Sangre Chicana - Professional Wrestling Career

Professional Wrestling Career

Andrés Reyes made his professional wrestling debut in July, 1973 as the enmascarado (masked) character Lemus. Less than a year after his debut he was forced to remove his mask as he lost a Lucha de Apuesta (bet match) to El Canek and had to remove the mask per. Lucha Libre traditions. Not long after his mask loss Reyes began working as the enmascarado character Sangre Chicana, Chicana wore the same mask as he did while wrestling as Lemus, this was possible because began wrestling outside his home state and at the time information did not travel as fast. After wrestling under a mask for some years he finally gained some notoriety as he began a feud with Fishman and El Cobarde. This feud led to another Lucha de Apuesta, this time between all three men, a match that Fishman won, unmasking Sangre Chicana. The loss of the mask was the first step towards Sangre Chicana becoming a headline wrestler as he defeated José Luis Mendieta on November 19, 1977 to win the Mexican National Middleweight Championship, only two months after he was unmasked. He would vacate the championship in 1979, although the reasons for vacating the title is not clear. He would hold the NWA World Middleweight Championship twice in 1980-1981 defeating Cachorro Mendoza and Tony Salazar to win the title and lost it to Ringo Mendoza on April 3, 1981. In 1982 he briefly held the NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship for 19 days. In 1982 Chicana jumped to the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) where he resumed his feud with Fishman, trading the UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship four times in total over a period of 16 months. When he returned to Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre he teamed up with Cien Caras to defeat Ringo and Cachorro Mendoza to win the Mexican National Tag Team Championship, a title they would hold until Rayo de Jalisco and Tony Benetto won it from them. Between 1989 and 1990 Sangre Chicana held the UWA promoted WWF Light Heavyweight Championship on two occasions. When the UWA Folded Chicana worked full-time for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Formerly EMLL) where he teamed with Bestia Salvaje and Emilio Charles, Jr. for a CMLL World Trios Championship reign. In the late 1990s Sangre Chicana left CMLL and began working for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) where he defeated Máscara Sagrada II to win the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship. His run with the title lasted 715 days, from May 16, 1998 until April 30, 2000 when he lost the belt to Latin Lover. On August 20, 2004 Chicana won the AAA Americas Heavyweight Championship, a title held until he left AAA. While he's still listed as the current championship the title has technically been inactive since Chicana left the promotion. In recent years Sangre Chicana has worked only select dates on the Mexican Independent circuit, often together with his son Sangre Chicana, Jr.