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![]() Arias portraying the Sin Cara character in April 2014
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Birth name | Jorge Arias |
Born |
September 5, 1977 (age 40) El Paso, Texas, U.S. |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Hunico Incognito Jorge Arias Místico Mistico de Juarez Mystico Sin Cara (II) Sin Cara Negro |
Billed height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
Billed weight | 198 lb (90 kg) |
Billed from | El Paso, Texas Juárez, Mexico Mexico City |
Debut | November 21, 1999 |
Jorge Arias (born September 5, 1977) is a Mexican-American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Sin Cara.
Arias debuted on WWE’s main roster in 2011 as Sin Cara, temporarily replacing the original performer of the character Luis Urive. Arias subsequently began wrestling unmasked under the ring name Hunico, often in tag team competition alongside Camacho. In 2013, after the release of Urive, Arias reprised his role as Sin Cara and has since performed as the character. In contrast to Urive, Arias is the longest-tenured performer to portray Sin Cara, and his portrayal of the character is bilingual due to Arias having grown up in the United States, and thus speaks either Spanish or English, depending on the intended audience, whereas Urive legitimately does not know English. In 2014, Arias won the NXT Tag Team Championship alongside Kalisto as a part of The Lucha Dragons.
Before signing with WWE, Arias wrestled under the ring name Incognito or Mystico under which he had worked for professional wrestling promotions such as AAA in Mexico and Chikara in the United States.
Born to Mexican immigrant parents in El Paso, Texas, Arias began wrestling in Burges High School where he was an accomplished state champion multiple times. He then embarked onto a professional career, as he managed to continue working for his family's funeral home and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico in the early 2000s under the ring name "Mistico". This masked ring persona may or may not have preceded the debut of Místico (Luis Urive) in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) around the same time period, but CMLL won the legal rights to the name "Místico" some time in 2005, forcing Arias to change his name to "Mystico" or "Mistico de Juarez". On February 2, 2004 he defeated Nicho El Millonario to win the WWA Middleweight Championship but was stripped of the title in March when he had to stop wrestling in the Tijuana, Baja California area where the World Wrestling Association was based.