5 things you need to know about Gran Metalik

Modified Sep 14, 2016 18:22 GMT

Gran Metalik has just signed a full time contract with the WWE and is currently taking part in WWE’s Cruiserweight Classic. (Courtesy WWE.com)

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Gran Metalik is a huge star in his home country of Mexico.

Gran Metalik has had a very successful career in his native Mexico and has won almost everything that there is to win in CMLL. He is a former CMLL World Super Lightweight Champion, 2-time CMLL World Trios Champion and CMLL World Welterweight Champion amongst others.

Metalik also 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.

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His run in Japan was less successful but he still won the Fantastica Mania Tag Tournament (2015) along with Atlantis.

With all this success behind him, Gran Metalik looks like he has the championship pedigree to pull off an upset at the Cruiserweight Classic and go on to have a successful run in WWE, especially with the new cruiserweight division being announced for Raw.

Edited by Staff Editor