Adorable Rubí

Adorable Rubí
Carbajal, as Adorable Rubí posing with the Mexican National Middleweight Championship belt.
Birth name	Rubi Rubalcaba
Born	(1943-12-31)December 31, 1943 Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Died	June 23, 2012(2012-06-23) (aged 68) Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Family	Divino Roy (Nephew)
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Silvestre Carbajal Bestia Roja Rubi Rubalcava/Rubi Ruvalcaba Adorable Rubí
Billed height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Billed weight	96 kg (212 lb)
Trained by	Jose Rojas Pepe "Lince" Hernandez
Debut	December, 1965 (No later than)
Retired	1989

Ruben Carbajal Lopez (December 31, 1931 - June 23, 2012) was a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler who is best known under the ring names Adorable Rubí and Rubi Rubalcaba / Rubi Rubalcaba. As Adorable Rubí he was one of the pioneers of the Exótico wrestling style, mixing Cross-dressing with wrestling to create a type or wrestling character that was more sexually ambiguous and self-obsessed. The "Adorable Rubí" character was inspired by Dizzy Gardenia, the first successful Exótico character to compete in Mexico. During his career he won the Mexican National Cruiserweight Championship, Mexican National Middleweight Championship and NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship. While he played an effeminate, self-obsessed character where it was implied he was homosexual, it was never revealed if that was Carbajal's personal sexual orientation as well.

Ruben Carbajal Lopez was born on December 31, 1941 in Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, son of Manuel Carbajal and Maria Lopez. He had three sisters and three brothers, one of which later became a wrestler but had to retire early due to injuries sustained when he was the victim of an armed robbery. He attended the "February 24" Primary School in Moctezuma and one year of High School before he dropped out to pursue a career in lucha libre (professional wrestling). He had first seen lucha libre at the local El Cortijo Bull fighting arena and later visited Mexico City where he began training at the wrestling school associated with Arena México and Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), which was the biggest wrestling promotion in Mexico in the early 1960s. During his childhood Carbajal's idol, along with many others in Mexico, was El Santo. He began his training in 1963, first learning Olympic style amateur wrestling from professor Jose Rojas. During his time training in amateur wrestling Carbajal won several local tournaments. Once he was taught all the fundamentals of amateur wrestling he began training under Pepe Hernandez who taught him professional wrestling.