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El Solitario

2019-01-19T20:04:16Z

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== Profile ==



{{bioFields|
|image=elsolitario.jpg
|name=El Solitario (The Lone One)
|realName=Roberto González Cruz
|nicknames=El Enmascarado de Oro (The Man of the Golden Mask), El Soli
|nameHistory=El Hijo del Santo (1960), Othon Banzica II, El Zica II, El Zica(1960-1965), El Solitario (1965-death)
|family=[[El Hijo del Solitario]] (son), [[Othon Banzica I]]/[[El Zica I]] (Juan Gonzalez Cruz/brother-Rip)
|maestro=[[Joe El Hermoso]]
|birthdate=[[May 22]], [[1946]] - [[Tlaquepaque]], [[Jalisco]]
|obituarydate=[[April 6]], [[1986]]
|debut=[[1960]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]
|height=6ft(1.82 mts)
|weight= 215lbs(95 kgs)
|signatureMoves=[[Spin Kick|La Filomena (reverse kick)]]
|titles=[[Occidente Welterweight Title]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]], [[NWA World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[Arena Mexico Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[El Halcon]]), [[UWA World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Heavyweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship]]
}}
{{WONHOF}}



== Biography ==


The tale of El Solitario is a very special one. He debuted at age 14, was a main eventer at age 24 and died at age 39, but he was such a great worker and drawing card and influenced so many wrestlers that nobody that knew him or knows about him would ever deny that he is a legend... a huge legend, accompanied by [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Mil Mascaras]] and others in the second step of a ladder whose unreachable higher step is occupied by [[Santo]] and [[Blue Demon]].

Roberto González Cruz was born on [[May 22]], [[1946]] in a little town of [[Jalisco]] called [[Yahualica]]. He was the youngest of a 7 children family that didn't live in the best of economical conditions, or anything remotely close to that.

As a kid he was a "rebel" not into the school studying at all, and also an unconformist because he didn't want to stay in that little town forever, living in poverty and working way too hard to earn very little money. So at a very young age, he left his family to live life his own way... and ended up becoming a wrestler.

His family already had a wrestling background, as Roberto's brother, Jesús wrestled as [[Othon Banzica]] during years at local arenas. In 1959, a very sad incident happened and Othon Banzica died in the ring. Roberto really idolized and looked up to his older brother, and his tragic death caused a rage and revenge feeling on young Roberto that pushed him to step into the ring to somehow, in his mind, avenge his brother's death by succeeding and becoming a top star.

He started training under local wrestler [[Joe El Hermoso]]'s tutelage at the "Gallo Madrugador" gym, which didn't sit well with his parents because of what happened to Jesús. However Roberto was in a mission and wasn't going to give up, and after several months, in the year of [[1960]], at age 14 or 15, he made his debut in his home state, along with another young kid called Adolfo Contreras that years later would be known as "El Hippie" [[Renato Torres]] (who was a famous independent star of the 70s and a good real life friend of Roberto).

The first promoter he (and Contreras) wrestled for was [[Elías Simón]], wrestling from Saturday to Monday in [[Ciudad Guzmán]], [[Jalisco]] and [[Tecomán]] and [[Manzanillo]], both in [[Colima]] state. Simón's "brilliant" idea to make these guys sell tickets was announcing them as juniors of big stars. They wrestled unmasked, and while Roberto was always billed as [[El Hijo del Santo]], Adolfo was the son of [[Charro Aguayo]] or [[Blue Demon]].

But Roberto decided that the best thing was to become his own self and continued the family name becoming Othon Banzica II, though this name would eventually get shortened as "El Zica II", and later the number was dropped.

He moved to [[Tijuana]] but local big time promoter [[Black Nassel]] didn't want to use him because he was too young and skinny. As a rookie, Roberto was a good athlete and very tough for a guy his age, but he didn't have any muscular definition. That, however, changed with time as he was a hard gym worker that took care of his body.

In Tijuana he didn't have any money or friends or family, so he lived in an abandoned car. Trying to find work he saw that the city was plagued with night clubs and got a job in a club where he had to darken his body with burnt motor oil to look African and play the bongos while an exotic dancer did her job. But the pay wasn't right either, so Roberto swallowed his pride and apologized to his parents, asking them for money to return back home.

But he didn't quit wrestling there, in fact he trained harder than ever and he made a name for himself in the local arenas and his work paid back as he got a call from big local promoters [[Julián Sánchez]] and [[Ray Plata]] from [[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo in Guadalajara, Jalisco]].

Ray Plata had a long time in the business and knew that El Sica needed a name and costume change if he wanted to succeed in Mexico City. His work was improving very well, as the once skinny and clueless kid with no sense of timing was now a good and polished worker. But still, that name he had, was not the one of a star.

The magic touch Roberto needed was getting named "El Solitario" (The Lonely One), a name based on the famous comic and TV series "El Llanero Solitario" (Lone Ranger). In fact he didn't call himself El Llanero Solitario to avoid copyright infringement problems. He then adopted his classic golden/black tights and his golden mask with a fringe around the eyes representing Lone Ranger's "antifaz" mask. Solitario was one of the first wrestlers to use a mask with a wide open mouth, which is a popular design now used by people like Atlantis, Octagon and Ultimo Guerrero among others.

This name change happened in [[1966]], and not coincidentally, that was his first big year in the business. In Guadalajara he unmasked [[Aguila Tapatía]] and [[The White Hand]] (La Mano Blanca), he won the [[Occident Welterweight Title]] from [[Luis González]] and if that wasn't enough, he also took his hair.

He started wrestling in Mexico City for EMLL by the end of that year (his debut there was on [[September 6]]) and was a rapidly growing young star but when he really made it big, was when he challenged legendary veteran [[Ray Mendoza]] to a hair vs. mask match that was due to happen on [[December 13]], [[1968]]... and WON! And if that wasn't enough, two weeks later he also took the hair of another legend, [[René Guajardo]]! Soli, still a rudo, was the hottest thing on lucha libre at the moment and his drawing power skyrocketed just like his workrate did, as by this point he was considered by many the best wrestler in all of Mexico.

Around that time he started what would later become a legendary trio with El [[Ángel Blanco]] and [[Dr. Wagner]], while attaining success in singles competition too, as on [[August 15]], [[1969]] he defeated El [[Rayo de Jalisco]] to win the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA World Middleweight title]].

Solitario was such a popular rudo that when Ángel Blanco and Dr. Wagner turned on him, he became a tecnico as popular as anyone in that era, including Santo, Rayo de Jalisco and Blue Demon. And of course, this also gave start to his legendary feud against "[[Ola Blanca]]" members Blanco and Wagner, with him finally taking both white masked men's masks (Ángel's didn't take so long, but for the match vs. Wagner we almost had to wait 15 years). And all of this while piling up more titles like the [[NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship|NWA World Light Heavyweight title]] (a title that during many years was considered the biggest prize in all of Mexico) he won from Ray Mendoza and lost to [[David Morgan]] (who eventually got his payback via a Kojak style haircut courtesy of El Soli).

Roberto was also one of the first wrestlers to leave EMLL in December of 1975 to join the independent wrestling revolution commanded by Ray Mendoza and promoter [[Francisco Flores]]. During his first "indie" years, Solitario continued his now legendary feuds against La Ola Blanca and Ray Mendoza, and also started new rivalries against new talent like [[Atila]] and [[Audaz]].

But his fame wasn't only limited to Mexico. He also was a hot ticket in [[Los Angeles]]' [[Olympic Auditorium]] and generated a cult fan base in [[Japan]] with his tours for [[New Japan Pro Wrestling]]. He only went to Japan three times but he was actually more popular that you'd think, the only problem is that at first he was often paired up against superheavyweights like [[Giant Baba]] and [[Seiji Sakaguchi]] who couldn't work his style, so he could not go out there and impress, and when junior heavyweight wrestling became hot in Japan it was already a bit late, and either way, then the junior division's formula consisted of [[Tiger Mask]] against foreign heels, so Soli couldn't have been in line for a big push.

His first tour to Japan was in [[1972]], the second one in [[1979]] and the last one in [[1981]]. In the second tour there was a [[Chavo Guerrero]] & [[Tatsumi Fujinami]] vs. El [[Canek]] & Solitario match that went around 45 minutes and is today referred to by Japanese historians as a "juniors dream match", and in his final tour, Tigermania was runnin' wild and he got the chance to both face and team with the original Tiger Mask.

While in Mexico, he was one of the biggest headlining stars not only at El Toreo and Arena Mexico, but in the whole country. During a time in the middle of the "trios golden years" in the early 80s, he formed a short lived dream team with [[Villano III]] and [[Aníbal]] called "Los Tres Caballeros" (The Three Knights), though Soli always was, like his name says, a lone ranger. He captured several more titles and headlined virtually everywhere he went. In some places he gained himself a reputation among promoters as a tough guy to work with, but his drawing power and in-ring work ethic made him a horse you could bet for with no risk of losing.

But the most legendary feud of Roberto ended up being his long time rivalry with Wagner, to the point it overshadows his also legendary feuds against Blanco, Mendoza and [[Perro Aguayo]]. The legendary "war to settle it all", the mask vs. mask match against Wagner, happened on [[December 1]], [[1985]] at the enormous [[Plaza de Toros Monumental|Plaza de Toros (Bullring) Monumental]] in [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]] where their popularity (especially Wagner's) was even bigger than in Mexico City. It was a dramatic slower paced match with a lot of submissions and some parts where the match would sped up and Soli could use his big moves. A clipped version of it exists on video and it's a true classic.

Solitario's life finished in a very sad way on [[April 6]], [[1986]]. As the "official" story goes, Solitario had a very serious injury that wasn't taken care of properly (some say knee, some say back) so during a match with [[Fishman]], he re-injured himself during a dangerous maneuver and needed urgent surgery (I don't know if this part is true) and while he was in the operation table, his damaged body couldn't take the anesthetic so he had a heart attack and died. Sometimes there is contradictions, though we all bought this story and even many historians don't know what really happened. In fact many of Solitario's close wrestling friends don't even know what happened, like Canek and Blue Demon have stated in the past. There also was a history going around in Mexico City (that I heard from a former WCW star) that says that Solitario was high on cocaine and didn't tell the doctors, so the combo of it with anesthesia caused that heart attack. This one is an urban legend, too.

As Blue Demon said in his autobiography, Solitario died of a "very strange illness" that he never talked about when he was alive. People close to Solitario have confirmed this one, as he died from a virus, side-effect of his lifestyle. It was a very sad way to end for such a legendary man, but as the song goes, "only the good die young".

Five years later, a legitimate son of Solitario made his debut as "[[El Hijo del Solitario]]". He's a young guy with size and athleticism, but he has never had pride in his work, and even years after his debut he looks like he doesn't even know what to do in the ring. The kid always has "hanged out with the wrong crowds" too, which doesn't help matters.

But even with his son somewhat staining the golden legend, Solitario is fondly remembered by people both in and outside the business, and he is always a top five wrestler in everybody's top stars, top workers and most influential wrestlers in Mexico lists.


== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Coloso Colosetti]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[César Valentino]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|1972/12/01|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Alfonso Dantés]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1965]]/11/??|?|[[Fantasma Negro]]|[[El Solitario|El Sica II]]|[[Cd. Obregón]], [[Sonora]]}}
{{aline|[[1966]]/??/??|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Águila Tapatía]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1966]]/[[06/17]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[The White Hand]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1966]]/07/??|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Luis González]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[12/13]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ray Mendoza]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[12/25]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[René Guajardo]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972]]/[[04/07]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[David Morgan]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972]]/[[12/01]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Alfonso Dantés]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972]]/[[12/08]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1974]]/[[02/03]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[03/02]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Luis Mariscal|El Cardenal]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[11/19]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Atila]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[12/05]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Marco Tulio|Destroyer]]|[[Cd. Juárez]], [[Chihuahua]]}}
{{aline|[[1976]]/[[04/12]]|mask (1)|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Audaz]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1977]]/[[02/09]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ku Klux Klan]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[??/??]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Bestia Negra]]|[[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 10|09/10]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Perro Aguayo]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Máscara Roja]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1979]]/[[11/25]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Black Gordman|Bestia Roja]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1981]]/[[03/25]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Chino Chow|Nakamura]]|[[Auditorio de Tijuana|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California]]}}
{{aline|[[1981]]/[[04/06]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Faraón]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1982]]/[[06/20]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Olímpico (original)|El Olímpico]]|[[Arena Mexico|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1983]]/[[06/12]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Signo]]|[[Auditorio de Tijuana|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California]]}}
{{aline|[[1985]]/[[12/01]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.]]}}
{{aend|(1) Relevos suicidas match vs. Aníbal & Rayo de Jalisco}}

== Gallery ==

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{{Gallery|name=ElSolitario_Champ.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ 1969]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Solitalio_nwalight.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship|NWA LH Champ 1971]]}}
{{Gallery|name=elsolitario01.jpg|caption= Rev. LUCHA LIBRE 1976}}
{{Gallery|name=Elsoli4.jpeg|caption=as [[UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship|UWA LH Champ 1977]]}}
 
{{Gallery|name=unmaskedsolitario.jpg|caption=Roberto Gonzalez Cruz - El Solitario 1978}}
{{Gallery|name=Soliagain.jpg|caption=1980}}
{{Gallery|name=solisinmascara.jpg|caption=Roberto Gonzalez Cruz - El Solitario 1981}}
{{Gallery|name=uwalh_solitario.jpg|caption=as [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship|UWA Jr. LH Champ 1982]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Solitario_NWA.jpg|caption=as UWA Jr. LH Champ 1983}}
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El Solitario

2019-01-19T20:02:47Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Profile */

== Profile ==



{{bioFields|
|image=elsolitario.jpg
|name=El Solitario (The Lone One)
|realName=Roberto González Cruz
|nicknames=El Enmascarado de Oro (The Man of the Golden Mask), El Soli
|nameHistory=El Hijo del Santo (1960), Othon Banzica II, El Zica II, El Zica(1960-1965), El Solitario (1965-death)
|family=[[El Hijo del Solitario]] (son), [[Othon Banzica I]]/[[El Zica I]] (Juan Gonzalez Cruz/brother-Rip)
|maestro=[[Joe El Hermoso]]
|birthdate=[[May 22]], [[1946]] - [[Tlaquepaque]], [[Jalisco]]
|obituarydate=[[April 6]], [[1986]]
|debut=[[1960]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]
|height=6ft(1.82 mts)
|weight= 215lbs(95 kgs)
|signatureMoves=[[Spin Kick|La Filomena (reverse kick)]]
|titles=[[Occidente Welterweight Title]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]], [[NWA World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[Arena Mexico Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[El Halcon]]), [[UWA World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Heavyweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship]]
}}
{{WONHOF}}



== Biography ==


The tale of El Solitario is a very special one. He debuted at age 14, was a main eventer at age 24 and died at age 39, but he was such a great worker and drawing card and influenced so many wrestlers that nobody that knew him or knows about him would ever deny that he is a legend... a huge legend, accompanied by [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Mil Mascaras]] and others in the second step of a ladder whose unreachable higher step is occupied by [[Santo]] and [[Blue Demon]].

Roberto González Cruz was born on [[May 22]], [[1946]] in a little town of [[Jalisco]] called [[Yahualica]]. He was the youngest of a 7 children family that didn't live in the best of economical conditions, or anything remotely close to that.

As a kid he was a "rebel" not into the school studying at all, and also an unconformist because he didn't want to stay in that little town forever, living in poverty and working way too hard to earn very little money. So at a very young age, he left his family to live life his own way... and ended up becoming a wrestler.

His family already had a wrestling background, as Roberto's brother, Jesús wrestled as [[Othon Banzica]] during years at local arenas. In 1959, a very sad incident happened and Othon Banzica died in the ring. Roberto really idolized and looked up to his older brother, and his tragic death caused a rage and revenge feeling on young Roberto that pushed him to step into the ring to somehow, in his mind, avenge his brother's death by succeeding and becoming a top star.

He started training under local wrestler [[Joe El Hermoso]]'s tutelage at the "Gallo Madrugador" gym, which didn't sit well with his parents because of what happened to Jesús. However Roberto was in a mission and wasn't going to give up, and after several months, in the year of [[1960]], at age 14 or 15, he made his debut in his home state, along with another young kid called Adolfo Contreras that years later would be known as "El Hippie" [[Renato Torres]] (who was a famous independent star of the 70s and a good real life friend of Roberto).

The first promoter he (and Contreras) wrestled for was [[Elías Simón]], wrestling from Saturday to Monday in [[Ciudad Guzmán]], [[Jalisco]] and [[Tecomán]] and [[Manzanillo]], both in [[Colima]] state. Simón's "brilliant" idea to make these guys sell tickets was announcing them as juniors of big stars. They wrestled unmasked, and while Roberto was always billed as [[El Hijo del Santo]], Adolfo was the son of [[Charro Aguayo]] or [[Blue Demon]].

But Roberto decided that the best thing was to become his own self and continued the family name becoming Othon Banzica II, though this name would eventually get shortened as "El Zica II", and later the number was dropped.

He moved to [[Tijuana]] but local big time promoter [[Black Nassel]] didn't want to use him because he was too young and skinny. As a rookie, Roberto was a good athlete and very tough for a guy his age, but he didn't have any muscular definition. That, however, changed with time as he was a hard gym worker that took care of his body.

In Tijuana he didn't have any money or friends or family, so he lived in an abandoned car. Trying to find work he saw that the city was plagued with night clubs and got a job in a club where he had to darken his body with burnt motor oil to look African and play the bongos while an exotic dancer did her job. But the pay wasn't right either, so Roberto swallowed his pride and apologized to his parents, asking them for money to return back home.

But he didn't quit wrestling there, in fact he trained harder than ever and he made a name for himself in the local arenas and his work paid back as he got a call from big local promoters [[Julián Sánchez]] and [[Ray Plata]] from [[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo in Guadalajara, Jalisco]].

Ray Plata had a long time in the business and knew that El Sica needed a name and costume change if he wanted to succeed in Mexico City. His work was improving very well, as the once skinny and clueless kid with no sense of timing was now a good and polished worker. But still, that name he had, was not the one of a star.

The magic touch Roberto needed was getting named "El Solitario" (The Lonely One), a name based on the famous comic and TV series "El Llanero Solitario" (Lone Ranger). In fact he didn't call himself El Llanero Solitario to avoid copyright infringement problems. He then adopted his classic golden/black tights and his golden mask with a fringe around the eyes representing Lone Ranger's "antifaz" mask. Solitario was one of the first wrestlers to use a mask with a wide open mouth, which is a popular design now used by people like Atlantis, Octagon and Ultimo Guerrero among others.

This name change happened in [[1966]], and not coincidentally, that was his first big year in the business. In Guadalajara he unmasked [[Aguila Tapatía]] and [[The White Hand]] (La Mano Blanca), he won the [[Occident Welterweight Title]] from [[Luis González]] and if that wasn't enough, he also took his hair.

He started wrestling in Mexico City for EMLL by the end of that year (his debut there was on [[September 6]]) and was a rapidly growing young star but when he really made it big, was when he challenged legendary veteran [[Ray Mendoza]] to a hair vs. mask match that was due to happen on [[December 13]], [[1968]]... and WON! And if that wasn't enough, two weeks later he also took the hair of another legend, [[René Guajardo]]! Soli, still a rudo, was the hottest thing on lucha libre at the moment and his drawing power skyrocketed just like his workrate did, as by this point he was considered by many the best wrestler in all of Mexico.

Around that time he started what would later become a legendary trio with El [[Ángel Blanco]] and [[Dr. Wagner]], while attaining success in singles competition too, as on [[August 15]], [[1969]] he defeated El [[Rayo de Jalisco]] to win the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA World Middleweight title]].

Solitario was such a popular rudo that when Ángel Blanco and Dr. Wagner turned on him, he became a tecnico as popular as anyone in that era, including Santo, Rayo de Jalisco and Blue Demon. And of course, this also gave start to his legendary feud against "[[Ola Blanca]]" members Blanco and Wagner, with him finally taking both white masked men's masks (Ángel's didn't take so long, but for the match vs. Wagner we almost had to wait 15 years). And all of this while piling up more titles like the [[NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship|NWA World Light Heavyweight title]] (a title that during many years was considered the biggest prize in all of Mexico) he won from Ray Mendoza and lost to [[David Morgan]] (who eventually got his payback via a Kojak style haircut courtesy of El Soli).

Roberto was also one of the first wrestlers to leave EMLL in December of 1975 to join the independent wrestling revolution commanded by Ray Mendoza and promoter [[Francisco Flores]]. During his first "indie" years, Solitario continued his now legendary feuds against La Ola Blanca and Ray Mendoza, and also started new rivalries against new talent like [[Atila]] and [[Audaz]].

But his fame wasn't only limited to Mexico. He also was a hot ticket in [[Los Angeles]]' [[Olympic Auditorium]] and generated a cult fan base in [[Japan]] with his tours for [[New Japan Pro Wrestling]]. He only went to Japan three times but he was actually more popular that you'd think, the only problem is that at first he was often paired up against superheavyweights like [[Giant Baba]] and [[Seiji Sakaguchi]] who couldn't work his style, so he could not go out there and impress, and when junior heavyweight wrestling became hot in Japan it was already a bit late, and either way, then the junior division's formula consisted of [[Tiger Mask]] against foreign heels, so Soli couldn't have been in line for a big push.

His first tour to Japan was in [[1972]], the second one in [[1979]] and the last one in [[1981]]. In the second tour there was a [[Chavo Guerrero]] & [[Tatsumi Fujinami]] vs. El [[Canek]] & Solitario match that went around 45 minutes and is today referred to by Japanese historians as a "juniors dream match", and in his final tour, Tigermania was runnin' wild and he got the chance to both face and team with the original Tiger Mask.

While in Mexico, he was one of the biggest headlining stars not only at El Toreo and Arena Mexico, but in the whole country. During a time in the middle of the "trios golden years" in the early 80s, he formed a short lived dream team with [[Villano III]] and [[Aníbal]] called "Los Tres Caballeros" (The Three Knights), though Soli always was, like his name says, a lone ranger. He captured several more titles and headlined virtually everywhere he went. In some places he gained himself a reputation among promoters as a tough guy to work with, but his drawing power and in-ring work ethic made him a horse you could bet for with no risk of losing.

But the most legendary feud of Roberto ended up being his long time rivalry with Wagner, to the point it overshadows his also legendary feuds against Blanco, Mendoza and [[Perro Aguayo]]. The legendary "war to settle it all", the mask vs. mask match against Wagner, happened on [[December 1]], [[1985]] at the enormous [[Plaza de Toros Monumental|Plaza de Toros (Bullring) Monumental]] in [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]] where their popularity (especially Wagner's) was even bigger than in Mexico City. It was a dramatic slower paced match with a lot of submissions and some parts where the match would sped up and Soli could use his big moves. A clipped version of it exists on video and it's a true classic.

Solitario's life finished in a very sad way on [[April 6]], [[1986]]. As the "official" story goes, Solitario had a very serious injury that wasn't taken care of properly (some say knee, some say back) so during a match with [[Fishman]], he re-injured himself during a dangerous maneuver and needed urgent surgery (I don't know if this part is true) and while he was in the operation table, his damaged body couldn't take the anesthetic so he had a heart attack and died. Sometimes there is contradictions, though we all bought this story and even many historians don't know what really happened. In fact many of Solitario's close wrestling friends don't even know what happened, like Canek and Blue Demon have stated in the past. There also was a history going around in Mexico City (that I heard from a former WCW star) that says that Solitario was high on cocaine and didn't tell the doctors, so the combo of it with anesthesia caused that heart attack. This one is an urban legend, too.

As Blue Demon said in his autobiography, Solitario died of a "very strange illness" that he never talked about when he was alive. People close to Solitario have confirmed this one, as he died from a virus, side-effect of his lifestyle. It was a very sad way to end for such a legendary man, but as the song goes, "only the good die young".

Five years later, a legitimate son of Solitario made his debut as "[[El Hijo del Solitario]]". He's a young guy with size and athleticism, but he has never had pride in his work, and even years after his debut he looks like he doesn't even know what to do in the ring. The kid always has "hanged out with the wrong crowds" too, which doesn't help matters.

But even with his son somewhat staining the golden legend, Solitario is fondly remembered by people both in and outside the business, and he is always a top five wrestler in everybody's top stars, top workers and most influential wrestlers in Mexico lists.


== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Coloso Colosetti]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[César Valentino]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|1972/12/01|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Alfonso Dantés]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1965]]/11/??|?|[[Fantasma Negro]]|[[El Solitario|El Sica II]]|[[Cd. Obregón]], [[Sonora]]}}
{{aline|[[1966]]/??/??|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Águila Tapatía]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1966]]/[[06/17]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[The White Hand]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1966]]/07/??|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Luis González]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[12/13]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ray Mendoza]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[12/25]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[René Guajardo]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972]]/[[04/07]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[David Morgan]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972]]/[[12/01]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Alfonso Dantés]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972]]/[[12/08]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1974]]/[[02/03]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[03/02]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Luis Mariscal|El Cardenal]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[11/19]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Atila]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[12/05]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Marco Tulio|Destroyer]]|[[Cd. Juárez]], [[Chihuahua]]}}
{{aline|[[1976]]/[[04/12]]|mask (1)|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Audaz]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1977]]/[[02/09]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ku Klux Klan]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[??/??]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Bestia Negra]]|[[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 10|09/10]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Perro Aguayo]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Máscara Roja]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1979]]/[[11/25]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Black Gordman|Bestia Roja]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1981]]/[[03/25]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Chino Chow|Nakamura]]|[[Auditorio de Tijuana|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California]]}}
{{aline|[[1981]]/[[04/06]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Faraón]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1982]]/[[06/20]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Olímpico (original)|El Olímpico]]|[[Arena Mexico|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1983]]/[[06/12]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Signo]]|[[Auditorio de Tijuana|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California]]}}
{{aline|[[1985]]/[[12/01]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.]]}}
{{aend|(1) Relevos suicidas match vs. Aníbal & Rayo de Jalisco}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|name=Solitario1965.png|caption=1965 (or someone else with the same name)}}
{{Gallery|name=Solitariodebutx.jpg|caption=debut 1966}}
{{Gallery|name=ElSolitario_Champ.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ 1969]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Solitalio_nwalight.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship|NWA LH Champ 1971]]}}
{{Gallery|name=elsolitario01.jpg|caption= Rev. LUCHA LIBRE 1976}}
{{Gallery|name=Elsoli4.jpeg|caption=as [[UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship|UWA LH Champ 1977]]}}
 
{{Gallery|name=unmaskedsolitario.jpg|caption=Roberto Gonzalez Cruz - El Solitario 1978}}
{{Gallery|name=Soliagain.jpg|caption=1980}}
{{Gallery|name=solisinmascara.jpg|caption=Roberto Gonzalez Cruz - El Solitario 1981}}
{{Gallery|name=uwalh_solitario.jpg|caption=as [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship|UWA Jr. LH Champ 1982]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Solitario_NWA.jpg|caption=as UWA Jr. LH Champ 1983}}
{{Gallery|name=el solitario.jpg|caption=}}



[[Category:Deceased wrestlers|Solitario]]
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Solitario]]
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers|Solitario]]
[[Category:La Arena bios]]

Aníbal

2011-09-01T16:43:26Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Luchas de apuestas record */

== Profile ==
{{bioFields||image=Anibal.jpg
|name=Aníbal
|realName=Carlos Ignacio Carrillo Contreras
|nicknames=El Guerrero Cartaginés (The Carthagenian Warrior), La Saeta Azul (The Blue Arrow), La Furia Azul (The Blue Fury).
|nameHistory=Carlos Carrillo (debut - 65), Anibal (65 - retirement)
|family=[[El Hijo de Aníbal]] (son), [[Herman Munster]] (brother)
|maestro=[[Chico Fernández]], [[Salvador Flores]]
|birthdate=[[November 5]], [[1940]] - [[Topilejo]], [[Michoacán]] (other sources list [[Zitácuaro]], Mich. and [[Laureles]], Mich. as his birthplace)
|obituarydate=[[March 9]], [[1994]]
|debut=[[November]] [[1963]] - [[Topilejo]], Mich.
|lostmaskto=[[Máscara Año 2000]] - [[December 13]], [[1991]] - [[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]
|height=5'10"/178 cms
|weight=207 lbs/94 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Angelito]], [[Spinning Headscissors]], [[Tabla marina]]
|titles=[[Distrito Federal Light Heavyweight Title]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (2), [[National Middleweight Title]], [[UWA World Middleweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title]] (2), [[WWC World Junior Heavyweight Title]] (Puerto Rico), [[European Middleweight Title]] (Panamá)
|}}

== Biography ==

Aníbal was born on [[November 4]], [[1940]] in the state of [[Michoacán]]. In different interviews he has done through the years he has stated being born at [[Zitacora]], [[Topilejo]] and [[Michoacán]].

When he was four years old his family moved to [[Mexico City]]. There he had access to lucha libre, and he idolized [[Black Shadow]] and wanted to be a wrestler like him. When he was around twenty years old he started to train at the [[Gimnasio Baños Gloria]] and at the [[Gimnasio San Francisco de Portales]], where the instructors were [[Chico Fernández]] and [[Salvador Flores]].

He had his first professional match in November of [[1963]] under his real name, Carlos Carrillo. It was in [[Cuernavaca]], [[Mor.]] and he was paid 40 pesos.

Two years later his representatives designed a mask for him. He didn't want to wear a mask, but seeing how most of the younger idols were masked wrestlers he finally decided to go on with the idea. He came up with the Aníbal name.

Carlos was an avid reader of history books, and one of his favorite tales was the one of Aníbal - a Carthagenian general, son of Amílcar Barca and brother of Asdrúbal. He conquered the city of Sagunto, crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps, and battled and defeated the Romans. He almost conquered the city of Rome, but he killed himself in a battle after being surrounded by the enemy troops, because he'd rather be dead than waste the rest of his life being a slave.

As Anibal, his "padrinos" during his debut were [[Mil Máscaras]], and his idol [[Black Shadow]].

Anibal's rookie days were in the [[Arena "Al Gusto"]] in [[Naucalpan]], he became a hot independent worker in [[El Cortijo]], and in [[1966]] he signed with La Empresa, EMLL. On [[October 14]], a bit before signing with [[EMLL]], he lost the [[Distrito Federal Light Heavyweight Title]] against the popular wrestler now turned referee [[Pepe Casas]].

During the second part of the 60s he wrestled for [[EMLL]] but even though he was considered a sensational wrestler from the start he did not become a big name wrestler until [[1970]], even though by [[1968]] he already was an [[Arena Coliseo]] main eventer.

In [[1970]], he won the [[NWA Middleweight Title]] from [[Masio Koma]] and started a multi-year feud with [[René Guajardo]]. He was also voted wrestler of the year by the magazine El Halcon, which is an honor he had again in [[1974]].

He was one of the many wrestlers that on May of [[1975]] left [[EMLL]] to join the newly created [[UWA]] was created. Anibal was already a very popular wrestler and had big profile rivalries with people like [[El Marquez]], but his memorable feuds and matches there with [[Guajardo]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Perro Aguayo]] and others turned him into a legend.

He was a big star until the mid 80s, where he sort of disappeared from the scene due to injuries. His style had changed so much because he couldn't wrestle the fast tecnico style anymore. In [[1983]] he was still doing a huge campaign teaming with [[Villano III]] and [[El Solitario]] as "Los Tres Caballeros" (The three gentlemen) but in 1984 he turned rudo and formed a regular team with his arch-enemy [[Dr. Wagner]]. His last big feud was perhaps in [[Puerto Rico]], where he lost the [[UWA Junior Light Heavyweight Title]] to local favorite Invader #3. That was the 15th of August, in San Juan, where the WWC promotion was having his 11th Anniversary Show. Anibal eventually regained the title and lost it on January of 1985 to [[Negro Navarro]].

Anibal's name popped up again strongly on the lucha scene in [[1991]]. He wrestled a lot in [[Panama]] and he started to get booked in [[Arena Mexico]] shows again. This was because he had agreed to lose his mask to [[Universo 2000]], brother of [[Cien Caras]] and [[Máscara Año 2000]], as in EMLL they wanted to elevate Universo and make him a big heavyweight star. However before the match could happen, the Lucha Libre magazine, run by Benjamín Mora, crushed [[EMLL]]'s plans by unveiling them in the magazine. In fact, Mora crushed almost a whole year worth of big feuds due to his bitterness as they didn't want to do business with him anymore (Mora owed them money). So to protect the integrity of the sport in the eyes of the less educated fans, it was Máscara who feuded with Anibal and took his mask in the end. That was the 13th of December of that same year [[1991]], and the match sold out Arena Mexico (drawing 18,000). The Anibal we saw in the match was an old unathletic man that was not even close to his past level of performance. After his mask loss he had a short tour all over Mexico and retired. It's said that Anibal really needed the money.

He eventually returned some months later after his good friend [[Tony Arce]] convinced him, but his hip was in so much pain that he needed surgery again so he retired for good. Before retiring, he had a last Panama tour where he lost his mask to local legend [[Sandokán]] (not the Mexican one) to culminate a 20 years plus feud.

On December of [[1993]], [[AAA]] had an Anibal benefit card because after the surgery he had gone bankruptcy. This card was actually promoted by the "Jose María Álvarez" foundation, which is a foundation that collects money for homeless kids. This was their way to say thank you to Anibal, who in the past promoted countless benefit cards for that association. Everybody that met him will agree that he was a great man and a class act.

An [[Hijo del Anibal]] made his debut on [[October 24]], [[1993|93]] at [[El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos]], but it is believed, though unconfirmed, that this was not an authentic real relative of the original Anibal.

Anibal died on March 9, 1994 at age 53 due to a brain tumor.

== Notable Matches ==
{{SimpleMatchStart}}
{{SimpleMatch|[[January 29|01/29]]/[[1975|75]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]]|'''Anibal''' beat [[Rene Guajardo]] to retain his [[NWA Middleweight Title]]}}
{{SimpleMatchEnd}}
 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Anibal]]|[[Pepe Casas]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Zar de la Muerte]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gory Medina]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Reo]]|[[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Nazi]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1967|67]]/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Hombre de Ultratumba]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1969|69]]/[[February 19|02/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Red Terror]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1973|73]]/[[September 15|09/15]]|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Joe Panther]]|[[Gimnasio Nuevo Panamá]] - [[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aline|[[1974|74]]/[[April 26|04/26]]|mask/hair|Aníbal & [[Steve Wright]]|[[René Guajardo]] & [[Tigre Colombiano]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[April 18|04/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Centroamericano]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[June 19|06/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Fantasmón]]|[[Iguala]], [[Guerrero]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[June 25|06/25]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Bruma]]|[[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[July 16|07/16]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Marques I|El Marques]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[October 20|10/20]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Galeno I]]|[[Nuevo Laredo]], [[Tamps.]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[February 16|02/16]]|mask (1)|[[Aníbal]]|[[Asesino Negro (70s)|El Remington]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[July 11|07/11]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Sandokán]] (from Panama,not UWA one)|[[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[September 19|09/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Yaqui Moy|La Momia]] (Yaqui Moy)|[[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[December|12]]/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Black Jack]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[January 16|01/16]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Power]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[March 2|03/02]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Samurai]]|[[Veracruz]], [[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[April 23|04/23]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Atlas]]|[[Zacatanco]], [[Tlaxcala]]}}
{{aline|[[1979|79]]/[[February 18|02/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Jungla Negra]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[August 10|08/10]]|hairs|[[Fishman]] & Anibal|[[César Valentino]] & [[Kurisu]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[August 22|08/22]]|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Hamada]]|[[Arena Neza]] - [[Nezahualcoyotl]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1986|86]]/[[February 26|02/26]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Fugitivo]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1987|87]]/[[March 18|03/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Markus]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1990|90]]/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Pirata Morgan]]|[[Tlalnepantla]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1991|91]]/[[December 13|12/13]]|mask|[[Máscara Año 2000]]|[[Aníbal]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1993|93]]/??/??|mask|[[Sandokán]]|[[Aníbal]]|[[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aend|(1) Triangle match with [[Mazambula]]}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|name=Anibal01.jpg|caption=1972}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibalnwachamp.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]] 1971}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal11.jpg|caption=cover magazine 1971}}
{{Gallery|name=Nwawelter_bluedemonjr.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA Middleweight Champ]] 1974}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal03.jpg|caption=vs [[El Solitario]] at Arena Coliseo,Mexico City 1971}}
{{Gallery|name=ANIBAL0.JPG|caption= 1971}}
 
{{Gallery|name=Anibal.jpg|caption= UWA Cruiserweight Champ 1984}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal02.jpg|caption=UWA Cruiserweight Champion 1984}}
{{Gallery|name=AnibalUnmasked.jpg|caption=loses his mask vs MASCARA 2000, Dec. 1991}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibalsinmask.jpg|caption=losing his mask in 1991}}
{{Gallery|name=ANIBAL_SIN_MASCARA.jpg|caption= 1992}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]

Aníbal

2011-09-01T16:41:42Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

== Profile ==
{{bioFields||image=Anibal.jpg
|name=Aníbal
|realName=Carlos Ignacio Carrillo Contreras
|nicknames=El Guerrero Cartaginés (The Carthagenian Warrior), La Saeta Azul (The Blue Arrow), La Furia Azul (The Blue Fury).
|nameHistory=Carlos Carrillo (debut - 65), Anibal (65 - retirement)
|family=[[El Hijo de Aníbal]] (son), [[Herman Munster]] (brother)
|maestro=[[Chico Fernández]], [[Salvador Flores]]
|birthdate=[[November 5]], [[1940]] - [[Topilejo]], [[Michoacán]] (other sources list [[Zitácuaro]], Mich. and [[Laureles]], Mich. as his birthplace)
|obituarydate=[[March 9]], [[1994]]
|debut=[[November]] [[1963]] - [[Topilejo]], Mich.
|lostmaskto=[[Máscara Año 2000]] - [[December 13]], [[1991]] - [[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]
|height=5'10"/178 cms
|weight=207 lbs/94 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Angelito]], [[Spinning Headscissors]], [[Tabla marina]]
|titles=[[Distrito Federal Light Heavyweight Title]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (2), [[National Middleweight Title]], [[UWA World Middleweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title]] (2), [[WWC World Junior Heavyweight Title]] (Puerto Rico), [[European Middleweight Title]] (Panamá)
|}}

== Biography ==

Aníbal was born on [[November 4]], [[1940]] in the state of [[Michoacán]]. In different interviews he has done through the years he has stated being born at [[Zitacora]], [[Topilejo]] and [[Michoacán]].

When he was four years old his family moved to [[Mexico City]]. There he had access to lucha libre, and he idolized [[Black Shadow]] and wanted to be a wrestler like him. When he was around twenty years old he started to train at the [[Gimnasio Baños Gloria]] and at the [[Gimnasio San Francisco de Portales]], where the instructors were [[Chico Fernández]] and [[Salvador Flores]].

He had his first professional match in November of [[1963]] under his real name, Carlos Carrillo. It was in [[Cuernavaca]], [[Mor.]] and he was paid 40 pesos.

Two years later his representatives designed a mask for him. He didn't want to wear a mask, but seeing how most of the younger idols were masked wrestlers he finally decided to go on with the idea. He came up with the Aníbal name.

Carlos was an avid reader of history books, and one of his favorite tales was the one of Aníbal - a Carthagenian general, son of Amílcar Barca and brother of Asdrúbal. He conquered the city of Sagunto, crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps, and battled and defeated the Romans. He almost conquered the city of Rome, but he killed himself in a battle after being surrounded by the enemy troops, because he'd rather be dead than waste the rest of his life being a slave.

As Anibal, his "padrinos" during his debut were [[Mil Máscaras]], and his idol [[Black Shadow]].

Anibal's rookie days were in the [[Arena "Al Gusto"]] in [[Naucalpan]], he became a hot independent worker in [[El Cortijo]], and in [[1966]] he signed with La Empresa, EMLL. On [[October 14]], a bit before signing with [[EMLL]], he lost the [[Distrito Federal Light Heavyweight Title]] against the popular wrestler now turned referee [[Pepe Casas]].

During the second part of the 60s he wrestled for [[EMLL]] but even though he was considered a sensational wrestler from the start he did not become a big name wrestler until [[1970]], even though by [[1968]] he already was an [[Arena Coliseo]] main eventer.

In [[1970]], he won the [[NWA Middleweight Title]] from [[Masio Koma]] and started a multi-year feud with [[René Guajardo]]. He was also voted wrestler of the year by the magazine El Halcon, which is an honor he had again in [[1974]].

He was one of the many wrestlers that on May of [[1975]] left [[EMLL]] to join the newly created [[UWA]] was created. Anibal was already a very popular wrestler and had big profile rivalries with people like [[El Marquez]], but his memorable feuds and matches there with [[Guajardo]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Perro Aguayo]] and others turned him into a legend.

He was a big star until the mid 80s, where he sort of disappeared from the scene due to injuries. His style had changed so much because he couldn't wrestle the fast tecnico style anymore. In [[1983]] he was still doing a huge campaign teaming with [[Villano III]] and [[El Solitario]] as "Los Tres Caballeros" (The three gentlemen) but in 1984 he turned rudo and formed a regular team with his arch-enemy [[Dr. Wagner]]. His last big feud was perhaps in [[Puerto Rico]], where he lost the [[UWA Junior Light Heavyweight Title]] to local favorite Invader #3. That was the 15th of August, in San Juan, where the WWC promotion was having his 11th Anniversary Show. Anibal eventually regained the title and lost it on January of 1985 to [[Negro Navarro]].

Anibal's name popped up again strongly on the lucha scene in [[1991]]. He wrestled a lot in [[Panama]] and he started to get booked in [[Arena Mexico]] shows again. This was because he had agreed to lose his mask to [[Universo 2000]], brother of [[Cien Caras]] and [[Máscara Año 2000]], as in EMLL they wanted to elevate Universo and make him a big heavyweight star. However before the match could happen, the Lucha Libre magazine, run by Benjamín Mora, crushed [[EMLL]]'s plans by unveiling them in the magazine. In fact, Mora crushed almost a whole year worth of big feuds due to his bitterness as they didn't want to do business with him anymore (Mora owed them money). So to protect the integrity of the sport in the eyes of the less educated fans, it was Máscara who feuded with Anibal and took his mask in the end. That was the 13th of December of that same year [[1991]], and the match sold out Arena Mexico (drawing 18,000). The Anibal we saw in the match was an old unathletic man that was not even close to his past level of performance. After his mask loss he had a short tour all over Mexico and retired. It's said that Anibal really needed the money.

He eventually returned some months later after his good friend [[Tony Arce]] convinced him, but his hip was in so much pain that he needed surgery again so he retired for good. Before retiring, he had a last Panama tour where he lost his mask to local legend [[Sandokán]] (not the Mexican one) to culminate a 20 years plus feud.

On December of [[1993]], [[AAA]] had an Anibal benefit card because after the surgery he had gone bankruptcy. This card was actually promoted by the "Jose María Álvarez" foundation, which is a foundation that collects money for homeless kids. This was their way to say thank you to Anibal, who in the past promoted countless benefit cards for that association. Everybody that met him will agree that he was a great man and a class act.

An [[Hijo del Anibal]] made his debut on [[October 24]], [[1993|93]] at [[El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos]], but it is believed, though unconfirmed, that this was not an authentic real relative of the original Anibal.

Anibal died on March 9, 1994 at age 53 due to a brain tumor.

== Notable Matches ==
{{SimpleMatchStart}}
{{SimpleMatch|[[January 29|01/29]]/[[1975|75]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]]|'''Anibal''' beat [[Rene Guajardo]] to retain his [[NWA Middleweight Title]]}}
{{SimpleMatchEnd}}
 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Anibal]]|[[Pepe Casas]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Zar de la Muerte]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gory Medina]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Reo]]|[[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Nazi]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1967|67]]/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Hombre de Ultratumba]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1969|69]]/[[February 19|02/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Red Terror]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1973|73]]/[[September 15|09/15]]|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Joe Panther]]|[[Gimnasio Nuevo Panamá]] - [[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aline|[[1974|74]]/[[April 26|04/26]]|mask/hair|Aníbal & [[Steve Wright]]|[[René Guajardo]] & [[Tigre Colombiano]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[April 18|04/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Centroamericano]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[June 19|06/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Fantasmón]]|[[Iguala]], [[Guerrero]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[June 25|06/25]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Bruma]]|[[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[July 16|07/16]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Marquez I|El Marquez]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[October 20|10/20]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Galeno I]]|[[Nuevo Laredo]], [[Tamps.]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[February 16|02/16]]|mask (1)|[[Aníbal]]|[[Asesino Negro (70s)|El Remington]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[July 11|07/11]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Sandokán]] (from Panama,not UWA one)|[[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[September 19|09/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Yaqui Moy|La Momia]] (Yaqui Moy)|[[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[December|12]]/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Black Jack]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[January 16|01/16]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Power]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[March 2|03/02]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Samurai]]|[[Veracruz]], [[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[April 23|04/23]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Atlas]]|[[Zacatanco]], [[Tlaxcala]]}}
{{aline|[[1979|79]]/[[February 18|02/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Jungla Negra]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[August 10|08/10]]|hairs|[[Fishman]] & Anibal|[[César Valentino]] & [[Kurisu]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[August 22|08/22]]|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Hamada]]|[[Arena Neza]] - [[Nezahualcoyotl]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1986|86]]/[[February 26|02/26]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Fugitivo]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1987|87]]/[[March 18|03/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Markus]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1990|90]]/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Pirata Morgan]]|[[Tlalnepantla]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1991|91]]/[[December 13|12/13]]|mask|[[Máscara Año 2000]]|[[Aníbal]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1993|93]]/??/??|mask|[[Sandokán]]|[[Aníbal]]|[[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aend|(1) Triangle match with [[Mazambula]]}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|name=Anibal01.jpg|caption=1972}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibalnwachamp.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]] 1971}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal11.jpg|caption=cover magazine 1971}}
{{Gallery|name=Nwawelter_bluedemonjr.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA Middleweight Champ]] 1974}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal03.jpg|caption=vs [[El Solitario]] at Arena Coliseo,Mexico City 1971}}
{{Gallery|name=ANIBAL0.JPG|caption= 1971}}
 
{{Gallery|name=Anibal.jpg|caption= UWA Cruiserweight Champ 1984}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal02.jpg|caption=UWA Cruiserweight Champion 1984}}
{{Gallery|name=AnibalUnmasked.jpg|caption=loses his mask vs MASCARA 2000, Dec. 1991}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibalsinmask.jpg|caption=losing his mask in 1991}}
{{Gallery|name=ANIBAL_SIN_MASCARA.jpg|caption= 1992}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]

Aníbal

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== Profile ==
{{bioFields||image=Anibal.jpg
|name=Aníbal
|realName=Carlos Ignacio Carrillo Contreras
|nicknames=El Guerrero Cartaginés (The Carthagenian Warrior), La Saeta Azul (The Blue Arrow), La Furia Azul (The Blue Fury).
|nameHistory=Carlos Carrillo (debut - 65), Anibal (65 - retirement)
|family=[[El Hijo de Aníbal]] (son), [[Herman Munster]] (brother)
|maestro=[[Chico Fernández]], [[Salvador Flores]]
|birthdate=[[November 5]], [[1940]] - [[Topilejo]], [[Michoacán]] (other sources list [[Zitácuaro]], Mich. and [[Laureles]], Mich. as his birthplace)
|obituarydate=[[March 9]], [[1994]]
|debut=[[November]] [[1963]] - [[Topilejo]], Mich.
|lostmaskto=[[Máscara Año 2000]] - [[December 13]], [[1991]] - [[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]
|height=5'10"/178 cms
|weight=207 lbs/94 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Angelito]], [[Spinning Headscissors]], [[Tabla marina]]
|titles=[[Distrito Federal Light Heavyweight Title]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (2), [[National Middleweight Title]], [[UWA World Middleweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title]] (2), [[WWC World Junior Heavyweight Title]] (Puerto Rico), [[European Middleweight Title]] (Panamá)
|}}

== Biography ==

Aníbal was born on [[November 4]], [[1940]] in the state of [[Michoacán]]. In different interviews he has done through the years he has stated being born at [[Zitacora]], [[Topilejo]] and [[Michoacán]].

When he was four years old his family moved to [[Mexico City]]. There he had access to lucha libre, and he idolized [[Black Shadow]] and wanted to be a wrestler like him. When he was around twenty years old he started to train at the [[Gimnasio Baños Gloria]] and at the [[Gimnasio San Francisco de Portales]], where the instructors were [[Chico Fernández]] and [[Salvador Flores]].

He had his first professional match in November of [[1963]] under his real name, Carlos Carrillo. It was in [[Cuernavaca]], [[Mor.]] and he was paid 40 pesos.

Two years later his representatives designed a mask for him. He didn't want to wear a mask, but seeing how most of the younger idols were masked wrestlers he finally decided to go on with the idea. He came up with the Aníbal name.

Carlos was an avid reader of history books, and one of his favorite tales was the one of Aníbal - a Carthagenian general, son of Amílcar Barca and brother of Asdrúbal. He conquered the city of Sagunto, crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps, and battled and defeated the Romans. He almost conquered the city of Rome, but he killed himself in a battle after being surrounded by the enemy troops, because he'd rather be dead than waste the rest of his life being a slave.

As Anibal, his "padrinos" during his debut were [[Mil Máscaras]], and his idol [[Black Shadow]].

Anibal's rookie days were in the [[Arena "Al Gusto"]] in [[Naucalpan]], he became a hot independent worker in [[El Cortijo]], and in [[1966]] he signed with La Empresa, EMLL. On [[October 14]], a bit before signing with [[EMLL]], he lost the [[Distrito Federal Light Heavyweight Title]] against the popular wrestler now turned referee [[Pepe Casas]].

During the second part of the 60s he wrestled for [[EMLL]] but even though he was considered a sensational wrestler from the start he did not become a big name wrestler until [[1970]], even though by [[1968]] he already was an [[Arena Coliseo]] main eventer.

In [[1970]], he won the [[NWA Middleweight Title]] from [[Masio Koma]] and started a multi-year feud with [[René Guajardo]]. He was also voted wrestler of the year by the magazine El Halcon, which is an honor he had again in [[1974]].

He was one of the many wrestlers that on May of [[1975]] left [[EMLL]] to join the newly created [[UWA]] was created. Anibal was already a very popular wrestler and had big profile rivalries with people like [[El Marquez]], but his memorable feuds and matches there with [[Guajardo]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Perro Aguayo]] and others turned him into a legend.

He was a big star until the mid 80s, where he sort of disappeared from the scene due to injuries. His style had changed so much because he couldn't wrestle the fast tecnico style anymore. In [[1983]] he was still doing a huge campaign teaming with [[Villano III]] and [[El Solitario]] as "Los Tres Caballeros" (The three gentlemen) but in 1984 he turned rudo and formed a regular team with his arch-enemy [[Dr. Wagner]]. His last big feud was perhaps in [[Puerto Rico]], where he lost the [[UWA Junior Light Heavyweight Title]] to local favorite Invader #3. That was the 15th of August, in San Juan, where the WWC promotion was having his 11th Anniversary Show. Anibal eventually regained the title and lost it on January of 1985 to [[Negro Navarro]].

Anibal's name popped up again strongly on the lucha scene in [[1991]]. He wrestled a lot in [[Panama]] and he started to get booked in [[Arena Mexico]] shows again. This was because he had agreed to lose his mask to [[Universo 2000]], brother of [[Cien Caras]] and [[Máscara Año 2000]], as in EMLL they wanted to elevate Universo and make him a big heavyweight star. However before the match could happen, the Lucha Libre magazine, run by Benjamín Mora, crushed [[EMLL]]'s plans by unveiling them in the magazine. In fact, Mora crushed almost a whole year worth of big feuds due to his bitterness as they didn't want to do business with him anymore (Mora owed them money). So to protect the integrity of the sport in the eyes of the less educated fans, it was Máscara who feuded with Anibal and took his mask in the end. That was the 13th of December of that same year [[1991]], and the match sold out Arena Mexico (drawing 18,000). The Anibal we saw in the match was an old unathletic man that was not even close to his past level of performance. After his mask loss he had a short tour all over Mexico and retired. It's said that Anibal really needed the money.

He eventually returned some months later after his good friend [[Tony Arce]] convinced him, but his hip was in so much pain that he needed surgery again so he retired for good. Before retiring, he had a last Panama tour where he lost his mask to local legend [[Sandokán]] (not the Mexican one) to culminate a 20 years plus feud.

On December of [[1993]], [[AAA]] had an Anibal benefit card because after the surgery he had gone bankruptcy. This card was actually promoted by the "Jose María Álvarez" foundation, which is a foundation that collects money for homeless kids. This was their way to say thank you to Anibal, who in the past promoted countless benefit cards for that association. Everybody that met him will agree that he was a great man and a class act.

An [[Hijo del Anibal]] made his debut on [[October 24]], [[1993|93]] at [[El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos]], but it is believed, though unconfirmed, that this was not an authentic real relative of the original Anibal.

Anibal died on March 9, 1994 at age 53 due to a brain tumor.

== Notable Matches ==
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{{SimpleMatch|[[January 29|01/29]]/[[1975|75]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]]|'''Anibal''' beat [[Rene Guajardo]] to retain his [[NWA Middleweight Title]]}}
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Anibal]]|[[Pepe Casas]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Zar de la Muerte]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gory Medina]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Reo]]|[[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Nazi]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1967|67]]/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Hombre de Ultratumba]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1969|69]]/[[February 19|02/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Red Terror]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1973|73]]/[[September 15|09/15]]|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Joe Panther]]|[[Gimnasio Nuevo Panamá]] - [[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aline|[[1974|74]]/[[April 26|04/26]]|mask/hair|Aníbal & [[Steve Wright]]|[[René Guajardo]] & [[Tigre Colombiano]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[April 18|04/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Centroamericano]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[June 19|06/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Fantasmón]]|[[Iguala]], [[Guerrero]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[June 25|06/25]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Bruma]]|[[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[July 16|07/16]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Marquez I|El Marquez]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[October 20|10/20]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Galeno I]]|[[Nuevo Laredo]], [[Tamps.]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[February 16|02/16]]|mask (1)|[[Aníbal]]|[[Asesino Negro (70s)|El Remington]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[July 11|07/11]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Sandokán]] (from Panama,not UWA one)|[[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[September 19|09/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Yaqui Moy|La Momia]] (Yaqui Moy)|[[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[December|12]]/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Black Jack]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[January 16|01/16]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Power]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[March 2|03/02]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Samurai]]|[[Veracruz]], [[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[April 23|04/23]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Atlas]]|[[Zacatanco]], [[Tlaxcala]]}}
{{aline|[[1979|79]]/[[February 18|02/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Jungla Negra]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[August 10|08/10]]|hairs|[[Fishman]] & Anibal|[[César Valentino]] & [[Kurisu]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[August 22|08/22]]|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Hamada]]|[[Arena Neza]] - [[Nezahualcoyotl]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1986|86]]/[[February 26|02/26]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Fugitivo]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1987|87]]/[[March 18|03/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Markus]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1990|90]]/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Pirata Morgan]]|[[Tlalnepantla]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1991|91]]/[[December 13|12/13]]|mask|[[Máscara Año 2000]]|[[Aníbal]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1993|93]]/??/??|mask|[[Sandokán]]|[[Aníbal]]|[[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aend|(1) Triangle match with [[Mazambula]]}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|name=Anibal01.jpg|caption=1972}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibalnwachamp.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]] 1971}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal11.jpg|caption=cover magazine 1971}}
{{Gallery|name=Nwawelter_bluedemonjr.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]] 1974}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal03.jpg|caption=vs [[El Solitario]] at Arena Coliseo,Mexico City 1971-72}}
{{Gallery|name=ANIBAL0.JPG|caption= 1971}}
 
{{Gallery|name=Anibal.jpg|caption= UWA Cruiserweight Champ 1984}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal02.jpg|caption=UWA Cruiserweight Champion 1984}}
{{Gallery|name=AnibalUnmasked.jpg|caption=loses his mask vs MASCARA 2000,Dec. 1991}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibalsinmask.jpg|caption=losing his mask in 1991}}
{{Gallery|name=ANIBAL_SIN_MASCARA.jpg|caption= 1992}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]

Blue Demon

2011-09-01T16:31:57Z

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== Profile ==

{{bioFields||image=Bluedemon.jpg
|name=Blue Demon
|realName=Alejandro Muñoz Moreno
|nicknames=El Profe (The Professor), El Manotas (The man with the big hands), El Profe Manotas, El Demonio Azul (The Blue Demon)
|nameHistory=Tosco Muñoz (debut match), Blue Demon (06/48 - death)
|family=[[Blue Demon Jr.]] (son), [[Flama Solar]](nephew)
|maestro=[[Rolando Vera]]
|birthdate=[[April 24]], [[1922]] - [[Villa de García]], [[Nuevo León]]
|obituarydate=[[December 16]], [[2000]] - [[Mexico City]]
|debut=[[March 31]], [[1948]] - [[Laredo]], [[Texas]], [[USA]]
|height=
|weight=
|lostmaskto=
|signatureMoves=El Pulpo
|titles=[[National Welterweight Title]] (3), [[NWA World Welterweight Title]] (2)
|}}{{WONHOF}}

== Biography ==

When it comes to popularity, Blue Demon is, along with [[El Santo]], the biggest mainstream lucha superstar [[Mexico]] ever had.

Demon was born on [[April 24]], [[1922]] in [[Villa de García]], a small town in [[Nuevo León]], though he was registered in [[Los Rodriguez]], [[Coahuila]], a town located near the border of [[Coahuila]] and [[Nuevo León]]. He was the fifth kid of a 12 children family, all maintained by their father, who worked as a agriculturist. When Demon was still very young, his parents moved to [[Rinconada]], where he attended school. He dropped out of it, as he saw no point in studying because there wasn't a lot of future in his little town. After an unsuccessful try to become a musician, he moved to [[Monterrey]] to live with his uncles and his aunt.

He got a job at the railway station, and there he met the brother of his friend Franklin Hernández - the lucha legend [[Rolando Vera]]. Vera saw potential in the kid and trained him for several non-combat sports at a local gym. Demon was a huge youngster, and his hands were especially big. After being told about lucha and despite the fact that he didn't really know what was going on the business or how was it like, the young Demon knew he wanted to be a luchador like his mentor.

After extensive physical training, Demon tried amateur wrestling and ended up undefeated with a 8-0 record, and then he tried freestyle wrestling as well.

One day a promoter spoke to Vera about sending some wrestlers for a lucha program in [[Laredo]], [[Texas]], and without really expecting it, the future Blue Demon had his debut on [[March 31]], [[1948]], wrestling under his real name and defeating [[Chema López]].

After that fight, Vera had a good idea for him. He told his young protegé that he'd wear a blue mask with silver decorations, blue trunks and blue boots, and that his new name was going to be "Blue Demon". The disciple had no objection about it because he knew that Rolando's ideas were always good. Since that day, he decided that the Blue mask would become his heart and soul.

He obviously started off wrestling in [[Monterrey]] while still keeping a normal life when not under the hood, as he never stopped working in the railway station. In his debut as Blue Demon he scored a win over [[Benny Arcilla]].

[[EMLL]] president [[Salvador Lutteroth]] once sent one of his talent scouts, [[Jesus Lomelí]], to give a look to some American lady wrestlers that were performing on [[Nuevo Laredo]], however Jesús arrived a day earlier so he attended a card in [[Monterrey]]. When Demon went to get his payoff as usual, the [[Arena Monterrey]] promoter [[Jesús Garza Hernández]] gave him something that Lomelí had left there for him: it was a recommendation letter so he could go to wrestle to [[Mexico City]] anytime he wanted to.

He told Vera about that letter and they intensified the training, and Vera also taught him how to behave when in [[Mexico City]]. Demon's [[Mexico City]] debut was on [[September]] of [[1948]]. His first match was at the old [[Arena Mexico]] against [[Ciclón Veloz]], and he lost in two straight falls... both by being disqualified! He really got over as a "rudo" after that fight and he caused a sudden impact in the [[Mexico City]] wrestling scene. He decided to stay in [[Mexico City]], so he left his job at the railway station for good, and his wife and his little son moved to the capital with him.

Around [[1952]] he was already fighting versus top wrestlers of the promotion in a regular basis. On [[November 7]] of that same year, the arguably most important match in the history of lucha libre was hold - [[El Santo]] defeated [[Black Shadow]] (Alejandro Cruz Ortíz) in a mask vs. mask match. Blue Demon, who was seconding Shadow on that match, promised he'd avenge the mask loss of his "brother", because on the wrestling world, Shadow and Demon were billed as real-life brothers.

Demon turned full-time tecnico and that probably was the wisest business decision he ever took, as he started feuding with the top rudo in [[Mexico]] - [[El Santo]]. They feuded all over [[Mexico]] (Demon teamed with Shadow, while [[Santo]]'s partner was [[Gory Guerrero]]) and made a lot of money together. On [[August]], [[1953]], Demon and [[Santo]] had their first singles match ever and Demon surprisingly defeated [[Santo]] in two straight falls, which gave him the right to challenge [[Santo]] for the [[NWA Welterweight title]] he owned in a match that happened on [[September 25]], [[1953]] at La [[Arena Coliseo]]. In what is usually referred as the most important match from his career, Demon defeated [[Santo]] in three falls to win that Welterweight title, which he'd keep for 4 years and a half, until [[Karloff Lagarde]] defeated him the [[January 31|31st of January]] of [[1958]].

Other of Demon's classic encounters was the draw between [[Los Hermanos Shadow]] ([[Black Shadow]] & Blue Demon) and the rudísimo team of [[Cavernario Galindo]] and [[El Santo]], which was voted the [[1953]] Match of The Year in [[Mexico]] by the media.

Some reports say that in [[1955]], Blue Demon captured the National Welterweight Title, but this has never been either confirmed or denied as there's a hole on the title history of that belt during the [[1945]]-to-[[1956]] period. What is known for a fact, is that on [[April 4]], [[1962]] captured that same title defeating [[Karloff Lagarde]] in [[Mexico City]]. He would lose that title six months later, and he wouldn't taste gold again until [[July 30|07/30]]/[[1976]], when he defeated Mano Negra in a match for Mexican Welter title that Fishman had vacated; and it was [[Fishman]] who defeated Demon to regain the title on [[February 27]], [[1977]].

Demon's first serious injury was on [[July]], [[1957]] during a fight against El [[Espectro]] in [[Tampico]], [[Tamps]]. After a wicked head-first impact on the ringpost he fractured his skull and during seven months, he was out wearing an ortophedic mechanism that kept his neck immobile.

After his return, Demon had his first fallout with [[EMLL]]. There was a problem with the transport, as without previous announcement he was sent to different places in a truck instead of being sent by plane. After many miles he became really frustrated and when he was in [[El Paso]], [[TX]], visiting his old friend [[Gory Guerrero]], he had two fights for the promotion he was starting there and earned enough money to return to [[Mexico]] by plane. The promoter, Gorila Ramos, and the [[EMLL]] board of directives were upset with Demon for fighting for Guerrero without permission. The board, Lutteroth included, had a meeting with Demon probably to tell him about the punishment they had for him, but before they could even speak, he told them that he was very grateful to them for what they had done for him in the past but that he was leaving.

So, pretty much like [[Santo]], [[Gory Guerrero|Guerrero]] and the other big stars of his era, he became a free agent and wrestled all over [[Mexico]], [[New York]], several Southern [[U.S.]] cities and [[Latin America]], which allowed him to have more free time to devote to the parallel acting career he was just starting. Many of those films were productions he co-starred with [[Santo]]. [[Santo]] turned tecnico in [[1963]] and despite their on-screen partership, they were still considered intense rivals until [[1968]], which was the first time they teamed.

Demon, who never left lucha, suffered his most important injury during [[1965]]. During a match against [[Cavernario Galindo]] in [[Oaxaca]], Demon fell through the ropes outside the ring and due to the collision on the floor one of his blood vessels broke. Despite the fact that the doctor told him not to eat anything, Demon had dinner and a few minutes later he lost conscience, fell off the stairs and fractured his skull again. He was other whole year out but he eventually returned to the ring.

From then on and until his retirement, he kept wrestling all over the places mentioned earlier, and he made several other films. Also, around the mid 70s he helped in the training of several young wrestlers at the [[Arena Mexico]] gym. One of those wrestlers is [[Ringo Mendoza]]. He eventually opened his own gym as well, the "Blue Demon Gym" located at [[Colonia Moctezuma]] in [[Mexico City]].

In [[1989]] Demon decided that it was time to say goodbye and he started his retirement tour. His [[Arena Mexico]] retirement saw him, his son [[Blue Demon Jr.]] and [[Ringo Mendoza]] go over the team of [[Emilio Charles Jr.]], [[Pirata Morgan]] and [[Satanico]]. His [[Tijuana]] retirement was a [[Promociones Mora]] match in which he, his son and [[Alcatraz]] (one of the sons of [[Benjamin Mora Sr.]]) went over [[Hijo del Gladiador]], [[Kahoz]] and [[Leon Chino]]. But the big "retirements" were in the place that saw him mature as a wrestler - [[Monterrey]]. He wasn't actually going to wrestle a retirement match in [[Monterrey]] but the promoters had quite a big and espectacular retirement planned for him, an offer he obviously accepted. On [[July 30]], [[1989]] he unmasked one of the biggest legends of the 70s - El [[Rayo de Jalisco]]. As if that wasn't enough, Demon's last match on [[August 22]] was another mask vs. mask match, this time he took the hood of [[El Matematico]], a quite popular wrestler in the 70s and 80s as well.

On January of [[1996]], [[AAA]] ran a very controversial angle involving Demon. Blue Demon and [[Ray Mendoza]] were being honored in the ring for their careers when [[Pierroth]] came to the ring, rip up Demon's diploma and attacked him. This angle wouldn't be so weird to see in the US, but this was something never seen before in [[Mexico]] and it gave the already over [[Pierroth]] way more heel heat to the point that crowds anywhere would be about to riot just after he appeared in the entrance way. Due to the success of this angle, on [[August]] [[1998]] they ran a similar angle again. He and his son were presenting a little kid with a mask, and then rising superstar [[Abismo Negro]] ran in, attacked the junior and then he tried to [[piledrive]] the senior, though in the end the junior saved his father from such a lethal move. This angle was supposed to skyrocket both [[Blue Demon Jr.|Demon Jr.]] and [[Abismo Negro|Abismo]]'s careers, however the only man whose career got skyrocketed was [[Abismo Negro|Abismo]]..

On [[October 27]], [[2000]], [[EMLL]] held the first "[[Leyenda Azul]]" tournament at [[Arena México]], in honor of Blue Demon. [[Blue Panther]] defeated in the finals of the elimination match to win the trophy (which was actually a belt). Also, Demon was presented with a medal by the late [[Cavernario Galindo]]'s son.

Blue Demon, Alejandro Muñoz Moreno, died on [[December 16]], [[2000]] around 11:45 AM, at age 78. Later on the day, he had a funeral service at the funerary Lopez García, located at Versalles street in Colonia Juarez. Many personalities of the cinema and lucha world (including [[Hombre Bala]], [[Pompín]], [[Nygma]], [[El Dollar]], [[Fantasma]], [[Charles Bronson Mexicano]], [[Black Shadow]], [[Roberto "Güero" Rangel]], [[Huracán Ramirez]], [[Ringo Mendoza]] and [[Bestia Salvaje]]) attended the funeral service. He was buried a day later, around 2:00 PM at the Panteón Parque Memorial, in [[Naucalpan]], [[Mexico City]].

After traveling on the [[Mexico City]] subway (Metro Polero station) he had a heart attack in the streets of [[Victoria]] and [[Insurgentes Norte]]. He liked to travel alone, and used the subway regularly as he didn't like taxis and he couldn't drive at his age. [[Blue Demon Jr.]] said to the media that he was called and he could see his father still alive and took him home, but he died in his arms while he was getting medical services. He was survived by his wife Gregoria "Goyita" Lomelí, his daughter Marla, his sons Alejandro and [[Blue Demon Jr.]], and his seven grandchildren.

Demon was a man that always kept in shape. He woke up between 6-7 AM every day and he went to the gym almost every day (he was in fact returning from the gym when he died) and he had never had any heart problems in the past.

Demon's legacy is still alive, not only because we have all the memories, as [[Blue Demon Jr.]] is an active professional wrestler. Like Blue Demon himself said: "If the silver legend of [[Santo]] can continue, the blue legend will continue as well!". Adios Blue Demon.


===Filmografia===

#[[La Sombra del Murciélago (1966)]]
#[[Arañas Infernales (1966)]]
#[[Blue Demon vs. Cerebros Infernales (1966)]]
#[[Blue Demon contra las Diabólicas (1966)]]
#[[Blue Demon, Destructor de Espías (1967)]]
#[[Blue Demon en Pasaporte a la Muerte (1967)]]
#[[Blue Demon y las Invasoras (1968)]]
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos (1969)]]
#[[ El Mundo de los Muertos (1969)]]
#[[Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlántida (1969)]]
#[[Los Campeones Justicieros (1970)]]
#[[Las Momias de Guanajuato (1970)]]
#[[La Invasión de los Muertos (1971)]]
#[[Noche de Muerte (1972)]]
#[[La Mafia Amarilla (1972)]]
#[[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]]
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (1972)]]
#[[Las Bestias del Terror (1972)]]
#[[Triunfo de los Campeones Justicieros (1973)]]
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra el Doctor Frankestein (1973)]]
#[[El Hijo de Alma Grande (1974)]]
#[[La Mansión de las Siete Momias (1975)]]
#[[Misterio en las Bermudas (1977)]]
#[[La Llave mortal (1989)]]
#[[Blue Demon el Campeón (1989)]]

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Jorge Allende]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Moloch]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|??/[[May 18|05/18]]|hair|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Baby Olson]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1953|53]]/[[November 27|11/27]]|hair/beard|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Tony Borne]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1954|54]]/[[March 12|03/12]]|hair|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Cavernario Galindo]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1955|55]]/[[March 12|03/12]]|beard|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Conde Giuseppe Daidone]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1971|71]]/[[December 3|12/03]]|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Espectro II]]|[[Auditorio de Tijuana]] - [[Tijuana]], [[Baja California]]}}
{{aline|[[1979|79]]/[[December 2|12/02]]|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Máquina Salvaje]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1989|89]]/[[July 30|07/30]]|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]],[[ N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1989|89]]/[[August 27|08/27]]|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Matemático]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1989|89]]/[[September 6|09/06]]|hair (1)|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Matemático]]|[[Arena México]] - Mexico City}}
{{aend|(1) Triangle match with [[Rayo de Jalisco]]}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery||name=Demoninicios.jpg|caption=1949}}
{{Gallery||name=Blue demon unmasked.jpg|caption= at age 23. 1945}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayodemon.jpg |caption=w/[[Rayo de Jalisco]] 1963}}
{{Gallery||name=ANIBAL5.JPG|caption=w/[[Anibal]] 1971}}
{{Gallery||name=Blue and tinieblas.JPG|caption=w/[[Tinieblas]] 1972}}
{{Gallery||name=BlueDemonHurracanSr.jpg|caption=w/[[Huracan Ramirez]] 1972}}
{{Gallery||name=Blueysanto.jpg|caption=w/[[Santo]], 1978}}
 
{{Gallery||name=Demonsr.jpg|caption= 1972}}
{{Gallery||name=Pelicula 56.jpg|caption= 1971}}
{{Gallery||name=Bluedemon01.jpg|caption= 1955}}
{{Gallery||name=Hermanosshadow.jpg|caption=w/[[Black Shadow]] 1951}}
{{Gallery||name=Blue Demon & Joe Marin.jpg|caption=w/[[Joe Marin]] 1955}}

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[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]
[[Category:Monterrey based wrestlers]]

Blue Demon

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== Profile ==

{{bioFields||image=Bluedemon.jpg
|name=Blue Demon
|realName=Alejandro Muñoz Moreno
|nicknames=El Profe (The Professor), El Manotas (The man with the big hands), El Profe Manotas, El Demonio Azul (The Blue Demon)
|nameHistory=Tosco Muñoz (debut match), Blue Demon (06/48 - death)
|family=[[Blue Demon Jr.]] (son), [[Flama Solar]](nephew)
|maestro=[[Rolando Vera]]
|birthdate=[[April 24]], [[1922]] - [[Villa de García]], [[Nuevo León]]
|obituarydate=[[December 16]], [[2000]] - [[Mexico City]]
|debut=[[March 31]], [[1948]] - [[Laredo]], [[Texas]], [[USA]]
|height=
|weight=
|lostmaskto=
|signatureMoves=El Pulpo
|titles=[[National Welterweight Title]] (3), [[NWA World Welterweight Title]] (2)
|}}{{WONHOF}}

== Biography ==

When it comes to popularity, Blue Demon is, along with [[El Santo]], the biggest mainstream lucha superstar [[Mexico]] ever had.

Demon was born on [[April 24]], [[1922]] in [[Villa de García]], a small town in [[Nuevo León]], though he was registered in [[Los Rodriguez]], [[Coahuila]], a town located near the border of [[Coahuila]] and [[Nuevo León]]. He was the fifth kid of a 12 children family, all maintained by their father, who worked as a agriculturist. When Demon was still very young, his parents moved to [[Rinconada]], where he attended school. He dropped out of it, as he saw no point in studying because there wasn't a lot of future in his little town. After an unsuccessful try to become a musician, he moved to [[Monterrey]] to live with his uncles and his aunt.

He got a job at the railway station, and there he met the brother of his friend Franklin Hernández - the lucha legend [[Rolando Vera]]. Vera saw potential in the kid and trained him for several non-combat sports at a local gym. Demon was a huge youngster, and his hands were especially big. After being told about lucha and despite the fact that he didn't really know what was going on the business or how was it like, the young Demon knew he wanted to be a luchador like his mentor.

After extensive physical training, Demon tried amateur wrestling and ended up undefeated with a 8-0 record, and then he tried freestyle wrestling as well.

One day a promoter spoke to Vera about sending some wrestlers for a lucha program in [[Laredo]], [[Texas]], and without really expecting it, the future Blue Demon had his debut on [[March 31]], [[1948]], wrestling under his real name and defeating [[Chema López]].

After that fight, Vera had a good idea for him. He told his young protegé that he'd wear a blue mask with silver decorations, blue trunks and blue boots, and that his new name was going to be "Blue Demon". The disciple had no objection about it because he knew that Rolando's ideas were always good. Since that day, he decided that the Blue mask would become his heart and soul.

He obviously started off wrestling in [[Monterrey]] while still keeping a normal life when not under the hood, as he never stopped working in the railway station. In his debut as Blue Demon he scored a win over [[Benny Arcilla]].

[[EMLL]] president [[Salvador Lutteroth]] once sent one of his talent scouts, [[Jesus Lomelí]], to give a look to some American lady wrestlers that were performing on [[Nuevo Laredo]], however Jesús arrived a day earlier so he attended a card in [[Monterrey]]. When Demon went to get his payoff as usual, the [[Arena Monterrey]] promoter [[Jesús Garza Hernández]] gave him something that Lomelí had left there for him: it was a recommendation letter so he could go to wrestle to [[Mexico City]] anytime he wanted to.

He told Vera about that letter and they intensified the training, and Vera also taught him how to behave when in [[Mexico City]]. Demon's [[Mexico City]] debut was on [[September]] of [[1948]]. His first match was at the old [[Arena Mexico]] against [[Ciclón Veloz]], and he lost in two straight falls... both by being disqualified! He really got over as a "rudo" after that fight and he caused a sudden impact in the [[Mexico City]] wrestling scene. He decided to stay in [[Mexico City]], so he left his job at the railway station for good, and his wife and his little son moved to the capital with him.

Around [[1952]] he was already fighting versus top wrestlers of the promotion in a regular basis. On [[November 7]] of that same year, the arguably most important match in the history of lucha libre was hold - [[El Santo]] defeated [[Black Shadow]] (Alejandro Cruz Ortíz) in a mask vs. mask match. Blue Demon, who was seconding Shadow on that match, promised he'd avenge the mask loss of his "brother", because on the wrestling world, Shadow and Demon were billed as real-life brothers.

Demon turned full-time tecnico and that probably was the wisest business decision he ever took, as he started feuding with the top rudo in [[Mexico]] - [[El Santo]]. They feuded all over [[Mexico]] (Demon teamed with Shadow, while [[Santo]]'s partner was [[Gory Guerrero]]) and made a lot of money together. On [[August]], [[1953]], Demon and [[Santo]] had their first singles match ever and Demon surprisingly defeated [[Santo]] in two straight falls, which gave him the right to challenge [[Santo]] for the [[NWA Welterweight title]] he owned in a match that happened on [[September 25]], [[1953]] at La [[Arena Coliseo]]. In what is usually referred as the most important match from his career, Demon defeated [[Santo]] in three falls to win that Welterweight title, which he'd keep for 4 years and a half, until [[Karloff Lagarde]] defeated him the [[January 31|31st of January]] of [[1958]].

Other of Demon's classic encounters was the draw between [[Los Hermanos Shadow]] ([[Black Shadow]] & Blue Demon) and the rudísimo team of [[Cavernario Galindo]] and [[El Santo]], which was voted the [[1953]] Match of The Year in [[Mexico]] by the media.

Some reports say that in [[1955]], Blue Demon captured the National Welterweight Title, but this has never been either confirmed or denied as there's a hole on the title history of that belt during the [[1945]]-to-[[1956]] period. What is known for a fact, is that on [[April 4]], [[1962]] captured that same title defeating [[Karloff Lagarde]] in [[Mexico City]]. He would lose that title six months later, and he wouldn't taste gold again until [[July 30|07/30]]/[[1976]], when he defeated Mano Negra in a match for Mexican Welter title that Fishman had vacated; and it was [[Fishman]] who defeated Demon to regain the title on [[February 27]], [[1977]].

Demon's first serious injury was on [[July]], [[1957]] during a fight against El [[Espectro]] in [[Tampico]], [[Tamps]]. After a wicked head-first impact on the ringpost he fractured his skull and during seven months, he was out wearing an ortophedic mechanism that kept his neck immobile.

After his return, Demon had his first fallout with [[EMLL]]. There was a problem with the transport, as without previous announcement he was sent to different places in a truck instead of being sent by plane. After many miles he became really frustrated and when he was in [[El Paso]], [[TX]], visiting his old friend [[Gory Guerrero]], he had two fights for the promotion he was starting there and earned enough money to return to [[Mexico]] by plane. The promoter, Gorila Ramos, and the [[EMLL]] board of directives were upset with Demon for fighting for Guerrero without permission. The board, Lutteroth included, had a meeting with Demon probably to tell him about the punishment they had for him, but before they could even speak, he told them that he was very grateful to them for what they had done for him in the past but that he was leaving.

So, pretty much like [[Santo]], [[Gory Guerrero|Guerrero]] and the other big stars of his era, he became a free agent and wrestled all over [[Mexico]], [[New York]], several Southern [[U.S.]] cities and [[Latin America]], which allowed him to have more free time to devote to the parallel acting career he was just starting. Many of those films were productions he co-starred with [[Santo]]. [[Santo]] turned tecnico in [[1963]] and despite their on-screen partership, they were still considered intense rivals until [[1968]], which was the first time they teamed.

Demon, who never left lucha, suffered his most important injury during [[1965]]. During a match against [[Cavernario Galindo]] in [[Oaxaca]], Demon fell through the ropes outside the ring and due to the collision on the floor one of his blood vessels broke. Despite the fact that the doctor told him not to eat anything, Demon had dinner and a few minutes later he lost conscience, fell off the stairs and fractured his skull again. He was other whole year out but he eventually returned to the ring.

From then on and until his retirement, he kept wrestling all over the places mentioned earlier, and he made several other films. Also, around the mid 70s he helped in the training of several young wrestlers at the [[Arena Mexico]] gym. One of those wrestlers is [[Ringo Mendoza]]. He eventually opened his own gym as well, the "Blue Demon Gym" located at [[Colonia Moctezuma]] in [[Mexico City]].

In [[1989]] Demon decided that it was time to say goodbye and he started his retirement tour. His [[Arena Mexico]] retirement saw him, his son [[Blue Demon Jr.]] and [[Ringo Mendoza]] go over the team of [[Emilio Charles Jr.]], [[Pirata Morgan]] and [[Satanico]]. His [[Tijuana]] retirement was a [[Promociones Mora]] match in which he, his son and [[Alcatraz]] (one of the sons of [[Benjamin Mora Sr.]]) went over [[Hijo del Gladiador]], [[Kahoz]] and [[Leon Chino]]. But the big "retirements" were in the place that saw him mature as a wrestler - [[Monterrey]]. He wasn't actually going to wrestle a retirement match in [[Monterrey]] but the promoters had quite a big and espectacular retirement planned for him, an offer he obviously accepted. On [[July 30]], [[1989]] he unmasked one of the biggest legends of the 70s - El [[Rayo de Jalisco]]. As if that wasn't enough, Demon's last match on [[August 22]] was another mask vs. mask match, this time he took the hood of [[El Matematico]], a quite popular wrestler in the 70s and 80s as well.

On January of [[1996]], [[AAA]] ran a very controversial angle involving Demon. Blue Demon and [[Ray Mendoza]] were being honored in the ring for their careers when [[Pierroth]] came to the ring, rip up Demon's diploma and attacked him. This angle wouldn't be so weird to see in the US, but this was something never seen before in [[Mexico]] and it gave the already over [[Pierroth]] way more heel heat to the point that crowds anywhere would be about to riot just after he appeared in the entrance way. Due to the success of this angle, on [[August]] [[1998]] they ran a similar angle again. He and his son were presenting a little kid with a mask, and then rising superstar [[Abismo Negro]] ran in, attacked the junior and then he tried to [[piledrive]] the senior, though in the end the junior saved his father from such a lethal move. This angle was supposed to skyrocket both [[Blue Demon Jr.|Demon Jr.]] and [[Abismo Negro|Abismo]]'s careers, however the only man whose career got skyrocketed was [[Abismo Negro|Abismo]]..

On [[October 27]], [[2000]], [[EMLL]] held the first "[[Leyenda Azul]]" tournament at [[Arena México]], in honor of Blue Demon. [[Blue Panther]] defeated in the finals of the elimination match to win the trophy (which was actually a belt). Also, Demon was presented with a medal by the late [[Cavernario Galindo]]'s son.

Blue Demon, Alejandro Muñoz Moreno, died on [[December 16]], [[2000]] around 11:45 AM, at age 78. Later on the day, he had a funeral service at the funerary Lopez García, located at Versalles street in Colonia Juarez. Many personalities of the cinema and lucha world (including [[Hombre Bala]], [[Pompín]], [[Nygma]], [[El Dollar]], [[Fantasma]], [[Charles Bronson Mexicano]], [[Black Shadow]], [[Roberto "Güero" Rangel]], [[Huracán Ramirez]], [[Ringo Mendoza]] and [[Bestia Salvaje]]) attended the funeral service. He was buried a day later, around 2:00 PM at the Panteón Parque Memorial, in [[Naucalpan]], [[Mexico City]].

After traveling on the [[Mexico City]] subway (Metro Polero station) he had a heart attack in the streets of [[Victoria]] and [[Insurgentes Norte]]. He liked to travel alone, and used the subway regularly as he didn't like taxis and he couldn't drive at his age. [[Blue Demon Jr.]] said to the media that he was called and he could see his father still alive and took him home, but he died in his arms while he was getting medical services. He was survived by his wife Gregoria "Goyita" Lomelí, his daughter Marla, his sons Alejandro and [[Blue Demon Jr.]], and his seven grandchildren.

Demon was a man that always kept in shape. He woke up between 6-7 AM every day and he went to the gym almost every day (he was in fact returning from the gym when he died) and he had never had any heart problems in the past.

Demon's legacy is still alive, not only because we have all the memories, as [[Blue Demon Jr.]] is an active professional wrestler. Like Blue Demon himself said: "If the silver legend of [[Santo]] can continue, the blue legend will continue as well!". Adios Blue Demon.


===Filmografia===

#[[La Sombra del Murciélago (1966)]]
#[[Arañas Infernales (1966)]]
#[[Blue Demon vs. Cerebros Infernales (1966)]]
#[[Blue Demon contra las Diabólicas (1966)]]
#[[Blue Demon, Destructor de Espías (1967)]]
#[[Blue Demon en Pasaporte a la Muerte (1967)]]
#[[Blue Demon y las Invasoras (1968)]]
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos (1969)]]
#[[ El Mundo de los Muertos (1969)]]
#[[Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlántida (1969)]]
#[[Los Campeones Justicieros (1970)]]
#[[Las Momias de Guanajuato (1970)]]
#[[La Invasión de los Muertos (1971)]]
#[[Noche de Muerte (1972)]]
#[[La Mafia Amarilla (1972)]]
#[[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]]
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (1972)]]
#[[Las Bestias del Terror (1972)]]
#[[Triunfo de los Campeones Justicieros (1973)]]
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra el Doctor Frankestein (1973)]]
#[[El Hijo de Alma Grande (1974)]]
#[[La Mansión de las Siete Momias (1975)]]
#[[Misterio en las Bermudas (1977)]]
#[[La Llave mortal (1989)]]
#[[Blue Demon el Campeón (1989)]]

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Jorge Allende]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Moloch]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|??/[[May 18|05/18]]|hair|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Baby Olson]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1953|53]]/[[November 27|11/27]]|hair/beard|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Tony Borne]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1954|54]]/[[March 12|03/12]]|hair|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Cavernario Galindo]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1955|55]]/[[March 12|03/12]]|beard|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Conde Giuseppe Daidone]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1971|71]]/[[December 3|12/03]]|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Espectro II]]|[[Auditorio de Tijuana]] - [[Tijuana]], [[Baja California]]}}
{{aline|[[1979|79]]/[[December 2|12/02]]|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Máquina Salvaje]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1989|89]]/[[July 30|07/30]]|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]],[[ N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1989|89]]/[[August 27|08/27]]|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Matemático]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1989|89]]/[[September 6|09/06]]|hair (1)|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Matemático]]|[[Arena México]] - Mexico City}}
{{aend|(1) Triangle match with [[Rayo de Jalisco]]}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery||name=Demoninicios.jpg|caption=1948 debut}}
{{Gallery||name=Blue demon unmasked.jpg|caption= at age 23. 1945}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayodemon.jpg |caption=w/[[Rayo de Jalisco]] 1963}}
{{Gallery||name=ANIBAL5.JPG|caption=w/[[Anibal]] 1971}}
{{Gallery||name=Blue and tinieblas.JPG|caption=w/[[Tinieblas]] 1972}}
{{Gallery||name=BlueDemonHurracanSr.jpg|caption=w/[[Huracan Ramirez]] 1972}}
{{Gallery||name=Blueysanto.jpg|caption=w/[[Santo]], 1978}}
 
{{Gallery||name=Demonsr.jpg|caption= 1972}}
{{Gallery||name=Pelicula 56.jpg|caption= 1971}}
{{Gallery||name=Bluedemon01.jpg|caption= 1955}}
{{Gallery||name=Hermanosshadow.jpg|caption=w/[[Black Shadow]] 1951}}
{{Gallery||name=Blue Demon & Joe Marin.jpg|caption=w/[[Joe Marin]] 1955}}

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[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]
[[Category:Monterrey based wrestlers]]

Rayo de Jalisco

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__NOTOC__
== Profile ==
{{bioFields|
|image=Rayodejalisco.jpg
|name=Rayo de Jalisco
|realName=Máximino "Max" Linares Moreno
|nicknames=none
|nameHistory=Mr. Misterio (50 - ??), Águila Negra, Dr. Curtis (08/54 - 57), Tony Curtis (57), El Rayo (?? - 03/58), Rayo de Jalisco (03/58 - retirement)
|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)
|maestro=[[Tony Sugar]]
|birthdate=[[November 22]], [[1932]] - [[Milpa Alta]], [[Mexico City]]
|obituarydate=
|debut=[[1950]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]
|lostmaskto=[[Blue Demon]] - [[July 30]], [[1989]] - [[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]
|height=5'7"
|weight=205 lbs
|signatureMoves=[[Tope en reversa]]
|titles=[[Occidente Welterweight Championship]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (3), [[National Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[El Santo]])
}}
{{WONHOF}}

== Biography ==

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.

=== pre-Rayo de Jalisco career===

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.

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.

=== Career Highlights ===

Rayo de Jalisco immediatly was succesful, winning the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship]] and [[Occidente Welterweigth 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.

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.

=== End of Career ===

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.

Rayo de Jalisco is still remembered today, based on his success and his son, [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]]

''Partial Source'': Biografias de Leyenda

== Spanish Version (original) ==

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.

Antes de convertirse en el Rayo de Jalisco... Paso por varios Nombres

===pre-carrera===

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.

Ahora si Nace El Rayo... Pero de Jalisco????

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.

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.

Campeonatos, Mascaras y Cabelleras

===sus logros===

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.

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.

Cae la Mascara del Rayo... Pero no su Leyenda!!!!

===hacia el final===

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...

===La historia continua...===

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!!!

fuentes tomadas de biografias de leyendas

 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Chino Chow]]|unknown}}
{{aline|63/??/??|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[La Máscara,1960's version]]|unknown}}
{{aline|64/??/??|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[La Bestia]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Guerrero Negro,1960's version]]|unknown}}
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Mr. Sangre]]|unknown}}
{{aline|78/[[September 17|09/17]]|masks|Rayo de Jalisco & [[Huracán Ramírez]]|[[Los Hermanos Muerte]]|unknown}}
{{aline|89/07/30|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery||name=Rayo_sr.jpg |caption=Rayo sr 1971}}
{{Gallery||name=Portada617.jpg |caption=magazing showing the mask match 1964}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayosr.jpg |caption=magazine cover 1970}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_de_jalisco_sr_.jpg |caption=rayo de jalisco 1970}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayodejalisco9.jpg|caption= 1974}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayoyelmonarca.jpg|caption=with [[El Monarca]] 1979}}
 
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_de_jalisco.JPG |caption=1972}}
{{Gallery||name=RayoCJ.JPG|caption=Scene of the movie [[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]]}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayoblue.jpg |caption=scene vuelves los campeones justicieros 1972}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayoymanonegra.JPG |caption=w. MANO NEGRA in 1982}}
{{Gallery||name=RAH.jpg |caption=En el toreo acompanado de Huracan Ramirez y Anibal 1980}}
{{Gallery||name=Donmax.JPG |caption=1998}}
 
{{Gallery||name=nwamw2_rayodejalisco.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA Middle]] champ 1963}}
{{Gallery||name=RAYO_MAX.jpg‎|caption=Rayo sr-Max Linares}}
{{Gallery||name=LuchaLibre-1222-RayodeJalisco-RayodeJaliscoJr.jpg‎|caption=Rayo sr y jr 1987}}
{{Gallery||name=Imagen061.jpg‎|caption=Rayo sr y jr 1989}}
{{Gallery||name=MAX_LINARES.jpg‎|caption=Rayo sr 2001}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]

Rayo de Jalisco

2011-09-01T16:14:12Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

__NOTOC__
== Profile ==
{{bioFields|
|image=Rayodejalisco.jpg
|name=Rayo de Jalisco
|realName=Máximino "Max" Linares Moreno
|nicknames=none
|nameHistory=Mr. Misterio (50 - ??), Águila Negra, Dr. Curtis (08/54 - 57), Tony Curtis (57), El Rayo (?? - 03/58), Rayo de Jalisco (03/58 - retirement)
|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)
|maestro=[[Tony Sugar]]
|birthdate=[[November 22]], [[1932]] - [[Milpa Alta]], [[Mexico City]]
|obituarydate=
|debut=[[1950]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]
|lostmaskto=[[Blue Demon]] - [[July 30]], [[1989]] - [[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]
|height=5'7"
|weight=205 lbs
|signatureMoves=[[Tope en reversa]]
|titles=[[Occidente Welterweight Championship]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (3), [[National Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[El Santo]])
}}
{{WONHOF}}

== Biography ==

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.

=== pre-Rayo de Jalisco career===

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.

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.

=== Career Highlights ===

Rayo de Jalisco immediatly was succesful, winning the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship]] and [[Occidente Welterweigth 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.

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.

=== End of Career ===

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.

Rayo de Jalisco is still remembered today, based on his success and his son, [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]]

''Partial Source'': Biografias de Leyenda

== Spanish Version (original) ==

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.

Antes de convertirse en el Rayo de Jalisco... Paso por varios Nombres

===pre-carrera===

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.

Ahora si Nace El Rayo... Pero de Jalisco????

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.

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.

Campeonatos, Mascaras y Cabelleras

===sus logros===

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.

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.

Cae la Mascara del Rayo... Pero no su Leyenda!!!!

===hacia el final===

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...

===La historia continua...===

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!!!

fuentes tomadas de biografias de leyendas

 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Chino Chow]]|unknown}}
{{aline|63/??/??|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[La Máscara,1960's version]]|unknown}}
{{aline|64/??/??|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[La Bestia]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Guerrero Negro,1960's version]]|unknown}}
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Mr. Sangre]]|unknown}}
{{aline|78/[[September 17|09/17]]|masks|Rayo de Jalisco & [[Huracán Ramírez]]|[[Los Hermanos Muerte]]|unknown}}
{{aline|89/07/30|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery||name=Rayo_sr.jpg |caption=Rayo sr 1971}}
{{Gallery||name=Portada617.jpg |caption=magazing showing the mask match 1964}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayosr.jpg |caption=magazine cover 1970}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_de_jalisco_sr_.jpg |caption=rayo de jalisco 70's}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayodejalisco9.jpg|caption=}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayoyelmonarca.jpg|caption=with [[El Monarca]] 1979}}
 
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_de_jalisco.JPG |caption=1972}}
{{Gallery||name=RayoCJ.JPG|caption=Scene of the movie [[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]]}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayoblue.jpg |caption=scene vuelves los campeones justicieros}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayoymanonegra.JPG |caption=late 70's or early80s}}
{{Gallery||name=RAH.jpg |caption=En el toreo acompanado de Huracan Ramirez y Anibal 1980}}
{{Gallery||name=Donmax.JPG |caption=without mask late 90's}}
 
{{Gallery||name=nwamw2_rayodejalisco.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA Middle]] champ}}
{{Gallery||name=RAYO_MAX.jpg‎|caption=rayo sr}}
{{Gallery||name=LuchaLibre-1222-RayodeJalisco-RayodeJaliscoJr.jpg‎|caption=Rayo sr y jr}}
{{Gallery||name=Imagen061.jpg‎|caption=Rayo sr y jr}}
{{Gallery||name=MAX_LINARES.jpg‎|caption=Rayo sr 2001}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]

El Audaz

2011-09-01T16:06:35Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Luchas de apuestas record */

== Profile ==

{{bioFields||image=Elaudaz.jpg
|name=El Audaz (The Audacious One)
|realName=Doménico Bazán León
|nicknames=none
|nameHistory=El Audaz (debut - retirement)
|family=[[El Hijo del Audaz]]?
|maestro=unknown
|birthdate=[[May 16]], [[1947]] - [[Veracruz]], [[Veracruz]]
|debut=[[1966]]
|lostmaskto=[[El Solitario]] - April 12, 1976 - Palacio de los Deportes
|height=5'10"/178 cms
|weight=205 lbs/93 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Tope Suicida]]
|titles=[[UWA World Light Heavyweight Title]]
|}}

 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|76/??/??|hair|[[Ray Mendoza]]|[[El Audaz]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1972|72]]/[[February 20|02/20]]|hair|[[El Audaz]]|[[Manuel Robles]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972|72]]/[[December 19|12/19]]|hair|[[El Audaz]]|[[El Enfermero]]|[[Poza Rica]], [[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[April 12|04/12]]|mask (1)|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Audaz]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aend|(1) Relevos suicidas match vs. [[Aníbal]] & [[Rayo de Jalisco]]}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery||name=Domenico.jpg|caption=right after losing his mask vs EL SOLITARIO in 1976}}
{{Gallery||name=Elaudazunmasked.jpg|caption=EL AUDAZ as UWA LHW Champion 1977}}
{{Gallery||name=Audazportada.jpg|caption=EL AUDAZ 1976}}
{{Gallery||name=Milaudaz.jpg|caption=w/ [[Mil Mascaras]] & [[Tinieblas]] 1973}}
{{Gallery||name=Audaz2008.JPG|caption=2008}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Audaz]]
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers|Audaz]]

El Audaz

2011-09-01T15:59:11Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

== Profile ==

{{bioFields||image=Elaudaz.jpg
|name=El Audaz (The Audacious One)
|realName=Doménico Bazán León
|nicknames=none
|nameHistory=El Audaz (debut - retirement)
|family=[[El Hijo del Audaz]]?
|maestro=unknown
|birthdate=[[May 16]], [[1947]] - [[Veracruz]], [[Veracruz]]
|debut=[[1966]]
|lostmaskto=[[El Solitario]] - April 12, 1976 - Palacio de los Deportes
|height=5'10"/178 cms
|weight=205 lbs/93 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Tope Suicida]]
|titles=[[UWA World Light Heavyweight Title]]
|}}

 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Ray Mendoza]]|[[El Audaz]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1972|72]]/[[February 20|02/20]]|hair|[[El Audaz]]|[[Manuel Robles]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972|72]]/[[December 19|12/19]]|hair|[[El Audaz]]|[[El Enfermero]]|[[Poza Rica]], [[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[April 12|04/12]]|mask (1)|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Audaz]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aend|(1) Relevos suicidas match vs. [[Aníbal]] & [[Rayo de Jalisco]]}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery||name=Domenico.jpg|caption=right after losing his mask vs EL SOLITARIO in 1976}}
{{Gallery||name=Elaudazunmasked.jpg|caption=EL AUDAZ as UWA LHW Champion 1977}}
{{Gallery||name=Audazportada.jpg|caption=EL AUDAZ 1976}}
{{Gallery||name=Milaudaz.jpg|caption=w/ [[Mil Mascaras]] & [[Tinieblas]] 1973}}
{{Gallery||name=Audaz2008.JPG|caption=2008}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Audaz]]
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers|Audaz]]

Ángel Blanco

2011-09-01T15:50:43Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

== Profile ==
{{bioFields||image=Angelblanco.jpg
|name=Ángel Blanco (White Angel)
|realName=José Ángel Vargas Sánchez
|nicknames=El Ranchero Vargas
|nameHistory=El Ranchero Vargas (debut - ??), cruz Diablo, El Gato Negro (62), El Ángel Blanco (62 - death)
|family=[[Ángel Blanco Jr. I|Ángel Blanco Jr.]] ([[Rey Salomón]]) (first, former son-in-law), [[Ángel Blanco Jr.]] (current, son), [[El Hijo del Ángel Blanco I]] (son), [[El Hijo del Ángel Blanco II]] (son), [[Horus]] (Grandson).
|maestro=[[Diablo Velazco]], [[Miguel Navarrete]]
|birthdate=[[August 2]], [[1936]] - [[Atoyac]], [[Jalisco]]
|obituarydate=[[April 26]], [[1986]] - [[Nuevo Laredo]], [[Tamaulipas]]
|debut=[[1958]] - [[Morelia]], [[Michoacán]]
|lostmaskto=[[El Solitario]] - December 8, 1972 - Arena México
|height=
|weight=
|signatureMoves=[[La Temblorina]]
|titles=[[NWA World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[National Heavyweight Title]], [[National Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[Dr. Wagner]]), [[NWA Americas Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[Dr. Wagner]]), [[National Cruiserweight Title]]
|}}

== Biography ==

Jose Ángel Vargas was born in the city of [[Atoyac]], [[Jalisco]] State on [[August 2]], [[1936]]. His parents were Francisco Vargas and Francisca Sánchez. He grew up as a fan and when he was old enough to train lucha, with it being [[Jalisco]] and all, he studied under the tutelage of [[Diablo Velasco]], and Miguel Navarrete as well.

He debuted under the name "Ranchero" Vargas facing [[Carlos Mayo]] in [[Morelia]], [[Michoacán]]. There is not an exact date for this, but it probably was [[1960]] or [[1961]]. He soon started competing under the mask of El Gato Negro (Black Cat), sometimes also announced as El Gato Negro Enmascarado, though I guess they never announced him like that after he lost his mask to [[José Gómez]] in [[Iraputo]], [[Guanajuato]].

He also wrestled for a bit as one half of the [[Hermanos Diablo]] (not to be confused with the [[Gemelos Diablo]]) with the other half being none other than [[Black Gordman]], until Torreón promoter Gonzalo Gómez named him El Ángel Blanco and had him debut at the [[Plaza de Toros de Torreón]] during 1962, teaming with [[Goliath]] to defeat [[Polo Torres]] and [[Joe Marín]]. One funny thing about this match is that he was replacing the no-showing [[Dr. Wagner]], who would later become his legendary friend and partner. But his first famous tag team, though a short-lived one, was with another white masked man, [[El Enfermero]]. This was in 1963, three years after [[Enfermero]]'s team partner [[Médico Asesino]] died.

Later on he'd form the already mentioned tag team with Wagner. Both were excellent singles wrestlers, but they had that awesome chemistry that only a couple dozen of the greatest tag-teams of all time had. By the late 60s, the tag team would become a trio as [[El Solitario]], one of the greatest workers of all time in Mexico, joined them as their regular partner-in-crime. But seeing [[Solitario]]'s style, charisma and crowd appeal, what was going to happen ended up happening. [[El Solitario]] had to be turned tecnico, and what could have been better than having both members of La Ola Blanca (The White Wave) turn on him? This starting feud set business on fire and all three, now on opposing teams, had tons of great matches drawing sellout after sellout in almost every single arena they stepped in.

Parallel to his tag team or trio career, Blanco also was a successful singles wrestler that other than with [[Solitario]], had several high-profile feuds with people such as [[Ray Mendoza]] (his most important opponent other than Soli) and [[Dory Dixon]]. He also captured some singles titles during his career, the most important one being the NWA World Light Heavyweight Title he traded with [[Ray Mendoza]] (winning it on [[May 9]], [[1968]] in Torreón and losing it the Christmas of [[1968]] at Arena Mexico in the semi main event of a sellout card headlined by [[Solitario]] vs. [[René Guajardo]] mask vs. hair). He also was a National Heavyweight champion (winning it in [[1969]] from Raúl Reyes and in a true upset losing it to a very young Enrique Vera on [[October 26]], [[1973]] after a long reign). His other singles title during his career was the National Cruiserweight one, as he became the first champion by winning a tournament, going over [[El Insólito]] in the finals at the [[Palacio de los Deportes]] on [[November 13]], [[1983]] and lost it to [[Adorable Rubí]] on [[October 7]], [[1984]].

But going back to his feud with [[Solitario]], they had a mask vs. mask match on [[December 8]], [[1972]] before an [[Arena Mexico]] sellout where Blanco lost his hood. This didn't mean the end of the feud though, as Blanco was one of those guys that didn't need a mask at all. While Dr. Wagner could be said to be more charismatic than Blanco was, the general feeling was that Wagner wouldn't be the same without his mask (and after he lost it, even though he had a great rough rudo look, he wasn't the same), but Blanco kept his popularity intact.

The unmasked Blanco had a great personality and a lot of presence, and even though his wrestling name never changed, the fans and some magazines started referring to him as "El Ranchero" Vargas more often than not, like it was a new wrestler with a new personality instead of the old Ángel Blanco.

Blanco was one of the many guys that left [[EMLL]] for the independent [[UWA]] in [[1975]], though he wasn't in the promotion's debut show so perhaps he joined in a second batch shortly after the actual promotion started. He was there, featured in programs against his old-time opponents and of course teaming with Wagner, however his best days were gone. Even though he hadn't been a star for all that long and he was only in his early 40s, by the late 70s he was seen more like a legendary headliner of the past and outside the occasional big match (like him challenging for [[Tatsumi Fujinami]]'s [[WWF World Junior Heavyweight Title]]), he was a true main eventer mostly in the smaller arenas as a newer generation of stars such as [[Canek]], [[Villano III]] or [[Los Misioneros]] were taking the top slots at [[El Toreo]] and the only wrestler from that generation being used constantly as a singles main eventer there was [[El Solitario]], but that was because he still looked as fresh as ever and he was much younger than the others because of his rise to stardom at a very young age.

Not even his short-lived feud with eternal friend [[Dr. Wagner]] made him stay on top for too long in the big Mexico State arenas, however he was as big of a star as ever in the Northern circuit, especially Monterrey, a city that was on fire.

Vargas died in a very sad incident on [[April 26]], [[1986]]. He was in a car with fellow wrestlers [[Dr. Wagner]], [[Jungla Negra]], [[Mano Negra]] and [[Solar I]], heading back to [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]] after working a show in [[Nuevo Laredo]], [[Tamaulipas]]. The car crashed and Blanco had the worst part as the injuries suffered caused his death, though Wagner's career also came to an end as he was also hurt badly and had to be put in a wheelchair. One weird thing is that their long time ring enemy but great real life friend [[El Solitario]] had died just 20 days before, so it's like they had a tragic bond of friendship.

Ever since the 80s there's been many other Ángel Blanco's. The first Junior was [[Rey Salomón]], who was married to one of Vargas' daughters and had the right to use the mask and name until they divorced. He's the one that has had the longest run and probably the best worker. The current one who mostly wrestles in [[Guadalajara]], is a legitimate son of Vargas, and I believe that the Hijos del Ángel Blanco I/II that wrestled at [[Arena Mexico]] in the early 90s are legitimate sons as well.

But none of them has truly lived up to the name of the original Ángel Blanco.

 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Tony Reyna]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hairs|[[Dr. Wagner]] & Ángel Blanco|[[Pantera Negra]] & [[Enrique Vera]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[José Gómez]]|[[Gato Negro]]|Iraputo, Guanajuato}}
{{aline|[[1967|67]]/[[July 29|07/29]]|mask|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[El Ángel Exterminador]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972|72]]/[[November 10|11/10]]|hair|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Ray Mendoza]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972|72]]/[[December 8|12/08]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|73/[[September 21|09/21]]|hairs|[[Ray Mendoza]] & [[Ringo Mendoza]]|Ángel Blanco & [[Kim Chul Won]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1974|74]]/[[February 3|02/03]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[July 6|07/06]]|hair|[[Ray Mendoza]]|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Plaza México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1979|79]]/[[January 28|01/28]]|hair|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[El Toreo]] - [[Naucalpan]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1981|81]]/[[July 26|07/26]]|hair|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Dorrel Dixon]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aend|}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery|name=Gatonegro.jpg|caption=as gato negro}}
{{Gallery|name=Portadaangelb.jpg|caption=1964}}
{{Gallery|name=Scan0026ie3.jpg|caption=August 1967}}
{{Gallery|name=Nwalh angel.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship|NWA World LH Champ]] 1968}}
{{Gallery|name=Angelblanco3.jpg|caption=Unmasked, Rev. LUCHA LIBRE 1974}}
{{Gallery|name=Angelblanco-curcero.jpg|caption=as [[Mexican National Cruiserweight Championship|MEX Cruiserweight Champ]] 1983}}
{{Gallery|name=Angel79.jpg|caption=Wrestling with Fujinami 1979}}
 
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{{Gallery|name=ANGEL BLANCO INICIOS.jpg|caption= 1965}}
{{Gallery|name=Scan0048ln1.jpg|caption= 1968}}
{{Gallery|name=Scan0057rn5.jpg|caption=unmasked 1973}}
{{Gallery|name=LaTemblorina.JPG|caption=Applying La Temblorina 1964}}
{{Gallery|name=Scan0027ll5.jpg|caption=w/Dr.Wagner vs Felipe Ham Lee/Rayo 1969}}
 
{{Gallery|name=Scan0043gj6.jpg|caption=w/ Dr. Wagner 1971}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Angel Blanco]]
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers|Angel Blanco]]

El Solitario

2011-09-01T15:43:49Z

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== Profile ==



{{bioFields|
|image=elsolitario.jpg
|name=El Solitario (The Lone One)
|realName=Roberto González Cruz
|nicknames=El Enmascarado de Oro (The Man of the Golden Mask), El Soli
|nameHistory=El Hijo del Santo (1960), Othon Banzica II, El Zica II, El Zica(1960-1965), El Solitario (1965-death)
|family=[[El Hijo del Solitario]] (son), [[Othon Banzica I]]/[[El Zica I]] (Juan Gonzalez Cruz/brother-Rip)
|maestro=[[Joe El Hermoso]]
|birthdate=[[May 22]], [[1946]] - [[Yahualica]], [[Jalisco]]
|obituarydate=[[April 6]], [[1986]]
|debut=[[1960]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]
|height=6ft(1.82 mts)
|weight= 215lbs(95 kgs)
|signatureMoves=[[Spin Kick|La Filomena (reverse kick)]]
|titles=[[Occidente Welterweight Title]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]], [[NWA World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[Arena Mexico Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[El Halcon]]), [[UWA World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Heavyweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship]]
}}



== Biography ==


The tale of El Solitario is a very special one. He debuted at age 14, was a main eventer at age 24 and died at age 39, but he was such a great worker and drawing card and influenced so many wrestlers that nobody that knew him or knows about him would ever deny that he is a legend... a huge legend, accompanied by [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Mil Mascaras]] and others in the second step of a ladder whose unreachable higher step is occupied by [[Santo]] and [[Blue Demon]].

Roberto González Cruz was born on [[May 22]], [[1946]] in a little town of [[Jalisco]] called [[Yahualica]]. He was the youngest of a 7 children family that didn't live in the best of economical conditions, or anything remotely close to that.

As a kid he was a "rebel" not into the school studying at all, and also an unconformist because he didn't want to stay in that little town forever, living in poverty and working way too hard to earn very little money. So at a very young age, he left his family to live life his own way... and ended up becoming a wrestler.

His family already had a wrestling background, as Roberto's brother, Jesús wrestled as [[Othon Banzica]] during years at local arenas. In 1959, a very sad incident happened and Othon Banzica died in the ring. Roberto really idolized and looked up to his older brother, and his tragic death caused a rage and revenge feeling on young Roberto that pushed him to step into the ring to somehow, in his mind, avenge his brother's death by succeeding and becoming a top star.

He started training under local wrestler [[Joe El Hermoso]]'s tutelage at the "Gallo Madrugador" gym, which didn't sit well with his parents because of what happened to Jesús. However Roberto was in a mission and wasn't going to give up, and after several months, in the year of [[1960]], at age 14 or 15, he made his debut in his home state, along with another young kid called Adolfo Contreras that years later would be known as "El Hippie" [[Renato Torres]] (who was a famous independent star of the 70s and a good real life friend of Roberto).

The first promoter he (and Contreras) wrestled for was [[Elías Simón]], wrestling from Saturday to Monday in [[Ciudad Guzmán]], [[Jalisco]] and [[Tecomán]] and [[Manzanillo]], both in [[Colima]] state. Simón's "brilliant" idea to make these guys sell tickets was announcing them as juniors of big stars. They wrestled unmasked, and while Roberto was always billed as [[El Hijo del Santo]], Adolfo was the son of [[Charro Aguayo]] or [[Blue Demon]].

But Roberto decided that the best thing was to become his own self and continued the family name becoming Othon Banzica II, though this name would eventually get shortened as "El Zica II", and later the number was dropped.

He moved to [[Tijuana]] but local big time promoter [[Black Nassel]] didn't want to use him because he was too young and skinny. As a rookie, Roberto was a good athlete and very tough for a guy his age, but he didn't have any muscular definition. That, however, changed with time as he was a hard gym worker that took care of his body.

In Tijuana he didn't have any money or friends or family, so he lived in an abandoned car. Trying to find work he saw that the city was plagued with night clubs and got a job in a club where he had to darken his body with burnt motor oil to look African and play the bongos while an exotic dancer did her job. But the pay wasn't right either, so Roberto swallowed his pride and apologized to his parents, asking them for money to return back home.

But he didn't quit wrestling there, in fact he trained harder than ever and he made a name for himself in the local arenas and his work paid back as he got a call from big local promoters [[Julián Sánchez]] and [[Ray Plata]] from [[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo in Guadalajara, Jalisco]].

Ray Plata had a long time in the business and knew that El Sica needed a name and costume change if he wanted to succeed in Mexico City. His work was improving very well, as the once skinny and clueless kid with no sense of timing was now a good and polished worker. But still, that name he had, was not the one of a star.

The magic touch Roberto needed was getting named "El Solitario" (The Lonely One), a name based on the famous comic and TV series "El Llanero Solitario" (Lone Ranger). In fact he didn't call himself El Llanero Solitario to avoid copyright infringement problems. He then adopted his classic golden/black tights and his golden mask with a fringe around the eyes representing Lone Ranger's "antifaz" mask. Solitario was one of the first wrestlers to use a mask with a wide open mouth, which is a popular design now used by people like Atlantis, Octagon and Ultimo Guerrero among others.

This name change happened in [[1966]], and not coincidentally, that was his first big year in the business. In Guadalajara he unmasked [[Aguila Tapatía]] and [[The White Hand]] (La Mano Blanca), he won the [[Occident Welterweight Title]] from [[Luis González]] and if that wasn't enough, he also took his hair.

He started wrestling in Mexico City for EMLL by the end of that year (his debut there was on [[September 6]]) and was a rapidly growing young star but when he really made it big, was when he challenged legendary veteran [[Ray Mendoza]] to a hair vs. mask match that was due to happen on [[December 13]], [[1968]]... and WON! And if that wasn't enough, two weeks later he also took the hair of another legend, [[René Guajardo]]! Soli, still a rudo, was the hottest thing on lucha libre at the moment and his drawing power skyrocketed just like his workrate did, as by this point he was considered by many the best wrestler in all of Mexico.

Around that time he started what would later become a legendary trio with El [[Ángel Blanco]] and [[Dr. Wagner]], while attaining success in singles competition too, as on [[August 15]], [[1969]] he defeated El [[Rayo de Jalisco]] to win the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA World Middleweight title]].

Solitario was such a popular rudo that when Ángel Blanco and Dr. Wagner turned on him, he became a tecnico as popular as anyone in that era, including Santo, Rayo de Jalisco and Blue Demon. And of course, this also gave start to his legendary feud against "[[Ola Blanca]]" members Blanco and Wagner, with him finally taking both white masked men's masks (Ángel's didn't take so long, but for the match vs. Wagner we almost had to wait 15 years). And all of this while piling up more titles like the [[NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship|NWA World Light Heavyweight title]] (a title that during many years was considered the biggest prize in all of Mexico) he won from Ray Mendoza and lost to [[David Morgan]] (who eventually got his payback via a Kojak style haircut courtesy of El Soli).

Roberto was also one of the first wrestlers to leave EMLL in December of 1975 to join the independent wrestling revolution commanded by Ray Mendoza and promoter [[Francisco Flores]]. During his first "indie" years, Solitario continued his now legendary feuds against La Ola Blanca and Ray Mendoza, and also started new rivalries against new talent like [[Atila]] and [[Audaz]].

But his fame wasn't only limited to Mexico. He also was a hot ticket in [[Los Angeles]]' [[Olympic Auditorium]] and generated a cult fan base in [[Japan]] with his tours for [[New Japan Pro Wrestling]]. He only went to Japan three times but he was actually more popular that you'd think, the only problem is that at first he was often paired up against superheavyweights like [[Giant Baba]] and [[Seiji Sakaguchi]] who couldn't work his style, so he could not go out there and impress, and when junior heavyweight wrestling became hot in Japan it was already a bit late, and either way, then the junior division's formula consisted of [[Tiger Mask]] against foreign heels, so Soli couldn't have been in line for a big push.

His first tour to Japan was in [[1972]], the second one in [[1979]] and the last one in [[1981]]. In the second tour there was a [[Chavo Guerrero]] & [[Tatsumi Fujinami]] vs. El [[Canek]] & Solitario match that went around 45 minutes and is today referred to by Japanese historians as a "juniors dream match", and in his final tour, Tigermania was runnin' wild and he got the chance to both face and team with the original Tiger Mask.

While in Mexico, he was one of the biggest headlining stars not only at El Toreo and Arena Mexico, but in the whole country. During a time in the middle of the "trios golden years" in the early 80s, he formed a short lived dream team with [[Villano III]] and [[Aníbal]] called "Los Tres Caballeros" (The Three Knights), though Soli always was, like his name says, a lone ranger. He captured several more titles and headlined virtually everywhere he went. In some places he gained himself a reputation among promoters as a tough guy to work with, but his drawing power and in-ring work ethic made him a horse you could bet for with no risk of losing.

But the most legendary feud of Roberto ended up being his long time rivalry with Wagner, to the point it overshadows his also legendary feuds against Blanco, Mendoza and [[Perro Aguayo]]. The legendary "war to settle it all", the mask vs. mask match against Wagner, happened on [[December 1]], [[1985]] at the enormous [[Plaza de Toros Monumental|Plaza de Toros (Bullring) Monumental]] in [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]] where their popularity (especially Wagner's) was even bigger than in Mexico City. It was a dramatic slower paced match with a lot of submissions and some parts where the match would sped up and Soli could use his big moves. A clipped version of it exists on video and it's a true classic.

Solitario's life finished in a very sad way on [[April 6]], [[1986]]. As the "official" story goes, Solitario had a very serious injury that wasn't taken care of properly (some say knee, some say back) so during a match with [[Fishman]], he re-injured himself during a dangerous maneuver and needed urgent surgery (I don't know if this part is true) and while he was in the operation table, his damaged body couldn't take the anesthetic so he had a heart attack and died. Sometimes there is contradictions, though we all bought this story and even many historians don't know what really happened. In fact many of Solitario's close wrestling friends don't even know what happened, like Canek and Blue Demon have stated in the past. There also was a history going around in Mexico City (that I heard from a former WCW star) that says that Solitario was high on cocaine and didn't tell the doctors, so the combo of it with anesthesia caused that heart attack. This one is an urban legend, too.

As Blue Demon said in his autobiography, Solitario died of a "very strange illness" that he never talked about when he was alive. People close to Solitario have confirmed this one, as he died from a virus, side-effect of his lifestyle. It was a very sad way to end for such a legendary man, but as the song goes, "only the good die young".

Five years later, a legitimate son of Solitario made his debut as "[[El Hijo del Solitario]]". He's a young guy with size and athleticism, but he has never had pride in his work, and even years after his debut he looks like he doesn't even know what to do in the ring. The kid always has "hanged out with the wrong crowds" too, which doesn't help matters.

But even with his son somewhat staining the golden legend, Solitario is fondly remembered by people both in and outside the business, and he is always a top five wrestler in everybody's top stars, top workers and most influential wrestlers in Mexico lists.


== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}

{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Coloso Colosetti]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[César Valentino]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|1972/12/01|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Alfonso Dantés]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1965]]/11/??|?|[[Fantasma Negro]]|[[El Solitario|El Sica II]]|[[Cd. Obregón]], [[Sonora]]}}
{{aline|[[1966]]/??/??|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Águila Tapatía]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1966]]/[[06/17]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[The White Hand]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1966]]/07/??|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Luis González]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[12/13]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ray Mendoza]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[12/25]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[René Guajardo]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972]]/[[04/07]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[David Morgan]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972]]/[[12/08]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1974]]/[[02/03]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[03/02]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Luis Mariscal|El Cardenal]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[11/19]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Atila]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[12/05]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Marco Tulio|Destroyer]]|[[Cd. Juárez]], [[Chihuahua]]}}
{{aline|[[1976]]/[[04/12]]|mask (1)|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Audaz]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1977]]/[[02/09]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Ku Klux Klan]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 10|09/10]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[Perro Aguayo]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Máscara Roja]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1979]]/[[11/25]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Black Gordman|Bestia Roja]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1981]]/[[03/25]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Chino Chow|Nakamura]]|[[Auditorio de Tijuana|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California]]}}
{{aline|[[1981]]/[[04/06]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Faraón]]|[[Arena Coliseo Guadalajara|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1982]]/[[06/20]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Olímpico (original)|El Olímpico]]|[[Arena Mexico|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1983]]/[[06/12]]|hair|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Signo]]|[[Auditorio de Tijuana|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California]]}}
{{aline|[[1985]]/[[12/01]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.]]}}
{{aend|(1) Relevos suicidas match vs. Aníbal & Rayo de Jalisco}}

== Gallery ==
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{{Gallery||name=elsolitario01.jpg|caption= Rev. LUCHA LIBRE 1976}}
{{Gallery||name=Soliagain.jpg|caption=1980}}
{{Gallery||name=ElSolitario_Champ.jpg|caption=NWA World Middleweight Champion 1969}}
{{Gallery||name=Solitalio_nwalight.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship|NWA LH Champ 1971]]}}
{{Gallery|name=uwalh_solitario.jpg|caption=as [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship|UWA Cruiserweight Champ 1982]]}}
{{Gallery||name=Elsoli4.jpeg |caption=UWA World Light Heavyweight Champion 1977}}
 
{{Gallery||name=Solitario_NWA.jpg|caption=UWA Cruiserweight Champ 1983.}}
{{Gallery||name=unmaskedsolitario.jpg|caption=Roberto Gonzalez Cruz-EL SOLITARIO 1978}}
{{Gallery||name=solisinmascara.jpg|caption=Roberto Gonzalez Cruz-EL SOLITARIO 1981}}

[[Category:Deceased wrestlers|Solitario]]
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Solitario]]
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers|Solitario]]

Halcón Negro (Original)

2011-07-27T19:18:43Z

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{{bioFields|
|image=Halconnegrox2.jpg
|name=Halcon Negro
|realName=Manuel Quintana
|nicknames=
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|debut=
|lostmaskto=[[El Santo]] - December 3, 1955 - Arena Coliseo - Mexico City
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|signatureMoves="[[La horqueta Española]]"
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|55/09/16|hair|Halcón Negro|[[Cavernario Galindo]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|55/12/03|mask|[[El Santo]]|Halcón Negro|Arena Coliseo - Mexico City}}
{{aend|}}
== Gallery ==
{{Gallery||name=Halconnegroogunmasked.jpg|caption= Manuel Quintana}}
{{Gallery||name=Haconmanuel.jpg|caption=1954-55}}
{{Gallery||name=Halconnegromanuel.jpg|caption=1955}}
{{Gallery||name=HalconNegroOGmasked.JPG|caption=This is NOT Halcon Negro. It's LEON NEGRO-Carmelo Castillo who lost mask vs ULTRAMAN in 1978. Please fix error.}}

[[Category:Foreign wrestlers]]
[[Category:Spanish wrestlers]]

El Conde Negro

2011-04-04T22:05:42Z

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|name=El Conde Negro
|realName=Salvador González
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|nameHistory=Jalisco Gonzalez,El Conde Negro
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|[[1975|66]]/??/??|mask|[[Alberto Muñoz]]|[[El Conde negro]]|unknown}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|name=4ELCONDENEGRO.jpg|caption=1965}}
{{Gallery|name=JaliscoGonzalez.jpg|caption=unmasked as Jalisco González}}
{{Gallery|name=Condenegrox11.jpg|caption=1965}}
{{Gallery|name=Condenegrox12.jpg|caption=1966}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Conde Negro]]

El Caballero Tigre

2011-04-04T22:01:13Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Biography */

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== Biography ==

Real name Pedro Bolaños, he wrestled under that name in the mid-60's as a tecnico. After wrestling in Central and South America he returned to Mexico and decided to begin a new career for himself at the age of 39 by putting on a mask.

His mask was historic due to the fact it was the first time anyone had worn a mask with an opening for their mouth. [[El Solitario]] eventually copied this design for his own legendary mask.

Formed famous teams with [[Carta Brava]], [[El Condor]] & [[El Lince]] (who died tragically in a car accident at a young age). Also teamed with his son El Caballero Tigre II who would eventually go on to acheive fame under the name [[Gallo Tapado]].

He had many rivals throughout his career but the most memorable was with [[Dr. Karonte]]. They never made it to a mask match and both retired with their respective masks. Some of his other rivals included [[Canaima]], [[Espectro I]], [[Hermano Muerte I]] (who eventually became [[Sangre Fria]]), [[Hermano Muerte II]], [[Chanoc]], [[El Duque]], [[Professor Satan]] & [[Tom Mix]].

Although he never made it to [[Arena Mexico]], he was well known in the smaller arenas throughout the [[Distrito Federal]] area. Some of those arenas included [[Arena Xochilmilco]], [[Arena Naucalpan]] & [[Arena Monumental]].

He retired in the mid-70's and left the Caballero Tigre gimmick to his son. After his retirement he became a director on the Association for Retired Luchadores, a position which he held until his death in [[1999]].

----

Su nombre verdadero era Pedro Bolaños, Luchador Tecnico de los Años 60's, un magnifico Peso Welter que gozaba de Gran Cartel Internacionalmente, despues de una Gira que realiza por Centro y Sudamerica decide enmascararse en Mexico a los 39 años.

Su Mascara es Historica pues es la Primera en Mexico y en el Mundo que tuvo como inovacion la "boca abierta" y fue el primer Luchador que la utilizo sobre un Ring, poco tiempo despues "El Solitario" (Roberto Gonzalez Cruz) adoptaria esa variante en el diseño de su Dorada Mascara.

Formo grandes Duplas al lado de Inolvidables tales como "Carta Brava", "El Lince" (que lamentablemente fallecio muy joven en un accidente automovilistico), "El Condor" y en algun tiempo junto a su Hijo "El Caballero Tigre II" (Rosalio Hernandez Marquez) a quien mas tarde conoceriamos como "El Gallo Tapado"

Tuvo Grandes Rivales, pero el mas emblematico fue el Original "Dr. Karonte" (Manuel Almanza) nunca apostaron las Mascaras y se retiraron sin perderlas, otros Rivales en Turno fueron: "Canaima", "Espectro I" (Antonio Hernandez Arriaga), "El Hermano Muerte I (Roman Zacarias) y que despues conocimos como "Sangre Fria", "El Hermano Muerte II" (Jose Perez), "Chanoc", "El Duque", "Profr. Satan", "Tom Mix", en fin toda una Pleyade de Grandes Luchadores, en serio que esta lista es interminable y me llevaria un buen de tiempo mencionarlos a todos, pero estos creo que son los mas Significativos.

Aunque nunca ingreso a la Arena Mexico, fue un gran Idolo en Arenas "Chicas" donde los Madrazos se ponian a Peso y donde despues de una Funcion de Lucha Libre habia que salir Escoltado por la Ley o Directo a la Delegacion, entre ellas podemos mencionar a la Vieja Arena "Xochimilco", La Plaza de Toros "El Cortijo" (de la Colonia Romero Rubio), la Legendaria Arena "Naucalpan" y por supuesto la Arena "Monumental" (de la Colonia Ramos Millan), por citar las mas Importantes ya que tambien encabezo Grandes Carteles en Arenas "Bravas" de Pantitlan y Tlalnepantla.

El Caballero Tigre se retiro a mediados de la Decada de los 70's dejando su valioso lugar a su hijo Rosalio que ya empezaba a despuntar fuertemente en aquel entonces como "El Gallo Tapado", Pedro Bolaños despues de retirado fue Dirigente de la Asociacion de Luchadores Retirados, desafortunadamente se nos adelanto en el viaje sin retorno en el año de 1999, este pequeño Post es solo un sencillo Homenaje para recordarlo y tenerlo siempre en la Memoria como uno de los Grandes Luchadores de Mexico.

By: axl5141

== Luchas de apuestas record ==

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery||name=licecaballero.jpg|caption=w/[[El Lince]] 1966}}
{{Gallery||name=ctigre.jpg|caption=1962}}
{{Gallery||name=caballerotigre04.jpg|caption=1965}}
{{Gallery||name=PedroBonales.JPG|caption=unmasked 1956}}
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Cabllero Tigre]]
[[Category:Articles which need translation|Cabllero Tigre]]
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]

El Caballero Tigre

2011-04-04T21:59:03Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Luchas de apuestas record */

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== Biography ==

Real name Pedro Bolaños, he wrestled under that name in the mid-60's as a tecnico. After wrestling in Central and South America he returned to Mexico and decided to begin a new career for himself at the age of 39 by putting on a mask.

His mask was historic due to the fact it was the first time anyone had worn a mask with an opening for their mouth. [[El Solitario]] eventually copied this design for his own legendary mask.

Formed famous teams with [[Carta Brava]], [[El Condor]] & [[El Lince]] (who died tragically in a car accident at a young age). Also teamed with his son El Caballero Tigre II who would eventually go on to acheive fame under the name [[Gallo Tapado]].

He had many rivals throughout his career but the most memorable was with [[Dr. Karonte]]. They never made it to a mask match and both retired with their respective masks. Some of his other rivals included [[Canaima]] (who's mask he won), [[Espectro I]], [[Hermano Muerte I]] (who eventually became [[Sangre Fria]]), [[Hermano Muerte II]], [[Chanoc]], [[El Duque]], [[Professor Satan]] & [[Tom Mix]].

Although he never made it to [[Arena Mexico]], he was well known in the smaller arenas throughout the [[Distrito Federal]] area. Some of those arenas included [[Arena Xochilmilco]], [[Arena Naucalpan]] & [[Arena Monumental]].

He retired in the mid-70's and left the Caballero Tigre gimmick to his son. After his retirement he became a director on the Association for Retired Luchadores, a position which he held until his death in [[1999]].

----

Su nombre verdadero era Pedro Bolaños, Luchador Tecnico de los Años 60's, un magnifico Peso Welter que gozaba de Gran Cartel Internacionalmente, despues de una Gira que realiza por Centro y Sudamerica decide enmascararse en Mexico a los 39 años.

Su Mascara es Historica pues es la Primera en Mexico y en el Mundo que tuvo como inovacion la "boca abierta" y fue el primer Luchador que la utilizo sobre un Ring, poco tiempo despues "El Solitario" (Roberto Gonzalez Cruz) adoptaria esa variante en el diseño de su Dorada Mascara.

Formo grandes Duplas al lado de Inolvidables tales como "Carta Brava", "El Lince" (que lamentablemente fallecio muy joven en un accidente automovilistico), "El Condor" y en algun tiempo junto a su Hijo "El Caballero Tigre II" (Rosalio Hernandez Marquez) a quien mas tarde conoceriamos como "El Gallo Tapado"

Tuvo Grandes Rivales, pero el mas emblematico fue el Original "Dr. Karonte" (Manuel Almanza) nunca apostaron las Mascaras y se retiraron sin perderlas, otros Rivales en Turno fueron: "Canaima" (al que le quito la Tapa), "Espectro I" (Antonio Hernandez Arriaga), "El Hermano Muerte I (Roman Zacarias) y que despues conocimos como "Sangre Fria", "El Hermano Muerte II" (Jose Perez), "Chanoc", "El Duque", "Profr. Satan", "Tom Mix", en fin toda una Pleyade de Grandes Luchadores, en serio que esta lista es interminable y me llevaria un buen de tiempo mencionarlos a todos, pero estos creo que son los mas Significativos.

Aunque nunca ingreso a la Arena Mexico, fue un gran Idolo en Arenas "Chicas" donde los Madrazos se ponian a Peso y donde despues de una Funcion de Lucha Libre habia que salir Escoltado por la Ley o Directo a la Delegacion, entre ellas podemos mencionar a la Vieja Arena "Xochimilco", La Plaza de Toros "El Cortijo" (de la Colonia Romero Rubio), la Legendaria Arena "Naucalpan" y por supuesto la Arena "Monumental" (de la Colonia Ramos Millan), por citar las mas Importantes ya que tambien encabezo Grandes Carteles en Arenas "Bravas" de Pantitlan y Tlalnepantla.

El Caballero Tigre se retiro a mediados de la Decada de los 70's dejando su valioso lugar a su hijo Rosalio que ya empezaba a despuntar fuertemente en aquel entonces como "El Gallo Tapado", Pedro Bolaños despues de retirado fue Dirigente de la Asociacion de Luchadores Retirados, desafortunadamente se nos adelanto en el viaje sin retorno en el año de 1999, este pequeño Post es solo un sencillo Homenaje para recordarlo y tenerlo siempre en la Memoria como uno de los Grandes Luchadores de Mexico.

By: axl5141

== Luchas de apuestas record ==

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery||name=licecaballero.jpg|caption=w/[[El Lince]] 1966}}
{{Gallery||name=ctigre.jpg|caption=1962}}
{{Gallery||name=caballerotigre04.jpg|caption=1965}}
{{Gallery||name=PedroBonales.JPG|caption=unmasked 1956}}
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Cabllero Tigre]]
[[Category:Articles which need translation|Cabllero Tigre]]
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]

Canaima

2011-04-04T21:57:39Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

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|realName=Miguel Ángel Sámano
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== Lucha de Apuestas ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|????.??.1965|mask|[[Carta Brava I]]|Canaima|Arena KO Algusto,Mexico}}
{{aend}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery|name=Canaima.jpg|caption=1961}}
{{Gallery|name=Canaima2.JPG|caption=1966}}
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]

Canaima

2011-04-04T21:57:11Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Lucha de Apuestas */

Canaima

2011-04-01T21:54:53Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Lucha de Apuestas */

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== Lucha de Apuestas ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|????.??.1962|mask|[[Carta Brava I]]|Canaima|Arena KO Algusto,Mexico}}
{{aend}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery|name=Canaima.jpg|caption=1961}}
{{Gallery|name=Canaima2.JPG|caption=1963}}
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]

El Caballero Tigre

2011-04-01T21:53:22Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Luchas de apuestas record */

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== Biography ==

Real name Pedro Bolaños, he wrestled under that name in the mid-60's as a tecnico. After wrestling in Central and South America he returned to Mexico and decided to begin a new career for himself at the age of 39 by putting on a mask.

His mask was historic due to the fact it was the first time anyone had worn a mask with an opening for their mouth. [[El Solitario]] eventually copied this design for his own legendary mask.

Formed famous teams with [[Carta Brava]], [[El Condor]] & [[El Lince]] (who died tragically in a car accident at a young age). Also teamed with his son El Caballero Tigre II who would eventually go on to acheive fame under the name [[Gallo Tapado]].

He had many rivals throughout his career but the most memorable was with [[Dr. Karonte]]. They never made it to a mask match and both retired with their respective masks. Some of his other rivals included [[Canaima]] (who's mask he won), [[Espectro I]], [[Hermano Muerte I]] (who eventually became [[Sangre Fria]]), [[Hermano Muerte II]], [[Chanoc]], [[El Duque]], [[Professor Satan]] & [[Tom Mix]].

Although he never made it to [[Arena Mexico]], he was well known in the smaller arenas throughout the [[Distrito Federal]] area. Some of those arenas included [[Arena Xochilmilco]], [[Arena Naucalpan]] & [[Arena Monumental]].

He retired in the mid-70's and left the Caballero Tigre gimmick to his son. After his retirement he became a director on the Association for Retired Luchadores, a position which he held until his death in [[1999]].

----

Su nombre verdadero era Pedro Bolaños, Luchador Tecnico de los Años 60's, un magnifico Peso Welter que gozaba de Gran Cartel Internacionalmente, despues de una Gira que realiza por Centro y Sudamerica decide enmascararse en Mexico a los 39 años.

Su Mascara es Historica pues es la Primera en Mexico y en el Mundo que tuvo como inovacion la "boca abierta" y fue el primer Luchador que la utilizo sobre un Ring, poco tiempo despues "El Solitario" (Roberto Gonzalez Cruz) adoptaria esa variante en el diseño de su Dorada Mascara.

Formo grandes Duplas al lado de Inolvidables tales como "Carta Brava", "El Lince" (que lamentablemente fallecio muy joven en un accidente automovilistico), "El Condor" y en algun tiempo junto a su Hijo "El Caballero Tigre II" (Rosalio Hernandez Marquez) a quien mas tarde conoceriamos como "El Gallo Tapado"

Tuvo Grandes Rivales, pero el mas emblematico fue el Original "Dr. Karonte" (Manuel Almanza) nunca apostaron las Mascaras y se retiraron sin perderlas, otros Rivales en Turno fueron: "Canaima" (al que le quito la Tapa), "Espectro I" (Antonio Hernandez Arriaga), "El Hermano Muerte I (Roman Zacarias) y que despues conocimos como "Sangre Fria", "El Hermano Muerte II" (Jose Perez), "Chanoc", "El Duque", "Profr. Satan", "Tom Mix", en fin toda una Pleyade de Grandes Luchadores, en serio que esta lista es interminable y me llevaria un buen de tiempo mencionarlos a todos, pero estos creo que son los mas Significativos.

Aunque nunca ingreso a la Arena Mexico, fue un gran Idolo en Arenas "Chicas" donde los Madrazos se ponian a Peso y donde despues de una Funcion de Lucha Libre habia que salir Escoltado por la Ley o Directo a la Delegacion, entre ellas podemos mencionar a la Vieja Arena "Xochimilco", La Plaza de Toros "El Cortijo" (de la Colonia Romero Rubio), la Legendaria Arena "Naucalpan" y por supuesto la Arena "Monumental" (de la Colonia Ramos Millan), por citar las mas Importantes ya que tambien encabezo Grandes Carteles en Arenas "Bravas" de Pantitlan y Tlalnepantla.

El Caballero Tigre se retiro a mediados de la Decada de los 70's dejando su valioso lugar a su hijo Rosalio que ya empezaba a despuntar fuertemente en aquel entonces como "El Gallo Tapado", Pedro Bolaños despues de retirado fue Dirigente de la Asociacion de Luchadores Retirados, desafortunadamente se nos adelanto en el viaje sin retorno en el año de 1999, este pequeño Post es solo un sencillo Homenaje para recordarlo y tenerlo siempre en la Memoria como uno de los Grandes Luchadores de Mexico.

By: axl5141

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/1962|mask|[[El Caballero Tigre]]|[[Canaima]]|Arena KO Algusto,Mexico}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery||name=licecaballero.jpg|caption=w/[[El Lince]] 1966}}
{{Gallery||name=ctigre.jpg|caption=1962}}
{{Gallery||name=caballerotigre04.jpg|caption=1965}}
{{Gallery||name=PedroBonales.JPG|caption=unmasked 1956}}
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Cabllero Tigre]]
[[Category:Articles which need translation|Cabllero Tigre]]
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]

El Caballero Tigre

2011-04-01T21:51:44Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

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== Biography ==

Real name Pedro Bolaños, he wrestled under that name in the mid-60's as a tecnico. After wrestling in Central and South America he returned to Mexico and decided to begin a new career for himself at the age of 39 by putting on a mask.

His mask was historic due to the fact it was the first time anyone had worn a mask with an opening for their mouth. [[El Solitario]] eventually copied this design for his own legendary mask.

Formed famous teams with [[Carta Brava]], [[El Condor]] & [[El Lince]] (who died tragically in a car accident at a young age). Also teamed with his son El Caballero Tigre II who would eventually go on to acheive fame under the name [[Gallo Tapado]].

He had many rivals throughout his career but the most memorable was with [[Dr. Karonte]]. They never made it to a mask match and both retired with their respective masks. Some of his other rivals included [[Canaima]] (who's mask he won), [[Espectro I]], [[Hermano Muerte I]] (who eventually became [[Sangre Fria]]), [[Hermano Muerte II]], [[Chanoc]], [[El Duque]], [[Professor Satan]] & [[Tom Mix]].

Although he never made it to [[Arena Mexico]], he was well known in the smaller arenas throughout the [[Distrito Federal]] area. Some of those arenas included [[Arena Xochilmilco]], [[Arena Naucalpan]] & [[Arena Monumental]].

He retired in the mid-70's and left the Caballero Tigre gimmick to his son. After his retirement he became a director on the Association for Retired Luchadores, a position which he held until his death in [[1999]].

----

Su nombre verdadero era Pedro Bolaños, Luchador Tecnico de los Años 60's, un magnifico Peso Welter que gozaba de Gran Cartel Internacionalmente, despues de una Gira que realiza por Centro y Sudamerica decide enmascararse en Mexico a los 39 años.

Su Mascara es Historica pues es la Primera en Mexico y en el Mundo que tuvo como inovacion la "boca abierta" y fue el primer Luchador que la utilizo sobre un Ring, poco tiempo despues "El Solitario" (Roberto Gonzalez Cruz) adoptaria esa variante en el diseño de su Dorada Mascara.

Formo grandes Duplas al lado de Inolvidables tales como "Carta Brava", "El Lince" (que lamentablemente fallecio muy joven en un accidente automovilistico), "El Condor" y en algun tiempo junto a su Hijo "El Caballero Tigre II" (Rosalio Hernandez Marquez) a quien mas tarde conoceriamos como "El Gallo Tapado"

Tuvo Grandes Rivales, pero el mas emblematico fue el Original "Dr. Karonte" (Manuel Almanza) nunca apostaron las Mascaras y se retiraron sin perderlas, otros Rivales en Turno fueron: "Canaima" (al que le quito la Tapa), "Espectro I" (Antonio Hernandez Arriaga), "El Hermano Muerte I (Roman Zacarias) y que despues conocimos como "Sangre Fria", "El Hermano Muerte II" (Jose Perez), "Chanoc", "El Duque", "Profr. Satan", "Tom Mix", en fin toda una Pleyade de Grandes Luchadores, en serio que esta lista es interminable y me llevaria un buen de tiempo mencionarlos a todos, pero estos creo que son los mas Significativos.

Aunque nunca ingreso a la Arena Mexico, fue un gran Idolo en Arenas "Chicas" donde los Madrazos se ponian a Peso y donde despues de una Funcion de Lucha Libre habia que salir Escoltado por la Ley o Directo a la Delegacion, entre ellas podemos mencionar a la Vieja Arena "Xochimilco", La Plaza de Toros "El Cortijo" (de la Colonia Romero Rubio), la Legendaria Arena "Naucalpan" y por supuesto la Arena "Monumental" (de la Colonia Ramos Millan), por citar las mas Importantes ya que tambien encabezo Grandes Carteles en Arenas "Bravas" de Pantitlan y Tlalnepantla.

El Caballero Tigre se retiro a mediados de la Decada de los 70's dejando su valioso lugar a su hijo Rosalio que ya empezaba a despuntar fuertemente en aquel entonces como "El Gallo Tapado", Pedro Bolaños despues de retirado fue Dirigente de la Asociacion de Luchadores Retirados, desafortunadamente se nos adelanto en el viaje sin retorno en el año de 1999, este pequeño Post es solo un sencillo Homenaje para recordarlo y tenerlo siempre en la Memoria como uno de los Grandes Luchadores de Mexico.

By: axl5141

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Caballero Tigre]]|[[Canaima]]|Estado de Mexico}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery||name=licecaballero.jpg|caption=w/[[El Lince]] 1966}}
{{Gallery||name=ctigre.jpg|caption=1962}}
{{Gallery||name=caballerotigre04.jpg|caption=1965}}
{{Gallery||name=PedroBonales.JPG|caption=unmasked 1956}}
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Cabllero Tigre]]
[[Category:Articles which need translation|Cabllero Tigre]]
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]

El Supremo

2011-02-20T20:08:49Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Source */

== Profile ==
{{bioFields|
|image=elsupremoface.jpg
|name=El Supremo (Supreme)
|realName=Salvador Cuevas Ramírez
|nicknames=
|nameHistory=Power Man (1977, briefly), El Magnífico (debut - 03/77), El Supremo/El Supremo I (03/77 - )
|family=[[El Supremo Jr.]](son)
|maestro=[[Diablo Velazco]]
|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]]
|obituarydate=[[May 4]], [[2010]] - [[Tijuana]], [[Baja California]]
|debut=[[July 8]], [[1976]] - [[Auditorio de Tijuana]] - [[Tijuana]], [[Baja California]]
|lostmaskto=[[Pierroth Jr.]] - [[December 18]], [[1992]] - [[Arena México]]
|height=5'8"/175 cm
|weight= 206 lbs/93 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Plancha Suicida]], Supremo Special ([[Cerrajera variant]])
|titles=[[Distrito Federal Welterweight Title]], [[NWA World Welterweight Title]], [[National Welterweight Title]]
}}


== Biography ==


 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|[[1979]]/[[10/19]]|mask (1)|[[El Supremo]]|[[El Rebelde|Robot R-2]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1980]]/[[02/29]]|mask|[[El Supremo]]|[[Lawrence de Arabia]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1987]]/04/??|mask|[[El Supremo]]|[[Guerrero Azteca]]|[[Arena Coliseo Monterrey|Arena Coliseo - Monterrey, Nuevo León]]}}
{{aline|[[1992]]/[[12/08]]|mask|[[Pierroth Jr.]]|[[El Supremo]]|[[Arena México|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aend|(1) Santo & R-2 vs. Supremo & Vikingo, pinned man loser must unmask}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery|name=Supremo.jpg|caption=Supremo}}
{{Gallery|name=Elsuremo-nwawelter.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Welterweight Championship|NWA WELTER Champ]]}}
{{Gallery|name=mexwelter_supremo.jpg|caption=[[Mexican National Welterweight Championship|Mex Welter Champ]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Lossupremos.jpg|caption=Supremo I & II}}
{{Gallery|name=Supremo80S.jpg|caption=El Supremo vs. [[Gran Cochisse]], Arena Coliseo 1984}}
{{Gallery|name=Supremodorado.jpg|caption=vs [[El Dorado]]}}
 
{{Gallery|name=Supremomaskmatch.jpg|caption=Versus [[Pierroth Jr.]] in Mask Match}}
{{Gallery|name=Supremounmasked.jpg|caption=Unmasked in Arena Mexico}}
{{Gallery|name=SupremoUnmasked.JPG|caption=Unmasked}}

El Rebelde

2011-02-20T20:05:36Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

{{bioFields|
|name=El Rebelde
|image=Elrebeldemex.jpg
|realName=Jesús Reza García
|nicknames=
|nameHistory=Escorpión Verde (debut-?), Chuchú García, El Rebelde, Robot R-2, La Muerte
|family=[[Mano Negra]] (son), [[Mano Negra Jr.]] (grandson), [[Black Warrior]] (grandson-in-law)
|maestro=
|birthdate=[[March 21]], [[1933]]- [[Torreón]], [[Coahuila]]
|debut=
|lostmaskto=[[Tony López]] - Arena Coliseo, México City
|height=
|weight=
|obituarydate=[[December 3]], [[2009]]
|signatureMoves=
|titles=
|}}

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|[[El Rebelde]]|[[Arena Coliseo DF|Arena Coliseo - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Rebelde]]|[[Rizado Ruiz]]|?}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Rebelde]]|[[Huroki Sito]]|?}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Rebelde]]|[[Manuel Robles]]|?}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Rebelde]]|[[El Brujo]]|?}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Tony López]]|[[El Rebelde]]|[[Arena Coliseo DF|Arena Coliseo - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1959]]/[[09/06]]|mask|[[El Rebelde]]|[[Ciclón Rojo]]|[[Arena Coliseo DF|Arena Coliseo - Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1974]]/[[08/31]]|hair|[[Cuauhtémoc Torres]]|[[El Rebelde]]|[[Arena Coliseo Monterrey|Arena Coliseo - Monterrey, Nuevo León]]}}
{{aline|[[1976]]/[[02/08]]|hairs|[[Black Terry]] & [[Águila Roja]]|[[El Argentino]] & [[El Rebelde|Chucho García]]|[[Arena Jalisco]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1979]]/[[10/19]]|mask (1)|[[Supremo]]|[[El Rebelde|Robot R-2]]|[[Arena Mexico|Arena México - Mexico City]]}}
{{aend|(1) Santo & R-2 vs. Supremo & Vikingo, pinned man loser must unmask}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery||name=Rebeldecolorx.jpg|caption=1975}}
{{Gallery||name=Rebeldemask.jpg|caption=1965}}
{{Gallery||name=Elrebelde.jpg|caption=1970}}
{{Gallery||name=RobotR_2.jpg|caption=as Robot R-2 1979}}

== Sources ==
* [http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/154039.el-rebelde-luchador-que-deja-huella.html El Siglo de Torreón interview]
* [http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/483026.murio-el-rebelde-otro-de-los-grandes.html El Siglo de Torreón obituary]
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Rebelde]]

El Audaz

2011-02-20T20:03:35Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Profile */

== Profile ==

{{bioFields||image=Elaudaz.jpg
|name=El Audaz (The Audacious One)
|realName=Doménico Bazán León
|nicknames=none
|nameHistory=El Audaz (debut - retirement)
|family=[[El Hijo del Audaz]]?
|maestro=unknown
|birthdate=[[May 16]], [[1947]] - [[Veracruz]], [[Veracruz]]
|debut=[[1966]]
|lostmaskto=[[El Solitario]] - April 12, 1976 - Palacio de los Deportes
|height=5'10"/178 cms
|weight=205 lbs/93 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Tope Suicida]]
|titles=[[UWA World Light Heavyweight Title]]
|}}

 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Ray Mendoza]]|[[El Audaz]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1972|72]]/[[February 20|02/20]]|hair|[[El Audaz]]|[[Manuel Robles]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1972|72]]/[[December 19|12/19]]|hair|[[El Audaz]]|[[El Enfermero]]|[[Poza Rica]], [[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[April 12|04/12]]|mask (1)|[[El Solitario]]|[[El Audaz]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aend|(1) Relevos suicidas match vs. [[Aníbal]] & [[Rayo de Jalisco]]}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery||name=Domenico.jpg|caption=el audaz unmasked}}
{{Gallery||name=Elaudazunmasked.jpg|caption=el audaz}}
{{Gallery||name=Audazportada.jpg|caption=el audaz}}
{{Gallery||name=Milaudaz.jpg|caption=w/ [[Mil Mascaras]] & [[Tinieblas]]}}
{{Gallery||name=Audaz2008.JPG|caption=2008}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Audaz]]
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers|Audaz]]

Zapatista

2011-02-19T18:34:39Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

{{bioFields|
|name=Zapatista
|image=zapatiztacolor.jpg
|realName=Ismael Reyes Ham
|nicknames=
|nameHistory=Raúl Reyes Jr., Zoroastro, Thunder Tornado, Zapatista (1994 - 2001), Impacto (1973-1983)
|family=[[Raúl Reyes]] (father), [[Pánico]] (brother-in-law), [[Skandalo]] (nephew)
|maestro=
|birthdate=[[1951]]
|debut=
|lostmaskto= as ZAPATISTA vs [[Tarzan Boy]] - [[July 19]], [[1999]] - [[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo Leon]]
|height=
|weight=
|obituarydate=
|signatureMoves=
|titles=
|}}

Sad fate for this Cuernavaca regular. He is now wheelchair-bound after suffering a massive stroke that left him paralized and caused severe speech impediment. There was a benefit card at Arena Isabel in Cuernavaca,Morelos to raise money to help him and his family w the medical expenses & his rehabilitation.[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_087jfuSmddg/Sy05N0FEAgI/AAAAAAAAGLo/CksP-RASoaM/s1600-h/quepasoismael5.jpg]

 
== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Espectro de Ultratumba]]|[[Impacto]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Super Parka]]|[[Zapatista]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1999|99]]/[[July 19|07/19]]|mask (1)|[[Tarzan Boy]]|[[Zapatista]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo Leon]]}}
{{aline|[[2000|00]]/[[September 7|09/07]]|hair|Zapatista|[[Brazo de Platino]]|[[Arena Isabel de Cuernavaca]] - [[Cuernavaca]], [[Morelos]]}}
{{aline|[[2003|03]]/[[April 30|04/30]]|hair|[[Super Brazo]]|Impacto|[[Arena Isabel de Cuernavaca]] - [[Cuernavaca]], [[Morelos]]}}
{{aend|(1) Triangle match with [[Pierroth Jr.]]}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|
|name=Impactxx.jpg
|caption=as Impacto 1979}}
{{Gallery|
|name=Impactorostro2.jpg
|caption=as Impacto 1976-77}}
{{Gallery|
|name=Santo_impacto.jpg
|caption=[[El Santo]] & Impacto 1979}}
{{Gallery|
|name=Zapatista.jpg
|caption=}}
{{Gallery|
|name=Zapatista-impacto.jpg
|caption=}}
{{Gallery||name=Ismaelreyestornado.jpg|caption=as Tornado in AAA}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]

Zapatista

2011-02-19T18:31:48Z

Hombre-Solo:

{{bioFields|
|name=Zapatista
|image=zapatiztacolor.jpg
|realName=Ismael Reyes Ham
|nicknames=
|nameHistory=Raúl Reyes Jr., Zoroastro, Thunder Tornado, Zapatista (1994 - 2001), Impacto (1973-1983)
|family=[[Raúl Reyes]] (father), [[Pánico]] (brother-in-law), [[Skandalo]] (nephew)
|maestro=
|birthdate=[[1951]]
|debut=
|lostmaskto= as ZAPATISTA vs [[Tarzan Boy]] - [[July 19]], [[1999]] - [[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo Leon]]
|height=
|weight=
|obituarydate=
|signatureMoves=
|titles=
|}}

Sad fate for this Cuernavaca regular. He is now wheelchair-bound after suffering a massive stroke that left him paralized and caused severe speech impediment. There was a benefit card at Arena Isabel in Cuernavaca,Morelos to raise money to help him and his family w the medical expenses & his rehabilitation.[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_087jfuSmddg/Sy05N0FEAgI/AAAAAAAAGLo/CksP-RASoaM/s1600-h/quepasoismael5.jpg]

 
== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Espectro de Ultratumba]]|[[Impacto]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Super Parka]]|[[Zapatista]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1999|99]]/[[July 19|07/19]]|mask (1)|[[Tarzan Boy]]|[[Zapatista]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo Leon]]}}
{{aline|[[2000|00]]/[[September 7|09/07]]|hair|Zapatista|[[Brazo de Platino]]|[[Arena Isabel de Cuernavaca]] - [[Cuernavaca]], [[Morelos]]}}
{{aline|[[2003|03]]/[[April 30|04/30]]|hair|[[Super Brazo]]|Impacto|[[Arena Isabel de Cuernavaca]] - [[Cuernavaca]], [[Morelos]]}}
{{aend|(1) Triangle match with [[Pierroth Jr.]]}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|
|name=Impactxx.jpg
|caption=as Impacto}}
{{Gallery|
|name=Impactorostro2.jpg
|caption=as Impacto}}
{{Gallery|
|name=Santo_impacto.jpg
|caption=[[El Santo]] & Impacto}}
{{Gallery|
|name=Zapatista.jpg
|caption=}}
{{Gallery|
|name=Zapatista-impacto.jpg
|caption=}}
{{Gallery|
|name=IMPACTO ISMAELREYES.jpg
|caption=}}
{{Gallery||name=Ismaelreyestornado.jpg|caption=as Tornado in AAA}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]

Bobby Lee

2011-02-19T18:17:42Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

== Profile ==

{{bioFields||image=Bobbylee.jpg
|name=Bobby Lee
|realName=Carlos Alvarado González
|nicknames=El Enmascarado Verde (The Green Maskman), La Bestia del 78 (The Beast of '78)
|nameHistory=Impacto?? Not to be confused w Original IMPACTO(Ismael Reyes) (debut - ??), Gallo Tapado II, Gallo del Bajío, Bobby Lee (77 - retirement)
|family=[[Bobby Lee Jr.]] (son)
|maestro=unknown
|birthdate=[[April 15]], [[1950]] - [[León]], [[Guanajuato]]
|debut=[[September 14]], [[1973]] - [[León]], [[Guanajuato]]
|lostmaskto=[[El Santo]] - [[March 10]], [[1978]] - [[Palacio de los Deportes]]
|height=5'8"/175 cms
|weight=181 lbs/82 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Tope en Reversa]]
|titles=[[UWA World Welterweight Title]]
|}}
 

== Notes ==

Exciting rookie who took off with the creation of the [[UWA]] and cemented his status as a legendary name by being the first person to lose his mask to [[El Santo]] in the [[Palacio De Los Deportes]]. He followed it up by losing his hair to Santo less than a month later in the same building. Still had some name value in Mexico and ended up being asked over to [[New Japan Pro Wrestling]] for a feud with the original [[Tiger Mask]] whom he lost his mask to... except this time while wrestling as The Masked Hurricane. Word of this eventually found it's way back to Mexico and certain people weren't so thrilled. This effectively ended his working relationship with the UWA and he was mainly a local wrestler in [[Leon]] from that point forward. Also became the promotor of all shows at the [[Domo de la Feria]] in Leon, a position which he still holds to this day. Having that type of power has allowed him to participate in several angles such as saving his son from beatings and even putting his hair on the line both as a second and a wrestler in a match with two other referees.

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}

{{aline|[[??|??]]/[[??|??/??]]|masks|[[Flama Roja]] & Bobby Lee|[[Los Tigres del Ring]]|[[Cd Juarez]]}}
{{aline|[[1978|78]]/[[August 13|08/13]]|masks|[[Villano III]] & Bobby Lee|[[Los Escorpiones]] [[Escorpion I|I]] & [[Escorpion II|II]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1978|78]]/[[September 3|09/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|Bobby Lee|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1978|78]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|Bobby Lee|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1981|81]]/[[October 8|10/08]]|mask|[[Tiger Mask]]|Masked Hurricane|[[Sumo Hall]] - [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]}}
{{aline|[[1983|83]]/[[March 27|03/27]]|hair|Bobby Lee|[[Tony Santana]]|[[Arena López Mateos]] - [[Tlalnepantla]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[2000|00]]/[[October 16|10/16]]|hair (1)|[[Mini Psicosis]]|[[Mini Kabuki]]|[[Domo de la Feria]] - [[León]], [[Guanajuato]]}}
{{aline|[[2002|02]]/[[May 19|05/19]]|hair (2)|Bobby Lee|[[Tirantes]]|[[Domo de la Feria]] - [[León]], [[Guanajuato]]}}
{{aline|[[2003|03]]/[[August 4|08/04]]|mask|Bobby Lee|[[Fuerza K-9]]|[[Domo de la Feria]] - [[León]], [[Guanajuato]]}}
{{aend|(1) Seconds hair on the line with [[Tirantes]] vs. Bobby Lee; (2) Triangle match w/ [[Copetes Salazar]]}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery|name=Bobbylee.jpg|caption= UWA Welterweight Champion [[1978]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Bobbylee01.jpg|caption=circa [[1983]]}}
{{Gallery|name=GalloTapado2.jpg|caption=as Gallo Tapado II}}
{{Gallery|name=Gallobajio.jpg|caption=as Gallo del Bajio 1977}}
{{Gallery||name=BobbyLeeSrJr.jpg|caption=with son, [[Bobby Lee Jr.]]}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]][[Category:Referees]][[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]]

Bobby Lee

2011-02-19T18:15:25Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

== Profile ==

{{bioFields||image=Bobbylee.jpg
|name=Bobby Lee
|realName=Carlos Alvarado González
|nicknames=El Enmascarado Verde (The Green Maskman), La Bestia del 78 (The Beast of '78)
|nameHistory=Impacto?? Not to be confused w Original IMPACTO(Ismael Reyes) (debut - ??), Gallo Tapado II, Gallo del Bajío, Bobby Lee (77 - retirement)
|family=[[Bobby Lee Jr.]] (son)
|maestro=unknown
|birthdate=[[April 15]], [[1950]] - [[León]], [[Guanajuato]]
|debut=[[September 14]], [[1973]] - [[León]], [[Guanajuato]]
|lostmaskto=[[El Santo]] - [[March 10]], [[1978]] - [[Palacio de los Deportes]]
|height=5'8"/175 cms
|weight=181 lbs/82 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Tope en Reversa]]
|titles=[[UWA World Welterweight Title]]
|}}
 

== Notes ==

Exciting rookie who took off with the creation of the [[UWA]] and cemented his status as a legendary name by being the first person to lose his mask to [[El Santo]] in the [[Palacio De Los Deportes]]. He followed it up by losing his hair to Santo less than a month later in the same building. Still had some name value in Mexico and ended up being asked over to [[New Japan Pro Wrestling]] for a feud with the original [[Tiger Mask]] whom he lost his mask to... except this time while wrestling as The Masked Hurricane. Word of this eventually found it's way back to Mexico and certain people weren't so thrilled. This effectively ended his working relationship with the UWA and he was mainly a local wrestler in [[Leon]] from that point forward. Also became the promotor of all shows at the [[Domo de la Feria]] in Leon, a position which he still holds to this day. Having that type of power has allowed him to participate in several angles such as saving his son from beatings and even putting his hair on the line both as a second and a wrestler in a match with two other referees.

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}

{{aline|[[??|??]]/[[??|??/??]]|masks|[[Flama Roja]] & Bobby Lee|[[Los Tigres del Ring]]|[[Cd Juarez]]}}
{{aline|[[1978|78]]/[[August 13|08/13]]|masks|[[Villano III]] & Bobby Lee|[[Los Escorpiones]] [[Escorpion I|I]] & [[Escorpion II|II]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1978|78]]/[[September 3|09/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|Bobby Lee|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1978|78]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|Bobby Lee|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1981|81]]/[[October 8|10/08]]|mask|[[Tiger Mask]]|Masked Hurricane|[[Sumo Hall]] - [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]}}
{{aline|[[1983|83]]/[[March 27|03/27]]|hair|Bobby Lee|[[Tony Santana]]|[[Arena López Mateos]] - [[Tlalnepantla]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[2000|00]]/[[October 16|10/16]]|hair (1)|[[Mini Psicosis]]|[[Mini Kabuki]]|[[Domo de la Feria]] - [[León]], [[Guanajuato]]}}
{{aline|[[2002|02]]/[[May 19|05/19]]|hair (2)|Bobby Lee|[[Tirantes]]|[[Domo de la Feria]] - [[León]], [[Guanajuato]]}}
{{aline|[[2003|03]]/[[August 4|08/04]]|mask|Bobby Lee|[[Fuerza K-9]]|[[Domo de la Feria]] - [[León]], [[Guanajuato]]}}
{{aend|(1) Seconds hair on the line with [[Tirantes]] vs. Bobby Lee; (2) Triangle match w/ [[Copetes Salazar]]}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery|name=Bobbylee.jpg|caption=[[1978]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Bobbylee01.jpg|caption=circa [[1983]]}}
{{Gallery|name=GalloTapado2.jpg|caption=as Gallo Tapado II}}
{{Gallery|name=Gallobajio.jpg|caption=as Gallo del Bajio}}
{{Gallery||name=BobbyLeeSrJr.jpg|caption=with son, [[Bobby Lee Jr.]]}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]][[Category:Referees]][[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]]

El Hijo del Solitario

2011-02-19T18:12:30Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Profile */

== Profile ==

{{bioFields|
|image=Hijo_del_Solitario.jpg
|name=El Hijo del Solitario (Son of the Lone One)
|nicknames=none
|nameHistory=El Sica (debut - ??), El Príncipe, El Maldito, El Hijo del Solitario (05/91 - )
|family=[[El Solitario]] (father)
|maestro=[[Flash ]], [[Asesino Negro]]
|birthdate=[[February 9]], [[1972]] - [[Guadalajara, Jalisco]]
|debut=[[1990]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]
|height=6' 2"/185 cm
|weight=209 lb/95 kg
|signatureMoves=[[La Filomena]] (Spin Kick), [[Plancha]]
|titles=none
|realName=
|}}

 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|????/??/??|mask|El Hijo del Solitario|[[Talismán Jr.]]|[[Arena Cuatro Caminos]] - [[Nuevo Laredo]], Tamps.}}
{{aline|[[2001]]/[[04/06]]|hair|[[El Hijo del Solitario]]|[[Halcón Infernal]]|[[Arena San Juan Pantitlán]] - [[Neza]], Mexico State}}
{{aline|[[2003]]/[[10/31]]|hair|[[El Hijo del Solitario]]|[[Misterioso]]|[[Arena Lolita]] - [[Nuevo Laredo]]}}
{{aline|[[2008]]/[[03/21]]|mask|[[El Hijo del Solitario]]|[[Fantasma de la Quebrada]]|[[Salon Teotihuacan]] - [[Acapulco]], [[Guerrero]]}}
{{aline|[[2008]]/[[10/11]]|mask (1)|[[El Hijo del Solitario]]|[[Killer Steel]]|[[La Plaza de Toros Vicente Segura]] - [[Pachuca]], [[Hidalgo]]}}
{{aend|(1) Cage match with [[LA Park]], [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]], [[Mil Mascaras]], [[Angel Blanco Jr.]], [[Espanto Jr.]] and [[Pierroth II]] }}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery||name=Solitariojr1.jpg|caption=}}
{{Gallery|name=solitariojr_2007.jpg|caption=2007}}
{{Gallery|name=Elhijodelsolitario.jpg|caption=2004}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Solitario, Hijo]]
[[Category:Former IWRG wrestlers|Solitario, Hijo]]
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers|Solitario, Hijo]]
[[Category:Former AAA/PAP wrestlers|Solitario, Hijo]]

El Cobarde

2011-02-19T18:07:27Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Profile */

== Profile ==
{{bioFields|
|image=Elcobarde1.jpg
|name=El Cobarde (The Coward One)
|realName=Miguel Ángel Delgado Reyes
|nicknames=
|nameHistory=El Cobarde (debut - death)
|family=[[Dr. X (first)|Dr. X]] (father), [[El Cobarde II|El Cobarde II/Impostor Sr.]] (brother), [[Convoy|Convoy/Legendario/El Cobarde Jr.]] (brother), [[El Hijo del Cobarde]](nephew), [[El Cobarde Jr. (II)|El Cobarde Jr.]] (nephew), [[Impostor Jr.]] (nephew)
|maestro=Dr. X, Carlos "Gorila" Ramos
|birthdate=[[August 28]], [[1947]] - [[Ciudad Juárez]], [[Chihuahua]]
|debut=[[November]] [[1965]] - [[Cd. Juárez]], [[Chihuahua]]
|lostmaskto=[[Fishman]] - [[September 30]], [[1977]] - [[Arena Mexico]]
|height=5'9"/176 cms
|weight=203 lbs/92 kg
|obituarydate=[[February 7]], [[1983]] - [[Ciudad Juárez]], [[Chihuahua]]
|signatureMoves=[[La Cerrajera]], [[Bow-and-arrow Submission]],[[Shoulderbreaker]]
|titles=[[Northern Middleweight Title]],[[Northern Tag Team Titles (w/Golden Boy)]]
|}}

 
Website: http://www.gratisweb.com/elcobarde/index.html

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Cobarde]]|[[TNT]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Cobarde]]|[[César Sando Jr.]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Cobarde]]|[[Carlos Plata]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Cobarde]]|[[Espectro II]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Cobarde]]|[[Tug Wilson]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Cobarde]]|[[Herodes]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Cobarde]]|[[El Nazi]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Sangre Chicana]]|[[El Cobarde]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[September 2|09/02]]|mask|[[El Cobarde]]|[[Oro Negro]]|Arena Mexico}}
{{aline|[[1977]]/[[September 30|09/30]]|mask|[[Fishman]]|El Cobarde|[[Arena México]]}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[06/08]]|hairs|[[TNT]] & Cobarde|[[Herodes]] & [[Carlos Plata]]|[[Arena Mexico]]}}
{{aline|78/09/??|hair/mask|[[Sangre Chicana]] & [[Adorable Rubi]]|[[El Cobarde]] & [[Dragon Rojo (70s)|Dragon Rojo]]|[[Arena Mexico]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[12/05]]|hair|[[Sangre Chicana]] & [[Alfonso Dantes]]|[[El Cobarde]] & [[El Jalisco I]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|name=Cobarde200x.jpg|caption=1975}}
{{Gallery|name=cobarde.jpg|caption=1975}}
{{Gallery|name=Luchalibre001by5.jpg|caption= 1974}}
{{Gallery|name=cobarde60s.jpg|caption=early mask design 1967}}
{{Gallery|name=cobradeshoulderbreaker.gif|caption=Cobarde vs Sangre Chicana}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Cobarde]]
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers|Cobarde]]
[[Category:Former IWRG wrestlers]]

Atila

2011-02-19T18:01:48Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

{{bioFields|
|image=Wallpaperatila.jpg
|name=Atila
|realName=Roger Galve Castilla
|nicknames=
|nameHistory=Atila
|family=
|maestro=
|birthdate=
|debut=
|lostmaskto=[[El Solitario]] - [[November 11]], [[1975]] - [[Palacio de los Deportes]]
|height=
|weight=
|obituarydate= Aug. 1985
|signatureMoves=
|titles=
|}}

 
== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Brazo de Oro]]|[[Atila]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Atila]]|[[Zebra Kid|The Flash]]|[[Guadalajara]] - [[Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[November 19|11/19]]|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Atila]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}

{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery
|name=Atila-Unmasked.jpg
|caption=Right after losing mask vs EL SOLITARIO, Nov. 1975
}}
{{Gallery
|name=Atila2.jpg
|caption=Rev. LUCHA LIBRE back cover 1974
}}

{{Gallery
|name=Atila.jpg
|caption= 1975
}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]

El Cóndor

2011-02-19T17:57:50Z

Hombre-Solo:

Multiple wrestlers have used the name '''El Cóndor'''

* Current AAA wrestler [[Mr. Condor]] also used the El prefix
* Juan Carlos Martinez, from Argentina, used the name [[El Cóndor (Juan Carlos Martinez)|El Cóndor]]
* Another [[El Cóndor (Mexico)|El Cóndor]], but this one's name is EL CONDOR BLANCO. Not the original EL CONDOR(Ruben Perez).
** The Condor who lost his mask to [[Villano I]] and [[Villano II]] whose name is Ruben Perez; is/was the Original EL CONDOR.

[[Category:Shared Identities]]

El Cóndor Blanco

2011-02-19T17:53:04Z

Hombre-Solo:

''not to be confused with other [[El Cóndor]]s''

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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers|Condor (Mexico)]]

Villano I

2011-02-19T17:51:34Z

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== Profile ==
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|image=villano1.jpg
|name=Villano I (Villano Primero)
|realName=José de Jesús Díaz Mendoza
|nicknames=La Pantera Rosa (The Pink Panther)
|nameHistory=Bestia Negra I (debut - ??), Búfalo Salvaje I (1969), Toro Bill, El Villano, Villano I (late 70/early 71 - death)
|family=[[Ray Mendoza]] (father), [[Villano II]], [[Villano III|III]], [[Villano IV|IV]], [[Villano V|V]] (brothers), [[La Infernal]] (sister-in-law)
|maestro=[[Bobby Bonales]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Pedro Nieves]]
|birthdate=[[June 28]], [[1950]] - [[Mexico City]]
|obituarydate=[[January 4]], [[2001]]
|debut=Early [[1969]] - [[Mexico City]]
|lostmaskto=
|height=175 cm/5' 7"
|weight=88 kg/194 lb
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|titles=[[Distrito Federal Heavyweight Title]], [[Arena Coliseo Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[Villano II]]), [[UWA World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[UWA World Trios Title]] (4, w/ [[Villano IV|Villanos IV]] & [[Villano V|V]]), [[Plaza de Toros La Aurora Middleweight Championship]], [[Mexico State Tag Team Championship]] (w/[[Villano I]]), [[Toreo de Cuatro Caminos Trios Championship]] (unknown parnters)
}}

== Biography ==


Villano I (José de Jesús Díaz Mendoza, some sources mix up the order of the surnames and have Mendoza Díaz which is wrong, as [[Ray Mendoza]] actually got the "Mendoza" part from his wife's name as he thought that it had a better sound for wrestling) was 49 years old, which is younger that one may expect, as Arturo himself is just a year younger.

He died around 12:00 PM in his house, located at the Oriente St. 154, number 227, at the Delegación Venustiano Carranza of El Distrito Federal ([[Mexico City]]), while recovering from the brain surgery he had on [[December 13]], [[2000]] to fix a coagulum. He was doing fine and even though he had a relapse, he seemed to be alright now. He was happy, and was working hard to get into shape so he could have a retirement match at [[Arena Mexico]] teaming with his three brothers.

The official cause of the death is a heart attack caused by a cerebral haemorrhage. Doctora Guadalupe Ramírez from the ambulance UM 536 of the urgencies squad confirmed the news.

He's surivived by his widow, Delia Valero (who is the daughter of [[Héctor Valero Meré]], a legendary lucha magazine writer/owner of the past), his two daughters Alma Delia and Blanca Olivia, plus his brothers and father.

His corpse was at the funerary Gayosso Sullivan until today ([[January 5|5th of January]]) around 12:15 PM when they carried him to the Panteón Francés de San Joaquín. Dozens of wrestlers (including [[Los Brazos]], [[Perro Aguayo]], [[Cien Caras]], [[Universo 2000]], [[Mascara Magica]], [[Fantasma]], [[El Signo]], [[Felino]] and [[Ringo Mendoza]]) attended the funerary services and were there to say the last goodbye to their good friend. As requested by the family, he was buried with his mask on and wearing his Villano cape with the [[UWA]] logo.

This is quite ironic, but yesterday ([[January 4|4th of Jan.]], [[2001]]), Ray and the other three Villanos gave an speech at the Hospital Obregón (located at Colonia Roma) about the risks of the sport, after [[Villano V]] had had successful knee surgery there a day before. They also spoke about Villano I's brain surgery as a side-effect of the years of head bumps in the ring. When they arrived home, they were told the bad news. They apparently had plans to film a TV doccumentary about the risks of lucha (Ray and the Villano's have suffered TONS of career threatening injuries), but I don't know if those plans will still go on.

The Villanos I and [[Villano II|II]] started trained together in [[1961]] with [[Bobby Bonales]] at different venues in the districts of La Lagunilla and Tepito. During his youth, Villano I studied at the Escuela Superior de Educacion Fisica (Physical Education High School) and got a degree. He eventually became a P.E. teacher there too.

Villano wanted to be a part of the wrestling team for the Mexico '68 Olympics, but he couldn't get into the team so he and V-2 turned pro during sometime the first three months of [[1969]]. Apparently Ray didn't want them to become wrestlers unless they had a degree, so they wrestled as the masked Bestias Negras I/II (Black Beasts) without their father knowing. Now I don't know if I should believe this history of them being wrestlers and their father not knowing, however all the Villano wrestlers have degrees.

Anyway, he also wrestled as Toro Bill (Bill the Bull) and El Villano, until at some point during late-[[1970|70]] or early-[[1971|71]] when they finally switched to Los Villanos I and II. At the start they mainly wrestled out of [[Naucalpan]] until they signed with [[EMLL]] where they competed mostly at the [[Arena Coliseo]] and became [[Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship|Arena Coliseo Tag Team champions]].

All the Mendoza's departed to the newly created [[UWA]] in [[1975]] where the Villanos, especially [[Villano III]], became big stars. During the "trios" boom in the early 80s there wasn't a regular Villano trio though, as Villano II "disappeared" and Villano III was a singles star. Villano I mostly teamed with his father in tag team competition until [[Villano IV]] started to wrestle with that name in early [[1983]]. They were [[El Toreo]] regulars, but mostly competed the undercard (with the huge amount of talent and foreign imports they had, it wasn't uncommon to see [[El Hijo del Santo]] or Los Villanos in the first or second match of the night).

The only major singles title he had during his career was the [[UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship|UWA World Light Heavyweight title]] he captured on [[August 10]], [[1986]] defeating [[Fishman]] at El Toreo. He lost the title on [[January 17]] of the following year in the same place to [[Loco Zandokan]] (the original one, not the current one who is his brother [[Huichol]]). During his career he also won several masks, the most important being the ones of [[El Cóndor]], [[Scorpio|Scorpio Sr.]], and [[Los Brazos]] ([[El Brazo]], [[Brazo de Oro]] and [[Brazo de Plata]]).

After the death of his brother in [[1989]], he lost his heart about lucha, though he still was an active wrestler because he was a company man and the UWA needed him. However, he didn't wrestle a full time schedule and spent a lot of time as a P.E. teacher, and as an amateur wrestling teacher in a lot of gyms, like the Arena Toluca gym, Deportivo Oceanía, Centro Social de Aragón, and especially the Baños Gloria gym at the Tepito district. Most of the new talent of the early 90s in the UWA, was indeed trained by the Villanos.

When the UWA fell apart, Villano I went into semi-retirement though from time to time he appeared at a few small shows here and there.
 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano I]]|[[Toño De La Cruz]]|[[Plaza de Toros de la Aurora]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano I]]|[[Babe Sharon]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano I]]|[[Javier Meza]]|[[Plaza de Toros de la Aurora]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano I]]|[[Joe Franco]]|[[Plaza de Toros de la Aurora]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano I]]|[[Pedro Nieves]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano I]]|[[Luis Mariscal]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[February 11|02/11]]|mask|[[Villano I]]|[[El Infernal I]]|[[El Toreo de Naucalpan]] - [[Naucalpan]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[December 3|12/03]]|masks (1)|Villanos I & [[Villano II|II]]|[[Scorpio]] & [[El Cóndor]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[February 18|02/18]]|hair|[[Villano I]]|[[Kato Kung Lee|Johnny Lezcano]]|[[Veracruz]], [[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/??/??|mask|[[Villano I]]|[[Zorro Plateado]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[July 11|07/11]]|mask|[[Villano I]]|[[El Cachorro]]|[[Arena Tropicana]] - [[Tehuacán]], [[Puebla]]}}
{{aline|[[1979|79]]/[[May 27|05/27]]|mask|[[Villano I]]|[[Martin Escobedo|Azteca de Oro]]|[[El Toreo de Naucalpan]] - [[Naucalpan]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1983|83]]/[[August 11|08/11]]|hair|[[Villano I]]|[[Gorila Infernal]]|[[Jalapa]], [[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1986|86]]/[[October 21|10/21]]|mask|[[Villano I]]|[[Chicano Power|El Broncas]]|[[El Toreo de Naucalpan]] - [[Naucalpan]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1988|88]]/[[October 21|10/21]]|masks|Villanos I, [[Villano IV|IV]] & [[Villano V|V]]|[[Los Brazos]] ([[Brazo de Oro|Oro]], [[Brazo de Plata|Plata]], [[El Brazo|Brazo]])|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo Leon]]}}
{{aline|[[1990|90]]/[[November 16|11/16]]|hair|[[Villano I]]|[[El Brazo]]|[[El Toreo de Naucalpan]] - [[Naucalpan]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1991|91]]/[[July 19|07/19]]|masks|Villanos I, [[Villano IV|IV]] & [[Villano V|V]]|[[Mercenarios Americanos]] ([[Tim Patterson]], [[Bill Anderson]] & [[Louie Spicolli]])|[[Auditorio de Tijuana]] - [[Tijuana]], [[Baja California]]}}
{{aend|(1) [[LLI Ruleta Rusa Tournament, 1975|Finals of a ruleta rusa tag team tournament]]}}

== Gallery ==


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{{Gallery||name=BufaloSalvajesIII.jpg|caption=Los Bufalos Salvajes 1968-69}}

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[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]]

Destino Negro

2011-02-19T17:40:50Z

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Mr. Power

2011-02-19T17:36:15Z

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|maestro=[[Flash (original)|Flash]], [[Diablo Velasco]]
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[[Guapos U]] member who never quite caught. Disappeared from Guadalajara lucha a few months after his hair loss to Leono. Randomly turned up in [[Coliseo Coalaco]] and IWRG in 2010.

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|99/??/??|mask|[[Guerrero Maya (Guadalajara)|Guerrero Maya]]|[[Mr. Power]]|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco}}
{{aline|01/??/??|hair|[[Mr. Power]]|[[Guerrero del Futuro]]|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco}}
{{aline|02/07/28|mask|[[Mr. Power]]|[[Genético]]|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco}}
{{aline|06/12/03|hair|[[Leono]]|[[Mr. Power]]|Arena Coliseo - Guadalajara, Jalisco}}
{{aend|}}{{stub}}

== Gallery ==


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[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former IWRG wrestlers]]
[[Category:Guadalajara based wrestlers]]

Aníbal

2011-02-19T17:26:45Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

== Profile ==
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|name=Aníbal
|realName=Carlos Ignacio Carrillo Contreras
|nicknames=El Guerrero Cartaginés (The Carthagenian Warrior), La Saeta Azul (The Blue Arrow), La Furia Azul (The Blue Fury).
|nameHistory=Carlos Carrillo (debut - 65), Anibal (65 - retirement)
|family=[[El Hijo de Aníbal]] (son), [[Herman Munster]] (brother)
|maestro=[[Chico Fernández]], [[Salvador Flores]]
|birthdate=[[November 5]], [[1940]] - [[Topilejo]], [[Michoacán]] (other sources list [[Zitácuaro]], Mich. and [[Laureles]], Mich. as his birthplace)
|obituarydate=[[March 9]], [[1994]]
|debut=[[November]] [[1963]] - [[Topilejo]], Mich.
|lostmaskto=[[Máscara Año 2000]] - [[December 13]], [[1991]] - [[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]
|height=5'10"/178 cms
|weight=207 lbs/94 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Angelito]], [[Spinning Headscissors]], [[Tabla marina]]
|titles=[[Distrito Federal Light Heavyweight Title]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (2), [[National Middleweight Title]], [[UWA World Middleweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title]] (2), [[WWC World Junior Heavyweight Title]] (Puerto Rico), [[European Middleweight Title]] (Panamá)
|}}

== Biography ==

Aníbal was born on [[November 4]], [[1940]] in the state of [[Michoacán]]. In different interviews he has done through the years he has stated being born at [[Zitacora]], [[Topilejo]] and [[Michoacán]].

When he was four years old his family moved to [[Mexico City]]. There he had access to lucha libre, and he idolized [[Black Shadow]] and wanted to be a wrestler like him. When he was around twenty years old he started to train at the [[Gimnasio Baños Gloria]] and at the [[Gimnasio San Francisco de Portales]], where the instructors were [[Chico Fernández]] and [[Salvador Flores]].

He had his first professional match in November of [[1963]] under his real name, Carlos Carrillo. It was in [[Cuernavaca]], [[Mor.]] and he was paid 40 pesos.

Two years later his representatives designed a mask for him. He didn't want to wear a mask, but seeing how most of the younger idols were masked wrestlers he finally decided to go on with the idea. He came up with the Aníbal name.

Carlos was an avid reader of history books, and one of his favorite tales was the one of Aníbal - a Carthagenian general, son of Amílcar Barca and brother of Asdrúbal. He conquered the city of Sagunto, crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps, and battled and defeated the Romans. He almost conquered the city of Rome, but he killed himself in a battle after being surrounded by the enemy troops, because he'd rather be dead than waste the rest of his life being a slave.

As Anibal, his "padrinos" during his debut were [[Mil Máscaras]], and his idol [[Black Shadow]].

Anibal's rookie days were in the [[Arena "Al Gusto"]] in [[Naucalpan]], he became a hot independent worker in [[El Cortijo]], and in [[1966]] he signed with La Empresa, EMLL. On [[October 14]], a bit before signing with [[EMLL]], he lost the [[Distrito Federal Light Heavyweight Title]] against the popular wrestler now turned referee [[Pepe Casas]].

During the second part of the 60s he wrestled for [[EMLL]] but even though he was considered a sensational wrestler from the start he did not become a big name wrestler until [[1970]], even though by [[1968]] he already was an [[Arena Coliseo]] main eventer.

In [[1970]], he won the [[NWA Middleweight Title]] from [[Masio Koma]] and started a multi-year feud with [[René Guajardo]]. He was also voted wrestler of the year by the magazine El Halcon, which is an honor he had again in [[1974]].

He was one of the many wrestlers that on May of [[1975]] left [[EMLL]] to join the newly created [[UWA]] was created. Anibal was already a very popular wrestler and had big profile rivalries with people like [[El Marquez]], but his memorable feuds and matches there with [[Guajardo]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Perro Aguayo]] and others turned him into a legend.

He was a big star until the mid 80s, where he sort of disappeared from the scene due to injuries. His style had changed so much because he couldn't wrestle the fast tecnico style anymore. In [[1983]] he was still doing a huge campaign teaming with [[Villano III]] and [[El Solitario]] as "Los Tres Caballeros" (The three gentlemen) but in 1984 he turned rudo and formed a regular team with his arch-enemy [[Dr. Wagner]]. His last big feud was perhaps in [[Puerto Rico]], where he lost the [[UWA Junior Light Heavyweight Title]] to local favorite Invader #3. That was the 15th of August, in San Juan, where the WWC promotion was having his 11th Anniversary Show. Anibal eventually regained the title and lost it on January of 1985 to [[Negro Navarro]].

Anibal's name popped up again strongly on the lucha scene in [[1991]]. He wrestled a lot in [[Panama]] and he started to get booked in [[Arena Mexico]] shows again. This was because he had agreed to lose his mask to [[Universo 2000]], brother of [[Cien Caras]] and [[Máscara Año 2000]], as in EMLL they wanted to elevate Universo and make him a big heavyweight star. However before the match could happen, the Lucha Libre magazine, run by Benjamín Mora, crushed [[EMLL]]'s plans by unveiling them in the magazine. In fact, Mora crushed almost a whole year worth of big feuds due to his bitterness as they didn't want to do business with him anymore (Mora owed them money). So to protect the integrity of the sport in the eyes of the less educated fans, it was Máscara who feuded with Anibal and took his mask in the end. That was the 13th of December of that same year [[1991]], and the match sold out Arena Mexico (drawing 18,000). The Anibal we saw in the match was an old unathletic man that was not even close to his past level of performance. After his mask loss he had a short tour all over Mexico and retired. It's said that Anibal really needed the money.

He eventually returned some months later after his good friend [[Tony Arce]] convinced him, but his hip was in so much pain that he needed surgery again so he retired for good. Before retiring, he had a last Panama tour where he lost his mask to local legend [[Sandokán]] (not the Mexican one) to culminate a 20 years plus feud.

On December of [[1993]], [[AAA]] had an Anibal benefit card because after the surgery he had gone bankruptcy. This card was actually promoted by the "Jose María Álvarez" foundation, which is a foundation that collects money for homeless kids. This was their way to say thank you to Anibal, who in the past promoted countless benefit cards for that association. Everybody that met him will agree that he was a great man and a class act.

An [[Hijo del Anibal]] made his debut on [[October 24]], [[1993|93]] at [[El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos]], but it is believed, though unconfirmed, that this was not an authentic real relative of the original Anibal.

Anibal died on March 9, 1994 at age 53 due to a brain tumor.

== Notable Matches ==
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{{SimpleMatch|[[January 29|01/29]]/[[1975|75]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]]|'''Anibal''' beat [[Rene Guajardo]] to retain his [[NWA Middleweight Title]]}}
{{SimpleMatchEnd}}
 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Anibal]]|[[Pepe Casas]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Zar de la Muerte]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gory Medina]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Reo]]|[[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Nazi]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1967|67]]/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Hombre de Ultratumba]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1969|69]]/[[February 19|02/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Red Terror]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1973|73]]/[[September 15|09/15]]|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Joe Panther]]|[[Gimnasio Nuevo Panamá]] - [[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aline|[[1974|74]]/[[April 26|04/26]]|mask/hair|Aníbal & [[Steve Wright]]|[[René Guajardo]] & [[Tigre Colombiano]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[April 18|04/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Centroamericano]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[June 19|06/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Fantasmón]]|[[Iguala]], [[Guerrero]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[June 25|06/25]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Bruma]]|[[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[July 16|07/16]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Marquez I|El Marquez]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[October 20|10/20]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Galeno I]]|[[Nuevo Laredo]], [[Tamps.]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[February 16|02/16]]|mask (1)|[[Aníbal]]|[[Asesino Negro (70s)|El Remington]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[July 11|07/11]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Sandokán]] (from Panama,not UWA one)|[[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[September 19|09/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Yaqui Moy|La Momia]] (Yaqui Moy)|[[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[December|12]]/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Black Jack]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[January 16|01/16]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Power]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[March 2|03/02]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Samurai]]|[[Veracruz]], [[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[April 23|04/23]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Atlas]]|[[Zacatanco]], [[Tlaxcala]]}}
{{aline|[[1979|79]]/[[February 18|02/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Jungla Negra]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[August 10|08/10]]|hairs|[[Fishman]] & Anibal|[[César Valentino]] & [[Kurisu]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[August 22|08/22]]|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Hamada]]|[[Arena Neza]] - [[Nezahualcoyotl]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1986|86]]/[[February 26|02/26]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Fugitivo]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1987|87]]/[[March 18|03/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Markus]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1990|90]]/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Pirata Morgan]]|[[Tlalnepantla]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1991|91]]/[[December 13|12/13]]|mask|[[Máscara Año 2000]]|[[Aníbal]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1993|93]]/??/??|mask|[[Sandokán]]|[[Aníbal]]|[[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aend|(1) Triangle match with [[Mazambula]]}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|name=Anibal01.jpg|caption=70s}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibalnwachamp.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal11.jpg|caption=cover magazine 70s}}
{{Gallery|name=Nwawelter_bluedemonjr.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal03.jpg|caption=vs [[El Solitario]] at Arena Coliseo,Mexico City 1971-72}}
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{{Gallery|name=Anibal.jpg|caption= UWA Cruiserweight Champ 1984}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal02.jpg|caption=UWA Cruiserweight Champion 1984}}
{{Gallery|name=AnibalUnmasked.jpg|caption=directly after being unmasked}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibalsinmask.jpg|caption=unmasked 1991}}
{{Gallery|name=ANIBAL_SIN_MASCARA.jpg|caption=92}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]]

Septiembre Negro

2011-02-15T19:58:32Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Luchas de apuestas record */

{{bioFields|
|image=Vick_Amezcua.JPG
|name=Septiembre Negro
|realName=Virgilio Aristeo Amezcua Sánchez
|nicknames=El Hombre del Fedeyin, El Gallo de Oro
|nameHistory=Vick Amezcua, Septiembre Negro (1975- ¿?, Odio (Retirement)
|family=[[Blade (Guadalajara)|Blade]] (son), [[Al Amezcua]] (father), [[Alfonso Dantés]] (brother), [[Alberto Muñoz]] (brother-in-law), [[César Dantes|César]], [[Apolo Dantés]] & [[Septiembre Negro II]] (nephews)
|maestro=[[Diablo Velazco]]
|birthdate=[[September 3]], [[1938]]- [[Villamar]], [[Michoacán]]
|debut=
|lostmaskto=[[Dr. Wagner]] - August 19, 1982 - Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City
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|}}

== Reference ==

The Septiembre Negro gimmick was inspired [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September_%28group%29 Black September] terror group.

 
== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Ringo Mendoza]]|[[Septiembre Negro|Vick Amezcua]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Septiembre Negro|Vick Amezcua]]|[[César Curiel]]|Arena Coliseo - Mexico City}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Septiembre Negro]]|[[Fantomas]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Septiembre Negro]]|[[Eolo]]|unknown}}
{{aline|77/12/11|masks|[[América Salvaje]] & [[Septiembre Negro]]|[[Masked Marvel]] & [[Máquina Salvaje]]|Palacio de los Deportes - Mexico City}}
{{aline|82/[[September 19|09/19]]|mask (1)|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Septiembre Negro]]|Palacio de los Deportes - Mexico City}}
{{aend|(1) Finals of a ruleta de la muerte}}

==Gallery==
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{{Gallerywide|name=Amezcua.jpg|caption=Vick Amezcua & Septiembre Negro II}}
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]

Robot C-3

2011-02-15T19:57:28Z

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== Profile ==
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== Lucha de Apuesta ==
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{{aline|80/[[03/16]]|mask/hair|[[Dr. Wagner]] & [[El Texano]]|[[Robot C-3]] & [[Astro Rey]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aend}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]

Dr. Wagner

2011-02-15T19:54:38Z

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== Profile ==
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|image=Drwagner.jpg
|name=Dr. Wagner
|realName=Manuel González Rivera
|nicknames=El Galeno del Mal (The Evil Doctor)
|nameHistory=Centella Negra, Dr. Wagner (debut - )
|family=[[Dr. Wagner Jr.]] and [[Silver King]] (sons)
|maestro=[[Roy Velasco]]
|birthdate=[[April 13]], [[1936]] - [[Zacatecas]], [[Zacatecas]]
|obituarydate=[[September 12]], [[2004]] - [[Torreón]], [[Coahuila]],
|debut=[[July 16]], [[1961]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]
|lostmaskto=[[El Solitario]] - [[December 1]], [[1985]] - [[Plaza de Toros Monumental de Monterrey]]
|height=5'9"/176 cms
|weight=211 lbs/94 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Gory Special]], [[Tabla Marina]]
|titles=[[National Light Heavyweight Title]] (3), [[NWA World Light Heavyweight Title]], Los Angeles: [[NWA Americas Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[Angel Blanco]]), [[National Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[Angel Blanco]])
}}

== Biography ==


Dr. Wagner, real name Manuel González Rivera, was born on April 13th, 1936 (usually announced as 1941, which was his "worked" birth date) in Zacatecas, Zac. However, he grew up and lived the rest of his life in Torreón, Coah., so he considered himself a "Lagunero".

He trained for lucha libre in Guadalajara's "Gimnasio Hércules", which was owned by Roy Velasco. Back in those days, he would wake up at 5 AM and work for five hours at the "Corona" market, loading and unloading trucks. After a lot of hard work, Manuel debuted on July 16th, 1961 in Guadalajara, Jal. as Centella Negra (Black Lightning Spark), teaming with Torbellino Negro (Black Whirlwind) against Pancho Ramírez and Monje Loco (Mad Monk).

The name did not last long, as in 1962, Mexican-Jewish promoter Elías Simón, who ran in the North of the country, suggested he should switch names to El Hijo del Médico Asesino. Rudo doctor gimmicks were pretty popular back then in México and he liked the idea but not the name. Médico Asesino had died in June, 1960 and he was not happy with the idea of being the fake junior of a legend who had died in his prime as he wanted to build his own legend. He was at home, either listening to a Richard Wagner composition or reading a book about him, when he came up with the name of Dr. Wagner.

González made his debut as Dr. Wagner at the legendary Arena Isabel in Cuernavaca, Mor. in the main event against Rubén Juárez. By 1964, he already had a pretty good reputation in the Northern Mexico region through working for Ciclón Veloz in Monterrey, and his name was already becoming well known as somebody who was ready to get a chance to succeed in Mexico City and who had all the tools to do so.

EMLL contacted him and he had his first match at Arena Coliseo on February 28th, 1965 where he teamed with Jorge Allende. He immediately created a good impression, as he was a natural light heavyweight (175 cm., 93 kg.) who could work, had an incredible in-ring presence, and had a great gimmick. He was actually not the first wrestler to use the Dr. Wagner name in Mexico, as on [[September 28]]th, 1941 a different Dr. Wagner debuted at Arena Mexico, defeating Caballero Lee. The first Wagner only wrestled a few more times before disappearing.

His first major singles win was on July 17th, 1966 when he defeated popular heavyweight Raúl "Moritas" Reyes in the "mask vs. hair" main event of an Arena Mexico show but he became a main event superstar as a tag team wrestler.

In the early months of 1966, he joined forces with El Ángel Blanco as "La Ola Blanca" (The White Wave). Both men dressed in all white costumes and within a matter of months they became the second best working tag team in the country, behind only René Guajardo and Karloff Lagarde. When the "Rebeldes" broke up later that year, they were clearly the best in the country.

Blanco and Wagner were the epitome of old school rudos, as they were mean brawlers who would punch and kick their opponents to death, but would dominate and finish them with polished submission work. They had a knack for getting the crowd to hate them, even though they were two of the coolest rudos of the era. They were considered cool because they looked like such major superstars in posed pictures celebrating after the matches or in studio shots for the magazines, with Wagner wearing his full doctor outfit while Angel boasted his impressive physique clad in his white cape.

The tag team was put over strong at first, going over high caliber teams such as Ray Mendoza and Rayo de Jalisco, Mil Máscaras and Ham Lee, and Dory Dixon and Raúl Reyes. In December, 1966 they defeated El Santo and Rayo de Jalisco for the National Tag Team titles. To earn their shot at the champions, they had won a tournament which had spanned through several weeks, and featured every major team of the era. This was seen as a major win as Santo and Jalisco were considered pretty much an "unbeatable" team back then, and had gone through successful title defenses against teams like Mil Máscaras and Black Shadow, and René Guajardo and Karloff Lagarde (in what was a weird case of National champions defeating the World champions).

They were considered the 1966 tag team of the year by the Box y Lucha magazine, as well as EMLL's internal awards, where Wagner also captured "revelation of the year". Such a promotion made them major draws all around the country in their first year as a tag team, even though they weren't thought of as huge stars like Mendoza, Máscaras, Santo, Jalisco or Guajardo.

When it looked like things couldn't get better for Wagner and Blanco, a "rookie" El Solitario joined the trio. It was not the first time La Ola Blanca had been a trio, as Wagner and Blanco had teamed in the past with El Enfermero but the alliance did not last long, as Enfermero was considered washed up and couldn't keep up with the working style of Blanco and Wagner. Now things were different. Solitario was way too good for somebody with his level of experience, as he had an explosive, high-flying style, tons of charisma, and was a rudo with a lot of intensity. When the "Ola Blanca" and Solitario were together, everybody knew they were seeing something special.

By 1969, the trio was the hottest act in the country, save for El Santo and Blue Demon, and they were also three of the top ten workers in the country. Things became even hotter when Blanco and Wagner turned on El Solitario, starting up one of the most legendary feuds in the history of lucha libre, and also marking the first step for the legend of Solitario as one of the five biggest stars ever in Mexico.

During this time, Wagner kept an insane schedule. While the Mexican wrestlers don't have the travel problems that US wrestlers had in the 80's, the toll of the schedule on the mind and body was probably similar. Wagner would wake up at 4:30 AM, run for an hour and then go to the gym for three hours. He would then have breakfast and get ready to go to the arena, most of the time riding on an uncomfortable truck, or in a car with as many as four other wrestlers, then wrestle in a hard ring, sometimes doing double shots, and finally go back home.

The grueling schedule would take a terrible toll on the wrestlers' bodies, and in an era where they didn't have the painkillers that are available now, Wagner's painkiller of choice was alcohol. Many years after retiring he admitted several times in interviews that he used to have a major drinking problem but he was proud to say that he was able to leave alcohol behind and carry on a clean lifestyle.

The first half of the 70's was especially good for Wagner and Blanco. Blanco lost his mask to Solitario in 1972 but he remained a major star for years. The Blanco/Wagner feud with Solitario was still a big draw in every arena in the country, even more so when Solitario would team with somebody like Santo or Rayo de Jalisco. Later on, Gran Markus, also wearing a white mask and trunks, joined the Ola Blanca tag team and again turned it into a trio.

Alongside his tag team success, Wagner had a great singles career. On March 16th, 1973 he defeated a very young Enrique Vera to win the National Light Heavyweight title. It was his first major singles title win, as back on April 11th, 1969 he had lost to Raúl Mata in the finals of a tournament for the same vacant belt. In those days title reigns would last many months, even several years but Wagner never lost the strap, as he vacated it on [[September 22]]nd, 1974 when he won a tournament to capture the NWA World Light Heavyweight championship. As NWA champion he defended the belt against stars like Alfonso "Tanque" Dantés (the eternal NWA World LHW champ), Goro Tanaka, Gemelo Diablo I and even Ángel Blanco.

Wagner and Blanco debuted in Southern California in 1974 and had an NWA Americas Tag Team title reign defeating Porkchop Cash and Manny Soto in Los Angeles on August 30th, 1974. However, they lost the belts the following day to Butcher Brannigan and Man Mountain Mike in Hollywood. He also was Latin America's tag team champion, this time teaming with El Enfermero.

On May 1st, 1975, Wagner teamed with El Halcón to defeat Los Gemelos Diablo (Mexican Twin Devils of L.A. and WCW fame) in a double mask vs. mask match at Plaza Mexico. This would be one of his biggest mask wins but the most important mask he ever won was the one of Septiembre Negro, in front of a sold out crowd of around 17,000 at the Palacio de los Deportes on [[September 19]]th, 1982.

Negro was Vick Amezcua, brother of WON Hall of Famer Alfonso Dantés and uncle of current superstar Apolo Dantés, whose name was a reference to the Black September terrorist group that had kidnapped and killed eleven members of the Israeli wrestling team during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Wagner and Negro had to face each other after losing in the finals of a five team "Torneo de la Muerte" (Tournament of Death) where the losers would advance to the next round and the final losers would face each other. The other teams were Canek/As Charro, Solar/Solitario, Kiss/Rayo de Jalisco and Kato Kung Lee/Kung Fu.

Other masks Wagner captured during his career were the ones of Super Star (09/20/74), Katastrofe and Robot C3. He won the latter mask at El Toreo on March 16th, 1980, teaming with El Texano, and also taking the hair of Astro Rey (Kahoz). Robot C3 was a character based on C3P0 from Star Wars, who used to team with Robot R2 (El Rebelde, Mano Negra's dad). Other than these, he also captured the hair of Adorable Rubí Rubalcava.

During the latter half of the '70s, Wagner and Blanco mostly worked at El Toreo and the other UWA arenas, just like every major star of the era, because of the better payoffs. Because of his name and experience, and the quality of his work, he was one of the centerpieces of the promotion during the early years. Wagner dropped the NWA World Light Heavyweight belt, an EMLL controlled belt, at Arena Mexico on February 27th, 1976 to Adorable Rubí Rubalcava, a gay act that the Empresa gave a major push to but which, because of the different crowd they had, was a major flop. But on April 11th he defeated Alfonso Dantes for the National Light Heavyweight strap in Dantes' hometown of Guadalajara.

From then on it became a UWA belt until EMLL regained control of it more than ten years later and Wagner was presented as a "fighting champion", taking on all comers. One major defense during that run was on June 19th, 1977 at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, when he scored a clean victory over the promotion's new star, Canek. He eventually lost the belt to Canek, who defeated him on January 15th, 1978 at El Toreo. That Sunday morning, Canek had earned his biggest career win up to that point and was seen as a major threat until seven months later when he defeated Lou Thesz for the UWA World Heavyweight belt and everybody realized he was the new real deal.

In November, 1979, Wagner had a third National Light Heavyweight title reign, albeit an insignificant one, as he only held the title for nineteen days, acting as a bridge between Astro Rey and Enrique Vera.

By this point, Wagner's reputation was that he used to be one of the most complete workers in the country but was now getting passed up by the younger stars because most of the time he'd get away by not doing much and mostly working the crowd with his posing and mannerisms. Although, just like his son, Dr. Wagner Jr., he also had a reputation of being able to deliver the goods when it was time to do so.

Around this time he also had a short tecnico run as he teamed up with Anibal and Solitario, to go against Angel Blanco. He was no longer a regular main event star at Arena Mexico or El Toreo but that also gave him a chance to work more in other large cities, such as Monterrey or Nuevo Laredo, where he was the main event in feuds with Anibal or El Solitario which drew very well.

The Solitario feud that had been built for decades reached its climax on December 1st, 1985, as they faced each other in a mask vs. mask match that sold out the 15,000 seat Plaza de Toros Monumental de Monterrey, drawing the largest and most profitable gate up to that point in the city's history. The match, which was refereed by Ray Mendoza, was taped for TV and it was such a great match that it still holds up as a quality bout over twenty years after it happened.

He later had a nice short run as a maskless rudo and for a short time it revived his main event career at El Toreo until April 27th, 1986 when he was involved in one of the most tragic episodes in wrestling history. That Sunday morning there had been a matinee show in Nuevo Laredo, so Carlos Elizondo, who had taken over the successful Monterrey circuit from René Guajardo, paid for a car so the wrestlers from that show could also wrestle at his weekly bullring card. That match was going to be the "official debut" of Dr. Wagner Jr., who was going to team with his father against Angel Blanco and Angel Blanco Jr. (wrestler Rey Salomón, who was married to Blanco's daughter).

Wagner was driving the car with Blanco, Solar, Mano Negra and Jungla Negra as passengers. Less than half a mile from the arena they almost ran over a teenage boy who was riding a bicycle. Nothing happened in the end but it caused them to lose a lot of time. Wagner had to step on the accelerator and when the rear left tire exploded, they lost control and collided with a truck. Solar, Negra and Jungla, who were in the back seat, only suffered minor scratches, but Blanco died on impact, and Wagner Sr. was said to be wheelchair bound for life. Keep in mind that this was just 20 days after the death of Solitario, who was his other best friend.

The Doctor needed immediate surgery after the accident, where his vertebral column was fixed with the help of steel wires. He was told he could never walk on his own again, never mind wrestle, but years later was able to learn to walk with the use of a cane. When his condition had improved, he got a day job as a taxi driver, which must have been painful considering the state of his back. When he was driving, he would always ask his passengers if they liked lucha libre and if they were aged 30-40, he'd always tell them "When you were a kid, I was your idol because I was the Dr. Wagner". Wagner owned real estate, as well as a gym, where he was a maestro.

He always remained in touch with lucha libre, as he kept watching the product (which he enjoyed, but much like the rest of the old timers, hated that it had turned into a freak show with less emphasis on old school matwork) and was really proud of his sons, Dr. Wagner Jr. and Silver King. He also attended whenever there was a tribute show for him, such as July 2nd, 1995 at Arena Mexico or October 4th, 2003 at a Unidad Deportiva Oriente in San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León. There is a funny story from that show, as Silver King (who had been "missing" for months, but he was actually working as Black Tiger) was announced as appearing on that show, but he ended up working as Black Tiger. After the match he gave his father a big long hug. Of course, most of the crowd didn't know what was going on because most people didn't realise who was under the Black Tiger mask.

Most recently, he'd been involved in an angle where he, walking with a cane, supposedly came down the Arena Mexico ramp to help his son against Canek, but in reality, Silver King was the one playing the role.

In 2004, Wagner had a tough battle, as he needed back surgery again as the steel wires in his back were pinching nerves in such a way that he was continually in terrible pain and there was fear it could cause gangrene. After surgery his leg mobility improved and he was no longer in pain.

His death on the evening of Sunday, [[September 12]]th, 2004, after suffering a heart attack in his home in Torreón, Coah., came as a shock to many, because even though he was old, he had not been sick and he was in good spirits. His funeral services were attended by a number of local wrestlers, plus Stuka, El Hijo del Santo, Mil Máscaras, El Rebelde, and others. During his burial, Dr. Wagner Jr. was said to be looking sad and serious but calm, while Silver King was completely broken down.

Wagner is survived by his wife, Magdalena Barrón; three sons, Oscar, César (Silver King) and Dr. Wagner Jr.; and a daughter, Mayra.


 

== Biografia ==


El hombre que le dio inmortalidad a Dr. Wagner se llama Manuel Gonzales Rivera. Nacio el 13 de Abril de 1936 (aveces anunciado como 1941). Zacatecas fue la tierra que lo vio nacer pero crecio en torreon coahuila. Es entonces que se considera "LAGUNERO"

En sus inicios entreno en el "Gimnasio Hercules" en Guadalajara. Este gimnasio era propiedad de el gran Roy Velasco. En esos dias Manuel se levantava a las 5 en la madrugda y trabajaba por 5 horas en el mercado "corona". Haciendose experto en mover carga de un lugar a otro Manuel debuto como Dr. Wagner el 16 de julio en una acalorada noche en la Guadalajara. Centella Negra se hizo llamar esa noche y al hacer pareja con Torbellino Negro contra Pancho Ramirez y Monje loco se llevaron una vicoria que predecia muchas en el haber de este hombre.

El Nombre de Centella Negra no duro mucho tiempo. En 1962 el promotor judio Elias Simon el cual se encargaba de los territorios mexicanos del norte hizo la sugerencia que se cambiara el nombre. La identidad de "el hijo del medico asesino" fue la que se le pidio que asumiera. Los personajes de doctores malignos eran populares en esas epocas y a Manuel la idea le gustaba pero el nombre no. Medico asesino murio en junio de 1960 y Manuel no estaba deacuerdo con tomar el nombre de una leyenda que murio en sus dias mas importantes puesto que el queria crear su propia leyenda. Fue entonces cuando Manuel creo el personaje legendario de "DR. WAGNER".

Manuel hizo su debut como "DR. WAGNER" en la Arena Isabel en Cuernavaca, Morelios. En la lucha estelar de esa noche en contra de Ruben Juarez. En 1964 ya habia acumulado muchas luchas y tenia buena reputacion en el Norte de Mexico bajo el mando de Ciclon Veloz en Monterrey. El personaje que Manuel Gonzales creo ahora conocido como "DR WAGNER" era una de las atracciones luchisticas mas seguidas atraves del pais. Todo parecia indicar que su carrera se dirigia a ciudad de mexico en las grandes carteleras, no solo por su gran carisma, sino por su gran talento luchistico.

EMLL lo contrato y tuvo su primera lucha en la Arena Coliseo el 28 de Febrero de 1965 junto a Jorge Allende. Inmediatamente fue aceptado por la gente ya que era un virtuoso en su trabajo como luchador. Para un hombre de su estatura y peso era muy raro encontrar a una persona que dominara la lucha libre y tuviera una preciencia mas que creible adentro del cuadrilatero. Manuel no fue el primer hombre en usar este nombre puesto que existio otro "DR WAGNER" el 28 de septiembre de 1941, el cual debuto en la Arena Mexico. Esa noche vencio a Caballero Lee.

Su primer Campeonato luchando solo lo consiguio el 17 de julio de 1966. Vencio a el entonces campeon Raul "moritas" reyes en una lucha de "mascara vs cabellera" en una de esas noches legendarias de la gran Arena Mexico. A comienzos de 1966 junto fuerzas cone "el angel blanco" y se creo "LA OLA BLANCA". Sus atuendos eran todos en blanco y en solo meses se convirtieron en la segunda pareja mas cotizada en el pancracio mexicano. Solo detras de RENE GUAJARDO y KARLOFF LAGARDE. Cuando la pareja de "los rebeldes" partio caminos fue que 'LA OLA BLANCA" se hicieron los numero uno.

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Katástrofe]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Adorable Rubí]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hairs|Dr. Wagner & [[Ángel Blanco]]|[[Pantera Negra]] & [[Enrique Vera]]|unknown}}
{{aline|66/07/12|hair|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Raúl Reyes]]|unknown}}
{{aline|74/[[September 20|09/20]]|mask|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Super Star (1974)|Super Star]]|unknown}}
{{aline|75/05/01|masks|Dr. Wagner & [[El Halcón]]|[[Los Gemelos Diablo]]|Plaza Mexico - México City}}
{{aline|79/01/28|hair|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Ángel Blanco]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|80/03/16|mask/hair (1)|Dr. Wagner & [[El Texano]]|[[Robot C-3]] & [[Astro Rey]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|82/[[September 19|09/19]]|mask (2)|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Septiembre Negro]]|Palacio de los Deportes - Mexico City}}
{{aline|85/12/01|mask|[[El Solitario]]|[[Dr. Wagner]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}
{{aend|(1) Finals of a losers advance tag team tournament; (2) Finals of a ruleta de la muerte}}

== Gallery ==
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{{Gallery||name=Drwagner01.jpg|caption=w/Tag Team Title Belt, early 1970's}}
{{Gallery|name=mexlh_drwagner1973.jpg|caption=[[Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship|Mexican Light Heavyweight Champion]], [[1973]]}}
{{Gallery||name=POSTERWAGNERPANCRACIO.jpg|caption=[[NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship|NWA World Light Heavyweight Champion]], [[1974]]}}
{{Gallery||name=Mexicowreswag.jpg|caption=[[NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship|NWA Light Heavyweight Champ]], 1974}}
{{Gallery||name=Drwagner02.jpg|caption=El Galeno del Mal, [[Arena Mexico]], [[1975]]}}
 
{{Gallery||name=Wagnersolitario.jpg|caption=vs [[El Solitario]], mask match,Dec. 1st,1985 in Monterrey, NL}}
{{Gallery||name=DrWagnerVictorMGonzalez.jpg|caption=Right after losing his mask vs EL SOLITARIO. Dic. 1st, 1985.}}
{{Gallery|name=DrWagner2003.JPG|caption=[[May]] [[2003]]}}



[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]
[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]

Fantasma Negro (Campeche)

2011-02-15T19:47:51Z

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== Profile ==
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|name=Fantasma Negro,2010 version. Not related to FANTASMA NEGRO from the 1960's.
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|nicknames=
|nameHistory=Fantasma Negro
|family=
|maestro=Arena Pinkusky
|birthdate=[[November 16]], [[1982]]
|debut=[[February 7]], [[2010]]
|lostmaskto=
|height=176 cm/5' 9"
|weight=95 kg/209 lb
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[[category:Mexican wrestlers]]

Chino Chow

2011-02-15T19:45:21Z

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|image=NAKAMURA_ENRIQUEVELA.jpg
|name=Chino Chow
|realName=Enrique Vela
|nicknames=
|nameHistory=Chino Chow, Nakamura
|family=
|maestro=
|birthdate=
|debut=
|lostmaskto=[[Solitario]] - March 25, 1981 - Auditorio de Tijuana, Tijuana, Baja California (as Nakamura)
|height=
|weight=
|obituarydate=
|signatureMoves=Doble machetazo
|titles= Americas Lightheavyweight Title
|}}

Corregido por Ricardo Alamillo Vel
 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Chino Chow]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[René Guajardo]]|[[Chino Chow]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Cinta de Oro]]|[[Chino Chow]]|Cd Juarez}}
{{aline|77/05/15|hair|[[As Charro]]|[[Chino Chow]]|Arena Coliseo - Mexico City}}
{{aline|81/03/25|mask|[[El Solitario]]|Nakamura|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|name=Chino_Chow.jpg|caption=this is NOT Chino Chow. This was Chino Achiu,one of the early wrestling pioneers of Mexican Wrestling from the 1930's...get it right!!}}
{{Gallery|name=campeonatodelasamericas.jpg}}
{{Gallery|name=chinoi(2).jpg}}

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Aníbal

2011-02-15T19:38:02Z

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== Profile ==
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|name=Aníbal
|realName=Carlos Ignacio Carrillo Contreras
|nicknames=El Guerrero Cartaginés (The Carthagenian Warrior), La Saeta Azul (The Blue Arrow), La Furia Azul (The Blue Fury).
|nameHistory=Carlos Carrillo (debut - 65), Anibal (65 - retirement)
|family=[[El Hijo de Aníbal]] (son), [[Herman Munster]] (brother)
|maestro=[[Chico Fernández]], [[Salvador Flores]]
|birthdate=[[November 5]], [[1940]] - [[Topilejo]], [[Michoacán]] (other sources list [[Zitácuaro]], Mich. and [[Laureles]], Mich. as his birthplace)
|obituarydate=[[March 9]], [[1994]]
|debut=[[November]] [[1963]] - [[Topilejo]], Mich.
|lostmaskto=[[Máscara Año 2000]] - [[December 13]], [[1991]] - [[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]
|height=5'10"/178 cms
|weight=207 lbs/94 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Angelito]], [[Spinning Headscissors]], [[Tabla marina]]
|titles=[[Distrito Federal Light Heavyweight Title]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (2), [[National Middleweight Title]], [[UWA World Middleweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title]] (2), [[WWC World Junior Heavyweight Title]] (Puerto Rico), [[European Middleweight Title]] (Panamá)
|}}

== Biography ==

Aníbal was born on [[November 4]], [[1940]] in the state of [[Michoacán]]. In different interviews he has done through the years he has stated being born at [[Zitacora]], [[Topilejo]] and [[Michoacán]].

When he was four years old his family moved to [[Mexico City]]. There he had access to lucha libre, and he idolized [[Black Shadow]] and wanted to be a wrestler like him. When he was around twenty years old he started to train at the [[Gimnasio Baños Gloria]] and at the [[Gimnasio San Francisco de Portales]], where the instructors were [[Chico Fernández]] and [[Salvador Flores]].

He had his first professional match in November of [[1963]] under his real name, Carlos Carrillo. It was in [[Cuernavaca]], [[Mor.]] and he was paid 40 pesos.

Two years later his representatives designed a mask for him. He didn't want to wear a mask, but seeing how most of the younger idols were masked wrestlers he finally decided to go on with the idea. He came up with the Aníbal name.

Carlos was an avid reader of history books, and one of his favorite tales was the one of Aníbal - a Carthagenian general, son of Amílcar Barca and brother of Asdrúbal. He conquered the city of Sagunto, crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps, and battled and defeated the Romans. He almost conquered the city of Rome, but he killed himself in a battle after being surrounded by the enemy troops, because he'd rather be dead than waste the rest of his life being a slave.

As Anibal, his "padrinos" during his debut were [[Mil Máscaras]], and his idol [[Black Shadow]].

Anibal's rookie days were in the [[Arena "Al Gusto"]] in [[Naucalpan]], he became a hot independent worker in [[El Cortijo]], and in [[1966]] he signed with La Empresa, EMLL. On [[October 14]], a bit before signing with [[EMLL]], he lost the [[Distrito Federal Light Heavyweight Title]] against the popular wrestler now turned referee [[Pepe Casas]].

During the second part of the 60s he wrestled for [[EMLL]] but even though he was considered a sensational wrestler from the start he did not become a big name wrestler until [[1970]], even though by [[1968]] he already was an [[Arena Coliseo]] main eventer.

In [[1970]], he won the [[NWA Middleweight Title]] from [[Masio Koma]] and started a multi-year feud with [[René Guajardo]]. He was also voted wrestler of the year by the magazine El Halcon, which is an honor he had again in [[1974]].

He was one of the many wrestlers that on May of [[1975]] left [[EMLL]] to join the newly created [[UWA]] was created. Anibal was already a very popular wrestler and had big profile rivalries with people like [[El Marquez]], but his memorable feuds and matches there with [[Guajardo]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Perro Aguayo]] and others turned him into a legend.

He was a big star until the mid 80s, where he sort of disappeared from the scene due to injuries. His style had changed so much because he couldn't wrestle the fast tecnico style anymore. In [[1983]] he was still doing a huge campaign teaming with [[Villano III]] and [[El Solitario]] as "Los Tres Caballeros" (The three gentlemen) but in 1984 he turned rudo and formed a regular team with his arch-enemy [[Dr. Wagner]]. His last big feud was perhaps in [[Puerto Rico]], where he lost the [[UWA Junior Light Heavyweight Title]] to local favorite Invader #3. That was the 15th of August, in San Juan, where the WWC promotion was having his 11th Anniversary Show. Anibal eventually regained the title and lost it on January of 1985 to [[Negro Navarro]].

Anibal's name popped up again strongly on the lucha scene in [[1991]]. He wrestled a lot in [[Panama]] and he started to get booked in [[Arena Mexico]] shows again. This was because he had agreed to lose his mask to [[Universo 2000]], brother of [[Cien Caras]] and [[Máscara Año 2000]], as in EMLL they wanted to elevate Universo and make him a big heavyweight star. However before the match could happen, the Lucha Libre magazine, run by Benjamín Mora, crushed [[EMLL]]'s plans by unveiling them in the magazine. In fact, Mora crushed almost a whole year worth of big feuds due to his bitterness as they didn't want to do business with him anymore (Mora owed them money). So to protect the integrity of the sport in the eyes of the less educated fans, it was Máscara who feuded with Anibal and took his mask in the end. That was the 13th of December of that same year [[1991]], and the match sold out Arena Mexico (drawing 18,000). The Anibal we saw in the match was an old unathletic man that was not even close to his past level of performance. After his mask loss he had a short tour all over Mexico and retired. It's said that Anibal really needed the money.

He eventually returned some months later after his good friend [[Tony Arce]] convinced him, but his hip was in so much pain that he needed surgery again so he retired for good. Before retiring, he had a last Panama tour where he lost his mask to local legend [[Sandokán]] (not the Mexican one) to culminate a 20 years plus feud.

On December of [[1993]], [[AAA]] had an Anibal benefit card because after the surgery he had gone bankruptcy. This card was actually promoted by the "Jose María Álvarez" foundation, which is a foundation that collects money for homeless kids. This was their way to say thank you to Anibal, who in the past promoted countless benefit cards for that association. Everybody that met him will agree that he was a great man and a class act.

An [[Hijo del Anibal]] made his debut on [[October 24]], [[1993|93]] at [[El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos]], but it is believed, though unconfirmed, that this was not an authentic real relative of the original Anibal.

Anibal died on March 9, 1994 at age 53 due to a brain tumor.

== Notable Matches ==
{{SimpleMatchStart}}
{{SimpleMatch|[[January 29|01/29]]/[[1975|75]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]]|'''Anibal''' beat [[Rene Guajardo]] to retain his [[NWA Middleweight Title]]}}
{{SimpleMatchEnd}}
 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Anibal]]|[[Pepe Casas]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Zar de la Muerte]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gory Medina]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Reo]]|[[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Nazi]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1967|67]]/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Hombre de Ultratumba]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1969|69]]/[[February 19|02/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Red Terror]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1973|73]]/[[September 15|09/15]]|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Joe Panther]]|[[Gimnasio Nuevo Panamá]] - [[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aline|[[1974|74]]/[[April 26|04/26]]|mask/hair|Aníbal & [[Steve Wright]]|[[René Guajardo]] & [[Tigre Colombiano]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[April 18|04/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Centroamericano]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[June 19|06/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Fantasmón]]|[[Iguala]], [[Guerrero]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[June 25|06/25]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Bruma]]|[[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[July 16|07/16]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Marquez I|El Marquez]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[October 20|10/20]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Galeno I]]|[[Nuevo Laredo]], [[Tamps.]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[February 16|02/16]]|mask (1)|[[Aníbal]]|[[Asesino Negro (70s)|El Remington]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[July 11|07/11]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Sandokán]] (from Panama,not UWA one)|[[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[September 19|09/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Yaqui Moy|La Momia]] (Yaqui Moy)|[[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[December|12]]/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Black Jack]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[January 16|01/16]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Power]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[March 2|03/02]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Samurai]]|[[Veracruz]], [[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[April 23|04/23]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Atlas]]|[[Zacatanco]], [[Tlaxcala]]}}
{{aline|[[1979|79]]/[[February 18|02/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Jungla Negra]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[August 10|08/10]]|hairs|[[Fishman]] & Anibal|[[César Valentino]] & [[Kurisu]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[August 22|08/22]]|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Hamada]]|[[Arena Neza]] - [[Nezahualcoyotl]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1986|86]]/[[February 26|02/26]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Fugitivo]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1987|87]]/[[March 18|03/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Markus]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1990|90]]/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Pirata Morgan]]|[[Tlalnepantla]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1991|91]]/[[December 13|12/13]]|mask|[[Máscara Año 2000]]|[[Aníbal]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1993|93]]/??/??|mask|[[Sandokán]]|[[Aníbal]]|[[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aend|(1) Triangle match with [[Mazambula]]}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|name=Anibal01.jpg|caption=70s}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibalnwachamp.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal11.jpg|caption=cover magazine 70s}}
{{Gallery|name=Nwawelter_bluedemonjr.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal03.jpg|caption=vs [[El Solitario]] at Arena Coliseo,Mexico City 1971-72}}
{{Gallery|name=ANIBAL0.JPG|caption=}}
 
{{Gallery|name=Anibal.jpg|caption= UWA Cruiserweight Champ 1983}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal02.jpg|caption=UWA Cruiserweight Champion 1983}}
{{Gallery|name=AnibalUnmasked.jpg|caption=directly after being unmasked}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibalsinmask.jpg|caption=unmasked 1991}}
{{Gallery|name=ANIBAL_SIN_MASCARA.jpg|caption=92}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]]

Aníbal

2011-02-15T19:35:59Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

== Profile ==
{{bioFields||image=Anibal.jpg
|name=Aníbal
|realName=Carlos Ignacio Carrillo Contreras
|nicknames=El Guerrero Cartaginés (The Carthagenian Warrior), La Saeta Azul (The Blue Arrow), La Furia Azul (The Blue Fury).
|nameHistory=Carlos Carrillo (debut - 65), Anibal (65 - retirement)
|family=[[El Hijo de Aníbal]] (son), [[Herman Munster]] (brother)
|maestro=[[Chico Fernández]], [[Salvador Flores]]
|birthdate=[[November 5]], [[1940]] - [[Topilejo]], [[Michoacán]] (other sources list [[Zitácuaro]], Mich. and [[Laureles]], Mich. as his birthplace)
|obituarydate=[[March 9]], [[1994]]
|debut=[[November]] [[1963]] - [[Topilejo]], Mich.
|lostmaskto=[[Máscara Año 2000]] - [[December 13]], [[1991]] - [[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]
|height=5'10"/178 cms
|weight=207 lbs/94 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Angelito]], [[Spinning Headscissors]], [[Tabla marina]]
|titles=[[Distrito Federal Light Heavyweight Title]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (2), [[National Middleweight Title]], [[UWA World Middleweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title]] (2), [[WWC World Junior Heavyweight Title]] (Puerto Rico), [[European Middleweight Title]] (Panamá)
|}}

== Biography ==

Aníbal was born on [[November 4]], [[1940]] in the state of [[Michoacán]]. In different interviews he has done through the years he has stated being born at [[Zitacora]], [[Topilejo]] and [[Michoacán]].

When he was four years old his family moved to [[Mexico City]]. There he had access to lucha libre, and he idolized [[Black Shadow]] and wanted to be a wrestler like him. When he was around twenty years old he started to train at the [[Gimnasio Baños Gloria]] and at the [[Gimnasio San Francisco de Portales]], where the instructors were [[Chico Fernández]] and [[Salvador Flores]].

He had his first professional match in November of [[1963]] under his real name, Carlos Carrillo. It was in [[Cuernavaca]], [[Mor.]] and he was paid 40 pesos.

Two years later his representatives designed a mask for him. He didn't want to wear a mask, but seeing how most of the younger idols were masked wrestlers he finally decided to go on with the idea. He came up with the Aníbal name.

Carlos was an avid reader of history books, and one of his favorite tales was the one of Aníbal - a Carthagenian general, son of Amílcar Barca and brother of Asdrúbal. He conquered the city of Sagunto, crossed the Pyrenees and the Alps, and battled and defeated the Romans. He almost conquered the city of Rome, but he killed himself in a battle after being surrounded by the enemy troops, because he'd rather be dead than waste the rest of his life being a slave.

As Anibal, his "padrinos" during his debut were [[Mil Máscaras]], and his idol [[Black Shadow]].

Anibal's rookie days were in the [[Arena "Al Gusto"]] in [[Naucalpan]], he became a hot independent worker in [[El Cortijo]], and in [[1966]] he signed with La Empresa, EMLL. On [[October 14]], a bit before signing with [[EMLL]], he lost the [[Distrito Federal Light Heavyweight Title]] against the popular wrestler now turned referee [[Pepe Casas]].

During the second part of the 60s he wrestled for [[EMLL]] but even though he was considered a sensational wrestler from the start he did not become a big name wrestler until [[1970]], even though by [[1968]] he already was an [[Arena Coliseo]] main eventer.

In [[1970]], he won the [[NWA Middleweight Title]] from [[Masio Koma]] and started a multi-year feud with [[René Guajardo]]. He was also voted wrestler of the year by the magazine El Halcon, which is an honor he had again in [[1974]].

He was one of the many wrestlers that on May of [[1975]] left [[EMLL]] to join the newly created [[UWA]] was created. Anibal was already a very popular wrestler and had big profile rivalries with people like [[El Marquez]], but his memorable feuds and matches there with [[Guajardo]], [[Ray Mendoza]], [[Perro Aguayo]] and others turned him into a legend.

He was a big star until the mid 80s, where he sort of disappeared from the scene due to injuries. His style had changed so much because he couldn't wrestle the fast tecnico style anymore. In [[1983]] he was still doing a huge campaign teaming with [[Villano III]] and [[El Solitario]] as "Los Tres Caballeros" (The three gentlemen) but in 1984 he turned rudo and formed a regular team with his arch-enemy [[Dr. Wagner]]. His last big feud was perhaps in [[Puerto Rico]], where he lost the [[UWA Junior Light Heavyweight Title]] to local favorite Invader #3. That was the 15th of August, in San Juan, where the WWC promotion was having his 11th Anniversary Show. Anibal eventually regained the title and lost it on January of 1985 to [[Negro Navarro]].

Anibal's name popped up again strongly on the lucha scene in [[1991]]. He wrestled a lot in [[Panama]] and he started to get booked in [[Arena Mexico]] shows again. This was because he had agreed to lose his mask to [[Universo 2000]], brother of [[Cien Caras]] and [[Máscara Año 2000]], as in EMLL they wanted to elevate Universo and make him a big heavyweight star. However before the match could happen, the Lucha Libre magazine, run by Benjamín Mora, crushed [[EMLL]]'s plans by unveiling them in the magazine. In fact, Mora crushed almost a whole year worth of big feuds due to his bitterness as they didn't want to do business with him anymore (Mora owed them money). So to protect the integrity of the sport in the eyes of the less educated fans, it was Máscara who feuded with Anibal and took his mask in the end. That was the 13th of December of that same year [[1991]], and the match sold out Arena Mexico (drawing 18,000). The Anibal we saw in the match was an old unathletic man that was not even close to his past level of performance. After his mask loss he had a short tour all over Mexico and retired. It's said that Anibal really needed the money.

He eventually returned some months later after his good friend [[Tony Arce]] convinced him, but his hip was in so much pain that he needed surgery again so he retired for good. Before retiring, he had a last Panama tour where he lost his mask to local legend [[Sandokán]] (not the Mexican one) to culminate a 20 years plus feud.

On December of [[1993]], [[AAA]] had an Anibal benefit card because after the surgery he had gone bankruptcy. This card was actually promoted by the "Jose María Álvarez" foundation, which is a foundation that collects money for homeless kids. This was their way to say thank you to Anibal, who in the past promoted countless benefit cards for that association. Everybody that met him will agree that he was a great man and a class act.

An [[Hijo del Anibal]] made his debut on [[October 24]], [[1993|93]] at [[El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos]], but it is believed, though unconfirmed, that this was not an authentic real relative of the original Anibal.

Anibal died on March 9, 1994 at age 53 due to a brain tumor.

== Notable Matches ==
{{SimpleMatchStart}}
{{SimpleMatch|[[January 29|01/29]]/[[1975|75]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]]|'''Anibal''' beat [[Rene Guajardo]] to retain his [[NWA Middleweight Title]]}}
{{SimpleMatchEnd}}
 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Anibal]]|[[Pepe Casas]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Zar de la Muerte]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gory Medina]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Reo]]|[[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Nazi]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1967|67]]/??/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Hombre de Ultratumba]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1969|69]]/[[February 19|02/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Red Terror]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1973|73]]/[[September 15|09/15]]|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Joe Panther]]|[[Gimnasio Nuevo Panamá]] - [[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aline|[[1974|74]]/[[April 26|04/26]]|mask/hair|Aníbal & [[Steve Wright]]|[[René Guajardo]] & [[Tigre Colombiano]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[April 18|04/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Centroamericano]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[June 19|06/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Fantasmón]]|[[Iguala]], [[Guerrero]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[June 25|06/25]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Bruma]]|[[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[July 16|07/16]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Marquez I|El Marquez]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1975|75]]/[[October 20|10/20]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Galeno I]]|[[Nuevo Laredo]], [[Tamps.]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[February 16|02/16]]|mask (1)|[[Aníbal]]|[[Asesino Negro (70s)|El Remington]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[July 11|07/11]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Sandokán]] (from Panama,not UWA one)|[[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[September 19|09/19]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Yaqui Moy|La Momia]] (Yaqui Moy)|[[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|[[1976|76]]/[[December|12]]/??|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Black Jack]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[January 16|01/16]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Power]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[March 2|03/02]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Samurai]]|[[Veracruz]], [[Veracruz]]}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[April 23|04/23]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Mr. Atlas]]|[[Zacatanco]], [[Tlaxcala]]}}
{{aline|[[1979|79]]/[[February 18|02/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Jungla Negra]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[August 10|08/10]]|hairs|[[Fishman]] & Anibal|[[César Valentino]] & [[Kurisu]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1980|80]]/[[August 22|08/22]]|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Hamada]]|[[Arena Neza]] - [[Nezahualcoyotl]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1986|86]]/[[February 26|02/26]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[El Fugitivo]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1987|87]]/[[March 18|03/18]]|mask|[[Aníbal]]|[[Gran Markus]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1990|90]]/??/??|hair|[[Aníbal]]|[[Pirata Morgan]]|[[Tlalnepantla]], [[Mexico State]]}}
{{aline|[[1991|91]]/[[December 13|12/13]]|mask|[[Máscara Año 2000]]|[[Aníbal]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1993|93]]/??/??|mask|[[Sandokán]]|[[Aníbal]]|[[Panama City]], [[Panama]]}}
{{aend|(1) Triangle match with [[Mazambula]]}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|name=Anibal01.jpg|caption=70s}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibalnwachamp.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal11.jpg|caption=cover magazine 70s}}
{{Gallery|name=Nwawelter_bluedemonjr.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]]}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal03.jpg|caption=vs [[El Solitario]]}}
{{Gallery|name=ANIBAL0.JPG|caption=}}
 
{{Gallery|name=Anibal.jpg|caption= UWA Cruiserweight Champ 1983}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibal02.jpg|caption=UWA Cruiserweight Champion 1983}}
{{Gallery|name=AnibalUnmasked.jpg|caption=directly after being unmasked}}
{{Gallery|name=Anibalsinmask.jpg|caption=unmasked 1991}}
{{Gallery|name=ANIBAL_SIN_MASCARA.jpg|caption=92}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]
[[Category:Deceased wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former LLI/UWA wrestlers]]

Rayo de Jalisco

2011-02-15T19:27:39Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Luchas de apuestas record */

__NOTOC__
== Profile ==
{{bioFields|
|image=Rayodejalisco.jpg
|name=Rayo de Jalisco
|realName=Máximino "Max" Linares Moreno
|nicknames=none
|nameHistory=Mr. Misterio (50 - ??), Águila Negra, Dr. Curtis (08/54 - 57), Tony Curtis (57), El Rayo (?? - 03/58), Rayo de Jalisco (03/58 - retirement)
|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)
|maestro=[[Tony Sugar]]
|birthdate=[[November 22]], [[1932]] - [[Milpa Alta]], [[Mexico City]]
|obituarydate=
|debut=[[1950]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]
|lostmaskto=[[Blue Demon]] - [[July 30]], [[1989]] - [[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[Nuevo León]]
|height=5'7"
|weight=205 lbs
|signatureMoves=[[Tope en reversa]]
|titles=[[Occidente Welterweight Championship]], [[NWA World Middleweight Title]] (3), [[National Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[El Santo]])
}}
{{WONHOF}}

== Biography ==

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.

=== pre-Rayo de Jalisco career===

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.

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.

=== Career Highlights ===

Rayo de Jalisco immediatly was succesful, winning the [[NWA World Middleweight Championship]] and [[Occidente Welterweigth 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.

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.

=== End of Career ===

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.

Rayo de Jalisco is still remembered today, based on his success and his son, [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]]

''Partial Source'': Biografias de Leyenda

== Spanish Version (original) ==

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.

Antes de convertirse en el Rayo de Jalisco... Paso por varios Nombres

===pre-carrera===

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.

Ahora si Nace El Rayo... Pero de Jalisco????

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.

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.

Campeonatos, Mascaras y Cabelleras

===sus logros===

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.

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.

Cae la Mascara del Rayo... Pero no su Leyenda!!!!

===hacia el final===

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...

===La historia continua...===

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!!!

fuentes tomadas de biografias de leyendas

 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Chino Chow]]|unknown}}
{{aline|63/??/??|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[La Máscara,1960's version]]|unknown}}
{{aline|64/??/??|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[La Bestia]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Guerrero Negro,1960's version]]|unknown}}
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|[[Mr. Sangre]]|unknown}}
{{aline|78/[[September 17|09/17]]|masks|Rayo de Jalisco & [[Huracán Ramírez]]|[[Los Hermanos Muerte]]|unknown}}
{{aline|89/07/30|mask|[[Blue Demon]]|[[Rayo de Jalisco]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==

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{{Gallery||name=Portada617.jpg |caption=magazing showing the mask match 1964}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayosr.jpg |caption=magazine cover 1970}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_de_jalisco_sr_.jpg |caption=rayo de jalisco 70's}}
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{{Gallery||name=Rayoyelmonarca.jpg|caption=with [[El Monarca]]70's}}
 
{{Gallery||name=Rayo_de_jalisco.JPG |caption=1972}}
{{Gallery||name=RayoCJ.JPG|caption=Scene of the movie [[Vuelven Los Campeones Justicieros (1972)]]}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayoblue.jpg |caption=scene vuelves los campeones justicieros}}
{{Gallery||name=Rayoymanonegra.JPG |caption=late 70's or early80s}}
{{Gallery||name=RAH.jpg |caption=En el toreo acompanado de Huracan Ramirez y Anibal 1980}}
{{Gallery||name=Donmax.JPG |caption=without mask late 90's}}
 
{{Gallery||name=nwamw2_rayodejalisco.jpg|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA Middle]] champ}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]
[[Category:Former CMLL wrestlers]]

Tony Sugar

2011-02-15T19:23:50Z

Hombre-Solo: That was a pic. of a young Cesar Valentino...NOT Tony Sugar!!!

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|family=[[Rayo de Jalisco]] and [[Black Sugar]] (brothers), [[Rayo de Jalisco Jr.]] (nephew), [[Rayman]] (nephew), [[Ultra Rayo]], [[Mister Rayo]], [[Rayo Star]] (nephews or sons?)
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 (as Corsario Negro) [[Destino Negro]] - March 30, 1975
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== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|71/12/04|mask|[[Tauro]]|[[Tony Sugar|El Astro]]|Pista Arena Revolucion}}
{{aline|75/03/30|mask|[[Destino Negro]]|Corsario Negro|unknown}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==
{{Gallery|name=tonysugarastro.jpg|caption=as El Astro}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]

Centurión Negro

2010-04-03T21:28:58Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Luchas de apuestas record */

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|image=CentNegro.jpg
|name=Centurión Negro
|realName=
|nicknames=
|nameHistory=Centurión Negro
|family=[[Centurión Negro Jr.]] (son)
|maestro=[[Rolando Vera]]
|birthdate=?- [[Mazapil ,Zacatecas Mexico]]
|debut=
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|height=170 cm/5'7"
|weight=88 kgs/ 194 lbs
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|titles=[[UWA World Middleweight Championship]] (2), [[FILL Middleweight Title]], [[Ciudad Guadalupe Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[Mongol Chino]])
|}}

 
== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|Centurión Negro|[[Jungla Negra]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}
{{aline|[[1977|77]]/[[December 25|12/25]]|mask|Centurión Negro|[[Misterio Negro]]|[[Plaza de Toros Monumental]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aline|[[1999|99]]/[[April 30|04/30]]|mask|Centurión Negro|[[Pantera Blanca]] II?|unknown}}
{{aline|[[2006|06]]/[[September 17|09/17]]|hair|Centurión Negro|[[Monje Negro Jr.]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Monterrey]], [[N.L.]]}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==

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|name=CenturionNegro.jpg
|caption=2002
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]

El Santo

2010-04-03T21:21:37Z

Hombre-Solo: /* Gallery */

== Profile ==
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|name=El Santo
|realName=Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta
|nicknames=El Enmascarado de Plata (The man of the silver mask), El Profe (The Professor)
|nameHistory=Rudy/Ruddy Guzmán (debut - 36), Hombre Rojo (36 - 11/36), El Enmascarado, Murciélago Enmascarado II, El Demonio Negro, El Santo (06/42 - death)
|family=[[El Hijo del Santo]] (son), [[Black Guzmán]], [[Pantera Negra]] and [[Jimmy Guzmán]] (brothers), [[Los Rockets]], [[Axxel]] (grandsons)
|maestro=[[Black Guzmán]]
|birthdate=[[September 23]], [[1917]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]
|obituarydate=[[Feburary 5]], [[1984]] - [[Mexico City]]
|debut=[[June 28]], [[1934]] - [[Arena Peralvillo-Cozumel]] - [[Mexico City]]
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|signatureMoves=[[La de a Caballo]] (camel clutch), [[Tope de Cristo]] (flying somersault headbutt), [[Plancha]], [[Running Tope Suicida]]
|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]]
}}
{{WONHOF}}

== Biography ==

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.

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.

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.

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]].

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]].

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.

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]].

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.

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.

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".

== Journey towards Retirement ==

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

== A Mortal Saint with an Immortal Legacy ==

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.

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.

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.

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.

===Filmography===
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro del Mal (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)
#[[Santo Contra Los Hombres Infernales (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)
#[[Santo Contra Los Zombis (1961)]]
#[[Santo Contra el Rey del Crimen (1961)]]
#[[Santo en el Hotel de la Muerte (1961)]]
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro Diabólico (1962)]]
#[[Santo vs las Mujeres Vampiro (1962)]]
#[[Santo en el Museo de Cera (1963)]]
#[[Santo vs el Estrangulador (1963)]]
#[[Santo Contra el Espectro (1963)]]
#[[Blue Demon Contra el Poder Satánico (1964)]]
#[[El Hacha Diabólica (1964)]]
#[[Atacan las Brujas (1964)]]
#[[Profanadores de Tumbas (1965)]]
#[[El Barón Brákola (1965)]] (three episodes)
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs la Invasión de Los Marcianos (1966)]]
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs Los Villanos del Ring (1966)]]
#[[Operación 67 (1966)]]
#[[El Tesoro de Moctezuma (1966)]]
#[[Santo en el Tesoro de Drácula (1968]]
#[[Santo Contra Capulina (1968)]]
#[[Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlántida (1969)]]
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos (1969)]]
#[[El Mundo de los Muertos (1969)]]
#[[Santo vs Los Cazadores de Cabezas (1969)]]
#[[Santo Frente A la Muerte (1969)]] (coproduced in Colombia and Spain)
#[[Santo en la Venganza de las Mujeres Vampiro (1970)]]
#[[Santo Contra Los Jinetes del Terror (1970)]]
#[[Santo vs la Mafia del Vicio (1970)]]
#[[Santo en la Venganza de la Momia (1970)]]
#[[Las Momias de Guanajuato (1970)]]
#[[Santo Contra Los Asesinos de Otros Mundos (1971)]]
#[[Santo vs la Hija de Frankenstein (1971)]]
#[[Misión Suicida (1971)]]
#[[Santo y el Aguila Real (el águila real) (1971)]]
#[[Santo Contra la Magia Negra (1972)]] (coproduced in Haití)
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (1972)]]
#[[Las Bestias del Terror (1972)]]
#[[Anónimo Mortal (1972)]]
#[[Santo Contra Los Secuestradores (1972)]] (coproduced with Ecuador)
#[[Santo vs las Lobas (1972)]]
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra el Doctor Frankestein (1973)]]
#[[Santo Contra el Doctor Muerte (1973)]] (coproduced in Spain)
#[[Santo en el Misterio de la Perla Negra (1974)]] (coproduced in Colombia & Spain)
#[[La Venganza de la Llorona (1974)]]
#[[Santo en Oro Negro (1975)]] (coproduced in part in Puerto Rico)
#[[México de Mis Amores (1976)]] (documentary)
#[[Misterio en las Bermudas (1977)]]
#[[Santo en la Frontera del Terror (1979)]]
#[[Chanoc y el Hijo del Santo vs Los Vampiros Asesinos (1981)]] (special)
#[[Santo Contra el Asesino de la Televisión (1981)]]
#[[El Puño de la Muerte (1982)]]
#[[La Furia de Los Karatecas (1982)]]

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
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{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Raúl Torres]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gorilita Flores]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Judas Colombiano]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gory Casanova]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Arturo Chávez]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Golden Terror]]|[[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Cebra]]|[[Colombia]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Araña]]|[[Torreón]], [[Coahuila]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Momia]]|[[San Salvador]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Cara Cortada]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dragón Rojo]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chico Casaola]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dr. X (original)]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|El Santo & [[Dr. X (original)]]|[[Los Infernales]] [[Infernale I|I]] & [[Infernale II|II]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1943]]/01/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Murciélago Velázquez]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1943]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[02/09]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[04/08]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jack O'Brien]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1949]]/[[07/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Enrique Llanes]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1952]]/[[11/07]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Black Shadow]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1955]]/[[05/15]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Monje Loco (50s)|Monje Loco]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1955]]/[[12/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Halcón Negro (50s)|Halcón Negro]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1956]]/[[September 21|09/21]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Rubén Juárez]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto II]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[04/26]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Benny Galant]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[10/25]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto I]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1968]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dick Angelo]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/10]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[René Guajardo]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/11]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jorge Allende]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[10/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Perro Aguayo]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 3|09/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1980]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Remolino]]|[[Gimnasio Municipal Obregon|Gimnasio Municipal - Cd. Obregón]], [[Sonora]]}}
{{aend|}}

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[[Category:Deceased wrestlers|Santo]]

El Santo

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== Profile ==
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|image=elsanto.jpg
|name=El Santo
|realName=Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta
|nicknames=El Enmascarado de Plata (The man of the silver mask), El Profe (The Professor)
|nameHistory=Rudy/Ruddy Guzmán (debut - 36), Hombre Rojo (36 - 11/36), El Enmascarado, Murciélago Enmascarado II, El Demonio Negro, El Santo (06/42 - death)
|family=[[El Hijo del Santo]] (son), [[Black Guzmán]], [[Pantera Negra]] and [[Jimmy Guzmán]] (brothers), [[Los Rockets]], [[Axxel]] (grandsons)
|maestro=[[Black Guzmán]]
|birthdate=[[September 23]], [[1917]] - [[Tulancingo]], [[Hidalgo]]
|obituarydate=[[Feburary 5]], [[1984]] - [[Mexico City]]
|debut=[[June 28]], [[1934]] - [[Arena Peralvillo-Cozumel]] - [[Mexico City]]
|lostmaskto=
|height=
|weight=
|signatureMoves=[[La de a Caballo]] (camel clutch), [[Tope de Cristo]] (flying somersault headbutt), [[Plancha]], [[Running Tope Suicida]]
|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]]
}}
{{WONHOF}}

== Biography ==

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.

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.

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.

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]].

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]].

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.

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]].

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.

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.

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".

== Journey towards Retirement ==

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

== A Mortal Saint with an Immortal Legacy ==

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.

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.

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.

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.

===Filmography===
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro del Mal (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)
#[[Santo Contra Los Hombres Infernales (1958)]] (coproduced in Cuba)
#[[Santo Contra Los Zombis (1961)]]
#[[Santo Contra el Rey del Crimen (1961)]]
#[[Santo en el Hotel de la Muerte (1961)]]
#[[Santo Contra el Cerebro Diabólico (1962)]]
#[[Santo vs las Mujeres Vampiro (1962)]]
#[[Santo en el Museo de Cera (1963)]]
#[[Santo vs el Estrangulador (1963)]]
#[[Santo Contra el Espectro (1963)]]
#[[Blue Demon Contra el Poder Satánico (1964)]]
#[[El Hacha Diabólica (1964)]]
#[[Atacan las Brujas (1964)]]
#[[Profanadores de Tumbas (1965)]]
#[[El Barón Brákola (1965)]] (three episodes)
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs la Invasión de Los Marcianos (1966)]]
#[[Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata vs Los Villanos del Ring (1966)]]
#[[Operación 67 (1966)]]
#[[El Tesoro de Moctezuma (1966)]]
#[[Santo en el Tesoro de Drácula (1968]]
#[[Santo Contra Capulina (1968)]]
#[[Santo Contra Blue Demon en la Atlántida (1969)]]
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos (1969)]]
#[[El Mundo de los Muertos (1969)]]
#[[Santo vs Los Cazadores de Cabezas (1969)]]
#[[Santo Frente A la Muerte (1969)]] (coproduced in Colombia and Spain)
#[[Santo en la Venganza de las Mujeres Vampiro (1970)]]
#[[Santo Contra Los Jinetes del Terror (1970)]]
#[[Santo vs la Mafia del Vicio (1970)]]
#[[Santo en la Venganza de la Momia (1970)]]
#[[Las Momias de Guanajuato (1970)]]
#[[Santo Contra Los Asesinos de Otros Mundos (1971)]]
#[[Santo vs la Hija de Frankenstein (1971)]]
#[[Misión Suicida (1971)]]
#[[Santo y el Aguila Real (el águila real) (1971)]]
#[[Santo Contra la Magia Negra (1972)]] (coproduced in Haití)
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo (1972)]]
#[[Las Bestias del Terror (1972)]]
#[[Anónimo Mortal (1972)]]
#[[Santo Contra Los Secuestradores (1972)]] (coproduced with Ecuador)
#[[Santo vs las Lobas (1972)]]
#[[Santo y Blue Demon Contra el Doctor Frankestein (1973)]]
#[[Santo Contra el Doctor Muerte (1973)]] (coproduced in Spain)
#[[Santo en el Misterio de la Perla Negra (1974)]] (coproduced in Colombia & Spain)
#[[La Venganza de la Llorona (1974)]]
#[[Santo en Oro Negro (1975)]] (coproduced in part in Puerto Rico)
#[[México de Mis Amores (1976)]] (documentary)
#[[Misterio en las Bermudas (1977)]]
#[[Santo en la Frontera del Terror (1979)]]
#[[Chanoc y el Hijo del Santo vs Los Vampiros Asesinos (1981)]] (special)
#[[Santo Contra el Asesino de la Televisión (1981)]]
#[[El Puño de la Muerte (1982)]]
#[[La Furia de Los Karatecas (1982)]]

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Cavernario Galindo]]|[[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Raúl Torres]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gorilita Flores]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Judas Colombiano]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Gory Casanova]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Arturo Chávez]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Golden Terror]]|[[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Cebra]]|[[Colombia]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Araña]]|[[Torreón]], [[Coahuila]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[La Momia]]|[[San Salvador]]}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Cara Cortada]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dragón Rojo]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Chico Casaola]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dr. X (original)]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|El Santo & [[Dr. X (original)]]|[[Los Infernales]] [[Infernale I|I]] & [[Infernale II|II]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1943]]/01/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Murciélago Velázquez]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1943]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[02/09]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Bonales]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1944]]/[[04/08]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jack O'Brien]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1949]]/[[07/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Enrique Llanes]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1952]]/[[11/07]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Black Shadow]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1955]]/[[05/15]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Monje Loco (50s)|Monje Loco]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1955]]/[[12/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Halcón Negro (50s)|Halcón Negro]]|[[Arena Coliseo]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1956]]/[[September 21|09/21]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Gladiador]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Rubén Juárez]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1963]]/??/??|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto II]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[04/26]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Benny Galant]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1963]]/[[10/25]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Espanto I]]|[[Arena México]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1968]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Dick Angelo]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/10]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[René Guajardo]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1968]]/[[08/11]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Jorge Allende]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1975]]/[[10/03]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Perro Aguayo]]|unknown}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 3|09/03]]|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1978]]/[[September 24|09/24]]|hair|[[El Santo]]|[[Bobby Lee]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Mexico City]]}}
{{aline|[[1980]]/??/??|mask|[[El Santo]]|[[El Remolino]]|[[Gimnasio Municipal Obregon|Gimnasio Municipal - Cd. Obregón]], [[Sonora]]}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==
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{{Gallery|name=El-santo_nwa-midd.JPG|caption=as [[NWA World Middleweight Championship|NWA MIDDLE Champ]]}}
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{{Gallery|name= Rodolfo_guzman.jpg|caption=Don Rodolfo Guzman Huerta-EL SANTO 1965}}
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{{Gallery|name=SantoStatue.jpg|caption=Statue made in memory of Santo. It stands 3.70 mts &weighs over 1500 kilos}}
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{{Gallery|name= Sandemon.jpg|caption= with [[Blue Demon]]}}
{{Gallery|name= Milsanto.jpg|caption= with [[Mil Mascaras 1976]]}}
{{Gallery|name= Domingo12.jpg|caption= his last lucha Program, Sept. 1982}}
{{Gallery|name=El_santo_sinmask.jpg |caption=Unmasking during Contrapunto Talk show aired on TV on Jan.1984}}
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