Babe Face

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Babe Face

Name Babe Face Real name José Guadalupe Fuentes Ochoa Nicknames El Cañonero de Colima (The Cannoneer of Colima), El Bombardero (The Bomber) Name history Bombero Fuentes (debut - 74), Babe Face (74 - retirement) Family Babe Face Jr. (son) Maestro(s) Luis Canales, Shadito Cruz, Felipe Ham Lee Birth date, location August 31, 1947 - Municipio de Colima, Colima Obituary date September 25, 2026 Debut, location 1970 - Mazatlán, Sinaloa Lost mask to Height 5'7"/170 cms Weight 216 lbs/98 kg Signature moves La Cañonera, Hard chops Titles: National Light Heavyweight Title

One of the original wrestlers to work for the UWA. Was a hated rudo for almost his entire career and was involved in many bloody hair matches. For whatever reason (rumored to be either jail or drugs) he disapeared in the early 90's only to eventually pop up again but in terrible shape and only to drop his hair a couple of times.

LuchaBlog Obituary:

Babe Face (Jose Guadalupe Fuentes Ochoa, 79) passed away on Friday. Despite his name meaning “good guy” in US wrestling lingo, he spent pretty much all of his career as an unmasked rudo. He was a Guadalajara Diablo Velasco trainee in the early 70s, came to wrestle in EMLL in the mids 70s, and then jumped to the UWA as that got going. He’d show up in EMLL/CMLL every so often, but he was almost always a UWA guy, an upper-level rudo who could work with the top guys but rarely beat them. His apuesta record is littered with hair matches, and his record in them was fairly mixed. (It also includes one with a young Eddie Guerrero.) He was considered a very good worker and that’s why people outside of Mexico might have heard his name – Bret Hart, of all people, put him over for his wrestling skill, remembering him from tours they worked together in Japan. That’s another way people outside of Mexico would know him: Babe Face was Satoru Sayama’s greatest Mexican opponent, and he worked NJPW tours when Sayama became Tiger Mask. NJPW’s NJPW World service, when it launched, posted a Babe Face & Perro Aguayo vs. Gran Hamada & Satoru Sayama match from 1980, a rare look at the early stage of that rivalry and at 1980 UWA at all. UWA wasn’t taped at that point – NJPW just happened to be there because Antonio Inoki was winning the UWA title in a main event against Tiger Jeet Singh – and Babe Face looks great in the video.

Babe Face’s career burned out rather quickly for a luchador; he wasn’t the same guy by the 1990 TV boom, and would’ve felt a little outdated. He was stuck in UWA as it was going rapidly downhill; he had short runs with CMLL and AAA after, but it didn’t amount to much. A guy like that might have gotten forgotten. Babe Face had a second life as a micro-restaurant owner. Babe Face ran a lucha libre rice stand on the city block surrounding Arena Mexico, becoming a permanent fixture in the area’s culture. Babe Face learned to cook rice from his trips to Japan. Current wrestlers would stop to eat after training; old wrestlers would visit their friend when nearby; fans would get some rice and take a photo with him. Ernesto Ocampo, writing on Twitter, mentions that Babe Face would send rice dishes up to their offices sometimes when they were on the SuperLuchas magazine. Even if he never had a wrestling match, he would’ve been a memorable part of the Arena Mexico scene.

Luchas de apuestas record

Date	Apuesta	Winner(s)	Loser(s)	Arena and/or Place
??/??/??	hair	El Texano	Babe Face	El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State
??/??/??	hair	Rambo	Babe Face	El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State
75/06/15	hair	Babe Face	Jorge Mendoza	Guatemala
75/06/22	hair	Babe Face	La Fiera (Guatemala)	Guatemala
75/06/29	hair	Babe Face	Índio Pinto	Guatemala
75/07/06	hair	José Azzari	Babe Face	Guatemala
76/06/16	hair	Villano III	Babe Face	El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State
78/09/03	hairs	Bello Greco & Sergio el Hermoso	Babe Face & Scorpio	El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State
78/11/19	hairs	Bello Greco & Sergio el Hermoso	Babe Face & Scorpio	El Toreo
81/07/19	hair	Babe Face	El Asesino	Palacio de los Deportes - Tabasco, Tabasco
82/12/12	hair	Babe Face	Ringo Rigby	El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State
84/06/24	hair (1)	Babe Face	El Signo	El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State
85/08/??	hair	Brazo de Oro	Babe Face	unknown
86/08/15	hair	La Fiera	Babe Face	Arena México - Mexico City
87/12/06	hair	Perro Aguayo	Babe Face	Pista Arena Revolución - Mexico City
1988/07.31	Hair	Eddy Guerrero	Babe Face	Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
1990/11/07	hair	Brazo de Oro	Babe Face	?
96/08/01	hair	El Dandy	Babe Face	Pista Arena Revolución - Mexico City
99/04/16	hair (2)	Latin Lover	Babe Face	Tulancingo, Hidalgo
(1) Misioneros vs. Tigres, captains hair match; (2) Parejas increibles: Babe Face & Latin Lover vs. Perro Aguayo & El Texano

Gallery

Babe Face punish to Satoru Sayama 1980

broken down in his 1997 AAA run

with Rambo and Kahoz

1977