Blue Panther

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Blue Panther
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Ring name(s) Blue Panther
Billed height 5 ft 7 in (1.71 m)
Billed weight 194 lb (88 kg)
Born September 18, 1960
Gómez Palacio, Durango
Trained by Héctor López
Halcón Suriano
Debut October 8, 1978

Blue Panther is a Mexican professional wrestler currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. The "Blue" part of his ring name is an homage to Aníbal, a wrestler he looked up to growing up who wore a blue mask.

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[edit] Career

Blue Panther began wrestling in northern Mexico in the late 1970s before getting noticed by René Guajardo in Monterrey. Guarjardo got Panther booked in Universal Wrestling Association and Panther made his debut in their main building, El Torero de Cuatros Caminos in Naucalpan, in 1981. He wrestled on the undercard as a rudo (heel) before getting his first push in 1984 by winning the UWA World Welterweight championship from veteran worker Matemático at the end of the year. He had a feud with Black Man that saw him lose his UWA Welterweight title but win Black Man's mask in 1986. During the remainder of his UWA career, he won the UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship from Gran Hamada and traded the title back and forth with Solar I and won the mask of Kendo.

In 1991, he jumped to Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre and began a feud with Atlantis over the NWA World Middleweight Championship. Although Blue Panther was unsuccessful in his August title challenge, the feud established him as a top rudo in EMLL, leading to him defeating Satánico to become the first CMLL World Middleweight Champion when the company changed names and created new titles. In late 1991, he began feuding with the American Love Machine. Their April 1992 "Mask vs. Mask" mask, where Love Machine was disqualified for using an illegal Martinete (piledriver), sold out Arena México and 8,000 fans watched the match on big screens outside the arena. The following month, he jumped to Antonio Peña's new AAA promotion and continued his feud with Love Machine with a "hair vs. mask" match win in July 1993. The match featured a double turn which led to Love Machine becoming a rudo and forming Los Gringos Locos with Eddie Guerrero.

Much of his time in AAA was spent in programs based around the National Middleweight Championship. He worked programs with Ángel Azteca, Super Astro, Solar I and Octagón. After the downturn of the Mexican economy, he started his own promotion with several business partners called PROMELL (later Promo Azteca). When the promotion failed, he returned to AAA briefly in 1997 but he was unhappy being programmed with Máscara Sagrada, Jr. and jumped to CMLL by the end of the year. In 1998, Panther teamed with Dr. Wagner, Jr. and his real-life nephew Black Warrior to form "Los Laguneros." The team won a tournament to win the vacant CMLL World Trios Championship. In 1999, Panther and Wagner teamed to feud with Negro Casas and El Hijo del Santo for the CMLL World Tag Team Championship with an unsuccessful title challenge in September of that year. In 2000 and 2001, Los Laguneros successfully defended their titles against Los Villanos (III, IV & V) and the team of Negro Casas, Emilio Charles, Jr. and Tarzan Boy while Blue Panther had a singles feud with Olímpico.

In 2002, Black Warrior left Los Laguneros and the trios titles were vacated. Fuerza Guerrera replaced Black Warrior and they won another tournament for the CMLL World Trios title but they reigned for only three months before dropping the titles to Black Warrior, Atlantis and Mr. Niebla. Over time, Blue Panther was getting booked more as a técnico (face) and began to team with former rivals, Atlantis, Lizmark, Jr. and Mr. Niebla as La Ola Azul in a feud with Los Guerreros del Infierno. In 2004, Atlantis and Blue Panther defeated Último Guerrero and Rey Bucanero to win the CMLL World Tag Team Championship. Three months after successfully defending the titles against Olímpico and Rey Bucanero, Atlantis and Panther lost the titles to the team of Averno and Mephisto in April 2005. When Atlantis turned rudo, Panther feuded with him off and on and the two often ripped at each other's masks, hinting at a possible mask vs. mask match.

[edit] Finishing and signature moves

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

  • Mexican National Titles
  • 2-time National Middleweight Champion
  • 3-time National Trios Champion (one time with Fuerza Guerrera and Psicosis and twice with Fuerza Guerrera and El Signo)
  • Other
  • 1-time Northern Light Heavyweight Champion
  • 1-time Naucalpan Tag Team Champion (With Black Terry)
  • 1-time WWA World Welterweight Champion
  • 1-time WWA World Middleweight Champion
CMLL World Middleweight Championship
Preceded by:
Won Tournament		 First Succeeded by:
Vacant
Mexico National Middleweight Championship
Preceded by:
Octagón		 First Succeeded by:
Octagón
Preceded by:
Octagón		 Second Succeeded by:
El Hijo del Santo
Mexico National Trios Championship
Preceded by:
Octagón, Rey Misterio, Jr. & Super Muñeco		 First, with Fuerza Guerrera & Psicosis Succeeded by:
Vacant
Preceded by:
Unknown		 Second, with El Signo & Fuerza Guerrera Succeeded by:
Brazo de Plata, El Brazo & Super Elektra
Preceded by:
Brazo de Plata, El Brazo & Super Elektra		 Second, with El Signo & Fuerza Guerrera Succeeded by:
Safari, Olímpico & Mr. Niebla
CMLL World Trios Championship
Preceded by:
Won Tournament		 First, with Black Warrior & Dr. Wagner, Jr. Succeeded by:
Vacant
Preceded by:
Won Decision Match		 Second, with Dr. Wagner, Jr. & Fuerza Guerrera Succeeded by:
Mr. Niebla, Black Warrior & Atlantis
CMLL World Tag Team Championship
Preceded by:
Último Guerrero & Rey Bucanero		 First, with Atlantis Succeeded by:
Averno and Mephisto

[edit] Lucha de apuestas record

Luchas de Apuestas
Wager lost/won Winner Loser Where Date Note
Masks Blue Panther & Matemático La Bestia & Simio Blanco Monterrey, Nuevo León January 28, 1979 1
Mask Blue Panther Oro Monterrey, Nuevo León 1980 -
Mask Blue Panther Gorila Infernal Xalapa, Veracruz February 23, 1984 -
Hair Blue Panther El Brillante Querétaro, Querétaro June 24, 1984 -
Mask Blue Panther Bull Power Puebla, Puebla September 7, 1984 -
Mask Blue Panther Luzbel Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas October 18, 1984 -
Masks Blue Panther & Black Man Los Sombras de Plata Naucalpan, Edomex November 20, 1984 -
Mask Blue Panther Black Man Naucalpan, Edomex February 16, 1986 -
Mask Blue Panther Kendo Tijuana, Baja California May 1988 -
Mask Blue Panther Love Machine Mexico City April 3, 1992 -
Hair Blue Panther Vulcano Mexico City April 9, 1993 -
Hair Blue Panther Love Machine Tonala, Jalisco July 18, 1993 -
Mask Blue Panther El Nuevo Huracán Ramírez, Jr. Cuernavaca, Morelos February 3, 2000 2
  1. Finals of a losers advance tournament
  2. Suicide tag team match against El Hijo del Santo and Fuerza Guerrera
  • He has also won the mask of Misterio de Oro

[edit] External links

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