Averno (Hell) (born
May 9, 1977), whose birth name is unknown, is a Mexican
professional wrestler currently
performing for Consejo
Mundial de Lucha Libre, where he is the reigning CMLL World Middleweight
Champion. His
ring name is the
Spanish rendering of
Avernus, the crater where
Aeneas descended into the
underworld in
Virgil's
Aeneid and is most commonly translated as "
Hell" in English. Averno's real name is not a matter
of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in
Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the
wrestling fans.
Professional wrestling career
Rencor Latino
He began wrestling in 1995 under the name Rencor Latino (
Latin
Hostility) after being trained by his father, a former
wrestler and referee named Rodolfo Ruiz. He soon started working as
an undercarder for
Consejo Mundial de Lucha
Libre. He won his first mask in 1998 when he defeated Apolo
Chino in
Arena Coliseo D.F. after
a midcard
feud. He
continued wrestling in the midcard until he was recruited by
Satánico in the summer of 2001 to be
part of his new Infernales group.
Averno
During a televised segment Satánico used his supposed “satanic
powers” to turn
técnico (good guy) Rencor
Latino into one of his “minions”, the
rudo (bad guy) known as
“Averno”. The fact that his previous identity as Rencor Latino was
openly acknowledged, has led Averno to sometimes wear a mask where
one side is the “Averno side” and the other side is the “Rencor
Latino side” as a reference to his previous identity. Satanico and
Averno were joined by
Mephisto
who had previously wrestled as Astro Rey, Jr. The trio feuded with
Último Guerrero,
Rey Bucanero and
Tarzan Boy over the year with Averno
and Satánico unsuccessfully challenging Guerrero and Bucanero for
their
World Tag Team
championship in August 2001 when Satánico was
disqualified for
using a
low
blow. A month later,
Los
Infernales defeated Guerrero's group (who were forced to change
their name to
Los Guerreros
del Infierno as a result of this match) in a steel cage match
when
Máscara Mágica, the
fourth member of Los Guerreros, was the last man in the cage,
ending the feud for the most part.
In 2002,
the trio won the Mexican National Trios
Championship in Guadalajara, Jalisco
and began feuding with La Familia de Tijuana (Nicho el Millionario, Halloween and Damián 666). The trio lost the title
to La Familia in September 2002 but continued feuding into 2003
when Los Infernales and La Familia wrestled a no contest in June.
After Nicho stopped appearing for CMLL, Los Infernales won a
tournament to become the number one contenders for the
CMLL World Trios Championship
but lost to the championship team of
Black Tiger III,
Dr. Wagner, Jr. and
Universo 2000 on August 1. At the end of the
year, Averno and Mephisto
turned on Satánico
but there was no major feud afterwards and the pair spent much of
the year teaming with
Olímpico in
midcard matches. In September 2004, Averno defeated
Zumbido in a decision match for the vacant
NWA World Middleweight
Championship. Shortly afterwards, he was starting to get pushed
as a
foil to the up-and-coming
Místico and he and Mephisto became de
facto members of Los Guerreros del Infierno. Averno appeared in
several matches on the top of the card, including his main event
match against
El Hijo del Santo
for Santo's WWA Welterweight Championship where he lost
clean.
In February 2005, he lost the NWA Middleweight title to Místico but
he and Mephisto defeated
Atlantis and
Blue Panther for the
CMLL World Tag Team
Championship in
April. When
Shinsuke Nakamura and
Hiroshi Tanahashi from
New Japan Pro Wrestling came to
CMLL, Averno teamed with them at first but the two turned on him,
leading to a trios match with Averno teaming with Último Guerrero
and Rey Bucanero against Nakamura, Tanashi and
Shigeo Okumura on the 72nd EMLL Anniversary
show.
Averno and Mephisto finished the year
defending their tag team title 7 times, with the most prominent
being on the last Arena México
show of 2005 when they defeated El Hijo del Santo
and Negro Casas in the main
event. In early 2006, they defended their titles against
Místico and
Black Warrior twice. In
the first match, they won by disqualification when Black Warrior
interfered in the match after being pinned and in the second match
two weeks later, Black Warrior turned on Místico. In April, they
lost the tag team titles to the team of Místico and Negro Casas,
ending their year-long reign. On September 17 Averno defeated Negro
Casas to win the
CMLL World Middleweight
Championship. On January 16, 2009 he and his long tag team
partner lost the CMLL World Tag Teams Championship to La Sombra and
Volador Jr. On July 22, 2009, Averno lost one of his Middleweight
titles, the CMLL World Middleweight Championship, to
Hijo del Fantasma. After the match,
despite being a rudo Averno showed respect and celebrated with
Fantasma after the match.
In wrestling
- *Angel Wings (Spinning sitout
double underhook facebuster)
- *Diving
headbutt
- *No-handed
suicide dive
- *Sitout side
powerslam
Championships and accomplishments
- *CMLL World
Middleweight Championship (1
time)
- *CMLL World Tag
Team Championship (3 times) -
with Mephisto
- *Mexican
National Trios Championship (1 time) -
with Satánico and Mephisto
- *NWA World
Middleweight Championship (2 times,
current)1
- *PWI ranked him #48 of the 500 best singles
wrestlers of the PWI
500 in 2006
- *TNA World X Cup (2008) - with Rey Bucanero, Último Guerrero and Volador Jr.
1Despite CMLL still using the NWA initials for
some of its titles, it is no longer an NWA affiliated promotion and
hasn't been since the 1980s. As a result, the
National Wrestling
Alliance no longer recognizes or sanctions any CMLL
championship still bearing the NWA initials.
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