Antonio Sánchez Rendón (born September 4, 1954), is a retired Mexican ''

luchador Lucha libre (, meaning "freestyle wrestling" or literally translated as "free fight") is the term used in Latin America for professional wrestling. Since its introduction to Mexico in the early 20th century, it has developed into a unique form ...

'', or

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best known under the

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''El Signo'' (

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for "The Symbol"). Rendón was part of ''

Los Misioneros de la Muerte Los Misioneros de la Muerte (Spanish for the Missionaries of Death') was a Mexican ''Lucha libre'', or professional wrestling Trio that has been credited with making the two out of three falls six-man tag team match the most common match form in ...

'' ("The Missionaries of Death") with

Negro Navarro Negro Navarro (born June 12, 1957) is the ring name of Miguel Calderón Navarro, a Mexican ''luchador'', or professional wrestler. Navarro works as a Freelancer on the Mexican independent circuit as well as making regular appearances for Inter ...

and

El Texano Juan Conrado Aguilar Jáuregui (November 26, 1958 – January 15, 2006), better known by his ring name El Texano, was a Mexican ''Lucha libre, Luchador'', or Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. From the early 1970s to the early 2000s, ...

a team that is credited with popularizing the

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in Mexico to the point that it became the most common match for in Mexican Lucha Libre. Sánchez made his professional wrestling debut in 1971 and officially retired in 2010, after 38 years of active competition. At least one of Sánchez's children is also a professional wrestler, working under the name

Hijo del Signo Marco Antonio Sánchez Rodríguez (born April 30, 1987) better known by his ring name El Hijo del Signo or Signo Jr., is a Mexican professional wrestler currently working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Li ...

("Son of the Sign", born 1985) since 2008.

Personal life

Most wrestlers in Mexico try to maintain a separation between their professional career and their personal life, which is also true of Antonio Sánchez Rendón, confirming only the most basic details of his life such as birth age and location etc. He was born on September 4, 1954 in

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and trained for his professional wrestling career under

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, Chamaco Azteca and El Carnicero. Sánchez has at least one child, a son born in 1985 who now wrestled as the '' enmascarado'', or masked character

, but since he is an ''enmascarado'' his birth name is reported on out of respect of lucha libre traditions. It is not documented if he has other children or if he is still married to the mother of Hijo del Signo.

Professional wrestling career

Sánchez made his professional wrestling debut on September 16, 1971 a few weeks after turning 17 years old. He began wrestling as the ''enmascarado'' character "El Signo" ("The Sign"), wearing a mask (most often black) with an upside down

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on the front of it. Sánchez started his wrestling career in the lighter weight divisions, often in the Lightweight or Welterweight divisions, where the official limits were around and . In 1974 El Signo lost a ''

Luchas de Apuestas Lucha libre (, meaning "freestyle wrestling" or literally translated as "free fight") is the term used in Latin America for professional wrestling. Since its introduction to Mexico in the early 20th century, it has developed into a unique form ...

'', or bet match to Gatúbedo and as a result was forced to unmask and reveal his birth name as per

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traditions. While he had unmasked he retained the

El Signo and began working for the

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(UWA), one of two major wrestling promotions in Mexico (the other being

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(EMLL)). In the UWA he defeated El Matemático to win the

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, his first championship ever. During that time period he formed a regular

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with Lobo Rubio, and the two hand an extended storyline feud with the team of El Matemático and

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that started with the UWA title match and came to an end on January 29, 1978 when Signo and Lobo Rubio lost a tag team ''Luchas de Apuestas'' match and both were forced to be shaved bald as a result. In late 1978 El Signo vacated the UWA World Lightweight Championship for unexplained reasons, although the most likely being that he moved up into the Welterweight division and was too heavy to be considered a Lightweight. On June 24, 1979 El Signo won the

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from

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, fully establishing him as a Welterweight wrestler.

Los Misioneros de la Muerte

In the late 1970s the UWA promoters were noticing that rival EMLL had achieved financial and critical success with their lighter divisions, often having Lightweights or Welterweights in their main events while the UWA relied primarily on their heavyweight division for their main event matches. promoter Francisco Flores wanted to develop his own group of smaller, faster wrestlers into top level competitors and came up with the idea to team El Signo up with two similar sized wrestlers Miguel Calderón Navarro, known as

and Juan Conrado Aguilar Jáuregui, who was working under the name

, forming a trie known as ''

'' ("The Missionaries of Death"). They were paired up against another trio of young, lightweight and high flying wrestlers, a trio of brothers dubbed ''Los Mosqueteros de Diablo'' (The Devil's Musketeers), Brazo de Oro ("Golden Hand"),

Brazo de Plata José Luis Alvarado Nieves (March 19, 1963 – July 26, 2021) was a Mexican luchador best known under the ring name Brazo de Plata, a name he had used since his debut in 1977. He is also well known for his appearances in WWE as Super Porky. Al ...

("Silver Arm") and

El Brazo Juan Alvarado Nieves (July 30, 1961 – October 15, 2013) was a Mexican Luchador (professional wrestler). He was best known under the ring name El Brazo (Spanish for "the Arm"), which he used since his debut in 1980. Alvarado was part of the Al ...

("The Arm"). Early on in the storyline Brazo de Oro defeated El Texano in a ''

'', or bet match, which forced El Texano to unmask. The storyline expanded and saw the unmasked Misionaros clash with the masked Mosqueteros on UWA promoted cards all over Mexico. The fan reception to those matches and the positive coverage in various Lucha Libre magazines was so big that other promoters around Mexico wanted to book them on their shows, not as individuals but as teams, which was the start of the trios match becoming more and more prominent in Lucha Libre. With the team being so in demand UWA started to feature Los Misioneros more often that by 1981 ''Los Misioneros'' began working high on the card, often working the main event match starting a trend of having trios matches instead of singles matches as the regular main event match format, something that helped make that match format the most common match type in Lucha Libre since then. In 1981 the ''Los Misioneros de la Muerte'' name became a household name after a match in ''El Toreo de Quatro Caminos'', UWA's main venue. During the main event ''Los Misioneros'' faced off against then 64-year-old

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, who was teaming up with

Huracán Ramírez Daniel García Arteaga (April 9, 1926 – October 31, 2006), best known under the ring name Huracán Ramírez (English: "Hurricane Ramírez"), was a Mexican ''luchador enmascarado'' (or masked professional wrestler) and actor. García was nei ...

and

Rayo de Jalisco Máximino Linares Moreno (November 22, 1932 – July 19, 2018) was a Mexican ''luchador'' (professional wrestler) and lucha film star, better known under the ring name Rayo de Jalisco ("The Lightning Bolt from Jalisco"). He is considered to be ...

. During the match El Santo collapsed in the middle of the ring, suffering a heart attack after a hard blow to the chest. His life was only saved due to the actions of Ramírez who administered CPR at ringside. After the match the Lucha Libre magazinez, prompted by Francisco Flores, played off the real life tragedy by promoting ''Los Misioneros'' as the team that nearly killed the biggest name in Lucha Libre ever. The event made the team the most hated trio in Mexico for years to come and helped fill ''El Torero'' arena to the brim when ''Los Misioneros'' teamed up with

Perro Aguayo Pedro Aguayo Damián (18 January 1946 — 3 July 2019) better known as "(El) Perro Aguayo" (Aguayo the dog) and El Can de Nochistlan (The Nochistlan Dog) was a Mexican wrestler through the 1970s to the 1990s. Aguayo was the first person ever ...

to face El Santo,

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, Huracán Ramírez and

El Solitario Roberto González Cruz (May 22, 1946 – April 6, 1986) was a Mexican professional wrestler who wrestled under the name El Solitario. During his career he held both the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship and the NWA World Middleweight Cham ...

in El Santo's retirement match. Following Santo's retirement ''Los Misioneros'' feuded with the top

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(wrestlers portraying "good guy" characters) such as ''Los Tres Caballero'' (

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, El Solitario and

Villano III Arturo Díaz Mendoza (March 23, 1952 – August 21, 2018) was a Mexican professional wrestler who performed under the ring name Villano III (in Spanish Villano Tercero). Díaz was a second-generation wrestler, son of ''luchador'' Ray Mendoza an ...

) both in trios and in individual competition. During the storyline El Solitario turned on his two partners, when he attacked El Signo with a bottle and costing ''Los Tres Caballeros'' an important match. The attack made the smaller ''Los Misioneros'' more sympathetic to the crowd, who began to support them more and more despite ''Los Misioneros'' being booked on the shows as heel characters ("bad guys"). On June 10, 1983 El Signo won the

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from El Solitario as part of their long running storyline, marking the third division El Signo had won the UWA title in. He would later be stripped of the title for making an unsanctioned title defense on a non-UWA show. Their popularity as a trio also led to them being invited to tour

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, facing off against

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(NJPW) light weight wrestlers such as

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and

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. In 1984 ''Los Misioneros'' won the

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for the first time, although it is not documented for exactly how long. On January 1, 1985 Negro Navarro won his first singles championship, the

, when he defeated the then champion

. The title run only lasted 50 days, ending on February 25, 1985 when he lost to Mano Negra. In the mid-1980s the "War" between the UWA and EMLL had cooled off enough for ''Los Misionerios'' to actually wrestle on the EMLL 53rd Anniversary Show, losing a trios ''Luchas de Apuestas'' to

Ringo Mendoza Genaro Jacobo Contreras is a retired Mexican professional wrestler, or ''Luchador'' in Spanish, and is a professional wrestling trainer for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Contreras is best known under the ring name Ringo Mendoza, which he ...

Américo Rocca Javier Hernández Padilla (born September 22, 1952) is a semi-retired Mexican ''Luchador'', or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Américo Rocca. Hernández also worked as the '' enmascarado'' (masked) ''Ponzoña'' from 1990 un ...

and

Tony Salazar Antonio Salazar Gómez, (born January 15, 1949) is a retired Mexican ''luchador'', or professional wrestler who works as the ring announcer for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's (CMLL) Sunday shows in ''Arena Coliseo''. He is best known under the ...

. Los Misionerios regained the UWA World Trios Championship in 1987 defeating ''Los Villanos'' (Villano III,

Villano IV Tomás Díaz Mendoza (born April 9, 1965) is a Mexican professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Villano IV (''Villano Cuarto''). Within the stable Los Villanos, he has wrestled for Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), AAA, and Wor ...

and

Villano V Raymundo Díaz Mendoza Jr. (born March 22, 1960) is a Mexican professional wrestler, who has performed under the name Villano V (Villano Quinto, which means "Fifth Villain") until he was unmasked on March 20, 2009, after which he became known a ...

), after what was considered the "peak" of ''Los Misionerios''. With an influx of other popular trios both in the UWA and in Mexico in general ''Los Misioneros'' days on the top of the Trios scene came to an end, which was followed by the end of ''Los Missioneros de la Muerte'' in its original form. During a UWA World Trios Championship match against ''Los Villanos'' El Texano threw in the towel to save his partner El Signo any more punishment. After the match and title loss his partners turned on El Texano and attacked him after the match. The attack was done primarily to write El Texano out of the UWA storyline as he had given notice that he was leaving. UWA Promoter Francisco Flores decided to try to keep the ''Los Misioneros de la Muerte'' team active even after the departure of El Texano and experimented with a number of different partners for Navarro and El Signo. Teaming with the masked wrestler Black Power ''Los Misioneros'' defeated ''Los Villanos'' (

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, Villano IV and Villano V) to win the UWA Trios Championship. Negro Navarro won the

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from Shu El Guerrero on December 27, 1993 and would hold that title until the promotion closed in 1995. The trio held on to the Trios Championship for 454 days, until May 1, 1993 where they lost them to El Engendro, Shu El Guerrero and

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, they regained the championship later that year, on December 25 and held them into 1994 where they lost the belts back to Engendro, Shu el Guerrero and Scorpio, Jr. Black Power was later replaced by Rocky Santana and that version of ''Los Misioneros'' did win the UWA World Trios Championship on two occasions, holding the distinction of being the last team to hold the titles before the UWA closed in 1995. After the end of the UWA ''Los Misioneros'' made a few appearances for

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, UWA's successor of sorts and one of the two biggest wrestling promotions in Mexico along with CMLL. The appearances included a match at

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where a version of ''Los Misioneros'' (Navarro, Signo and a masked wrestler called "Misionero") defeated the team of

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, El Mexicano and Dragón de Oro.

Independent Circuit

After the closure of the UWA in 1995 Negro Navarro and El Signo split up, going their separate ways on the Independent circuit, only teaming together for special occasions. Signo joined AAA and was given a new ring character, a masked heel character called "Piromaniaco" (

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) but he only made a few appearances under that name before reverting to his unmasked El Signo identity. In 1996 El Signo began working for

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(CMLL; previously known as EMLL) during a time where CMLL were given the rights to the

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by the Mexican boxing and wrestling commission. El Signo teamed up with Blue Panther and

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, two wrestlers with a similar background and age to compete in the tournament for the titles. On July 6, 1996 the team defeated El Brazo, Brazo de Plata and Super Electra in the tournament finals to win the championship. During his time in CMLL he had an occasion to team up with Negro Navarro again, for the Salvador Lutteroth Memorial Tag Tournament held as part of

(CMLL; formerly known as EMLL)'s 1999 '' Homenaje a Dos Leyendas: El Santo y Salvador Lutteroth'' show on March 19, 1999. Navarro and El Signo teamed up to represent the "old school" wrestlers of Lutteroth's era and defeated

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and

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in the first round of the tournament. In the semi-finals they lost to eventual tournament winners

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and Shocker. El Signo stopped working full-time for CMLL in 1999 or 2000, despite still being part of the Mexican National Trios Championship team, leaving the title to be mainly inactive and not highly promoted. El Signo made a special appearance for CMLL on March 3, 2001 on their '' Juicio Final'' ("Final Justice") show, losing the Mexican National Trios Championship to Mr. Niebla,

and

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. In 2003 El Signo worked a number of matches for AAA, including a match where the original ''Los Misioneros'' were reunited for AAA's 2003 ''

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'' show where they defeated El Brazo,

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and

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. In the following years El Signo primarily worked on the Mexican independent circuit, wrestling other wrestlers who were considered "Old School", wrestlers who made their debut in the mid-1980s or before. He had a number of matches against Villano III, including at least two occasions where he lost a ''Luchas de Apuestas'' against him. El Signo had his last professional wrestling match on May 1, 2010 as he participated in a ten-man

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that was the main event of the "El Signo Retirement Show" in Arena Neza. The match saw Halcon Dorado, Jr. lose the match and was forced to unmask.

Championships and accomplishments

( 1 time) – with Blue Panther and

( 1 time) **

UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship The UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (''Campeonato Mundial Semi Completo de UWA'' in Spanish) is a singles professional wrestling championship initially promoted by the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling based promotion Universal Wrestling As ...

(

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) **

( 1 time) **

( 6 times) – With

and

(2),

and Black Power II (2),

and Rocky Santana (2) **

( 1 time) **

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( 1 time)Prior to 1997 the WWF title was promoted almost exclusively in Mexico under an agreement with the

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. In 1997 the WWF decided to promote the Light Heavyweight Championship on their own shows, not officially recognizing the title lineage from before that point in time. *

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(Class of 2019) as part of ''

''Luchas de Apuestas'' record

Footnotes

References

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