Angel Garza

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Data
Surname Ángel Humberto Garza Solano
Ring name Angel Garza
El Hijo del Ninja
Humberto Garza
Garza Jr.
height 175 cm
Fighting weight 93 kg
birth September 23, 1992
Monterrey , Mexico
Announced from Monterrey , Mexico
Trained by Mario Segura
El Hijo del Gladiador
debut November 4, 2008

Angel Garza (born September 23, 1992 in Monterrey , Mexico ) is a Mexican wrestler . He is currently under contract with the WWE and appears regularly on their show Raw . His greatest achievement to date has been receiving the NXT Cruiserweight Championship .

Wrestling career

Early career (2008-2015)

Garza was trained by his grandfather Mario Segura and El Hijo del Gladiador before his debut on November 8, 2008 under the ring name El Hijo del Ninja. First he worked for Federacion Internacional de Lucha Libre (FILL). On August 25, 2009 he won the Copa Arena Coliseo Monterrey 2009 tournament, defeating Pee-Wee, Kaientai, Angel Dorada Jr. and Hombre Sin Miedo in succession. After his tournament victory, he won the FILL light heavyweight championship that same year.

In the late autumn of 2011 he started working on the new PhD Llaves y Candados (LyC). On September 18, 2011, he won the LyC championship. In 2012 El Hijo del Ninja took part in a Mexican reality TV show entitled Mitad y Mitad: Lucha por el Amor, in which he voluntarily unmasked himself in the show's finale.

In 2014, some Mexican wrestling media reported that TNA was interested in signing El Hijo del Ninja, but nothing material came out of the rumors at the time. In 2015, El Hijo del Ninja and his cousin Último Ninja won the LyC Tag Team Championship as part of an ongoing feud between the Garza family and the team of Lucha Libre legends Dr. Losing Wagner Jr. and Silver King.

Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (2015-2017)

Garza joined Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) in 2015. His first AAA match took place on October 4th, 2015 at Héroes Inmortales IX. He was known as "Garza Jr." presented. Garza Jr. has teamed up with Psycho Clown and Rey Mysterio to defeat the trio of Myzteziz, El Texano Jr. and El Hijo del Fantasma in the show's semi-main event. Garza Jr. has teamed up with La Parka and Electroshock to compete for the vacant AAA World Trios Championship at the 2016 Guerra de Titanes. After several midcard fights, Garza Jr. took part in the main Héroes Inmortales X fight a little over a year after his AAA debut. Garza Jr. unsuccessfully challenged Johnny Mundo for the AAA Latin American Championship. Three months later, Garza Jr. challenged El Hijo del Fantasma to the AAA Cruiserweight Championship, but again he was unsuccessful.

Impact Wrestling (2017-2018)

Garza Jr. made his surprise debut for Impact Wrestling in Orlando, Florida, along with Mexican wrestler Laredo Kid, recorded on March 2nd, 2017. The two made their debut in the ring by defeating Eli Drake and Tire. Two days later, Garza Jr. and Laredo Kid competed in a Fatal Four Way Tag Team Match for the Impact Wrestling World Tag Team Championship, but they couldn't win it. After that, his path at TNA ended. And only did fights as a free agent.

World Wrestling Entertainment (since 2019)

He signed with the WWE on April 18, 2019. On June 26, 2019, he made his debut on NXT, defeating Joaquin Wilde. On August 20, he performed on 205 Live. On November 6, 2019, he defeated Tony Nese to become the challenger for the NXT Cruiserweight Championship . On December 11, 2019, he won the title from Lio Rush. This reign lasted 45 days and lost the title, then to Jordan Devlin on January 25, 2020.

He made his Raw debut on February 3, 2020 and feuded, first against Rey Mysterio. He joined the stable, made up of Zelina Vega and Andrade , and have since competed together as a tag team.

Titles and awards

  • The Crash Lucha Libre
    • The Crash Tag Team Championship (1 ×) with Último Ninja
  • Federación Internacional de Lucha Libre
    • FILL Light Heavyweight Championship (1 ×)
    • FILL Rey del Aire Tournament: 2011
    • Copa Arena Coliseo Monterrey: 2009
  • Llaves y candados
    • LyC Championship (1 ×)
    • LyC Tag Team Championship (1 ×) with Último Ninja
  • Pro Wrestling Blitz
    • PWB Tag Team Championship (1 ×) with Laredo Kid

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rumor: ¿El Hijo del Ninja y Rico Rodriguez a TNA Wrestling? superluchas.com, September 3, 2014, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  2. ^ WWE cambia el nombre artístico de más talentos de NXT. mundodeportivo.com, June 12, 2019, accessed July 18, 2020 .

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Commons : Angel Garza (wrestler)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Garza, Angel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Monterrey , Mexico