Birth name | Fernando Montes |
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Born |
Mexico City, Mexico |
April 17, 1974
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) |
Fierro / Oficial Fierro Mercurio El Millonario Ultra Mega |
Billed height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Billed weight | 83 kg (183 lb) |
Trained by | Fuego Negro Scorpio |
Debut | 1997 |
Fernando Montes (born February 14, 1974) is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Oficial Fierro. As Oficial Fierro he is part of a group called Los Oficiales that has worked for International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) since 2007. The team held the record for the longest reigning Distrito Federal Trios Champions and are the most successful holders of the IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship, holding it longer than any other trios team and having defended it more times than any previous champions have. Fierro is Spanish for Iron. He previously wrestled as Mercurio and El Millonario but achieved more success as Ultra Mega, part of Los Megas in IWRG where he held several championships. Oficial Fierro's real name was not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans, until he lost his mask in a match on November 1, 2012.
Fernando Montes made his professional wrestling debut in 1997, although it has never been publicly acknowledge which ring name he used at the time. In Mexico it is not unusual for wrestlers to gain in-ring experience under a generic enmascarado (masked) character early in their careers. In 1999 and 2000 he wrestled as "Mercurio", a low ranking enmascarado character in International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG). In 2000 he was repackaged as "El Millonario", a character patterned after Ted DiBiase's "Million Dollar Man" character from the World Wrestling Federation.