Cholo (wrestler)
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Carlos Soriano Mendoza (born 1973), better known by his
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El Cholo (
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for " the Half-breed"), is a Mexican ''
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'' (or
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) who works for
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(CMLL).


Professional wrestling career

Carlos Soriano Mendoza made his professional wrestling debut in 1993 or 1994 at the age of 20. Since he worked as an ''enmascarado'' (or
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), he has not revealed what ring name he used prior to adopting the name and mask of El Cholo in 2008. In ''lucha libre'', the real identity of masked wrestlers is kept secret and often not even alluded to the fact that they used to compete under a different name. The debut of El Cholo is listed as 1993 or 1994, but with no confirmation of what name he wrestled under, not even confirming if he wrestled as a masked wrestler before 2008 or not.


El Cholo (2008–present)

He adopted the El Cholo name in 2008, working for
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(CMLL) as a low ranking ''
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'' ("bad guy"), mainly wrestling in the first or second match of the night and at times with months between appearances. It is unclear if those breaks between matches was due to El Cholo having a day job, suffered from injuries or simply wrestled under a different identity as well from time to time. Over the years, El Cholo remained a low ranking, but experienced ''rudo'', who helped work with younger wrestlers as part of their training and development as wrestlers. On July 18, 2010, he wrestled on his first major CMLL event as he teamed up with
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for the 2010 ''
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'' show, losing the opening match to the team of
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and Metatron, two falls to one. In March 2012, El Cholo was one of the participants in the first ever ''
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'' ("The New Blood Tournament"), a tournament that featured 16 wrestlers classified as rookies, or low ranking wrestlers. El Cholo competed in the Block A ''
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'', eight-man elimination match on March 6 and was the first man eliminated in the match as
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pinned him after 8 minutes and 11 seconds. The following year he was once again part of the ''
Torneo Sangre Nueva ''Torneo Sangre Nueva'' ("The New Blood Tournament") is a professional wrestling tournament promoted by the Mexican lucha libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), first held in 2012. The tournament focuses primarily on younger wrestl ...
'' tournament. For the second year in a row El Cholo was pinned by Camaleón, albeit not as the first one eliminated from the ''torneo cibernetico'' match. In April 2013, El Cholo was announced as one of the ''Novatos'' (or rookies), in the 2013 ''
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'' ("Great Alternative tournament"). The ''Gran Alternativa'' pairs a rookie with an experienced wrestler for a
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tournament. He was teamed up with veteran wrestler
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to compete in Block B of the tournament that took place on the April 19, 2013 '' Super Viernes'' show. The team lost in the first round to
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and Rush and was eliminated from the tournament. In late 2014, Cholo and Ramstein began a storyline feud with the team of rookie wrestlers Star Jr. and Soberano Jr., also known as ''Los Principes del Ring'' ("The Princes of the Ring"), with the main theme being that the veterans felt that Star Jr. and Soberano Jr. were disrespectful to the more experienced Cholo and Ramstein and wanted to teach the "brats" their proper place in CMLL. On December 30, 2014, the four men signed a contract to risk their masks in a ''
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'' (or "bet match"). In ''lucha libre'', winning an opponent's mask is considered the "ultimate prize". On January 6, 2015, Star Jr. and Soberano Jr. defeated Cholo and Ramstein in a best two-out-of-three falls match, forcing both of their opponents to unmask in front of the
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crowd, while revealing their real names. After the match, Cholo unmasked and revealed that his name was Carlos Soriano Mendoza and that he had been a wrestler for 20 years at the time.


Championships and accomplishments

*Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. **
Mexican National Trios Championship The Mexican National Trios Championship (''Campeonato Nacional de Tríos'' in Spanish) is a three-man tag team professional wrestling championship, sanctioned by the "Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F." (''Mexico City Boxing and Wrestl ...
(1 time) – with
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and
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''Luchas de Apuestas'' record


References

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