Huracán Ramírez

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Huracán Ramírez (Hurricane Ramirez)

Name Huracán Ramírez (Hurricane Ramirez) Real name Daniel García Arteaga Nicknames none Name history Buitre Blanco (debut - ??), Chico/Chamaco García, Huracán Ramírez (?? - retirement) Family Catedrático, Ruddy García & El Demonio Rojo (brothers), El Matemático & Huracán Jr. (nephews) Maestro(s) unknown Birth date, location April 9, 1926 - Mexico City Obituary date Debut, location 1952 Lost mask to Height 5'8"/172 cms Weight 203 lbs/92 kg Signature moves Huracarrana/Huracanrana, Corbata Titles: NWA World Welterweight Title, National Welterweight Title (3), Northern Middleweight Title

Biography

This profile is going to be a bit different than most others you can find on this site because while the others are biographies about a certain wrestler, this one is a bio about a character, even though it will also be mostly based around the man that made the character popular, Daniel García.

Daniel García was born in the 53rd of the Alfareria Street, in the Colonia Morelos from Mexico City. He was the younger of four brothers, and all the other three brothers were wrestlers (La Pantera Roja, Rudy García, El Demonio Rojo), however at first his family didn't let him become a wrestler, so he kept skating (he practiced the sport during 15 years and also was a hockey player) and later became a boxer, but he eventually became a luchador. His pro debut was as El Buitre Blanco (The White Vulture) and he was a rudo. That rookie year was the only rudo stint in his career.

Huracán Ramírez was born as a character in 1952, which is when the first Huracán film, simply called "Huracán" Ramírez, was made. The Huracán character is property of Juan Rodríguez Mass and his father, José "Joselito" Rodríguez, that directed the first Huracán film. The idea was that the character's name would be made out of the name of a natural disaster but it would have a strong Spanish last name. First he was going to be Huracán López, but then it was changed to Ramírez to avoid confusion with Carlos "Tarzán" López, the main draw in Mexico at the time.

The debut of Huracán as an actual pro wrestler was in 1953, in La Arena Mexico, against El Médico Asesino. The first wrestler to be Huracán, was the Spaniard Eduardo Bonada, that ironically was brought to Mexico by Daniel's brother Pantera Roja. Bonada was a very good wrestler and a much better actor than most other luchadores, but he couldn't stand the mask. Several other wrestlers and actors were Huracán, but none had the character for too long. Fernando Osés, Enrique Llanes, Jean Safont, Marco Antonio Carta (Carta Brava) and Rogelio de la Pez (La Sombra Vengadora) were Huracán in the ring, and David Silva, Pepe Romay, Freddy "Pichi" Fernandez and Marco Antonio Arzate were Huracán in the big screen.

The first Huracán wrestled people like Santo, Blue Demon, El Verdugo, Murciélago Velázquez and other greats. At this time, several wrestlers used the Huracán name at the same time, so sometimes three different Huracán's (Bonada, Osés and somebody else) were wrestling in three different arena's at the same time, but the commission stopped that and shortly thereafter there was only an Huracán around.

Several wrestlers wanted the Huracán role, Memo Rubio among others, because it was a very popular personage, and the Rodriguez's would give you the right to wrestle as Huracán for free, however they would not pay you any extra money either. In the end the chosen one was Daniel García, who had already appeared in the Huracán films as El Buitre Blanco and Chamaco García, and who took over the role of Huracán, both in the screen and in the ring. Daniel's debut as Huracán was in León, Guanajuato.

When he was Huracán, Daniel, covered his identity all the time, pretty much like Santo or Mil Mascaras did, and he didn't even tell to his closest friends that he was Huracán.

Huracán was a very good worker who became very popular from the start due to his film appearances. During his career as a wrestler, other than in Mexico, he wrestled in Japan, United States, Cuba, Panama, Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador among others. Many say that in Ecuador and Bolivia he was a bigger star than El Santo. He actually spent an important part of his life in Bolivia, and even married a native woman there.

Once in Panamá, he was in a press conference with Mil Mascaras and the popular boxer Roberto "Mano de Piedra" (Hands of Stone) Durán. Like in every press conference with wrestlers and boxer there was the typical controversy over which fighting style was better. Durán said that boxing was defintely better, so Mil said "If so, why don't you wrestle either Huracán or me in a freestyle match?". Durán, probably knowing that he'd have a hard time to beat those luchadores that had extensive amateur experience, joked about it and escaped without answering the challenge. Though Huracán actually had a fight with a boxer once. On May 5, 1963 he beat the boxer "El Tigre Francés" (French Tiger) in Bogotá, Colombia. This was a "worked" fight because Huracán fought with his mask on. It's also thought that this was the first boxer vs. wrestler match ever held in an Hispanic country.

Huracán wrestled most of his career for EMLL but like all the other big stars he eventually became an independent because he could work when and where he wanted, and get paid more. During the last days of his career, he wrestled a lot for the UWA. He was an active wrestler during 36 years and retired on Feburary 5, 1987 at El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos.

Some months later, the Rodriguez family wanted to release a new Huracán movie and give the gimmick to a new luchador. Daniel told them that they should not do that, because he was the most famous Huracán and any new Huracán's would not be a success. The Rodriguez family said that they wanted Huracán to be an eternal superhero for people of many different generations, just like James Bond or Tarzán, but on May of 1988, Daniel unmasked himself and revealed his real name. The family released their movie called "Huracán (without the Ramírez part) y los terroristas" but it was a total failure, perhaps because the masked wrestler mystique was gone.

During his career, Huracán had a classic feud with Karloff Lagarde over the National and World (NWA) Welterweight titles and won important masks like the ones of Espanto III (Miguelito Vázquez Bernal) and El Enfermero (Tony Camargo).

After the original one unmasked, there has been literally dozens of different wrestlers that have put on the Huracán mask... but none of them have even been 1/10th as popular as the original one.

Luchas de apuestas record

Date	Apuesta	Winner(s)	Loser(s)	Arena and/or Place
??/??/??	mask	Huracán Ramírez	Halcón de Oro	unknown
55/06/14	mask	Huracán Ramírez	Moloch	Arena Coliseo - Mexico City
62/08/??	hair	Huracán Ramírez	Carnicero Grimaldo	Guatemala
64/06/12	mask	Huracán Ramírez	Espanto III	Arena México - Mexico City
65/12/10	mask	Huracán Ramírez	The Scorpio	Arena México - Mexico City
68/04/26	mask	Huracán Ramírez	El Enfermero	Arena México - Mexico City
75/03/30	mask	Huracán Ramírez	Cadaver II	unknown
75/07/16	mask	Huracán Ramírez	La Sombra	unknown
75/07/20	hair	Huracán Ramírez	El Greco	Gimnasio Benito Juárez - Cuautitlán, Mexico St.
78/09/17	masks	Rayo de Jalisco & Huracán Ramírez	Los Hermanos Muerte	unknown