1. Blue Panther was the first CMLL World Middleweight Champion and has won the Mexican National Middleweight Championship twice, the CMLL World Trios Championship twice and the Mexican National Trios Championship.
25 Facts About Blue Panther
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Blue Panther won the 1999 Torneo Gran Alternativa and the 2000 Leyenda de Plata tournaments.
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Blue Panther began wrestling in northern Mexico in the late 1970s before getting noticed by wrestler and promoter Rene Guajardo in Monterrey.
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Guarjardo got Blue Panther booked in Universal Wrestling Association and Panther made his debut in their main building, El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos in Naucalpan, in 1981.
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Blue Panther wrestled on the undercard as a rudo, before getting his first push in 1984 by winning the UWA World Welterweight Championship from veteran worker Matematico.
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Blue Panther began teaming with Black Man on a regular basis around that time, including a November 20,1984 Lucha de Apuestas win over Los Sombras de Plata, forcing both members of the team to unmask.
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Blue Panther later defeated Gran Hamada to win his first UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship on November 16,1986.
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Blue Panther later regained the championship on February 8,1988.
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In May 1988, Blue Panther won another significant match as he defeated Kendo on a UWA show in Tijuana, Baja California to unmask Kendo.
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In 1991, Blue Panther began working full-time for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, where he began a feud with Atlantis over the NWA World Middleweight Championship.
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Blue Panther was one of sixteen competitors entered in the tournament for the CMLL World Middleweight Championship.
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Blue Panther defeated Ringo Mendoza in the opening round, El Dandy in the semi-finals and El Satanico in the finals to become the inaugural champion, a sign of CMLL's support of Blue Panther.
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On July 23,1992, Blue Panther won the Mexican National Middleweight Championship from Octagon and held the title for 665 days until Octagon regained the championship April 30,1994.
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Blue Panther teamed up with Fuerza Guerrera and Psicosis to defeat Octagon, Rey Misterio Jr.
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Over time, Blue Panther was getting booked more as a tecnico and began to team with former rivals, Atlantis, Lizmark Jr.
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In 2004, Atlantis and Blue Panther defeated Ultimo Guerrero and Rey Bucanero to win the CMLL World Tag Team Championship.
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Three months after successfully defending the title against Olimpico and Rey Bucanero, Atlantis and Blue Panther lost the championship to the team of Averno and Mephisto in April 2005.
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In late 2011, Blue Panther began feuding with La Peste Negra, which led to the main event of Sin Piedad on December 16, where Panther faced El Felino in a Hair vs Hair match.
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At Sin Piedad, El Felino tried to exact revenge on Blue Panther, but was disqualified after the referee caught him going for a pile driver.
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In March 2013, Blue Panther was forced to team up with the rudo Rey Escorpion to participate in the 2013 Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles, a tournament where a rudo and a tecnico teams up.
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In mid-2017, Blue Panther became involved in a long-running storyline with American wrestler Sam Adonis, who portrayed a pro-Donald Trump and anti-Mexican ring character.
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Blue Panther stood up to Adonis and defended Mexico as the storyline escalated into the two facing off in a high-profile Lucha de Apuestas match on August 4,2017.
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Adonis won the match, forcing Blue Panther to have his hair shaved off.
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In subsequent months, the Blue Panther changed his name to be known as "Black Blue Panther", taking the name his older brother used previously.
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Blue Panther's second son, known under the ring name "Black Panther", was born in either 1988 or 1989.