El Signo
El Signo | |
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Birth name | Antonio Sánchez Rendón |
Born | Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico | September 4, 1954
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | El Signo Piromaniaco |
Billed height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) |
Billed weight | 98 kg (216 lb) |
Trained by | Billy Robinson Chamaco Azteca El Carnicero |
Debut | September 16, 1971 |
Retired | March 17, 2013 |
Antonio Sánchez Rendón (born September 4, 1954), is a retired Mexican
Personal life
Most wrestlers in Mexico try to maintain a separation between their professional career and their personal life, which is also true of Antonio Sánchez Rendón, confirming only the most basic details of his life such as birth age and location etc. He was born on September 4, 1954, in Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico, and trained for his professional wrestling career under Billy Robinson, Chamaco Azteca and El Carnicero. Sánchez has at least one child, a son born in 1985 who now wrestled as the enmascarado, or masked character Hijo del Signo, but since he is an enmascarado his birth name is reported on out of respect of lucha libre traditions.[1][2] It is not documented if he has other children or if he is still married to the mother of Hijo del Signo.
Professional wrestling career
Sánchez made his professional wrestling debut on September 16, 1971, a few weeks after turning 17 years old. He began wrestling as the enmascarado character "El Signo" ("The Sign"), wearing a mask (most often black) with an upside down
Los Misioneros de la Muerte
In the late 1970s the UWA promoters were noticing that rival EMLL had achieved financial and critical success with their lighter divisions, often having Lightweights or Welterweights in their main events while the UWA relied primarily on their heavyweight division for their main event matches. promoter
In 1981 the Los Misioneros de la Muerte name became a household name after a match in El Toreo de Quatro Caminos, UWA's main venue. During the main event Los Misioneros faced off against then 64-year-old
In 1984 Los Misioneros won the UWA World Trios Championship for the first time, although it is not documented for exactly how long.[11] On January 1, 1985, Negro Navarro won his first singles championship, the UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship, when he defeated the then champion Aníbal. The title run only lasted 50 days, ending on February 25, 1985, when he lost to Mano Negra.[10] In the mid-1980s the "War" between the UWA and EMLL had cooled off enough for Los Misionerios to actually wrestle on the EMLL 53rd Anniversary Show, losing a trios Luchas de Apuestas to Ringo Mendoza, Américo Rocca and Tony Salazar.[12][13] Los Misionerios regained the UWA World Trios Championship in 1987 defeating Los Villanos (Villano III, Villano IV and Villano V), after what was considered the "peak" of Los Misionerios. With an influx of other popular trios both in the UWA and in Mexico in general Los Misioneros days on the top of the Trios scene came to an end, which was followed by the end of Los Missioneros de la Muerte in its original form. During a UWA World Trios Championship match against Los Villanos El Texano threw in the towel to save his partner El Signo any more punishment. After the match and title loss his partners turned on El Texano and attacked him after the match. The attack was done primarily to write El Texano out of the UWA storyline as he had given notice that he was leaving.
UWA Promoter Francisco Flores decided to try to keep the Los Misioneros de la Muerte team active even after the departure of El Texano and experimented with a number of different partners for Navarro and El Signo. Teaming with the masked wrestler Black Power Los Misioneros defeated Los Villanos (
Independent Circuit
After the closure of the UWA in 1995 Negro Navarro and El Signo split up, going their separate ways on the Independent circuit, only teaming together for special occasions. Signo joined AAA and was given a new ring character, a masked heel character called "Piromaniaco" (
Championships and accomplishments
- Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
- Universal Wrestling Association
- UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[10]
- UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[20]
- UWA World Lightweight Championship (1 time)[5]
- UWA World Trios Championship (6 times) – With Negro Navarro and El Texano (2), Negro Navarro and Black Power II (2), Negro Navarro and Rocky Santana (2)[11]
- UWA World Welterweight Championship (1 time)[6]
- WWF Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[21][Note 1]
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- Los Misioneros de la Muerte[22]
Luchas de Apuestas record
Winner (wager) | Loser (wager) | Location | Event | Date | Notes |
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Gatúbedo (mask) | El Signo (mask) | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | UWA show | 1974 | [3] |
El Cobarde II (mask) |
El Signo (hair) | N/A | Live event | N/A | [3] |
El Texano (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | UWA show | N/A | [3] |
Perro Aguayo (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | UWA show | N/A | [23] |
Rambo (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | UWA Live event | N/A | [3] |
El Signo (hair) | La Gacela (hair) | N/A | Live event | November 20, 1977 | [3] |
Black Man and El Matemático (masks) | El Signo and Lobo Rubio (hair) | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | UWA show | January 29, 1978 | [3] |
El Signo (hair) | Gran Hamada (hair) | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | UWA show | December 17, 1978 | [3] |
Gran Hamada, Enrique Vera and Kobayashi (hair) | Los Misioneros de la Muerte (hair) and Negro Navarro)(El Signo, El Texano |
Mexico City | UWA show | June 7, 1981 | [3][24] |
Los Misioneros de la Muerte (hair) and Negro Navarro)(El Signo, El Texano |
Takano, Saito and Kobayashi (hair) | Mexico City | UWA show | June 13, 1982 | [3] |
Villano III (mask) | El Signo (hair) | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | UWA show | August 1, 1982 | [19] |
El Solitario (mask) | El Signo (hair) | Tijuana, Baja California | UWA show | June 12, 1983 | [3] |
Babe Face (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | UWA show | June 24, 1984 | [Note 2] |
Los Misioneros de la Muerte (hair) and Negro Navarro)(El Signo, El Texano |
El Dandy, Talismán and Jerry Estrada (hair) | Mexico City | UWA show | September 5, 1986 | [25] |
Ringo Mendoza, Américo Rocca and Tony Salazar (hair) | Los Misioneros de la Muerte (hair) and Negro Navarro)(El Signo, El Texano |
Mexico City | EMLL 53rd Anniversary Show | September 19, 1986 | [12][13] |
El Signo (hair) | Kato Kung Lee (hair) | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | UWA 14th Anniversary Show | January 29, 1989 | [3][26][27] |
Enrique Vera (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | Live event | March 4, 1990 | [3] |
Brazo de Oro (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Mexico City | Live event | November 28, 1990 | [3] |
El Signo (hair) | El Engendro (hair) | Mexico City | Live event | July 19, 1993 | [3] |
Latin Lover (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | Live event | May 1, 1994 | [3] |
Villano III (mask) | El Signo (hair) | Puebla, Puebla | Live event | July 25, 1994 | [19] |
Ringo Mendoza (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Mexico City | Live event | September 6, 1998 | [3] |
El Signo (hair) | Brazo de Oro (hair) | Oaxaca, Oaxaca | Live event | February 11, 2001 | [3] |
El Signo (hair) | Challenger (mask) | Oaxaca, Oaxaca | Live event | March 18, 2001 | [3] |
El Signo (hair) | Challenger (hair) | Oaxaca, Oaxaca | Live event | March 25, 2001 | [3] |
El Signo (hair) | Ray Alcántara (hair) | Oaxaca, Oaxaca | Live event | June 10, 2001 | [3] |
Villano III (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Mexico City | Live event | July 29, 2001 | [3][19] |
El Solar (mask) | El Signo (hair) | Pachuca, Hidalgo | Live event | December 17, 2002 | [3] |
Justiciero (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Coacalco, State of Mexico | Live event | June 1, 2003 | [3] |
Villano III (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Querétaro, Querétaro | Live event | August 13, 2004 | [19] |
Villano III (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Naucalpan, State of Mexico | Live event | January 16, 2005 | [Note 3][19] |
El Dandy (hair) | El Signo (hair) | Pachuca, Hidalgo | Live event | September 14, 2009 | [Note 4] |
Footnotes
- World Wrestling Federation. In 1997 the WWF decided to promote the Light Heavyweight Championship on their own shows, not officially recognizing the title lineage from before that point in time.
- ^ This was a Los Misioneros vs. Los Tigres trios match where the captain of teach team put their hair on the line.
- ^ This was a Los Misioneros vs. Los Villanos trios match where the captain of teach team put their hair on the line.
- steel cage match that also included El Fantasma, El Oriental, Villano III, Villano IV and Super Muñeco.
References
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