La Mascara (wrestler)

La Mascara
Ring name(s) Brazo de Oro, Jr.
La Mascara
Billed height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Billed weight 85 kg (190 lb)[1]
Born January 8, 1982 (1982-01-08) (age 30)[1]
Mexico City, Mexico[1]
Resides Mexico City
Trained by Brazo De Oro[1]
Debut 02000-04-02 April 2, 2000[1]

La Mascara (born January 8, 1982) is a Mexican professional wrestler active as a tecnico in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, where he is the current NWA World Historic Welterweight Champion. Also one of his uncle is Brazo de Plata. His cousins are Psycho Clown and Máximo. La Mascara is the son of Brazo de Oro, and the promotion acknowledges the relationship. La Mascara's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans.[2]

Contents

Career

Making his professional debut on April 2, 2000, La Mascara spent much of his early career as a midcard tecnico (Face or "good guy") in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). He debuted in CMLL as Brazo de Oro Jr. Like the other sons of Los Brazos, he took up a new gimmick in summer 2005 to create own identity. He is the one with the most impact, making a lot of impression. In May 2005, he won his first major championship when he defeated Doctor X for the Mexican National Welterweight Championship.[3] He held the title for over a year, before he lost the belt to Sangre Azteca on December 17, 2006. Earlier that year, he lost to Hajime Ohara in a match for the then vacant NWA World Welterweight Championship in Mexico City.[4] La Mascara has been pushed strongly since changing to that gimmick (from Brazo de Oro Jr.), with some thought that it might be due to his family connections. His work has appeared to catch up with his push this year, and he's a solid high flier. On June 13, 2008, La Mascara teamed with Héctor Garza and Hijo del Fantasma in a tournament for the vacant CMLL World Trios Championship and won the titles after beating Blue Panther, Dos Caras, Jr. and Místico in the finals.[5] The three held the titles for over seven weeks until they lost it to Último Guerrero, Negro Casas and Atlantis on August 5. La Mascara and his partners regained the titles on a show in Guadalajara on January 18, 2009.[6] On January 29, 2010 La Máscara teamed up with Negro Casas to participate in CMLL's "Torneo Nacional de Pareja Increíbles" ("National Amazing Pairs tournament"), a tournament where CMLL teams up a Tecnico (La Máscara) and a Rudo (Casas) for a tournament. The two defeated El Texano, Jr. and Rouge in the opening round, El Sagrado and Shocker in the second round and Héctor Garza and Toscano in the semi-final to earn a spot in the final of the tournament.[7] On February 5, 2010 Casas and La Máscara lost to Máscara Dorada and Atlantis in the finals.[8] In March, 2010 signs of dissention amongst the Trios champions began showing as Garza walked out on the team during a trios match mistakenly thinking that one of his team mates had attacked him.[9] Following the walk out Garza kept insincerely insisting that he was still a tecnico and that his team was getting along great. Further doubts about Garza's allegiance arose when he teamed up with the Rúdo Pólvora to win the 2010 Gran Alternativa tournament.[10] When Garza, La Máscara and Hijo del Fantasma were booked for a CMLL World Trios defense the following week Garza complained that his partners agreed to the match without asking him, but swore that he would still be professional about it.[11] During the title defense on the May 7, 2010 Super Viernes Garza attacked both Hijo del Fantasma and La Máscara, allowing La Ola Amarilla (Hiroshi Tanahashi, Okumura and Taichi) to win the CMLL World Trios Championship, turning full blown Rudo in the process.[12] On May 14, 2010 La Máscara teamed up with Máscara Dorada and La Sombra to defeat Ola Amarilla in a non-title match to earn a shot at the titles the following week.[13] One week later the trio defeated Ola Amarilla again, ending the Japanese trios title reign after just two weeks, making La Máscara a three times Trios Champion[14] By virtue of holding the CMLL World Trios Championship La Máscara participated in the 2010 Universal Championship tournament. He was part of "Block B" that competed on the August 6, 2010 Super Viernes show. In the first round of the tournament he defeated Mr. Águila, then moved on to a match against Volador, Jr. during the match Volador, Jr. turned rudo (bad guy) after teasing a turn for a long time and got himself disqualified for excessive violence. After the match Volador, Jr. beat up La Máscara further, leaving him an easy target for his third round opponent, Jushin Liger, who quickly defeated La Máscara.[15] On October 5, 2010, La Máscara defeated Volador, Jr. to win the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship.[16] In April 2011, La Máscara began feuding with the WWE bound Averno, which led to CMLL booking the two to face each other in a Mask vs. Mask Lucha de Apuesta on June 17.[17] On June 17 at Juicio Final, La Máscara picked up the biggest win of his career by defeating Averno two falls to one and forcing him to unmask himself.[18] Afterwards, La Máscara and Averno continued their rivalry, building up to another singles match on July 4, where Averno successfully defended the NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship.[19][20] On July 15, La Generación Dorada lost the CMLL World Trios Championship to Los Hijos del Averno (Averno, Ephesto and Mephisto).[21] After La Máscara pinned Averno in a six man tag team match on July 22, the two agreed to another match for the NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship on July 29, where Averno was again able to retain the title.[22][23] La Máscara and Averno faced each other again on September 9 in the second round of the Universal Championship tournament, where Averno once again was victorious.[24] On November 22, La Máscara defeated Averno to win the NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship.[25]

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

  • PWI ranked him # 133 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 2006.

Luchas de Apuestas record

See also: Luchas de Apuestas
Wager Winner Loser Location Date Notes
Mask Brazo De Oro Jr. Némesis Oaxaca, Mexico 02002-08-24 August 24, 2002 [1]
Hair La Mascara Mosco de la Merced Aguascalientes, Mexico 02005-08-04 August 4, 2005  
Mask La Máscara Averno Mexico City, Mexico 02011-06-17 June 17, 2011 [18]

References

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Los Infernales (MS-1, Pirata Morgan and El Satánico)  · Los Intocables (Jaque Mate, Masakre and Pierroth, Jr.)  · Los Brazos (El Brazo, Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata)  · La Nuevo Ola Blanca (Dr. Wagner, Jr., Gran Markus, Jr., El Hijo del Gladiador)  · Los Chacales (Bestia Salvaje, Emilio Charles, Jr. and Sangre Chicana)  · Dos Caras, La Fiera and Héctor Garza  · Emilio Charles, Jr., Rey Bucanero and El Satánico  · La Ola Azul (Atlantis, Lizmark and Mr. Niebla)  · Black Warrior, Blue Panther and Dr. Wagner, Jr.  · Blue Panther, Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Fuerza Guerrera  · Atlantis, Black Warrior and Mr. Niebla  · Black Tiger III, Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Universo 2000  · Black Warrior, El Canek and Rayo de Jalisco, Jr.  · La Furia del Norte (Héctor Garza, Tarzan Boy and El Terrible)  · Los Guerreros de la Atlantida (Atlantis, Tarzan Boy and Último Guerrero)  · Los Perros del Mal (Héctor Garza, Mr. Águila and Perro Aguayo, Jr.)  · Los Ángeles Rebeldes (Héctor Garza, El Hijo del Fantasma and La Máscara)  · Los Guerreros Negros (Atlantis, Negro Casas and Último Guerrero)  · La Ola Amarilla (Hiroshi Tanahashi, Okumura and Taichi)  · La Generación Dorada (La Máscara, Máscara Dorada and La Sombra)  · Los Hijos del Averno (Averno, Ephesto and Mephisto) (current)