La Sombra (disambiguation)

Multiple wrestlers (at least 14) have used the name La Sombra ("The Shadow") since the 40's. Including:

• Potro Salvaje - used this name around 1963
• La Sombra (Laguna) - AKA Tarzán Flores, used this name in the 60's & 70's
• La Sombra (70s) - lost his mask to Huracán Ramírez in 1975 (was possibly Flores)
  • possibly the same La Sombra (70's) who was unmasked by Villano III, also in 1975?
• La Sombra (80s) - Tony López, lost his mask to Ultraman
• La Sombra (90s) - lost his mask to Arkangel, mini Sombrita is based on this gimmick
• La Sombra - formerly Brillante Jr., future Andrade, Los Ingobernables founder, WWE alumnus.
• La Sombra (El Salvador) - claimed Chanoc's mask, died in 2020
• La Sombra III (Tamaulipas) - challenged for the Arena Gladiador Championship in 2014
• Sombra (Version 2) - lost his mask to Kaoma Jr. in 1996 in Matamoros
• Las Sombras - team unmasked by Bengala I & Tarasco I in `974

Variants:

• Sombra Blanca - at least 2 users;
  • one unmasked by El Santo in Veracruz
  • one unmasked by Drastico in Hidalgo, 2010 (AND shaved by Campesino del Valle in the same match?)
  • whichever one is uncle of Ciudad Juarez's Candy White
• Sombra Diabolika - Puebla luchador since 2011, debuted for CMLL in 2016
  • Sombra Diabolika Jr. - debuted for CMLL in 2025
• Sombra Dorada - 2020s Jalisco luchador, and former Jalisco Tag Team Champion
• Sombra Guerrera - 2010s Veracruz luchador
• Sombra Lagunera - appeared on multiple 2010s Saltillo cards, winning Guerrero Negro Jr.'s hair (twice) & losing his to Chavo Lomeli
• Sombra Metálica - involved in a 2017 Mexico City hair match with Atomic Star
• Sombra Negra - name seen in Chihuahua, Guanajuato and Mexico State, from as early as 1958 to recent as 2018
• Sombra Roja - lost his hair to Búfalo Salvaje in 1981
• Sombra Salvaje - father of Puebla's Pegasso
• La Sombra Verde - the gimmick Braulio Mendoza worked under in Guatemala
• Sombra X - another uncle of Ciudad Juarez's Candy White

• La Sombra Vengadora - based on the protagonist of a 1956 movie of the same name, simply named "La Sombra" therein
• Shadow - 00s Mexico City luchador
• The Shadow - 90s Michoacán luchador, lost his mask to Arhgo
• Jasper Faster - Chilean wrestler nicknamed "El Monarca de las Sombras"

See Also:

• Sombra de Plata
• Sombra Azteca