Birth name | Enrique Del Rio |
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Born | May 28, 1966 |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Jerrito Estrada Mini Psicosis Venum |
Billed height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1 1⁄2 in) |
Billed weight | 75 kg (165 lb) |
Trained by | Panchito Villalobos El Hijo del Gladiador |
Debut | 1991 |
Enrique Del Rio (born May 28, 1966) is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler who has worked for Lucha Libre AAA World Wide's (AAA) Mini-Estrella division since AAA was founded in 1992. Del Rio currently works under the ring name Mini Psicosis, a smaller version of Psicosis II, and is a former AAA World Mini-Estrella Champion. Until 2008 he worked as Jerrito Estrada, a smaller version of the wrestler Jerry Estrada. As Estrada Del Rio has held the Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship once, being the shortest reigning champion in the title's history. Working in the Mini division does not automatically mean that he has dwarfism as several short wrestlers work in the "Mini" division, including Enrique Del Rio.
Enrique Del Rio received his professional wrestling training from Panchito Villalobos and El Hijo del Gladiador; Villalobos is known for training a large number of Mini-Estrellas while Hijo del Gladiador has had a hand in training hundreds of luchadors both regular sized and Mini-Estrellas. Del Rios made his wrestling debut in 1991, working for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL). He was given the ring name Jerrito Estrada, after regular-sized luchador Jerry Estrada, to whom Del Rio had both a physical and facial similarity. When the creator of EMLL's Minis division, Antonio Peña, left EMLL to form his own promotion Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA), Jerrito Estrada and a number of other Minis left EMLL to join AAA. Jerrito Estrada wrestled on the very first AAA show on May 15, 1992 and thus is one of only two men, the other being Octagón, who have worked for AAA since it was created in 1992. Since only Octagón still uses the same character as when AAA began Enrique Del Rio is often overlooked. Jerrito Estrada was part of the very first Triplemanía event, teaming with Jerry Estrada and Blue Panther, only to lose to Minis rival Mascarita Sagrada, Máscara Sagrada and Love Machine While Mascarita Sagrada's team had been successful at Triplemanía Jerrito Estrada scored a bigger victory when he won the Mexican National Mini-Estrella Championship from Sagrada on February 4, 1994. His reign with the title was short-lived as Octagoncito won the belt from him on March 26, 1994. Jerrito Estrada's 26-day reign is the shortest reign in the history of the championship.