5 interesting facts about Sin Cara

When Sin Cara first arrived in WWE, he was projected as the masked Superstar who would become the next Rey Mysterio and carry his legacy forward. However, things did not plan out accordingly and lack of consistent story-lines and feuds besmirched the novelty of Cara.

Now, it has become clear that Sin Cara will never carry the torch of Mysterio as he was officially granted his release from the company on December 8, 2019. The 42-year-old Superstar first asked for his release on November 11, 2019.

He clarified that despite all the opportunities that he was granted in WWE and how grateful he will forever be to the company, he still felt that they were not adequate for him and wanted to extend his career elsewhere. It was also rumored that WWE offered him to move to 205 Live but he rejected the proposal and as a result was forced to make sporadic appearances between RAW and SmackDown.

However, Sin Cara is fortunate enough to have his release granted within one month and will now look forward to taking his craft along with him on a different promotion.

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Even though his career in WWE did not pan out the way he wanted it to be, we will take a look at five interesting facts that many might have not known about the high flyer from Mexico.

#5 There have been two versions of Sin Cara

Sin Cara Negro and Sin Cara Azul battling it out

For those unaware, the character of Sin Cara has been portrayed by two persons in WWE. The man behind the mask who got released by WWE, Jorge Arias is not the same person who debuted for the company in 2011.

No, that person is Luis Urive. A fellow Mexican professional wrestler like Arias, Urive was the original Sin Cara who used to go by the name of Mistico in Mexican promotions. Arias made his main roster debut on August 12, 2011, episode of SmackDown when he portrayed Sin Cara for the first time in place of Urive, as the latter was suspended by WWE for violating their wellness policy.

Arias' version then turned heel and termed himself as 'Sin Cara Negro' and confronted the original Sin Cara termed as 'Sin Cara Azul'. Azul would then defeat Negro and unmask him.

After getting unmasked, Arias got renamed to Hunico and continued his feud with Urive's Sin Cara. Urive then left WWE in 2014 and since then Arias has been portraying the masked character until now.

#4 Sin Cara wrestled in other North American promotions before joining WWE

WWE was not the first North American promotion that Jorge Arias performed for. After cutting his teeth as a wrestler in various Mexican professional wrestling promotions such as CMLL and Lucha Libre AAA, Arias ventured into the USA in 2006 when he made his debut for TNA, now known as Impact Wrestling where he took part in the promotion's World X Cup tournament as a member of Team Mexico under the name of Incognito.

After that, Arias went to the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) where he competed in a tournament to crown new NWA World Tag Team Champions. He and his partner Sicodelico Jr. were however eliminated from the tournament by the team of current Impact Wrestling star Joey Ryan and current WWE Superstar and O.C. member Karl Anderson.

#3 Jorge Arias was the original Mistico

Just as Luis Urive was the original Sin Cara, ironically enough Arias was the first person to portray Mistico. But, when CMLL won the rights to the Mistico name in a lawsuit, Arias was forced to legally change the spelling from Mistico to Mystico. During that time, Luis Urive worked under the name of Mistico in CMLL.

This was the basis of the feud between the two Sin Caras as we mentioned in the previous slide. Arias' Sin Cara Negro claimed that he would take away the character Sin Cara from Urive just like Urive took away his Mistico character from him six years ago.

In an interesting turn of events, Arias did don the character of Sin Cara after Urive was let go from WWE in 2014.

#2 NXT Tag Team Championship reign

Sin Cara and Kalisto after winning the NXT Tag Team Championship

Unfortunately for Arias, he only won one championship in WWE. He was sent to NXT in 2014 and there he teamed up with fellow masked Superstar Kalisto to form the tag-team The Lucha Dragons.

The Lucha Dragons defeated The Ascension at NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way to win the NXT Tag Team Championship and that marked the first and only time Arias won championship gold. On January 28, 2015, episode of NXT, the Lucha Dragons dropped the tag team championship to Wesley Blake & Buddy Murphy.

Sin Cara and Kalisto made their main roster debut on the RAW episode following WrestleMania 31. For the remainder of 2015, the Lucha Dragons took part in various matches for the WWE Tag Team Championship but were not able to replicate the success that they had at the Black and Gold brand.

#1 Sin Cara used a trampoline for his entrance

Luis Urive's Sin Cara doing the somersault entrance

Funnily enough, Luis Urive's version of Sin Cara initially used to a trampoline assisted entrance during matches. When he first came to WWE in 2011, Urive used to get into the ring by doing a somersault over the top rope as the pyros went-off behind him.

While this extraordinary feat wowed the WWE Universe, it is not possible for most human beings including Urive to leap that high into the air to perform that kind of somersault in the air. This did result in a few injuries and botches that were uncalled for and later in 2012, WWE decided to tweak his entrance.

During mid-2012, Urive's version of Sin Cara stopped using the trampoline and instead switched for a much safer entrance. He ran down the ramp and slid into the ring and followed it off with a somersault off the ropes.

Edited by Anurag Mitra