Santo
Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta
Santo’s mask
Statistics
Ring
name(s)
Santo (Saint)
El Santo (The Saint)
Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata
(Saint, the Silver Masked Man)
Rudy Guzmán
El Hombre Rojo (The Red Man)
El Demonio Negro (The Black
Demon)
El Murcielago II (The Bat II)
Height
5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight
210 lb (95 kg)
Born
01917-09-23 September 23, 1917
Tulancingo, Hidalgo, Mexico
Died
February 5, 1984 (aged 66)
Debut
1934 or 1935
Retired
01982-09-12 September 12, 1982
Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (September 23,
1917 - February 5, 1984), more widely known
as El Santo (the Saint), was a Mexican
Luchador enmascarado (Spanish for masked
professional wrestler), film actor, and folk
icon. El Santo, along with Blue Demon & Mil
Máscaras, is one of the most famous and
iconic of all Mexican luchadores, and has
been referred to as one of "the greatest le-
gends in Mexican sports"[1][2][3] His wrest-
ling career spanned nearly five decades, dur-
ing which he became a folk hero and a sym-
bol of justice for the common man through
his appearances in comic books and movies.
He is said to have popularized professional
wrestling in Mexico just as Rikidozan did in
Japan and Hulk Hogan did in the United
States.[3]
Biography
Born in Tulancingo in the Mexican state of
Hidalgo, to Jesús Guzmán Campuzano and
Josefina Huerta (Márquez) de Guzmán as the
fifth of seven children, Rodolfo came to Mex-
ico City in the 1920s, where his family settled
in the Tepito neighbourhood.[2][3] He prac-
ticed baseball and American football, and
then became interested in wrestling. He first
learned Ju-Jitsu, then classical wrestling.[4]
Pro Wrestling Career
Accounts vary as to exactly when and where
he first wrestled competitively, either in
Arena Peralvillo Cozumel on the 28th of June
1934, or Deportivo Islas in the Guerrero
colony of Mexico City in 1935, but by the
second half of the 1930s, he was established
as a wrestler, using the names Rudy Guzmán,
El Hombre Rojo (the Red Man), El Demonio
Negro (The Black Demon) and El Murcielago
II (The Bat II). The last na