{"id":26463,"date":"2018-09-21T21:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T01:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=26463"},"modified":"2018-09-21T21:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T01:50:14","slug":"meet-hechicero-pwgs-newest-luchador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/09\/21\/meet-hechicero-pwgs-newest-luchador\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Hechicero: PWG&#8217;s Newest Luchador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen<strong>\u00a0Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG)<\/strong>&#8216;s announcement of the lineup for the upcoming\u00a0<em>Smokey and the Bandido\u00a0<\/em>show in October. The show will have it&#8217;s resident luchadores like <strong>Rey Fenix<\/strong>, <strong>Rey Horus<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/09\/17\/bandido-and-flamita-are-the-next-big-attraction-in-lucha-libre\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bandido<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Flamita<\/strong> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/07\/16\/puma-king-announces-his-departure-from-cmll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Puma King<\/strong><\/a>, but, in this instance, the company added former <strong>NWA<\/strong> World Historic Light Heavyweight Champion and <strong>Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)<\/strong> wrestler <strong>Hechicero<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26477\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26477\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/09\/170e20c0-879b-11e4-91a5-69ea85cec481_El-Hechicero-el-rudo-m-s-t-cnico-del-CMLL.jpg.8d5bfdb9b451a0942f462900d8038537-e1537580913494.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: CMLL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><strong>From Monterey to Mexico City<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hechicero started wrestling in his hometown in Monterey in 2001, primarily in the indie scene there. He won masks and was one of the headliners in Monterey until 2014. Hechicero was then scouted and introduced in Mexico&#8217;s top promotion CMLL. As he said in a recent interview, <em>&#8220;In Monterey I was a main-eventer, in CMLL I&#8217;m starting from the bottom.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hechicero - tribute 2017\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uZlcjbMV7EU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In CMLL, Hechicero was part of the new young stars that the company would build. With <strong>Soberano<\/strong>, <strong>Dragon Rojo<\/strong>, <strong>Fuego<\/strong>, <strong>Sanson<\/strong>, among others, Hechicero was put to the test to see if he could carry the company as one of the main guys in the future. He went on to have a change of attire, new looks and started throwing flames in the ring. Two years after debuting, he defeated <strong>Rey Bucanero<\/strong> to win the NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Rise Against Foreign Talent<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hechicero has been wrestling outside of CMLL lately. In 2016, he wrestled for <strong>Ring of Honor<\/strong> in the tournament to crown the first <strong>ROH<\/strong> 6-Man Champions alongside<strong> Ultimo Guerrero<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Okamura<\/strong>. They lost in the semi-finals to the eventual winners, The Kingdom. Also, he has appeared in <strong>New Japan Pro Wrestling<\/strong> with the co-promoted<em> FantasticaMania<\/em> tours.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xu_KGO8M2T0<\/p>\n<p>Lately, he wrestled for Mexico&#8217;s third biggest promotion <strong>The Crash<\/strong> against <strong>Daga<\/strong>. That match was crowned as the match of the night for it&#8217;s mix of lucha libre, strong-style and technical wrestling. The match got over really big and it could have been a selling point to the guys in PWG to hire Hechicero for their latest show. He is going up against <strong>Zack Sabre Jr.<\/strong> who is no stranger to Lucha Libre. That match will be fierce and technical masterpiece. Keep your eyes open for The Wizard himself Hechicero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen\u00a0Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG)&#8216;s announcement of the lineup for the upcoming\u00a0Smokey and the Bandido\u00a0show in October. The show will have it&#8217;s resident luchadores like Rey Fenix, Rey Horus, Bandido &amp; Flamita and Puma King, but, in this instance, the company added former NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Champion and Consejo Mundial de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":26479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2,6,9],"tags":[2345,676,1987,1244,3225,188,771,3307,2895,95,3470,859,81,770,1199,172],"class_list":["post-26463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cmll","category-featured","category-north-america","category-pwg","tag-bandido","tag-cmll","tag-daga","tag-flamita","tag-hechicero","tag-njpw","tag-nwa","tag-okamura","tag-puma-king","tag-pwg","tag-rey-bucanero","tag-rey-fenix","tag-roh","tag-the-crash","tag-the-kingdom","tag-zack-sabre-jr"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}