17 Facts About Boby Zavala

Boby Zavala was born on February 12,1991 and is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler.

Boby Zavala is best known for working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre between 2011 and 2017, where he portrayed a rudo wrestling character.

Boby Zavala originally worked as a masked wrestler, or enmascarado called Licantropo, but adopted his current ring name in 2010 and unmasked.

Boby Zavala began his wrestling career in 2008 after being trained by Corsario Rojo, Viento Negro and Emperador Azteca.

Boby Zavala adopted a ring character called Licantropo, Spanish for Lycanthrope or werewolf, with a wrestling mask and outfit patterned on werewolf imagery.

Boby Zavala was introduced to the general CMLL audience as part of Generacion 2011 group.

Boby Zavala was one of 16 students of Arkangel de la Muerte selected to participate in a Battle Royal, the Torneo Arkangel, to honor the 25th anniversary of Arkangel de La Muerte.

Boby Zavala was involved in a general Generacion 2011 vs veteran rudos storyline, which ultimately resulted in a Luchas de Apuestas, or bet match where Hombre Bala Jr.

In late 2011 Boby Zavala began an individual storyline feud against Evola that took place primarily in CMLL's training league in Guadalajara, Jalisco.

On March 6,2012, Boby Zavala competed in the first Torneo Sangre Nueva, a tournament designed to highlight younger, low ranking wrestlers.

Boby Zavala took part in the first of two torneo cibernetico, multi-man elimination matches but was pinned by Cancerbero and eliminated from the tournament.

Boby Zavala was one of a handful of wrestlers that returned to the 2013 version of the Torno Sangre Nueva tournament, but like in 2012 did not make it past the first round as he was pinned by Hombre Bala Jr.

In late March 2013, Boby Zavala was announced as one of the Novatos in the 2013 Torneo Gran Alternativa, marking the second time he had competed in the tournament as a rookie.

Boby Zavala was teamed up with veteran wrestler Rey Escorpion and competed in Block B that took place on the April 19,2013, Super Viernes show.

In May 2015 Boby Zavala competed in a qualifying match for the 2015 version of En Busca de un Idolo as one of 16 wrestlers in the qualifying torneo cibernetico, elimination match where the last eight wrestlers would qualify for the tournament.

In 2017, Boby Zavala was again renamed, this time "Bobby Villa", after Pancho Villa.

On May 22,2017, CMLL announced that Boby Zavala had been fired from the promotion.