Hugo Savinovich was born on February 15,1959 and is an Ecuadorian sports commentator and retired professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager.
20 Facts About Hugo Savinovich
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Hugo Savinovich is best known as part of the Spanish language commentary team for the professional wrestling promotion WWE from 1994 to 2011.
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Hugo Savinovich joined the sport under the guidance of Angel "El Toro" Maldonado.
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Hugo Savinovich began his wrestling career in working for promoter Angel "El Toro" Maldonado in New York as the masked La Pantera Asesina.
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Hugo Savinovich later worked for Mexican wrestling promoter Arturo Mendoza, who took him to Puerto Rico to work in his wrestling company based in the west part of the island.
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Hugo Savinovich is on record as stating that he modeled his role after Gorgeous George, although his looks were particular to him.
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Hugo Savinovich went on many occasions to Dominicana de Espectaculos in the Dominican Republic.
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Hugo Savinovich managed some the most notorious heels in professional wrestling such as Abdullah the Butcher, Ox Baker, The Sheik and Buddy Landell until he had a fallout with Barrabas Sr.
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In 1991, Hugo Savinovich would come back to in-ring competition after seven years and feud with Billy Joe Travis, which would last a couple years in WWC and AWF.
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Hugo Savinovich had a high profile match when he teamed with Kane to defeat Chicky Starr and Victor The Bodyguard on April, 7 2001 for IWA Puerto Rico.
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Hugo Savinovich had his retirement match at WWC Summer Madness on July 22,2023 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, where he lost the match to El Profe.
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Hugo Savinovich reported in November 2019 that WWE wrestlers were kidnapped in Saudi Arabia.
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Hours later, Hugo Savinovich retracted the statement and apologized to Kross, stating that there was a mistranslation of his words into English.
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Super Luchas denied that Kross had been a real killer in his youth, stating that Hugo Savinovich only wanted to generate money for his YouTube channel Lucha Libre Online by exaggerating stories.
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Hugo Savinovich later claimed that Kross called him quite angrily to ask for an explanation for his words.
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Hugo Savinovich was once married to former WWF women's champion Wendi Richter until the couple divorced.
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Hugo Savinovich returned to WWE in 1998, after being sentenced to eight years in jail for which he paid on probation.
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Hugo Savinovich is a born-again Christian and travels most of South and Central America sharing his Christian testimony.
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Hugo Savinovich is the author of his own autobiography book, Atangana Ring de Tentaciones.
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Hugo Savinovich has announced that will be publishing a second book in 2024.