{"id":55527,"date":"2019-10-06T15:01:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T19:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=55527"},"modified":"2019-10-06T15:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T19:02:45","slug":"gino-medina-latest-luchador-to-join-mlw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/10\/06\/gino-medina-latest-luchador-to-join-mlw\/","title":{"rendered":"Gino Medina Latest Luchador to Join MLW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, <strong>Major League Wrestling (MLW)<\/strong> announced the impending arrival of a new wrestling star to the company, in the form of &#8220;The Untouchable&#8221; <strong>Gino Medina<\/strong>. While his name may not be a huge name to many people, he&#8217;s a second generation luchador who has spent the past few years training in Texas under WWE Hall of Famer <strong>Booker T<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLW\/status\/1180658934450802689<\/p>\n<p>Starting his wrestling career in 2015, Gino Medina is the son of 80s and 90s lucha star <strong>El Sanguinario<\/strong>, a star with the Monterrey, Mexico-based promotion <b>Federaci\u00f3n Internacional de Lucha Libre (FILL)<\/b>, who also appeared for AAA and CMLL on occasion. He also wrestled as <strong>M\u00e1scara Sagrada<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>M\u00e1scara Maligna<\/strong> on occasion. Sadly, he passed away in 2002 from a heart attack. He was a former FILL World Light Heavyweight Champion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55530\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55530\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/10\/Elsanguinario.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/10\/Elsanguinario.jpg 275w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/10\/Elsanguinario-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/10\/Elsanguinario-236x420.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Sanguinario, Gino Medina&#8217;s father<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gino Media began training with Booker T and has worked for Booker T&#8217;s<strong> Reality of Wrestling (ROW)<\/strong> out of Houston, Texas, where he&#8217;s a former 3x ROW Heavyweight Champion. He also competes in Virginia&#8217;s<strong> Vanguard Championship Wrestling (VCW)<\/strong>, where he held the VCW Commonwealth Heritage Championship a whopping 483-days, and is the current VCW Heavyweight Champion. He&#8217;s also worked other Texas indies like<strong> Inspire Pro<\/strong>, and this past July, he defeated <strong>Eddie Edwards<\/strong> at the <strong>IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>-ROW co-event, <em><strong>Deep Impact<\/strong><\/em>. Last fall, he had a<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/12\/13\/penelope-ford-leads-latest-class-of-indie-wrestlers-at-wwe-tryout-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tryout with WWE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fuego Del Sol vs. &quot;The Latin Heartthrob&quot; GINO - HoodMark Lucha Libre\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/edEY3BsPd10?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>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can watch MLW on BeIN Sports USA or on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/majorleaguewrestling\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Major League Wrestling (MLW) announced the impending arrival of a new wrestling star to the company, in the form of &#8220;The Untouchable&#8221; Gino Medina. 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