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El Gallito
El Gallito (real name unrevealed, born October 26, 1991) is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler. He currently works for the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion where he portrays a face (known as a ''tecnico'' in lucha libre, the protagonists of professional wrestling). He is one of the competitors in CMLL's ''Micro-Estrella'' ("Micro-Star") division where he competes with and against other wrestlers with dwarfism. He started his professional wrestling career as a ''mascota'' companion for the regular-sized wrestler El Gallo, on who El Gallito's ring persona, masks and tights are patterned on. In 2017 he became an active wrestler in the ''Micro-Estrella'' division. He was originally known as El Gallito Tapatio, Spanish for "The Little Rooster from Guadalajara", later shortened to just "The Little Rooster". Professional wrestling career El Gallito ("The Little Rooster") started his professional wrestling career as a ''mascota'' for El Gallo ("The Roo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Gómez Medina
Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male baby names in the United States since the late 19th century and has been among the top 200 since the mid 20th century. In the English language it is translated as Anthony, and has some female derivatives: Antonia, Antónia, Antonieta, Antonietta, and Antonella'. It also has some male derivatives, such as Anthonio, Antón, Antò, Antonis, Antoñito, Antonino, Antonello, Tonio, Tono, Toño, Toñín, Tonino, Nantonio, Ninni, Totò, Tó, Tonini, Tony, Toni, Toninho, Toñito, and Tõnis. The Portuguese equivalent is António (Portuguese orthography) or Antônio (Brazilian Portuguese). In old Portuguese the form Antão was also used, not just to differentiate between older and younger but also between more and less important. In Galician th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency. AFP has regional headquarters in Nicosia, Montevideo, Hong Kong and Washington, D.C., and news bureaus in 151 countries in 201 locations. AFP transmits stories, videos, photos and graphics in French, English, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, and German. History Agence France-Presse has its origins in the Agence Havas, founded in 1835 in Paris by Charles-Louis Havas, making it the world's oldest news service. The agency pioneered the collection and dissemination of news as a commodity, and had established itself as a fully global concern by the late 19th century. Two Havas employees, Paul Julius Reuter and Bernhard Wolff, set up their own news agencies in London and Berlin respectively. In 1940, when German forces occupied France during World War II, the news agency was taken over by the authorities and renamed "Office fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crash Lucha Libre
The Crash Lucha Libre, also referred to as simply The Crash, is a ''lucha libre'' (Mexican professional wrestling) promotion based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The promotion largely runs its events in Tijuana, Mexico City, and Monterrey. The promotion currently has working relationships with American promotions DEFY Wrestling, PCW ULTRA, and International Wrestling Revolution Group and Promociones MDA, China's Oriental Wrestling Entertainment. The Crash previously had a working relationship with Impact Wrestling in US/Canada, Mexico's Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide and Japan's Pro Wrestling Noah between 2016 and 2018, until Konnan, the intermediary between the promotions, left The Crash. On February 21, 2019 The Crash announced a partnership with Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, America's Ring of Honor and Japan's New Japan Pro-Wrestling which would later on that year end in late September, on August 12, 2019, Major League Wrestling and The Crash Lucha Libre announced a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CMLL World Micro-Estrellas Championship
The CMLL World Micro-Estrellas Championship (''Campeonato Mundial Micro-Estrellas de CMLL'' in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican lucha libre wrestling-based promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"). The championship is exclusively competed for in the '' Micro-Estrellas'', or Micros, division where all competitors have dwarfism. The championship was revealed on December 11, 2019. It is the first Mexican-based championship solely for wrestlers with dwarfism. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. Chamuel was the inaugural champion. He won a six-man ''torneo cibernetico'' elimination match on December 25, 2019. Background The origins of the ''Micro-Estrella'' division lies in midget wrestling, which in Mexico was popularized in the 1970s when promoters used the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Súper Luchas
''Súper Luchas'' is a Spanish-language publication covering lucha libre and other forms of professional wrestling. The publication began as a print magazine in 1991 and later became the largest lucha libre magazine in the world and remained one of the few professional wrestling magazines to survive to the 2000s but now operates mainly as an online website. The website is the number one Spanish-language professional wrestling website in the world. Critics When Leopoldo Meraz directed Spectacular, the world of wrestling, and later the first era of Super Fights, it was common for timely photos to be published on covers or posters when the fighters were left without a mask in the middle of a fight. He even encouraged his star photographer, Guillermo Mañón, to get this type of graphics, which is why several fighters from the International Wrestling company that organized billboards at El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos threatened Mañón and tried to hit him, as a threat to kill him. Stop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homenaje A Dos Leyendas (2019)
Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2019) (Spanish for "Homage to Two Legends") is a major professional wrestling supercard event, produced and scripted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for "World Wrestling Council") that took place on March 15, 2019. The show, like all of CMLL's major shows took place in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico, CMLL's home venue. The event was to honor and remember CMLL founder Salvador Lutteroth, who died in March 1987. Starting in 1999 CMLL honored not just their founder during the show, but also a second ''lucha libre'' legend, making it their version of a Hall of Fame event. For the 2019 show CMLL commemorated the life and career of wrestler Blue Demon. This was the 21st March show held under the ''Homenaje a Dos Leyendas'' name, having previously been known as ''Homenaje a Salvador Lutteroth'' from 1996 to 1998. The main event of the show was a tag team ''Lucha de Apuestas'', or bet match, where ''Los Hermanos Chavez'' (Ángel de Oro and Nie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CMLL Leyendas Mexicanas (2018)
''Leyendas Mexicanas'' (2018) was a professional wrestling super card event produced by the Mexican ''Lucha Libre'' promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"). The Leyendas Mexicana show took place on November 30, 2018 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico and celebrated the history of ''lucha libre'' in Mexico. The event saw the return of several wrestlers who had not worked for CMLL in a long time, in a couple of cases they had not worked in a CMLL ring since the 1990s. The main event of the ''Leyendas Mexicanas'' show was a traditional six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match that saw Atlantis, Blue Panther and Rayo de Jalisco Jr. defeat El Canek, Máscara Año 2000 and Villano IV. In the semi-main event ''Los Guerreros Laguneros'' ( Euforia, Gran Guerrero, and Ultimo Guerrero) defended the CMLL World Trios Championship against ''El Sky Team'' (Místico and Volador Jr.) and Carístico. The six-man show also featured the one-night ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supercard
In sports, a card lists the matches taking place in a title match combat-sport event. Cards include a main event match and the undercard listing the rest of the matches. The undercard may be divided into a midcard and a lower card, according to the perceived importance of the matches. Promoters schedule matches to occur in ascending order of importance. Division Undercard The undercard, or preliminary matches (sometimes preliminary card), consists of preliminary bouts that occur before the headline or "main event" of a particular boxing, professional wrestling, horse racing, or other sports event. Typically, promoters intend the undercard to provide fans with an opportunity to see up-and-coming fighters or fighters not so well known and popular as their counterparts in the main event. The undercard also ensures that if the main event ends quickly fans will still feel that they received sufficient value for the price of their admission. In boxing, undercard matches usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CMLL Día De Muertos (2018)
The CMLL Día de Muertos (2018) (Spanish for "Day of the Dead") is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, scripted and produced by the Mexican ''Lucha Libre'' promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The show took place on November 2, 2018, in CMLL's main venue, Arena México, in Mexico City, Mexico and celebrated the Mexican Day of the Dead celebration. Many of the wrestlers working the show wore the traditional Día de Muertos face and body paint for the Día de Muerto event. From the fourth match on the losing wrestlers were be dragged to ''El Inframundo'' ("The Underworld"), a side entrance in the arena, by a group of wrestlers dressed up as minions of the ruler of the underworld. As part of the show Sansón successfully defended the ''Rey del Inframundo'' ("King of the Underworld") championship that he won at the 2017 Día de Muertos show against challenger Templario. The main event was a '' Relevos increíbles'' (Miss-matched team match) where the ''technico'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guapito
Armando Mercado García (born August 27, 1981) is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler, who works under the ring name Guapito ("The Little Handsome One"). He currently works for the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion where he portrays a face (known as a ''técnico'' in lucha libre, the protagonists of professional wrestling). He is one of the competitors in CMLL's ''Micro-Estrella'' ("Micro-Star") division where he competes with and against other wrestlers with dwarfism. He began his career in 2006 working as the masked ''mascota'' companion Madrox, sometimes spelled Mandrox, working for AAA as part of their "Los Alienígenas" group. In 2007 he began working as Guapito ("The Little Handsome One"), playing a vain, self-obsessed "Guapo" character as he worked as a ''mascota'' for Shocker and Scorpio Jr. who portrayed similar characters. In 2017 Guapito made his debut in CMLL's ''Micro-Estrella'' division. Professional wrestling career AAA (2006–2009) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
