El Satánico
Daniel López López (born October 26, 1949) is a Mexican luchador (professional wrestler) and trainer, best known under the ring name El Satánico (Spanish for "The Satanic One"). He was originally an enmascarado (masked wrestler), but lost the mask early in his career and has performed unmasked ever since. The majority of his in-ring career was spent in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where he worked as a rudo (the antagonists also known as heel in professional wrestling lingo).
| El Satánico | |
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| Birth name | Daniel López López |
| Born | October 26, 1949 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
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| Billed height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Billed weight | 82 kg (181 lb) |
| Billed from | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Trained by | Diablo Velasco |
| Debut | June 17, 1973 |
El Satánico was one of the main members of the Los Infernales ("The Infernal Ones") stable from its creation in the early 1980s through 2008 and was a member of every single incarnation of the group. Los Infernales won the CMLL World Trios Championship three times and the Mexican National Trios Championship three times. He's also won the CMLL World Middleweight Championship, CMLL World Welterweight Championship once, the Mexican National Middleweight Championship three times, the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship four times, and the NWA World Middleweight Championship five times in his career.
For years López worked at the CMLL wrestling school, playing a part in the development of almost every wrestler that worked for CMLL in the 2000s. He later opened his own school independent of CMLL. He wrestles on a reduced schedule on the Mexican independent circuit.