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Epico Colón Orlando Tito Colón Nieves (born March 24, 1982) is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler and promoter best known for his time with WWE, where he performed under the ring name Epico Colón, or simply Epico. and the World Wrestling Council (WWC) ...
are a Puerto Rican
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. The team, composed of
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cousins, are former WWE Tag Team Champions, with the title won during their first run as Primo and Epico from 2011 to 2013. They also formerly performed as Diego and Fernando, respectively, of Los Matadores from 2013 to 2015, and were billed as The Shining Stars from 2016 to 2017 before assuming their current tag team name of The Colóns.


History


Primo and Epico (2011–2013)

On the November 4, 2011, episode of ''
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'', Epico debuted on the main roster as a heel and realigned with Hunico, his former partner from when both were masked in
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. On the November 11 episode of ''Smackdown'', Primo, Epico's real-life cousin, was in the corner of Epico when he teamed with Hunico in a winning effort against
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. On the November 17 episode of '' Superstars'', Primo and Epico beat the Usos. On the December 1 episode of ''Superstars'',
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aligned herself with the group as their valet, as they were quietly disassociated from Hunico. Primo and Epico then began a feud with WWE Tag Team Champions Air Boom, beating both
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in singles matches, followed by two victories for Primo and Epico against Air Boom during non-title tag team matches on December 13 at
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and the December 15 ''Superstars''. This earned Primo and Epico a shot at the titles at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view, but were unsuccessful. Primo and Epico's feud with Air Boom continued with Air Boom triumphant in singles matches, while Primo and Epico obtained yet another victory in a non-title tag match. At a ''Raw''
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on January 15, 2012, Primo and Epico defeated Air Boom to win the
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. The following night on ''Raw'', Primo and Epico successfully defended their titles in a rematch. Primo and Epico would go on to earn victories in non-title matches, defeating various teams such as
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and The Usos; however, Primo and Epico would suffer non-title losses against the team of Kofi Kingston and
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. On the February 27 edition of ''Raw'', Primo and Epico successfully defended their titles in a Triple Threat tag team match against the teams of Kingston and R-Truth &
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. In the pre-show of
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, Primo and Epico successfully defended their titles in a triple threat tag team match against the Usos and
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. After WrestleMania, Primo and Epico suffered non-title losses to the teams of
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. Also, A.W. began offering his managerial services to the team, pointing out that the tag champions had been treated like jokes, being left off WrestleMania and Extreme Rules. At the April 30 ''Raw'', Primo and Epico lost the tag titles to Kingston & R-Truth. After losing the titles, Primo, Epico and Mendes joined A.W.'s talent agency in May. However, after joining "All World Promotions", Primo and Epico would not wrestle on television until the No Way Out pay-per-view on 17 June. At No Way Out, it was revealed that Primo and Epico's 30-day rematch clause for the tag titles had expired, and that the duo had to compete in a four-way match against the teams of Justin Gabriel & Tyson Kidd, the Usos and
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) to earn another title shot. During the match, A. W. betrayed Primo and Epico, directly costing them the match and aligning with the match winners, the Prime Time Players. At the following ''Raw'', Primo and Epico defeated the Players by count-out after O'Neil and Young walked out of the match. Primo and Epico would wrestle as babyfaces for their feud against the Prime Time Players. The tag teams would continue their feud on ''Superstars'' with Epico losing to Young and Primo beating both O'Neil and Young in singles matches. At Money in the Bank, Primo and Epico defeated the Prime Time Players. On the August 10 ''SmackDown'', Primo and Epico faced the Players in a #1 contender match and were disqualified when champions Kingston & Truth attacked the Players; A.W. was released from WWE between that episode's taping and airing. After Primo and Epico ended their feud with the Prime Time Players in August, they reverted to being
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during a victory over the Usos. Primo and Epico then went on to lose every televised match for the rest of 2012, with losses to Kingston & Truth, the Players,
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, Team Co-Bro (Santino Marella & Zack Ryder), Team Rhodes Scholars, The Usos and to both
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in handicap matches. At the
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pay-per-view, Primo and Epico took part in a 10 man elimination tag team match, but were eliminated by Rey Mysterio and
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. By the first ''SmackDown'' of 2013, Primo was on a 20 match losing streak, and Epico was at 17. On the January 9 ''
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'' episode, Primo and Epico broke their losing streaks with a win over
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and Michael McGillicutty, their first win in months. However, Dallas and McGillicutty gained revenge by defeating Primo and Epico in the first round of the NXT Tag Team Championship tournament to crown the inaugural champions.


Los Matadores (2013–2015)

In August 2013, WWE hyped the debut of "Los Matadores", and on the September 30 episode of ''Raw'', Primo and Epico debuted new characters, as Diego and Fernando of Los Matadores, a
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team of two masked Spanish
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with
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and
Ferdinand Columbus Ferdinand Columbus (Spanish: ''Fernando Colón'' also ''Hernando'', Portuguese: ''Fernando Colombo'', Italian: ''Fernando Colombo''; c. 24 August 1488 – 12 July 1539) was a Spanish bibliographer and cosmographer, the second son of Christopher C ...
, the real life sons of
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(In Spanish, Cristobal Colón, Los Matadores' real last name). It was the start of a winning streak that featured nine wins over 3MB (
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,
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and
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, with El Torito wrestling in some matches), and also over the Real Americans ( Antonio Cesaro and
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) at
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. Also, El Torito was able to interfere in matches without incurring a disqualification for Los Matadores. Los Matadores' winning streak was finally snapped on the January 24 episode of ''SmackDown'' in 2014, courtesy of RybAxel (
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). On the March 5 episode of ''
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'', Los Matadores received a tag team championship match against The Usos in which they were defeated. They also made an appearance as Primo and Epico alongside Carlito to induct
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into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2014. At the
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pre-show, they received a WWE Tag Team Championship shot against The Usos, RybAxel and The Real Americans, in a Fatal Four-Way Elimination Tag Team match, but lost after being the first team eliminated when Fernando submitted to Jack Swagger's Patriot Lock. On the June 23, WWE.com reported that Fernando was injured at a live event that past weekend. Despite this, Diego and El Torito would then start a short feud with
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. After 3MB broke up, their former mascot Hornswoggle joined Los Matadores as "La Vaquita", a midget cow mascot accompanying Torito's bull on the August 19 edition of ''Main Event''. Fernando made his return as well in a losing effort to Slater-Gator (Heath Slater and Titus O'Neil). At the
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pre-show, Los Matadores competed in the Fatal Four Way tag team match, but they failed to win the titles. At
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, Los Matadores participated in the first-ever
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Elimination Chamber, but failed and got eliminated first by The Ascension. At
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, Los Matadores competed in a Fatal 4-Way Tag Team Match for the WWE Tag Team Championship in a losing effort when they were pinned by The New Day. On September 7, 2015 episode of ''Raw'' after losing to The
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, Los Matadores turned heel when Diego attacked El Torito after the match, however he was then put through a table by the Dudley Boyz. They were last seen on ''Main Event'' that week, minus El Torito, where they lost to The Prime Time Players.


The Shining Stars (2016–2017)

From April to May 2016, several videos aired on ''Raw'' promoting the return of Primo and Epico, who revived their Puerto Rican gimmick under the new name The Shining Stars. They were presented as arrogant heels, urging viewers to come to Puerto Rico, calling it the "Shining Star of the Caribbean." On the May 16 episode of ''Raw'', The Shining Stars debuted by defeating a local tag team in a squash match. On the July 25 episode of ''Raw'', the team returned to television where they were defeated by
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. On the September 5 episode of ''Raw'', The Shining Stars defeated Enzo and Cass. The week after, Epico, accompanied by Primo defeated
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, who was accompanied by
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. They then began showing tendencies of
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, trying to persuade various superstars to purchase
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s to their Puerto Rican resort. This led to an alliance with Titus O'Neil, who was looking to cross-promote with them for his new "Titus Brand." The trio would enter a feud with The Golden Truth (
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and R-Truth) and
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. On the November 7 edition of ''Raw'', after R-Truth sold The Golden Truth's
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spot for a stay at a
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to The Shining Stars, both teams competed to qualify for the 10–on–10 Survivor Series Tag Team Elimination match, which Primo and Epico won. On February 6, The New Day defeated The Shining Stars. On the February 27 edition of ''Raw'',
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defeated The Shining Stars in a 2-on-1 handicap match. The Shining Stars were later defeated by The New Day on March 6. The Shining Stars were confirmed to enter the 2017 André the Giant Memorial battle royal at
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, however neither one of them were successful in winning.


The Colóns (2017–2020)

On April 11, leaving the Shining Stars moniker behind for a new look, The Colóns, as they were now billed, debuted on ''SmackDown Live'' during the Superstar Shake-up, when they attacked
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following their loss to
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. On April 18, The Colóns defeated American Alpha. On April 25, The Colóns were defeated by American Alpha in a "Beat The Clock" Challenge. On June 18, The Colóns were defeated by The Hype Bros in a Money in the Bank Kickoff match. In June, Primo suffered a knee injury, putting the team on a temporary hiatus. The team returned in November, two nights after
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, where they were among the many lumberjacks in The New Day's match against Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. On the August 28, 2018 episode of ''SmackDown Live'', The Colóns returned in a triple threat match involving The Bar & Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, with a victory for The Bar. During the pre-show of 2018's Survivor Series, Primo and Epico won the 10-on-10 Survivor Series tag team elimination match as part of Team SmackDown's tag teams Their most recent WWE match was a January 2019 dark match. Since then they have been wrestling in
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, helping their father with a rebranding of the promotion. On April 15, 2020, The Colóns were officially released from their WWE contracts due to budget cuts stemming from the
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.


Championships and accomplishments

*Coastal Championship Wrestling **CCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) *
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** PWI ranked Primo #72 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the
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in 2012 ** PWI ranked Epico #76 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the
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in 2012 *
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**
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(1 time)


See also

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The Colóns (2002–2010) The Colóns were a Puerto Rican professional wrestling tag team who consisted of real-life brothers, Carlito and Primo. The team worked for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). They were the first-ever Unified WWE Tag Team Champions, being hold ...


References


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