Aristóteles Radamés Coccó Flores (May 13, 1954 – April 12, 2012)
[ was a Mexican ]professional wrestler
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, or luchador
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, best known for working under the ring name
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Masakre (Spanish
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for Massacre) in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
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(CMLL). As Masakre he was a member of the wrestling group ''Los Infernales
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'' along with MS-1 and El Satánico
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and a founding member of the group ''Los Intocables'' along with Pierroth, Jr. and Jaque Mate. By the mid-1990s Coccó began working for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
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(AAA) where he used a variety of more comical ring personas such as ''Drakula'', ''Yeti'' and ''Coco Rosa''
Professional wrestling career
Aristóteles Radames Cocco Flores made his professional wrestling debut in 1983 under the ring name "Masakre". In his debut year he was paired up with MS-1 and given the ring persona of "MS-2"; Coccó was not the first, not the last wrestler to team with MS-1 under the name "MS-2", but the team would later lead to Masakre being brought in to replace Pirata Morgan
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as part of Los Infernales
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along with MS-1 and El Satánico
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. Masakre and MS-1 teamed up to defeat Los Hermanos Dinamita
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(Cien Caras
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and Máscara Año 2000
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) to win the Mexican National Tag Team Championship
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.[ MS-1 and Masakre defended the Mexican National Tag Team titles for just over a year until losing them to ]Atlantis
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and Ángel Azteca
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on April 6, 1988.[ El Satánico left Los Infernales as he began focusing more on singles matches and MS-1 and Masakre began arguing, then fighting after the two of them lost the tag team titles thus ending Los Infernales. MS-1 and Masakre faced off in a series of matches, culminating with a headline '']Luchas de Apuestas
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'', hair vs. hair match at Arena Mexico that MS-1 won. After Los Infernales split up Masakre formed a Trio with Pierroth, Jr. and Jaque Mate, called ''Los Intocables'' (the Untouchables). Los Intocables feuded with Los Infernale, winning and losing the CMLL World Trios Championship
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from Los Infernales.[
By the mid-1990s Los Intocables had broken up and Masakre had left CMLL to work for ]Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
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(AAA). Initially he worked under the ring name ''Drakula'', portraying a vampire
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character. Later on he was repackaged as ''Yeti'', complete with a furry white full bodysuit that gave the appearance of being an actual Yeti
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. Flores disappeared from the wrestling scene altogether.
Death
Coccó died from spinal cancer
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on April 12, 2012.
Championships and accomplishments
*Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
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**CMLL World Trios Championship
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( 1 time) – with Pierroth, Jr. and Jaque Mate (''Los Intocables'')
**Mexican National Tag Team Championship
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( 1 time) – with MS-1
''Luchas de Apuestas'' record
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1954 births
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