Birth name | Martín Antonio Alvarado Nieves |
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Born |
Mexico City, Mexico |
March 7, 1968
Residence | Mexico City, Mexico |
Website | Facebook page |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Frayle Pop Súper Brazo |
Billed height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) |
Billed weight | 135 kg (298 lb) |
Trained by | Shadito Cruz |
Debut | July 7, 1983 |
Martín Antonio Alvarado Nieves (born March 7, 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Súper Brazo (Spanish for "Super Arm") and is part of an extensive Alvarado wrestling family that was founded by his father Shadito Cruz and includes Alvarado's five brothers as well as a large number of third generation wrestlers. Most of the wrestlers in the Alvarado family is using or has used a ring name with the word "Brazo" ("Arm") in it at some point in their career. Martín Alvarado has worked for a number of Mexican professional wrestling promotion, but is currently working on the Mexican Independent circuit and not permanently for one specific promotion.
Martín Alvarado was trained by his father Shadito Cruz before making his professional wrestling career on July 7, 1983. Initially he wrestled as an enmascarado or masked character called "Frayle Pop", but lost that mask as a result of a Luchas de Apuestas, or "bet match" loss to Robin Hood and revealed that he was part of the Alvarado family. At the time it was not revealed that Robin Hood was actually a brother of Martín Alvarado, José Aarón Alvarado Nieves. A few years later he took the family ring name and became known as Súper Brazo, including the signature "Brazo" mask with the logo of a man flexing his biceps on the front of it. While his three oldest brothers had worked as "Los Brazos" and other Brazos had at times replaced one of them, Super Brazo, Brazo Cibernético (formerly Robin Hood) and Brazo de Platino work as Los Nuevo Brazos for the Universal Wrestling Association starting in 1992. Later on Súper Brazo worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), the world's oldest and one of Mexico's largest wrestling promotions. In CMLL he became involved in a storyline with Mr. Niebla that escalated to the point that both wrestlers put their mask on the line in a Luchas de Apuestas match. The match took place on July 16, 1995 and was won by Mr. Niebla, forcing Súper Brazo to unmask. In the years following his mask loss Súper Brazo became a regular on the Mexican Independent Circuit, especially around Mexico City, oftentimes teaming with Brazo de Platino and Brazo Cibernético until his death in 1999.