Karloff Lagarde

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Karloff Lagarde
Birth nameCarlos Delucio Lagarde
Born(1928-07-27)July 27, 1928[1]
Zapotlán de Juárez, Hidalgo, Mexico[2]
DiedAugust 31, 2007(2007-08-31) (aged 79)[1][2]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Karloff Lagarde
Billed height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Billed weight68 kg (150 lb)[1]
Billed fromZapotlán de Juárez, Hidalgo, Mexico
Debut1950[1]

Carlos Delucio Lagarde (July 27, 1928 – August 31, 2007) is best known as Karloff Lagarde, a

professional wrestler, who was immensely popular during the 1960s and 1970s. Through his career had faced most of Mexico's top stars of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s including lucha libre legends such as El Santo, El Solitario, Mil Máscaras, Black Shadow, Huracán Ramírez, Gory Guerrero, Ray Mendoza and Perro Aguayo. He was known as the "king of the Welterweight" due to him holding the Mexican National Welterweight Championship four times and the NWA World Welterweight Championship three times in his career. Lagarde teamed up with René Guajardo to form a tag team
known as Los Rebeldes, considered to be one of the top five tag teams in Lucha libre history.

Professional wrestling career

Born in

Rayo de Jalisco. They held the Mexican National Tag Team Championship at least once between 1962 and 1967.[5] On April 28, 1962, Lagarde regained the Mexican National Welterweight Championship from Blue Demon, but vacated the title the following year to focus on defending the NWA World Welterweight Championship and teaming with Guajardo.[3] Lagarde's marathon reign as NWA World Welterweight Champion ended on August 5, 1965, 2743 days after winning it, when he lost to Huracán Ramírez.[6] Lagarde regained the title in September and held it for 590 days before Vento Castella defeated him for the belt. Lagarde's third and final reign as NWA World Welterweight champion began only two months after Castella had won the title and lasted for 1,469 days making Lagarde the person to have held the NWA World Welterweight Championship the longest with 4,802 days in total, over 2,000 days more than the second longest.[6] In 1969 Lagarde won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship for a fourth time, defeating longtime rival Huracán Ramírez for the title on September 9, 1969. The rivalry with Ramírez extended into the 1970s with Ramírez regaining the title in 1972 and Lagarde winning his fourth and final title from Ramírez on October 20, 1972.[3] Lagarde's final title run ended on August 11, 1973, when he was defeated by El Marque.[3]

Movie career

When the Lagarde / Guajardo duo was at the top of the Mexican wrestling world the duo appeared in one of the many

Lucha films produced at the time. They portrayed the enmascarado (masked wrestlers) Ángel and Satán. two of the main protagonists in the 1964 movie Los endemoniados del ring ("The Demons of the Ring").[1]

Personal life

Lagarde was a second-generation wrestler, although the ring name of his father has not been found documented.

Karloff Lagarde, Jr. as a tribute to his uncle. It is not an uncommon practice in Mexico to become a "Junior" without being actually the son of the wrestler, instead it is seen as a tribute.[7] Another one of Lagarde's nephews wrestles as Coco Rojo, a wrestling clown.[1]

Carlos Lagarde died on August 31, 2007, following numerous weeks in poor health as a result of a stroke.[2]

Championships and accomplishments

Luchas de Apuestas record

Winner (wager) Loser (wager) Location Event Date Notes
El Solitario (mask) Karloff Lagarde (hair) N/A Live event N/A [10]
Halcón de Oro II (hair) Karloff Lagarde (hair) Mexico City Live event N/A  
Karloff Lagarde (hair) El Impostor (mask) Monterrey, Nuevo León Live event N/A  
Ray Mendoza (hair) Karloff Lagarde (hair) Mexico City Live event 1965 [11]
Karloff Lagarde (hair) Cavernario Galindo (hair) Mexico City Live event December 3, 1965 [12]
Jerry London (hair) Karloff Lagarde (hair) Mexico City EMLL 33rd Anniversary Show September 9, 1966 [13][14]
Perro Aguayo (hair) Karloff Lagarde (hair) Tijuana, Baja California Live event June 8, 1974 [15]

References

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  2. ^ a b c Zellner, Kris (August 31, 2007). "Wrestling Observer – headlines". The Wrestling Observer. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
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  4. ^ "Grandes Figuras de la Lucha Libre". René Guajardo (1933–1992) (in Spanish). Portales, Mexico. November 2008. p. 49. 17.
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  9. ^ Meltzer, Dave (November 13, 2020). "NOVEMBER 16, 2020 OBSERVER NEWSLETTER: 2020 OBSERVER HALL OF FAME ISSUEs". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
  10. ^ "Enciclopedia de las Mascaras". El Solitario (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico. October 2007. pp. 50–51. Tomo IV.
  11. ^ "Lucha Libre: Conoce la historia de las leyendas de cuadrilátero". Ray Mendoza (1923–2003) (in Spanish). Mexico. 2008. p. 46. Grandes Figuras de la Lucha Libre.
  12. ^ "Lucha Libre: Conoce la historia de las leyendas de cuadrilátero". Cavernario Galindo (1923–1999) (in Spanish). Mexico. 2008. p. 16. Grandes Figuras de la Lucha Libre.
  13. ^ "Historia de Los Aniversarios del CMLL". The Gladiatores Magazine (in Spanish). September 2, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  14. ^ "Historia de Los Aniversarios" (in Spanish). Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  15. ^ "Luchas 2000". Perro Aguayo y sus Victimas (in Spanish). Juárez, Mexico: Publicaciones citem, S.A. de C.V. pp. 12–15. Especial 30.