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69-437: Ramón Ibarra Rivera (born January 26, 1981), better known by his ring name Volador Jr. , is a Mexican luchador (or professional wrestler ), who works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). He portrays a técnico ("good guy") wrestling character and is considered one of the top level técnicos in the promotion. He is the son of Super Parka , and his ring name refers to his father's previous gimmick, Volador. Ibarra

138-789: A mask but was forced to unmask when he lost his mask to long time friend turned rival, La Sombra , in September 2013. Over the years he has held a number of CMLL championships including the CMLL World Tag Team Championship , the CMLL World Trios Championship , the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship , Mexican National Trios Championship , the NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship and

207-426: A rudo move, and won the match after an illegal low blow to Volador Jr. After the match Místico took the microphone and claimed that "all was fair in war and defending Mexico City", a comment that drew many boos from the crowd. The two met in the main event of an Arena México show on February 5, 2010, and this time Místico was clearly a Rúdo , tearing so viciously at Volador's mask that a new mask had to be brought to

276-518: A Dos Leyendas show, Volador Jr. and La Sombra defeated Altantis and Último Guerrero to win the Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles . The truce between La Sombra and Volador Jr. that allowed them to win the tag team tournament only lasted until the next time the two rivals were in the same ring. On Sunday, February 17, 2013, La Sombra teamed up with Marco Corleone and Místico La Nueva Era against Volador Jr., Euforia and Último Guerrero. During

345-633: A Dos Leyendas 2018, Volador and Valiente defeated El Terrible and Rey Bucanero to win the CMLL World Tag Team Championship. In 2008, Volador Jr. was given an opportunity to travel to the United States and compete for the Florida-based Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as part of their 2008 World X Cup tournament . TNA decided to simply drop the "Junior" part of his name and promote him as "Volador". He

414-462: A championship match against TNA World Tag Team Champions Beer Money, Inc. The match also included Team 3D , The Latin American Xchange and was won by Matt Morgan and Abyss . At TNA's 2008 Turning Point show, Volador participated in a 10-man X Division elimination rankings match. Volador was the second man eliminated from the match, which was won by Eric Young . The Turning Point match

483-420: A darker persona and ring gear, replacing the bright cross imagery with darker burning cross symbols on his mask and tights. In later 2014 he began to team regularly with the newest version of Comandante Pierroth and Misterioso, Jr. to form a group called La Comando Caribeño ("The Caribbean Commando"), adopting a storyline allegiance to Puerto Rico . In early 2015 La Comando began a storyline rivalry with

552-462: A few others, their real name. One notable exception was made for David Otunga because of his real marriage to singer Jennifer Hudson at the time, which gave WWE some mainstream exposure. Low Ki used the alias "Senshi" during his second TNA stint to reserve his primary ring name for other use. A similar example is the team known as The Dudley Boyz in ECW and WWE and Team 3D elsewhere. WWE trademarked

621-438: A strong debut sacred soon found him lower in the cards, mainly because he did not meet the high expectations wrestling wise. Sacred himself claims that he was extremely nervous early on in his "El Sagrado" run and thus often failed to perform high risk moves correctly. In 2004 CMLL decided to quietly ignore El Sagrado's links to Fray Tormenta and introduce a new "Protégé of Fray Tormenta", Místico . Místico went on to become one of

690-431: A tournament where CMLL teams up a Tecnico (Volador Jr.) and a Rudo (El Terrible) for a tournament. In the second round of the tournament the team faced Averno and Místico. Initially Místico wrestle as the tecnico he has been for years, but during the match Místico's attitude seemingly changed as he began attacking Volador Jr., someone he had teamed with for years. Místico even went so far as to ripping up Volador's mask,

759-751: A variation of it, sometimes modifying the spelling to better fit their gimmick , such as Dave Bautista becoming Batista (later reverting to his real name for his Hollywood acting career), Patricia Stratigeas becoming Trish Stratus , Jonathan Good becoming Jon Moxley , Bryan Danielson becoming Daniel Bryan (when he wrestled in WWE), Richard Fliehr becoming Ric Flair and Randall Poffo becoming Randy Savage . Others simply use part of their name, such as Bill Goldberg using Goldberg , Nicole Garcia-Colace using Nikki Bella , Mike Mizanin using The Miz , Cody Runnels using Cody Rhodes , and Michael Wardlow using Wardlow . Many female wrestlers go solely by their first name such as. It

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828-440: A wrestler. Whether this is actually true or part of the storyline build up around the "El Sagrado" character is not known, but Sagrado has stated that he met Fray Tormenta in several interviews. Sagrado made his debut in 2000, at the age of 20, working under a mask. On his debut sacred shared a ring with one of the big names of the early 1990s, Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. and faced off against Carmelo Reyes. sacred wrestled mainly in

897-646: Is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado , or masked professional wrestler working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). His ring name is Spanish for "The Sacred One". Working as "Sagrado" won the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship with Misterioso, Jr. as well as having formerly held the Mexican National Trios Championship twice, with different partners as well as

966-587: Is a highly respected tradition in Mexican lucha libre for performers to hide their true identities, usually wrestling under masks, and revealing a luchador's identity without their permission is considered a serious offence with real-life consequences. Professional wrestlers are often referred to by their contemporaries by their ring name. In interviews, Bret Hart regularly referred to Mark Calaway, Curt Hennig, and Kevin Nash by their ring names ( The Undertaker , Mr. Perfect , and Diesel ). Ring names are often trademarked by

1035-448: Is also common for wrestlers of all genders to use a nickname in addition to their real name for marketability and other reasons. Ricky Steamboat is an atypical instance of a wrestler adopting a ring name to sound less intimidating, as his legal name of Richard Blood was considered unfitting for his babyface persona. Some (mostly independent ) wrestlers still go to great lengths to ensure that their real names are not publicly known. It

1104-832: Is the cousin of lucha libre legend L.A. Park and wrestler El Hijo de Cien Caras . He is also the great cousin of L.A. Park's son who wrestles as El Hijo de L.A. Park . Ibarra's nephew, a grandson of Ramón Ibarra Banda, began working for CMLL in 2014 under the ring name Flyer . In 2013, Ibarra married CMLL Edecanes (" ring girl ") Bruni Sagnite. The couple have a son together, born in 2014. Ring name Ring names are much more common in professional wrestling than any other sport; famous examples include Terry Bollea becoming Hulk Hogan , Michael Shawn Hickenbottom becoming Shawn Michaels , Roderick Toombs becoming Roddy Piper , Dwayne Johnson becoming The Rock , Christopher Irvine becoming Chris Jericho , and Phillip Jack Brooks becoming CM Punk . A number of wrestlers adopted their real name or

1173-537: Is the cousin of the original La Parka , the cousin of El Hijo de L.A. Park and the uncle of Flyer ; he is also related to a number of other luchadors in the Ibarra family. Ibarra has also worked outside his native Mexico on multiple occasions, with his highest profile work being for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the United States , and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in Japan . Volador Jr. originally worked under

1242-459: The 2010 Universal Championship tournament , Volador Jr. defeated Valiente in the first round. In the second round Volador Jr. faced La Máscara and cemented his status as a rudo when he was disqualified for excessive violence against La Máscara. He kept attacking La Máscara after the match ended, leaving La Máscara an easy victim for his next round opponent, Jushin Thunder Liger . Following

1311-578: The Best of the Super Juniors 24 tournament. He finished the tournament with a record of three wins and four losses, failing to advance to the finals. On October 9, 2018, it was announced that Volador Jr. would be participating in NJPW's annual Super Junior Tag League. Teaming with Soberano Jr. , he finished the tournament with a record of two wins and five losses, failing to advance to the finals. On October 8, 2019, it

1380-616: The CMLL World Trios Championship . On April 5, 2016, Volador Jr. and rookie Esfinge defeated Fujin and Rey Escorpión to win the 2016 Gran Alternativa tournament. On July 1, Volador Jr. won the 2016 International Gran Prix , scoring the last elimination over Tama Tonga . On October 20, 2017, Volador defeated Carístico to win the 2017 Leyenda de Plata . On November 3, Volador Jr. turned on Carístico, attacking him with help from Rush, who afterwards stated that Volador Jr. had everything it took to join Los Ingobernables . At Homenaje

1449-475: The Monterrey Nuevoleon area where his family had moved a couple of years before. In early 2003 as part of " Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) Sagrado showing in the contest earned him a new character and a promotional push by CMLL. They gave him the name "El Sagrado", a new outfit including a mask with a silver cross on it and a storyline that claimed that he was the protégé of Fray Tormenta. After

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1518-556: The NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship for the first time. On March 30, Volador Jr. lost the title to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) representative Prince Devitt . On June 20, 2012, Volador Jr. formed the Los Depredadores del Aire ("The Predators of the Air") group alongside Black Warrior and Mr. Águila. Two days later, Los Depredadores del Aire defeated Los Reyes de la Atlantida (Atlantis, Delta and Guerrero Maya Jr.) to win

1587-503: The NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship . He has won CMLL's Torneo Gran Alternativa , Leyenda de Plata and Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles tournaments. Volador Jr. made his professional wrestling debut in 1999 after training with his father, the original Volador . Initially he worked on the independent circuit around his native Coahuila. On August 14, 2001, Volador Jr. competed in

1656-515: The Super Viernes on August 13, 2010 , where he attacked La Máscara, Volador Jr. began being booked as rudo , although the on again, off again feud with Místico was put to the side in favor of Volador Jr. against La Sombra. The feud between the two led both wrestlers to be booked in the main event of the CMLL 77th Anniversary Show , a 14-man steel cage Lucha de Apuesta , mask vs. mask match. Volador Jr.

1725-482: The promotion that creates a character or gimmick for a performer. It is common to see one performer use a variety of ring names throughout their career, even if their overall persona remains similar. This is especially true in WWE , which has largely forced most wrestlers that have debuted since 2006 to use a WWE-owned ring name instead of a ring name that they used on the independent circuit or, such as with Daniel Bryan and

1794-474: The rúdo side, only to turn around and reveal that both he and Volador Jr. were wearing a combined Averno/Volador Jr. mask underneath. Volador Jr. worked as a rúdo throughout the match, losing the match for his team when he tried to cheat but was caught by the referee. On July 12, 2010, at the Promociones Gutiérrez 1st Anniversary Show , Volador Jr. participated in a match where 10 men put their mask on

1863-728: The "Dudley Boyz" name, leading them to have to change their name when they went to TNA. The members' individual names were also trademarked by WWE, forcing them to have to change their names. WWE partially repealed the policy in 2015, allowing wrestlers who were well known in other promotions such as Samoa Joe , A.J. Styles , Shinsuke Nakamura , Austin Aries , Bobby Roode , and Eric Young to use their long-standing ring names (or, in Nakamura's and Roode's cases, their real names) as well as wrestlers who sign "Tier 2" NXT brand contracts such as Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa , who wrestle both on NXT and

1932-399: The 2013 Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles tournament, the same tournament that in 2010 was the impetus for Volador Jr.'s rudo turn. The rivals put their issues aside for the tournament defeating the teams of Guerrero Maya Jr. and Negro Casas, La Máscara and Averno and finally Shocker and Mr. Niebla to qualify for the finals of the tournament. On March 15, 2013, at the 2013 Homenaje

2001-611: The AEW roster. The four men made their AEW in-ring debut during the February 2 edition of AEW Rampage , defeating Christopher Daniels , Matt Sydal , Angelo Parker and Matt Menard , in an 8-man tag-team match. Ibarra is a part of an extended family of wrestlers, including his father Ramón Ibarra Banda who currently wrestles as Super Parka and previous wrestled as Volador, which is where Ibarra's ring name of Volador Jr. comes from. Volador Jr.'s uncles wrestle as Johnny Ibarra and El Desalmado, and he

2070-628: The Mexican Light Heavyweight Championship, with Volador Jr. retaining the belt. At the 2010 Sin Salida the two were on opposite sides of a Relevos incredibles , Místico teamed with Máscara Dorada and Mr. Águila while Volador Jr. teamed with Averno and Negro Casas . Averno came to the ring wearing the same combined Averno/Místico mask he had worn for the Parejas Incredibles tournament and tried to convince Místico to join

2139-517: The Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship to Volador Jr. two falls to one. On the February 26 CMLL Super Viernes show it was announced that Místico, Volador Jr., La Sombra and El Felino would face off in a four-way Lucha de Apuesta match as the main event of the 2010 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas . La Sombra was the first man pinned at Dos Leyendas and El Felino was the second, forcing the two to put their masks on

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2208-426: The Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship. In January 2014, Volador Jr. took part in the five-day Fantastica Mania 2014 tour. The third event of the tour, on January 17, was headlined by the first interaction between Volador Jr. and his longtime rival La Sombra, after the former's tecnico turn. The match, wrestled under Match Relampago VIP rules, ended in a ten-minute time limit draw. Two days later, in

2277-582: The Mexican National Trios Championship back to Los Reyes de la Atlantida . On January 22, 2013, Volador Jr. survived a torneo cibernetico to advance to a final match for the vacant CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship against the other survivor, Rey Escorpión. On January 29, Volador Jr. was defeated in the finals of the tournament by Escorpión. Following their clash over the Reyes del Aire trophy, Volador Jr. and La Sombra were teamed up for

2346-471: The Mexican National Trios Championship on March 25, 2005, to Pandilla Guerrera ( Doctor X , Nitro and Sangre Azteca). On June 2, 2006, he competed in the Torneo Gran Alternativa , teaming with Dos Caras, Jr. but were eliminated in the first by Último Guerrero and Nitro. On August 13, 2007, Volador teamed up with El Sagrado and La Sombra to win the Mexican National Trios Championship for

2415-551: The Mexican National Trios Championship, when they defeated the trio of Ángel de Oro , Diamante and Rush . Volador Jr. continued his successful run on September 23 by defeating eleven other men in a torneo cibernetico to advance to the finals of the 2011 Leyenda de Plata . On October 7, Volador Jr. defeated Jushin Thunder Liger to win the tournament. Los Invasores lost the Mexican National Trios Championship to Atlantis, Delta and Guerrero Maya, Jr. on December 16, 2011. On February 14, 2012, Volador Jr. defeated La Máscara to win

2484-547: The Mexican National Trios Championship. For July 29, Volador Jr. traveled to Tokyo, Japan, in an attempt to regain the NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship from Prince Devitt, but would eventually fail in his title challenge. The following month, Volador Jr. started a rivalry with Mr. Niebla , for which he was positioned as a tecnico even though still being a part of rudo stable Los Invasores . On October 30, Los Depredadores del Aire lost

2553-582: The Mexican Trios title for 540 days, defending the title six times in that timeframe. On February 3, 2009, the newly formed Poder Mexica (Sangre Azteca, Black Warrior and Dragón Rojo, Jr. ) won the titles from Sagrado's team. On July 11, 2012, El Sagrado defeated Okumura to win the Occidente Light Heavyweight Championship. On December 28, 2012, Sagrada lost the championship to Rafaga. In 2015 Sagrado turned rudo and adopted

2622-574: The NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship against Mephisto in the main event of the final show of the tour. The following May, Volador Jr. entered the Best of the Super Juniors XXIII tournament. After four wins and two losses, Volador Jr. headed to his final round-robin match leading his block, but was eliminated after losing to Will Ospreay . A year later, Volador Jr. was announced as a returning participant in

2691-502: The NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship to La Sombra in a match also contested for the NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship. The loss came as a result of outside interference from La Máscara and Rush. Volador Jr. regained the title from La Sombra on August 1 at El Juicio Final . In early 2015, Volador Jr. came together with Místico and Valiente to form a new Sky Team. On February 13, Sky Team defeated Los Guerreros Laguneros (Euforia, Niebla Roja and Último Guerrero) to win

2760-451: The NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship. Three days later, Volador Jr. began showing signs of a tecnico turn by shaking hands with Místico and trying to save him from Los Guerreros Laguneros , before walking out on his Los Invasores partners. His turn was finalized on November 29, when Los Invasores attacked him following a torneo cibernetico between Los Invasores and representatives of CMLL. On June 6, 2014, Volador Jr. lost

2829-569: The Occidente (Western) Tag Team Championship. On August 18, 2007, Sagrado became a double champion as he teamed up with Volador Jr. and La Sombra to defeat Los Perros del Mal for the Mexican National Trios Championship. Sagrado's time as double champion lasted over a year, until Texano, Jr. and El Terrible defeated Sagrado and Rayman to win the Occidente Tag Team Championship. The trio of Sagrado, Volador Jr. and La Sombra held

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2898-515: The Occidente Light Heavyweight Championship on one occasion. Like many children in Mexico, El Sagrado grew up idolizing Lucha libre (professional wrestling), especially El Santo . At the age of 12 he told his parents he wanted to become a professional wrestler, something his parents opposed. The young Sagrado found a way to train to become a professional wrestler without his parents knowing it, his brothers covered for him by telling his parents that he

2967-444: The annual Torneo Gran Alternativa teaming with Atlantis . The team was eliminated in the semifinals by Black Warrior and Sangre Azteca after having defeated Máscara Año 2000 and Enemigo Publico in the first round. Volador Jr. participated in a tournament to determine the first ever CMLL World Super Lightweight Champion , but was defeated in the first round to Rocky Romero . On December 5, 2003, he, El Felino and Safari won

3036-452: The biggest stars not just in Lucha libre but in wrestling. After finally get over his nerves and with further training El Sagrado began rising up the ranks again by 2005. On October 7, 2005, Sagrado teamed up with Máximo and El Texano, Jr. to win the Mexican National Trios Championship from Pandilla Guerrera ("Gang of Warriors"; Doctor X , Nitro and Sangre Azteca ). The trio defended

3105-489: The end Místico defeated El Oriental to unmask him. After teasing a rudo turn for over a month, Volador Jr. and La Sombra lost the CMLL World Tag Team Championship to the Los Invasores team of Mr. Águila and Héctor Garza on July 23, 2010 without any signs of dissension between the two. During a later show Volador Jr. finally turned rudo when he attacked La Sombra, tore his former partner's mask off and beat him up. During

3174-503: The final match of the tour, Volador Jr. successfully defended the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship against Máscara Dorada. In January 2015, Volador Jr. took part in the Fantastica Mania 2015 tour, during which he successfully defended the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship against Gran Guerrero . In January 2016, Volador Jr. again returned to Japan to take part in Fantastica Mania 2016 , successfully defending

3243-477: The independent circuit to keep their ring names (or, in Gargano's case, his real name). Gargano and Ciampa have since signed exclusive WWE contracts. "In-house" WWE wrestlers still use WWE-owned ring names. In rare cases, the rights to a wrestler's ring name may be owned by a company with little or no connection to professional wrestling, such as Marvel Comics ' ownership of the name Hulk Hogan until early 2003, which

3312-410: The line in a match that featured five pareja incredibles teams, with the losing team being forced to wrestle each other with their mask on the line. His partner in the match was El Alebrije , facing off against the teams of Atlantis and Olímpico , Místico and El Oriental , Histeria and La Sombra, and Último Guerrero and Averno. Volador Jr. and El Alebrije were the second team to escape the match. In

3381-449: The line. After a long match La Sombra pinned El Felino. After the match he unmasked and announced that his real name was Jorge Luis Casas Ruiz. Following Dos Leyendas Místico announced that he was done being a rúdo and returned to the técnico side, although Volador Jr. remained suspicious of Místico. The storyline between the two cooled off for a bit, but in late May 2010, tension resumed as Místico and Volador Jr. faced off once again at

3450-514: The match Volador Jr. attacked both La Sombra and the referee, causing a disqualification before leaving the ring and his confused partners behind. On September 13 at CMLL's 80th Anniversary Show , Volador Jr. and La Sombra defeated Atlantis and Último Guerrero in a Relevos Suicidas match and thus advanced to a Mask vs. Mask Lucha de Apuestas against each other. In the end, Volador Jr. was defeated and forced to unmask and reveal his real name. On November 19, Volador Jr. defeated Máscara Dorada to win

3519-577: The prefix "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Numerous boxers have used ring names or nicknames as their mode of identification during their professional boxing careers, particularly during the late 19th century and the early 20th century. The ring name "Kid" was particularly popular, indicating the boxer's comparative youth. Since the mid 20th century, ring names for boxers have typically been less common, although nicknames have become more popular in recent years. Famous examples of boxers who used ring names include: El Sagrado El Sagrado (born June 19, 1980)

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3588-426: The ring during falls. In the second fall Místico pulled his mask off and threw it to Volador Jr. in an attempt to get Volador Jr. disqualified. The end came when Volador Jr. reversed Místico's La Mística and won by applying the same move to Místico. Following the match Místico angrily proclaimed “¡Yo soy la máxima figura de la lucha libre!”. ("I am the greatest figure in wrestling"). On February 12, 2010, Místico lost

3657-475: The second time. On January 16, 2009, La Sombra and Volador Jr., dubbed "Super Sky Team", defeated Averno and Mephisto to win the CMLL World Tag Team Championship . Super Sky Team's status as double champions ended on February 3, 2009, when Volador Jr., El Sagrado and La Sombra lost the Mexican Trios Championship to Poder Mexica (Sangre Azteca, Black Warrior and Dragón Rojo, Jr. ). Following

3726-413: The team of Delta and Guerrero Maya, Jr. over the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship . On February 28, 2015, Misterioso, Jr. and Sagrado defeated Delta and Guerrero Maya, Jr. to win the championship. In May, 2015 Sagrado competed in a qualifying match for the 2015 version of En Busca de un Ídolo , being one of 16 wrestlers competing in the qualifying torneo cibernetico , elimination match where

3795-446: The three-day Fantastica Mania 2013 event. During the first night on January 18, he teamed with Taichi and Taka Michinoku to defeat La Máscara, Mascara Dorada and Máximo in a six-man tag team match. The following night, Volador Jr., Kazuchika Okada and Rey Escorpión defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi, La Máscara and Rush in another six-man tag team match. During the third and final night, Volador Jr. unsuccessfully challenged La Máscara for

3864-525: The title five times including several defenses against various Pandilla Guerrera combinations of Doctor X, Nitro, Sangre Azteca, Arkangel de la Muerte and Misterioso, Jr. On April 24, 2007, the team lost the Mexican National Trios Championship to Los Perros del Mal ( Damián 666 , Halloween and Mr. Águila ) when Texano, Jr. turned on his teammates and joined Los Perros del Mal . On June 10, 2007, Sagrado teamed with Rayman to defeat Los Junior Capos ( Hijo de Cien Caras and Cien Caras, Jr. ) to win

3933-536: The title loss, Volador Jr. and La Sombra focused on working as a team, defended their tag team titles eight times through 2009 and 2010. Their teamwork resulted in them being voted the "CMLL Tag Team of the year" for 2009 by the fans of CMLL. Volador Jr. was also voted "Most popular wrestler of the year" in the same poll. On January 22, 2010, Volador Jr. teamed up with El Terrible to participate in CMLL's "Torneo Nacional de Pareja Increíbles" ("National Amazing Pairs tournament"),

4002-547: The title, Volador Jr. spent several months not doing anything significant in CMLL until he took over the Los Invasores stable in July 2011, when its leader Héctor Garza turned tecnico . On September 18, Volador Jr. unsuccessfully challenged former partner La Sombra for the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship , in a match that received rave reviews. Two days later, Volador Jr. led Olímpico and Psicosis II of Los Invasores to

4071-403: The tournament by one point. On October 30, 2008, Volador returned to TNA to work his first "Non-X-Cup" match, teaming up with Hiroshi Tanahashi as the two lost to The Motor City Machine Guns ( Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley ). On the edition of November 7 of TNA's weekly Impact! television show Volador teamed with Tanahashi to compete in a 4 team Ladder Match where the winning team would get

4140-491: The vacant Mexican National Trios Championship by defeating the team of Alan Stone , Super Crazy and Zumbido in a tournament final. On August 20, 2004, he competed in the Torneo Gran Alternativa once again teaming with Atlantis and once again but they were eliminated in the semifinals, defeated by eventual tournament winners El Hijo del Santo and Místico . In the first round the team had defeated Perro Aguayo, Jr. and Sangre Azteca. Volador Jr., El Felino and Safari lost

4209-455: The wrestler's gimmick changes, either subtly or dramatically. After debuting in WWE as the " Connecticut Blueblood " Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Paul Levesque's character later morphed into Triple H . A more drastic change sometimes occurs when a wrestler turns heroic or villainous , such as when Hulk Hogan joined the villainous nWo (New World Order) and became "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan. His new attitude

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4278-533: Was Volador's last match for TNA. On January 21 and 22, 2012, Volador Jr. took part in the CMLL and NJPW co-produced Fantastica Mania 2012 events in Tokyo . On the first night, Volador Jr. teamed with Kazuchika Okada to defeat the team of Hiroshi Tanahashi and La Sombra. In the main event of the second night, Volador Jr. unsuccessfully challenged La Sombra for the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship. In January 2013, Volador Jr. returned to Japan to take part in

4347-495: Was announced that Volador Jr. would return to NJPW for the Super Junior Tag League. Teaming with Titán , he finished the tournament with a record of four wins and three losses, once again failing to advance to the finals. Due to CMLL's partnership with Ring of Honor (ROH), Volador Jr. appeared at Supercard of Honor XI , where he teamed up with Will Ospreay to defeat Jay White and Dragon Lee . In January 2024, it

4416-571: Was announced the CMLL stars, Volador Jr., Máscara Dorada 2.0 , Hechicero and Místico would represent their home promotion, in American partner promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The four men made their debut on the January 31 edition of AEW Dynamite , appearing ringside during Jon Moxley's singles match against Jeff Hardy . After being taunted by Moxley during the match, the four men attacked him after his victory, before being chased off by members of

4485-408: Was at football practice instead. One of his younger brothers became a professional wrestler as well, using the ring name "Metatron". Besides wrestling Sagrado also studied religion, urged by his mother to seek the priesthood when he was old enough. According to Sagrado he met Fray Tormenta , the famous Mexican wrestling priest who told him to follow his own desires, which in turn led him to become

4554-596: Was due to Hogan being advertised as " The Incredible Hulk Hogan" early in his career, while Marvel owned the trademark for their comic book character. Sometimes, a wrestler will buy the rights to their own ring name; for example, Steve Borden owns the rights to the name Sting and licenses it to the musician of the same name . The wrestler formerly known as Test took this one step further and legally changed his name to "Andrew Test Martin". Jim Hellwig, known as The Ultimate Warrior , had his name legally changed to simply "Warrior". In many cases, ring names evolve over time as

4623-595: Was enhanced by changing his costume color scheme from his famous red and yellow to nWo's black and white. Steve Williams adopted the ring name Steve Austin to avoid confusion with the then-more established performer "Dr. Death" Steve Williams . Austin would wrestle under that name for several years before signing with the WWF and being given the name "the Ringmaster". This gimmick failed to catch on, and Austin reverted to his established name, reaching his greatest level of success with

4692-461: Was part of Team Mexico , working with Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero and Averno, with TNA ignoring the fact that Volador Jr. had been rivals with all three wrestlers in Mexico. He made his TNA debut in an Ultimate X match at TNA's Victory Road show on July 13, 2008. During the World X tournament he defeated Kaz , Naruki Doi and Daivari to score four points for his team that allowed Team Mexico to win

4761-497: Was the 10th man to leave the steel cage, keeping his mask safe. The match came down to La Sombra pinning Olímpico to unmask him. On September 17, Volador Jr. picked up one of the biggest wins in his CMLL career, defeating Místico in the finals of a tournament to win the Copa Bicentenario. On October 5, 2010, Volador Jr. lost the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship to La Máscara, ending his reign at 236 days. After losing

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