Coloso Colosetti

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Coloso Colosseti

Name Coloso Colosseti Real name Elio Carlo Colosseti Drazich Nicknames El Che (as in Che Guevara), The Colossal Man Name history Coloso Colosetti (debut - retirement), Carlos Colosetti (Japan), Tarzán, El Apolo Argentino, El Enterrador (Central America), Batman, Maskaraman, El Internacional, El Fantasma Blanco Family none Maestro(s) unknown Birth date, location May 19, 1938 - Buenos Aires, Argentina Obituary date November 16, 2024 Debut, location 1963 - Argentina Lost mask to Tinieblas (as El Internacional), The Tempest (as El Enterrador) Height 185 cm/6' 1" Weight 90 kg/198 lb Signature moves Titles: NWA World Light Heavyweight Title, Los Angeles: NWA Americas Tag Team Titles (w/ Jonathan Boyd), NWA Texas Heavyweight Title

Biography

LuchaBlog Obituary:

Coloso Colosetti (Elio Carlo Colosseti Drazich, 76) passed away Saturday. The cause of death has not been announced, but he’d been in poor health for years.

Colosetti started wrestling in his home country of Argentina and showed up in EMLL in 1969 as the threatening import of the year. He seemed positioned as a foil for top tecnico Ray Mendoza, doing the usual title switch to set up a hair match. Coloso stayed. He was taller than most wrestlers, closer to being a heavyweight, and a good-looking guy – he got over well and fit in well in EMLL. He had five hair matches at Arena Mexico in the 1970s, including the 1975 Aniversario main event. He won 2, lost 3. He went to the UWA, winning and losing hair matches and feuding with Canek (if EMLL had a heavyweight title open to non-Mexicans, he’d likely have won in more than once.) He’s talked up as a good wrestler, and the magazines loved interviewing him and the attractive women he always seemed to be dating. He appeared in Santo movies, was the unofficial third counter-culture Los Hippies team member, and toured the US and Japan in the late 1970s. Colosetti always comes across as the coolest guy in the room in those magazines. He faded into the background in 90s, and seemed to have hit hard times in the last few years. He seemed to live an extraordinary life in his best moments.

It bummed me out a bit that his passing got far less attention. Colosetti is the cover of this week’s Box y Lucha and hopefully they’ll have something good inside. The general sports media didn’t cover it as much as Scorpio Jr.’s passing, which seems like a product of Coloso living two decades longer. His run is now far in the past, and without the TV footage to look back on it. I wish more of those older magazines were around and accessible so people could see him as a bigger star. There’s a few matches from later in his career that are on YouTube; I watched this one from 1983, where he’s one of the rudos trying to get the visiting Kevin Von Erich over to the Arena Mexico crowd. If you knew nothing but that one of the wrestlers in that match was a WON Hall of Famer, it might take you five or six guesses to identify the correct one. (Pirata Morgan would be the first guess – or maybe it’d go “either Pirata is a hall of fame wrestler or he was completely broken out of wrestling three years later wrestling that way” and somehow neither are true.)

Luchas de apuestas record

Date	Apuesta	Winner(s)	Loser(s)	Arena and/or Place
??/??/??	hair	El Solitario	Coloso Colosetti	Arena México - Mexico City
??/??/??	hair	Rayo de Plata	Coloso Colosetti	San Luis Potosí, SLP
??/??/??	hair	Villano III	Coloso Colosetti	unknown
1968/??/??	mask	The Tempest	El Enterrador	San Salvador - El Salvador
1970/07/31	hair	Ray Mendoza	Coloso Colosetti	Arena Mexico
1974/06/28	hair	Coloso Colosetti	El Nazi	Arena México
1974/11/29	hair	Ángel Blanco & Colosso Colosetti	Ciclón Veloz Jr. & Pantera Negra	Arena México
1974/12/13	hair	Dr. Wagner & Ringo Mendoza	Ángel Blanco & Coloso Colosetti	Arena México
1975/09/19	hair	Gemelos Diablo I & II	Coloso Colosetti & Rubí Rubalcava	Arena Mexico
1977/02/27	hairs	Coloso Colosetti & César Valentino	Bello Greco & Sergio el Hermoso	El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State
1980/03/09	hair	Canek	Coloso Colosetti	Toreo de Cuatro Caminos
1981/09/25	hair	Kobayashi & Saito	Coloso Colosetti & César Valentino	El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State
1983/04/22	hair	Tony Salazar	Coloso Colosetti	Arena México - Mexico City
1986/03/07	hair	Canek	Coloso Colosetti	Auditorio de Tijuana
1987/08/23	mask	Tinieblas	El Internacional	Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua
1987/08/24	mask	Villano III	El Internacional	Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
1987/11/27	hair	Ringo Mendoza	Coloso Colosetti	Arena Mexico
1987/??/??	hair	Villano III	El Internacional	Nuevo Laredo
1991/06/26	hair	Perro Aguayo	Coloso Colosetti	Matamoros, Tamaulipas
1998/10/31	hair	Coloso Colosetti	Trueno	Auditorio Municipal - Alfajayucan, Hidalgo

Gallery

Vs. Cien Caras 1984.

As El Internacional with Supremo.

as El Internacional

as El Enterrador

Lucha Libre #583

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As Fantasma Blanco

As Fantasma Blanco