This week’s blog will be a short one, about a specific wrestler. This wrestler is someone I have been watching since a little bit after he came up to the big leagues and joined the WWE. At 1st I didn’t think much of him, as a wrestler, though I love his gimmick.
Then at Wrestlemania, I saw someone dressed as him, and I thought, that is pretty clever. I think he is breaking through, and become a star. So I started to pay more attention to him. He is excellent on the microphone and in the ring; he is pretty good.
Even though he has only been in the company for a little under a calendar year, he has accomplished quite a bit. He has hurt a few WWE superstars, he has won the Royal Rumble, and he was in the Smackdown main event at mania. He is the Mexican aristocrat, Alberto Del Rio.
Del Rio was born in Mexico, intp a wrestling family. His father was a famous luchador wrestler in Mexico. Del Rio also wrestled on the Mexican national team. In 1997 he won 3rd place in the Junior World Championships in the Czech Republic. He won the Central American and Caribbean Games 3 times. He also won a medal at the Pan American Games. He would have competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics, but Mexico team did not have enough money to send the wrestling team.
So from 2000 to 2009, Del Rio competed on the Lucha Libre circuit. He wrestled all throughout Mexico. In 2005 he joined the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Company. In CMLL, Del Rio competed for the Light Heavyweight, and the World Heavyweight Championships, within the 1st year. He wrestled Mexican heavyweights like Apolo Dantes, Hector Garza, and Ultimo Guerrero. Finally in 2007 he won the CMLL World title. He would defend that title more in the next year and a half until getting the call from WWE.
In June of 2009 Del Rio signed a contract with WWE. He went down to Florida and wrestled in the FCW (Florida Champion Wrestling), the WWE’s minor leagues. After a year in the FCW, Del Rio was “called up” to one of the main shows. He joined Smackdown. Right after joining Smackdown, he engaged in a feud with another Luchador, Rey Mysterio. He would beat Mysterio on Smackdown, and was off and running. He also put Christian on the shelf for the later part of 2010.
2011 started off with a bang for Del Rio, who won the Rumble. With that win he was thrust in to the main event at Wrestlemania. He chose to fight Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship. The weeks leading up to that match, he and Edge were involved in a very exciting feud. Even though Del Rio was relatively a rookie, having been in the company less than a year, he was holding his own against Edge, a guy who was very much used to being in the main event.
Del Rio came up short at Mania, but that has not stopped his star from shooting to the top of the wrestling world. He is now on Raw which will make him a star. Look what it has done for other guys like him. Remember how the Miz became a star by being placed on Raw. Think about how Sheamus became a two time WWE champion by moving to Raw. I think now that Del Rio is on Raw, he is on schedule to become a huge star.
AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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