Jorge Castano

Jorge Castaño

Born	(1980-09-28) September 28, 1980 Cali, Colombia
Resides	Greater London
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Jorge Castaño
Billed height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Billed weight	198 lb (90 kg; 14.1 st)
Billed from	Cali, Colombia
Trained by	NWA UK Hammerlock staff
Debut	1997

Jorge Castaño is a Colombian professional wrestler who works for many promotions in the United Kingdom. He is the most recent claimant to date of the British Middleweight title

Early life

Jorge Castaño was born in the Cali, Colombia and gained an interest in wrestling at a very early age. Once Jorge reached ten years of age, he and his family moved to the United Kingdom. By the age of thirteen, Castaño was involved in amateur Olympic-style wrestling. In order to train, Castaño had to take part in strenuous training exercises, including running and weightlifting. Upon completion of training, Castano would later win numerous trophies of amateur wrestling, including the 1995 Amateur British Championship in the 65kg category.

Castaño was soon offered an amateur wrestling scholarship in the U.S. but unfortunately he was under sixteen years of age, which meant by law he could not accept it. Instead, Castaño remained in the UK and took up professional wrestling in 1996. His training took place at NWA UK Hammerlock, the UK affiliated branch of the National Wrestling Alliance. In 1997, Jorge made his professional wrestling debut in Kent, England as part of a tag team contest.

Career

Only one year later, Castaño left NWA Hammerlock and began wrestling in numerous UK wrestling promotions, including The Wrestling Alliance, All Star Wrestling, the Frontier Wrestling Alliance, the World Association of Wrestling, Rumble Promotions and many others while steadily improving his in-ring abilities as well.

In 1999, Castaño appeared in the Ultimate Wrestling Alliance for three matches at the Pain at the Pleasure Beach television tapings for the cable channel L!VE TV, giving him experience in front of a televised audience. While working with the UWA, Castaño soon began training his younger brother Alex, who made his debut shortly afterwards.

In 2001, the two formed a tag team known as The Colombian Connection. The Colombian Connection later won the FWA Tag Team Championships from The New Breed at an event in Portsmouth, Hampshire on June 19. They would the titles for over two and half months before losing the titles back to New Breed on September 1 in Harrow, Middlesex.

After the title loss, Castaño made his debut for Revolution British Wrestling in September 2002 and began focusing on his singles career after first defeating his brother Alex in Nottingham in what was Alex's final professional match. Castaño soon became a trainer as well as a full-time wrestler for RBW. Castaño soon went on to defeat Johnny Kidd for the RBW British Middleweight Championship on May 22, 2004 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Castaño retained the title until the promotion's closure in late 2005.

Castaño would continue to compete in various independent promotions, including 1 Pro Wrestling, before returning to the Frontier Wrestling Alliance. He also helped the promotion in its "Civil War" against the IPW:UK.