Karloff Lagarde
Carlos Delucio Lagarde (July 27, 1928 – August 31, 2007) is best known as Karloff Lagarde, a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler, who was immensely popular during the 1960s and 1970s. Through his career had faced most of Mexico's top stars of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s including lucha libre legends such as El Santo, El Solitario, Mil Máscaras, Black Shadow, Huracán Ramírez, Gory Guerrero, Ray Mendoza and Perro Aguayo. He was known as the "king of the Welterweight" due to him holding the Mexican National Welterweight Championship four times and the NWA World Welterweight Championship three times in his career. Lagarde teamed up with René Guajardo to form a tag team known as Los Rebeldes, considered to be one of the top five tag teams in Lucha libre history.
| Karloff Lagarde | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Carlos Delucio Lagarde |
| Born | July 27, 1928 Zapotlán de Juárez, Hidalgo, Mexico |
| Died | August 31, 2007 (aged 79) |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Karloff Lagarde |
| Billed height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Billed weight | 68 kg (150 lb) |
| Billed from | Zapotlán de Juárez, Hidalgo, Mexico |
| Debut | 1950 |