Mascara Dorada
| Máscara Dorada | |
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Dorada in December 2010
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| Born |
November 3, 1988 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Children | 2 |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) |
Gran Metalik Máscara Dorada Metalik Plata (II) |
| Billed height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) |
| Billed weight | 79 kg (174 lb) |
| Billed from | Mexico |
| Trained by |
Gran Cochisse El Satánico |
| Debut | July 14, 2005 |
Máscara Dorada (born November 3, 1988) is a Mexican luchador enmascarado currently signed to WWE, under the ring name Gran Metalik, where he performs on the Raw brand. He is best known for his decade long stint in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). Máscara Dorada's real name has not been officially documented, a tradition in Mexican Lucha Libre where masked wrestler's real names often are not a matter of public record. The wrestler currently known as Máscara Dorada made his debut in 2005 and has worked under other names, but achieved most success as Máscara Dorada. His ring name is Spanish for "Golden Mask".
At one time, Máscara Dorada was a quadruple CMLL champion, holding the Mexican National Trios Championship, the CMLL World Trios Championship, the CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship and the CMLL World Welterweight Championship at the same time. He has held the CMLL World Welterweight Championship four times in total. After a decade of working for CMLL in his native Mexico, Dorada signed with the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) in January 2015. After a year with NJPW, Dorada returned to CMLL in February 2016.
He made his in-ring debut in 2005, originally using the masked persona Plata II and later on would use the ring name "Metallik" where he held the local Occidente Welterweight Championship, but abandoned it when he was given the Máscara Dorada character. The "Máscara Dorada" was the first instance of a regular luchador being given a character based on a Mini-Estrella as he was introduced after CMLL introduced Mascarita Dorada in 2007.
The luchador who would later be known as Máscara Dorada made his debut on July 14, 2005, after training with Gran Cochisse and El Satánico. His initial ring persona was that of Plata II, a copy of the original Plata that wrestled in the early to mid 1990s. His run at Plata II was short lived as he was quickly repackage as Metalik, a variation of the "Metal based" look that he also used as "Plata II". As Metalik he worked mainly for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's (CMLL) Guadalajara branch, getting experience while working on a local level. On April 13, 2008 Metalik defeated wrestler Depredador for the Occidente Welterweight Championship, the local Welterweight title. About a month later Metalik won his first ever Luchas de Apuestas match, winning the hair of Jeque. The title win and hair win indicated that CMLL had plans for Metalik's future. Metalik was entered in the 2008 Torneo Gran Alternativa, where a newcomer teams up with a veteran, Metalik teamed up with Dos Caras, Jr. and made it all the way to the finals before losing to Último Guerrero and Dragón Rojo, Jr.
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