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Ephesto (born June 10, 1965) is a Mexican luchador enmascarado (Spanish for "Masked professional wrestler). Ephesto's 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. The wrestler currently known as Ephesto made his debut in 1982 and worked for almost 20 years as ''Pantera del Ring'' with limited success. His current ring name "Ephesto" is derived from the Spanish name for Hephaestus, the Greek God of fire, Hefesto, in fact his name is sometimes spelled Hefesto in print sources.〔 Ephesto is a member of the stable ''Los Hijos del Infierno'' (Spanish for ''the Sons of the Inferno'') with Lucifierno and Mephisto, while also being a former CMLL World Light Heavyweight and CMLL World Trios Champion. ==Professional wrestling career== He made his debut in 1982 at the age of 16 after training with Halco Suriano, Asterión, Satánico and Blue Panther. His first ring persona was ''Pantera del Ring'' (Spanish for ''the Panther of the Ring''), a masked luchador with a panther inspired mask and trunks, inspired by his trainer Blue Panther. As Pantera del Ring, also referred to as ''Panterita del Ring, he signed with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in the very early 1990s and began working as a low card ''Technicó'' (the Lucha Libre term for a "Good guy"). When Antonio Peña, the head booker of CMLL at the time broke off to form the rival promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), Pantera del Ring was one of the CMLL workers that went with Peña in 1992. In AAA he teamed up with Latin Lover to win the Mexican National Tag Team Championship from the team of Fuerza and Juventud Guerrera on June 1, 1995. The team only held the Tag Team titles for three and a half months before losing them back to the Guerreras. By 1997 Panterita del Ring was working for the newly formed ''Promo Azteca'' promotion, this time as a Rudo (the Lucha Libre term for "bad guy"). He won the tournament to crown the first ever Aztecas Middleweight Champion defeating Ángel Azteca and Black Dragon in the finals. He eventually lost the title but kept working for Promo Azteca as an upper card worker until Promo Azteca folded in the late 1990s. In 2000 he returned to CMLL and began working under the ring persona ''Safari'', a mid-card Technico.〔 Safari did not gain much momentum, generally working random tag matches until he was teamed up with Mr. Niebla and Olímpico and defeated the team of Blue Panther, Fuerza Guerrera and El Signo for the Mexican National Trios Championship on March 30, 2001. The team had a rather uneventful title reign that lasted 15 months but rarely saw the team defended the title until ''Los Nuevos Infernales'' (Averno, Mephisto and Satánico) won the titles from them on June 23, 2001.〔 In late 2003, Safari teamed up with El Felino and Volador, Jr. to win a tournament for the vacant Mexican National Trios Championship, defeating Alan Stone, Super Crazy, and Zumbido in a tournament final to claim the title.〔 Safari's second run with the title proved to be about as long as the first one, 16 months, but once again did not result in many memorable matches or a sustained push for Safari. When ''Pandilla Guerrera'' (Doctor X, Nitro, and Sangre Azteca) defeated Safari's team for the titles it signaled the last time the Safari character was given the spotlight.〔 In late 2005, only months after losing the Trios titles Safair became ''El Hombre sin Nombre'' (Spanish for "The Man without name"), a ring persona and name that indicates that the wrestler is a "blank slate", as he has no name and wrestles in plain black clothes and mask. CMLL started a contest for the fans to come up with a new name and ring persona for this wrestler. As Hombre sin Nombre he worked as a Rudo with no public reference given to the fact that he was previously known as Safari. By the end of 2007 it was announced that El Hombre Sin Nombre finally had a name, ''Ephesto'' as suggested by a fan after the Greek God of fire, Hephaestus.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ephesto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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