Diamante (wrestler)

Diamante
Born (1992-02-14) February 14, 1992[1]
Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico[2]
Family Casas
Website Principe Diamante's website
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Chamaco Meza
Aero Boy
Principe Diamante
As Jr.
Diamante
As Charro
Billed height 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)[2]
Billed weight 99 kg (218 lb)[2]
Trained by Jimmy Cometa[2]
El Astuto[2]
El Satánico[2]
Franco Colombo[2]
Debut August 17, 2009[1]

Diamante (born February 14, 1992, in Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico) is a Mexican luchador enmascarado (masked professional wrestler) currently working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) portraying a tecnico ("good guy") wrestling character.[1] Diamante'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.[3] His ring name is Spanish for Diamond

Professional wrestling career

The wrestler later known as Diamante made his debut at a very early age, initially working as Chamaco Meza ("Kid" Meza) and also worked as Aero Boy early on, working primarily in Nuevo León. Later on he adopted a new ring name and image as Principe Diamante ("Prince Diamond"). He worked for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración at the age of just 16, wrestling at the 2008 Rey de Reyes show teaming with Street Boy and Tigre Cota to defeat Black Mamba, Rio Bravo, and Tito Santana[4]

As Jr. (2009)

Principe Diamante signed a contract with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in the summer of 2009 and initially worked under the name "As Jr." (Ace Junior), although it was never clear which "Ace" he was supposed to be the son off. [5]

Diamante (2009–2015)

After working as As Jr. for a few months he had his ring name changed to "Diamante", not revealing that he worked as As Jr. until years later. As Diamante he made his in-ring debut for CMLL on August 17, 2009.[1] The first sign of Diamante's potential in CMLL came on June 16, 2010, when he entered in the 2010 torneo Gran Alternativa, where a rookie and a "veteran" wrestler teamed up for a tag team tournament. Diamante teamed with La Sombra for the tournament; together they defeated Cancerbero and Mephisto in the first round, Inquisidor and Atlantis in the second round, but lost to the team of Hector Garza and Pólvora in the semi final round.[6] The following month Diamante was one of 12 wrestlers to risk their match in CMLL's Infierno en el Ring main event, a steel cage match where the last man would be forced to unmask. Diamante was the 8th man to leave the ring and watched as Ángel de Oro defeated Fabián el Gitano, forcing him to unmask.[7] Diamanted teamed up with Ángel de Oro and Rush to defeat Metal Blanco, Palacio Negro and Sagrado in the finals of a two-week-long tournament to become the number one contenders to the Mexican National Trios Championship.[8] On January 9, the trio defeated Delta, Metro and Stuka, Jr. to become the new champions.[9] Weeks after winning the Trios championship Diamante entered the annual Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles, a tournament that featured teams of wrestlers who do not usually team up, in fact most of the teams are on opposite sides of the Tecnico/Rudo (Fan favorite/villain) divide.[10] Diamante teamed with the rudo Volador, Jr. and made it into the semi finals of the tournament by defeating Stuka, Jr. and Ephesto as well as La Sombra and Misterioso, Jr., but were defeated by eventual tournament winners Máscara Dorada and Atlantis in the semi finals.[11] At the 2011 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas ("Homage to Two Legends") show Diamante teamed up with two-thirds of the team he won the Trios title from as he, Metro and Stuka, Jr. defeated Los Cancerberos del Infierno (Raziel and Euforia) and Okumura in one of the mid card matches on the show.[12]

CMLL held a Forjando un Ídolo (Spanish for "Forgin an idol") tournament in April and May 2011, with the purpose of identifying which of the 16 "Rookies" in the tournament would move up the ranks of the promotion. The tournament consisted of two rounds, first a round-robin group round, with the top 2 in each of the four groups competing in an elimination tournament. Diamante won his block by defeating all three opponents (Hijo del Signo, Hombre Bala, Jr., Puma King), advancing to the second round.[13] Diamante lost in the first match of the second round to Fuego and was eliminated from the tournament.[14] Afterwards CMLL kept the Forjando un Ídolo concept going with a four team Trios tournament called Forjando un Ídolo: La Guerra Continúa (Forging an Idol: The War Continues"), which saw the coach of each group team up with the two finalist for the groups. Diamante and Hijo del Signo teamed up with Negro Casas (called Grupo Bravo) and made it all the way to the finals, only to lose to Grupo Charly (Atlantis, Guerrero Maya, Jr. and Delta).[15] Being a reigning CMLL Champion Diamante was one of 16 champions who competed for the 2011 CMLL Universal Championship in September, 2011. Diamante defeated Pólvora in the first round, but lost to La Sombra in the second.[16] Diamante, Ángel de Oro and Rush's Mexican National Trios reign came to an end after 254 days, when Los Invasores (Olímpico, Psicosis and Volador Jr.) defeated them for the championship.[17] Diamante entered the 2011 Torneo Gran Alternativa, teaming up with La Sombra again, the first team to enter two years in a row.[18] In the first round they defeated Atlantis and Fuego, in the second round they defeated Hijo del Signo and Mr. Niebla, before losing to eventual tournament winners Escorpión and Último Guerrero in the semi final match.[19] He also appeared on the CMLL 78th Anniversary Show, CMLL's biggest show of the year, in an unsuccessful bid to win the 2011 Leyenda de Plata ("Silver Legend") tournament.[20] Diamante made his first trip to Japan in January, 2012 appearing on two jointly promoted shows between CMLL and Japanese based New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) called Fantastica Mania. On the first night Diamante teamd up with Japanese natives Jushin Thunder Liger and Tetsuya Naito defeated Mephisto, Shinsuke Nakamura, Yujiro Takahashi.[21][22] On the second night Diamante, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Naito lost to Mephisto, Takahashi and Kazuchika Okada.[23][24] In March 2012 CMLL repackaged Metro, giving him a new blue and white mask & outfit and changing his name to "Diamante Azul", which lead to some confusion since CMLL already had a wrestler using the ring name "Diamante" on their roster.[25][26] After being unsuccessful in the Forjando un Ídolo tournament in 2011 Diamanted entered CMLL's En Busca de un Ídolo ("In search of an Idol") in early 2012, a tournament with a similar concept, this time with 8 wrestlers contending for the trophy. Diamante qualified for the second round of the tournament with three wins and one loss. The second round was less successful for Diamante as he ended last, with two losses, but the major development took place in his last tournament match where he debut a new mask and trunk design, a silver and black scheme very reminiscent of Lucha libre legends El Santo and El Hijo del Santo and Axxel, one of El Santo's grandsons.[27][28][29][30] Diamante participated in the 2012 Leyenda de Azul tournament, but was outlasted by tournament winner Diamante Azul.[31] On July 12, 2012 Diamante and Misterioso, Jr. were the last two survivors in a torneo cibernetico, qualifying for a match for the vacant Occidente Heavyweight Championship.[32] The following week Diamante defeated Misterioso, Jr. to win his first singles championship.[33] Diamante held the title for just under 2 months, losing it to Olímpico on September 18, 2012.[34] In January 2013, Diamante returned to Japan to take part in the three-day Fantastica Mania 2013 event. During the first night on January 18, he teamed with Bushi and Ryusuke Taguchi in a six-man tag team match, where they were defeated by Rey Escorpión, Tomohiro Ishii and Yujiro Takahashi.[35] The following night, Diamante and Máscara Dorada were defeated in a tag team match by Mephisto and Okumura.[36] During the third and final night, Diamante took part in a twelve-man torneo cibernetico, from which he was the sixth man eliminated by Okumura and which was eventually won by Tomohiro Ishii.[37] Diamante was one of 16 wrestlers to competed for a spot in the finale of the 2013 Reyes del Aire tournament in a torneo cibernetico elimination match. He was the seventh math eliminated as he was pinned by Niebla Roja.[38][39] By the end of 203 Diamante stopped working for CMLL, either in general or under that name.

As Charro (2015–present)

After either not wrestling at all from the winter of 2013 and all of 2014, or working under a different masked identity that has not been revealed, Diamante resurfaced on the Mexican Independent circuit in 2015, working a couple of matches under the "Diamante" name before taking the name "As Charro" ("Ace Horseman"), not to be mistaken for the original As Charro who was active from 1963 to 1994.[40]

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. "Tecnico: Diamante". Fuego en el Ring (in Spanish). Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Participantes: Tecnicos Diamante" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Archived from the original on October 18, 2012.
  3. ↑ Madigan, Dan (2007). "Okay... what is Lucha Libre?". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 29–40. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
  4. ↑ "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion Rey de Reyes Tournament". ProWrestlingHistory.com. March 16, 2008. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
  5. ↑ "As Charro matches in 2009". Cagematch.net. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ Rivera, Manuel (April 17, 2010). "Resultados Arena México (16 abril 10): ¡Pólvora, primer finalista de La Gran Alternativa! ¡Felino venció a Místico!" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved April 17, 2010.
  7. ↑ Rivera, Manuel (July 19, 2010). "CMLL: Infierno en el Ring (18 julio 2010): ¡Fabián el Gitano pierde la máscara!" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
  8. ↑ Ruiz Glez, Alex (January 3, 2011). "Arena México (resultados 2 de enero del 2011) Ángel de Oro, Rush y Diamante son los retadores oficiales del campeonato nacional de tercias" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
  9. 1 2 Ruiz Glez, Alex (January 10, 2011). "Arena México (resultados domingo 9 de enero del 2011) Rush, Diamante y Ángel de Oro nuevos campeones nacionales de tercias" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved January 10, 2011.
  10. ↑ "Arena México (viernes 18 de febrero) Análisis de las parejas del Segundo Torneo Nacional de parejas increíbles" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. February 18, 2010. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
  11. ↑ Redaccion Medio Tiempo (February 19, 2010). "¿Alvarado vs. Hijos del Averno por las cabelleras?". MedioTiemp (in Spanish). Retrieved October 13, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Pelones Súper Porky y Máximo" (in Spanish). Medio Tiempo. March 19, 2011. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
  13. ↑ Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. "fase de grupos". Forjando un Idolo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
  14. ↑ Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. "fase de eliminacion". Forjando un Idolo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
  15. ↑ Elías, Agustín (June 24, 2011). "Grupo Charly, Campeón en FUI". Récord. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  16. ↑ Hernández, Diego (September 3, 2011). "Sombra pasa a la Final". Récord (in Spanish). Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  17. ↑ Ruiz Glez, Alex (September 20, 2011). "Tenemos nuevos campeones nacionales de Tercias" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved September 21, 2011.
  18. ↑ "CMLL Gran Alternativa #6". ProWrestlingHistory.com. April 2, 1999. Retrieved September 3, 2009.
  19. ↑ Ruiz Glez, Alex (March 26, 2011). "Arena México (resultados 25 de marzo) Último Guerrero y Escorpión a la final de la gran alternativa 2011 ¿Goto y Rush inician rivalidad?" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved October 11, 2012.
  20. ↑ González, Fernando (October 1, 2011). "Lyger por la Leyenda de Plata". Récord (in Spanish). Retrieved October 1, 2011.
  21. ↑ "NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2012". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). January 21, 2012. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
  22. ↑ Soy Rudo (January 21, 2012). "NJPW-CMLL: Resultados "Fantasticamania 2012″ día 1" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
  23. ↑ "NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2012". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). January 22, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  24. ↑ Soy Rudo (January 22, 2012). "NJPW-CMLL: Resultados "Fantasticamanía 2012″ Día 2" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  25. ↑ SuperLuchas user comments (March 3, 2012). "Imagen: El debut de Diamante Azul en la Arena México" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved September 24, 2012.
  26. ↑ The Cubs Fan (February 16, 2012). "Negro Casas vs Blue Panther, Diamante Azul" (in Spanish). The Lucha Blog. Retrieved September 24, 2012.
  27. ↑ Redacción Mediotiempo (June 16, 2012). "Black Warrior y compania humilan de nuevo". Medio Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  28. ↑ "Picture of Diamante". Estrellas del Ring (in Spanish). November 6, 2012. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  29. ↑ Rothstein, Simon (June 23, 2008). "El Hijo del Santo: Behind the Mask". The Sun. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  30. ↑ "Picture of Axxel". Estrellas del Ring (in Spanish). February 7, 2010. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  31. ↑ "La Leyenda Azule 2012 es para... DIamante Azul". SuperLuchas Magazine (in Spanish). October 12, 2012. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
  32. ↑ Gutierrez, Ana (July 16, 2012). "MISTERIOSO QUIERE VOLVER A SER CAMPEÓN DE OCCIDENTE". Fuego en el Ring (in Spanish). Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  33. 1 2 "Notifuego 23/07/2012". Fuego en el Ring (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. July 23, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  34. ↑ Gutierrez, Ana. "OLÍMPICO, ORGULLOSO Y DIGNO CAMPEÓN". Fuego en el Ring (in Spanish).
  35. ↑ "NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2013". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved January 18, 2013.
  36. ↑ "NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2013". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved January 19, 2013.
  37. ↑ "NJPW Presents CMLL Fantastica Mania 2013". New Japan Pro Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved January 20, 2013.
  38. ↑ "Resultados Arena México Viernes 15 de Febrero '13". Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (in Spanish). February 15, 2013. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
  39. ↑ "La Sombra, Rey del Aire 2013". Medio Tiempo (in Spanish). February 15, 2013. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
  40. ↑ "As Charro matches in 2015". Cagematch. Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  41. ↑ Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. "Diamante". Forjando un Idolo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
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