El Santo was born in 1917 in Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México. Rodolfo Guzman Huerta made his debut in the quadrilaterals in 1934, but his legend began to weave the 26th of July, 1942, at the legendary Arena Mexico. That night, the sturdy fight... (Full Biography Below)
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El Santo was born in 1917 in Tulancingo, Hidalgo, México. Rodolfo Guzman Huerta made his debut in the quadrilaterals in 1934, but his legend began to weave the 26th of July, 1942, at the legendary Arena Mexico. That night, the sturdy fighter -who over the years made a career under the names of Red Man, Masked, Bat II and Daemon Black, among others - premiered a brand-new personality under a bright silver mask. He was born Holy, the man in the Silver mask. The legend of Holy was never a product of chance. His tenacity and versatility in the ring earned him the respect of his opponents and the admiration of the respectable public that night after night filled the coliseums where the man in the Silver mask gave an account of their formidable rivals. It was rough and technical, but, first of all, he was a fighter honest that he did not have to resort to tricks or scandals to increase their well-deserved fame. Of the quadrilaterals to the screens, the path that followed Santo to become the idol of mexican cinema led him first to the world of comic books. Thanks to the inventiveness of the artist and editor José Guadalupe Cruz, Santo was the first fantasy character of the popular literature of mexican and one of the most beloved, with the legendary Kalimán. The Masked Silver was making his film debut in 1952. In that year, the popularity of lucha libre in Mexico was on the rise thanks to the early broadcasts of this sports-spectacle for the television. At the same time, the cartoons featuring Santo, the Masked Silver -printed on that unforgettable day, paper sepia color - was going through the posts of magazines all over the country and sold thousands of copies each week. A few years later, the print run of the adventures of Holy reach out to more than a million of weekly magazines.
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