Birth name | Flavia Antonia Moreno León |
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Born |
Mexico City, Mexico |
July 23, 1970
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) |
Cynthia Moreno Cinthia Moreno |
Billed height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) |
Billed weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
Trained by |
Pepe Casas Negro Casas Blue Panther Alfonso Moreno |
Debut | 1987 |
Flavia Antonia Moreno León is a Mexican Luchadora, or female professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Cynthia Moreno (sometimes spelled "Cinthia Moreno") She is working for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). Moreno is a part of an extended wrestling family that includes her father Alfonso Moreno, her brother who wrestles as El Oriental and her sisters, Esther, Alda, and Rossy Moreno. She is a former two-time holder of the AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship with her brother El Oriental.
Flavia Antonia Moreno León is the daughter of Alfonso "Acorazado" (Spanish for "Battleship") Moreno and was trained by her father as well as by Pepe Casas for her professional wrestling career. She made her debut in 1987 in Arena Azteca Budoka in Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State, the building her father promoted at the time, under the name Cynthia Moreno. In the early 1990s Cynthia and her sister Esther Moreno travelled to Japan to wrestle for All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling. On April 21, 1991 the Moreno sisters defeated Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda to win the AJW Tag Team Championship, making them the first Mexican team to hold a championship in Mexico. They would hold the titles until August 2, 1991 where they lost the title to Takako Inoue and Mariko Yoshida. After returning to Mexico she began working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), occasionally touring in Japan.