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

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(bet match) against a young

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for his mask. He later wrestled as "La Flecha" between 1988 and 1993. His breakout year was when he went to

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in 1995 with the new gimmick of "Power Raider Blanco" (

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for "Power Ranger White") and became a member of the Power Raider group. The whole idea of this was

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's who thought doing this could get the fans excited. Peña later got sued by

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and decided to re-gimmick all of those who were in Power Raider to Los Cadetes Del Espacio. 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,

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, and

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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

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, where he wrestled in both Chikara and

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as Destello. Rivera has also wrestled in Japan in Dragon Gate as Skayde. and is currently wrestling on the

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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 and Johnny Saint in "The Masters of a Thousand Holds" team. They would win their opening round match against "Incoherence" ( Delirious, Hallowicked and Frightmare), but would lose their quarter-final round match against "Team Uppercut", which consisted of

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, and Dave Taylor. Rivera was scheduled to enter the 2010 King of Trios tournament, teaming with

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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) *

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**PWI ranked him #189 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the

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in 2005 * Universal Wrestling Association ** 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

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