Cassandro
Encyclopedia
Saul Armendariz is a Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 luchador
Lucha libre
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, or professional wrestler
Professional wrestling
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, who works as an exotico for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración is a lucha libre professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico...

 (AAA) and several independent promotions
Independent circuit
In professional wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many independent promotions which are much smaller than major televised promotions. They are roughly analagous to a minor league for pro wrestling, or community or regional theatre.Specific promotions on the...

 all over the world under the ring name
Ring name
A ring name is a stage name used by a professional wrestler, martial artist, or boxer. While some ring names may have a fictitious first name and surname, others may simply be a nickname, such as The Undertaker.-Wrestling:...

 Cassandro. He is the current NWA World Welterweight Champion
NWA World Welterweight Championship
The NWA World Welterweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship governed by the National Wrestling Alliance . For the majority of its existence, the title has been promoted by Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre , where it was known as the Campeonato Mundial Welter de...

 and a former UWA World Lightweight Champion
UWA World Lightweight Championship
The UWA World Lightweight Championship is an inactive professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion Universal Wrestling Association from 1975 until some time around 2000 when Kato Kung Lee, Jr. stopped defending it...

. In 2009, Armendariz signed a contract with American
United States
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 promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...

 (TNA), but was released before making his official debut.

Professional wrestling career

Armendariz was born and raised in El Paso, Texas
El Paso, Texas
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, United States
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 and began training in lucha libre
Lucha libre
Lucha libre is a term used in Mexico, and other Spanish-speaking countries, for a form of professional wrestling that has developed within those countries...

in 1987 just across the Mexican
Mexico
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 border in Juárez, Nuevo León
Juárez, Nuevo León
Ciudad Benito Juárez, or simply Juárez, is the name of a city located in the eastern part of the Monterrey metropolitan area in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name. Ciudad Benito Juárez had a 2005 census population of 78,644 persons and is the...

, his family's native town. He officially began his professional wrestling career in 1988, working under a mask
Wrestling mask
A Wrestling mask is a fabric based mask that some professional wrestlers wear as part of their in-ring persona or gimmick. Professional wrestlers have been using masks as far back as 1915 and they are still widely used today, especially in Lucha Libre in Mexico.-History:In 1915 a North American...

 as Mr. Romano. In late 1989, Armendariz joined the Mexican Universal Wrestling Association
Universal Wrestling Association
The Universal Wrestling Association was a Mexican Lucha Libre or professional wrestling promotion based in Naucalpan, Mexico State that operated from 1975 until 1995...

 (UWA) promotion, abandoning his mask and adopting the new ring name Cassandro in the process. Under his new name, he began working as an exotico, a wrestler with a transvestite character, often teaming with fellow exotico Pimpinela Escarlata
Pimpinela Escarlata
Mario González Lozano is a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler who works as an Exotico for the Mexican Asistencia Asesoría y Administración promotion under the ring name Pimpinela Escarlata. As Escarlata he is the current AAA Reina de Reinas Champion and a former Mexican National...

, whom he had first met when the two were trained together in Juárez. On January 28, 1991, after a negative backlash to reports that he was going to get to wrestle El Hijo del Santo
El Hijo del Santo
Jorge Guzmán Rodríguez , better known as El Hijo del Santo , is a Mexican professional wrestler, political activist and one of the most successful stars in Lucha Libre...

 for the UWA World Welterweight Championship
UWA World Welterweight Championship
The UWA World Welterweight Championship is a championship in professional wrestling that is primarily contested for in various Lucha Libre promotions in Mexico. In 1993, the championship was recognized by the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Michinoku Pro, following Super Delfin's victory...

, Armendariz attempted suicide by cutting his wrists with a razor blade, but was saved by Escarlata, who found him in the bathroom. The title match happened a week later and Armendariz credits it as the match that earned him the lucha libre community's acceptance. Though Cassandro failed to win the UWA World Welterweight Championship from El Hijo del Santo, he managed to win his first title, the UWA World Lightweight Championship
UWA World Lightweight Championship
The UWA World Lightweight Championship is an inactive professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion Universal Wrestling Association from 1975 until some time around 2000 when Kato Kung Lee, Jr. stopped defending it...

, on October 29, 1992, by defeating Lasser, becoming the first exotico in history to hold a championship in UWA. After a twenty month reign, he would lose the title to El Seminarista
Skayde
Jorge Rivera Serrano is a Mexican professional wrestler who is best known for Lucha Libre. He has been a tecnico throughout his wrestling career. He is currently training wrestlers at Arena Xalapa.-Professional wrestling career:...

. He would wrestle for UWA until 1995, when the promotion closed its doors, and began then wrestling on the independent circuit
Independent circuit
In professional wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many independent promotions which are much smaller than major televised promotions. They are roughly analagous to a minor league for pro wrestling, or community or regional theatre.Specific promotions on the...

 for promotions both in Mexico and the United States.

After several quiet years, Cassandro returned to mainstream lucha libre in December 2005 by joining top Mexican promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración is a lucha libre professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico...

 (AAA), starting a rivalry with former partner Pimpinela Escarlata. The big grudge match between Cassandro and Escarlata took place on May 18, 2006, and ended in a no contest, after which the two competitors agreed to a Hair vs. Hair match at a future date. On June 18 at TripleManía XIV
TripleMania XIV
TripleManía XIV was the twentieth overall TripleManía wrestling show promoted by Asistencia Asesoría y Administración . The show took place on June 18, 2006 in Naucalpan, Mexico. The Main event featured a Luchas de Apuestas "Mask vs. Mask" match...

, Cassandro led a four man team to face Escarlata's team in an eight man tag team match, which ended in another no contest. Shortly afterwards, Cassandro suffered an injury, which led to him leaving AAA and returning to the independent circuit. A year later on July 15, 2007, at TripleManía XV
TripleMania XV
TripleManía XV was the twentyfirst overall TripleManía wrestling show promoted by Asistencia Asesoría y Administración . The show took place on July 15, 2007 in Naucalpan, Mexico like the previous year’s event. The Main event featured a Domo De La Muerte cage match where the last person in the...

, Cassandro made a one night return to AAA, teaming with Alfa
Billy Boy (wrestler)
Billy Boy is the ring name of Mexican Luchador or professional wrestler José Roberto Islas García . Billy Boy has worked for the majority of his career in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, where he most notably teamed with Alan and Decnnis to form...

, Cynthia Moreno
Cynthia Moreno
Flavia Antonia Moreno León is a Mexican Luchadora, or female professional wrestler best known under the ring name Cynthia Moreno She is currently working for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración...

 and Faby Apache
Faby Apache
Fabiola Balbuena Torres is a Mexican Luchadora, or female professional wrestler best known under the ring name Faby Apache...

 to defeat Escarlata, Cynthia Moreno
Cynthia Moreno
Flavia Antonia Moreno León is a Mexican Luchadora, or female professional wrestler best known under the ring name Cynthia Moreno She is currently working for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración...

, El Oriental
El Oriental
Noé Astro Moreno Leon is a Mexican Luchador known under the ring name El Oriental, currently works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre but is mainly known for his almost 10 year long stint in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración along with his sisters Cynthia, Rossy and Esther Moreno...

 and Mini Abismo Negro
Mini Abismo Negro
Mini Abismo Negro is the ring name of a Mexican Luchador enmascarado who works in the Mini-Estrella division for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración . Mini Abismo Negro is a former, two time Mexican National Mini-Estrellas Champion and the current AAA World Mini-Estrella Champion, the only...

. Three months later, Cassandro began again wrestling regularly for AAA, now working as a technico
Face (professional wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a babyface or face or in simple words, a fan favorite is a character who is portrayed as a heroic relative to the heel wrestlers, who are analogous to villains...

, teaming with Escarlata against the rudo
Heel (professional wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a heel is a villain character. In non-wrestling jargon, heels are the "bad guys" in professional wrestling; the term heel coming from the term take to you heels, which means to run away which heel champions tend to do to avoid losing their titles.storylines...

exotico stable Los Night Queens (Jessy, Nygma
Nygma (wrestler)
Nygma is a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler best known from his appearances in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración which he has worked for with only short breaks since 1995/1996...

, Polvo de Estrellas and Yuriko). Eventually, Cassandro and Escarlata formed the stable Los Exoticos with May Flowers and Pasión Cristal to even out the numbers between the rival groups.

After once again leaving AAA in April 2008, Cassandro began working for promotions such as National Wrestling Alliance
National Wrestling Alliance
The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...

 (NWA), Perros del Mal Producciones
Perros del Mal (promotion)
Perros del Mal Producciones , often referred to as just Perros del Mal, is a Mexican professional wrestling promotion founded in October, 2007 by Perro Aguayo, Jr. when he left Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre to form his own group...

 (PdM), Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South
Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South is an independent professional wrestling promotion based in Louisville, Kentucky.- History :...

 (IWA-MS) and in early 2009 signed a contract with American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...

 (TNA). Armandariz made his TNA debut on January 27, 2009, working under the ring name Satanico del Exotico in a dark match, where he defeated Petey Williams
Petey Williams
Peter "Petey" Williams III is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a two time X Division Champion and a former captain of Team Canada. Williams Currently Wrestles for Lucha Libre USA...

. In March, TNA began promoting Armandariz's upcoming debut under the new ring name Andromeda. However, after several months of inactivity with the promotion, it was reported in August that Armendariz and TNA had parted ways. Armendariz publicly blamed his departure on homophobia
Homophobia
Homophobia is a term used to refer to a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards lesbian, gay and in some cases bisexual, transgender people and behavior, although these are usually covered under other terms such as biphobia and transphobia. Definitions refer to irrational fear, with the...

. On April 3, 2010, Cassandro made his debut for Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor
Ring of Honor ' is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded in 2002 by Rob Feinstein and Gabe Sapolsky. From 2004 to 2011, the promotion was under the ownership of Cary Silkin before being sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in May 2011...

 (ROH), defeating Rhett Titus
Rhett Titus
Everett Lawrence Titus is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Rhett Titus. A student of the ROH Wrestling Academy, Titus has been competing for Ring of Honor , as well as various independent promotions, since 2006.-Career:Titus began training at the ROH Wrestling...

 at The Big Bang!
ROH The Big Bang!
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 pay-per-view
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. During the match, Armendariz broke his leg, which forced him to pull out of Chikara's King of Trios tournament later that same month. On June 25, 2011, NWA Mexico, while touring the United Kingdom, set up a match to determine the first NWA World Welterweight Champion
NWA World Welterweight Championship
The NWA World Welterweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship governed by the National Wrestling Alliance . For the majority of its existence, the title has been promoted by Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre , where it was known as the Campeonato Mundial Welter de...

 since getting the title back from Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre is a Lucha Libre-style professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City while running cards in Guadalajara, Puebla and elsewhere in central and southern Mexico...

 (CMLL). In the match Cassandro defeated Dr. Cerebro to win the championship.

On October 9, 2011, at Héroes Inmortales
Héroes Inmortales (2011)
Héroes Inmortales was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración promotion, which took place on October 9, 2011, at Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of AAA founder Antonio Peña...

, Cassandro made his return to AAA, saving Pimpinela Escarlata from exoticos Nygma, Pasión Cristal and Polvo de Estrellas, who had recently started a storyline rivalry with Escarlata based on their envy of the new Reina de Reinas Champion
AAA Reina de Reinas Championship
The AAA Queen of Queens Championship is a singles professional wrestling females championship promoted by Asistencia Asesoría y Administración . The Championship has been in existence since 1999 and is the only females only championship currently in AAA, though it is currently held by a man...

. Cassandro wrestled his AAA return match on November 5, teaming with Escarlata and La Braza
El Brazo
Juan Alvarado Nieves is a Mexican Luchador currently working for the Mexican based Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración wrestling promotion. He is best known under the ring name El Brazo that he has been using since his debut in 1980...

 in a six man tag team match, where they defeated Nygma, Pasión Cristal and Yuriko.

Personal life

Armendariz is an open homosexual
Homosexuality
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. Through his regular tours of the United Kingdom and his fluency in English, Cassandro has gained some mainstream attention in the country, including being interviewed on The Sun and BBC Breakfast
BBC Breakfast
BBC Breakfast is the morning television news programme simulcast on BBC One and the BBC News channel. It is presented live from BBC Television Centre in White City, West London, and contains a mixture of news, sport, weather, business and feature items...

.

In wrestling

  • Signature moves
    • Liplock (Kiss
      Kiss
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      )

  • Nickname
    Nickname
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    s
    • "Diva de Juárez" (Spanish
      Spanish language
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       for "Diva of Juárez")
    • "Queen of the Ring"

  • Entrance themes
    Music in professional wrestling
    Music in professional wrestling serves a variety of purposes. The most common uses of music in professional wrestling is that of the entrance theme, a song or piece of instrumental music which plays as a performer approaches the ring...

    • "Suavecito, Suavecito" by Laura León
      Laura León
      Rebeca Valderrama , better known by her stage name Laura León, is a Mexican actress and singer. She is often referred to as "La Tesorito" since that is a term of endearment she uses for people. León resided for many years in Mexico City where she starred in several telenovelas for Televisa...


Championships and accomplishments

  • NWA Mexico
    National Wrestling Alliance
    The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...

    • NWA World Welterweight Championship
      NWA World Welterweight Championship
      The NWA World Welterweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship governed by the National Wrestling Alliance . For the majority of its existence, the title has been promoted by Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre , where it was known as the Campeonato Mundial Welter de...

       (1 time, current)

  • Universal Wrestling Association
    Universal Wrestling Association
    The Universal Wrestling Association was a Mexican Lucha Libre or professional wrestling promotion based in Naucalpan, Mexico State that operated from 1975 until 1995...

    • UWA World Lightweight Championship
      UWA World Lightweight Championship
      The UWA World Lightweight Championship is an inactive professional wrestling championship promoted by the Mexican wrestling promotion Universal Wrestling Association from 1975 until some time around 2000 when Kato Kung Lee, Jr. stopped defending it...

       (1 time)

  • Other titles
    Independent circuit
    In professional wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many independent promotions which are much smaller than major televised promotions. They are roughly analagous to a minor league for pro wrestling, or community or regional theatre.Specific promotions on the...

    • Chikara Welterweight Championship (1 time)1


1Championship not recognized by Chikara.

Lucha de Apuesta record

Wager Winner(s) Loser(s) Location Date Notes
Masks Cassandro and Pimpinela Escarlata
Pimpinela Escarlata
Mario González Lozano is a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler who works as an Exotico for the Mexican Asistencia Asesoría y Administración promotion under the ring name Pimpinela Escarlata. As Escarlata he is the current AAA Reina de Reinas Champion and a former Mexican National...

 
Dragon Chino I and Dragon Chino II Unknown Unknown
Hairs Cassandro and Pimpinela Escarlata Dragon Chino I and Dragon Chino II Unknown Unknown  
Mask Cassandro Profeta Unknown Unknown  
Hair Cassandro Profeta Unknown Unknown
Hair Cassandro Halcon Dorado Unknown Unknown  
Hair Cassandro Misterioso
Misterioso (wrestler)
Roberto Castillo is a Mexican-American Luchador or professional wrestler currently working on the independent circuit in Mexico and Southern California under the ring name Misterioso...

 
Unknown Unknown
Hair Cassandro Bello Armando Unknown Unknown  
Hair Cassandro Peluchin Unknown Unknown  
Hair Cassandro El Galactico Unknown Unknown  
Hair Lady Apache
Lady Apache
Sandra González Calderón is a Mexican professional wrestler or Luchadora, best known under the ring name Lady Apache. González's ring name comes from the "family name" of Mario Balbuena González who wrestles under the name Gran Apache; whom she was married to when she made her wrestling debut in...

 
Cassandro Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez , officially known today as Heroica Ciudad Juárez, but abbreviated Juárez and formerly known as El Paso del Norte, is a city and seat of the municipality of Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Juárez's estimated population is 1.5 million people. The city lies on the Rio Grande...

, Chihuahua 
Six person tag team steel cage match, where Cassandro, May Flowers and Pimpinela Escarlata faced Apache, Tiffany
Tiffany (luchadora)
Xóchitl Leyva Sánchez is a Mexican luchadora, or female professional wrestler best known under the ring name Tiffany. She has won the 2003, 2005 and 2008 Reina de Reinas tournaments and has held the Mexican National Women's Championship two times...

 and Yahaira.
Hair Cassandro Ruby Gardenia Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 
Hair El Hijo del Santo
El Hijo del Santo
Jorge Guzmán Rodríguez , better known as El Hijo del Santo , is a Mexican professional wrestler, political activist and one of the most successful stars in Lucha Libre...

 
Cassandro Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 
Steel cage match, which also included Gran Hamada
Gran Hamada
, better known by his ring name , is Japanese professional wrestler, the first to adopt the high-flying Mexican lucha libre style. He has wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling, the Universal Wrestling Federation, Michinoku Pro, and All Japan Pro Wrestling, and was the founder of Universal Lucha Libre...

, El Hijo de Rey Misterio
El Hijo de Rey Misterio
El Hijo de Rey Misterio is a retired Mexican American professional wrestler, or luchador as they are known in Spanish. His ring name is Spanish for "The Son of the King of Mystery" or more correctly "The Son of Rey Misterio", and as the name indicates he is the son of the luchador, Rey Misterio...

, L.A. Park
Adolfo Tapia
Adolfo Margarito Tapia Ibarra is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler. For years he has worked under the ring name L.A. Park, but is best known throughout the world as La Parka, especially from his many years in World Championship Wrestling . He was forced to change his...

, Nicho el Millonario, Pentagon Black and Rey Misterio, Sr.
Rey Misterio, Sr.
Miguel Ángel López Díaz, better known as his ring name Rey Misterio, Sr. is a Mexican professional wrestler, trainer and actor. He is the uncle of well-known luchador Rey Mysterio, Jr. His name directly translates to "Mystery King" in English...


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