1. El Felino was originally an enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, but was forced to unmask in March 2010 due to losing a match.
30 Facts About El Felino
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El Felino is a second-generation professional wrestler, as he is the son of wrestler-turned-referee Pepe Casas and a part of the Casas wrestling family.
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El Felino's siblings include his older brother Negro Casas and younger brother Heavy Metal.
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El Felino is the uncle of wrestlers Canelo Casas, Danny Casas, Black Star, Destroyer and Nanyzh Rock.
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El Felino's sons are both wrestlers under the names of Tiger and Puma King respectively.
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El Felino was a member of the group La Peste Negra from 2008 to 2020, with whom he has held the Mexican National Trios Championship.
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El Felino has won the CMLL World Welterweight Championship three times in his career, the Mexican National Welterweight Championship once, and is the current Mexican National Light Heavyweight Champion in his first reign.
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El Felino has won several major CMLL tournaments, including the 1999 Torneo Gran Alternativa, the 2001 Copa Ovaciones and the 2002 Leyenda de Plata tournament.
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El Felino's sister-in-law, wife of Jose, is a professional wrestler known as Dalys la Caribena, and through that marriage he is related to Rafael Ernesto Medina Baeza, known as Veneno.
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El Felino later began working for the Naucalpan, State of Mexico-based Universal Wrestling Association.
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On July 5,1992, El Felino defeated Ciclon Ramirez to win the Mexican National Welterweight Championship.
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El Felino vacated the title after winning the CMLL World Welterweight Championship on July 16,1992.
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El Felino lost the championship to Ciclon Ramirez on May 21,1993, as part of their ongoing feud.
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El Felino regained the CMLL World Welterweight March 30,1994 in Acapulco, conclusively ending the storyline between the two as he defeated Ciclon Ramirez again.
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El Felino ended up with just one point in the tournament, losing all but one match.
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El Felino won the CMLL World Welterweight Championship for the third time with a victory over Nosawa on September 21,2001, in Mexico City.
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Later in 2006, El Felino teamed up with longtime rival Pantera to win the IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship on June 29,2006, as they defeated Los Cerebros.
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On September 2,2008, the last Casas brother, El Felino turned Rudo as well and joined La Peste Negra.
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In early 2010 El Felino began a storyline feud with La Sombra.
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La Sombra was the first man pinned at Dos Leyendas and El Felino was the second, forcing the two to put their masks on the line.
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On September 30,2011, at CMLL's 78th Anniversary Show, El Felino won Rey Bucanero's hair in a ten-man steel cage match.
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In late 2011, El Felino began feuding with Blue Panther, which led to a Hair vs Hair match on December 16 at Sin Piedad.
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At Sin Piedad, El Felino tried to exact revenge on Panther, but was disqualified after the referee caught him going for a Martinete.
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El Felino was teamed up with tecnico El Hijo del Fantasma for the 2013 Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles, a tag team tournament teaming rudos with technicos.
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On March 15,2013, El Felino teamed up with his sons Tiger and Puma to defeat the team of Guerrero Maya Jr.
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In late 2015 into early 2016, El Felino became involved in a storyline feud with Super Crazy, a storyline that was split between CMLL and Lucha Libre Elite shows.
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El Felino was one of 12 participants in the 2017 La Copa Junior VIP tournament, but was eliminated by Drago Lee.
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El Felino participated in the 2018 Leyenda de Plata tournament, but was eliminated in the opening round when he was pinned by Soberano Jr.
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El Felino defeated Cavernario at the event, hitting him with a low blow, as the referee was dealing with Negro Casas; it was his first singles championship win since 2011.
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At Homenaje a Dos Leyendas, El Felino was defeated by Cavernario in the hair vs hair match.