Ari Romero

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Ari Romero

Name	Ari Romero
Real name	José Luis Arias Romero
Nicknames	Gato (Cat), El Rey De las Cadenas (king of the bull terrier match), El Rey Del Tenedor (king of the fork), El Diablo, El General, Padre de los Guerreros
Name history	El Gato (1969 - 1975), Arias Romero (1976 - 1977), Ari "Gato" Romero (1977 - ), Hussein El Gran Sheik/Gran Sheik (09/90 - 09/94), Shadow V (Big Japan), Karma (IWRG, 2002)
Family	Ari Romero Jr. (son)
Maestro(s)	Lou Thesz
Birth date, location	December 20, 1951 - Querétaro, Querétaro
Obituary date	December 29, 2013
Debut, location	October 1967
Lost mask to	Blue Demon Jr. - November 1994 - Arena Coliseo (as Gran Sheik)
Height	5'7"/171 cms
Weight	218 lbs/99 kg
Signature moves	Gori Special, Flying Splash
Titles:	Queretaro Welterweight Championship, Northern Tag Team Championship (2, w/Flama Roja & Crazy 33), Pacific Islands Tag Team Championship (w/Chief Peter Mavia) WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title, AWWA World Middleweight Title (Pavillon Azteca)

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Ari Romero has had a long career, often wrestling in northern Mexico with runs in Mexico City and Japan. He was also well known for using a fork as a weapon to make his adversaries bleed on every match, and was feared in chain matches. He had he nickname "El Rey del Tenedor" for a long time, was probably best known for wrestling in Ciudad Juarez where he was the top rudo for many years feuding with the Guerrero family.

Most fans in the United States are probably more familiar with him wrestling in California appearing early in his career at the L.A. Olympic Auditorium shows were he wrestled as a more technical babyface and later being part of the WIN promotion as one of the top rudos in the group and also occasional heel announcer. He wrestled for years in CMLL in Mexico City and for other promoters throughout Mexico who were affiliated with CMLL. In Juarez, as a rudo he was known for having bloody battles and he gained a number of nicknames besides the one he was most commonly known as “El Gato”.

Ari "el Gato" (The Cat) Romero was part of El Kux Kux Klan along with Flama Roja, and El Legionario in Juarez. (They are not the Kux Kux Klan that was numbered I, II, III - this group just used it as a name for their group, but kept their usual identities.)

Romero has had notables feuds Mil Mascaras, Flama Roja, Tinieblas, Rey Misterio, Konnan, Rocky Star, Cinta de Oro, The Guerrero Family, Blue Demon Junior. and El Halcón

Ari Romero is also a musician in his spare time. Romero not only stuck to Mexico and the Southwest of the US, but traveled the world touring Japan several times, he has competed in several countries like El Salvador, Panama, Corea, England, Filipinas, Malasia Hong Kong, Rusia, Singapur.

He has defeated great wrestlers (in Mexico, USA, an Japan) such as Colosso Colesetti, La Fiera, Super Delfin, Peter Maivia Jr., Black Magic, Alfonso Dantes, Chavo Guerrero, Mando Guerrero, Hector Guerrero, Gory Guerrero, Eddie Guerrero, Rey Misterio (SR), El Cobarde, Fishman, Konnan, Rocky Star, Tigre de Bengala, Pantera Asesina, Mil Mascaras, Blue Demon Jr., an others.

Also Romero won three hairs (in lucha de apuestas) followed in a week. No one has succeeded repeat this world record of pro wrestling

Source

http://myspace.com/arigatoromero

Luchas de apuestas record

Date	Apuesta	Winner(s)	Loser(s)	Arena and/or Place
73/??/??	hair	El Gato	Diamante Azul	Queretaro]
1975	mask	Halcon Dorado	El Gato	Mexico City
82/06/19	mask/hair	Águila Solitaria & Franco Colombo	Cid Campeador & Ari Romero	Pista Arena Revolución - Mexico City
84/08/18	hair	Ari Romero	Doberman	Pista Arena Revolución - Mexico City
84/08/26	hairs	Ari Romero & Franco Colombo	Vulcano & Tony Arce	Arena México - Mexico City
87/??/??	hair	Eddy Guerrero	Ari Romero	Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
94/11/??	mask	Blue Demon Jr.	Gran Sheik	Arena Coliseo - Mexico City
95/02/09	hair	Silver King	Ari Romero	Pista Arena Revolución - Mexico City
02/10/31	mask (1)	Mega	Karma	Arena Naucalpan - Naucalpan, Mexico State
(1) Castillo de la muerte 10 men cage match