[ Mini Vader made a couple of appearances in early 1997, at times teaming with "Mini Mankind", Jiménez' real life brother. In mid-1997 all the "Minis" that worked for the WWF were repackaged and Jiménez became "El Torito" (Little bull), a "human bull" character.] As Torito he would work a series of matches against Mascarita Sagrada, repackaged as "Mini Nova" (after Super Nova
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) and Mascarita Sagrada, Jr. who had been repackaged as "Max Mini". Jiménez made one pay-per-view appearance for the WWF, teaming with Battalion
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and Tarantula (his brother under a new name) losing to the team of Mini Nova, Max Mini and Mosaic
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at the 1998 Royal Rumble
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. After AAA and WWF stopped working together in 1999 Jiménez still made appearances as El Torito until 2001 where he lost the mask in a ''Luchas de Apuestas'' against Pierrothito
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.
Between 2002 and 2003 Jiménez made regular appearances for Lucha VaVOOM, worked for over a year in CMLL and made appearances for International Wrestling Revolution Group
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.
He wrestled his last match in 2014.
Personal life
Mario Pérez Jiménez is the brother of twins Alejandro Jiménez, who wrestled as ''Espectrito II'', and Alberto Jiménez, who wrestled as the original ''La Parkita''. The Jiménez twins were both murdered on June 29, 2009, in a crime that was covered worldwide.
Death
Mario Pérez Jiménez died on January 23, 2016.
Championships and accomplishments
*Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
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(AAA)
**Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship
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(2 times
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)
**IWC Mini-Estrella Championship (2 times)
''Luchas de Apuestas'' record
See also
* List of premature professional wrestling deaths
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Notes
References
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20th-century professional wrestlers
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