Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Gran Metalik

Gran Metalik

Born:
8/24/1988
,
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Birthname:
Máscara Dorada
Height & Weight:
5'9"
,
189 Ib

Titles Won:

  • WWE 24/7 Championship
  • CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship
  • CMLL World Trios Championship (2 times) – with La Sombra and La Máscara (1) and Místico and Valiente (1)
  • CMLL World Welterweight Championship (4 times)
  • Mexican National Trios Championship – with Metro and Stuka Jr.
  • NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship
  • Occidente Welterweight Championship
  • CMLL Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles (2010, 2011) – with Atlantis

He is best known for his time in WWE where he performed under the ring name Gran Metalik. His real name has not been officially documented, a tradition in Mexican lucha libre where masked wrestlers’ real names often are not a matter of public record. In Mexico and Japan, he is best known for his decade-long stint in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre under the ring name “Máscara Dorada”.

He made his debut in 2005, originally using the masked persona Plata II. He later used the ring name Metalik, holding the local Occidente Welterweight Championship, but abandoned the championship when he adopted the Máscara Dorada character. The “Máscara Dorada” character was the first instance of a regular-sized luchador being given a character based on a Mini-Estrella as he was introduced after CMLL introduced Mascarita Dorada in 2007.

At one time, Dorada was a quadruple CMLL champion, holding the Mexican National Trios Championship, the CMLL World Trios Championship, the CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship, and the CMLL World Welterweight Championship at the same time. He has held the CMLL World Welterweight Championship four times. After a decade of working for CMLL in his native Mexico, Dorada worked full-time for the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) from January 2015 until returning to CMLL a year later in February 2016.

In 2016, he competed in the American promotion WWE’s Cruiserweight Classic tournament. After the tournament, he signed with WWE and was assigned to their brand 205 Live, he has since teamed with Kalisto and Lince Dorado as part of Lucha House Party. They were promoted to the Raw brand in November 2018, but was moved to the SmackDown brand in October 2019, before being granted his release (for a lack of opportunities) in November 2021.