El Dandy is the cousin of professional wrestler Juan Conrado Aguilar, known as El Texano, and the uncle of Aguilar's sons, who wrestle as El Texano Jr.
25 Facts About El Dandy
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El Dandy was a part of a tag team known as Los Fabulosos with Silver King and a member of the Latino World Order group in World Championship Wrestling.
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El Dandy opted to use the ring name "El Dandy", after several of the wrestlers in Guadalajara gave him the nickname due to his success with women.
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El Dandy made his debut as an enmascarado, or masked wrestler, teaming with Aguila Solitaria against Black Indian and Chamaco Hernandez.
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El Dandy won his first Championship on July 31,1982, as he defeated El Modulo to win the Mexican National Featherweight Championship.
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Two weeks after losing the championship, El Dandy won his first lucha de apuestas against El Guerrero and, as a result, El Guerrero was shaved bald.
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Weeks later El Satanico defeated El Dandy, making him the first wrestler to pin El Satanico in a lucha de apuestas match.
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In June 1990, El Dandy defeated Angel Azteca to become the NWA World Middleweight Champion for a second time, holding it for 61 days until Atlantis won the title from him.
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El Dandy's reign was ended by Bestia Salvaje on September 4,1992.
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El Dandy regained the championship in December, with his second reign as CMLL World Middleweight Champion lasting until May 1993.
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El Dandy had a third reign that started on October 5 and lasted until February 22,1994, when he lost it to Javier Llanes.
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In 1996, El Dandy won two lucha de apuestas matches, first winning the hair of Babe Face on August 1, and then Chicago Express on September 3.
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El Dandy later competed in a tournament for the vacant CMLL World Trios Championship.
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El Dandy returned to WWA in 2000, teaming with Silver King to win the WWA World Tag Team Championship for a second time, defeating Los Brazos on November 10,2000.
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El Dandy won the WWA World Tag Team Championship a third time, teaming up with Rey Misterio to claim the vacant title on August 27,2007.
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In 1997, El Dandy began working for the US-based World Championship Wrestling along with a number of other Mexican wrestlers.
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El Dandy's WCW televised debut took place on September 28,1997, where he and Damian lost to nWo Japan representatives The Great Muta and Masahiro Chono.
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Later that year, Dandy was a member of the Latino World Order, a group of Mexican wrestlers led by Eddie Guerrero.
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Later that same year, El Dandy defeated El Signo in a 7-man steel cage lucha de apuestas match.
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In 2014, El Dandy began his retirement tour, facing off against his longtime rival El Satanico in various local shows around the country.
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El Dandy won the match, which meant that El Satanico was shaved bald.
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El Dandy was one of eight wrestlers who put his hair on the line in a multi-man Lucha de Apuestas match; Suicida lost the match and his hair.
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On March 18,2007, El Dandy was involved in a steel cage match where both his light heavyweight championship and the IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship were on the line.
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El Dandy found solace in Chiropractic and has since opened a full-time practice.
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Writer Matt Farmer stated that El Dandy was "highly underrated" and that he had "phenomenal matches" with Perro Aguayo Jr.