Jorge Rivera Soriano (born September 2, 1964)
is a Mexican
luchador (Spanish for "professional wrestler") who is best known as a trainer. He has been a
''tecnico'' throughout his wrestling career.
He is currently training wrestlers at Arena Xalapa, different states of Mexico and the United States.
Professional wrestling career
Rivera started wrestling in 1987 under the names of "Porsche" and "El Seminarista". As El Seminarista, he won a
Luchas de Apuestas (bet match) against a young
Super Crazy for his mask. He later wrestled as "La Flecha" between 1988 and 1993. His breakout year was when he went to
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
Antonio Peña Promotions, S.A. de C.V. d/b/a Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide is a Mexican Lucha Libre ( professional wrestling) promotion based in Mexico City, Mexico. Commonly referred to as simply AAA (pronounced "triple A"; an abbreviation of its ...
in 1995 with the new gimmick of "Power Raider Blanco" (
Spanish for "Power Ranger White") and became a member of the Power Raider group. The whole idea of this was
Antonio Peña's who thought doing this could get the fans excited. Peña later got sued by
Mattel
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and decided to re-gimmick all of those who were in Power Raider to
Los Cadetes Del Espacio
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. Since then he changed his name to "Boomerang" for a year before changing it to his most famous one, "Skayde". He later left AAA in 1997 to work for
Promo Azteca.
In Promo Azteca, he wrestled as Skayde before leaving in 1998. In 1999 he worked between Asistencia Asesoría y Administración,
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
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, and
International Wrestling Revolution Group
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as "Electra".
In 2000, Rivera started to wrestle in
Toryumon Mexico using his real name and unmasking as "Jorge Rivera".
Rivera then traveled to the
United States
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, where he wrestled in both
Chikara and
Combat Zone Wrestling
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as Destello.
Rivera has also wrestled in
Japan
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in
Dragon Gate as Skayde.
and is currently wrestling on the
independent circuit
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in Mexico.
In March 2009, Rivera took part in the Chikara's
King of Trios Tournament, teaming up with
Mike Quackenbush
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He has hosted several ...
and
Johnny Saint
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in "The Masters of a Thousand Holds" team. They would win their opening round match against "Incoherence" (
Delirious
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,
Hallowicked and
Frightmare), but would lose their quarter-final round match against "Team Uppercut", which consisted of
Bryan Danielson
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,
Claudio Castagnoli
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, and
Dave Taylor. Rivera was scheduled to enter the
2010 King of Trios tournament, teaming with
El Valiente and Turbo, but after he reportedly tried to hold the company up for more money, while failing to deliver Valiente and Turbo, Chikara announced that they were severing ties with him effective immediately. In late 2012 Skayde started working with River City Wrestling (RCW) out of San Antonio, TX, both wrestling and running training clinics on teaching the local San Antonio wrestlers lucha libre. In 2017 Skayde joined the training team at the Pro Wrestling Revolution Training Academy in San Jose, CA.
Professional wrestling trainer
Over the years Skayde has had a hand in training the following wrestlers:
Championships and accomplishments
*NWA Mexico
**NWA Mexican Lightweight Championship (1 time)
**NWA Mexican Welterweight Championship (3 times)
*
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
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**PWI ranked him #189 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the
PWI 500 in 2005
*
Universal Wrestling Association
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**
UWA World Lightweight Championship (
1 time)
*Xtreme Mexican Wrestling
** XMW Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current)
[ ]
**XMW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Durango Kid
''Luchas de Apuestas'' record
References
External links
*
Cagematch profile
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1964 births
Living people
Mexican male professional wrestlers
Professional wrestling trainers
Masked wrestlers
Professional wrestlers from Mexico City
20th-century professional wrestlers
21st-century professional wrestlers
UWA World Lightweight Champions