10 Facts About Bobby Bonales

On September 27,1936, Bobby Bonales lost to Chong Yip on the undercard of the EMLL 3rd Anniversary Show.

Bobby Bonales became one of the first wrestlers to train under Diablo Velasco, during which time he developed a new move called a Tope Suicida, a move where he would dive through the ring ropes out of the ring, striking his opponent with a headbutt.

Bobby Bonales wrestled on the first show of the newly built Arena Coliseo when it opened on April 2,1943.

Later that same year Bobby Bonales began a high-profile storyline feud with El Santo, who at the time was an emerging performer in Mexico.

On June 11,1943, Bobby Bonales defeated El Santo to win the Mexican National Middleweight Championship as part of that storyline.

Later on El Santo would regain the Middleweight championship, but Bobby Bonales became a two-time champion on June 1,1945, when he defeated El Santo for the title .

Bobby Bonales's second run with the Middleweight Championship ended at the EMLL 12th Anniversary Show when Gory Guerrero defeated Bonales Three years later Bonales and Guerrero fought each other at both of the EMLL 15th Anniversary Shows, splitting the matches between the two.

In 1962 Bobby Bonales made his debut in a Lucha film, playing himself in a movie called Santo vs las Mujeres Vampiro which was later dubbed into English under the title "Samson vs the Vampire Women".

Bobby Bonales retired from active, in-ring competition in the mid-1960s and focused on training instead.

In 2009 Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, the renamed EMLL, honored Bobby Bonales by awarding a trophy, the Copa Bobby Bonales to the wrestler voted the "Best Technical wrestler" for that year.