El hijo del santo8/3/2023 ![]() El Hijo del Santo and Octagón were victorious in the critically acclaimed match that would receive a 5-star rating from Dave Meltzer but it was the last stand for Los Gringos Locos. The new match was a double hair versus double mask match with Santo teaming with Octagón against Los Gringos Locos. The match was changed at the last minute when Barr pleaded with AAA officials to be included on the show which would be broadcast in the United States. mask challenge for the AAA When Worlds Collide pay-per-view. Eddie turned on Santo, leading to a hair vs. ![]() During the feud, the played up the old Pareja Atómica tag team which consisted of the original El Santo and Eddie's father, Gory Guerrero. Eddy Guerrero's stiffer Japanese style offense, combined with "Love Machine" Art Barr's cocky mannerisms made Los Gringos Locos a very exciting yet hated tag team. ![]() His most memorable feud during his time with AAA was against the American team, Los Gringos Locos. Heavy Metal took el Hijo del Santo's WWA Welterweight title and won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship but el Hijo del Santo would come out on top of the feud and took both titles from Heavy Metal before he lost them again to another young star, Psicosis. One of the first feuds he was put in was again Negro Casas' youngest brother, Heavy Metal. El Hijo del Santo regained the WWA Welterweight title and brought it with him to AAA. In late 1991, he left WWA and vacated the Welterweight title but continued to wrestle for UWA until the formation of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). In 1990, he debuted in Japan for Gran Hamada's Universal Lucha Libre promotion and moved up a weight class by winning the UWA World Welterweight Championship as well as the WWA Welterweight Championship. During this time, he also feuded with Negro Casas, who would become his most important opponent, and took his hair in a 1987 match in the Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium. ![]() took el Hijo del Santo's title but el Hijo del Santo regained it in 1988 and took Espanto, Jr.'s hair as well after winning a Luchas de Apuestas (Spanish for "Bet match"). (whose father feuded with the original El Santo) and el Hijo del Santo took his mask. He won his first title, the UWA World Lightweight Championship, on October 1985 and traded the title with Aristóteles. He also was voted "Rookie of the Year" in Mexico. He shared his father's look, the silver mask, tights and cape, and moves but he was shorter and, although he would never become the same cultural icon, he would become a better in-ring performer than his father.Įarly in his career, he was wrestled mainly for World Wrestling Association (WWA) (The Tijuana circuit) and Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) (a promotion that worked in the Mexico City area) but he did make his debut for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) the promotion that later became Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in Arena Mexico in the summer of 1983. He began wrestling without his father's consent in February 1982 as "El Korak" but he made his official debut as "El Hijo del Santo" in October of that year after he earned his college degree at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Communication Science per his father's request. ![]() "Santito", as he is often called, was the only one of his father's 10 children to become a professional wrestler. ![]()
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