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Olímpico (Real name unrevealed; born December 6, 1965) is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler. Olímpico is sometimes Anglicised as "Olympico", and means "Olympian" in Spanish. From his debut in 1992 until late 2008 Olímpico worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), since then he has worked for Promociones Perros del Mal, International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), World Wrestling Alliance (WWA) and the Mexican independent circuit.
[edit] Professional wrestling careerThe wrestler who would later work as Olímpico grew up watching his father, Roy Aguirre, wrestle and wanted to follow in his father's footsteps. After training with his father he made his professional wrestling debut in Mexico City, Mexico for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). It was rare for CMLL to have a wrestler actually made his debut on in their "home venue", but they were in need of young talent after a large number of young wrestlers had left CMLL for rival promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) in early 1992. In his first match he used the ring name Popoca, Jr. but after the match it was decided that he needed a different ring persona. CMLL Owner Paco Alonso came up with the concept of "Olímpico", "the Olympian", inspired by the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.[1] Olímpico wore a white mask with the Olympic Rings on it, a white Olympic wrestling style singlet and white boots. Later on he would change the Olympic rings to five lines with the colors of the Olympic rings as CMLL had not gotten permission to use the official Olympic symbol.[2] Initially Olímpico worked in the first and second matches of the show, improving his skills while continuing to train under Hijo del Gladiador at the CMLL Gym. In 1996 he was finally given a chance to stand out from the other low card wrestlers when he was placed in a storyline feud with Damián El Guerrero. The feud saw Olímpico win his first Luchas de Apuestas match (a "bet match" where both competitors put their mask on the line), unmasking Damián El Guerrero.[2] On September 16, 1998 Olímpico won the CMLL World Welterweight Championship from Karlof Lagarde, Jr., the first singles title of Olípico's career.[3] On October 23, 1998 Olímpico headlined his first CMLL show ever, losing the CMLL Welterweight title to Halcón Negro.[3] A week later Olímpico once again faced Halcón Negro in the main event, this time defeating Negro in a Luchas de Apuesta, winning the mask of his opponent.[2] On February 27, 1999 Olímpico made his first trip to Japan, losing the CMLL Welterweight title to Super Delfin.[3] Back in Mexico Olímpico worked a feud against Rey Bucanero, a feud that involved mask ripping every time the two were in the same ring, building to a Luchas de Apuesta between the two. But the match never happened, instead Rey Bucanero lost his mask to Shocker leaving the Olímpico / Bucanero storyline unfinished. On March 30, 2000 Olímpico, Mr. Niebla and Safari defeated the team of Blue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera and El Signo to win the Mexican National Trios Championship.[4] In 2002 CMLL decided to create a Mini-Estrella version of Olímpico called Pequeño Olímpico, a short wrestler who wore an outfit patterened after Olímpico's outfit at the time.[5] On June 23, 2003 Olímpico, Mr. Niebla and Safari lost the Trios title to Los Nuevo Infernales, the team of Averno, Mephisto and Satánico.[4] After working as a tecnico (a good guy character, called a Face in wrestling) since 1992 Olímpico turned rudo (villain or Heel) in the fall of 2004, joining a group called Los Guerreros del Infierno, Último Guerrero, Rey Bucanero and Tarzan Boy. While his rudo turn was surprising, it was soon overshadowed when Atlantis turned rudo and joined Los Guerreros in early 2005, relegating Olímpico to the secondary trios teams, working with Tarzan Boy and other Los Guerrero's associates while the team Último Guerrero, Rey Bucanero and Atlantis was the main Guerreros del Infierno team. On September 30, 2005 Olímpico and Atlantis were chosen to challenge Hiroshi Tanahashi and Shinsuke Nakamura for the IWGP Tag Team Championship, when the Japanese duo made a trip to Mexico; Tanahashi and Nakamura successfully defended the title.[6] Over the next three years Olímpico worked the semi-main and sometimes main event Trios matches but never got the "big" match or won any championships. In the fall of 2008 Perro Aguayo, Jr. and his group Los Perros del Mal left CMLL, citing their unhappiness with their position in the promotion and the lack of attention they were given. Aguayo left CMLL and formed his own professional wrestling promotion called Promociones Perros del Mal, one of the first "Non-Perro" wrestlers they announced was Olímpico, who had left CMLL for the same reason as Aguayo. Since then Olímpico has been a regular on Perros del Mal shows, as well as working for International Wrestling Revolution Group and various Independent wrestling promotions all over Mexico. On March 20, 2009 Olímpico defeated Angel Blanco, Jr. to win the vacant WWA Middleweight Championship, although some confuses exists as a different WWA Middleweight Championship is used around the Monterrey area. Olímpico later claimed that he was never actually given the championship belt after the match, putting the legitimacy of the title victory further in doubt.[7] [edit] In wrestling
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
[edit] Lucha de Apuesta recordSee also: Luchas de Apuestas
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