Jose Jorge Arriaga Rodriguez[1] (born September 5, 1977) is a Mexican-American skilled wrestler presently engaged on the Mexican unbiased circuit, beneath the ring title Cinta de Oro (Spanish for “Golden Ribbon”). He’s finest identified for his time with WWE beneath the ring title Sin Cara (Spanish for “Faceless”), the place he was the second and longest-tenured wrestler to make use of the persona.[10][11]
Previous to his signing with WWE, he wrestled beneath the ring title Místico or Mystico (Spanish for “Mystic”) beneath which he labored for Mexican skilled wrestling promotion AAA and numerous unbiased promotions in the USA and Mexico. Throughout this time, he had issues with CMLL wrestler Luis Urive, who additionally labored beneath the ring title of Místico. Following a dispute, Arriaga modified his ring title to Místico de Juarez and later to Incognito, beneath which he wrestled in promotions like Chikara, Complete Nonstop Motion Wrestling, and the Nationwide Wrestling Alliance.
Arriaga signed with WWE in 2009 and debuted on the primary roster in 2011 as Sin Cara, briefly changing the unique performer of the character, who coincidentally was additionally Luis Urive. Following the return of Urive, the 2 started a storyline, with Arriaga donning a black masks, and was referred to on commentary as Sin Cara Negro. Arriaga subsequently misplaced a Masks vs. Masks match towards Urive and started wrestling unmasked beneath the ring title Hunico. In 2013, after the discharge of Urive, Arriaga reprised his function as Sin Cara. In distinction to Urive, Arriaga’s portrayal of Sin Cara was bilingual attributable to Arriaga having grown up in the USA, and thus figuring out easy methods to converse each Spanish or English, and doing so relying on the supposed viewers, whereas Urive legitimately didn’t know English. In 2014, Arriaga gained the NXT Tag Group Championship alongside Kalisto as part of The Lucha Dragons. He departed the corporate in 2019.[12]
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Formative years[edit]
Jose Jorge Arriaga Rodriguez was born on September 5, 1977 in El Paso, Texas, to Mexican immigrant dad and mom. Arriaga grew up in El Segundo Barrio, El Paso, Texas.[13] Whereas working in direction of his aim of changing into an expert wrestler, Arriaga labored in his grandfather’s funeral residence in Juarez, Mexico. He additionally gained a level in embalming and funeral director providers in Mexico.[13]
Skilled wrestling profession[edit]
Early profession (1992–2004)[edit]
Arriaga started wrestling in Burges Excessive Faculty from 1992 to 1996, the place in 1995 he positioned third in State of Texas and in 1996 he grew to become an undefeated State Champion.[14] He then embarked onto an expert profession, as he managed to proceed working for his household’s funeral residence and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico within the early 2000s beneath the ring title “Mistico”. This masked ring persona could or could not have preceded the debut of Místico (Luis Urive) in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) across the similar time interval, however CMLL gained the authorized rights to the title “Místico” a while in 2005, forcing Arriaga to alter his title to “Mystico” or “Mistico de Juarez”.[7] On February 2, 2004 he defeated Nicho El Millonario to win the WWA Middleweight Championship however was stripped of the title in March when he needed to cease wrestling within the Tijuana, Baja California space the place the World Wrestling Affiliation was primarily based.[15]
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (2004–2005)[edit]
In early 2004, he started working often for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), CMLL’s most important Mexican rival and needed to change his title in an effort to keep away from any sort of authorized issues. With minor changes to his masks and tights, he grew to become often known as “Incognito” as a substitute.[16] Whereas he was signed to AAA for over a yr, Incognito made few wrestling appearances, spending most of his time coaching in AAA’s faculty to enhance his wrestling expertise. In 2005, he had left AAA and started working for numerous unbiased wrestling promotions on each side of the US/Mexico border, exploiting the truth that he was a US citizen and spoke English effectively to get extra bookings within the US than most luchadors usually can.
Complete Nonstop Motion Wrestling (2006)[edit]
Incognito first made a reputation for himself in the USA when he participated in Complete Nonstop Motion Wrestling’s (TNA) 2006 World X-Cup Match. As a part of Group Mexico, Incognito’s solely match within the World Cup event was a 16-man gauntlet match that included all 4 World Cup groups.[17] Incognito was eradicated by Sonjay Dutt. Group Mexico completed in third place out of 4 groups.[18]
Nationwide Wrestling Alliance (2007)[edit]
Following his look for TNA, Incognito started working often for the Nationwide Wrestling Alliance (NWA), typically teaming with fellow Luchador Sicodelico Jr.. The 2 participated in a event to crown new NWA World Tag Group Champions, however misplaced to Joey Ryan and Karl Anderson within the remaining match, a match that additionally included Billy Kidman and Sean Waltman.[19]
Chikara (2007–2008)[edit]
On September 22, 2007, Incognito made his first look for the Lucha Libre impressed Chikara promotion when he participated of their annual 16-man torneo cibernetico event. Incognito was a part of an eight-man workforce consisting solely of masked wrestlers (Equinox, Las Chivas Rayadas, Lince Dorado, Los Ice Lotions and Magno). The workforce misplaced to The Kings of Wrestling.[20] Incognito returned to Chikara in 2008 for a collection of appearances. He teamed with El Pantera and Lince Dorado to kind the workforce Los Luchadores de Mexico (Spanish for “the Wrestlers from Mexico”) profitable Chikara’s 28-team King of Trios 2008 event once they defeated BLKOUT (Eddie Kingston, Joker and Ruckus) within the finals.[6][21] Incognito went on to win the 2008 Rey de Voladores (“King of the Fliers”) event when he defeated Helios within the finals on Could 18, 2008.[6][22] In April 2009 Incognito made two appearances for Ring of Honor, engaged on the identical exhibits the place his buddy Blue Demon Jr. labored. On April 3 he teamed with Chris Hero and Eddie Edwards to defeat Jay Briscoe, Kevin Steen and Magno and on April 4 he teamed with Hero, Edwards and Davey Richards in a loss to El Generico, Steen, Briscoe and Magno.[23][24]
World Wrestling Leisure/WWE[edit]
Developmental territories (2009–2011)[edit]
On December 14, 2009 Arriaga labored a “try out” match for World Wrestling Leisure (WWE) working with no masks, beneath the title Jorge Arias, dropping a tag workforce match towards The Dudebusters. Shortly after Arriaga signed a developmental cope with WWE following his check out match and began in WWE’s farm league Florida Championship Wrestling.[25] He later modified his ring title to Hunico though his masks and outfit remained unchanged.[5] In April Hunico started teaming with Tito Colon, wrestling Florida Tag Group Champions The Uso Brothers (Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso) however had been unsuccessful. Afterward Tito Colon was given a brand new ring persona, an enmascarado (masked) character referred to as “Dos Equis” (after the Dos Equis beer), which was later modified to “Epico”, and the workforce was named Los Aviadores (Spanish for “The Aviators”). On June 3, 2010 Los Aviadores defeated The Uso Brothers to win the Florida Tag Group Championship.[26] On July 15 Los Aviadores misplaced the tag workforce titles to Kaval and Michael McGillicutty,[27] however regained the titles the next day in a rematch.[28] On August 12 Hunico and Epico misplaced the FCW Florida Tag Group Championship to Johnny Curtis and Derrick Bateman in a three-way match, which additionally concerned the workforce of Donny Marlow and Brodus Clay.[29] On July 26, 2011, Hunico wrestled in a darkish match on the NXT tapings, dropping to Justin Gabriel.[30]
Principal roster debut and unmasking (2011–2013)[edit]
On the August 12 episode of SmackDown, Arriaga made his WWE debut, taking up the function of Sin Cara from Luis Urive, the previous CMLL Místico, who was serving a 30-day suspension for violating WWE’s wellness program, and defeated Tyson Kidd.[9][31] Arriaga reprised his function of Sin Cara the next week, collaborating in a battle royal to find out the #1 contender to the World Heavyweight Championship, from which he was the final man eradicated by the winner, Mark Henry.[32] On August 20, Urive took again the function of Sin Cara for a dwell occasion. On the following tapings of SmackDown, Arriaga as soon as once more appeared beneath the masks.[33][34] On the August 30 episode of SmackDown, Sin Cara defeated Daniel Bryan and attacked Bryan after the match, turning heel for the primary time.[35]
On the tapings of the September 16 episode of SmackDown, the unique Sin Cara made his return, confronting Arriaga’s impostor model of the character.[36][37] On the September 19 episode of Uncooked, the impostor Sin Cara attacked the unique character previous to his match with Cody Rhodes, however was compelled to flee after a short brawl.[38] On the September 23 episode of SmackDown, the impostor Sin Cara attacked the unique model throughout his match with Daniel Bryan, took his place within the match and pinned Bryan for the win.[39] The next week, he revealed a brand new black apparel to tell apart himself from the unique model, whereas additionally explaining that he was going to steal the Sin Cara id from Urive, simply as Urive had stolen the Místico id from him six years prior.[40] At Hell in a Cell, the impostor Sin Cara, now being known as “Sin Cara Negro”, was defeated by the unique Sin Cara, now known as “Sin Cara Azul”.[41] The feud continued on the next SmackDown with Negro attacking Azul.[42] The rivalry culminated on the October 16 taping of SmackDown in Mexico Metropolis in a Masks vs. Masks match, the place Sin Cara Azul was victorious, unmasking Arriaga after the match.[43][44]
On the October 28 SmackDown, Negro was interviewed by Matt Striker, the place he wished payback for dropping to Azul whereas revealing his title to be “Hunico”, a reputation he utilized in FCW.[45] He additionally adopted a brand new gimmick, portraying a stereotypical Mexican hoodlum, wrestling in avenue apparel and addressing the viewers in each Spanish and English. On the November 4 SmackDown, Hunico continued his rivalry with Sin Cara by attacking him collectively along with his debuting FCW tag workforce accomplice Epico.[46] Regardless of Epico’s cousin Primo quickly becoming a member of them,[47] this was quick lived as Primo & Epico went on to align with Rosa Mendes.[48] Hunico’s feud with Sin Cara was reduce quick when Sin Cara suffered a legit harm at Survivor Sequence, which required surgical procedure.[49] On the December 15 Superstars, Hunico launched FCW’s Donny Marlow (son of Haku) as his new bodyguard as they rode to the ring in a lowrider bicycle (which might turn out to be Hunico’s signature entrance).[50] The next week, Marlow’s new title was revealed as Camacho.[51] It was revealed that Hunico and Camacho’s friendship arose from Hunico as soon as saving Camacho from a number of attackers, leading to Hunico being stabbed however biting a person’s eyeball out within the course of.[52]
In January 2012, Hunico began a feud with Ted DiBiase after Hunico was offended that he was not invited to considered one of DiBiase’s Posse events. After each wrestlers scored two wins apiece,[53][54] Hunico defeated DiBiase on the February 17 SmackDown to finish the feud.[55] After his feud with DiBiase, Hunico wrestled extensively on Superstars, happening an unbeaten streak in Superstars singles matches by defeating the likes of Ezekiel Jackson, Yoshi Tatsu, and Justin Gabriel. In April, Camacho started often teaming with Hunico.[56] In June, Hunico misplaced to the returning Sin Cara, on the June 4 Uncooked and at No Manner Out.[57][58] Within the pre-show of Cash within the Financial institution, Hunico and Camacho misplaced to the WWE Tag Group Champions Kofi Kingston and R-Fact in a non-title match.[59] At Uncooked 1000 in July 2012, Hunico, together with Camacho and 4 different wrestlers tried to ambush Kane to make a press release, however The Undertaker returned to avoid wasting Kane, disposing of Hunico with a chokeslam and a tombstone piledriver.[60] Hunico then underwent surgical procedure for a torn anterior cruciate ligament within the knee.[61]
Hunico returned to in-ring motion (however not tv) on the WrestleMania Axxess dwell occasion on April 4, 2013, as soon as once more teaming with Camacho.[62] Hunico and Camacho returned to tv on the November 6 Principal Occasion and misplaced to The Usos.[63] Hunico and Camacho’s first title shot was for the NXT Tag Group Championship on the December 11 NXT, the place they misplaced to the defending champions The Ascension.
Re-masking and The Lucha Dragons (2013–2016)[edit]
On the December 2, 2013, the Sin Cara character returned to Uncooked, with Arriaga reprising the character and defeated Alberto Del Rio,[8] and the character skilled a resurgence as he launched into a profitable streak all through the month.[64] Sin Cara’s streak was ended by Del Rio on the January 6, 2014 episode of Uncooked.[65] As 2014 progressed, Sin Cara was unsuccessful in profitable 4 battle royals: the André the Big Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania XXX,[66] a battle royal for the WWE United States Championship in Could,[67] a Cash within the Financial institution qualifying battle royal in June and a battle royal for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at Battleground.[68][69]
Quickly after, Sin Cara was despatched to NXT, the place he shaped a tag workforce with Kalisto often known as “The Lucha Dragons”. At NXT TakeOver: Deadly 4-Manner, Sin Cara and Kalisto defeated The Ascension to win the NXT Tag Group Championship, and Arriaga’ first title in WWE. After defeating Intercontinental Champion Unhealthy Information Barrett in a non-title match on the January 9, 2015 episode of SmackDown, Sin Cara was awarded a title shot towards Barrett on the taped episode of Smackdown which aired on January 15, however misplaced the match. On the January 28 episode of NXT, The Lucha Dragons misplaced the NXT Tag Group Championship to Wesley Blake and Buddy Murphy.[70] Sin Cara competed within the André the Big Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 31, however didn’t win the match. The next night time on Uncooked, The Lucha Dragons made their most important roster debut as a workforce in an 8-man tag workforce match, teaming with The New Day (Huge E and Kofi Kingston) to defeat Tyson Kidd and Cesaro and The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor). At Elimination Chamber, The Lucha Dragons competed within the first ever tag workforce Elimination Chamber match for the WWE Tag Group Championship, nevertheless they didn’t seize the titles.[71] In late June, The Lucha Dragons took a small half within the ongoing feud between The New Day and The Prime Time Gamers on the June 25 episode of SmackDown, once they teamed with The Prime Time Gamers in a profitable effort towards The New Day and Bo Dallas. At SummerSlam, The Lucha Dragons competed in a Deadly 4-Manner tag workforce match for the WWE Tag Group Championship which was gained by The New Day.
At Night time of Champions, The Lucha Dragons and Neville had been defeated by The Cosmic Wasteland (Stardust, Konnor and Viktor). At TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, The Lucha Dragons, The Usos and The New Day competed in a triple menace tag workforce ladder match for WWE Tag Group Championship which was gained by The New Day, who retained their titles. The next week, on a dwell episode of SmackDown, The Lucha Dragons obtained one other tag workforce title shot, however they had been as soon as once more defeated by The New Day. On the December 28 episode of Uncooked, Sin Cara dislocated his shoulder in a match with Huge E, leaving him out of motion.[72] On February 6, Sin Cara returned from harm, teaming with Kalisto in a profitable effort.[73] On the March 21 episode of Uncooked, Sin Cara confronted Stardust and Zack Ryder in a triple menace match to find out the #1 contender for the Intercontinental Championship, which resulted in no contest, after Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens interfered within the match. Afterwards, it was introduced that Sin Cara would compete in a 7-man ladder match for the title at WrestleMania 32 towards Owens, Stardust, Ryder, Dolph Ziggler, Sami Zayn and The Miz, which he misplaced.
Model switches and departure (2016–2019)[edit]
On July 18, Sin Cara and Kalisto introduced they had been disbanding and coming into the 2016 draft as singles opponents.[74] Because of the draft, Sin Cara was drafted to the Uncooked model.[75] On the September 5 episode of Uncooked, Sin Cara confronted Braun Strowman, who had eliminated a luchador’s masks the earlier week. Sin Cara berated Strowman for disrespecting luchador custom, igniting a feud between the 2.[76] On the next weeks on Uncooked, Strowman would defeat Sin Cara in two matches by countout and pinfall.[77] On the October 10 episode of Uncooked, Sin Cara teamed with Lince Dorado to defeat Tony Nese and Drew Gulak.[78] In the course of the match, it was confirmed that Sin Cara could be competing within the cruiserweight division.[79] On the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view on October 30, Sin Cara participated in a six-man tag workforce match, teaming with Lince Dorado and Cedric Alexander to defeat Tony Nese, Drew Gulak and Ariya Daivari.[80]
On April 11, 2017, Sin Cara was moved to the SmackDown model as a part of the Celebrity Shake-up.[81] On the October 17 episode of SmackDown Stay, Sin Cara began a feud with the USA Champion Baron Corbin, however on November 6, Sin Cara revealed on Twitter that he suffered a authentic leg harm through the European tour towards Baron Corbin.[82] Nevertheless, the harm was not extreme and he was cleared to compete shortly afterwards.[83] On the November 14 episode of SmackDown Stay, Sin Cara didn’t win the USA Championship, after being defeated by Corbin.[84] At WrestleMania 34 on April 8, 2018, Sin Cara competed within the André the Big Memorial Battle Royal, however didn’t win.[85] On the Could 29 episode of SmackDown Stay, Sin Cara tried to reconnect with Andrade “Cien” Almas solely to be blown off.[86] At Excessive Guidelines on July 15, Sin Cara misplaced to Almas.[87] On August 15, it was reported that Sin Cara underwent knee surgical procedure.[88] In March 2019, he was cleared to return to in-ring motion.[89] At Tremendous ShowDown on June 7, 2019, Sin Cara competed within the 51-man battle royal, however didn’t win.[90][91]
As a part of the 2019 draft, Sin Cara was drafted to Uncooked and restarted his feud with Andrade,[92] the place he misplaced towards him on the October 21 and 28 episodes of Uncooked.[93] Sin Cara additionally allied with NXT wrestler Carolina to face Andrade and Andrade’s supervisor Zelina Vega, however they had been defeated by Andrade and Vega on the November 4 episode of Uncooked.[94] After the match, Arriaga requested WWE for future plans and, whereas a number of WWE producers did not reply him, Uncooked’s Govt Director Paul Heyman advised him the character of Sin Cara was “dead”, which was one of many causes to go away the corporate.[95] On the November 11 episode of Uncooked, Sin Cara was defeated by Drew McIntyre, in what could be his remaining televised match in WWE. On that very same present was aired, Arriaga requested his launch from WWE, citing that whereas grateful concerning the alternatives that WWE gave him, he felt unappreciated and wished to broaden his profession elsewhere.[96] On December 8, WWE formally granted his launch and Arriaga departed from the corporate.[12]
Return to Mexico (2019–current)[edit]
On December 14, 2019, at Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide’s annual Guerra de Titanes present, Arriaga made a shock look after one of many matches. Arriaga, carrying the Sin Cara masks and utilizing his WWE ring title, saved Pagano from an assault after which introduced that he would return in 2020.[97][98] On December 17, Arriaga introduced that he could be altering his ring title to “Cinta de Oro” (“Golden Ribbon”), to proceed the legacy of the unique performer of the character who died in 2016. The sons of the unique performer gave Arriaga permission to take action, and handed him the final masks worn by their father.[99] On April 19, 2020, Arriaga competed in his first match beneath the Cinta de Oro gimmick, teaming with Pagano to defeat Aéreo and El Hijo Del Impostor at a De Juarez Para El Mundo occasion.[100]
Private life[edit]
Arriaga said in an episode of WWE Celebrity Toyz that he has one son.[101]
In November 2016, it was reported that WWE had ordered Arriaga to take anger administration courses, following separate altercations with Simon Gotch and Chris Jericho.[102][103]
Arriaga is associates with Raúl Jiménez, who performs soccer for Wolverhampton Wanderers. Jiménez celebrated scoring a aim in April 2019 by briefly donning a masks within the model of Sin Cara’s.[104] Arriaga visited the membership in Could 2019.[105]
Different media[edit] – “2 sin caras”
Arriaga made his online game debut in WWE ’13 as Hunico, and later appeared in WWE 2K16, WWE 2K17, WWE 2K18, WWE 2K19, and WWE 2K20 as Sin Cara.
Masks[edit]
Sin Cara wore a number of masks yearly, with a mesh tray paper on every eye opening on the masks. In contrast to Rey Mysterio And Kalisto, he didn’t have a mouth opening and as a substitute positioned mesh tray papers on a number of mouth opening stripes. These masks coated his full face.
Filmography[edit]
“2 sin caras”