This ability to draw a crowd had promoters clamoring for his name on the card, leading Mil Máscaras to make his U.S. debut in Los Angeles in 1968. With his high-flying dives and dazzling flips ...

His flying body press and chop off the top rope are iconic moments in wrestling history. Mil Mascaras -- To me, every conversation about high flying wrestlers begins and ends with Mascaras.

With a 245-pound physique chiseled from a Greek God and a high-flying ... that lasted 48 years. Mascaras followed Santo’s lead; his early campy sci-fi films, “Mil Máscaras” and “Las ...

“I had seen Mascaras all over the Apter magazine ... Plus, with his mask and colorful outfits, Mil appeared as if he had flying body-pressed his way out of a Marvel comic book, my other passion ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of two parts. Will the “real” Mil Mascaras please stand up? More specifically, the one who appeared as Mil Mascaras on that special night in Memphis.