El Hijo del Santo

Early in his career, he formed a successful tag team with Eddie Guerrero called La Pareja Atomica, inspired by their fathers (El Santo and Gory Guerrero) teaming up from the 1940s to the 1960s.

Jorge Ernesto Guzmán Rodríguez (born August 2, 1963), best known under his ring name, El Hijo del Santo (English: "The Son of the Saint"), is a Mexican luchador enmascarado (or masked professional wrestler) and political activist.

He is the youngest child, out of eleven, of El Santo.

Guzmán has also followed in his father's footsteps, as he has starred in several luchador films.

He made his wrestling debut in February 1982 under the name El Korak, but officially adopted his most famous ring name and silver mask in October 1982.

During his career as Guzmán has worked for every major Mexican wrestling promotion including Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, Universal Wrestling Association and World Wrestling Association as well as stints with the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) in the United States as well as working in Japan for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, All Japan Pro-Wrestling and various other promotions.

He began wrestling without his father's consent in February 1982 as "El Korak" but he made his official debut as "El Hijo del Santo" in October of that year after he earned his college degree at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Communication Science per his father's request.

He shared his father's look, the silver mask, tights and cape, and moves but he was shorter and, although he would never become the same cultural icon, he would become a better in-ring performer than his father.

Early in his career, he was wrestled mainly for World Wrestling Association (WWA) (The Tijuana circuit) and Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) (a promotion that worked in the Mexico City area) but he did make his debut for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) the promotion that later became Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in Arena Mexico in the summer of 1983.

He also was voted "Rookie of the Year" in Mexico.

He won his first title, the UWA World Lightweight Championship, in October 1985 and traded the title with Aristóteles.

He next feuded with Espanto Jr.. (whose father feuded with the original El Santo) and Hijo del Santo took his mask.

During this time, he also feuded with Negro Casas, who would become his most important opponent, and took his hair in a 1987 match in the Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium.

Espanto Jr.. took Hijo del Santo's title but he regained it in 1988 and took Espanto Jr..'s hair as well after winning a Luchas de Apuestas (Spanish for "Bet match").

In 1990, he debuted in Japan for Gran Hamada's Universal Lucha Libre promotion and moved up a weight class by winning the UWA World Welterweight Championship as well as the WWA Welterweight Championship.

In late 1991, he left WWA and vacated the Welterweight title but continued to wrestle for UWA until the formation of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA).

El Hijo del Santo regained the WWA Welterweight title and brought it with him to AAA.

One of the first feuds he was put in was against Negro Casas' youngest brother, Heavy Metal.

Heavy Metal took Hijo del Santo's WWA Welterweight title and won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship but Hijo del Santo would come out on top of the feud and took both titles from Heavy Metal before he lost them again to another young star, Psicosis.

His most memorable feud during his time with AAA was against the American team, Los Gringos Locos.

Eddy Guerrero's stiffer Japanese style offense, combined with "Love Machine" Art Barr's cocky mannerisms made Los Gringos Locos a very exciting yet hated tag team.

During the feud, they played up the old Pareja Atómica tag team which consisted of El Santo and Eddie's father, Gory Guerrero.

Eddie turned on Santo, leading to a hair vs. mask challenge for the When Worlds Collide pay-per-view.

The match was changed at the last minute when Barr pleaded with AAA officials to be included on the show which would be broadcast in the United States.

The new match was a double hair versus double mask match with Santo teaming with Octagón against Los Gringos Locos.

El Hijo del Santo and Octagón were victorious in the critically acclaimed match that would receive a 5-star rating from Dave Meltzer but it was the last stand for Los Gringos Locos as Barr died three weeks later.

AAA owner Antonio Peña tried to run an angle with an evil version of El Santo called "El Santo Negro" who supposedly came from South America.

He has also won the Leyenda de Plata tournament (held in honor of his father), the 1995 version of the CMLL International Gran Prix tournament and the 2004 Gran Alternativa tournament.

When the other members of Santo's family objected, the feud was scrapped and Hijo del Santo jumped to CMLL in 1995.

The object of the jump was to revitalize his feud with Negro Casas.

El Hijo del Santo lost a match to Casas at the CMLL 63rd Anniversary show on September 20, 1996, and took a brief hiatus.

While gone, Negro Casas turned técnico (face) and his former allies, Scorpio Jr.. and Bestia Salvaje said they had a surprise for Casas.

The set-up was a trios match with Negro Casas, El Dandy and Héctor Garza on the técnico side with Scorpio Jr.. and Bestia Salvaje on the rudo (or heel) side.

In 1997, he was voted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.

His son wrestles under the ring name Santo Jr., becoming the third-generation Guzmán to use the name "Santo".

Guzmán's uncles, Black Guzmán, Pantera Negra and Jimmy Guzmán were also wrestlers.

His nephew Axxel originally wrestled as "El Nieto del Santo" ("The Grandson of El Santo"), but Guzmán owned the rights to the "Santo" name and objected.

"Santito", as he is often called, was the only one of his father's 10 children to become a professional wrestler.

From 1998 through 2006, he also formed a very successful team with Negro Casas.

Over the span of his career, Guzmán has held various championships, most significantly the AAA World Tag Team Championship, Mexican National Middleweight Championship, Mexican National Trios Championship, Mexican National Welterweight Championship, CMLL World Tag Team Championship, UWA World Lightweight Championship, UWA World Welterweight Championship, WWA Tag Team Championship and WWA World Welterweight Championship as well as an honorary championship awarded by the World Boxing Council.