Mephisto

The team would defend the tag team titles several times over the next year in some very well-received matches that led to several reporters labeling them as one of the best Mexican tag teams in the 21st century.

Mephisto (born December 10, 1968) is the ring name of a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler and currently works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

His real name is not a matter of official record as he is an enmascarado, which by lucha libre traditions means that his personal life is kept secret from the general public.

Mephisto is the son of Luchador Astro Rey/Kahoz and has previously worked both as Astro Rey Jr. and Kahoz Jr. but has been most successful as Mephisto.

Since adopting the Mephisto gimmick he has been associated with the group Los Infernales ("The Infernal Ones") and later on Los Hijos del Averno ("The Sons of Hell"), especially working closely with Averno as his regular tag team partner for years.

The man who would grow up to wrestle as Mephisto was born on December 12, 1968, in Mexico City, son of Alberto Leonel Hernández López, better known as the Luchador (professional wrestler) "Astro Rey" (Spanish for "Astro King") and later on as "Kahoz".

By 1971 his father had started wrestling which meant that the future Mephisto grew up around wrestlers, wanting to become one himself from a very early age.

After training under his father, and his uncle the luchador known as "El Gallo Giro", he made his debut as "Kahoz Jr.", as a tribute to his father's final wrestling character.

From 1988 until 1993 he wrestled as Kahoz Jr. for various promotions in Mexico.

His father, however, urged him to change gimmicks to the one that got his father the most fame "Astro Rey Jr.".

As Astro Rey Jr. or simply "Astro Jr."

he travelled the world and wrestled extensively in Mexico and Japan.

On March 22, 1999, Astro Rey Jr. won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship from Arkangel de la Muerte and defended it several times during his 19-month reign.

Mephisto and Averno are considered one of the top teams in Mexico between 2000 and 2010.

He is currently the leader of Los Hijos del Infierno ("The Sons of the Inferno") that also includes Ephesto and Luciferno.

While working as Mephisto he has won multiple individual CMLL championships and held the Mexican National Trios Championship with the other Hijos del Infierno.

Previous he has held the CMLL World Tag Team Championship (3 times), CMLL World Trios Championship, CMLL World Welterweight Championship, Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship, Mexican National Welterweight Championship, NWA World Welterweight Championship and was the first ever holder of the NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship

Astro Rey Jr. finally lost the title to Karloff Lagarde Jr.. on October 23, 2000.

Over the summer of 2001 El Satánico, the leader of a team known as Los Infernales ("The Infernal ones") was involved in a storyline with former Infernales team members Último Guerrero, Rey Bucanero, Tarzan Boy who had turned on him.

CMLL decided to expand the storyline, teaming El Satánico up with two other wrestlers, both of whom were repackaged to fit with the "infernal" theme of El Satánico.

The storyline was that El Satánico used his supposed "satanic powers" to turn the tecnico (face) Rencor Latino into one of his "minions", the rudo (heel) known as "Averno" ("Hell") in a televised segment.

After this turn was completed they were joined by Mephisto, formerly Kahoz Jr. and Astro Rey Jr., but unlike Averno, no references to his previous identities were made at the time.

Together the three became the new version of Los Infernales and feuded with the splinter group of Infernales consisting of Guerrero, Bucanero, Tarzan Boy and Máscara Mágica over the following year.

A year later, September 2002 at the CMLL 68th Anniversary Show, the two groups faced off in a steel cage match to determine who had the rights to the "Los Infernales" name.

In the end Satánico made Máscara Mágica submit gaining the rights for his own group as well as taking the mask of Máscara Mágica.

After the steel cage match the feud between the two groups more or less ending, the splinter faction changed their name to Los Guerreros del Infierno ("The Warriors of the Inferno").

On June 23, 2002, Los Infernales won the Mexican National Trios Championship from Olímpico, Mr. Niebla and Safari.

After they won the championship they began feuding with La Familia de Tijuana (Nicho el Millonario, Halloween and Damián 666).

The trio lost the title to La Familia on September 27, 2002, but continued feuding into 2003.

When Nicho stopped appearing for CMLL the trios championship was vacated but Los Infernales refused to take them without a match.

This storyline led to an eight-team trios title tournament whichLos Infernales did not win.

Instead Los Infernales did win a tournament to become the number one contenders for the CMLL World Trios Championship but lost to champions Black Tiger III, Dr. Wagner Jr. and Universo 2000 on August 1, 2003.

At the end of the year, Averno and Mephisto turned on Satánico but there was little to feuding afterwards they split from the group and ventured out on their own.

On February 4, 2004, Mephisto defeated El Satánico to win the CMLL World Welterweight Championship at CMLL's home at Arena México.

Mephisto and Averno defeated Atlantis and Blue Panther for the CMLL World Tag Team Championship in a heated match on April 2, 2005.

Their most prominent defense was on the last Arena México show of 2005 when they defeated El Hijo del Santo and Negro Casas in the main event.

In early 2006, they defended their titles against Místico and Black Warrior twice.

In the first match, they won by disqualification when Black Warrior interfered in the match after being pinned.

In the second match two weeks later, Black Warrior turned on Místico, starting a long-running storyline between the two.

On April 14, 2006, they lost the tag team championship to the team of Místico and Negro Casas, ending their year-long reign.