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Jesús Cristóbal Martínez Rodriguez
(born July 25, 1975)
is a Mexican ''
luchador
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'' (
professional wrestler
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) who is best known as El Zorro. His gimmick started out very similar to the fictional character
Zorro
Zorro (Spanish language, Spanish for 'fox') is a fictional character created in 1919 by American pulp magazine, pulp writer Johnston McCulley, appearing in works set in the Pueblo of Los Angeles in Alta California. He is typically portrayed a ...
complete with mask, but in recent years it has evolved and the mask has been eliminated. He is best known for his work in the
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
Antonio Peña Promotions, S.A. de C.V. d/b/a Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide is a Mexican Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) promotion based in Mexico City, Mexico. Commonly referred to as simply AAA (pronounced "triple A"; an abbreviation of its or ...
(AAA) promotion in Mexico, where he is a former
AAA Mega Champion
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. He has in the past worked both in Europe, Japan and made a few brief appearances for the
World Wrestling Federation
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show
WWF Super Astros
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. He was the "Deputy leader" of the ''
La Legión Extranjera
La Legión Extranjera (Spanish for "The Foreign Legion") was the main Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración heel group, though loosely affiliated. It was a catch all for one time and irregularly scheduled foreign heels, working as Konnan's hired ...
''
faction
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headed by
Konnan
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. In December 2012, Martínez was repackaged as La Parka Negra, the storyline nemesis of
La Parka
Adolfo Margarito Tapia Ibarra (November 14, 1965) is a Mexican ''luchador enmascarado'' ( masked professional wrestler), who currently performs as L. A. Park for Major League Wrestling in the United States, where he is a former MLW World Tag ...
. He returned as El Zorro in October 2013, before departing the company in February 2017.
Professional wrestling career
Martínez made his debut at age 17 at the "Plaza de Toros Jorge Rivera" in
Zapopan, Jalisco
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working as an
Enmascarado (masked wrestler) called Neurosis. In 1995 he changed identities and began working using another masked
gimmick
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known as Junior instead. While working as "Junior" he managed to win the Occidente Light Heavyweight Championship from but lost his mask to Cesar Dantés (Younger brother of
Apolo Dantés
José Luis Amezcua Muñoz (born September 28, 1968) is a Mexican ''luchador'', or professional wrestler, trainer and promoter, best known by his ring name Apolo Dantés. He is the son of Alfonso Dantés, a successful and respected ''luchador'' ...
). In 1996 he began to work for the short lived "
Promo Azteca
''Promo Azteca'' (AZTECA, originally known as ''Promotora Mexicana de Lucha Libre'', PROMELL) was a professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Tijuana, Mexico, by Fuerza Guerrera in 1995. It was taken over by Konnan and Jorge Rojas the ...
" where he adopted the El Zorro gimmick. In Promo Azteca he teamed up with another young wrestler,
Tarzan Boy
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and won the WWO World Tag Team Championship.
When Azteca folded Rodriquez began working for various companies all over Mexico, he even found himself making a couple of appearances on the
World Wrestling Federation
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's Latin based
Super Astros where he worked as Jesus Cristobal, essentially using the Zorro gimmick but without the mask.
AAA / Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
Debut (2000–2002)
Zorro began working for AAA, later known as
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
Antonio Peña Promotions, S.A. de C.V. d/b/a Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide is a Mexican Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) promotion based in Mexico City, Mexico. Commonly referred to as simply AAA (pronounced "triple A"; an abbreviation of its or ...
some time near the beginning of the century, mostly working low card matches. In 2002 Zorro won the
UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship
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, his first of five reigns with the title.
Not long after winning the UWA title Zorro defeated
Héctor Garza
Héctor Solano Segura (June 12, 1969 – May 26, 2013) was a Mexican professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Héctor Garza. During his career he worked for various major Mexican professional wrestling promotions such as Consejo ...
to also win the
Mexican National Heavyweight Championship
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, thus becoming a double champion.
Zorro's first big storyline with AAA was a
feud
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with
Mr. Águila
José Delgado Saldaña (born December 10, 1977) is a Mexican professional wrestling, professional wrestler (or ''lucha libre, luchador'') best known by his ring name Mr. Águila in Mexican wrestling promotions Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, CMLL ...
over both the UWA Light Heavyweight title and the National Heavyweight titles, resulting in the two trading the titles back and forth several times in 2003 and 2004.
After the storyline with Mr. Águila ended Zorro was put together with
Charly Manson
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, a member of ''
La Secta del Mesías'' (the biggest ''
rudo
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It is f ...
'' or "villain" group in AAA) who wanted the Mexican National Heavyweight title. Zorro kept the title away from Manson until the two met at
Triplemania XIV inside a
steel cage
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. In order to get the match Manson was forced to put his hair on the line making it a
Luchas de Apuestas
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("Bet fight") where the loser would get his hair shaved off. The match saw interference from ''La Secta del Mesías'' giving the victory and the National title to Manson.
The Man in the Iron Mask (2006–2007)
After shaving off Zorro's hair ''La Secta del Mesías'' placed a black mask on Zorro's head (One similar to Slipknot's Mick Thomsons Mask), the storyline was that the mask had an ancient
Mayan
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* Maya civilization, pre-Columbian culture of Mesoamerica and northern Central America
* Mayan languages, language family spoken ...
curse on it and could not just be removed.
In the weeks after ''La Secta'' put the mask on Zorro he seemed more erratic and not in control of himself.
[ The storyline progressed with Manson revealing that he had mental control over Zorro through the mask and used that control to have Zorro turn on his friends and do his bidding. The mind-control aspects of the story were dropped and instead they explained it by the mask having a bad influence on Zorro. When Manson left ''La Secta'' and joined up with ''Los Hell Brothers'', turning '' tecnico'' ("good guy") in the process and the storyline with Zorro hit a dead end as there was no possible payoff left any more. Eventually the writing staff figured out a way to end the "trapped in a mask" storyline by having Zorro overcome the "evil influences" so that he could remove the mask and present it to the leader of ''Los Hell Brothers'' (]Cibernético
Octavio López Arreola (born April 12, 1975) is a Mexican professional wrestler who is best known under the ring name Cibernético and for working for the Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) promotion in Mexico. During AAA's short partnership with t ...
) as a proof of his good intentions.
After removing the mask Zorro's character seemed a bit rougher, he his beard and hair had grown wilder while he wore the mask and he seemed more vicious in his attacks on the heels.[ After a while Zorro shaved and had his hair cut, reverting to the persona he had before the "evil mask" storyline began.
]
La Legión Extranjera (2007–2011)
At the 2007 Verano de Escandalo Zorro teamed with ''Los Hell Brothers'' in a Domo De La Muerte cage match against the Black Family. Zorro escaped early on in the match leaving his team at a disadvantage. After ''Los Hell Brothers'' won the match a man came to the ring wearing the "iron mask" but that turned out to be Konnan. When Zorro appeared on the scene moments later he turned on the ''tecnicos'', attacking them with a kendo stick. After the show Zorro claimed that he was shown the light; he was actually a Spaniard
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, not Mexican, and was against the Mexican contingent in AAA. Joining Konnan's ''La Legión Extranjera
La Legión Extranjera (Spanish for "The Foreign Legion") was the main Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración heel group, though loosely affiliated. It was a catch all for one time and irregularly scheduled foreign heels, working as Konnan's hired ...
'' ("Foreign Legion"), El Zorro dubbed himself "El Profeta de la Lucha Libre" ("The Prophet of Wrestling") and, as part of his new character, began making prophecies, often accurately predicting future events.[
After Zorro's turn it became more and more obvious that Konnan considered El Zorro his "main man", the two even turned on ]AAA Mega Champion
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El Mesias
Gilbert Cosme Ramírez (born May 25, 1972) is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler, better known by his ring names El Mesías, Mil Muertes, Ricky Banderas and King Muertes. He began his career in the International Wrestling Association based in ...
and La Secta when Mesias did not want to grant Zorro a title match. The storyline lead to a three-way world title match between Zorro, El Mesias and Cibernético at ''Guerra de Titanes
Guerra de Titanes (Spanish for "War of the Titans") is a major annual professional wrestling event in Mexico promoted by the Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) promotion. The show is the "End of year" show and is traditionally held in December with ...
''. During the match Cibernético received second and third burns to his back after ''La Legión'' put him through a table on fire (Cibernético was legitimately injured, it was not planned). At a television show taping a few weeks later a storyline played out where El Zorro and the rest of ''La Legión Extranjera'' attacked and injured El Mesias so bad that he was hospitalized. This was a storyline constructed to cover up the fact that El Mesias was returning to his native Puerto Rico
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for a few months. In the absence of both El Mesias and Cibernético Zorro became a main eventer, declaring himself the "Apostle of wrestling" (a play off Mesias claiming to be the Messiah of wrestling and Cibernético claiming to be a wrestling god). In early 2008 Zorro won the annual Rey de Reyes
The Rey de Reyes (English: "King of Kings") is an annual tournament held by Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) comparable to WWE’s King of the Ring tournament. For the first six tournaments the format consisted of four-way elimination matches with f ...
tournament defeating Abismo Negro
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, Mr. Niebla
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and Alan Stone in the finals. The night Zorro became the 2008 Rey de Reyes Cibernético also made his triumphant return, defeating El Mesias in the main event to win the AAA Mega title. Zorro immediately laid claim to the title, becoming the number one contender due to his Rey de Reyes victory. Zorro got his chance in the main event of Triplemania XVI on June 13, 2008 but lost to Cibernético. Zorro was also unsuccessful in his bid for the World title at the 2008 Antonio Peña Memorial show where he lost a triangle match that also included Chessman.
When Cibernético left AAA shortly after the memorial show the World title became vacant and Zorro immediately began campaigning for the title. With Konnan being in charge of the promotion after having won the storyline control of the company he booked El Zorro in a match against El Mesias for the vacant world title. As an added stipulation El Mesias would have to become a member of ''La Legión'' and do their bidding should he lose. the two met at ''Guerra de Titanes
Guerra de Titanes (Spanish for "War of the Titans") is a major annual professional wrestling event in Mexico promoted by the Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) promotion. The show is the "End of year" show and is traditionally held in December with ...
'' where Zorro was once again defeated in a world title match.
At Triplemania XVII, El Zorro turned on the Legion during the main event of the show. El Zorro came out wearing his old mask, handed Joaquin Roldan his kendo stick to help him keep Konnan from interfering in the main event. Keeping Konnan from interfering helped Roldan's Team AAA to win the match and take control of AAA away from the Legion. In October El Zorro once again turned ''rudo'' and re-joined ''La Legion Extranjera''. In the summer of 2010 ''La Legión Extranjera'' merged with ''Los Perros del Mal
Los Perros del Mal (''English: The Dogs of Evil'') was a Mexican ''Lucha libre'' wrestling group stable, originally competed in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and in Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA). The name (meaning "The Dogs of Evil") is a pla ...
'', ''La Milicia'' and ''Los Maniacos'' to form ''La Sociedad
''La Sociedad'' (later reformed as ''La Nueva Sociedad'' in 2013; Spanish for "The (New) Society") was a Mexican ''lucha libre'', or professional wrestling group, referred to as a stable in wrestling terms, that worked for Lucha Libre AAA World Wi ...
''. Afterwards, El Zorro, teaming with his ''Legión'' stablemate Hernandez, began feuding with ''La Hermandad 187'' (Nicho el Millonario
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and Joe Líder
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). On September 14 El Zorro and Hernandez defeated ''La Hermandad 187'' via disqualification and afterwards beat them down, injuring Nicho and ruining his and Líder's upcoming rematch for the AAA World Tag Team Championship
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. The feud came to an end on October 30, 2010, when El Zorro defeated Nicho in a ''Lucha de Apuesta'' weapons match
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to take his hair. After spending years working as a midcard talent, El Zorro was placed in a main event storyline in November 2010, when he teamed up with '' technico'' and AAA Mega Champion Dr. Wagner, Jr. in the 2010 Lucha Libre Premier '' parejas increibles'' tournament. After reaching the semifinals of the tournament, El Zorro turned on Wagner, Jr. and challenged him to a match for the World Heavyweight Championship at ''Guerra de Titanes
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''. On November 28 El Zorro, Dr. Wagner, Jr., El Mesías and Electroshock faced each other in the Lucha Libre Premier semifinal four-way match. After eliminating Electroshock and Wagner, Jr., El Zorro and El Mesías faced each other in the final match, with El Mesías coming out victorious. In the days leading up to ''Guerra de Titanes'', El Zorro made another prophecy, saying that he was going to leave the event with the AAA Mega Championship. On December 5 at ''Guerra de Titanes'' El Zorro defeated Dr. Wagner, Jr. with help from his ''La Sociedad'' stable mates to win the AAA Mega Championship for the first time. In January 2011, Martínez confirmed that he had signed a two-year non-exclusive contract with American
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** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
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Founded by Jeff and Jerry Jarrett in 2002, the promot ...
(TNA), with whom AAA had a working relationship with, and was just waiting for a start date with the promotion. He, however, never made his debut for TNA. El Zorro made his first title defense on March 18, 2011, at Rey de Reyes
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, defeating ''Los Bizarros'' member Charly Manson, who had recently been tormenting him by hinting at a return of the iron mask. Meanwhile, El Zorro's ''La Sociedad'' stablemate L.A. Park had earned himself a shot at the AAA Mega Championship, but Konnan, wanting to avoid dissension within his group, denied him his shot and instead named Manson the number one contender at Rey de Reyes. Following the event, El Zorro, having caught wind of Park's intention of going for his title, seemingly started interfering in Park's matches under his old mask, costing him back–to–back multi–man tag team matches at the April 27 and 30 TV tapings. On May 18, the rest of ''La Sociedad'' turned on El Zorro, after which Konnan announced that his new business partner, TNA founder Jeff Jarrett
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Beginning his career in his father J ...
, would be challenging for his title at Triplemanía XIX
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. It was later revealed that the man who had attacked Park under El Zorro's mask was actually Charly Manson, who had been sent by Cibernético to cause dissension within the ranks of ''La Sociedad''.
Ejército AAA (2011–2012)
On June 18 at Triplemanía XIX, El Zorro lost the AAA Mega Championship to Jarrett. At the July 9 tapings, El Zorro accepted Dr. Wagner, Jr.'s offer and joined the AAA ''technicos'' in the informal ''Ejército AAA'' ("AAA Army") stable. However, at the following taping on July 16, members of ''La Sociedad'' attacked El Zorro after a match and once again forced the iron mask over his head.[ On July 31 at '']Verano de Escándalo
Verano de Escándalo (Spanish Language, Spanish for "Summer of Scandal") is a major annual professional wrestling event in Mexico promoted by the Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) promotion. The show is as the name indicates a summer show, traditi ...
'', someone dressed as El Zorro, including wearing his mask, interfered in the AAA Mega Championship match, helping Jarrett retain the title by hitting L.A. Park with his signature guitar. This person was later revealed as ''La Sociedad'' member Chessman, whom Konnan had sent to interfere in the match in order to have Park go after El Zorro instead of continuing to chase his stablemate's title. El Zorro continued representing AAA in matches against ''La Sociedad'' throughout 2012.
La Parka Negra (2012–2013)
On December 2, 2012, at ''Guerra de Titanes
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'', Martínez made his debut as the masked "La Parka Negra", the ''rudo'' counterpart of La Parka
Adolfo Margarito Tapia Ibarra (November 14, 1965) is a Mexican ''luchador enmascarado'' ( masked professional wrestler), who currently performs as L. A. Park for Major League Wrestling in the United States, where he is a former MLW World Tag ...
, in a six-man tag team match, where he, Pentagón Jr.
Pentagón Jr. (born February 5, 1985) is a Mexican luchador enmascarado (masked professional wrestler) signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Penta El Zero Miedo ("Penta Zero Fear"), where he currently holds one-third of the AEW ...
and Silver King, were defeated by La Parka, Octagón
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, Octagón Jr. The storyline rivalry between La Parka Negra and La Parka heated up during AAA's first television taping of 2013 on January 18, when La Parka Negra and El Hijo del Perro Aguayo
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defeated La Parka and Cibernético in a No Disqualification match
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, during which La Parka Negra bloodied his rival after hitting him with a light tube.
Return as El Zorro (2013–2017)
In a twist, El Zorro returned to AAA on October 18, 2013, at ''Héroes Inmortales VII
''Héroes Inmortales'' VII (Spanish for "Immortal Heroes VII") was a professional wrestling event produced by the AAA promotion. The event, which commemorated the seventh anniversary of the death of AAA founder Antonio Peña, took place on October ...
'', during a first round match in the 2013 Copa Antonio Peña
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between La Parka and La Parka Negra, who was now portrayed by the former Último Gladiador
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. After walking around the ringside area, El Zorro slid his signature kendo stick inside the ring without making it clear who the weapon was meant for. La Parka ended up getting his hands on the weapon and used it to win the match. On December 8 at ''Guerra de Titanes
Guerra de Titanes (Spanish for "War of the Titans") is a major annual professional wrestling event in Mexico promoted by the Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) promotion. The show is the "End of year" show and is traditionally held in December with ...
'', El Zorro turned ''rudo'' and joined the reformed ''La Sociedad''. El Zorro later explained the turn, claiming that Konnan was the only person who cared for him and that him and the original ''La Sociedad'' were only trying to make him stronger, when the group turned on him in May 2011.
On January 22, 2016, at ''Guerra de Titanes
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'', El Zorro, Dark Cuervo
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and Dark Scoria
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won the vacant AAA World Trios Championship
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. They lost the title to OGT ( Averno, Chessman and Ricky Marvin
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) on November 4. In February 2017, El Zorro left AAA.
Independent circuit (2017–present)
Following his departure from AAA, El Zorro began working for The Crash, where he became part of Penta Zero M's ''La Rebelión'' stable, made up of former AAA wrestlers.
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (2018–present)
On June 29, 2018 Martínez worked his first match for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in over 18 years, working under the name "The Chrizh". He teamed up with Cibernético, billed as "Ciber the Main Main" and "Sharlie Rock Star" (formerly Charly Manson), forming a trio known as "Klan Kaoz" (later renamed to "The Cl4n"). The trio made their CMLL debut in the main event of CMLL's weekly ''Super Viernes
CMLL Super Viernes (Spanish for "CMLL Super Friday") is the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's banner event that takes place every Friday in Arena México in Mexico City, Mexico. The shows take place every Fri ...
'' show, losing to Carístico, Valiente and Volador Jr. At the CMLL 85th Anniversary Show
The CMLL 85th Anniversary Show ( es, 85. Aniversario de CMLL) was a major professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV), scripted and produced by the Mexican ''lucha libre'' wrestling company Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for "World W ...
on September 14, 2018, The Cl4n defeated ''Los Guerreros Laguneros
''Los Guerreros Laguneros'' (Spanish for "The Warriors from the Lagoon") is a '' lucha libre'' stable based in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). The stable was created in 2001 and has, since its inception, been led by Último Guerrero and ...
'' ( Euforia, Gran Guerrero
Gran Guerrero (born 1993) is a Mexican ''luchador enmascarado'' (or masked professional wrestler), who works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). He portrays a ''rudo'' ("bad guy") wrestling character. He was originally introduced to the ...
and Último Guerrero
José Gutiérrez Hernández (born March 1, 1972), better known by his ring name Último Guerrero (Spanish for ''Last Warrior''), is a Mexico, Mexican (or Professional wrestling, professional wrestler), who works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Li ...
) to win the CMLL World Trios Championship
The CMLL World Trios Championship (Spanish: "''Campeonato Mundial de Trios''") is a professional wrestling championship promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in Mexico. The title has existed since 1991 and is contested for by teams ...
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Championships and accomplishments
* AAA / Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
**AAA Mega Championship
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( 1 time)[
**]AAA World Trios Championship
The AAA World Trios Championship ("''Campeonato Mundial de Tercias AAA''" in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion in Mexico. It is contested for by teams of three wrestlers (o ...
( 1 time) – with Dark Cuervo
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and Dark Scoria
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**]Mexican National Heavyweight Championship
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( 3 times)
**Rey de Reyes
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(2008
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)
*Comisión de Box y Lucha de Guadalajara
**Occidente Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[
*]Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
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:*CMLL World Trios Championship
The CMLL World Trios Championship (Spanish: "''Campeonato Mundial de Trios''") is a professional wrestling championship promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in Mexico. The title has existed since 1991 and is contested for by teams ...
( 1 time) – with Ciber the Main Man and Sharlie Rockstar
*IWA Puerto Rico
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**IWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship
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( 1 time)[
*]Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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**PWI ranked him #50 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500
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in 2011
*Universal Wrestling Association
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**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 ...
( 5 times)
*World Wrestling Organization
**WWO Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Tarzan Boy
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''Luchas de Apuestas'' record
Notes
References
External links
AAA profile
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1975 births
Living people
Masked wrestlers
Mexican male professional wrestlers
Professional wrestlers from Jalisco
People from Guadalajara, Jalisco
AAA Mega Champions
AAA World Trios Champions
CMLL World Trios Champions
20th-century professional wrestlers
21st-century professional wrestlers
UWA World Light Heavyweight Champions