Pasion Kristal: Difference between revisions
Updated profile picture |
BlackLesnar (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| (3 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
== Profile == | == Profile == | ||
{{bioFields| | {{bioFields| | ||
|image= | |image=PasionCrystal.jpg | ||
|name=Pasion Crystal | |name=Pasion Crystal | ||
|realName=Gabriel Centella Damian | |realName=Gabriel Centella Damian | ||
| Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
|obituarydate= [[June 2]], [[2021]] - [[Acapulco]] | |obituarydate= [[June 2]], [[2021]] - [[Acapulco]] | ||
|signatureMoves= | |signatureMoves= | ||
|titles=Gulf Coast Middleweight | |titles=Gulf Coast Middleweight Championship | ||
|}} | |}} | ||
Brought into AAA to complete an exotico trio with [[Cassandro]] and [[Pimpinela Escarlata]] to continue their feud with [[Los Night Queens]]. While that feud was dropped from TV about five seconds later, he continued to wrestle on AAA spot shows, often teaming with Pimpi. | Brought into AAA to complete an exotico trio with [[Cassandro]] and [[Pimpinela Escarlata]] to continue their feud with [[Los Night Queens]]. While that feud was dropped from TV about five seconds later, he continued to wrestle on AAA spot shows, often teaming with Pimpi. | ||
At mid [[2012]] began to promote his own lucha promotion [[LLES]]. | At mid [[2012]] began to promote his own lucha promotion [[LLES]]. | ||
<big>[https://thecubsfan.com/cmll/2021/06/04/pasion-kristal-1976-2021-mexico-city-raises-indoor-capacity-limits-federacion-announces-their-venue/ LuchaBlog Obituary:]</big> | |||
Pasion Kristal (Juan Gabriel Zentella Damian, 45) apparently passed away late Tuesday/early Wednesday in a drowning accident in [[Acapulco]]. Kristal was lost off Papagayo beach until a body a spotted on a beach Thursday, and local promotion [[Lucha Libre Acapulco]] confirmed it was Kristal. | |||
Kristal was in Acapulco with trios partners [[Jessy Ventura]] and [[Diva Salvaje]] prior to a scheduled wrestling appearance Wednesday night. Ventura & Salvaje still actually wrestled Wednesday and appeared before the show started to talk about the incident. They explained Pasion Kristal walked from the beach to the water, and a big wave pulled Kristal in. Ventura & Salvaje went after Kristal, another big wave hit them all and they could not get Kristal. Ventura almost got pulled in again. Ventura & Salvaje wrestled that match Wednesday night and were understandably very emotional afterward. Kristal, Salvaje, and Ventura were scheduled to headline Thursday’s [[IWRG]] show. | |||
Pasion Kristal wrestled in [[AAA]], infrequently on TV, between 2008 and 2015. Kristal didn’t achieve great individual success but did get to be part of multi-person cage matches on the [[Rey de Reyes, 2012|2012 Rey de Reyes]] and the [[Guerra de Titanes, 2013|2013 Guerra de Titanes]]. There didn’t seem to be a specific public reason why Kristal left AAA, it seemed more about being the fourth to sixth most important exotico when AAA started using fewer of those characters on TV; he worked spot shows more often. Kristal also was important in his native [[Villahermosa]], [[Tabasco]] scene, taking over the local promotion when it appeared it would go out of business (according to [https://web.archive.org/web/20210603203212/https://sinremitente.org/2021/06/03/yo-soy-pasion-kristal/ this long and detailed bio] republished Thursday.) | |||
Kristal passed through IWRG many times during his career. Kristal & fellow exotico Jessy Ventura started teaming as [[Las Shotas]] there in 2019 and really picked up in 2020. Their personality and bloody big matches helped, but I believe the biggest factor in their newfound popularity might have been deciding to become vloggers during the pandemic. It gave them a new avenue to connect to the fans and get their personalities over, and they started getting over in [[Naucalpan]] just about the same time as their videos grew in popularity. Kristal & Ventura defeated [[los Oficiales]] for their hair last November and seemed planned to defeat [[Big Chico Che]] and [[Big Ovett]] for their hair in December before Mexico shut down again. (Half of that match has passed away in the last six months.) Sunday’s IWRG show is the annual [[Jaula]] de la Locas, a multiperson cage featuring exoticos (and cis-gendered women this year). I’m not sure if Kristal was going to figure into the finish, but Las Shotas were the big stars of the match. Kristal, Ventura, and trios partner Diva Salvaje advanced to the finals of a tournament to decide the [[Mexico State Trios Championship]] and were the favorites there too; things were going great. | |||
That 2013 bio mentions Pasion Kristal started out as masked wrestler Nemesis 2000. [[Pimpinela Escarlata]] was responsible for Kristal switching to become an exotic – or rather, Pimpinela missing a show in Tabasco meant the promoter needed someone to work as an exotico at the last moment. He started as Orquidea Seleme that night, a name he didn’t like and happily switched to Pasion Kristal. He had also been working as a special education teacher and the mask let him hide his identity. Kristal was concerned parents wouldn’t let him continue teaching if he was wrestling as an exotico, though it reads like his success as an exotico eventually forced him to step away from his teaching career. It led Kristal to save the local lucha gym when it was going to be shut down for lack of funds and running shows to try to treat others luchadors better than he had been treated. Kristal had battled homophobia before and during his wrestling career; it seemed like he was never more popular or accepted than in this current moment. It’s terrible Pasion Kristal doesn’t get to keep living it, but at least he got to reach that earned success for a time. | |||
Franky Monet (ex-[[Taya]]) posted a couple of remembrances of Pasion Kristal. [[Mamba San|Mamba]] did as well. | |||
IWRG honored Pasion Kristal on their show Thursday night. Kristal & Ventura wrestled and won the main event, changed from a three-way trios to a three-way pairs. They will go on with the annual Jaula de las Locas show (Mas Lucha Premium) on Sunday. The original poster, with Pasion Kristal and the cage match, was hanging in Arena Naucalpan on Thursday night. They’re not trying to replace Pasion Kristal in the match. | |||
== Luchas de apuestas record == | == Luchas de apuestas record == | ||
| Line 30: | Line 46: | ||
{{aline|[[2010]]/[[July 4|07/04]]|mask (1)|[[Pasion Kristal]]|[[Miss Gaviota]]|[[Arena Naucalpan]]- [[Naucalpan]]}} | {{aline|[[2010]]/[[July 4|07/04]]|mask (1)|[[Pasion Kristal]]|[[Miss Gaviota]]|[[Arena Naucalpan]]- [[Naucalpan]]}} | ||
{{aline|[[2013]]/[[December 14|12/14]]|hair|[[Pasion Kristal]]|[[La Diva Salvaje]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes de Villahermosa|Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Villahermosa]], [[Tabasco]]}} | {{aline|[[2013]]/[[December 14|12/14]]|hair|[[Pasion Kristal]]|[[La Diva Salvaje]]|[[Palacio de los Deportes de Villahermosa|Palacio de los Deportes]] - [[Villahermosa]], [[Tabasco]]}} | ||
{{aline|[[2017]]/[[06/18]]|hairs|[[May Flowers]], [[Pasion Kristal]] & [[Yuriko]]|[[Alex Romano (2000s)|Alex Romano]], [[El Brujo (Guadalajara)|El Brujo]] & [[El Vago (Jalisco)|El Vago]]|[[Plaza de Las Americas]] - [[Zapopan]], [[Jalisco]]}} | |||
{{aline|[[2018]]/[[December|12/??]]|hair |[[Pasion Kristal]]|[[Fantasma de la Opera]]|[[Arena Naucalpan]]- [[Naucalpan]]}} | {{aline|[[2018]]/[[December|12/??]]|hair |[[Pasion Kristal]]|[[Fantasma de la Opera]]|[[Arena Naucalpan]]- [[Naucalpan]]}} | ||
{{aline|[[2019]]/[[07/07]]|hair (2)|[[Pasion Kristal]]|[[Zoy Raymunda]]|[[Arena Naucalpan]]}} | {{aline|[[2019]]/[[07/07]]|hair (2)|[[Pasion Kristal]]|[[Zoy Raymunda]]|[[Arena Naucalpan]]}} | ||
| Line 38: | Line 55: | ||
== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
<gallery perrow="5"> | <gallery perrow="5"> | ||
Image: | Image:Nemesis2000.jpg|as Nemesis 2000 | ||
Image:PASION CRISTAL.jpg|with [[Miss Gaviota]]'s mask | Image:PASION CRISTAL.jpg|with [[Miss Gaviota]]'s mask | ||
Image: | Image:Pasion Kristal.jpeg| | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Latest revision as of 18:01, 5 August 2026
Profile
| Pasion Crystal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brought into AAA to complete an exotico trio with Cassandro and Pimpinela Escarlata to continue their feud with Los Night Queens. While that feud was dropped from TV about five seconds later, he continued to wrestle on AAA spot shows, often teaming with Pimpi.
At mid 2012 began to promote his own lucha promotion LLES.
Pasion Kristal (Juan Gabriel Zentella Damian, 45) apparently passed away late Tuesday/early Wednesday in a drowning accident in Acapulco. Kristal was lost off Papagayo beach until a body a spotted on a beach Thursday, and local promotion Lucha Libre Acapulco confirmed it was Kristal.
Kristal was in Acapulco with trios partners Jessy Ventura and Diva Salvaje prior to a scheduled wrestling appearance Wednesday night. Ventura & Salvaje still actually wrestled Wednesday and appeared before the show started to talk about the incident. They explained Pasion Kristal walked from the beach to the water, and a big wave pulled Kristal in. Ventura & Salvaje went after Kristal, another big wave hit them all and they could not get Kristal. Ventura almost got pulled in again. Ventura & Salvaje wrestled that match Wednesday night and were understandably very emotional afterward. Kristal, Salvaje, and Ventura were scheduled to headline Thursday’s IWRG show.
Pasion Kristal wrestled in AAA, infrequently on TV, between 2008 and 2015. Kristal didn’t achieve great individual success but did get to be part of multi-person cage matches on the 2012 Rey de Reyes and the 2013 Guerra de Titanes. There didn’t seem to be a specific public reason why Kristal left AAA, it seemed more about being the fourth to sixth most important exotico when AAA started using fewer of those characters on TV; he worked spot shows more often. Kristal also was important in his native Villahermosa, Tabasco scene, taking over the local promotion when it appeared it would go out of business (according to this long and detailed bio republished Thursday.)
Kristal passed through IWRG many times during his career. Kristal & fellow exotico Jessy Ventura started teaming as Las Shotas there in 2019 and really picked up in 2020. Their personality and bloody big matches helped, but I believe the biggest factor in their newfound popularity might have been deciding to become vloggers during the pandemic. It gave them a new avenue to connect to the fans and get their personalities over, and they started getting over in Naucalpan just about the same time as their videos grew in popularity. Kristal & Ventura defeated los Oficiales for their hair last November and seemed planned to defeat Big Chico Che and Big Ovett for their hair in December before Mexico shut down again. (Half of that match has passed away in the last six months.) Sunday’s IWRG show is the annual Jaula de la Locas, a multiperson cage featuring exoticos (and cis-gendered women this year). I’m not sure if Kristal was going to figure into the finish, but Las Shotas were the big stars of the match. Kristal, Ventura, and trios partner Diva Salvaje advanced to the finals of a tournament to decide the Mexico State Trios Championship and were the favorites there too; things were going great.
That 2013 bio mentions Pasion Kristal started out as masked wrestler Nemesis 2000. Pimpinela Escarlata was responsible for Kristal switching to become an exotic – or rather, Pimpinela missing a show in Tabasco meant the promoter needed someone to work as an exotico at the last moment. He started as Orquidea Seleme that night, a name he didn’t like and happily switched to Pasion Kristal. He had also been working as a special education teacher and the mask let him hide his identity. Kristal was concerned parents wouldn’t let him continue teaching if he was wrestling as an exotico, though it reads like his success as an exotico eventually forced him to step away from his teaching career. It led Kristal to save the local lucha gym when it was going to be shut down for lack of funds and running shows to try to treat others luchadors better than he had been treated. Kristal had battled homophobia before and during his wrestling career; it seemed like he was never more popular or accepted than in this current moment. It’s terrible Pasion Kristal doesn’t get to keep living it, but at least he got to reach that earned success for a time.
Franky Monet (ex-Taya) posted a couple of remembrances of Pasion Kristal. Mamba did as well.
IWRG honored Pasion Kristal on their show Thursday night. Kristal & Ventura wrestled and won the main event, changed from a three-way trios to a three-way pairs. They will go on with the annual Jaula de las Locas show (Mas Lucha Premium) on Sunday. The original poster, with Pasion Kristal and the cage match, was hanging in Arena Naucalpan on Thursday night. They’re not trying to replace Pasion Kristal in the match.
Luchas de apuestas record
Gallery
-
as Nemesis 2000 -
with Miss Gaviota's mask -
