El Androide

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El Androide

Name	El Androide
Real name	Juan Manuel Figueroa
Nicknames
Name history	El Androide, El Faraón (2001), La Momia (third version), Dink-C (second version)
Family
Maestro(s)
Birth date, location
Obituary date	August 25, 2026
Debut, location
Lost mask to
Height	186 cm
Weight	95 kg
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The young Juan Manuel Figueroa (aka El Androide, El Olímpico, Cutral-Có) became the third incarnation of la Momia. In 1977 suffered a loss against El Yeti followed by a losing streak. The following year, in televised Titanes en el Ring shows, Karadagian and La Momia had another another bloody match. Titanes returned to TV in 1982 and it was not expected to see La Momia in the roster, however the people wanted La Momia back. The rival to defeat was El Androide and in the end of the season in the Luna Park, La Momia (portrayed by another wrestler) defeated El Androide and he met with Karadagian once more. They had another tie. Karadagian passed away in 1991, his daughter Paulina, continued another return to TV in 1997 with La Momia as its top wretler. There was the possibility to continue a rivalry with another wrestler, Titanbot, but the untimely end of the season could not make it happen. On 2001, Paulina Karadagian created a very similar gimmick to El Faraon to replace La Momia, but it became its nemesis. In another short-lived season in 2001 it was said that la Momia was defeated by El Faraon. In the middle of the cycle , La Momia returned to claim his place, but that match did not happen. La Momia was one of favorites of Titanes en el Ring of all time and had generated imitators and people who claim to portray the character. In reality its history had been told multiple times by its real interpreter, Juan Manuel Figueroa in a radio program from Cuadritalero Catch.

LuchaBlog Obituary:

Argentine luchador Juan Manuel Figueroa (76) passed away on Tuesday. He was one of many people who portrayed the emblematic La Momia character on Titanes en el Ring. [ This obituary] suggests he was the most successful in that character. The deal with La Momia is that the mummy never lost (at least in the early run of the show), and so the idea of this undefeated monster became a trademark of the show. The show got dropped from TV for a few years, then brought back in 1982. Creative lead Martin Karadagian tried to rerun the bit with a robot character named El Androide. It worked, but it also led to fans demanding to see the new undefeated monster take on the old undefeated La Momia. That wasn’t quite possible: La Momia hadn’t appeared in that relaunch because Juan Manuel Figueroa was actually playing El Androide instead. You’ve got to give the people what they want, though, so they aired a bit with La Momia returning on boat from Egypt to face Androide, and put Ruben Velazquez (Atila) in that suit for the big match. The El Androide and La Momia match happened – and went to a draw. And a draw a second time, but they had judges who gave La Momia the win. All of this turned La Momia into a part of Argentine pop culture, beyond wrestling.