Hunico

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Hunico
Hunico April 2012.jpg
Arias as Hunico at a WWE SmackDown show in April 2012
Ring name(s) Hunico[1][2]
Incognito[1]
Jorge Arias[1]
Mistico[1][3]
Sin Cara (Negro)[4]
Billed height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1][3][5]
Billed weight 205 lb (93 kg)[5]
Born (1977-08-05) August 5, 1977 (age 35)[1]
El Paso, Texas[1]
Billed from El Paso, Texas
Juárez, Mexico[1][6]
Mexico City, Mexico[5]
Debut November 21, 1999

Jorge Arias[1] (born August 5, 1977)[1] is a Mexican American professional wrestler, who is currently signed to WWE under the ring name Hunico.[5][6] Prior to signing with WWE, Arias was better known under the ring name Incognito, under which he mainly worked for the professional wrestling promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) in Mexico and Chikara in the US as well as working for various independent promoters along the US/Mexico border. Arias originally wrestled under the name "Místico", making his debut under that name around the same time as the much more well known Místico of Mexico City. At times he is billed as either "Mystico" or "Mistico de Juarez".

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Professional wrestling career [edit]

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.[7] 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".[8] 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.[9]

Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (2004–2005) [edit]

In early 2004 he began working regularly for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), CMLL's main Mexican rival and had to change his name in order to avoid any type of legal problems. With minor adjustments to his mask and tights Mystico became known as "Incognito" instead, adopting the name he is best known as today.[10] While he was signed to AAA for over a year Incognito made few wrestling appearances, spending most of his time training in AAA's school to improve his wrestling skills. By 2005 he had left AAA and began working for various independent wrestling promotions on both sides of the US/Mexico border, exploiting the fact that he was a US citizen and spoke English well to get more bookings in the US than most Luchadors typically can.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2006) [edit]

Incognito first made a name for himself in the United States when he participated in the 2006 edition of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's (TNA) World X-Cup Tournament. Incognito formed Team Mexico along with Shocker, Magno and Puma. Incognito's only match in the World Cup tournament was a 16-man Gauntlet match that included all four World Cup teams.[11] Incognito was eliminated by Sonjay Dutt. In the end Team Mexico ended up in third place, behind winners Team USA and Team Canada but ahead of Team Japan.[12]

Following his appearance for TNA Incognito began working regularly for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), often teaming with fellow Luchador Sicodélico, Jr.. The two participated in a tournament to crown new NWA World Tag Team Champions, but lost to Joey Ryan and Karl Anderson in the final match, a match that also included Billy Kidman and Sean Waltman.[13]

Chikara (2007–2008) [edit]

Arias as Incognito at Chikara's 2008 King of Trios tournament.

On September 22, 2007, Incognito made his first appearance for the Lucha Libre inspired Chikara promotion when he participated in their annual 16-man torneo cibernetico tournament. Incognito was part of an eight-man team consisting only of masked wrestlers (Equinox, Las Chivas Rayadas, Lince Dorado, Los Ice Creams and Magno). The team lost to the Kings of Wrestling.[14] Incognito returned to Chikara in 2008 for a series of appearances. He teamed with El Pantera and Lince Dorada to form the team Los Luchadores de Mexico (Spanish for "the Wrestlers from Mexico") winning Chikara's 28-team King of Trios 2008 tournament when they defeated BLKOUT (Eddie Kingston, Joker and Ruckus) in the finals.[3][15] Incognito went on to win the 2008 Rey de Voladores ("King of the Fliers") tournament when he defeated Helios in the finals on May 18, 2008.[3][16] In April, 2009 Incognito made two appearances for Ring of Honor, working on the same shows where his friend Blue Demon, Jr. worked. On April 3 he teamed with Chris Hero and Eddie Edwards to defeat Jay Briscoe, Kevin Steen and Magno and on April 4 he teamed with Hero, Edwards and Davey Richards in a loss to El Generico, Steen, Briscoe and Magno.[17][18]

World Wrestling Entertainment / WWE [edit]

Florida Championship Wrestling (2009–2011) [edit]

On December 14, 2009 Arias worked a "try out" match for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) working without a mask, under his real name, losing a tag team match against The Dudebusters. Shortly after Arias signed a developmental deal with WWE following his try out match and started in WWE's Farm League Florida Championship Wrestling.[19] He later changed his ring name to Hunico although his mask and outfit remained unchanged.[2] In April Hunico began teaming with Tito Colon, wrestling Florida Tag Team Champions The Uso Brothers (Jimmy and Jey) but were unsuccessful. Later on Tito Colon was given a new ring persona, an enmascarado (masked) character called "Dos Equis" (after the Dos Equis beer), which was later changed to "Epico", and the team was named Los Aviadores (Spanish for "The Aviators"). On June 3, 2010 Los Aviadores defeated The Uso Brothers to win the Florida Tag Team Championship.[20] On July 15 Los Aviadores lost the tag team titles to Kaval and Michael McGillicutty,[21] but regained the titles the following day in a rematch.[22] On August 12 Hunico and Epico lost the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship to Johnny Curtis and Derrick Bateman in a three-way match, which also involved the team of Donny Marlow and Brodus Clay.[23] On July 26, 2011, Hunico wrestled in a dark match at the NXT tapings, losing to Justin Gabriel.[24]

Debut and injury (2011–present) [edit]

On the August 12 episode of SmackDown, Arias made his WWE television debut, when he took over the role of Sin Cara from Luis Urive, the former CMLL Místico, who was serving a 30 day suspension for violating WWE's wellness program, and defeated Tyson Kidd in a singles match.[4][25] Arias reprised his role of Sin Cara the following week, taking part in a battle royal to determine the number one contender to the World Heavyweight Championship, from which he was the last man eliminated by the winner, Mark Henry.[26] On August 20, Urive took back the role of Sin Cara for a live event, however, at the following tapings of SmackDown, Arias once again appeared under the mask.[27][28] On the August 30 episode of SmackDown, Sin Cara defeated Daniel Bryan. After the match and as Bryan was recovering, Sin Cara went to shake his hand, then proceeded to roundhouse kick him in the head, turning heel in the process.[29] At the tapings of the September 16 episode of SmackDown, the original Sin Cara made his return, confronting Arias' impostor version of the character.[30][31] On the September 19 episode of Raw, the impostor Sin Cara attacked the original character prior to his match with Cody Rhodes, but was forced to flee the ring after a brief brawl.[32] On the September 23 episode of SmackDown, the impostor Sin Cara attacked the original version during his match with Daniel Bryan, then took his place in the match and pinned Bryan for the win.[33] The following week he revealed a new black attire to distinguish himself from the original version, while also explaining that he was going to steal the Sin Cara identity from Urive, just as Urive had stolen the Místico identity from him six years prior.[34] On October 2 at Hell in a Cell, the impostor Sin Cara, now being referred to as "Sin Cara Negro", was defeated by the original Sin Cara, now referred to as "Sin Cara Azul".[35] However, the feud continued on the following episode of SmackDown with Sin Cara Negro attacking Sin Cara Azul.[36] The rivalry culminated at the October 16 taping of SmackDown in Mexico City in a Mask vs. Mask match, where Sin Cara Azul was victorious, unmasking Arias by force after the match.[37][38]

On the October 28 episode of SmackDown, Negro was interviewed by Matt Striker, where he wanted payback for losing to Azul while revealing his name to be Hunico, a name he used in FCW before being called up.[39] He also adopted a new gimmick, portraying a stereotypical Mexican hoodlum, wrestling in street attire and addressing the audience in both Spanish and English. On the November 4 episode of SmackDown, Hunico continued his rivalry with Sin Cara by attacking him together with his debuting FCW tag team partner Epico.[40] However, this association was short lived as Epico went on to form a stable with Primo and Rosa Mendes. Hunico's feud with Sin Cara was cut short when Sin Cara suffered a legit injury at the 2011 Survivor Series which required surgery.[41]

Curt Hawkins and Hunico (right) receive Tombstone Piledrivers from the Brothers of Destruction (Kane and the Undertaker) during Raw 1000.

On the December 15 episode of Superstars, Hunico introduced FCW's Donny Marlow (son of Haku) as his new bodyguard as they rode to the ring in a lowrider bicycle (which would become Hunico's signature entrance.[42] The following week, Marlow's new name was revealed as Camacho.[43] While on commentary, William Regal explained Hunico and Camacho's friendship that Hunico once saved Camacho from several attackers, resulting in Hunico being stabbed but biting a man's eyeball out in the process.[44] In January 2012, Hunico started a feud with Ted DiBiase after Hunico was offended that he was not invited to one of DiBiase's Posse parties. After both wrestlers scored two wins apiece,[45][46] Hunico defeated DiBiase on the February 17 episode of SmackDown to end the feud.[47] After his feud with DiBiase, Hunico wrestled extensively on Superstars, going on an unbeaten streak in Superstars singles matches by defeating the likes of Ezekiel Jackson, Yoshi Tatsu and Justin Gabriel; from April, Camacho regularly teamed with Hunico.[48] In June, Hunico lost to the returning Sin Cara, on the June 4 episode of Raw and at No Way Out.[49][50] In the pre-show of Money in the Bank, Hunico and Camacho lost to the WWE Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston and R-Truth in a non-title match.[51] At Raw 1000, Hunico, along with Camacho and four other wrestlers attempted to ambush Kane to make a statement, but The Undertaker returned to save Kane, disposing of Hunico with a chokeslam and a tombstone piledriver.[52] Hunico then underwent surgery for a torn anterior cruciate ligament in the knee.[53]

He finally returned after many months of absence after being injured on the April 4th live event of Wrestlemania Axxess, resuming his partnership with Camacho.

In wrestling [edit]

Hunico performing the Falling Star

Championships and accomplishments [edit]

  • Nevermore Championship Wrestling
    • NCW Light Heavyweight Championship (4 times)

Luchas de Apuestas record [edit]

See also: Luchas de Apuestas
Wager Winner Loser Location Date Notes
Hair Incognito Rey Guerrero Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua Unknown  
Hair Incognito El Migra Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua Unknown  
Mask Sin Cara Azul Sin Cara Negro Mexico City, Distrito Federal 02011-10-16October 16, 2011 WWE SmackDown taping[37]

Personal life [edit]

Arias grew up in El Segundo Barrio, El Paso.[67]

Whilst working towards his goal of becoming a professional wrestler Arias worked in his grandfathers funeral home in Juarez, Mexico. He also gained a degree in embalming and funeral director services in Mexico.[67]

Arias stated in an episode of WWE Superstar Toyz that he has one young son.[68]

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