TO FINISH

                       FINISHING MOVE

BACK IN ACTION

               TO THE WORLD OF WWE

On January 30, 2011 SuperLuchas Magazine confirmed that Almanza had signed a contract withWWE.^[45] On February 24, WWE held a press conference in Mexico City to introduce Almanza under his new name, Sin Cara, which translates literally to "Without a Face".^[2] On March 25, 2011, Sin Cara made his WWE debut at Raw's live event at Assembly Hall in Champaign, Illinois, defeating Primo in a singles match.^[46][47] On March 28, WWE announced that Sin Cara would be making his televised debut on the April 4 edition of Raw.^[48] In his debut appearance, Sin Cara attacked WWE United States Champion Sheamus, saving former champion Daniel Bryan and establishing himself as a face.^[49] On the same week's edition of SmackDown, Sin Cara made a similar appearance, this time attacking Jack Swagger and cementing his face status.^[50] On the April 11 episode of Raw, Sin Cara made his televised in-ring debut, defeating Primo.^[51] The next week in London Sin Cara teamed with John Cena to defeat the WWE Champion, The Miz andAlex Riley.^[52]

SmackDown (2011–present)

In the 2011 WWE Draft, Sin Cara was drafted to SmackDown!, making his first appearance as part of the roster on the April 29 episode with a win over Jack Swagger.^[53][54] Sin Cara then started a storyline with Chavo Guerrero, who began guest commentating his matches and, much to Sin Cara's dismay, even helped him win matches by interfering in them.^[55][56] Sin Cara made his pay-per-view debut on May 22 atOver the Limit, defeating Chavo Guerrero.^[57]

TO THE WORLD

                            THE TRAVEL

In July 2008, Místico travelled to China and participated in the second Beijing International Martial Arts Training Camp, organized by Belgium-based martial arts instructor Mike Martello. Throughout the training camp, Místico received instruction in Chinese traditional wrestling (shuaijiao) from Shuaijiao expert Yu Shaoyi (two times regional champion of Beijing) and joint-locking techniques (Qinna) from Mike Martello. The event was covered by Televisa, and was broadcast in a series of 16 clips during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

On January 4, 2009, Místico made his debut for New Japan Pro Wrestling at Wrestle Kingdom III in Tokyo Dome. Místico wrestled in the opening match, teaming with Prince Devitt and Ryusuke Taguchi to defeat Averno, Gedo and Jado when Místico made Averno submit using his trademark move "La Mística". After the match, Místico announced that he would like to return to New Japan Pro Wrestling and even stated he would like to challenge for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship.^[33] On February 15, 2009 Místico successfully defended his CMLL Welterweight Championship against Mephisto on a NJPW Show in Sumo Hall, Tokyo.^[34] Místico injured his knee during the match, although he was back in action by the end of the week.^[35] Místico, Misterioso, Jr. and Okumura were scheduled to work for NJPW in early May but due to the outbreak of the Swine flu pandemic the tour was cancelled.^[36]

In August, 2009 Místico went on his third tour with NJPW, accompanied Okumura. On August 13, 2009 Místico teamed up with Tiger Mask IV to defeat Okumura and Tomohiro Ishii.^[37] On August 15, 2009, Místico defeated Tiger Mask IV to become the new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion.^[38] Upon his return to Mexico, Místico teamed with Tiger Mask IV and Shocker as they defeated Ultimo Guerrero, Atlantis, and Arkangel at Dragomania IV.^[39] Místico had his first successful IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship defense, as he defended against Jushin Liger in the main event of a CMLL show in Puebla, Puebla on September 28, 2009.^[40]On November 8 at NJPW's Destruction '09 show Mistíco lost the IWGP Title back to Tiger Mask.^[41] Místico returned to Japan in January 2011, taking part in the CMLL and New Japan Pro Wrestling co–promoted Fantasticamania 2011 shows. On the first show on January 22 Místico teamed with IWGP Heavyweight Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Prince Devitt in a six man tag team match, where they were defeated by Averno, Shinsuke Nakamura and Tetsuya Naitō, when Averno pinned Místico.^[42] At the second show the following day, Místico defeated Averno in a singles match, which would turn out to be his final match for CMLL

IN THE JOB

              PROFESSIONAL CARRIER

Ignacio Almanza was trained for his professional wrestling debut by his father and his uncle Tony Salazar who is a retired wrestler that works as a booker for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, Mexico's oldest and largest wrestling promotion. Místico made his debut on April 30, 1998 working as "Dr. Karontes, Jr." at the age of 15. In 2000 he changed his ring name to "Astro Boy" in honor of his older brother who had died months earlier, who had worked as the original Astro Boy. Later on he was joined by another brother who works as "Astro Boy II" to form a tag team. In 2003 Místico travelled to Japan to work forMichinoku Pro where he was billed as "Komachi", a ring persona he took over from fellow luchador Volador, Jr. who had played the part for about a year.^[8]

THE GREAT SINCARA

                                  MISTICO[SIN CARA]

Ignacio Almanza^[7] (born December 22, 1982) is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE, and wrestles on the SmackDown brandunder the name Sin Cara (Spanish for "Without a Face").^[2] He is best known for his time in thelucha libre promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the ringname Místico, where since 2006 he was the main técnico (fan favorite) in CMLL and the biggest box office draw in all of Mexico. Místico is Spanish for "Mystic", a religious ring character who is the storylineprotege of the wrestling priest Fray Tormenta.

Ignacio Almanza is the son of Manuel Almanza, who wrestled under the ring name "Dr. Karontes", and the brother of wrestlers Astro Boy, Astro Boy II and Argenis and the nephew of CMLL booker Tony Salazar.