La Furia del Norte

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La Furia del Norte ( Spanish for "The Fury from the North") is a rudo (heel) stable based in the Lucha Libre promotion CMLL in Mexico. The name comes from all members the being from Northern Mexico. El Terrible, Tarzan Boy and Héctor Garza all hale from Monterrey, Nuevo León and Perro Aguayo, Jr. claims his father's Zacatecas as his homestate, although he was born in Mexico City. The group also uses and is referred to as La Ley del Norte ("Law of the North").

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For the summer of 2004, the main feud in CMLL was the heel trio of Pierroth, Vampiro Canadiense and Tarzan Boy feuding with the técnico (face) trio of Negro Casas, Shocker and Perro Aguayo, Jr. The two factions finally faced off in a six-man cage match on July 18 where the last man in the cage got his head shaved. The rudos quickly escaped and Shocker tricked Casas and made his own escape, leaving Casas and Perro Aguayo. Perro Aguayo was victorious and Negro Casas, who had acted like a mentor for a time before this, had his head shaved leading to hostility.

The feud continued but soon Vampiro was injured in a match against the original Máscara Sagrada and was replaced by Héctor Garza, who had just jumped from Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, in a trios match at Arena México. Over the next few weeks, Perrito turned on Casas and joined Garza. Soon Tarzan Boy from Los Guerreros del Infierno joined with Perrito explaining that he and Garza could only trust other northerners. The next member to join was El Terrible, who had just turned on Shocker. The group's cowardly and suave antics made them an entertaining combination and they quickly rivaled Los Guerreros as the top heel group in CMLL.

After losing a match for the 71st CMLL Anniversary Show trophy to Negro Casas, Perro moved onto a short but heated feud with El Hijo del Santo with La Furia playing back-up. Shortly afterwards, Garza, Terrible and Tarzan began chasing the CMLL World Trios championship, eventually defeating Black Warrior, Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. and Canek in November. Perrito joined forces with his former rivals Pierroth and Vampiro in their feud against Los Capos, ending at the year-end show when Pierroth and Vampiro lost their hair to Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000 and Perro lost to Universo 2000 via disqualification in a singles match.

The group's future was put in question when Héctor Garza was arrested in the United States with illegal steroids. Perrito continued to feud with Los Capos and he used La Furia against them up until the big Perro Aguayo & Perro Aguayo, Jr. vs. Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000 double hair match in March of that year. After Aguayo and his father were successful, Perro Aguayo, Jr. decided to start a new group consisting of La Furia del Norte, La Familia de Tijuana and other rudos called Los Perros del Mal. After the formation of Los Perros, the name "La Furia del Norte" referred only to the trio of Tarzan Boy, Terrible and Garza.