Essa Rios
Aguila in 2007.
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| Birth name | José Delgado Saldaña |
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| Born |
December 10, 1978 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Residence | Tijuana, Mexico |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Águila Essa Ríos Mr. Águila Papí Chulo |
| Billed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Billed weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
| Billed from | Tijuana, Mexico |
| Trained by |
Diablo Velasco Flash I |
| Debut | January 3, 1994 |
José Delgado Saldaña (born December 10, 1978) is a Mexican professional wrestler or luchador currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Outside of Mexico he is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Essa Ríos and Papí Chulo and for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the US, CMLL and AAA in Mexico as Mr. Águila.
Delgado made his debut in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) on the November 3, 1997 episode of Raw is War as part of its newly relaunched Light Heavyweight division at the age of 18, wrestling under the Ring name Águila. This period included a match with Taka Michinoku at WrestleMania XIV for the Light Heavyweight Championship. He had a high-flying match with Michinoku during Extreme Championship Wrestling's 1999 Cyberslam event before capturing the WWF Light Heavyweight title from Gillberg on his 'debut' as Essa Ríos during February 13, 2000 edition of Sunday Night Heat. His reign was a short-lived one, as he would lose the title to Dean Malenko a few weeks later. During his time as Essa Ríos, he was managed by Lita who would often repeat Ríos's finishing moves on wrestlers he had just beaten after a match. He and Lita had a feud with Eddie Guerrero and Chyna which led to a European title match between Ríos and then-champion Guerrero at Backlash 2000, which Ríos lost. Ríos' partnership with Lita ended sometime later after an angry Ríos attacked Lita because he had lost a match. It was there that the Hardy Boyz came to Lita's rescue and feuded with him briefly, with Lita becoming their protégé. Ríos lapsed into obscurity by late 2000 but did have a brief feud with Kurt Angle that culminated in a main event match on Sunday Night Heat. He also had a small involvement in the Invasion angle, most notably unsuccessfully challenging Chris Kanyon for the WCW United States Championship on another episode of Heat in a hard fought match. Having been off TV for months, Ríos started accepting Japanese bookings in December of 2001.
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