Chris Angel (wrestler)

Chris Angel
Chris Angel as the undefeated IWA Intercontinental and Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion.
Born	December 2, 1982
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Angel Chris Angel El Super Fénix #2
Billed height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Billed weight	240 lb (110 kg)
Billed from	Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Debut	2007

Chris Angel (born December 2, 1982) is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler. In 2010, he joined the International Wrestling Association, becoming the only local wrestler to win the IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship in his debut and first to win the IWA Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship undefeated. With this victory, he became the first man to win a world heavyweight championship unpinned within the major local promotions (IWA, World Wrestling Council or Enterteinment Wrestling Organization). His fifteen-month winning streak is the longest in the history of the IWA, surpassing the previous record held by "The Cyber Viking" Al Barone, which was stopped at nine months.

Outside of performing, Angel is the only wrestler to be voted "Rookie of the Year" by the public after only a single official match in one of the major promotions in Puerto Rico. In 2011, he was included in the top half of Pro Wrestling Illustrated's 500 Ranking list after only 13 individual contests and a tag team match in the IWA. The following year he repeated his inclusion, being the top ranked wrestler among those that only performed locally.

Upon completing high school, Angel received a combat sports grant from the University of Puerto Rico's Río Piedras campus. Prior to this he had been active in a program held at the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee's high performance school in Salinas, Puerto Rico. By 2005 he had begun his professional wrestling training under Richard Filipo, who eventually founded an independent promotion named Caribbean Wrestling Entertainment. There he wrestled under the ring name "Angel", being booked in multiple victories over Phillip "Clemente" Cardona and Filipo at shows held in Santurce, Comerío, Moca and other subdivisions of the main island's metropolitan area. In 2007, he and Cardona traveled to Ohio Valley Wrestling, working as a tag team. After six months, both were brought in to a company known as New Wrestling Entertainment by Pedro Figueroa, joining several former CWE alumni to form a stable known as "La Realeza". The group performed in the only two shows held before its dissolution, with him serving as its enforcer.