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Rey Wagner

2007-09-12T19:21:53Z

Majorclanger: restored Acapulco as site of hair win over Pierroth

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== Profile ==
{{ShortBio|
|image=110.JPG
|name=Dr. Wagner Jr.
|nicknames=El Galeno del Mal (The Evil Doctor) / El Galeno del Bien (After he became Tecnico)
|nameHistory=Dr. Wagner Jr. (debut - )
|family=[[Dr. Wagner]] (father), [[Silver King]] (brother), [[Rossy Moreno]] (former wife), [[Leon Del Ring]] (nephew)
|maestro=[[Gran Markus]], [[Dr. Wagner]]
|birthdate=August 12, 1965 - Torreón, Coahuila
|debut=April 7, 1986 - Monterrey, Nuevo León
|height=5'10"/177 cms
|weight=216 lbs/98 kg
|signatureMoves=Wagner Driver ([[Michinoku Driver II]]), [[Death Valley Driver]], [[Niagara Driver]], [[Top-Rope Diamond Cutter]], [[Flying Splash]], [[Flying Senton]], [[Tiger Driver]], Running Lariat, [[Running Somersault Plancha (off the apron)]], [[Running Somersault Plancha (off the ramp)]]
|titles=[[Northern Mexico Heavyweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title]], [[CMLL World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[CMLL World Trios Titles]] (3, w/ [[Gran Markus Jr.]] & [[El Hijo del Gladiador]] - [[La Ola Blanca]], w/ [[Blue Panther]] & [[Black Warrior]] - [[Los Laguneros,]] w/ [[Fuerza Guerrera]] & [[Blue Panther]]), [[CMLL World Tag Team Titles]] (4, w/ [[Canek]], w/ [[Silver King]], w/ [[Emilio Charles Jr.]], w/ [[Último Guerrero]]), [[New Japan Pro Wrestling]]: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles (w/ [[Kendo Kashin]]), WWC Hardcore Title, [[UWA World Heavyweight Title]], 2003 [[La Copa Jr.]]
|}}

== Biography ==

[[Dr. Wagner Jr.]] is the top tecnico not wearing a silver mask in [[CMLL]]. He's a young legend to the fans, a wrestler with international experience (and success!) and capable of a great match when he wants one. Dr. Wagner is one of the most popular wrestlers in Mexico, and an iconic figure.

Wagner turned tecnico following the death of [[Dr. Wagner|his father.]] The change was fan inspired; Wagner was in a four way mask match on the first [[Arena Mexico]] show after his father's passing, and the fans did not want him to lose his mask that night under any circumstances. Wagner did not lose his mask, and the crowd clung to him after that moment. Wagner and the promotion tried to go back to the status quo after, but the fans cheered him enough to make a change.

Dr. Wagner becoming a tecnico had ripple affects across the promotion. Since he was feuding with [[Canek]], Canek had to turn rudo to continue it. Later, in [[2005]], the fans loudly picked Wagner over [[Atlantis]] when they were setting up a mask versus mask match, to the point where Atlantis was tainted as a tecnico (and had to be turned rudo) and Wagner had become so popular, the match couldn't be done at a profit to all sides.

Even though the mask match never took place, Atlantis and Wagner continue to be rivals, with the idea all sides might one day do the match in a different arena where the money works out better. (The feud with Canek has slipped to the wayside.)

More pressing for Dr. Wagner at the moment is a feud with another recently turned tecnico, [[LA Park]]. As with Atlantis, the crowd turned on LA Park with no prompting, and he responded in kind. Wagner stuck up for the people of "his house", and he and Park have had violent brawls in the weeks since. A Park/Wagner mask match would seem to have the same financial issues as the Atlantis one, but that's the way they seem to be heading.

Wagner often teams with [[Mistico]], as a big brother/protector to the smaller wrestler. He'll also team with his newly unmasked brother, [[Silver King]], who has been wrestling in some locales as Dr. Wagner Jr. II or el Hermano de Dr. Wagner Jr. Wagner has shown himself capable of wrestling Japanese junior and lucha technical styles, but his current feuds and positioning has resulted in him primary working as a brawler with hot comeback moves.

Dr. Wagner Jr. still potentially has many years left in his career. However, he's often said to have saved well from his career and could retire early. It's believed he was going to lose his mask to Atlantis when that match was originally scheduled, which could have been the one last big payoff of his career. Instead, it seems like he's going to hang around for a while longer.

Also see: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Wagner%2C_Jr. Wikipedia]

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|Dr. Wagner Jr.|[[Jungla del Norte]]|¿¿¿???}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|Dr. Wagner Jr.|[[Brazo de Oro]]|¿¿¿???}}
{{aline|88/??/??|mask|Dr. Wagner Jr.|[[Drago]]|Arena Neza - Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State }}
{{aline|03/11/14|hair|Dr. Wagner Jr.|[[Rey Misterio]]|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California}}
{{aline|06/04/19|hair|Dr. Wagner Jr.|[[Pierroth]]|Arena Coliseo De Acapulco}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==

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|name=wagnermonito.jpg|caption=The Doc tells off Que Monito}}
{{Gallery||name=WagnerJr_WWC.jpg|caption=with his pretend WWC Hardcore Title}}
{{Gallery||name=drwagnerjr03.jpg|caption=2006}}
{{Gallery||name=Drwagnerjr.jpg|caption=2006}}
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{{Gallery|name=wagner_cobarde.jpg|caption=w/[[Cobarde II]]}}
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{{Gallery|name=cmlltag_drwagnerjrultimogurrero.jpg|caption=[[CMLL World Tag Team Championship|Tag Champ]] w/[[Ultimo Guerrero]]}}
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{{Gallery|name=Wagner 2.JPG|caption=UWA Title Match (Guadalajara)}}
{{Gallery|name=WvsG.JPG|caption=Vs.[[Ultimo Guerrero]]}}

== Sources ==
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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]
[[Category:Current CMLL wrestlers]]

Category:Brazo Family

2006-11-13T22:08:31Z

Majorclanger: fixed apostrophe error

[[image:Los brazos.jpg|left|155px]]The Brazo Family is a well known family of lucha libre. The heart of the family are the six sons of Shadito Cruz, who all took the Brazo name at one point in their career. Brazo de Oro was the first, and others were named off his identity.

The most famous Brazo match took place against another family of wrestling, the Villanos. The highpoint of their never ending feud was a trios cage match with on 1988.10.21, where all masks were on the line. Villano I, IV, and V won, and [[El Brazo]], [[Brazo de Oro]], and [[Brazo de Plata]] lost their masks. The bloody nature of the match - which continued in various combinations of rematches for decades after - and three people losing their masks at once makes it a noteworthy match.

While many of the original Brazos are active, their sons have also started to wrestle. Brazo de Oro Jr., Brazo de Platino Jr., and Brazo de Plata Jr. all debuted as second generation Brazos. In 2004, Brazo de Oro and Braza de Plata had their sons change to unrelated and individual identities, feeling the name "Brazo" had been worn out, and lost some of its value due to many hair match losses.

A Brazo Jr. is currently wrestling in IWRG. It's not known for sure if he's El Brazo's son - after all, if Maximo was using Brazo de Platino Jr. because Brazo de Plata Jr. was taken, it could be another kid of Oro or Plata.
 
=== Family Tree ===

{|width=100% border=1 style="font-family:Verdana; font-size: 8pt; text-align: center"
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!width="16%"|''1st Generation'' (father)
|colspan=7|'''[[Shadito Cruz]]'''
|-style="background: aqua;"
|'''''2nd Generation'' (sons)'''
!width="12%"|[[Brazo de Oro]] once married to [[Lady Apache]]
|colspan=2|'''[[Brazo de Plata]] (Super Porky)'''
!width="12%"|[[el Brazo]]
!width="12%"|[[Brazo Cibernético]] (Robin Hood)
!width="12%"|[[Super Brazo]]
!width="12%"|[[Brazo de Platino]]
|-style="background: lime;"
|'''''3rd Generation'' (grandsons)'''
|'''[[La Mascara]] (Brazo de Oro Jr.)'''
!width="12%"|[[Maximo]] (Brazo de Platino Jr.)
!width="12%"|[[Brazo de Plata Jr.]] (Kronos)
|'''[[Brazo Jr.]]?'''
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|}

Silver King

2006-08-22T20:17:01Z

Majorclanger: /* Biography */

{{Status}}

== Profile ==



{{bioFields|
|image=Silver_de_nuevo.jpg
|name=Silver King
|realName=César Cuauhtémoc González Barrón
|nicknames=El Fabuloso (The Fabulous One), El Efectivo (The Effective One)
|nameHistory=El Invasor (debut - ??), Silver King (?? - 2001, 2006 - current), Dr. Wagner Jr. (NJPW, 10/87), Black Tiger (06/01 - 2005), Bronco (2005), El Hermano De Dr. Wagner/Dr. Wagner II (2006), Ramses ([[Nacho Libre]])
|family=[[Dr. Wagner]] (father), [[Dr. Wagner Jr.]] (brother), [[Xochitl Hamada]] (former wife)
|maestro=[[Dr. Wagner]], [[Gran Markus]]
|birthdate=January 9, 1968 - Torreón, Coahuila
|obituarydate=n/a
|debut=November 1985 - Matamoros, Coahuila
|lostmaskto=[[El Hijo del Santo]] - November 13, 1987 - Auditorio de Tijuana (as Silver King) 
[[LA Park]] - Feburary 4, 2006 - Auditorio Municipal de Torreon
|height=5'9"/176 cms
|weight=216 lbs/98 kg
|signatureMoves=[[Superkick]], [[Moonsault press]], [[Airplane Spin]], [[Plancha suicida off second rope inside the ring]], [[Swinging DDT]]
|titles=[[WWA World Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[El Texano]], w/ [[El Dandy]]), [[UWA World Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[El Texano]]), [[UWA World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[CMLL World Tag Team Titles]] (2, w/ [[El Texano]], w/ [[Dr. Wagner Jr.]]), [[IWA Japan World Tag Team Titles]] (w/ [[El Texano]]), [[CMLL World Heavyweight Title]], [[CMLL World Trios Titles]] (w/ [[Dr. Wagner Jr.]] & [[Universo 2000]], [[IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship]] (w/ [[Pantera]] & [[Pentagon Black]])
}}

== Biography ==

He began his career as Silver King in the Universal Wrestling Association and lost his mask early to El Hijo del Santo. He formed a tag team with El Texano called "The Cowboys" and the tandem saw success with a UWA and WWA World Tag Team title reigns and an appearance on WCW's Clash of the Champions XIX in 1992 being defeated by The Fabulous Freebirds. In 1993, Texano and Silver King jumped to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre where they continued their success by winning the vacant CMLL tag titles. In singles competition, Silver King feuded with veterans such as Scorpio and Emilio Charles, Jr. and he won the CMLL World Heavyweight title by defeating Black Magic Norman Smiley in 1994. In 1996, he and his brother Dr. Wagner, Jr. defeated Dos Caras and Último Dragón to win the vacant CMLL World Tag-Team titles but in 1997, Silver King joined WCW full time and gave up his half of the title.

Other than a Cruiserweight title challenge against Juventud Guerrera on the 1998 Fall Brawl pay-per-view, he did not receive much of a push, mostly wrestling in opening matches, even though he was a member of the short-lived Latino World Order. He began teaming with El Dandy as Los Fabulosos with Stacy Keibler managing but when Vince Russo took over booking, most of the luchadores in WCW's employ were released or given a much smaller role. After leaving WCW, he returned to CMLL and began wrestling for CMLL's Japanese affiliate, New Japan Pro Wrestling. In 2001, he adopted the "Black Tiger" character previously used by Eddie Guerrero. As Black Tiger, he wrestled several tours with New Japan and had an unsuccessful IWGP Tag Team Championship attempt with his brother against Jushin Liger and El Samurai in 2001. In 2003, New Japan used Mexican wrestlers less and less so Black Tiger wrestled mostly for CMLL, usually as Dr. Wagner, Jr.'s back-up. However, since Black Tiger was supposed to be Japanese (for the Mexican storyline - New Japan had always given the Black Tiger character to a foreigner), the relationship was not publicly recognized by CMLL even when Tiger, Wagner and Universo 2000 won the CMLL World Trios title that year.

After losing the title to Canek, Black Warrior and Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. in 2004, Dr. Wagner, Jr. turned técnico (face) when Dr. Wagner, Sr. died. This left Tiger without much to do and he wrestled mainly in IWRG, Arena Coliseo, CMLL's secondary arena, or he filled in holes in Arena Mexico cards. In 2005, Rocky Romero debuted as New Japan's new Black Tiger. González continued to use the name but CMLL decided to repackage him as "El Bronco." His debut, where he teamed with Elektro (a wrestler from AAA) and L.A. Park against the original members of Los Guerreros del Infierno, was a huge failure. The crowd did not buy Elektro or Bronco and a rematch set for next week on top of the Gran Alterntiva tournament was quickly changed with Hijo del Lizmark and Místico filling in and Bronco replacing Lizmark in the tournament. Elektro was never used again and Bronco was used occasionally in midcard roles. Despite the name change in CMLL, he continued to wrestle as "Black Tiger" in IWRG and in independent promotions. After months of delays due to injuries, he finally lost the Black Tiger mask to L.A. Park in his hometown of Torreón and began wrestling as Silver King again. He appears in Paramount Pictures' Nacho Libre as RAMSES, in which he dons a golden mask.

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|87/11/13|mask|[[El Hijo del Santo]]|[[Silver King]]|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California}}
{{aline|88/02/19|hair|[[Kendo]]|[[Silver King]]|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California}}
{{aline|90/12/06|hair|[[Silver King]]|[[Black Power II]]|Pista Arena Revolución - Mexico City}}
{{aline|92/07/12|masks|Silver King & [[El Texano]]|[[Can-Am Express]] ([[Doug Furnas]] & [[Dan Kroffat]])|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|92/11/08|masks|Silver King & [[El Texano]]|[[Los Crazy Stars]] [[Crazy Star I|I]] & [[Crazy Star II|II]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|92/12/04|hair|[[Silver King]]|[[Loco Zandokan]]|Arena Neza - Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State}}
{{aline|94/09/30|hair|[[Silver King]]|[[Scorpio]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|95/02/09|hair|[[Silver King]]|[[Ari Romero]]|Pista Arena Revolución - Mexico City}}
{{aline|95/09/22|hair|[[Miguel Pérez Jr.]]|[[Silver King]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|96/09/27|hair|[[Emilio Charles Jr.]]|[[Silver King]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|97/03/21|hair|[[Silver King]]|[[La Fiera]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|06/02/04|mask|[[L.A. Park]]|[[Silver King|Black Tiger III]]|Auditorio Municipal de Torreon }}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery|
|name=maskedsk.jpg
|caption=Silver King masked
}}
{{Gallery|name=uwatag_silverkingtexano.jpg|caption=[[UWA World Tag Team Championship|UWA Tag Champion]] with [[Texano]]}}
{{Gallery|
|name=blacktiger.jpg
|caption=Black Tiger III
}}

{{Gallery|
|name=BT3&DW.jpg
|caption=Black Tiger III & Dr. Wagner
}}

{{Gallery|
|name=silverking.jpg
|caption=cowboy
}}

[[Image:CorporacionBelts.jpg|thumb|La Corporacion in IWRG|100px|left]]

{{Gallery|
|name=Bronco.jpg
|caption=as Bronco
}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]][[Category:Current CMLL wrestlers]]
[[Category:WCW Nitro wrestlers|Silver King]]

Fray Tormenta

2006-08-04T19:53:50Z

Majorclanger: /* Biography */ clarified one sentence, fixed "its" error

== Profile ==


{{bioFields|
|image=Fray.jpg
|name=Fray Tormenta
|realName= Padre Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez
|nicknames=
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== Biography ==

Fray Tormenta has appeared in CMLL in recent years, acting as a [[padrino]] to debuting devout wrestlers [[Sagrado (Genetico)|Sagrado]] and [[Mistico]]. Due to Mistico's success, Tormenta is more often associated with him, and has appeared with him on CMLL's TV show. Fray Tormenta plays a big role in Sagrado's purported background; when Sagrado was unable to decide between wrestling and the priesthood, it was Tormenta who pointed him towards CMLL.

The 2006 US Movie, [[Nacho Libre]], is loosely based on Tormenta's life. Both Fray and the main character of the movie are priests who also become luchadores, but the similarities appear to end there - the movie just uses the concept as a jumping off point to tell its own story.

There have been other movies on Fray Tormenta's life, including one from a film company in France. 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|90/11/18|mask|[[Fray Tormenta]]|[[La Llamarada|Hijo de Judas]]|Arena Pavillón - Nuevo Laredo, Tamps.}}
{{aend|}}

== External Links ==

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYJYLq52nno Video Interview (Spanish)]

== Gallery ==


{{Gallery|
|name=FrayTormentaunmasked.jpg
|caption=Unmasked
}}

{{Gallery|
|name=fray2.jpg
|caption=2006
}}

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]

Rey Wagner

2006-07-11T20:23:14Z

Majorclanger: /* Biography */ typo fixes

{{Status}}

== Profile ==

{{bioFields||image=Drwagnerjr.jpg
|name=Dr. Wagner Jr.
|realName=???
|nicknames=El Galeno del Mal (The Evil Doctor) / El Galeno del Bien (After he became Tecnico)
|nameHistory=Dr. Wagner Jr. (debut - )
|family=[[Dr. Wagner]] (father), [[Silver King]] (brother), [[Rossy Moreno]] (former wife), [[Leon Del Ring]] (nephew)
|maestro=[[Gran Markus]], [[Dr. Wagner]]
|birthdate=August 12, 1965 - Torreón, Coahuila
|obituarydate=n/a
|debut=April 7, 1986 - Monterrey, Nuevo León
|lostmaskto=n/a
|height=5'10"/177 cms
|weight=216 lbs/98 kg
|signatureMoves=Wagner Driver ([[Michinoku Driver II]]), [[Death Valley Driver]], [[Niagara Driver]], [[Top-Rope Diamond Cutter]], [[Flying Splash]], [[Flying Senton]], [[Tiger Driver]], Running Lariat, [[Running Somersault Plancha (off the apron)]], [[Running Somersault Plancha (off the ramp)]]
|titles=[[Northern Mexico Heavyweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title]], [[CMLL World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[CMLL World Trios Titles]] (3, w/ [[Gran Markus Jr.]] & [[El Hijo del Gladiador]] - La Ola Blanca, w/ [[Blue Panther]] & [[Black Warrior]] - Los Laguneros, w/ [[Fuerza Guerrera]] & [[Blue Panther]]), [[CMLL World Tag Team Titles]] (3, w/ [[Canek]], w/ [[Silver King]], w/ [[Emilio Charles Jr.]]), New Japan Pro Wrestling: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles (w/ [[Kendo Kashin]]), WWC Hardcore Title, [[UWA World Heavyweight Title]], 2003 [[La Copa Jr.]]
|}}

== Biography ==

[[Dr. Wagner Jr.]] is the top tecnico not wearing a silver mask in [[CMLL]]. He's a young legend to the fans, a wrestler with international experience (and success!) and capable of a great match when he wants one. Dr. Wagner is one of the most popular wrestlers in Mexico, and an iconic figure.

Wagner turned tecnico following the death of [[Dr. Wagner|his father.]] The change was fan inspired; Wagner was in a four way mask match on the first [[Arena Mexico]] show after his father's passing, and the fans did not want him to lose his mask that night under any circumstances. Wagner did not lose his mask, and the crowd clung to him after that moment. Wagner and the promotion tried to go back to the status quo after, but the fans cheered him enough to make a change.

Dr. Wagner becoming a tecnico had ripple affects across the promotion. Since he was feuding with [[Canek]], Canek had to turn rudo to continue it. Later, in [[2005]], the fans loudly picked Wagner over [[Atlantis]] when they were setting up a mask versus mask match, to the point where Atlantis was tainted as a tecnico (and had to be turned rudo) and Wagner had become so popular, the match couldn't be done at a profit to all sides.

Even though the mask match never took place, Atlantis and Wagner continue to be rivals, with the idea all sides might one day do the match in a different arena where the money works out better. (The feud with Canek has slipped to the wayside.)

More pressing for Dr. Wagner at the moment is a feud with another recently turned tecnico, [[LA Park]]. As with Atlantis, the crowd turned on LA Park with no prompting, and he responded in kind. Wagner stuck up for the people of "his house", and he and Park have had violent brawls in the weeks since. A Park/Wagner mask match would seem to have the same financial issues as the Atlantis one, but that's the way they seem to be heading.

Wagner often teams with [[Mistico]], as a big brother/protector to the smaller wrestler. He'll also team with his newly unmasked brother, [[Silver King]], who has been wrestling in some locales as Dr. Wagner Jr. II or el Hermano de Dr. Wagner Jr. Wagner has shown himself capable of wrestling Japanese junior and lucha technical styles, but his current feuds and positioning has resulted in him primary working as a brawler with hot comeback moves.

Dr. Wagner Jr. still potentially has many years left in his career. However, he's often said to have saved well from his career and could retire early. It's believed he was going to lose his mask to Atlantis when that match was originally scheduled, which could have been the one last big payoff of his career. Instead, it seems like he's going to hang around for a while longer.

Also see: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Wagner%2C_Jr. Wikipedia]

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|Dr. Wagner Jr.|[[Jungla del Norte]]|¿¿¿???}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|Dr. Wagner Jr.|[[Brazo de Oro]]|¿¿¿???}}
{{aline|88/??/??|mask|Dr. Wagner Jr.|[[Drago]]|Arena Neza - Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State }}
{{aline|03/11/14|hair|Dr. Wagner Jr.|[[Rey Misterio]]|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California}}
{{aline|06/04/19|hair|Dr. Wagner Jr.|[[Pierroth]]|Arena Coliseo De Acapulco}}
{{aend|}}

== Gallery ==

{{Gallery|
|name=wagnermonito.jpg
|caption=The Doc tells off Que Monito
}}
{{Gallery|
|name=WagnerJr_WWC.jpg
|caption=with his pretend WWC Hardcore Title
}}
{{Gallery|
|name=drwagnerjr03.jpg
|caption=2006
}}

== Sources ==

[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]
[[Category:Current CMLL wrestlers]]

Rey Wagner

2006-07-11T20:21:05Z

Majorclanger: /* Biography */

{{Status}}

== Profile ==

{{bioFields||image=Drwagnerjr.jpg
|name=Dr. Wagner Jr.
|realName=???
|nicknames=El Galeno del Mal (The Evil Doctor) / El Galeno del Bien (After he became Tecnico)
|nameHistory=Dr. Wagner Jr. (debut - )
|family=[[Dr. Wagner]] (father), [[Silver King]] (brother), [[Rossy Moreno]] (former wife), [[Leon Del Ring]] (nephew)
|maestro=[[Gran Markus]], [[Dr. Wagner]]
|birthdate=August 12, 1965 - Torreón, Coahuila
|obituarydate=n/a
|debut=April 7, 1986 - Monterrey, Nuevo León
|lostmaskto=n/a
|height=5'10"/177 cms
|weight=216 lbs/98 kg
|signatureMoves=Wagner Driver ([[Michinoku Driver II]]), [[Death Valley Driver]], [[Niagara Driver]], [[Top-Rope Diamond Cutter]], [[Flying Splash]], [[Flying Senton]], [[Tiger Driver]], Running Lariat, [[Running Somersault Plancha (off the apron)]], [[Running Somersault Plancha (off the ramp)]]
|titles=[[Northern Mexico Heavyweight Title]], [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title]], [[CMLL World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[CMLL World Trios Titles]] (3, w/ [[Gran Markus Jr.]] & [[El Hijo del Gladiador]] - La Ola Blanca, w/ [[Blue Panther]] & [[Black Warrior]] - Los Laguneros, w/ [[Fuerza Guerrera]] & [[Blue Panther]]), [[CMLL World Tag Team Titles]] (3, w/ [[Canek]], w/ [[Silver King]], w/ [[Emilio Charles Jr.]]), New Japan Pro Wrestling: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles (w/ [[Kendo Kashin]]), WWC Hardcore Title, [[UWA World Heavyweight Title]], 2003 [[La Copa Jr.]]
|}}

== Biography ==

[[Dr. Wagner Jr.]] is the top tecnico not wearing a silver mask in [[CMLL]]. He's a young legend to the fans, a wrestler with international experience (and success!) and capable of a great match when he wants one. Dr. Wagner is one of the most popular wrestlers in Mexico, and an iconic figure.

Wagner turned tecnico following the death of [[Dr. Wagner|his father.]] The change was fan inspired; Wagner was in a four way mask match on the first [[Arena Mexico]] show after his father's passing, and the fans did not want him to lose his mask that night under any circumstances. Wagner did not lose his mask, and the crowd clung to him after that moment. Wagner and the promotion tried to go back to the status quo after, but the fans cheered him enough to make a change.

Dr. Wagner becoming a tecnico had ripple affects across the promotion. Since he was feuding with [[Canek]], Canek had to turn rudo to continue it. Later, in [[2005]], the fans loudly picked Wagner over [[Atlantis]] when they were setting up a mask versus mask match, to the point where Atlantis was tainted as a tecnico (and had to be turned rudo) and Wagner had become so popular, the match couldn't be done at a profit to all sides.

Even though the mask match never took place, Atlantis and Wagner continue to be rivals, with the idea all sides might one day do the match in a different arena where the money works out better. (The feud with Canek has slipped to the way side.)

More pressing for Dr. Wagner at the moment is a feud with another recently turned tecnico, [[LA Park]]. As with Atlantis, the crowd turned on LA Park with no prompting, and he responded in kind. Wagner stuck up for the people of "his house", and he and Park have had violent brawls in the weeks since. A Park/Wagner mask match would seem to have the same finical issues as the Atlantis one, but that's the way they seem to be heading.

Wagner often teams with [[Mistico]], as a big brother/protector to the smaller wrestler. He'll also team with his newly unmasked brother, [[Silver King]], who has been wrestling in some locals as Dr. Wagner Jr. II or el Hermano de Dr. Wagner Jr. Wagner's shown himself capable of wrestling Japanese junior and lucha technical styles, but his current feuds and positioning has resulted in him primary working as a brawler with hot comeback moves.

Dr. Wagner Jr. still potentially has many years left in his career. However, he's often said to have saved well from his career and could retire early. It's believed he was going to lose his mask to Atlantis when that match was originally scheduled, which could've been the one last big payoff of his career. Instead, it seems like he's going to hang around for a while longer.

Also see: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Wagner%2C_Jr. Wikipedia]

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
{{astart}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|Dr. Wagner Jr.|[[Jungla del Norte]]|¿¿¿???}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|Dr. Wagner Jr.|[[Brazo de Oro]]|¿¿¿???}}
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Súper Comando

2006-03-03T01:53:06Z

Majorclanger: /* Profile */

== Profile ==

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|name=Super Comando
|realName=???
|nicknames=none
|nameHistory=Dios Rojo (debut - ??), Super Comando (?? -)
|family=[[Artillero]] and [[Sombra de Plata]] (brothers), [[Príncipe Odín]] (father)
|maestro=[[Príncipe Odín]], [[Tony Salazar]]
|birthdate=[[February 23, 1981]] - [[Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State]]
|obituarydate=n/a
|debut=[[October 13, 1991]] - [[Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State]]
|lostmaskto=n/a
|height=5'6"/168 cms
|weight=165 lbs/75 kg
|signatureMoves=Comando Clutch (seated [[Gori Special]]), Gori Special Backbreaker
|titles=none
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Súper Comando

2006-03-03T01:51:50Z

Majorclanger: /* Profile */

== Profile ==

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|name=Super Comando
|nicknames=none
|realname=???
|nameHistory=Dios Rojo (debut - ??), Super Comando (?? -)
|family=[[Artillero]] and [[Sombra de Plata]] (brothers), [[Príncipe Odín]] (father)
|maestro=[[Príncipe Odín]], [[Tony Salazar]]
|birthdate=[[February 23, 1981]] - [[Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State]]
|debut=[[October 13, 1991]] - [[Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State]]
|height=5'6"/168 cms
|weight=165 lbs/75 kg
|signatureMoves=Comando Clutch (seated [[Gori Special]]), Gori Special Backbreaker
|titles=none
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Dr. Wagner

2006-03-02T22:34:01Z

Majorclanger: /* Biography */ fixed some punctuation irregularities, a couple word switches and a small rewrite

== Profile ==
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|name=Dr. Wagner
|realName=Manuel González Rivera
|nicknames=El Galeno del Mal (The Evil Doctor)
|nameHistory=Dr. Wagner (debut - )
|family=[[Dr. Wagner Jr.]] and [[Silver King]] (sons)
|maestro=[[Roy Velasco]]
|birthdate=[[April 13]], [[1936]] - [[Zacatecas]], [[Zacatecas]]
|obituarydate=
|debut=[[July 16]], [[1961]] - [[Guadalajara]], [[Jalisco]]
|lostmaskto=[[El Solitario]] - [[December 1]], [[1985]] - [[Plaza de Toros Monumental de Monterrey]]
|height=5'9"/174 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]])
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== 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 28th, 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 22nd, 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 19th, 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 12th, 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.


 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
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{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Adorable Rubí]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
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{{aline|66/07/12|hair|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[Raúl Reyes]]|unknown}}
{{aline|74/09/20|mask|[[Dr. Wagner]]|[[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|[[C-3 and Astro Rey]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|82/09/19|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}}

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Villano III

2006-02-22T19:19:07Z

Majorclanger: /* Biography */ fixed a couple of typos, changed a few things for better flow

== Profile ==
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|image=villano3.jpg
|name=Villano III (Villano Tercero)
|realName=Arturo Díaz Mendoza
|nicknames=El Rey Arturo (King Arthur), La Pantera Rosa (The Pink Panther)
|nameHistory=Ray Rosas (debut), Pulpo Blanco, Mancha Roja, Búfalo Salvaje, Rokambole (?? - 01/73), Villano III (01/73 - )
|family=[[Ray Mendoza]] (father), [[Villano I|Villanos I]], [[Villano II|II]], [[Villano IV|IV]], [[Villano V|V]] (brothers), [[La Infernal]] (wife)
|maestro=[[Felipe Ham Lee]], [[Ray Mendoza]]
|birthdate=[[March 23]], [[1952]] - [[Mexico City]]
|obituarydate=
|debut=[[January 29]], [[1970]] - [[Nezahualcoyotl]], [[Mexico State]]
|lostmaskto=[[Atlantis]] - [[March 17]], [[2000]] - [[Arena México]]
|height=5'7"/170 cms
|weight=211 lbs/96 kg
|signatureMoves=[[DDT]], [[Legdrop]], [[Media Cerrajera]], [[Senton]]
|titles=[[UWA World Welterweight Title]], [[UWA World Light Heayvweight Title]] (2), [[WWF World Light Heavyweight Title]] (7), [[UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title]], [[WWC Puerto Rican Title]] (2), [[CMLL World Light Heavyweight Title]], [[National Trios Titles]] (w/ [[Villano V]] & [[Dos Caras]]), [[National Atomicos Titles]] (w/[[Villano IV|Villanos IV]] & [[Villano V|V]] & [[Pierroth Jr.]]), [[AAA Americas Trios Titles]] (w/ [[Villano IV|Villanos IV]] & [[Villano V|V]]), [[IWRG Trios Titles]] (w/ [[Villano IV|Villanos IV]] & [[Villano V|V]])
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== Biography ==


Arturo Díaz Mendoza, Villano III, was born on March 23, 1950 in Mexico City as the third oldest kid of the eight children that lucha libre legend Ray Mendoza had with his long time wife Guadalupe "Lupita" Mendoza.

Since they were little kids, their father had all the boys in the family participate in several sports, so they'd not be wasting their time doing nothing in the streets. Arturo was a good amateur wrestler, and in July of 1962, when he was only 12 years old, won a local amateur tournament in the under 27 kilos (60 pounds) division.

Following the steps of his father, and his two older brothers who already were wrestlers, he started training at the Arena Naucalpan gym with Felipe Ham Lee and his father. Mendoza did not want any of his sons to be wrestlers because he did not want them to be hurt all the time like he was, but ended up accepting it since they were living inside the business from a young age. However, one condition that he put on them is that he wanted them to finish a career of their choice, so they'd have something to do if they got injured or had to retire early. Arturo studied at the Escuela Superior de Educacion Fisica (Physical Education High School) where he got a P.E. degree, like his older brother José de Jesús (Villano I) had gotten a few years before.

One day, a wrestler no-showed an undercard spot at Arena Neza where he was hanging out and training, and the wrestlers at the locker room suggested Arturo to work as a replacement. He was not sure of it, because he was far from ready, but since everybody was cheering him on it, he did it. Using no mask, and the name Ray Rosas, he made his debut on that January 29 of 1970. He was green, but those who saw him labeled him as having so much class for somebody at his level.

From then on, he used several names like Pulpo Blanco (White Octopus), Mancha Roja (Red Stain), Búfalo Salvaje (Wild Buffalo - which was the name his two older brothers used in a tag team), but he the one he used the most during that era was Rokambole (which was the name his brother Villano V would use several years later during his rookie years).

On January of 1973 it was considered that he was ready to pick up the family name, so he switched to Villano III, debuting as such at Arena Naucalpan, which has been sort of a family base for years as that's the arena where each and every one of the five brothers got their seasoning and their first push. In 1974 he captured the Welterweight division titles of Mexico State and Naucalpan, getting his first, and definitely not last, taste of gold in the business.

As a rudo, V3 was considered to be a "natural" for the business and a good worker from the start. By 1975 he got his first big break in the business when his father and long time friends René Guajardo and Karloff Lagarde, along with many other major stars, joined forces with promoter Francisco J. Flores and started the independent movement. One of the reasons why Mendoza left EMLL was that the new office (Lutteroth had stepped out and let his son Salvador Jr., and nephew Paco Alonso run the office by themselves) was not very interested in pushing Villanos I and II, and probably III had he been working for them more often. Still, Villano would go on and debut at Arena Coliseo on November 19, 1975 and at Arena Mexico on March 2, 1976, but he never had continuity in EMLL's major arenas.

In 1975, because he was very affordable and he was such a good worker, many of the smaller arenas of the UWA network used him as a headliner for many profitable shows where they'd build to mask vs. hair or mask matches with the local stars, who would lose to the new independent sensation. The most famous of his opponents were Memo Ventura, La Cobra, The Corzo Brothers and Lobo Rubio, the later being his foe in a mask vs. hair opener at the big supershow at Plaza Mexico that was headlined by Mil Mascaras vs. Lou Thesz (and that tanked badly because of a huge rainstorm).

By the end of the year (December), his hard work (and why not, a bit of family connections) paid off and he became the initial UWA World Welterweight champion by defeating legendary welterweight Huracán Ramírez (and not Solar I like some title histories say). He feuded with Solar I around the belt on and off for two years until May of 1977, when he was beat for it by the young up-and-comer.

During these years, and until he became a bigger star later, his biggest archievent was taking the masks of Los Escorpiones (Raul Reyes -not the L.A. one- and Benny Romero), a famous team that worked not only in Mexico, but also in the USA and Puerto Rico. That night, August 13 of 1978, his tag team partner was Bobby Lee, the young and talented performer who months later became famous as El Santo's final major singles opponent... and who ended up being a "what could have been" as his career was ended way short by injuries.

Even though he already had won several ones in the past, this was Villano's first major (realistically, semi-major) "lucha de apuestas" win.

Villano III teaming up with other young superworkers, such as Matematico, was a thing you could often see in the main event of some of the small or mid-sized venues of the network of independent promoters in Mexico. This helped him build a reputation as one of the top workers in the country, at a time when in Mexico there was more and better wrestlers than at probably any point in lucha libre history.

He became a much bigger star in the early 80s, to be more exact, 1981. He had already been working at El Toreo for some time, often teaming with his father Ray Mendoza or his brothers Villanos I and II. While he worked as a rudo, he was a rudo that fans liked to cheer... even more so when he was teaming with his father, who due to his legendary status just would not get booed. But he really caught everybody's attention on March 1, 1981, by defeating Fishman at El Toreo to win the UWA World Light Heavyweight Title. This win was a huge deal, because of several things.

First, the Light Heavyweight Title was the second most important title in the country. Second, it was "his father's title". During years and years, Mendoza had been the reigning NWA World Light Heavyweight champ at Arena Mexico, and while it was not the same belt, it symbolically had been continuing that tradition (and either way, Mendoza was a three time former UWA LHW champ). And last but not least, he had beaten a major star cleanly for it. Back then, Fishman was much higher than Villano III at the totem pole and was a highly regarded technical wrestler. Villano lost the title just four months later, on July 19 at the same venue, but the point had been already made.

While during El Toreo's golden years Fishman was the eternal UWA World LHW champion or challenger, V3 would become the dominant face of the WWF World Light Heavyweight title, born out of the association of LLI and the World Wrestling Federation. Due to the excellent matches around that title with people like Perro Aguayo, Gran Hamada, Villano III and Fishman himself, that title actually surpassed in importance its equivalent with the UWA name. During years (and realistically, almost until the death of the promotion), the belt was the centerpiece of most of the greatest matches ever seen in Naucalpan, including bouts against Perro Aguayo (1983) and Brazo de Oro (1984) that were voted "Match of the year" by the magazines "Lucha Libre" and "El Halcon", respectively.

But let's get to what really was the turning point in Villano III's career. Ever since the Fishman win, after proving himself time after time to the fans, and with the public recognition of being the son of a legend who was living up to his father's standards (and many said, even surpassing them, in terms of work quality), he started getting cheered time after time.

The gameplan of bookers Francisco J. Flores and Carlos Maynez was simple, but worked like a charm. Villano was put in week after week against the hottest rudo trio at the time (and probably ever), Los Misioneros de la Muerte: Signo, Negro Navarro and El Texano. They would beat him up badly week after week, tearing up his mask and making him bleed. In fact, he got some of those ugly scars all over his body from those wild days, because to cause a more dramatic effect, in a technique he copied from his father, he would blade not only his forehead, but his arms and chin as well. He eventually got fed up with the Misioneros' treatment, and challenged the trio's leader, El Signo, to a hair vs. hair match.

On August 1, 1982, he defeated Signo in front of a sold out crowd of 18,000 (apx.), and after the win, the babyface reaction he got was nothing short of deafening. Right after Signo's loss, El Texano, who was the youngest member of the team, challenged Villano and suffered the same face two weeks later, on August 15, though this time the match was at the nicer looking Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City. It was reported in the magazines to be a classic, and the crowd was said to be very healthy, in the 15,000 range, even with a major Toreo show the same day with the return of Abdullah the Butcher to Mexico, teaming with Perro Aguayo against Ray Mendoza and Carlos Colon in what was pushed in the magazines as a sure-to-be bloody showdown.

That's right, the same company put out two major shows the same day and in the same market, and both were a success at the gate. Because business was so hot, major stars like Villano III, Perro Aguayo, Texano and attractions like Abdullah were able to drag a huge number of the same fans to both shows. This was far from being a weekly happening, but they often had "must see" matches at Palacio on Sunday, while having the usual loaded Toreo show (whose weekly average for normal shows would be around 11,000), and if the cards were special enough the fans would go to both venues because they could not afford missing either show.

Those two major wins were followed up with Villano III going to New Japan (back when this was considered a huge deal by the fans) to wrestle Tiger Mask. Actually, this was his second tour there. On September 3 he challenged Tiger in Fukuoka for the WWF World Junior Heavyweight Title, falling victim to the legendary Japanese flyer in only seven minutes. It was a hot match with very good action, though way too short. But they worked well together and some months later, in November, they had another match together at El Toreo. This one was longer and went three falls, but the result was the same.

Him coming back from a Japan tour sealed the deal, and he now "officially" was a tecnico. It also helped that he was put in a team with El Solitario and Anibal (two of the biggest masked stars ever in Mexico) as his partners or "godfathers", named "Los Tres Caballeros" (The Three Gentlemen) with the gimmick of being super hero scientific masters who never cheated and defeated their enemies with grace, class and technique. In 1984 there was a second version of this team with Dos Caras replacing El Solitario.

But now Villano III being a top tecnico meant that he was bound to feud with Perro Aguayo, the company's top singles light heavyweight rudo (and top overall rudo along with Canek). On March 20, 1983, he captured the WWF World Light Heavyweight Title from Aguayo, building a bitter rivalry with the Zacatecas native. By August things had heated up so much that they had a three match series that did amazing business at the Naucalpan bullring. The 7th, Aguayo defeated V3 for the WWF LHW title. A week later, they faced in a super libre match, that ended up being a bloodfest. And the 21th, V3 defeated Aguayo in a mask vs. hair match.

In 1984 he continued on the same road, drawing greatly for title matches against a variety of opponents, to the point the promotion considered him the MVP in their year end awards.

Measuring who drew and who didn't at El Toreo is a very hard task. The promotion had access to a varied collection of native stars (both homemade stars and 60s and 70s legends who were still around) and foreign attractions (Tiger Mask, Inoki, Andre...). They also had some of the fastest workers Mexico had ever seen until then, in people like Matematico, Black Man, Super Astro and other small guys who did things that had never been seen before and drew the "workrate" audience. The promotion could choose from, and I'm not exagerating here, a "pool" of 25 or 30 different wrestlers, put them in the main event, load up the rest of card and draw 10,000 to 12,000 easily.

For instance, there was shows that were so loaded, that the man who is considered to be the biggest star from those days, Canek, would be in the third match of a five match card, and Ray Mendoza would be in the opener. It's a very clear case of a "promotional package" being the draw, rather than "individuals". However, you could see how the true draws would be in special matches and up the attendance to 14,000 or more for title matches, and 17,000 or more for hair or mask matches. And when Aguayo and Villano were on top against each other, the attendance always was visibly up from the average.

The Aguayo-Villano feud carried on for most of the decade, and when at one point in 1988 they teamed together to feud and unmask the Black Power tag team (standard American rudo gimmick... one of them later was El Indomito a.k.a. Coco Amarillo from the AAA Payasos), it was a huge deal because the alliance was a true arch-rival dream team.

The other two biggest opponents for Villano in the 80s were Sangre Chicana and Rambo.

José Luis Mendienta was a really talented second generation wrestler with a good look, who had a nice run with EMLL in the late 70s. Even though he was given the National Middleweight Title (who had a lot of tradition as El Santo's title) and given big profile title defenses against major stars like Anibal and Enrique Vera, he seemed to lack the charisma needed to be a top star and draw. The company had sort of given up on him and he pretty much disappeared, returning back home and working only in his home state of Sonora, and sometimes in Arizona or Texas, until his friend Kahoz (formerly Astro Rey, who had been repackaged as a rudo with a weird and unique white mask with black details and yellow or white hair sticking out) convinced him to get a new gimmick, with the promise of a spot in El Toreo. He became Rambo, named after you know what movie, wearing military clothes and wearing either a dark green or a camouflage mask. Mendieta and Kahoz teamed with Cuchillo, and later Zandokan (who had a masked pirate gimmick), as "El Triangulo del Terror" (Triangle of Terror) and became one of the top old school rudo trios around the country. He eventually engaged in a feud with Villano over the masks, losing his' at El Toreo's "Lucha Libre birth" anniversary show on September 25, 1987. The match was heated, bloody, and got rave reviews as one of the best matches of the year.

Chicana was one of the 5 major stars at Arena Mexico and Arena Coliseo, and a wild brawling rudo along the lines of Cavernario Galindo and Perro Aguayo, though probably a better worker than either. He had even represented EMLL at shows at El Toreo, and teaming with Cien Caras or Satanico, and gone over major stars like Aguayo, Fishman and Canek. So, added to the curiosity of two major stars clashing, you had a little interpromotional flair. On August 14, 1989, Chicana defeated Villano for the WWF LHW title, but after and before that match, both had battled all over the country, having great brawls and drawing nice numbers, especially in the Northern Circuit (Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo) working for Carlos Elizondo, as Chicana was a huge star there. The only thing that this feud lacked to be remembered as one of Villano's high career points was a mask vs. hair match, but Chicana was too busy losing his hair to Aguayo for bigger payoffs (since the matches, even though not as good, were bloodier and the rivalry seemed more natural).

The most remarkable feud he had during the last Toreo days was with Pegasus Kid (Chris Benoit) who is considered one of the best workers ever by practically everybody in the business. The masked Pegasus, now a WWE headliner with his real name, was a world nomad who would regularly work in Canada, Europe, Japan, the U.S. and Mexico. Benoit was put right away in a feud with Villano III, who he defeated on March 3, 1991 at El Toreo for the WWF World Light Heavyweight Title.

Thinking that it was not likely he'd come back, Pegasus lost his mask to Villano III on November 3, 1991. But Benoit liked wrestling at El Toreo, and he caused such a good impression with the office that they called him back some months later (he had other commitments in Japan) so they could revive the feud. Other remarkable Toreo bouts during the rivalry were the January 19, 1992 dream match where Villano teamed with El Hijo del Santo to defeat Pegasus and Negro Casas, and Pegasus retaining the WWF belt a week later in the main event of the "17th Anniversary Show" of the promotion. By the end of it, the feud had turned into a trios feud, as Villanos would face Pegasus and his team partners Los Cowboys (Silver King and Texano). It basically culminated on September 13, 1992 when Arturo gained back his WWF title.

Arturo was a top star and headliner at El Toreo until nearly its demise, but after Francisco Flores' death, booking and management got to bad that everybody who just stayed working there got lost in the shuffle: and that includes Dos Caras, Canek, Signo and Navarro (Texano was smart and/or lucky enough to get his career going in Japan teaming with Silver King). Some loyalists who were big (but not legendary) names and stayed until the end, never worked anywhere else at the same level again, like Enrique Vera. So Villano tried to keep his name fresh, working spot shows at Arena Mexico and Coliseo, and then jumping to AAA on January of 1993.

In AAA, Villano always worked main events and semi-main events, except in rare occasions (like Triplemania, where even Santo Jr. was in the first half of the card), and feuded with Rambo, this time building to a hair vs. mask match that was hold at Mexico City's Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera, on September 24, 1993. As a weird trivia data, the two first Villano III vs. Rambo "lucha de apuestas" (there was a third one on June 2001 in Naucalpan, this one hair vs. hair) were main eventing shows that commemorated the "anniversary of Lucha Libre", which is another way of saying "the birth of EMLL", but neither match was on EMLL and instead happened in the company's direct competitor at the time.

Soon after that match, Villano III quit because he was not happy with his push, and worked UWA again even though the place was a sinking ship and even drew a really sad 1,750 attendance for the January 1994 UWA Anniversary Show, headlined by Villanos 3 & 5 and Yamato (Tiger Chung Lee/Kim Duk) vs. Canek, Transformer (Kendo) and Gran Hamada, and with a rest of the card so uninteresting and not even worth of Arena Neza B-show status.

The promotion, however, started co-promoting with AAA and it revitalized business when they held matches like Villano and Canek vs. Konnan and Perro Aguayo (drawing 7,500 at El Toreo on May 94), and popped up business again at Arena Neza, getting regular attendances of 3,000 when the interpromotional concept was on.

But this relationship died off quickly, because the Toreo guys weren't "up to do business" (a few of the top wrestlers did not want to be jobbed out with "nothing in exchange" even though without the AAA guys, attendance would have been bad). So the Toreo promotion instead co-promoted with AAA's main rival, CMLL (formerly EMLL), that probably would be more open to "business", because they also needed the help. Villano worked a couple of shows for CMLL, but it was more of the same. UWA was practically dead and eventually ceased operations, not having a single show in January 95. Many of the guys jumped to CMLL, but as "CMLL guys" so to speak, not as "UWA guys". Others, like Villano III and his two younger brothers, jumped to AAA after a short stay in the ill-fated PROMELL.

PROMELL was the first time ever where the three younger sons of Ray Mendoza became a regular team, because during the whole Toreo run (except for some special matches, mostly during the 92-94 bad period) the team was Villanos I & IV & V, while III was positionited higher on the cards as a singles wrestler. The three brothers had teamed up quite often at El Toreo during 1994, but Villano III most of the time still was slotted in the cards higher than his brothers were.

In AAA, the Villanos were positioned right into the main events, often teaming with Fishman as a symbolic "Team Toreo" (though never billed as such) against Santo, Konnan, Aguayo, and the other top main event tecnicos that Peña's promotion had to offer. They had a good run and some nice feuds and matches, but nothing like in the "glory days". During periods of time the team had no contiuity due to injuries, and that hurt them in the end, as they never really had the chance to have a stand-out feud during their AAA run. Their two major feuds were vs. Dinamitas and Payasos, and neither was impressive. And even though they were given the AAA Americas Trios titles (defeating the makeshift team of Heavy Metal, Latin Lover and Cien Caras on March 8, 1996 at Arena Neza), they left the promotion with the belts after having never defended them (even though they lated defended them on IWRG). They were also AAA Atomicos (eight men) champions with Pierroth Jr., with those belts suffering a similar fate.

On January 96, the three brothers jumped to Promo Azteca with the promise of more money and a spot for the two younger brothers in WCW, but this was even worse. Though the whole promotion was a mess and there's not a lot of good to remember from it. When his brothers left for the US on July of 1997, Artiro kept basically wandering around Promo, and teamed with them when they were back home in between working for WCW. And again, he did nothing there, because the promotion only seemed to throw together eight guys in a match, with no rhyme or reason. Even though each and every one of those main eventers was either a draw or a great worker (and sometimes both), the matches did not draw and most of the time were as terrible and disorganized as lucha libre can get.

On July of 1998, Villano III joined CMLL. The month before that, he'd been on a long Japanese tour with FULL, mostly working with CMLL talent. Villano's jump was something that back in the mid 80s nobody would have imagined, but since years had gone by, there was no major impact. He worked as a main event rudo as part of Pierroth's Boricuas stable, with Fuerza Guerrera and others.

In a major shock, Villano III unmasked Super Astro on a 1999 Christmas card at the Auditorio de Tijuana. The news was quite a surprise both because there had been no major build up for a match of such magnitude between two of the 80s biggest Toreo stars, and because the actual match was Fishman and Lizmark vs. Villano III and Super Astro in "relevos suicidas", and everybody was sure Fishman would be the one losing, as it was common knowledge he was willing to drop the mask for a big paycheck.

During the Summer of 1999, Villano started his famous feud with Atlantis. The feud had been started around September of the previous year, but nothing happened at the time. There was a several months long build-up, featuring many matches around the CMLL World Light Heavyweight title that Atlantis had, and Villano eventually captured, as well as a hint of a mask vs. mask match on the company's 66th Anniversary Show on September 24, 1999, where Atlantis and Villano III defeated Mr. Niebla and Shocker (with the latter finally dropping his mask).

They eventually faced each other on March 17, 2000 at Arena Mexico in a classic máscara contra máscara bout that Atlantis won, revealing Villano III to be Arturo Díaz Mendoza. The bout, which was the feature match for CMLL's first PPV event, sold out Arena Mexico and won WON's Match of the Year honors. The match had incredible drama and heat, and super work and psychology, as well as one of the best major match finishes in recent lucha libre history, and it truly is one of the 10 biggest mask vs. mask matches ever in Mexico.

It's interesting to note that Villano III was originally thought to be losing his mask vs. Anibal in the late 80s, at the Monumental de Monterrey under Carlos Elizondo, but apparently, he was asking for a money sum out of this world, which reading between the lines tells us that he realized it was not the right time to lose the hood.

Villano III's unmasking revealed a facially old and beaten up man, who resembled his father during his latest run at El Toreo. After a series of TV skits, where Villano, still a rudo, thanked the fans and his father for all the great moments in his career, a turn could be seen coming a mile away. Pierroth then "fired him" from the Boricuas as, for weeks, Villano refused to get involved in massive post-match tecnico beatings, even though he did not help either. So Boricuas eventually turned on him, with the claims he'd turned "soft". So we had Arturo debuting as a tecnico on April 28 teaming with none other than his two former nemesis, Atlantis and Perro Aguayo, against Pierroth, Shocker and Mascara Año 2000.

This gave a new life to Arturo's career, and during the first months he had in fact came out as the major winner of the mask vs. mask match. Had a several months long feud with against Pierroth and Máscara 2000, teaming with Aguayo, and eventually taking out Jesús Reyes' hair in a cage match on August 4.

By this point Villano still was a good worker, but his skills were diminishing quickly due to age and all the injuries he'd suffered due to working a highly demanding style during decades. The family also suffered a major blow when the older brother, José de Jesus, who worked as Villano I, died on January 4, 2001, with the cause of death being a brain hemorrhage. This was the third major loss in the family, after the deaths of mother Lupita in 1986, and the 1989 death of brother José Alfredo (Villano II), which was publicized as being due wrestling injuries but during years has been rumoured to have been a suicide.

A few months after Ray Mendoza's death, The Villano family had a bitter departure from CMLL, citing their non existant push as the reason for it. During interviews, they claimed that they weren't even getting enough dates to sustain their families, so they became independent contractors. The brothers still work all over the Republic, even though they aren't such stars any longer, nor are they the superworkers they used to be, though the younger ones still are very competent wrestlers. Villano III can still work a good mat-based match, but due to age and injuries, he's lost his famous quickness and explosive timing.

Villano III, sadly, looks like somebody who is overstaying his welcome, and would have put on a classier end to a fantastic career should have retired after a year or year and a half-long tour as an unmasked babyface. At this point, unless he makes amends and returns to CMLL, he probably won't even have a major retirement party, should he retire any time soon.

 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
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{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[César Valentino]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Indio Vitela]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Rubén Rubio]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Toro Zúñiga]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[El Cuervo]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[El Cuervo]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[El Mariscal]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Roy Meneses]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Coloso Colosetti]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Centella Nolasco]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Carlos García]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[Orfeo Negro]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[El Fantasma de Hidalgo]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[La Momia del Convento]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[Zebra Kid]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[Mr. Dollar]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[El Médico I]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[Bestia Roja]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[The Tempest]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|hairs|Villano III & ??|Los Hippies (R. Torres & El Vikingo)|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|masks|Villano III & ??|[[Los Ángeles Infernales]]|unknown}}
{{aline|??/??/??|masks|Villano III & ??|[[Las Momias de Guanajuato]]|unknown}}
{{aline|73/04/22|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Rudy Espinosa]]|Salón Forum - Ahuizotla, Mexico State}}
{{aline|74/02/17|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[La Cobra]]|Arena KO Algusto - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|74/05/06|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[El Jabalí]]|Tampico, Tamaulipas}}
{{aline|74/08/04|hair|[[Villano III]]|Ray Acosta (Kung Fu)|Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|74/09/27|masks|Villano III & Matemático|[[Los Hermanos Corzo]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}
{{aline|74/10/??|hairs|Villano III & Matemático|[[Los Hermanos Corzo]]|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}
{{aline|74/12/12|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Rudy Valentino]]|Tamaulipas State}}
{{aline|75/02/04|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[El Infernal II]]|unknown}}
{{aline|75/02/25|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[Orqídea Negra]]|unknown}}
{{aline|75/04/06|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[La Sombra]]|unknown}}
{{aline|75/07/13|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[El Desalmado]]|unknown}}
{{aline|75/07/26|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Lobo Rubio]]|Plaza México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|75/08/10|mask|[[Villano III]]|Máscara Negra (Indio Vitela)|Plaza de Toros Monumental - Monterrey, N.L.}}
{{aline|75/11/23|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[Estrella del Sur]]|unknown}}
{{aline|75/12/14|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Memo Ventura]]|Arena Naucalpan - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|76/06/16|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Babe Face]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|78/08/13|masks|Villano III & Bobby Lee|[[Los Escorpiones]]|unknown}}
{{aline|79/04/28|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Alberto Muñoz]]|Veracruz, Veracruz}}
{{aline|79/12/07|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Máquina Salvaje]]|Arena Neza - Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State}}
{{aline|82/08/01|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[El Signo]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|82/08/15|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[El Texano]]|Palacio de los Deportes - Mexico City}}
{{aline|83/01/20|mask|Villano III & ??|El Estudiante I & II (Kung Fu & César Curiel)|Ahuizotla, Mexico City}}
{{aline|83/07/22|mask|[[Villano III]]|El Fantasma del Himalaya (Kung Fu)|unknown}}
{{aline|83/08/21|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Perro Aguayo]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|87/05/??|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[Flama Roja]]|Auditorio Municipal - Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua}}
{{aline|87/10/25|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[Rambo]]|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|88/03/??|masks|Villano III & Perro Aguayo|Los Black Power I & II|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|88/10/21|mask|[[Villano III]]|[[Lockhart]]|Arena Neza - Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State}}
{{aline|91/11/03|mask|[[Villano III]]|Pegassus Kid (Chris Benoit)|El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|93/09/24|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Rambo]]|Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera - Mexico City}}
{{aline|97/02/09|mask (1)|[[Villano III]]|El Mastodonte (Dollar)|Arena Naucalpan - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|99/12/25|mask (2)|[[Villano III]]|[[Super Astro]]|Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California}}
{{aline|00/03/17|mask|[[Atlantis]]|[[Villano III]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|00/08/04|hair (3)|[[Villano III]]|[[Máscara Año 2000]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|01/06/21|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Rambo]]|Arena Naucalpan - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|01/07/29|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[El Signo]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|02/02/28|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Super Brazo]]|Arena Isabel - Cuernavaca, Morelos}}
{{aline|02/08/08|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Brazo de Oro]]|Arena Naucalpan - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|02/09/16|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Brazo de Plata]]|Arena Neza - Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State}}
{{aline|03/03/15|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Kraken]]|Arena Monumental - Aztahuacán, Mexico City}}
{{aline|03/10/28|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Pirata Morgan]]|Arena JuBa - Reynosa, Tamaulipas}}
{{aline|04/02/??|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[El Cobarde II]]|Poliforum Juan Gabriel - Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua}}
{{aline|04/07/11|hair (4)|[[Villano III]]|[[Brazo de Oro]]|unknown}}
{{aline|04/08/13|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[El Signo]]|Auditorio José María Arteaga - Querétaro, Qro.}}
{{aline|04/10/17|hair|[[Villano III]]|[[Veneno]]|Arena Naucalpan - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|05/01/16|hair (5)|[[Villano III]]|[[El Signo]]|Arena Naucalpan - Naucalpan, Mexico State}}
{{aline|05/02/14|hair (6)|[[Villano III]]|[[Super Brazo]]|Tampico, Tamaulipas}}
{{aend|(1) Cage match; (2) Relevos suicidas: Astro & Villano III vs. Lizmark & Fishman; (3) Cage match w/ Perro Aguayo and Pierroth Jr.; (4) Losers of a match a week before vs. Shocker & Aguayo Jr.; (5) Villanos vs. Misioneros, loser loses hair; (6) Four way match with Villano IV & Brazo de Platino}}

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[[Category:Mexican wrestlers]]

Fabuloso Blondy

2006-02-22T19:10:42Z

Majorclanger: /* Biography */ fixed typo

== Profile ==
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|image=Fabulosoblondy.jpg
|name=Fabuloso Blondy
|realName=Ken Timbs
|nicknames=El Gringo Loco
|nameHistory=Ken Timbs (debut - death), The Raider (1986, Alabama), Fabuloso Blondy (04/88 - death), The Assassin (90s, indies)
|family=none
|maestro=[[Ole Anderson|Ole]] and [[Gene Anderson]]
|birthdate=[[January 27]], [[1951]] - [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], [[USA]]
|obituarydate=[[August 1]]], [[2004]] - [[Georgia]], [[USA]]
|debut=1978 - [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], [[USA]]
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|height=6'0"/182 cms
|weight=275 lbs/125 kg
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== Biography ==


Ken Timbs debuted in Mexico on May of 1988, with the name Fabuloso Blondy, an offshot of the Fabulous Blondes tag team name he'd used in several parts of the United States. During that first run, he right away got in a rivalry with Lizmark, which would turn out to be his biggest singles feud in the country.

On June 24, 1988 Blondy defeated Lizmark for the NWA World Light Heavyweight Title, which, until the emergence of the UWA World Heavyweight Title in the late 70s, had been the highest ranked World belt in the country.

Timbs came off with an initial strong push and was well received by the crowd, as he was such an easy to hate rudo. He'd come to the ring waving the U.S. flag or wearing it as a cape, with bleached blond hair, and sometimes wearing facepaint, and when Antonio Peña pushed using entrance music, he came down to "Born in the USA". While there's varying opinions whether that song is anti-USA or not, most Mexicans did not understand anything but the chorus, so it was just a perfect theme for him. And then, he'd grab the mic and sing "Star Spangled Banner" before the matches, which would get him major heel heat. His nickname was "El Gringo Loco", which was a Peña idea.

The "American heel" character was also important historically because its success paved the way for Konnan, Eddy Guerrero and Love Machine's fabulous run as "Los Gringos Locos" in AAA. It was actually heavily rumoured that he'd join them in AAA, and that Peña really wanted him in, but couldn't because of some sort of visa problem. Just being a blond and/or big American looking heel you'll need to be escorted out of the building by the police, no matter how charismatic you are or aren't, but the difference is that the great heels, like Timbs, Machine or Jake Roberts, got way more mileage out of the gimmick than anybody else.

Blondy adapted his style well and quickly to lucha libre, and even though his biggest strength, by far, was his charisma, he was a capable performer and a very good bumper, as shown by his stuff with Lizmark. Whenever Blondy was asked who his greatest oponents ever were, Mexico or not, Lizmark's name was always on top of the lists.

Lizmark regained the NWA World Light Heavyweight crown on December 9, 1988 at Arena Mexico, but that same month, in another of his first big feuds, he won Popitekus' hair at Arena México with help of heel referee Gran Davis.

Soon after that he left, returning on March of 1989 in a trio called "La Locomotora Gringa" with Mikey Stone and Rick Patterson (second version of Leatherface). They had a feud with Los Infernales (Satánico, MS-1 and Masakre) with a trios hair vs. hair match on March 31 at Arena México, where Stone lost his hair after being pinned by Satánico. Blondy would get revenge on April 7, taking Satánico's hair in a singles match, which is considered one of his major career wins in Mexican land.

Around this time, Timbs also formed a team with a masked man called American Destroyer (1989), and with the Policia de Los Angeles (1990 - they were The Power Twins, Larry and David, wearing LAPD shirts and bringing a helmet and a nightstick to the ring). The Timbs/LA Police trio got a big TV push on March 1990, culminating in a very rare match at Arena México against Mil Máscaras, Dos Caras and Sicodélico.

He also feuded with Pirata Morgan around the NWA Light Heavyweight Title. After a failed challenge on December 8, 1989, he defeated him on Febuary 14, 1990 at Arena Mexico. Now he was just a mere transitional champ, as on March 21 he dropped the belt to Lizmark at the Arena Coliseo on the tecnico's hometown in Acapulco.

Him losing his hair to Ringo Mendoza on December 7, was a sign that his run had probably run its course, even though he was brought back later to feud with Los Brazos, even taking El Brazo's hair on February 12, 1993. In between that time span he competed in Carlos Elizondo's FILL promotion, running out of the Plaza de Toros Monumental in Monterrey. Elizondo ensembled a good roster using national stars, local talent and foreign imports, and would have weekly hot and large crowds. Timbs' gimmick was way over again in a fresher environment, and he had a run was FILL Light Heavyweight champion, feuding with very young Latin Lover and Héctor Garza over the belt. In Monterrey he also reformed his team with Rick Patterson, who now had a Canadian Mountie gimmick.

Timbs worked in Mexico until mid 1993, and then disappeared until having a couple more matches in 1998 when he was used by OCESA in the "Guerra de Naciones" (War between nations) PPV, teaming with the Head Hunters and Solomon Grundy to lose to Tinieblas Jr., Rayo de Jalisco Jr., Cien Caras and Pierroth Jr. in a cage match. In that PPV he showed up much larger, and with less mobility due to his injured knees.

The last time his name popped up in the Mexican scene was in 2000, when the GWAS failure announced he'd be working for them. The thing is, GWAS announced tons of foreigners would be coming to their shows, only the foreigners themselves didn't even know about it.

Rest in peace.


 

== Luchas de apuestas record ==
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{{aline|88/12/??|hair|[[Fabuloso Blondy]]|[[Popitekus]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|89/04/07|hair|[[Fabuloso Blondy]]|[[Satánico]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|90/09/30|hair|[[Fabuloso Blondy]]|[[Solomon Grundy]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|90/11/30|hair|[[Ringo Mendoza]]|[[Fabuloso Blondy]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
{{aline|93/02/12|hair|[[Fabuloso Blondy]]|[[El Brazo]]|Arena México - Mexico City}}
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