Guapito

Armando Mercado Garcia (born August 27, 1981) is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler, who works under the ring name Guapito ("The Little Handsome One"). He current works for the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion where he portrays a face (known as a tecnico in lucha libre, the protagonists of professional wrestling). He is one of the competitors in CMLL's Micro-Estrella ("Micro-Star") division where he competes with and against other wrestlers with dwarfism.

He began his career in 2006 working as the masked mascota companion Madrox, sometimes spelled Mandrox, working for AAA as part of their "Los Alienigenas" group. In 2007 he began working as Guapito ("The Little Handsome One"), playing a vain, self-obsessed "Guapo" character as he worked as a mascota for Shocker and Scorpio Jr. who portrayed similar characters. In 2017 Guapito made his debut in CMLL's Micro-Estrella division.

Professional wrestling career

AAA (2006 2009)

Garcia's first job in professional wrestling involved him playing the role of "Mandrox" (sometimes spelled "Madrox") a masked mascota for an AAA group known as "Los Alienigenas". The group consisted of Alliens, Mungo and Kriptor along with Mandrox, all of whom wore alien inspites masks and body suits, essentially pretending to be extra-terrestrial wrestlers, communicating mainly with clicking sounds. The group worked primarily with El Alebrije and his diminutive mascota Cuije.

In 2007, AAA began teasing that the Los Guapos VIP group would introduce a new leader since their previous leader Shocker had left AAA. AAA introduced Garcia under the ring name "Guapito", complete with bleach blonde hair, and expensive looking suits as the leader/mascota of Los Guapos VIP. Guapito and Scorpio Jr. unsuccessfully challenged Cuije and El Alebrije for the AAA Mascot Tag Team Championship on December 2, 2007. In 2008 most of Los Guapos VIP (Scorpio Jr., Zumbido, and Guapito) left AAA to work on the independent circuit]], but Guapito returned to AAA shortly afterwards without any explanation. At the 2008 Guerra de Titanes show Guapito accompanied El Brazo for a six-man steel cage match, where the last person in the cage would get his hair shaved off. The match came down to El Brazo and El Elegido when Guapito entered the cage to help out. As Elegido climbed out, El Brazo attacked Guapito, hoping to leave the diminutive Guapito in the cage to get his hair shaved off, instead Guapito was able to climb out, forcing El Brazo to be shaved bald.

Independent circuit (2009-2017)

On September 14, 2013, as part of International Wrestling League's third anniversary show Guapito, El Gallito and Feliz lost to Chamuel. At the Federacion Universal de Lucha Libre Guerra de Leyendas show the team of El Divo, El Hijo de Mascara Sagrada, Lady Apache and Mascarita Sagrada defeat Guapito, Hator, Rossy Moreno and Scorpio Jr.

CMLL (2017 present)

In early 2017 CMLL hired Guapito to help establish a Micro-Estrellas ("Micro-Stars") division, featuring only wrestlers with dwarfism. The first match of the Micro-Estrellas division took place on April 30, 2017 and saw El Gallito and Microman defeat Mije and Zacarias in a special featured match, with Guapito as the referee for the match. By the fall of 2017 Guapito transitioned from being the Micro-Estrella referee to being a competitor, making his debut in the division on October 17. For the first anniversary of the Micro-Estrellas division, CMLL held an eight-micros torneo cibernetico elimination match, featuring the entire active Micro-Estrella division at the time. Guapito, Microman, Atomo, and Zacarias took on Mije , Angelito, Chamuel, and El Gallito. In the end Microman pinned Chamuel to win the tournament while Guapito was the fifth man eliminated from the match. The Micro-Estrellas appeared at CMLL's Leyendas Mexicanas ("Mexican Legends") supercard show where Guapito, Microman, and El Gallito defeated Mije, Chamuel and Zacarias in the second match of the night. The 2019 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas ("Homage to two legends") show Guapito and his team once again won.

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