Muñoz]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|67/??/??|hair|[[Angel Blanco]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|76/04/04|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[César Silva]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|83/03/13|hair|[[La Sombra (1st version)]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|88/05/04|hairs|[[El Dandy]] & [[Javier Cruz]]|Rizado Ruiz & [[Rudy Reyna]]|Arena Coliseo - Acapulco, Guerrero}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
<br />
Arena 362 (which lists the Rebelde date) says Ruiz also lost his hair on April 13, 1961, but does not list an opponent.<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=mexwelter_rizadoruiz.jpg|caption=as [[Mexican National Welterweight Championship|Mexican National Welterweight Champion]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=ReynaRuizSharon.JPG|caption=w/[[Rudy Reyna]] and [[Babe Sharon]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=NaziRizardoRodolfo.JPG|caption=with [[El Nazi]] & [[Rodolfo Ruiz]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Rizadoruiz.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Ruizbrothers.PNG|caption=w/[[Rodolfo Ruiz]]}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]][[Category:Exoticos]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Enrique_Vera&diff=174815Enrique Vera2019-11-08T05:31:31Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
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{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Enrique_vera.jpg<br />
|name=Enrique Vera<br />
|realName=Enrique Vera Rodríguez<br />
|nicknames=El León de Occidente (Occidental Lion)<br />
|nameHistory=Enrique Vera (debut - ), Hombre de Negro (AAA), The Bronx (AAA), Darkness (AAA, 2003)<br />
|family=[[The Killer|The Killer/Luis Vera]] (brother), [[Enrique Vera Jr.]] (son)<br />
|maestro=[[Diablo Velazco]]<br />
|birthdate=[[October 21]], [[1948]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|debut=[[February 24]], [[1968]] - [[Lagos de Moreno]], [[Jalisco]]<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height=6'0"/182 cms<br />
|weight=220 lbs/100 kg<br />
|signatureMoves= quebradora del leon, enredadera<br />
|titles=[[Occidente Light Heavyweight Championship]], [[National Light Heavyweight Title]] (2), San Francisco NWA World Tag Team Title (w/ Ron Starr), [[UWA World Heavyweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Heavyweight Title]] (3), [[WWA World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[Mexican National Heavyweight Championship]]<br />
}}<br />
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== Biography == <br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|Enrique Vera|[[Alfonso Dantes]]|Tijuana,Mexico}}<br />
{{aline|80s-70s?|hair|Enrique Vera|[[El Signo]]|uknown}}<br />
{{aline|90's/??/??|hair|Enrique Vera|[[El Zar]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|Enrique Vera|[[Indio Jeronimo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hairs|[[Dr. Wagner]] & [[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Pantera Negra]] & Enrique Vera|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|75/12/05|hair (1)|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[Alfonso Dantés]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|76/06/27|hair|[[Gran Markus]]|[[Enrique Vera]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|77/11/18|hair|[[Herodes]]|[[Enrique Vera]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|81/04/06|hair|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[Eric Embry]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|81/06/07|hair|[[Gran Hamada]], Enrique Vera & [[Kobayashi]]|[[El Signo]], [[El Texano]] & [[Negro Navarro]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|82/[[September 5|09/05]]|mask/hair (2)|[[Kiss]] & Enrique Vera|[[Charro de Jalisco/Barba Negra|Charro de Jalisco]] & [[El Olímpico (original)|El Olímpico]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|83/??/??|mask|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[Scorpio]]|Puerto Rico}}<br />
{{aline|87/08/??|hair|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[Luis Mariscal]]|Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|90/03/04|hair|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[El Signo]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|91/[[September 25|09/25]]|mask|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[El Zar]]|Leon, Guanajuato}}<br />
{{aline|92/03/01|hair|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[La Muerte (UWA)|La Muerte]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|95/08/20|hair|Enrique Vera|[[Popitekus]]|Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|96/12/13|hair|[[El Brazo]]|[[Enrique Vera]]|Arena Xochimilco - Xochimilco, Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|99/10/31|hair|[[Sangre Chicana]]|[[Enrique Vera]]|Nuevo Laredo, Tamps.}}<br />
{{aline|06/07/04|hair|Enrique Vera|[[Titan Jr.]]|Arena Juba - Reynosa, Tamaulipas}}<br />
{{aline|08/05/10|hair|Enrique Vera|[[Cuchillo]]|Arena Nueva Aragon - Mexico, City}}<br />
{{aline|10/11/14|hair|Enrique Vera|[[Cuchillo]]|Arena Nueva Aragon - Mexico, City}}<br />
{{aline|10/13/18|hair|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[Verdugo]]|[[Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera]]}}<br />
{{aend|<b>(1)</b> Triangle match w/ El Halcón; <b>(2)</b> Santo retirement ruleta}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=Enriquevera.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=mexheavy_enriquevera.jpg|caption=[[Mexican National Heavyweight Championship|Mex Heavy Champ]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Darkness.jpg|caption=As Darkness}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Leon y cachorro vera.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Vera_brothers.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=S._xx_vera.jpg|caption=}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=Asesinos.jpg|caption=with [[Andy Barrow]] & [[The Killer]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=veraperro.jpg|caption=Biting [[Perro Aguayo]]}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Former AAA/PAP wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Former IWRG wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Comando_I&diff=174814Comando I2019-11-08T05:29:36Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Comandos_1_y_2.jpg<br />
|name=Comando I<br />
|realName=Mauro Rodriguez<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=Comando I <br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=[[Diablo Velasco]]<br />
|birthdate=<br />
|debut=<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Solar I]] & [[Halcon 78]] - [[August 3]], [[1980]] - [[Palacio de los Deportes]], [[Mexico City]]<br />
|height=<br />
|weight=<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=<br />
|titles=<br />
|}}<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|70's/??/??|hair|Comando I|[[Chino Chow]] |[[Arena Coliseo, Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|80/07/27|masks(1)|[[Los Comandos]] [[Comando I|I]] & [[Comando II|II]]|[[White Man]] & [[Satan]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/08/03|mask|[[Solar I]] & [[Halcon 78]]|[[Los Comandos]] [[Comando I|I]] & [[Comando II|II]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aend||<b>(1)</b> Triangle match vs Solar I & Halcon 78}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
[[Category:?]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Chino_Chow&diff=174813Chino Chow2019-11-08T05:29:06Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Chino chow 1.jpg<br />
|name=Chino Chow<br />
|realName=Enrique Vela Lopez<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=Peligro Negro (1960), Chino Chow, Nakamura, Destroyer (1988)<br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=<br />
|birthdate=[[March 1]], [[1937]] - [[Durango]], [[Durango]]<br />
|debut=[[1954]] - [[Ciudad Juarez]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Solitario]] - March 25, 1981 - Auditorio de Tijuana, Tijuana, Baja California (as Nakamura), not unmasked as Peligro Negro<br />
|height=92 kg/203 lb<br />
|weight=176 cm/5' 9"<br />
|obituarydate=[[September 15]], [[2018]]<br />
|signatureMoves=Doble machetazo<br />
|titles=[[Americas Light Heavyweight Championship (Guatemala)]]<br />
|}}<br />
== Notes ==<br />
Faux "Oriental" luchador actually born in Mexico. Heavyweight contender in the 60s who's career lasted thru the 80s.<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[René Guajardo]]|[[Chino Chow]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Cinta de Oro]]|[[Chino Chow]]|Cd Juarez}}<br />
{{aline|[[1965]].[[07.23]]<ref>Lucha Libre 94</ref>|hair|[[Pantera Negra]]|[[Chino Chow]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]}}<br />
{{aline|66/06/12|hair|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Chino Chow]]|[[Monterrey]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1967]].[[12.17]]<ref>http://superluchas.net/2014/12/17/en-un-dia-como-hoy-el-santo-rapo-chino-chow/</ref><br />
|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chino Chow]]|[[Arena Danubio Azul, Tijuana, Baja California]]}}<br />
{{aline|72/??/??|hair|[[Comando I]]|[[Chino Chow]]|Arena coliseo - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|77/05/15|hair|[[As Charro]]|[[Chino Chow]]|Arena Coliseo - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|79/04/22|mask|Nakamura|[[Rey Salvaje]]|[[Acapulco]], [[Guerrero]]}}<br />
{{aline|81/03/25|mask|[[El Solitario]]|Nakamura|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California}}<br />
{{aline|88/03/05|mask|[[Solar]]|[[Chino Chow|Destroyer]]|[[Arena Apatlaco]] - [[Mexico City]]}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery|name=chinochow1964.png|caption=1964}}<br />
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== Source ==<br />
* Destroyer info via [http://www.boxylucha.com/foro/viewtopic.php?p=736489#p736489 ricardo aguilar hidalgo @ box y lucha]<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category: Deceased wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Comando_I&diff=174812Comando I2019-11-08T05:28:35Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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|image=Comandos_1_y_2.jpg<br />
|name=Comando I<br />
|realName=Mauro Rodriguez<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=Comando I <br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=[[Diablo Velasco]]<br />
|birthdate=<br />
|debut=<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Solar I]] & [[Halcon 78]] - [[August 3]], [[1980]] - [[Palacio de los Deportes]], [[Mexico City]]<br />
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{{aline|70's/??/??|hair|Comando I|[[Chino Chow]] |[[???, Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|80/07/27|masks(1)|[[Los Comandos]] [[Comando I|I]] & [[Comando II|II]]|[[White Man]] & [[Satan]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/08/03|mask|[[Solar I]] & [[Halcon 78]]|[[Los Comandos]] [[Comando I|I]] & [[Comando II|II]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aend||<b>(1)</b> Triangle match vs Solar I & Halcon 78}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
[[Category:?]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Comando_I&diff=174811Comando I2019-11-08T05:27:45Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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|image=Comandos_1_y_2.jpg<br />
|name=Comando I<br />
|realName=Mauro Rodriguez<br />
|nicknames=<br />
|nameHistory=Comando I <br />
|family=<br />
|maestro=[[Diablo Velasco]]<br />
|birthdate=<br />
|debut=<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Solar I]] & [[Halcon 78]] - [[August 3]], [[1980]] - [[Palacio de los Deportes]], [[Mexico City]]<br />
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{{aline|80/??/??|hair|Comando I|[[Chino Chow]] |[[???, Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|80/07/27|masks(1)|[[Los Comandos]] [[Comando I|I]] & [[Comando II|II]]|[[White Man]] & [[Satan]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/08/03|mask|[[Solar I]] & [[Halcon 78]]|[[Los Comandos]] [[Comando I|I]] & [[Comando II|II]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes Mexico City]]}}<br />
{{aend||<b>(1)</b> Triangle match vs Solar I & Halcon 78}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
[[Category:?]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Enrique_Vera&diff=174043Enrique Vera2019-10-20T03:22:47Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Luchas de apuestas record */</p>
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<div>== Profile ==<br />
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{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Enrique_vera.jpg<br />
|name=Enrique Vera<br />
|realName=Enrique Vera Rodríguez<br />
|nicknames=El León de Occidente (Occidental Lion)<br />
|nameHistory=Enrique Vera (debut - ), Hombre de Negro (AAA), The Bronx (AAA), Darkness (AAA, 2003)<br />
|family=[[The Killer|The Killer/Luis Vera]] (brother), [[Enrique Vera Jr.]] (son)<br />
|maestro=[[Diablo Velazco]]<br />
|birthdate=[[October 21]], [[1948]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|debut=[[February 24]], [[1968]] - [[Lagos de Moreno]], [[Jalisco]]<br />
|lostmaskto=<br />
|height=6'0"/182 cms<br />
|weight=220 lbs/100 kg<br />
|signatureMoves= quebradora del leon, enredadera<br />
|titles=[[Occidente Light Heavyweight Championship]], [[National Light Heavyweight Title]] (2), San Francisco NWA World Tag Team Title (w/ Ron Starr), [[UWA World Heavyweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Heavyweight Title]] (3), [[WWA World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[Mexican National Heavyweight Championship]]<br />
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== Biography == <br />
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{{aline|80s-70s?|hair|Enrique Vera|[[El Signo]]|uknown}}<br />
{{aline|90's/??/??|hair|Enrique Vera|[[El Zar]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|Enrique Vera|[[Indio Jeronimo]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|??/??/??|hairs|[[Dr. Wagner]] & [[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Pantera Negra]] & Enrique Vera|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|75/12/05|hair (1)|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[Alfonso Dantés]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|76/06/27|hair|[[Gran Markus]]|[[Enrique Vera]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|77/11/18|hair|[[Herodes]]|[[Enrique Vera]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|81/04/06|hair|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[Eric Embry]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|81/06/07|hair|[[Gran Hamada]], Enrique Vera & [[Kobayashi]]|[[El Signo]], [[El Texano]] & [[Negro Navarro]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|82/[[September 5|09/05]]|mask/hair (2)|[[Kiss]] & Enrique Vera|[[Charro de Jalisco/Barba Negra|Charro de Jalisco]] & [[El Olímpico (original)|El Olímpico]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|83/??/??|mask|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[Scorpio]]|Puerto Rico}}<br />
{{aline|87/08/??|hair|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[Luis Mariscal]]|Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|90/03/04|hair|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[El Signo]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|91/[[September 25|09/25]]|mask|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[El Zar]]|Leon, Guanajuato}}<br />
{{aline|92/03/01|hair|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[La Muerte (UWA)|La Muerte]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}<br />
{{aline|95/08/20|hair|Enrique Vera|[[Popitekus]]|Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|96/12/13|hair|[[El Brazo]]|[[Enrique Vera]]|Arena Xochimilco - Xochimilco, Mexico City}}<br />
{{aline|99/10/31|hair|[[Sangre Chicana]]|[[Enrique Vera]]|Nuevo Laredo, Tamps.}}<br />
{{aline|06/07/04|hair|Enrique Vera|[[Titan Jr.]]|Arena Juba - Reynosa, Tamaulipas}}<br />
{{aline|08/05/10|hair|Enrique Vera|[[Cuchillo]]|Arena Nueva Aragon - Mexico, City}}<br />
{{aline|10/11/14|hair|Enrique Vera|[[Cuchillo]]|Arena Nueva Aragon - Mexico, City}}<br />
{{aline|10/13/18|hair|[[Enrique Vera]]|[[Verdugo]]|[[Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera]]}}<br />
{{aend|<b>(1)</b> Triangle match w/ El Halcón; <b>(2)</b> Santo retirement ruleta}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
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{{Gallery|name=mexheavy_enriquevera.jpg|caption=[[Mexican National Heavyweight Championship|Mex Heavy Champ]]}}<br />
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{{Gallery|name=Asesinos.jpg|caption=with [[Andy Barrow]] & [[The Killer]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=veraperro.jpg|caption=Biting [[Perro Aguayo]]}}<br />
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[[Category:Former AAA/PAP wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Former IWRG wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Enrique_Vera_Jr.&diff=174042Enrique Vera Jr.2019-10-20T03:18:37Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: </p>
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<div>{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Leon y cachorro vera.jpg<br />
|name=Enrique Vera Jr.<br />
|realName=<br />
|nicknames= Cachorro de occidente<br />
|nameHistory=Hijo de Enrique Vera, Enrique Vera Jr.<br />
|family=[[Enrique Vera]] (father) [[The Killer]] (uncle), [[Enrique Vera Jr. (Original)]] (brother) <br />
|maestro=[[Enrique Vera]], [[Satanico]], [[Gran Cochisse]], [[Franco Colombo]], [[Arkangel de la Muerte]]<br />
|birthdate=[[May 17]], [[1988]]<br />
|debut=[[January 13]], [[2008]]<br />
|height=177 cm/5' 10"<br />
|weight=90 kg/198 lb<br />
|obituarydate=<br />
|signatureMoves=[[Quebradora del León]], [[Enredera]]<br />
|titles=|}}<br />
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Debuted in 2008 and spent a few years accompanying his father on independent shows along with a short run in [[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara]]. Enrique Sr.'s career came to an end (again), and Junior immediately turned up in CMLL. Part of [[Generación 2011]]. Made few appearances from the end of 2011 to the start of 2012, and disappeared from the promotion in early March. His father has started wrestling again, so it's possible he's just back in small indies.<br />
Now he is retired after a short wrestling career. He is dedicated to his other job.<br />
== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
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{{aline|12/10/2008|mask|Enrique Vera Jr.|[[Black Terror]]|[[Deportivo el Paraiso]]}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]][[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Rayo_de_Jalisco&diff=173648Rayo de Jalisco2019-10-07T04:50:44Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Gallery */</p>
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<div>__NOTOC__<br />
== Profile ==<br />
{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Rayodejalisco.jpg<br />
|name=Rayo de Jalisco <br />
|realName=Máximino "Max" Linares Moreno <br />
|nicknames=none <br />
|nameHistory=Mr. Misterio (50 - ??), Águila Negra, Dr. Curtis (08/54 - 57), Tony Curtis (57), El Rayo (?? - ?? /57), Rayo de Jalisco (03/58 - retirement) <br />
|family=[[Tony Sugar|Tony]] and [[Black Sugar]] (brothers), [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]] (son), [[Mitzuki Wong]] (daughter-in-law), [[Rayman]] (grandson), [[Ultra Rayo]] (nephew), [[Mister Rayo]] (nephew), [[Rayo Star]] (nephew) <br />
|maestro=[[Tony Sugar]]<br />
|birthdate=[[November 22]], [[1932]] - [[Milpa Alta]], [[Mexico City]]<br />
|obituarydate=[[July 19]], [[2018]]<br />
|debut=[[1950]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Blue Demon]] - [[July 30]], [[1989]] - [[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]<br />
|height=5'7"<br />
|weight=205 lbs<br />
|signatureMoves=[[Tope en reversa]]<br />
|titles=[[Occidente Welterweight Championship]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (3), [[National Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[El Santo]])<br />
}}<br />
{{WONHOF}}<br />
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== Biography == <br />
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Maximino Linares Moreno is the real name of the man who gave life to Rayo de Jalico for more than 30 years. Máx Linares was born [[November 22]], [[1932]] around [[Milpa Alta]]. When he turned 18, and was now living in Tulancingo, Linares decided to become a wrestler, and ended up becoming a legend.<br />
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=== pre-Rayo de Jalisco career===<br />
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As with many luchadores Máx. Linares wrestled under other identites before his famous one. He debuted in [[Feburary]] [[1950]] as Mr. Misterio, then changed to Aduila Negro when wrestling in Mexico City. By 1954, he was in [[Torreón]], having been taught by his brother [[Tony Sugar]] and then under the name as Dr. Curtis. Linares changed his name once again in 1957, becoming Tony Curtis when he moved to Guadlajara.<br />
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In 1960, Linares moved to [[Aguascalientes]] took the [[el Rayo]] name, and actually became Rayo de Jalisco outside of Jalisco (in [[Juarez]]); he wasn't legally allowed to use the name in Guadalajara (though he did in 1962) because another wrestler (Fili Espinoza) owned the rights. Fili eventually gave the rights to the name, and Rayo de Jalisco offically debuted in Coliseo Tapatia against el Enfermero in 1962.<br />
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=== Career Highlights ===<br />
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Rayo de Jalisco immediatly was succesful, winning the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship]] and [[Occidente Welterweight Championship]] quickly. Rayo won his first hair, [[Chino Chow]] and defeated rival [[La Bestia]] for his mask by 1964. Rayo formed a popular tag team with [[Blue Demon]] and was named best wrestler of 1963.<br />
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Rayo was famous for his reverse tope, and was among the top stars of his era. His fame could be compared to [[Santo]], [[Blue Demon]], and [[Black Shadow]]. Like many other stars, he appeared in movies (including [[Superzam el Invencible (1971)]], [[El Robo de las Momias de Guanajuato (1972)]], [[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]] and [[El Triunfo de los Campeones Justicieros (1974)]]. Rayo was an exciting wrestler and a regional hero. Most believed he was a Jalisco-born wrestler who'd gone onto great success.<br />
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=== End of Career ===<br />
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Rayo de Jalisco feuded with [[Blue Demon]] near the end of both their careers. Demon was actually retired before Rayo drew him back in the ring for a big mask match between the two. Rayo was defeated, revealing himself to the world as Maximino Linares Moreno, and wrestled a few matches unmasked before retiring.<br />
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Rayo de Jalisco is still remembered today, based on his success and his son, [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]]<br />
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His last Lucha was in Guadalajara Dec 27 1992 teaming with Rayo de Jalisco JR. Mil Máscaras and Dos Caras vs Villano III, Satanico ,Killer w/ Andy Barrow and Bestia Salvaje.<br />
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''Partial Source'': Biografias de Leyenda<br />
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== Spanish Version (original) ==<br />
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Maximino Linares Moreno es el nombre real del hombre que le dio vida por casi mas de 30 años al Personaje del RAYO DE JALISCO... Máx. Linares Nació un 22 de noviembre de 1932 en las cercanías de Milpa Alta, Distrito Federal y apenas a los 18 años, en Tulancingo, había decidido nacer para la Lucha Libre, un deporte que abrazaría por siempre y en el cual se tornaría en una Leyenda. <br />
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Antes de convertirse en el Rayo de Jalisco... Paso por varios Nombres <br />
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===pre-carrera===<br />
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Es muy común que haya casos en que un Luchador al inicio de su carrera lo haga con un nombre diferente al que le de la fama, y Don Máx. linares no fue la excepción, pues en febrero de 1950 debutaba ya con el nombre de MISTER MISTERIO, posteriormente en la cuidad de México debuto bajo el nombre de AGUILA NEGRA. Para 1954, se presenta en Torreón, luego de haber afinado sus conocimientos bajo tutela de su propio hermano (también Luchador) TONY SUGAR, enfrentando a Ricardo Chávez y utilizando el nombre de DR CURTIS. <br />
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Ahora si Nace El Rayo... Pero de Jalisco???? <br />
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En 1957 Debuta en Guadalajara como TONY CURTIS, pero 3 años mas tarde, en el año de 1960, fue bautizado en Aguascalientes como el RAYO y finalmente, en 1961 en Cd Juárez, utilizo ya el nombre completo de RAYO DE JALISCO. <br />
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Esa fue la prehistoria, para 1962 se presenta en Guadalajara, pero le prohibieron ponerse de Jalisco, dado que había un luchador colimense, Fili Espinoza, que ya portaba ese nombre. Finalmente Fili le accede el nombre y el nuevo Rayo de Jalisco debuta en ese mismo año en la Coliseo Tapatía frente al ENFERMERO. Este fue considerado su debut oficial con ese nombre y ese fue el comienzo de un camino deportivo que solo le depararía éxitos y Máx. ya comenzaba a construir su propia Leyenda. <br />
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Campeonatos, Mascaras y Cabelleras <br />
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===sus logros===<br />
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A partir de ese momento el Rayo de Jalisco comenzó a cosechar triunfos, el primero de ellos fue el Campeonato Welter y Campeonato Medio de Occidente, siendo 1963 el año de su consagración, ya que sucesivamente obtuvo una serie de triunfos muy sonados: la cabellera de CHINO CHOW, además de que en su camino se le atravesó un Enmascarado Negro que a toda costa quiso destapar al Percusor sino es que el inventor del tope en Reversa, este contrincante duro se hacia llamar LA BESTIA, quien vio caer su tapa ante el Hombre de la mascara con un Rayo en frente, formo una gran dupla con quien irónicamente 26 años mas tarde perdería su mascara!!!: El Gran Manotas; BLUE DEMON, gano el Campeonato Mundial de Peso Medio de la NWA destronando a RENE COPETES GUAJARDO y fue designado como el Mejor LUCHADOR de 1963. <br />
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De ahí nadie pudo detener su vertiginosa carrera de racha triunfal, sus inolvidables topes en reversa y en serie hacían de El Rayo de Jalisco un luchador casi invencible, pues todos quedaban noqueados en la lona cuando don Máx. Linares les conectaba un tope en pleno rostro o en el pecho, formo sociedad con la máxima leyenda de la lucha como es el SANTO, su fama fue tal que ha sido considerado una gran Leyenda solo comparada con el mismo SANTO, BLUE DEMON Y BLACK SHADOW, además con el mismo MIL MASCARAS con quien compartió créditos en varias de sus películas, una de ellas LOS CAMPEONES JUSTICIEROS, además de haber recreado una de las incógnitas mas apasionantes de la lucha libre, y como dato adicional de este gladiador; es que en su nombre de batalla defendia un Estado del cual ironicamente no era oriundo y mucha gente creyo por años que el Rayo si era de Jalisco. <br />
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Cae la Mascara del Rayo... Pero no su Leyenda!!!! <br />
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===hacia el final===<br />
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Durante un Homenaje a Blue Demon, el Rayo tuvo serias diferencias con el, a tal grado de apostarle la mascara al recién retirado Demonio Azul, quien no rehusó al reto y fue así como un domingo 30 de julio de 1989 y ante un lleno impresionante en la Monumental Monterrey; El Gran Rayo de Jalisco pierde su cotizada mascara frente al Manotas; dos grandes Luchadores de todos los tiempos chocaron y fue así como conocimos que quien se escondía por mas de 20 años tras la mascara Negra con un rayo cruzado era Maximino Linares Moreno... Quien después de perder su mascara lucho poco y se retiro, pero lejos de quedarse en el olvido se convirtió en lo que es hasta ahora: una Leyenda...<br />
Su última Lucha fue en Guadalajara Dec 27 1992 acompañado de Rayo de Jalisco JR. Mil Máscaras and Dos Caras vs Villano III, Satanico ,Killer w/ Andy Barrow and Bestia Salvaje.<br />
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===La historia continua...===<br />
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Una Leyenda que, por ello, no muere para siempre, pues sus hazañas quedaran grabadas en la historia y en el corazón de los aficionados. Un nombre de prosapia que subsiste, gracias a quien, sin equivocarse le heredo nombre y mascara, RAYO DE JALISCO JR, quien lo sigue portando con dignidad, orgullo y brillantez... Así como sus famosos topes en Reversa... Inolvidables!!! <br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
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{{aline|54/12/12|mask|[[Orlando Santa Cruz]]|[[Rayo de Jalisco|Doc Curtis]]|[[Plaza de Toros Valente Arellano, Torreón, Coahuila]]}}<br />
{{aline|63/??/??|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[La Máscara (1960s)]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|64/08/21|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[La Bestia]]|[[Arena Mexico]]<ref>[http://superluchas.com/2015/08/21/en-un-dia-como-hoy-1964-hace-51-anos-debuto-profesionalmente-mil-mascaras-1970-fallece-en-la-ciudad-de-mexico-el-gran-mishima-ota/ SuperLuchas]</ref>}}<br />
{{aline|66/06/12|hair|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Chino Chow]]|[[Monterrey]]}}<br />
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Guerrero Negro (1960s)]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Luis Mariscal|Mr. Sangre]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|78/[[September 17|09/17]]|masks|Rayo de Jalisco & [[Huracán Ramírez]]|[[Los Hermanos Muerte]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|89/07/05|hair|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Scorpio]]|Plaza de toros Monumental,Monterrey,NL}}<br />
{{aline|89/07/30|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery||name=nwamw2_rayodejalisco.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA Middle]] champ, [[1963]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Portada617.jpg |caption=mask match, [[1964]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_sr.jpg |caption=[[1971]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayosr.jpg |caption=cover, [[1970]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_de_jalisco_sr_.jpg|caption=[[1970]]}}<br />
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{{Gallery||name=Rayo_de_jalisco.JPG |caption=[[1972]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=RayoCJ.JPG|caption=[[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayoblue.jpg |caption=[[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayodejalisco9.jpg|caption=[[1974]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Mrsangre.jpg|caption=unmasking [[Mr.Sangre]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=00wwewcw3841600x1200.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayoyelmonarca.jpg|caption=w/[[El Monarca]], 1979}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=RAH.jpg |caption=in [[Toreo el Cuatro Caminos|El Toreo]], w/[[Huracan Ramirez]] & [[Anibal]], [[1980]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayoymanonegra.JPG |caption=w/[[Mano Negra]], [[1982]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=LuchaLibre-1222-RayodeJalisco-RayodeJaliscoJr.jpg|caption=w/[[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.|Rayo Jr.]], [[1987]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Imagen061.jpg|caption=w/[[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.|Rayo Jr.]], [[1989]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Raymil.jpg|caption= Lucha de despedida en Guadalajara w/[[Mil Máscaras]], [[1992]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Donmax.JPG |caption=[[1998]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=RAYO_MAX.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=MAX_LINARES.jpg|caption=Rayo sr 2001}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Maxlinares.jpg|caption= homenaje}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Imagen 29.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Doc Curtis.jpg|caption=unmasked as Dr. Curtis}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=cartelera.png |caption=Rayo de Jalisco en lucha semifinal,1960}}<br />
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Rayo_de_Jalisco&diff=173646Rayo de Jalisco2019-10-07T04:48:19Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Profile */</p>
<hr />
<div>__NOTOC__<br />
== Profile ==<br />
{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Rayodejalisco.jpg<br />
|name=Rayo de Jalisco <br />
|realName=Máximino "Max" Linares Moreno <br />
|nicknames=none <br />
|nameHistory=Mr. Misterio (50 - ??), Águila Negra, Dr. Curtis (08/54 - 57), Tony Curtis (57), El Rayo (?? - ?? /57), Rayo de Jalisco (03/58 - retirement) <br />
|family=[[Tony Sugar|Tony]] and [[Black Sugar]] (brothers), [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]] (son), [[Mitzuki Wong]] (daughter-in-law), [[Rayman]] (grandson), [[Ultra Rayo]] (nephew), [[Mister Rayo]] (nephew), [[Rayo Star]] (nephew) <br />
|maestro=[[Tony Sugar]]<br />
|birthdate=[[November 22]], [[1932]] - [[Milpa Alta]], [[Mexico City]]<br />
|obituarydate=[[July 19]], [[2018]]<br />
|debut=[[1950]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Blue Demon]] - [[July 30]], [[1989]] - [[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]<br />
|height=5'7"<br />
|weight=205 lbs<br />
|signatureMoves=[[Tope en reversa]]<br />
|titles=[[Occidente Welterweight Championship]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (3), [[National Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[El Santo]])<br />
}}<br />
{{WONHOF}}<br />
<br />
== Biography == <br />
<br />
Maximino Linares Moreno is the real name of the man who gave life to Rayo de Jalico for more than 30 years. Máx Linares was born [[November 22]], [[1932]] around [[Milpa Alta]]. When he turned 18, and was now living in Tulancingo, Linares decided to become a wrestler, and ended up becoming a legend.<br />
<br />
=== pre-Rayo de Jalisco career===<br />
<br />
As with many luchadores Máx. Linares wrestled under other identites before his famous one. He debuted in [[Feburary]] [[1950]] as Mr. Misterio, then changed to Aduila Negro when wrestling in Mexico City. By 1954, he was in [[Torreón]], having been taught by his brother [[Tony Sugar]] and then under the name as Dr. Curtis. Linares changed his name once again in 1957, becoming Tony Curtis when he moved to Guadlajara.<br />
<br />
In 1960, Linares moved to [[Aguascalientes]] took the [[el Rayo]] name, and actually became Rayo de Jalisco outside of Jalisco (in [[Juarez]]); he wasn't legally allowed to use the name in Guadalajara (though he did in 1962) because another wrestler (Fili Espinoza) owned the rights. Fili eventually gave the rights to the name, and Rayo de Jalisco offically debuted in Coliseo Tapatia against el Enfermero in 1962.<br />
<br />
=== Career Highlights ===<br />
<br />
Rayo de Jalisco immediatly was succesful, winning the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship]] and [[Occidente Welterweight Championship]] quickly. Rayo won his first hair, [[Chino Chow]] and defeated rival [[La Bestia]] for his mask by 1964. Rayo formed a popular tag team with [[Blue Demon]] and was named best wrestler of 1963.<br />
<br />
Rayo was famous for his reverse tope, and was among the top stars of his era. His fame could be compared to [[Santo]], [[Blue Demon]], and [[Black Shadow]]. Like many other stars, he appeared in movies (including [[Superzam el Invencible (1971)]], [[El Robo de las Momias de Guanajuato (1972)]], [[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]] and [[El Triunfo de los Campeones Justicieros (1974)]]. Rayo was an exciting wrestler and a regional hero. Most believed he was a Jalisco-born wrestler who'd gone onto great success.<br />
<br />
=== End of Career ===<br />
<br />
Rayo de Jalisco feuded with [[Blue Demon]] near the end of both their careers. Demon was actually retired before Rayo drew him back in the ring for a big mask match between the two. Rayo was defeated, revealing himself to the world as Maximino Linares Moreno, and wrestled a few matches unmasked before retiring.<br />
<br />
Rayo de Jalisco is still remembered today, based on his success and his son, [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]]<br />
<br />
His last Lucha was in Guadalajara Dec 27 1992 teaming with Rayo de Jalisco JR. Mil Máscaras and Dos Caras vs Villano III, Satanico ,Killer w/ Andy Barrow and Bestia Salvaje.<br />
<br />
''Partial Source'': Biografias de Leyenda<br />
<br />
== Spanish Version (original) ==<br />
<br />
Maximino Linares Moreno es el nombre real del hombre que le dio vida por casi mas de 30 años al Personaje del RAYO DE JALISCO... Máx. Linares Nació un 22 de noviembre de 1932 en las cercanías de Milpa Alta, Distrito Federal y apenas a los 18 años, en Tulancingo, había decidido nacer para la Lucha Libre, un deporte que abrazaría por siempre y en el cual se tornaría en una Leyenda. <br />
<br />
Antes de convertirse en el Rayo de Jalisco... Paso por varios Nombres <br />
<br />
===pre-carrera===<br />
<br />
Es muy común que haya casos en que un Luchador al inicio de su carrera lo haga con un nombre diferente al que le de la fama, y Don Máx. linares no fue la excepción, pues en febrero de 1950 debutaba ya con el nombre de MISTER MISTERIO, posteriormente en la cuidad de México debuto bajo el nombre de AGUILA NEGRA. Para 1954, se presenta en Torreón, luego de haber afinado sus conocimientos bajo tutela de su propio hermano (también Luchador) TONY SUGAR, enfrentando a Ricardo Chávez y utilizando el nombre de DR CURTIS. <br />
<br />
Ahora si Nace El Rayo... Pero de Jalisco???? <br />
<br />
En 1957 Debuta en Guadalajara como TONY CURTIS, pero 3 años mas tarde, en el año de 1960, fue bautizado en Aguascalientes como el RAYO y finalmente, en 1961 en Cd Juárez, utilizo ya el nombre completo de RAYO DE JALISCO. <br />
<br />
Esa fue la prehistoria, para 1962 se presenta en Guadalajara, pero le prohibieron ponerse de Jalisco, dado que había un luchador colimense, Fili Espinoza, que ya portaba ese nombre. Finalmente Fili le accede el nombre y el nuevo Rayo de Jalisco debuta en ese mismo año en la Coliseo Tapatía frente al ENFERMERO. Este fue considerado su debut oficial con ese nombre y ese fue el comienzo de un camino deportivo que solo le depararía éxitos y Máx. ya comenzaba a construir su propia Leyenda. <br />
<br />
Campeonatos, Mascaras y Cabelleras <br />
<br />
===sus logros===<br />
<br />
A partir de ese momento el Rayo de Jalisco comenzó a cosechar triunfos, el primero de ellos fue el Campeonato Welter y Campeonato Medio de Occidente, siendo 1963 el año de su consagración, ya que sucesivamente obtuvo una serie de triunfos muy sonados: la cabellera de CHINO CHOW, además de que en su camino se le atravesó un Enmascarado Negro que a toda costa quiso destapar al Percusor sino es que el inventor del tope en Reversa, este contrincante duro se hacia llamar LA BESTIA, quien vio caer su tapa ante el Hombre de la mascara con un Rayo en frente, formo una gran dupla con quien irónicamente 26 años mas tarde perdería su mascara!!!: El Gran Manotas; BLUE DEMON, gano el Campeonato Mundial de Peso Medio de la NWA destronando a RENE COPETES GUAJARDO y fue designado como el Mejor LUCHADOR de 1963. <br />
<br />
De ahí nadie pudo detener su vertiginosa carrera de racha triunfal, sus inolvidables topes en reversa y en serie hacían de El Rayo de Jalisco un luchador casi invencible, pues todos quedaban noqueados en la lona cuando don Máx. Linares les conectaba un tope en pleno rostro o en el pecho, formo sociedad con la máxima leyenda de la lucha como es el SANTO, su fama fue tal que ha sido considerado una gran Leyenda solo comparada con el mismo SANTO, BLUE DEMON Y BLACK SHADOW, además con el mismo MIL MASCARAS con quien compartió créditos en varias de sus películas, una de ellas LOS CAMPEONES JUSTICIEROS, además de haber recreado una de las incógnitas mas apasionantes de la lucha libre, y como dato adicional de este gladiador; es que en su nombre de batalla defendia un Estado del cual ironicamente no era oriundo y mucha gente creyo por años que el Rayo si era de Jalisco. <br />
<br />
Cae la Mascara del Rayo... Pero no su Leyenda!!!! <br />
<br />
===hacia el final===<br />
<br />
Durante un Homenaje a Blue Demon, el Rayo tuvo serias diferencias con el, a tal grado de apostarle la mascara al recién retirado Demonio Azul, quien no rehusó al reto y fue así como un domingo 30 de julio de 1989 y ante un lleno impresionante en la Monumental Monterrey; El Gran Rayo de Jalisco pierde su cotizada mascara frente al Manotas; dos grandes Luchadores de todos los tiempos chocaron y fue así como conocimos que quien se escondía por mas de 20 años tras la mascara Negra con un rayo cruzado era Maximino Linares Moreno... Quien después de perder su mascara lucho poco y se retiro, pero lejos de quedarse en el olvido se convirtió en lo que es hasta ahora: una Leyenda...<br />
Su última Lucha fue en Guadalajara Dec 27 1992 acompañado de Rayo de Jalisco JR. Mil Máscaras and Dos Caras vs Villano III, Satanico ,Killer w/ Andy Barrow and Bestia Salvaje.<br />
<br />
===La historia continua...===<br />
<br />
Una Leyenda que, por ello, no muere para siempre, pues sus hazañas quedaran grabadas en la historia y en el corazón de los aficionados. Un nombre de prosapia que subsiste, gracias a quien, sin equivocarse le heredo nombre y mascara, RAYO DE JALISCO JR, quien lo sigue portando con dignidad, orgullo y brillantez... Así como sus famosos topes en Reversa... Inolvidables!!! <br />
<br />
fuentes tomadas de biografias de leyendas<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
{{astart}}<br />
{{aline|54/12/12|mask|[[Orlando Santa Cruz]]|[[Rayo de Jalisco|Doc Curtis]]|[[Plaza de Toros Valente Arellano, Torreón, Coahuila]]}}<br />
{{aline|63/??/??|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[La Máscara (1960s)]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|64/08/21|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[La Bestia]]|[[Arena Mexico]]<ref>[http://superluchas.com/2015/08/21/en-un-dia-como-hoy-1964-hace-51-anos-debuto-profesionalmente-mil-mascaras-1970-fallece-en-la-ciudad-de-mexico-el-gran-mishima-ota/ SuperLuchas]</ref>}}<br />
{{aline|66/06/12|hair|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Chino Chow]]|[[Monterrey]]}}<br />
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Guerrero Negro (1960s)]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Luis Mariscal|Mr. Sangre]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|78/[[September 17|09/17]]|masks|Rayo de Jalisco & [[Huracán Ramírez]]|[[Los Hermanos Muerte]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|89/07/05|hair|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Scorpio]]|Plaza de toros Monumental,Monterrey,NL}}<br />
{{aline|89/07/30|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}<br />
{{aend|}}<br />
<br />
== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery||name=nwamw2_rayodejalisco.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA Middle]] champ, [[1963]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Portada617.jpg |caption=mask match, [[1964]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_sr.jpg |caption=[[1971]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayosr.jpg |caption=cover, [[1970]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_de_jalisco_sr_.jpg|caption=[[1970]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=50074557.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_de_jalisco.JPG |caption=[[1972]]}}<br />
<br clear=all><br />
{{Gallery||name=RayoCJ.JPG|caption=[[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayoblue.jpg |caption=[[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayodejalisco9.jpg|caption=[[1974]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Mrsangre.jpg|caption=unmasking [[Mr.Sangre]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=00wwewcw3841600x1200.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayoyelmonarca.jpg|caption=w/[[El Monarca]], 1979}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=RAH.jpg |caption=in [[Toreo el Cuatro Caminos|El Toreo]], w/[[Huracan Ramirez]] & [[Anibal]], [[1980]]}}<br />
<br clear=all><br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayoymanonegra.JPG |caption=w/[[Mano Negra]], [[1982]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=LuchaLibre-1222-RayodeJalisco-RayodeJaliscoJr.jpg|caption=w/[[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.|Rayo Jr.]], [[1987]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Imagen061.jpg|caption=w/[[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.|Rayo Jr.]], [[1989]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Raymil.jpg|caption= Lucha de despedida en Guadalajara w/[[Mil Máscaras]], [[1992]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Donmax.JPG |caption=[[1998]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=RAYO_MAX.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=MAX_LINARES.jpg|caption=Rayo sr 2001}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Maxlinares.jpg|caption= homenaje}}<br />
<br clear=all><br />
{{Gallery||name=Imagen 29.jpg|caption=}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Doc Curtis.jpg|caption=unmasked as Dr. Curtis}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=cartelera.png |caption=Rayo de Jalisco en lucha semifinal,1960}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]<br />
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]</div>Heroe de leyendahttp://www.luchawiki.org/index.php?title=Rayo_de_Jalisco&diff=173644Rayo de Jalisco2019-10-07T04:47:34Z<p>Heroe de leyenda: /* Gallery */</p>
<hr />
<div>__NOTOC__<br />
== Profile ==<br />
{{bioFields|<br />
|image=Rayodejalisco.jpg<br />
|name=Rayo de Jalisco <br />
|realName=Máximino "Max" Linares Moreno <br />
|nicknames=none <br />
|nameHistory=Mr. Misterio (50 - ??), Águila Negra, Dr. Curtis (08/54 - 57), Tony Curtis (57), El Rayo (?? - 03/58), Rayo de Jalisco (03/58 - retirement) <br />
|family=[[Tony Sugar|Tony]] and [[Black Sugar]] (brothers), [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]] (son), [[Mitzuki Wong]] (daughter-in-law), [[Rayman]] (grandson), [[Ultra Rayo]] (nephew), [[Mister Rayo]] (nephew), [[Rayo Star]] (nephew) <br />
|maestro=[[Tony Sugar]]<br />
|birthdate=[[November 22]], [[1932]] - [[Milpa Alta]], [[Mexico City]]<br />
|obituarydate=[[July 19]], [[2018]]<br />
|debut=[[1950]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]<br />
|lostmaskto=[[Blue Demon]] - [[July 30]], [[1989]] - [[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]<br />
|height=5'7"<br />
|weight=205 lbs<br />
|signatureMoves=[[Tope en reversa]]<br />
|titles=[[Occidente Welterweight Championship]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (3), [[National Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[El Santo]])<br />
}}<br />
{{WONHOF}}<br />
<br />
== Biography == <br />
<br />
Maximino Linares Moreno is the real name of the man who gave life to Rayo de Jalico for more than 30 years. Máx Linares was born [[November 22]], [[1932]] around [[Milpa Alta]]. When he turned 18, and was now living in Tulancingo, Linares decided to become a wrestler, and ended up becoming a legend.<br />
<br />
=== pre-Rayo de Jalisco career===<br />
<br />
As with many luchadores Máx. Linares wrestled under other identites before his famous one. He debuted in [[Feburary]] [[1950]] as Mr. Misterio, then changed to Aduila Negro when wrestling in Mexico City. By 1954, he was in [[Torreón]], having been taught by his brother [[Tony Sugar]] and then under the name as Dr. Curtis. Linares changed his name once again in 1957, becoming Tony Curtis when he moved to Guadlajara.<br />
<br />
In 1960, Linares moved to [[Aguascalientes]] took the [[el Rayo]] name, and actually became Rayo de Jalisco outside of Jalisco (in [[Juarez]]); he wasn't legally allowed to use the name in Guadalajara (though he did in 1962) because another wrestler (Fili Espinoza) owned the rights. Fili eventually gave the rights to the name, and Rayo de Jalisco offically debuted in Coliseo Tapatia against el Enfermero in 1962.<br />
<br />
=== Career Highlights ===<br />
<br />
Rayo de Jalisco immediatly was succesful, winning the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship]] and [[Occidente Welterweight Championship]] quickly. Rayo won his first hair, [[Chino Chow]] and defeated rival [[La Bestia]] for his mask by 1964. Rayo formed a popular tag team with [[Blue Demon]] and was named best wrestler of 1963.<br />
<br />
Rayo was famous for his reverse tope, and was among the top stars of his era. His fame could be compared to [[Santo]], [[Blue Demon]], and [[Black Shadow]]. Like many other stars, he appeared in movies (including [[Superzam el Invencible (1971)]], [[El Robo de las Momias de Guanajuato (1972)]], [[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]] and [[El Triunfo de los Campeones Justicieros (1974)]]. Rayo was an exciting wrestler and a regional hero. Most believed he was a Jalisco-born wrestler who'd gone onto great success.<br />
<br />
=== End of Career ===<br />
<br />
Rayo de Jalisco feuded with [[Blue Demon]] near the end of both their careers. Demon was actually retired before Rayo drew him back in the ring for a big mask match between the two. Rayo was defeated, revealing himself to the world as Maximino Linares Moreno, and wrestled a few matches unmasked before retiring.<br />
<br />
Rayo de Jalisco is still remembered today, based on his success and his son, [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]]<br />
<br />
His last Lucha was in Guadalajara Dec 27 1992 teaming with Rayo de Jalisco JR. Mil Máscaras and Dos Caras vs Villano III, Satanico ,Killer w/ Andy Barrow and Bestia Salvaje.<br />
<br />
''Partial Source'': Biografias de Leyenda<br />
<br />
== Spanish Version (original) ==<br />
<br />
Maximino Linares Moreno es el nombre real del hombre que le dio vida por casi mas de 30 años al Personaje del RAYO DE JALISCO... Máx. Linares Nació un 22 de noviembre de 1932 en las cercanías de Milpa Alta, Distrito Federal y apenas a los 18 años, en Tulancingo, había decidido nacer para la Lucha Libre, un deporte que abrazaría por siempre y en el cual se tornaría en una Leyenda. <br />
<br />
Antes de convertirse en el Rayo de Jalisco... Paso por varios Nombres <br />
<br />
===pre-carrera===<br />
<br />
Es muy común que haya casos en que un Luchador al inicio de su carrera lo haga con un nombre diferente al que le de la fama, y Don Máx. linares no fue la excepción, pues en febrero de 1950 debutaba ya con el nombre de MISTER MISTERIO, posteriormente en la cuidad de México debuto bajo el nombre de AGUILA NEGRA. Para 1954, se presenta en Torreón, luego de haber afinado sus conocimientos bajo tutela de su propio hermano (también Luchador) TONY SUGAR, enfrentando a Ricardo Chávez y utilizando el nombre de DR CURTIS. <br />
<br />
Ahora si Nace El Rayo... Pero de Jalisco???? <br />
<br />
En 1957 Debuta en Guadalajara como TONY CURTIS, pero 3 años mas tarde, en el año de 1960, fue bautizado en Aguascalientes como el RAYO y finalmente, en 1961 en Cd Juárez, utilizo ya el nombre completo de RAYO DE JALISCO. <br />
<br />
Esa fue la prehistoria, para 1962 se presenta en Guadalajara, pero le prohibieron ponerse de Jalisco, dado que había un luchador colimense, Fili Espinoza, que ya portaba ese nombre. Finalmente Fili le accede el nombre y el nuevo Rayo de Jalisco debuta en ese mismo año en la Coliseo Tapatía frente al ENFERMERO. Este fue considerado su debut oficial con ese nombre y ese fue el comienzo de un camino deportivo que solo le depararía éxitos y Máx. ya comenzaba a construir su propia Leyenda. <br />
<br />
Campeonatos, Mascaras y Cabelleras <br />
<br />
===sus logros===<br />
<br />
A partir de ese momento el Rayo de Jalisco comenzó a cosechar triunfos, el primero de ellos fue el Campeonato Welter y Campeonato Medio de Occidente, siendo 1963 el año de su consagración, ya que sucesivamente obtuvo una serie de triunfos muy sonados: la cabellera de CHINO CHOW, además de que en su camino se le atravesó un Enmascarado Negro que a toda costa quiso destapar al Percusor sino es que el inventor del tope en Reversa, este contrincante duro se hacia llamar LA BESTIA, quien vio caer su tapa ante el Hombre de la mascara con un Rayo en frente, formo una gran dupla con quien irónicamente 26 años mas tarde perdería su mascara!!!: El Gran Manotas; BLUE DEMON, gano el Campeonato Mundial de Peso Medio de la NWA destronando a RENE COPETES GUAJARDO y fue designado como el Mejor LUCHADOR de 1963. <br />
<br />
De ahí nadie pudo detener su vertiginosa carrera de racha triunfal, sus inolvidables topes en reversa y en serie hacían de El Rayo de Jalisco un luchador casi invencible, pues todos quedaban noqueados en la lona cuando don Máx. Linares les conectaba un tope en pleno rostro o en el pecho, formo sociedad con la máxima leyenda de la lucha como es el SANTO, su fama fue tal que ha sido considerado una gran Leyenda solo comparada con el mismo SANTO, BLUE DEMON Y BLACK SHADOW, además con el mismo MIL MASCARAS con quien compartió créditos en varias de sus películas, una de ellas LOS CAMPEONES JUSTICIEROS, además de haber recreado una de las incógnitas mas apasionantes de la lucha libre, y como dato adicional de este gladiador; es que en su nombre de batalla defendia un Estado del cual ironicamente no era oriundo y mucha gente creyo por años que el Rayo si era de Jalisco. <br />
<br />
Cae la Mascara del Rayo... Pero no su Leyenda!!!! <br />
<br />
===hacia el final===<br />
<br />
Durante un Homenaje a Blue Demon, el Rayo tuvo serias diferencias con el, a tal grado de apostarle la mascara al recién retirado Demonio Azul, quien no rehusó al reto y fue así como un domingo 30 de julio de 1989 y ante un lleno impresionante en la Monumental Monterrey; El Gran Rayo de Jalisco pierde su cotizada mascara frente al Manotas; dos grandes Luchadores de todos los tiempos chocaron y fue así como conocimos que quien se escondía por mas de 20 años tras la mascara Negra con un rayo cruzado era Maximino Linares Moreno... Quien después de perder su mascara lucho poco y se retiro, pero lejos de quedarse en el olvido se convirtió en lo que es hasta ahora: una Leyenda...<br />
Su última Lucha fue en Guadalajara Dec 27 1992 acompañado de Rayo de Jalisco JR. Mil Máscaras and Dos Caras vs Villano III, Satanico ,Killer w/ Andy Barrow and Bestia Salvaje.<br />
<br />
===La historia continua...===<br />
<br />
Una Leyenda que, por ello, no muere para siempre, pues sus hazañas quedaran grabadas en la historia y en el corazón de los aficionados. Un nombre de prosapia que subsiste, gracias a quien, sin equivocarse le heredo nombre y mascara, RAYO DE JALISCO JR, quien lo sigue portando con dignidad, orgullo y brillantez... Así como sus famosos topes en Reversa... Inolvidables!!! <br />
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fuentes tomadas de biografias de leyendas<br />
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==<br />
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{{aline|54/12/12|mask|[[Orlando Santa Cruz]]|[[Rayo de Jalisco|Doc Curtis]]|[[Plaza de Toros Valente Arellano, Torreón, Coahuila]]}}<br />
{{aline|63/??/??|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[La Máscara (1960s)]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|64/08/21|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[La Bestia]]|[[Arena Mexico]]<ref>[http://superluchas.com/2015/08/21/en-un-dia-como-hoy-1964-hace-51-anos-debuto-profesionalmente-mil-mascaras-1970-fallece-en-la-ciudad-de-mexico-el-gran-mishima-ota/ SuperLuchas]</ref>}}<br />
{{aline|66/06/12|hair|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Chino Chow]]|[[Monterrey]]}}<br />
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Guerrero Negro (1960s)]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Luis Mariscal|Mr. Sangre]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|78/[[September 17|09/17]]|masks|Rayo de Jalisco & [[Huracán Ramírez]]|[[Los Hermanos Muerte]]|unknown}}<br />
{{aline|89/07/05|hair|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Scorpio]]|Plaza de toros Monumental,Monterrey,NL}}<br />
{{aline|89/07/30|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
{{Gallery||name=nwamw2_rayodejalisco.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA Middle]] champ, [[1963]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Portada617.jpg |caption=mask match, [[1964]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_sr.jpg |caption=[[1971]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayosr.jpg |caption=cover, [[1970]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_de_jalisco_sr_.jpg|caption=[[1970]]}}<br />
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{{Gallery||name=Rayo_de_jalisco.JPG |caption=[[1972]]}}<br />
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{{Gallery||name=RayoCJ.JPG|caption=[[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayoblue.jpg |caption=[[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Rayodejalisco9.jpg|caption=[[1974]]}}<br />
{{Gallery|name=Mrsangre.jpg|caption=unmasking [[Mr.Sangre]]}}<br />
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{{Gallery||name=Rayoyelmonarca.jpg|caption=w/[[El Monarca]], 1979}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=RAH.jpg |caption=in [[Toreo el Cuatro Caminos|El Toreo]], w/[[Huracan Ramirez]] & [[Anibal]], [[1980]]}}<br />
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{{Gallery||name=Rayoymanonegra.JPG |caption=w/[[Mano Negra]], [[1982]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=LuchaLibre-1222-RayodeJalisco-RayodeJaliscoJr.jpg|caption=w/[[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.|Rayo Jr.]], [[1987]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Imagen061.jpg|caption=w/[[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.|Rayo Jr.]], [[1989]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Raymil.jpg|caption= Lucha de despedida en Guadalajara w/[[Mil Máscaras]], [[1992]]}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Donmax.JPG |caption=[[1998]]}}<br />
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{{Gallery||name=MAX_LINARES.jpg|caption=Rayo sr 2001}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=Maxlinares.jpg|caption= homenaje}}<br />
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{{Gallery||name=Doc Curtis.jpg|caption=unmasked as Dr. Curtis}}<br />
{{Gallery||name=cartelera.png |caption=Rayo de Jalisco en lucha semifinal,1960}}<br />
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