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58-485: Rambo headlined all of the events with the exception of the July 1996 edition which was headlined by Ludvig Borga and August Smisl . All the events were headlined by a match for the promotion's top title , the prestigious CWA World Heavyweight Championship , with the exception of the 1999 event, which was headlined by a CWA World Middleweight Championship match between Franz Schumann and Jesus Cristobal , which would be

116-447: A No Disqualification match , during which La Parka Negra bloodied his rival after hitting him with a light tube. In a twist, El Zorro returned to AAA on October 18, 2013, at Héroes Inmortales VII , during a first round match in the 2013 Copa Antonio Peña between La Parka and La Parka Negra, who was now portrayed by the former Último Gladiador . After walking around the ringside area, El Zorro slid his signature kendo stick inside

174-586: A stable known as The Truth Commission . The Truth Commission was billed as being a group of South African white separatist guerrillas , with their name a reference to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission . In 1997, The Truth Commission joined the World Wrestling Federation, where they were initially managed by The Commandant . Tank and The Commandant soon left the WWF, and The Commandant

232-477: A bit rougher, he his beard and hair had grown wilder while he wore the mask and he seemed more vicious in his attacks on the heels. After a while Zorro shaved and had his hair cut, reverting to the persona he had before the "evil mask" storyline began. At the 2007 Verano de Escandalo Zorro teamed with Los Hell Brothers in a Domo De La Muerte cage match against the Black Family. Zorro escaped early on in

290-660: A couple of appearances on the World Wrestling Federation 's Latin based Super Astros where he worked as Jesus Cristobal, essentially using the Zorro gimmick but without the mask. Zorro began working for AAA, later known as Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide some time near the beginning of the century, mostly working low card matches. In 2002 Zorro won the UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship , his first of five reigns with

348-753: A professional wrestling event which took place on December 21, 1996 at the Marquee at the Bürgerweide in Bremen , Germany . Euro Catch Festival (1997) was the eleventh Euro Catch Festival event produced by Catch Wrestling Association. The event took place on July 5, 1997 at the Eisstadion Liebenau in Graz , Austria . Euro Catch Festival (1998) was the twelfth Euro Catch Festival professional wrestling event which took place on December 19, 1998 at

406-532: A series of matches. Poirier and Recon took part in a fifteen team tag team battle royal at WrestleMania XIV on March 29, 1998, for the top contendership to the WWF World Tag Team Championship , but were eliminated by Kurrgan, who interfered in the match. Poirier and Recon briefly feuded with Kurrgan and The Jackyl under the name Armageddon before leaving the WWF and returned to CWA. Poirier returned to Germany after his departure from

464-619: A shot at the AAA Mega Championship, but Konnan, wanting to avoid dissension within his group, denied him his shot and instead named Manson the number one contender at Rey de Reyes. Following the event, El Zorro, having caught wind of Park's intention of going for his title, seemingly started interfering in Park's matches under his old mask, costing him back–to–back multi–man tag team matches at the April 27 and 30 TV tapings. On May 18,

522-410: A working relationship with, and was just waiting for a start date with the promotion. He, however, never made his debut for TNA. El Zorro made his first title defense on March 18, 2011, at Rey de Reyes , defeating Los Bizarros member Charly Manson, who had recently been tormenting him by hinting at a return of the iron mask. Meanwhile, El Zorro's La Sociedad stablemate L.A. Park had earned himself

580-532: A wrestling show for European Wrestling Promotion in Germany, which led to Rambo's return to the ring in April 2011. Poirier was also inducted to the European Wrestling Hall of Fame. El Zorro (wrestler) Jesús Cristóbal Martínez Rodriguez (born July 25, 1975) is a Mexican luchador ( professional wrestler ) who is best known as El Zorro . His gimmick started out very similar to

638-639: A year-long reign at the Euro Catch Festival in December. Rambo regained the title from Road Warrior Hawk at Clash of the Champions on July 3, 1993, to begin his second reign as World Heavyweight Champion. Rambo made his next major defense against famous wrestler Ted DiBiase on August 22. He retained the title against The Barbarian in his fourth straight main event of Euro Catch Festival . He then continued his lengthy reign by retaining

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696-420: Is a Canadian retired professional wrestler . He is best known for his appearances with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Catch Wrestling Association (CWA) under the ring name Rambo and with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name Sniper . Rambo was pushed as the top star of CWA after the departure of the promotion's owner Otto Wanz and became a major main event star. He headlined

754-589: The AAA World Tag Team Championship . The feud came to an end on October 30, 2010, when El Zorro defeated Nicho in a Lucha de Apuesta weapons match to take his hair. After spending years working as a midcard talent , El Zorro was placed in a main event storyline in November 2010, when he teamed up with technico and AAA Mega Champion Dr. Wagner, Jr. in the 2010 Lucha Libre Premier parejas increibles tournament. After reaching

812-518: The Stadthalle Bremen in Bremen , Germany . Euro Catch Festival (1994) was held twice in 1994. The first event was held on July 9, 1994 at Eisstadion Liebenau in Graz , Austria and the second event was held on December 17, 1994 at Stadthalle Bremen in Bremen , Germany . The Euro Catch Festival (1994) edition of Bremen was held on December 17, 1994 at the Stadthalle Bremen in Bremen , Germany . Euro Catch Festival (1995)

870-417: The Stadthalle Bremen in Bremen , Germany . Euro Catch Festival (1999) was the thirteenth and final Euro Catch Festival professional wrestling event produced by Catch Wrestling Association and this was the final event of CWA as the promotion did not hold any more show after the event and closed. The event took place on December 4, 1999 at Marquee at the Bürgerweide in Bremen , Germany . This event marked

928-457: The "Apostle of wrestling" (a play off Mesias claiming to be the Messiah of wrestling and Cibernético claiming to be a wrestling god). In early 2008 Zorro won the annual Rey de Reyes tournament defeating Abismo Negro , Mr. Niebla and Alan Stone in the finals. The night Zorro became the 2008 Rey de Reyes Cibernético also made his triumphant return, defeating El Mesias in the main event to win

986-485: The AAA Mega Championship match, helping Jarrett retain the title by hitting L.A. Park with his signature guitar. This person was later revealed as La Sociedad member Chessman, whom Konnan had sent to interfere in the match in order to have Park go after El Zorro instead of continuing to chase his stablemate's title. El Zorro continued representing AAA in matches against La Sociedad throughout 2012. On December 2, 2012, at Guerra de Titanes , Martínez made his debut as

1044-500: The AAA Mega Championship to Jarrett. At the July 9 tapings, El Zorro accepted Dr. Wagner, Jr.'s offer and joined the AAA technicos in the informal Ejército AAA ("AAA Army") stable. However, at the following taping on July 16, members of La Sociedad attacked El Zorro after a match and once again forced the iron mask over his head. On July 31 at Verano de Escándalo , someone dressed as El Zorro, including wearing his mask, interfered in

1102-546: The AAA Mega title. Zorro immediately laid claim to the title, becoming the number one contender due to his Rey de Reyes victory. Zorro got his chance in the main event of Triplemania XVI on June 13, 2008 but lost to Cibernético. Zorro was also unsuccessful in his bid for the World title at the 2008 Antonio Peña Memorial show where he lost a triangle match that also included Chessman . When Cibernético left AAA shortly after

1160-695: The CWA to join the WWF. His last match in CWA was at Euro Catch Festival on July 5, 1997, where he successfully defended the CWA World Heavyweight Championship against Duke Droese , and then subsequently vacated the title upon his departure. In 1996, Poirier joined the United States Wrestling Association as "Sniper". Along with Kurrgan the Interrogator , Recon , and Tank , Poirier formed

1218-643: The French-Canadian (Province of Quebec) discus record for nearly 30 years. Poirier was trained by Edouard Carpentier and Louis Laurence. He debuted in 1982. In the early 1980s, he joined the Montreal-based International Wrestling Association as a masked hooded wrestler and was known as " The Masked Marvel". Poirier wrestled as a face until October 1984, when he turned heel and changed his name to "The Mercenary". Shortly after turning heel, Poirier

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1276-692: The Occidente Light Heavyweight Championship from but lost his mask to Cesar Dantés (Younger brother of Apolo Dantés ). In 1996 he began to work for the short lived " Promo Azteca " where he adopted the El Zorro gimmick. In Promo Azteca he teamed up with another young wrestler, Tarzan Boy and won the WWO World Tag Team Championship. When Azteca folded Rodriquez began working for various companies all over Mexico, he even found himself making

1334-416: The WWF in April 1998. He made his return to Catch Wrestling Association at the 1998 Euro Catch Festival , where he defeated Big Titan to win the vacant CWA World Heavyweight Championship , tying Otto Wanz for most reigns with four. He successfully defended the title against former Truth Commission teammate Goliath Kurrgan at the 1999 Euro Catch Festival , which would turn out to be CWA's final event as

1392-544: The company's flagship event Euro Catch Festival twelve times between 1991 and 1999, with his each match for the CWA World Heavyweight Championship . He is overall a four-time world champion . Before entering the world of professional wrestling, Poirier started training for shot put and discus throw as early as the age of 12 years old. His dedication and athletic abilities allowed him to become Canadian Junior discus champion. Poirier also held

1450-496: The days leading up to Guerra de Titanes , El Zorro made another prophecy, saying that he was going to leave the event with the AAA Mega Championship. On December 5 at Guerra de Titanes El Zorro defeated Dr. Wagner, Jr. with help from his La Sociedad stable mates to win the AAA Mega Championship for the first time. In January 2011, Martínez confirmed that he had signed a two-year non-exclusive contract with American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), with whom AAA had

1508-584: The fictional character Zorro complete with mask, but in recent years it has evolved and the mask has been eliminated. He is best known for his work in the Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion in Mexico, where he is a former AAA Mega Champion . He has in the past worked both in Europe, Japan and made a few brief appearances for the World Wrestling Federation show WWF Super Astros . He

1566-399: The final match in CWA history. Euro Catch Festival (1991) was the first Euro Catch Festival professional wrestling event produced by Catch Wrestling Association (CWA). The event took place on December 21, 1991 at Stadthalle Bremen in Bremen , Germany . The event was a success as it drew a crowd of 10,000 people in a seating capacity of 3,500 people. Euro Catch Festival (1992) was

1624-399: The final to Billy Samson. Poirier's initial success in CWA came when he became the runner-up in the 1987 Catch Cup against Bull Power . He rebounded from the loss by defeating Giant Haystacks to win the 1988 Catch Cup in the following year. He fell to Haystacks in the following year's Catch Cup in the summer, but won the winter tournament by defeating Cannonball Grizzly . After years on

1682-481: The first Euro Catch Festival event on December 21 in Bremen , where he successfully defended his title against Ken Patera . Rambo continued his successful title reign by defeating Terry Funk to retain his title at the second Euro Catch Festival in Graz on July 11, 1992. He then made successful defenses against The Warlord on August 22 and October 18 respectively. Rambo lost the title to Road Warrior Hawk after

1740-636: The group turned on him in May 2011. On January 22, 2016, at Guerra de Titanes , El Zorro, Dark Cuervo and Dark Scoria won the vacant AAA World Trios Championship . They lost the title to OGT ( Averno , Chessman and Ricky Marvin ) on November 4. In February 2017, El Zorro left AAA. Following his departure from AAA, El Zorro began working for The Crash, where he became part of Penta Zero M 's La Rebelión stable, made up of former AAA wrestlers. On June 29, 2018 Martínez worked his first match for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in over 18 years, working under

1798-477: The loser would get his hair shaved off. The match saw interference from La Secta del Mesías giving the victory and the National title to Manson. After shaving off Zorro's hair La Secta del Mesías placed a black mask on Zorro's head (One similar to Slipknot's Mick Thomsons Mask), the storyline was that the mask had an ancient Mayan curse on it and could not just be removed. In the weeks after La Secta put

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1856-480: The mask on Zorro he seemed more erratic and not in control of himself. The storyline progressed with Manson revealing that he had mental control over Zorro through the mask and used that control to have Zorro turn on his friends and do his bidding. The mind-control aspects of the story were dropped and instead they explained it by the mask having a bad influence on Zorro. When Manson left La Secta and joined up with Los Hell Brothers , turning tecnico ("good guy") in

1914-410: The masked "La Parka Negra", the rudo counterpart of La Parka , in a six-man tag team match, where he, Pentagón Jr. and Silver King , were defeated by La Parka, Octagón , Octagón Jr. The storyline rivalry between La Parka Negra and La Parka heated up during AAA's first television taping of 2013 on January 18, when La Parka Negra and El Hijo del Perro Aguayo defeated La Parka and Cibernético in

1972-834: The match leaving his team at a disadvantage. After Los Hell Brothers won the match a man came to the ring wearing the "iron mask" but that turned out to be Konnan. When Zorro appeared on the scene moments later he turned on the tecnicos , attacking them with a kendo stick . After the show Zorro claimed that he was shown the light; he was actually a Spaniard , not Mexican, and was against the Mexican contingent in AAA. Joining Konnan's La Legión Extranjera ("Foreign Legion"), El Zorro dubbed himself "El Profeta de la Lucha Libre" ("The Prophet of Wrestling") and, as part of his new character, began making prophecies, often accurately predicting future events. After Zorro's turn it became more and more obvious that Konnan considered El Zorro his "main man",

2030-442: The memorial show the World title became vacant and Zorro immediately began campaigning for the title. With Konnan being in charge of the promotion after having won the storyline control of the company he booked El Zorro in a match against El Mesias for the vacant world title. As an added stipulation El Mesias would have to become a member of La Legión and do their bidding should he lose. the two met at Guerra de Titanes where Zorro

2088-613: The name "The Chrizh". He teamed up with Cibernético, billed as "Ciber the Main Main" and "Sharlie Rock Star" (formerly Charly Manson), forming a trio known as "Klan Kaoz" (later renamed to "The Cl4n"). The trio made their CMLL debut in the main event of CMLL's weekly Super Viernes show, losing to Carístico , Valiente and Volador Jr. At the CMLL 85th Anniversary Show on September 14, 2018, The Cl4n defeated Los Guerreros Laguneros ( Euforia , Gran Guerrero and Último Guerrero ) to win

2146-534: The only time that the World Heavyweight Championship match did not headline the event but instead a World Middleweight Championship match between Franz Schumann and Jesus Cristobal was the main event of the show and final match of Catch Wrestling Association, which marked the only time that a World Middleweight Championship match headlined the prestigious Euro Catch Festival. Luc Poirier Luc Poirier (born January 9, 1962)

2204-424: The process and the storyline with Zorro hit a dead end as there was no possible payoff left any more. Eventually the writing staff figured out a way to end the "trapped in a mask" storyline by having Zorro overcome the "evil influences" so that he could remove the mask and present it to the leader of Los Hell Brothers ( Cibernético ) as a proof of his good intentions. After removing the mask Zorro's character seemed

2262-548: The promotion closed after the event and Poirier became the final CWA World Heavyweight Champion. He retired from professional wrestling after the closure of CWA. Poirier now lives in Tarpon Springs, Florida. He is retired from wrestling and works as a Critical Care Registered Nurse at Mease Dunedin Hospital. Poirier married Francia Morales on June 30, 2013. In November 2010, he and British wrestler Dan Collins put on

2320-553: The promotion's top villain Bull Power. On December 12, 1990, Rambo got his first match for the CWA World Heavyweight Championship, where he competed against Bull Power for the vacant title, which he lost. On July 6, 1991, Rambo defeated Bull Power for his first World Heavyweight Championship in Graz , Austria . Upon his ascent as champion, Poirier made his first successful title defense against Bull Power on August 18 and then defeated Bruiser Mastino on November 11. He headlined

2378-434: The rest of La Sociedad turned on El Zorro, after which Konnan announced that his new business partner, TNA founder Jeff Jarrett , would be challenging for his title at Triplemanía XIX . It was later revealed that the man who had attacked Park under El Zorro's mask was actually Charly Manson, who had been sent by Cibernético to cause dissension within the ranks of La Sociedad . On June 18 at Triplemanía XIX, El Zorro lost

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2436-428: The ring without making it clear who the weapon was meant for. La Parka ended up getting his hands on the weapon and used it to win the match. On December 8 at Guerra de Titanes , El Zorro turned rudo and joined the reformed La Sociedad . El Zorro later explained the turn, claiming that Konnan was the only person who cared for him and that he and the original La Sociedad were only trying to make him stronger, when

2494-518: The second edition of the Euro Catch Festival and marked the first time that the event was held twice a year. The first Euro Catch Festival of the year was held on July 11, 1992 at Eisstadion Liebenau in Graz , Austria and the second Euro Catch Festival was held on December 19, 1992 at Stadthalle Bremen in Bremen , Germany . Euro Catch Festival (1993) was the third Euro Catch Festival event which took place on December 18, 1993 at

2552-606: The semifinals of the tournament, El Zorro turned on Wagner, Jr. and challenged him to a match for the World Heavyweight Championship at Guerra de Titanes . On November 28 El Zorro, Dr. Wagner, Jr., El Mesías and Electroshock faced each other in the Lucha Libre Premier semifinal four-way match. After eliminating Electroshock and Wagner, Jr., El Zorro and El Mesías faced each other in the final match, with El Mesías coming out victorious. In

2610-573: The storyline with Mr. Águila ended Zorro was put together with Charly Manson , a member of La Secta del Mesías (the biggest rudo or "villain" group in AAA) who wanted the Mexican National Heavyweight title. Zorro kept the title away from Manson until the two met at Triplemania XIV inside a steel cage . In order to get the match Manson was forced to put his hair on the line making it a Luchas de Apuestas ("Bet fight") where

2668-470: The summer of 2010 La Legión Extranjera merged with Los Perros del Mal , La Milicia and Los Maniacos to form La Sociedad . Afterwards, El Zorro, teaming with his Legión stablemate Hernandez , began feuding with La Hermandad 187 ( Nicho el Millonario and Joe Líder ). On September 14 El Zorro and Hernandez defeated La Hermandad 187 via disqualification and afterwards beat them down, injuring Nicho and ruining his and Líder's upcoming rematch for

2726-426: The title against Papa Shango at the 1994 Euro Catch Festival in Graz. His next major challenger was Cactus Jack , whom he defeated twice to retain the title in the fall of 1994. Rambo would then retain the title against Big Titan in December's Euro Catch Festival and Jim Neidhart in July's Euro Catch Festival on July 8, 1995. In mid-1995, Rambo entered a feud with his new challenger Ludvig Borga over

2784-710: The title. Not long after winning the UWA title Zorro defeated Héctor Garza to also win the Mexican National Heavyweight Championship , thus becoming a double champion. Zorro's first big storyline with AAA was a feud with Mr. Águila over both the UWA Light Heavyweight title and the National Heavyweight titles, resulting in the two trading the titles back and forth several times in 2003 and 2004. After

2842-462: The title. Rambo defeated Borga to retain the title in their first meeting on August 20, before dropping the title to Borga at Euro Catch Festival in Bremen on December 16. Rambo regained the title from Borga at the following year's Euro Catch Festival on December 21, 1996, to become a three-time World Heavyweight Champion. Poirier signed with World Wrestling Federation around that time and quit

2900-408: The two even turned on AAA Mega Champion El Mesias and La Secta when Mesias did not want to grant Zorro a title match. The storyline lead to a three-way world title match between Zorro, El Mesias and Cibernético at Guerra de Titanes . During the match Cibernético received second and third burns to his back after La Legión put him through a table on fire (Cibernético was legitimately injured, it

2958-481: The undercard, Poirier was finally pushed to succeed Otto Wanz as the promotion's next superstar after Wanz resigned as the World Heavyweight Champion in 1990 and began receiving success as a main eventer . He defeated former champion Otto Wanz to score an upset win on August 4 to raise his stock. Poirier became the promotion's top fan favorite and began feuding with Wanz's rival and

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3016-812: Was at the very famous "Elysee Montmartre" in Paris as "Sergeant O'Connors". Later on in France as "Rocky Montana", and in Germany, Austria and Japan as "Rambo", he achieved his greatest success under the later ring name in the Catch Wrestling Association . Rambo debuted with the CWA in Hanover, Germany in September 1986 and subsequently joined the International Catch Cup tournament in Bremen, Germany in December 1986, by losing

3074-402: Was held on July 8, 1995 at the Eisstadion Liebenau in Graz , Austria . Euro Catch Festival (1995) was a professional wrestling event held on December 16, 1995 at the Stadthalle Bremen in Bremen , Germany . Euro Catch Festival (1996) was a professional wrestling event that took place on July 6, 1996 at the Eisstadion Liebenau in Graz , Austria . Euro Catch Festival (1996) was

3132-430: Was not planned). At a television show taping a few weeks later a storyline played out where El Zorro and the rest of La Legión Extranjera attacked and injured El Mesias so bad that he was hospitalized. This was a storyline constructed to cover up the fact that El Mesias was returning to his native Puerto Rico for a few months. In the absence of both El Mesias and Cibernético Zorro became a main eventer, declaring himself

3190-590: Was once again defeated in a world title match. At Triplemania XVII , El Zorro turned on the Legion during the main event of the show. El Zorro came out wearing his old mask, handed Joaquin Roldan his kendo stick to help him keep Konnan from interfering in the main event. Keeping Konnan from interfering helped Roldan's Team AAA to win the match and take control of AAA away from the Legion. In October El Zorro once again turned rudo and re-joined La Legion Extranjera . In

3248-578: Was replaced by The Jackyl . Kurrgan went on to compete as a singles wrestler, while Poirier and Recon wrestled as a tag team. At the 1997 Survivor Series in his birthplace in Montreal on November 9, 1997, the four remaining members of The Truth Commission defeated the Disciples of Apocalypse in an eight-man elimination match; Kurrgan was the sole survivor. The stable fragmented after The Jackyl instructed Kurrgan to attack Poirier and Recon after they lost

3306-818: Was the "Deputy leader" of the La Legión Extranjera faction headed by Konnan . In December 2012, Martínez was repackaged as La Parka Negra , the storyline nemesis of La Parka . He returned as El Zorro in October 2013, before departing the company in February 2017. Martínez made his debut at age 17 at the "Plaza de Toros Jorge Rivera" in Zapopan, Jalisco working as an Enmascarado (masked wrestler) called Neurosis . In 1995 he changed identities and began working using another masked gimmick known as Junior instead. While working as "Junior" he managed to win

3364-664: Was unmasked by Gino Brito. From January 1985 to June 1985, Poirier wrestled at World Wrestling Federation house shows in Eastern Canada as a jobber . He also wrestled several try-out matches on Canadian television, but was not hired by the WWF. During this time, Poirier wrestled on a taping for WWF Superstars against Bret Hart in a scientific masterpiece in which Bret Hart was victorious. Poirier left Montreal and went on to wrestle in France for French promoter Roger DeLaporte. His first wrestling match on European continent

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