The Most Bizarre Lucha Underground Stars

Take the weirdest, most outlandish wrestling character you may imagine. They may very well be supernatural and spooky like The Undertaker, they may very well be an anxious millennial cowboy like Hangman Adam Page, they might even be a pirate who disappears for a few months after which returns to disclose that he’s in love along with his own sister, like Paul Burchill (that last one really happened by the best way). Now imagine that character joins a brand latest wrestling company, walks through the door of the locker room, and discovers that they are not the strangest person within the room, but they’re relatively normal by comparison.

The locker room they more than likely walked into was the one inside The Temple in Boyle Heights, California, and the corporate they joined was Lucha Underground. Throughout the mid-2010s, Lucha Underground was quite simply probably the most insane promotion to have ever made it to a television screen. It took all the athleticism of an excellent indie, the Grindhouse aesthetic of a Robert Rodriguez movie (who was also an Executive Producer for the show), and all the wildest soap opera moments from corporations like WWE, and injected that mixture with enough steroids and psychedelic drugs to kill a herd of elephants.

If all of that appears like something which may pique your interest, you are not the just one, as the corporate still has a loyal cult-like following to at the present time, despite its final season airing in 2018. Nonetheless, it was the forged of characters that made people fall in love with the show, and that is what we’re here to speak about today. So sit back, calm down, and join us for an additional journey to Boyle Heights, California, as we take a take a look at among the most bizarre characters within the wild history of Lucha Underground.

We start off our list in a spot few people have ever gone before: space.

As of writing, Aero Star is a seasoned veteran with over 20 years within the wrestling business. He made his in-ring debut back in 2003 and would have the distinct honor of being given the ultimate character created by AAA founder Antonio Pena before he died in 2006. The Aero Star gimmick in AAA was a lightning-quick luchador who had an aerial arsenal unlike some other, and had a habit of jumping off the lighting structure at any time when he got the prospect, making him one of the vital exciting luchadors in Mexico on the time. Then he arrived in Lucha Underground, and his gimmick was taken to such an extreme level that he may very well be heard in his grave saying, “Oh Dios Mio.” 

Aero Star’s journey in Lucha Underground began off in quite regular fashion, having a best-of-five series with Drago that might ultimately make them becoming tag team partners, but as time went on, it was clear that Aero Star had some form of ability nobody else had. That ability was that he was an actual astronaut, although some people saw him as a weird rocket-powered alien, and by the beginning of season two, Aero Star could legitimately travel through each space and time, ultimately landing him in quite a lot of very bizarre storylines towards the back end of the show that saw a few of his friends get possessed, and Aero Star himself becoming handy with a pair of nunchucks that glowed at nighttime.

Sadly, these abilities remained locked inside the world of Lucha Underground as Aero Star was not capable of time travel when he appeared at WWE and AAA’s World Collide Premium Live Event in June.

We have already mentioned Drago as his best-of-five series with Aero Star truly put him on the map in Lucha Underground, but his striking look made him a fan favorite from the moment he made his first appearance in season one. Just scroll up and take a look at that mask, it is a thing of beauty! The eye to detail is actually a sight to behold, and he got here equipped with a set of dragon wings, in addition to a tongue that was so long it made Gene Simmons interrupt a KISS concert and say “Oh Dios Mio” (probably). The thing is, Drago’s look wasn’t technically a take a look at all; it was real. That is right, Drago was an actual fire-breathing dragon.

Technically speaking, he was actually a dragon in human form who decided to grow to be a wrestler because why would not he need to grow to be a wrestler? Those wings he had weren’t for show either as Drago appeared in multiple backstage segments where he appeared to fly away off-screen, but simply to make his matches just a little more evenly matched, he would never use his ability to fly, and all the time succumbed to the laws of gravity at any time when he did a dive to the skin. As for the tongue…one dreads to think what he did with it in his spare time, to be honest.

With all that said, Drago did find quite a lot of success during his time in The Temple. He’s certainly one of only six individuals to carry the Lucha Underground Trios Championship twice, teaming with Aero Star and Fenix for one reign before finding a gaggle of like-minded creatures in The Reptile Tribe. Drago still wrestles today on the Mexican indie circuit under the infinitely cool name of Dios Del Inframundo, but he has since lost his dragon-like abilities to time.

If there’s one thing that Lucha Underground was known for when it got here to its storylines, it was death. You may be killed within the ring, you would be killed off-camera, or you would even be killed in the lavatory backstage if you happen to ended up on someone’s bad side. It wasn’t precisely the safest working environment, but one man who personified the word “death” a thousand times over was the second-ever Lucha Underground Champion, Mil Muertes.

The back story of the person whose name literally translates from Spanish as “A Thousand Deaths” was a tragic one. As a young boy living along with his family in Mexico City, Mexico, he was the only survivor of a large earthquake that hit town and killed his entire family, but one person was there to assist him: Catrina. She could be his valet on-screen, in addition to his girlfriend, but like all great women in the trendy era, she could be accountable for her man in any respect times because of a chunk of rubble from the earthquake that she carried around, which Muertes used to harness all of his power, and made him one of the vital formidable names in Lucha Underground’s first season.

After killing Prince Puma’s mentor Konnan early on, Muertes himself was actually killed multiple times after losing quite a lot of Grave Consequences matches to Puma and Fenix, but because of Catrina, he was capable of be resurrected every time. That was until King Cuerno killed him for real in season 4, and given Cuerno’s gimmick as a hunter, Muertes was displayed in an enormous glass coffin as a trophy. Muertes still wrestles for AAA to at the present time as El Mesias, and even forced Alberto El Patron to depart the promotion after beating him at a recent event.

Lately, the person formally referred to as King Cuerno in Lucha Underground has been unmasked for a few years, and at one cut-off date was the person Carlito blamed for every thing that went fallacious in his life, other people’s lives, and your life as well. Santos Escobar has been with WWE for six years on the time of writing, meaning that there may be more than likely an entire wave, or perhaps a generation, of recent fans who do not know what he was able to as the massive game hunter in Lucha Underground.

Cuerno was presented as certainly one of Lucha Underground’s major stars from the moment he set foot in The Temple. A no-nonsense killer who would hunt anyone in The Temple who looked to get in his way. He would collect luchadors like trophies, all while his trademark headgear, the top of a deer with a humongous set of antlers, sat on the ring post as a option to intimidate his foes. Cuerno didn’t just limit himself to luchadors, as he would hunt birds (form of), an enormous a part of why his feud with Fenix was so critically acclaimed by fans on the time.

We have already mentioned that he claimed certainly one of his biggest scalps in the shape of Mil Muertes and displayed him to the world, however the scalp King Cuerno ended up taking in the long term was Lucha Underground itself. He was certainly one of the most important stars who sued the corporate over their contracts and the way they essentially prevented him from making a living as a result of their restrictions, and once he was released from his deal, many others got out of theirs, and the corporate effectively ceased to exist by 2019 as nearly all the roster moved on to work for corporations like WWE, TNA, and AEW.

While Lucha Underground introduced fans all over the world to several wrestlers who would go on to be among the biggest stars within the industry today, there have been a couple of familiar faces hanging around The Temple that older fans could latch on to. Two of those names were sitting behind the commentary desk because the two men tasked with calling the motion were former WWE Superstar Matt Striker and former WCW Tag Team Champion Vampiro. Striker was lucky enough to not get sucked into the shenanigans that went on within the promotion, and if anything, he got the prospect to set free when it got here to his commentary style, but Vampiro was deep within the lore of Lucha Underground thanks to at least one man specifically.

WWE and AEW fans have seen Penta on television for years at this point, but back in Lucha Underground, he would normally break people’s arms with the intention to sacrifice them to his dark master, who turned out to be none aside from Vampiro. This was revealed after their brutal “Cero Miedo” match at the tip of season one, and from that time on, Vampiro would seem to push Pentagon Jr. to increasingly more violent levels, with the Dark Master getting increasingly more pushy as season two went on. Nonetheless, when Penta did not dethrone Matanza Cueto for the Lucha Underground Championship, he turned on Vampiro, which actually turned him face, considering how volatile Vampiro had gotten by this point.

Vampiro and Penta would reunite by season 4 after the previous WCW star mentored Prince Puma throughout season three, but the concept of getting a commentator be one of the vital violent men in the complete promotion is only one example of how extreme and bizarre Lucha Underground may very well be at times.

Who would of thought that a fan who interfered in a match all the best way back in season one would find yourself becoming certainly one of the staples of the show, and even be involved in the ultimate officially scheduled match in Lucha Underground history. Marty Martinez was originally dropped at the promotion with the concept of being a magician, along with his lovely assistant “Beautiful Brenda” by his side, but that was scrapped when Marty suffered an injury. This led to a change in direction for him, and it’s protected to say that it was probably the most effective thing that might have happened to his profession at the moment, as The Magician became The Moth, and he was all around the company.

In case you were to ask anyone who watched Lucha Underground what Marty “The Moth” Martinez’s character actually was, most individuals would simply say “he was an enormous creep who liked to torture women” and be very near being 100% accurate. The creepiness of Martinez shone through during his feud with Sexy Star, who possessed certainly one of the Aztec Medallions that went towards the Gift of the Gods Championship that he wanted since it had a moth on it. When Star didn’t give it up, she got kidnapped and tortured by Martinez and his sister, Mariposa.

In a while within the show, he would develop an obsession for ring announcer Melissa Santos, and he even fought his own sister after she was pulled into the road of fireplace by Martinez during his feud with Fenix. Nonetheless, this could all result in success as he was the Lucha Underground Champion heading into the ultimate episode of the show in 2018, but he  would lose the title to Pentagon Dark, who then lost it to Jake Strong immediately after.

Long-time wrestling fans will know Paul London from various places. He broke through as a part of the generation of indie wrestlers that made corporations like Ring of Honor and TNA stand out within the early 2000s. He was then signed to WWE in 2003, where he would go on to have one of the vital memorable Royal Rumble eliminations of all time, form a hugely successful tag team with Brian Kendrick, and look so pleased in regards to the undeniable fact that Vince McMahon was about to get blown up in a limo. From London returned to the Indies, where he would find success in places like PWG, but when he got to Lucha Underground in 2016, he became a shining example of why you must avoid LCD and PCP.

London debuted in Lucha Underground during season three because the leader of The Rabbit Tribe. The promotion had quite a lot of different tribes with various motivations, and together with Saltador and Mala Suerte, London tripped everyone out while he was on screen. He was essentially The Mad Hatter from “Alice In Wonderland” but with more psychedelic drugs running through his character than a version of Woodstock ’69 where the one band playing was The Grateful Dead, and everybody who was allowed in needed to drink a pint of acid and talk over with a cow.

The tribe would consider iconic mini wrestler Mascarita Sagrada to be their God, but he would eventually be killed by London in season 4 by London after The White Rabbit, played by none aside from WWE’s Karrion Kross, ordered him to for bringing Sagrada to his secret lair. London would get away with murder, though as after a short-lived retirement, he returned to wrestling in 2021, and continues to be an lively performer to at the present time.

Angela Fong has long since retired from skilled wrestling, and is primarily focused on being a mother to her two children. With that said, if her kids ever grow up and ask about what she did before they were born, she would give you the chance to say that she killed people on television and had a gaggle of Japanese ninjas to do her bidding for her.

In Lucha Underground, Fong played “The Black Lotus,” a lady hellbent on in search of a person named Matanza who supposedly killed her parents. Nonetheless, Lucha Underground owner Dario Cueto convinced her that it was in truth El Dragon Azteca who was chargeable for their deaths, something that was revealed to her while imprisoned by Cueto who was just attempting to protect his murderous family. This led to Lotus killing Azteca and fleeing The Temple in the method, before returning as certainly one of Dario’s bodyguards, which he definitely needed as he was as wanted because the people he would go after.

As for her ninjas, they appeared in season three during her feud with Pentagon Dark, who tried to interrupt her arm while facing El Dragon Azteca’s top student, El Dragon Azteca Jr.. Together, they were referred to as The Black Lotus Triad, a gaggle of Japanese women who Lotus had called in to assist deal with Pentagon, and the reinforcements she called upon have all gone on to be among the most dominant women within the industry. Those women were Hitokiri, played by former WWE Women’s World Champion IYO Sky. Doku, played by former NXT Women’s Champion Kairi Sane, and Yurei, played by former IWGP Women’s Champion Mayu Iwatani, and together they really did deal with Pentagon Dark by interfering in Aztec Warfare III, and beating him in a gauntlet match. 

There isn’t any higher place to complete a listing like this than with the family behind all the madness: the Cueto family.

While we never got to satisfy any third cousins or long lost relatives, in the event that they were anything like Dario Cueto, perhaps it was for the most effective that fans didn’t get to satisfy the remaining of the Cueto clan. Raised with an unhealthy desire for blood and violence, Dario used his money to start out Lucha Underground, turn a warehouse in Boyle Heights into The Temple everyone knows and love, and let everyone rip one another limb from limb, all while he sat somewhat comfortably in his office that was situated about eight feet from the ring itself. Dario was actually killed at the tip of season three by a hitman, who was later revealed to be hired by his own father, Antonio, who all the time saw Dario because the weakest of his kids, despite Dario arguably being more insane than his far more dangerous brother.

The brother in query was “The Monster” Matanza Cueto, played by a person who has by some means found himself in much more family drama since signing for WWE earlier this 12 months, Jeff “JC Mateo” Cobb. Supposedly possessed by an ancient god, Matanza was the murderous, unstoppable final boss of Lucha Underground who Dario would set free on all the promotion’s top babyfaces, before taking him back to his cage, where he needed to be kept as a result of how dangerous he was, and the way many individuals he had killed. One member of the family that fans never met was Matanza and Dario’s mother, but that was as a result of Matanza apparently killing her when he was young, an motion that got here about after their father forced Matanza into various underground fighting tournaments.