El Ligero | |
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Ring name(s) | El Ligero The Mexican Dragon The Mexican Sensation |
Billed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Billed weight | 167 lb (76 kg) |
Born | 7 January 1985 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England |
Resides | Leeds, West Yorkshire, England |
Billed from | Los Sanchos, Mexico |
Debut | 2001 |
Simon Musk (born 7 January 1985) is a British professional wrestler better known by his ring name El Ligero. He has been regarded as one of the top wrestlers currently wrestling in Europe.
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El Ligero has been a professional wrestler since 2001. He has wrestled in the United States, Italy, Switzerland, France, Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and many times in the UK, for over 100 different wrestling companies. He has also worked as a referee for Revolution British Wrestling, a ring announcer for Real Deal Wrestling, as well as a commentator for several other promotions in 2008 when he was out of action for nine months due to a serious shoulder injury.
Some of the more prominent companies he has worked for include: Pro Wrestling Noah (on their 2008 UK tour), 1PW, Grand Pro Wrestling, New Generation Wrestling, All Star Wrestling, FWA, WAW, IPW:UK, IWW (Ireland), NWA Wildside (USA), EWF (Italy), EWE (Spain), PBW (Scotland), 2FC (France), DCW (Holland), XWA, 3CW and over 75 other companies.
He has wrestled the likes of Ultimo Dragon, Nunzio, Doug Basham, Jimmy Rave, Doug Williams, El Generico, Delirious, Martin Stone, Tracy Smothers, Jonny Storm, Jody Fleisch, The Great Naga and many more, including the best the UK has to offer. He has also teamed with Simon Dean and The Sandman
He used to wrestle as one half of the tag team Hubba-Bubba Lucha alongside Bubblegum until his retirement from pro wrestling.
In the Frontier Wrestling Alliance, El Ligero has become a central part of the flyweight division and is among the contenders to win the ongoing Flyweight Title Round Robin Tournament. Since August 2009 he has been engaged in a bitter feud with Ross Jordan (aka RJ Singh), who dramatically sawed the horns off his mask during a memorable in-ring segment at "Hotwired" in November of that year.
He was a former referee for Revolution British Wrestling.
On 27 May 2011, El Ligero beat Martin Kirby to become the first ever North East Wrestling Society Brtish Heavyweight Champion.
On 26 August 2011, El Ligero wrestled on the inaugural card for PCW - Preston City Wrestling. He returned to the group on 28 October to take on Noam Dar in a submission match. El Ligero will next appear for PCW on 3 December in a show starring Desmond Wolfe. In Ligeros match, he will compete against Kris Travis, Martin Kirby, CJ Banks, Joey Hayes and Bubblegum with the winner getting a title shot any time in the next 12 months
El Ligero is the current UKFF Number 1 ranked wrestler in the UK
On 21 June 2008, El Ligero took part in an exclusive British six-man tag team match, on the pre-show of Pro Wrestling Noah's UK event at the Coventry Skydome. The team of Hubba-Bubba Lucha (El Ligero and Bubblegum) along with Luke "Dragon" Phoenix defeated Zack Sabre Jr, Dave Moralez and Mark Haskins.