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Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
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Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre co. ltd is a lucha libre professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City. The promotion is also referred to by its previous name Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, founded in 1933, it is the oldest professional wrestling promotion still in existence. CMLL has been nicknamed The serious and the stable, referencing their very conservative booking style, outside of live television broadcasts CMLL, has not shown matches where one of the competitors bleed. CMLL has on occasion fired wrestlers for excessive violence, like the use of chairs, CMLL currently recognizes and promotes twelve World Championships for various weight divisions and classifications, six national level and six regional level championships. The CMLL Anniversary Show series is the longest running annual major show, starting in 1934, CMLL also regularly promotes major events under the names Homenaje a Dos Leyendas, Sin Piedad, Sin Salida, Infierno en el Ring during the year. CMLL has promoted their regular weekly Super Viernes on a basis since the 1930s. Founder Salvador Lutteroth funded the building of Arena Coliseo in 1943, in 1929, Salvador Lutteroth, who at the time was a property inspector for the Mexican Tax department, moved to Ciudad Juárez near the Mexico/U. S. During a trip to El Paso, Texas Lutteroth witnessed a professional wrestling show and was intrigued by the show, four years later Lutteroth, along with his financial backer Francisco Ahumada chartered Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, the first Mexican owned wrestling promotion in the country. EMLL held their first shown on September 21,1933, considered the birth of Lucha libre, the concept of Lucha Libre quickly became very popular, so much so that the EMLL 1st Anniversary Show drew a sell out crowd of 5,000 paying fans. In 1934, an American wrestler debuted in Mexico under a black, leather mask, through the use of the masks and ring characters EMLL helped create the sacred position of the mask in Lucha libre, making it the ultimate status symbol for luchadors. In the early days of EMLL most of the top names were Americans, each booking office was independent of each other but the main office in Mexico City had the final say if there were disputes over who would be able to book certain wrestlers. In 1942, a masked wrestler clad is silver, simply known as El Santo, the arena, nicknamed the Lagunilla Funnel due to its interior shape would hold over 8,800 spectators when configured for Lucha libre or boxing. Arena Coliseo began hosting EMLLs annual Anniversary shows starting with the 10th Anniversary show, in 1953, Salvador Lutteroth joined the US based National Wrestling Alliance, becoming the official NWA territory for all of Mexico, known as NWA-EMLL outside of Mexico. By joining the NWA, Lutteroth and EMLL gained control of the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship, as it turns out luck was on Lutteroth and EMLLs side as Lutteroth and the personnel at Arena Coliseo bought a lottery ticket worth 5 million Pesos. Lutteroth used his portion of the winnings to finance the construction of Arena México, Arena México enabled EMLL to broadcast their weekly wrestling shows across Mexico, yielding a popularity explosion for the sport. Starting in 1956, with the EMLL 23rd Anniversary Show all anniversary shows were held in Arena México, over time the arena became known as The Cathedral of Lucha Libre. The two took a number of EMLLs younger wrestlers with them to form Lucha Libre Internacional, S. C, with the creation of the UWA EMLL faced a rival national promotion for the first time. In the mid-1980s, Chavo Lutteroth retired, allowing his nephew Paco Alonso, grandson of Salvador Lutteroth, in the late 1980s EMLL decided to leave the NWA, seeking to distance themselves from the political infighting in the National Wrestling Alliance
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Arkangel de la Muerte
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Arkangel de la Muerte is a luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, best known for his work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. He is often referred to as just Arkangel, and previously worked under the ring name Mister Cid until 1991 and his name means Archangel of Death in Spanish. Arkangels real name is not a matter of record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans. His patronymic and matronymic surnames are known as his brother Antonio Pasilla Dorado has been unmasked and revealed his full name, on June 8,1988, Mr. Cid teamed with Pantera II to win the Naucalpan Tag Team Championship in a tournament final against Convoy and Perverso. The team did not last long, with a break up that led to a feud between the two men. On September 4,1988, Pantera II defeated Mr. Cid in a Luchas de Apuesta, mask vs. mask match, forcing Mr. Cid to unmask. A week later Pantera II and Carnelo Casas defeated Mr. Cid and Bestia Verde in another Luchas de Apuesta match, in 1990 Mr. Cid teamed with Canelo Casas to win the Naucalpan Tag Team Championship once more, holding it until 1991. In June 1991 Mr. Cid changed ring characters, becoming Arkangel de la Muerte, as Arkangel he won the Naucalpan Tag Team Championship for a third time, this time while teaming with Guerrero de la Muerte who became a regular partner for Arkangel in the following years. The team also held the Distrito Federal Tag Team Championship at some point in the first half of the 1990s and they would also team with El Felino to hold the Distrito Federal Trios Title in 1991, losing the title to Los Metalicos. By the mind 1990s the de la Muerte tag team had broken up with Arkangel focusing on singles competition instead. On September 25,1998, Arkangel defeated El Torero for the Mexican National Welterweight Championship, bringing the title back to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre for the first time in five years. Over the next 178 days Arkangel successfully defended the title against Máscara Mágica, El Torero, Astro Rey, Jr. and Pantera before losing the title to Astro Rey, Jr. on March 22,1999. Five months later Arkangel won the CMLL World Welterweight Championship from Super Delfin on a show in Kawasaki, Arkangel defended the title several times, both in Mexico and Japan before losing the belt to Nosawa in January 20001 ending his title reign after at least 875 days. In 2004 Arkangel held the Distrito Federal Welterweight Championship for a period of time before losing the title to Ludwig Star. In 2004 Arkangel de la Muerte became one of the members of a group called Pandilla Guerrera. The Pandilla Guerrera group consisted of wrestlers, teaming together in the hopes of improving their position on the card. When the group saw limited success by the association with Los Guerreros del Infierno they decided to break away from them in 2007. Arkangel, along with Nitro, Doctor X, Hooligan, Loco Max and Skándalo formed a group called Rebeldes del Desierto, Arkangel is the co-leader of the group along with Nitro
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Atlantis (wrestler)
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Atlantis is a Mexican luchador enmascarado, working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre where he performs as a Técnico. Atlantis was trained by Diablo Velasco, made his debut in 1983 and has always wrestled under the ring name Atlantis. Atlantis has held a number of professional wrestling championships over the years. He has also won the mask of several prominent wrestlers through his career including Kung Fu, Villano III, Último Guerrero, Atlantis earned the nickname El idolo de los Niños as he was always a favorite with the younger fans. In the 1990s Atlantis starred in a couple of Lucha films, including one where he teamed up with Octagón called Octagón y Atlantis, Atlantis made his professional wrestling debut on June 12,1983, after training under world-renowned Mexican wrestling trainer Diablo Velazco for just under a year. He adopted the ring persona of Atlantis, a supposed warrior from the lost city of Atlantis. After working for various Mexican promotions for the first year of his career Atlantis became a regular for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, on November 30,1984, Atlantis defeated Jerry Estrada to win the Mexican National Middleweight Championship, the first wrestling title of his career. Atlantis held the Middleweight title for 457 days, with high profile title defenses that helped establish the young wrestlers reputation for good matches. On March 2,1986 Atlantis lost the Middleweight title to Talismán, by 1988 Atlantis had formed a regular tag team with Ángel Azteca and on March 6,1988, the duo defeated Los Infernales (Masakre and MS-1 to win the Mexican National Tag Team Championship. Three months later Atlantis became a champion when he defeated Kung Fu to win the NWA World Middleweight Championship. Atlantis only held the title for 37 days before losing it to Emilio Charles and he quickly regained the title, defeating Charles, Jr. on July 20,1988, and held it for two weeks before losing the title back to Emilio Charles, Jr. On May 25,1990, after an 811-day reign, Atlantis and Ángel Azteca lost the Mexican Nation Tag Team Championship to Pierroth Jr. the loss of the title was used as a storyline motivation for Ángel Azteca turning Rudo (villain or heel by attacking Atlantis. The feud between the two continued off and on over the years until Ángel Aztecas death in 2007, the two fought in several intense and bloody battles, but remained close friends backstage. In 1991 Atlantis starred in a movie called La Fuerza Bruta and soon began filming another movie where he teamed up with Octagón called Octagón y Atlantis. On April 4,1991, Atlantis, Octagón, and Máscara Sagrada, the trio held the title for 94 days before losing it to Los Hermanos Dinamita on August 11,1991. Atlantis was also offered a contract by AAA but decided to stay with the company he had worked for almost his entire career, on March 3,1993, Atlantis lost the NWA World Middleweight title to Mano Negra, as part of a long-running storyline between the two. On November 3,1995, Atlantis teamed with Rayo de Jalisco, the team lost the tag team title in August 1996 but Atlantis and new partner Lizmark won the titles back from La Ola Blanca. Atlantis and Lizmark only held the title for 12 days before the titles were vacated following a match with the Headhunters
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Blue Panther
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Genaro Vazquez Nevarez is a Mexican professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Blue Panther. The Blue part of his name is an homage to Aníbal. He works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, the promotion for which two of his sons debuted in January 2014, working under the ring names Cachorro and Black Panther. Blue Panther began wrestling in northern Mexico in the late 1970s before getting noticed by wrestler and promoter René Guajardo in Monterrey, guarjardo got Panther booked in Universal Wrestling Association and Panther made his debut in their main building, El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos in Naucalpan, in 1981. He wrestled on the undercard as a rudo before getting his first push in 1984 by winning the UWA World Welterweight Championship from veteran worker Matemático and he had a feud with Black Man that saw him lose his UWA Welterweight title but win Black Mans mask in 1986. During the remainder of his UWA career, he won the UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship from Gran Hamada and traded the title back and forth with Solar I and won the mask of Kendo. In 1991, he jumped to Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, in late 1991, he began feuding with Love Machine. Their April 1992 Mask vs. Mask mask, where Love Machine was disqualified for using an illegal Martinete, sold out Arena México and 8,000 fans watched the match on big screens outside the arena. The following month, he jumped to Antonio Peñas new Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración promotion, the match featured a double turn which led to Love Machine becoming a rudo and forming Los Gringos Locos with Eddy Guerrero. Much of his time in AAA was spent in programs based on the Mexican National Middleweight Championship and he worked programs with Ángel Azteca, Super Astro, Solar I and Octagón. After the downturn of the Mexican economy, he started his own promotion with several business partners called PROMELL. When the promotion failed, he returned to AAA briefly in 1997 but he was unhappy being programmed with Máscara Sagrada, Jr. in 1998, Panther teamed with Dr. Wagner, Jr. and his real-life nephew Black Warrior to form Los Laguneros. The team won a tournament to win the vacant CMLL World Trios Championship, in 1999, Panther and Wagner teamed to feud with Negro Casas and El Hijo del Santo over the CMLL World Tag Team Championship with an unsuccessful title challenge in September of that year. In 2002, Black Warrior left Los Laguneros and the championship was vacated. Over time, Blue Panther was getting booked more as a técnico and began to team with former rivals, Atlantis, Lizmark Jr. in 2004, Atlantis and Blue Panther defeated Último Guerrero and Rey Bucanero to win the CMLL World Tag Team Championship. Three months after successfully defending the title against Olímpico and Rey Bucanero, Atlantis and Panther lost the championship to the team of Averno and Mephisto in April 2005. When Atlantis turned rudo, Panther feuded with him intermittently and the two often ripped at each others masks, hinting at a possible mask vs. mask match, on September 19,2008, he lost his mask to Villano V in Mexico. He was unmasked as Genaro Vazquez Nevarez, in late 2011, Blue Panther began feuding with La Peste Negra, which led to the main event of Sin Piedad on December 16, where Panther faced El Felino in a Hair vs. Hair match
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Brazo de Plata
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José Alvarado Nieves is a Mexican Luchador best known under the ring name Brazo de Plata, he has used since his debut in 1977 and also for his appearances in WWE as Super Porky. Los Brazos, as they were billed, wrestled all over Mexico, while working for NWA Hollywood, Plata and Oro won the NWA Americas Tag Team Championship from Chino Chou and the Kiss on November 7,1981. The brothers were also last holders of the Los Angeles version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship in 1982. Over the years Brazo de Plata and his brothers competed in a number of Luchas de Apuestas where they put their masks or hair on the line against their opponents. The match was the culmination of a feud between the two families and saw all six wrestlers bleed profusely during the bout. In the end Los Villanos won the match, forcing all three Brazos to unmask and reveal their names as is tradition in these types of matches. Los Brazos lost the titles to Dr. Wagner, Jr. Gran Markus, Jr. and El Hijo del Gladiador. 1993 also saw Brazo de Plata get the biggest singles win of his career as he defeated Black Magic for the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship, a title he would hold over a year. As the years wore on and Brazo de Platas waistline expanded he found working a more comedic style. During this time period he was nicknamed Super Porky in reference to his weight gain, Plata was hired by World Wrestling Entertainment in 2005 as part of the SmackDown. Plata was billed as Super Porky and paired up with the minis of the Junior division, at Verano de Escándalo, Brazo de Plata, Intocable, El Oriental and El Zorro lost to the team of Alan Stone, Hator, Scorpio, Jr. and Zumbido. At the following featured show, Guerrera de Titanes 2006, Brazo de Plata had his hair shaved off as he lost a Dog collar chain match to Alan Stone, the storyline with Los Guapos VIP continued throughout 2007 and into 2008 where it saw a surprising turn. Brazo de Platas brother El Brazo jumped to AAA and attacked his own brother, the storyline fight of the two brothers came to a crescendo at Guerrera de Titanes 2008, where they faced off in a steel cage match where the loser would have his hair shaved off. El Brazo lost and had his hair shaved to put at least a temporary end to the storyline, after leaving AAA, Plata began working independent dates throughout the country as well as regularly for International Wrestling Revolution Group and Perros del Mal Producciones. The Alvarado wrestling family spans three generations starting with Shadito Cruz followed by his 6 sons and a generation who have begun wrestling in recent years. José Alvarado has 5 children who have all followed in his footsteps, his sons José, Psycho Clown and Magia Jr. and his two daughters Danah and Gloria Alvarado Nava, who wrestles as Goya Kong
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Canelo Casas
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Heavy Metal originally wrestled as Canelo Casas, but this Casas claims to not be a son but a nephew of the original Canelo Casas. He has previously worked as the masked character Bengala as well as Canelo Casas, Jr. Casas was born in 1982 in Mexico City and his grand father is José Casas Granados, better known under the ring name Pepe Casas. While he uses the ring name that Erick Casas he claims that Erick is not his father. His father, who is not a wrestler, is a sibling of Erick, José and his cousins, sons of Jorge Casas, compete in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre under the ring names Tiger and Puma, two enmascarados, or masked wrestlers. He is the nephew of retired wrestler Princesa Blanca and active CMLL womens wrestler Dalys la Caribeña, Casas received extensive training from both his grandfather Pepe and his uncle José Casa before his in ring debut. Casas began his in ring career on March 6,2006 when he began working under a mask as the character Bengala, later on he began working as Canelo Casas Jr. leading people to speculate that he was the son of the original Canelo Casas, Erick Casas. Due to the confusion he shortened his name to simply Canelo Casas. Casas would receive further training after his debut from such as Hijo del Santo. In 2010 Casas teamed up with Eddy Vega on the Mexican independent circuit to for a tag team known as Los Nuevo Sexy Boys, working together regularly from 2010 until 2012. At some point in 2010 or 2011 Canelo Casas began training at CMLLs wrestling school under trainer Arkangel de la Muerte and he competed in a 16-man torneo cibernetico along with other Arkangel de la Muerte trainees but did not win the match. On May 25,2013 Canelo Casas outlasted 17 other wrestlers to win Copa Poder A Poder in Gimnasio Benito Juarez de Mexico City. He received further training at CMLLs training school from resident trainers Arturo Beristain, Franco Colombo and Ringo Mendoza before, the Casas family lost in the first round to the brother team of Dragon Lee and Rush in the first round of the tournament. Later in 2014 Canelo Casas and 15 other young wrestlers were given the chance to earn a spot in that years En Busca de un Ídolo tournament by competing in a torneo cibenetico elimination match. Canelo did not earn a spot in the tournament as he was eliminated along with Black Panther, El Rebelde, Espiritu Negro, Flyer, Herodes, Jr. Metálico and Oro Jr. On December 5,2014 Canelo Casas wrestled on his first major CMLL event as he teamed up with Disturbio, losing the match of the 2014 Infierno en el Ring show to Tritón. He competed against Akuma, Blue Panther Jr. Cancerbero, Delta, Disturbio, Esfinge, Flyer, El Gallo, Guerrero Maya Jr. Joker, Pegasso, Raziel, Sagrado, Stigma and Boby Zavala. Casas eliminated El Gallo and was among the eight wrestlers to qualify for the portion of the tournament. During the En Busca de un Ídolo the wrestlers would face off in a round-robin first round earning points based on the outcome, after the match each wrestler would receive critique and points from a four-man judging panel rating them on the match they just saw
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Negro Casas
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José Casas Ruiz is a Mexican professional wrestler and trainer working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre under the ring name Negro Casas. Casas has trained several wrestlers, including Mephisto, Kazushige Nosawa, perkins, Rocky Romero, and Ricky Marvin. Casas has worked all over the world, making appearances for the World Wrestling Federation in the United States of America as well as touring with New Japan Pro Wrestling in Japan for over a decade. In Mexico Casas has worked for CMLL since the 1990s but has also wrestled for the Universal Wrestling Association, World Wrestling Association and International Wrestling Revolution Group. In 2008 Negro Casas joined with Mr. Niebla and Heavy Metal to form the group La Peste Negra, Casas was born in 1960, the son of professional wrestler Pepe Tropi Casas, and grew up around Tlalpan. Casas described his childhood as a happy and normal one, even though his father would be away from home for long stretches as he wrestled all over Mexico and the United States. Casas father first took him to a show when Casas was five years old. Casas became hooked on wrestling from the moment he saw the first match, with his first idols being his father, Aníbal and El Solitario. Casas played football, soccer, volleyball and baseball while still in school and even started training in professional wrestling taught by his father. Casas debut came in 1979 as a bit of a turn of events. Casas wrestled and won his first match using the ring name Pepe Casas Jr. wearing street clothes only to discover Pepe Casas, the two had played a joke on Casas to see how he handled himself in the ring. Casas chose the name Negro Casas as his name and decided not to wear a mask. By 1984 Casas had begun working for Universal Wrestling Association, winning the UWA World Lightweight Championship from Black Terry on January 1,1984, Casas held the championship for 301 days before losing it to El Hijo del Santo. The storyline included Hijo del Santo forcing Negro Casas to be shaved bald after losing a Luchas de Apuestas, Casas regained the title, but only held it briefly before losing again as he was leaving the WWA. Casas returned to the UWA in 1990 and on January 29,1991, Casas held the title for 787 days, finally losing it to Último Dragón. By the mid 1990s Casas worked regularly for CMLL and toured Japan several times a year, in April 1994 Casas took part in the first Super J-Cup tournament, he lost to Ricky Fuji in the first round. On December 1,1995, Negro Casas defeated longtime rival Hijo del Santo in the finals of a tournament to crown a new NWA World Welterweight Championship. Casas held the title for over 200 days, rarely defending until he participated in a tournament to unify 8 lightweight titles in NJPWs J-Crown tournament, Casas put the Welterweight title on the line but lost to Shinjiro Otani in the first round
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Mark Jindrak
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Mark Robert Jindrak is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment under his real name. He is currently signed to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, where he competes under the ring name Marco Corleone. In addition to CMLL, he has competed for its rival promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. He has also worked for Mexican promotions Perros del Mal and Lucha Libre USA, Jindrak trained in the WCW Power Plant under Paul Orndorff. He was promoted to the main WCW roster in June 2000 under the Vince Russo era where he formed a tag team with fellow Power Plant graduate Sean OHaire. In August 2000, Jindrak and OHaire helped form The Natural Born Thrillers with Mike Sanders, Shawn Stasiak, Chuck Palumbo, Johnny The Bull Stamboli and they were briefly coached by Kevin Nash. In September 2000, Jindrak won the World Tag Team Championship with OHaire for the first time, the pair would win the World Tag Team Title one more time before splitting in early January 2001 when Jindrak would begin teaming with Stasiak instead. The team was short-lived, as Stasiak went on to pick up the service of Stacy Keibler. After the World Wrestling Federation purchased WCW in March 2001, Jindrak came into the company in July 2001 as part of The Alliance that invaded the WWF roster, Jindrak wrestled in dark matches and at house shows throughout July. His first televised debut was on the July 28,2001 episode of Jakked, in late August of that year Mark Jindrak was sent to the Heartland Wrestling Association. There he was a member of Team WCW along with Mike Sanders, Johnny The Bull, Reno, Jason Jett, Lash LeRoux, Shannon Moore, Evan Karagias, Kwee Wee, Elix Skipper and Jamie Knoble. In October 2001 Jindrak was moved to Ohio Valley Wrestling for training until March 2002 when he suffered a knee injury, Jindrak returned to OVW in July 2002. He also returned to WWE on the October 13,2002 episode Sunday Night Heat defeating Justin Credible and he made a few more appearances on Heat in late 2002, defeating wrestlers such as Credible, Raven, and Stevie Richards until suffering an ankle injury. Jindrak returned to OVW in March 2003 following his recovery, and joined Kenny Bolins Bolin Services stable, Jindrak was soon called up by WWE. Triple H would reveal on his 2013 Triple H - Thy Kingdom Come DVD that Jindrak was originally planned to be in the stable, Evolution, along with himself, Ric Flair, backing this up were vignettes that Jindrak shot with the rest of Evolution. However, for undisclosed reasons, his spot as the Arn Anderson-like enforcer of the group ended up going to Batista instead. After being pulled out of the Evolution angle, Jindrak made his Raw debut on July 7,2003 as a face where he was defeated by Chris Jericho and he then began to tag team with Garrison Cade on the Raw brand. The two feuded with such as La Résistance, Evolution, and The Dudley Boyz
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Delta (wrestler)
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Delta is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler currently working for the Mexico City based professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Deltas real name is not a matter of record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans. The wrestler currently known as Delta was born on August 27,1985 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, Trueno wore an outfit closely resembling the red and yellow outfit of the comic book character The Flash and worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in the 1970s. The future Delta attended the Regiomontana University where he got a degree in administration in tourism. He later stated that while he was not required to get a degree to become a professional wrestler he knew he needed something to fall back on. He got a degree in Tourism Business Administration to have a skill to rely on outside of wrestling, Delta is the father of a girl of school age. He first started wrestling in 2003 under the name Blue Angel, in May,2007 he made his debut under the name Hijo del Trueno, wearing a thunderbolt adorned mask and trunks like hi father. He worked for independent promotions, especially in his home state of Monterrey. In 2009 he achieved one of his dreams as he began working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre based in Mexico City. In CMLL he received training from Franco Colombo as well as a new ring name, mask. He made his CMLL debut on August 8,2009, teaming up with Sensei to defeat Los Romanos in the match of CMLLs Saturday Night show in Arena México. In late 2009 CMLL vacated the Mexican National Trios Championship when Black Warrior, as a result, they held an eight-team elimination tournament to crown new champions. Delta teamed up with Leono and Valiente for the tournament, in their first match as a trio the team defeated Diamante, Pegasso and Rey Cometa, but lost to Poder Mexica in the second round. In April,2010 Delta participated in the 2010 Torneo Gran Alternativa, the Gran Alternativa tournament is an annual CMLL tournament that teams a veteran and a rookie up for a tag team tournament. Delta was placed in Block B and teamed up with the Veteran Volador, when the rúdo team of Pólvora and Héctor Garza won block B several sources stated that Delta and Volador, Jr. were the favorites to win Block B. On March 23,2010 Delta and Volador, Jr. defeated Tiger Kid and El Felino in the first round and Raziel, in the final round of Block A the team faced Puma King and Último Guerrero. Deltas partner Volador, Jr. was eliminated first leaving Delta to face both opponents, in a match that helped showcase Deltas talent he eliminated both Puma King and Guerrero to qualify for the finals of the Gran Alternativa tournament. The finals took place on the April 30,2010 Super Viernes, in November 2010 Delta was entered into an online poll to determine a new one third of the Mexican National Trios Champions, after Máscara Dorada had relinquished his part of the title
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Gran Guerrero
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Gran Guerreros real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans. He was later introduced under the ring name Gran Guerrero, promoted as Último Guerreros younger brother, in 2008 Último Guerrero introduced Último Guerrero, Jr. He would later adopt the ring name Taurus in order to experience as a wrestler before using the name full-time. From 2008 until 2011 he kept training and occasionally wrestled matches on local independent promotion shows. In 2011 he began appearing at International Wrestling Revolution Group events and he competed in the 13th, 14th, and 17th Torneo FILL, but did not win either of those tournaments. On July 23,2011, he competed in IWRGs Copa Higher Power tournament, on March 11,2012, Taurus officially teamed up with his father Último Guerrero on a Toryumon Mexico for Toryumons Copa Toyota where a rookie and a veteran teams up. The father/son team defeated El Hijo del Fantasma and Magnus in the first round, espanto, Jr. Akuma, Herodes, Jr. Oro, Jr. and Génesis. Taurus made his in ring debut for CMLL on June 18,2012 teaming with Bobby Zavala and Hooligan as the team lost to Leono, Metálico and Sensei. Taurus was the last of the Generacion 2012 wrestlers to make his CMLL Super Viernes debut, as he teamed with Zayco to lose to Leono, on October 14,2012 worked a Toryumon benefit show for injured wrestler Electrico. On the show the team of Taurus, El Hijo del Medico Asesino and El Hijo del Signo defeated Magnus, Mr. Rolling and Platino. In late March 2013 Taurus was announced as one of the Novatos, or rookies, in the 2013 Torneo Gran Alternativa, the Gran Alternativa pairs a rookie with an experienced wrestler for a tag team tournament. Taurus would team up with veteran Averno and compete in Block A on April 12,2013, the duo defeated Stigma and La Mascara in the first round, but lost to Hombre Bala, Jr. and Atlantis in the second round. During the celebration of Atlantis 30th anniversary as a wrestler Último Guerrero appeared after a match to berate Atlantis, the appearance turned out to be a distraction, as a second Último Guerrero attacked Atlantis from behind. The two identically dressed Guerreros proceeded to beat up Atlantis and tear his mask apart, following the match Último Guerrero introduced his brother Gran Guerrero and made him a part of Los Guerreros del Infierno. Gran Guerrero teamed up with Último Guerrero and Niebla Roja to defeat the then reigning CMLL World Trios Champions Los Estetas del Aire in the match of the 2014 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas. In January 2015, Guerrero made his Japanese debut, when he took part in the Fantastica Mania 2015 tour, co-produced by CMLL, during the tour on January 18, Guerrero unsuccessfully challenged Volador Jr. for the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship
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El Alebrije (wrestler)
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El Alebrije is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre under the ring name Kraneo. He best known for his work in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración and he has also played the role of Máscara Sagráda II after the Original Máscara Sagrada left AAA. El Alebrijes real name is not a matter of public record and he was brought to AAA because of the original Máscara Sagradas departure and was used to replace him as Máscara Sagrada II, a role he played for approximately one year. During that year, he won the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship, defeating Pierroth, the reign only lasted for less than a week because he would lose it to Sangre Chicana. In 1998 he was regimmicked as El Alebrije, a more comedic ring character, teamed up with Cuije, the two would feud with Monsther and Chucky for a long period of time. He also worked as a road agent behind the scenes of AAA and his first title as El Alebrije was the UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship. On August 20,2004, El Alebrije and Cuije won the AAA Mascot Tag Team Championship and they both made history by being the third champions and having it for the longest reign. The title was vacated on April 7,2009 due to both of them leaving AAA and they only defended the AAA Mascot Tag Team Title a limited number of times in the 1,691 days they held the title. After leaving AAA Alebrije and Cuije began working on the Mexican independent circuit, especially for International Wrestling Revolution Group, for the tournament Cuije wrestled alongside Alebrije and their partner El Oriental as Team Perros del Mal. After defeating Team Delicioso in their opening match, Team Perros del Mal was eliminated from the tournament in the quarterfinals by Der Bruderschaft des Kreuzes. On April 12,2010 a contingent of former AAA wrestlers including El Alebrije, Cuije, Histeria, Psicosis II, the group drown into the arena in a black SUV and attacked La Sombra, El Hijo del Fantasma and La Máscara after they just finished wrestling. Brazo de Plata, Místico and Jon Strongman tried to help out but were kept away by CMLL rudos Averno, El Texano, Jr. following the attack the former AAA wrestlers returned to the SUV and left the arena. The group made several subsequent attacks during CMLL shows, including running in during their Sunday Night Arena México show, after weeks of run-ins the group, dubbed Los Independientes or The Independents after the Independent circuit, wrestled their first match for CMLL. In their debut for CMLL on April 26,2010 El Alebrije, Histeria and Psicosis defeated El Hijo del Fantasma, La Máscara, the team was later renamed Los Invasores. During a trios match between El Alebrije, Histeria II and Maniaco and the team of Héctor Garza, Brazo de Plata and Toscano, Garza turned on his team mates and joined Los Invasores. On May 16,2010 Psicosis wrestled against La Sombra in a match that saw the appearance of both Mr. Águila and Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. Mr. Águila returned to CMLL to side with Los Independientes while Rayo de Jalisco, CMLL later held a press conference announcing that they would hold a special Sin Salida event on June 6,2010 that would center around the Los Invasores vs. CMLL storyline. During the press conference Olímpico was part of the Invasores group and it was also announced that Garza and Mr. Águila were the co-leaders of the group
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Mephisto (wrestler)
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Mephisto is the ring name of a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler and currently works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. His real name is not a matter of record as he is an enmascarado. Mephisto is the son of Luchador Astro Rey/Kahoz and has worked both as Astro Rey Jr. and Kahoz Jr. but has been most successful as Mephisto. Mephisto and Averno are considered one of the top teams in Mexico between 2000 and 2010 and he is currently the leader of Los Hijos del Infierno that also includes Ephesto and Luciferno. While working as Mephisto he has won multiple CMLL championships and currently part of the Mexican National Trios Championship with the other Hijos del Infierno. By 1971 his father had started wrestling which meant that the future Mephisto grew up around wrestlers, wanting to become one himself from a very early age. After training under his father, and his uncle the luchador known as El Gallo Giro, from 1988 until 1993 he wrestled as Kahoz Jr. for various promotions in Mexico. His father, however, urged him to change gimmicks to the one that got his father the most fame Astro Rey Jr, as Astro Rey Jr. or simply Astro Jr. he travelled the world and wrestled extensively in Mexico and Japan. On March 22,1999 Astro Rey Jr. won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship from Arkangel de la Muerte, Astro Rey Jr. finally lost the title to Karloff Lagarde Jr. on October 23,2000. CMLL decided to expand the storyline, teaming El Satánico up with two wrestlers, both of whom were repackaged to fit with the infernal theme of El Satánico. The storyline was that El Satánico used his supposed satanic powers to turn the tecnico Rencor Latino into one of his minions, the rudo known as Averno in a televised segment. After this turn was completed they were joined by Mephisto, formerly Kahoz Jr. and Astro Rey Jr. but unlike Averno, no references to his previous identities were made at the time. Together the three became the new version of Los Infernales and feuded with the group of Infernales consisting of Guerrero, Bucanero, Tarzan Boy. A year later, September 2002 at the CMLL 68th Anniversary Show, in the end Satánico made Máscara Mágica submit gaining the rights for his own group as well as taking the mask of Máscara Mágica. After the steel cage match the feud between the two more or less ending, the splinter faction changed their name to Los Guerreros del Infierno. On June 23,2002, Los Infernales won the Mexican National Trios Championship from Olímpico, Mr. Niebla, after they won the championship they began feuding with La Familia de Tijuana. The trio lost the title to La Familia on September 27,2002, when Nicho stopped appearing for CMLL the trios championship was vacated but Los Infernales refused to take them without a match. This storyline led to an eight-team trios title tournament whichLos Infernales did not win, at the end of the year, Averno and Mephisto turned on Satánico but there was little to feuding afterwards they split from the group and ventured out on their own
