El Signo

[Grimmas]

Bruno:

He was part of Los Misioneros de la Muerte ("The Missionaries of Death") with Negro Navarro and El Texano, a team that is credited with popularizing the Trios match in Mexico to the point that it became the most common match in Mexican wrestling

El Signo vs Texano (92) 

Negro Casas/Emilio Charles Jr/El Signo vs. El Dandy/Gran Hamada/Angel Azteca (Monterrey 91)

El Signo vs. Villano V, UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship, (UWA 4/3/92) 

Negro Navarro/Black Power/El Signo vs Villanos (UWA 5/2/92) 

Texano, Negro Navarro & El Signo v Super Astro, Ultraman & Solar (IWRG, 02/10)

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Signo vs. Villano III, November 6 1992
The first fall features some of the most brilliant and skillful technical work you'll ever see. The second fall is a Villano III special. For those who don't follow his work super closely, a Villano III special is basically the Mexican version of a 1996 babyface Macho Man comeback. Then the picture cuts out and the third fall is audio only. Esto es lucha.

Signo, Mr. Terror and Azteca de Oro vs Solar, Megatron and Asterisco, early '90s
The matchup you want to see is Signo vs Solar, and that's the matchup you get. The first fall technical work between them is not brilliant and skillful but rather an exchange of holds between two people who plainly do not like each other. And they don't just drop it there and move on to the rest of the match. The two of them are at each other all night long. Signo really did look like the Misionero-in-chief when he was throwing right hands, and though he didn't have the Misioneros with him here, Solar still had to work his way through Signo's stooges to get a shot at the big man in the final fall. That was what I really liked about this. Signo brought out an angrier side to Solar than I'm used to seeing, and when you combine that with the first fall technical work it might be the most complete Solar performance on video. When you start raising my opinions of other people, it raises my opinion of you too. I liked the local guys as well. Asterisco was pretty good for a guy whose gimmick is that he's a punctuation mark.

Signo's a toughie because we have very little of his prime on video. The UWA TV run is less than a year, and that's assuming Signo was even still in his prime then. Then he's off TV for a couple years before getting a brief run in AAA with a ridiculous pyromaniac gimmick. If all you get is a brief glimpse at someone's prime, they've really gotta shine, I mean they need to look like the best in the world in what little there is to see, for them to have a chance. I do think that Signo looked like one of the better workers in Mexico in 1992, but I'm not quite sure it was good enough to get a rally going for him. Eh, whatever, he made it on my ballot anyway. I had thirty-seven Mexico-based workers on my list, I figured I could make room for Signo. He kind of reminds me of a grouchier, less ebullient Emilio Charles, and I like the idea of a guy like that being the leader of the most famous team in the country's history.