Diamante

Luis Meza Casas (born February 14, 1992), better known by the ring name Diamante, is a Mexican professional wrestler and former enmascarado predominantly working for Dragongate under the ring name Luis Mante.

He is best known for his work in the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where he portrayed a tecnico ("good guy") wrestling character.

His former ring name is Spanish for Diamond.

On July 2, 2023, at Dragongate's Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival, Diamante was unmasked following the event's Luchas de Apuestas 5-way main event; he had been teased to lose his mask by former Z-Brats partner and stable leader Shun Skywalker prior to the match, to which he fell against Skywalker after he escaped the cage in the final fall of the match.

The wrestler later known as Diamante made his debut at a very early age, initially working as Chamaco Meza ("Kid" Meza) and also worked as Aero Boy early on, working primarily in Nuevo León.

Later on he adopted a new ring name and image as Príncipe Diamante ("Prince Diamond").

He worked for Lucha Libre AAA World Wide at the age of just 16, wrestling at the 2008 Rey de Reyes show teaming with Street Boy and Tigre Cota to defeat Black Mamba, Rio Bravo and Tito Santana.

Príncipe Diamante signed a contract with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in the summer of 2009 and initially worked under the name "As Jr."

(Ace Junior), although it was never clear which "Ace" he was supposed to be the son of.

After working as As Jr. for a few months he had his ring name changed to "Diamante", not revealing that he worked as As Jr. until years later.

As Diamante he made his in-ring debut for CMLL on August 17, 2009.

The first sign of Diamante's potential in CMLL came on June 16, 2010, when he entered in the 2010 torneo Gran Alternativa, where a rookie and a "veteran" wrestler teamed up for a tag team tournament.

Diamante teamed with La Sombra for the tournament; together they defeated Cancerbero and Mephisto in the first round, Inquisidor and Atlantis in the second round, but lost to the team of Hector Garza and Pólvora in the semi-final round.

The following month Diamante was one of 12 wrestlers to risk their match in CMLL's Infierno en el Ring main event, a steel cage match where the last man would be forced to unmask.

Diamante was the 8th man to leave the ring and watched as Ángel de Oro defeated Fabián el Gitano, forcing him to unmask.

Diamante teamed up with Ángel de Oro and Rush to defeat Metal Blanco, Palacio Negro and Sagrado in the finals of a two-week-long tournament to become the number one contenders to the Mexican National Trios Championship.

On January 9, the trio defeated Delta, Metro and Stuka Jr.. to become the new champions.

Weeks after winning the Trios championship Diamante entered the annual Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles, a tournament that featured teams of wrestlers who do not usually team up, in fact most of the teams are on opposite sides of the Tecnico/Rudo (Fan favorite/villain) divide.

Diamante teamed with the rudo Volador Jr.. and made it into the semi-finals of the tournament by defeating Stuka Jr.. and Ephesto as well as La Sombra and Misterioso Jr., but were defeated by eventual tournament winners Máscara Dorada and Atlantis in the semi-finals.

At the 2011 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas ("Homage to Two Legends") show Diamante teamed up with two-thirds of the team he won the Trios title from as he, Metro and Stuka Jr.. defeated Los Cancerberos del Infierno (Raziel and Euforia) and Okumura in one of the mid card matches on the show.

CMLL held a Forjando un Ídolo (Spanish for "Forgin an idol") tournament in April and May 2011, with the purpose of identifying which of the 16 "Rookies" in the tournament would move up the ranks of the promotion.

The tournament consisted of two rounds, first a round-robin group round, with the top 2 in each of the four groups competing in an elimination tournament.

Diamante won his block by defeating all three opponents (Hijo del Signo, Hombre Bala Jr., Puma King), advancing to the second round.

Diamante lost in the first match of the second round to Fuego and was eliminated from the tournament.

Afterwards CMLL kept the Forjando un Ídolo concept going with a four team Trios tournament called Forjando un Ídolo: La Guerra Continúa (Forging an Idol: The War Continues"), which saw the coach of each group team up with the two finalist for the groups. Diamante and Hijo del Signo teamed up with Negro Casas (called Grupo Bravo) and made it all the way to the finals, only to lose to Grupo Charly (Atlantis, Guerrero Maya Jr.. and Delta). Being a reigning CMLL Champion, Diamante was one of 16 champions who competed for the 2011 CMLL Universal Championship in September 2011. Diamante defeated Pólvora in the first round, but lost to La Sombra in the second. Diamante, Ángel de Oro and Rush's Mexican National Trios reign came to an end after 254 days, when Los Invasores (Olímpico, Psicosis and Volador Jr..) defeated them for the championship.

Diamante entered the 2011 Torneo Gran Alternativa, teaming up with La Sombra again, the first team to enter two years in a row.

In the first round they defeated Atlantis and Fuego, in the second round they defeated Hijo del Signo and Mr. Niebla, before losing to eventual tournament winners Escorpión and Último Guerrero in the semi-final match.

He also appeared on the CMLL 78th Anniversary Show, CMLL's biggest show of the year, in an unsuccessful bid to win the 2011 Leyenda de Plata ("Silver Legend") tournament.

After being unsuccessful in the Forjando un Ídolo tournament in 2011, Diamante entered CMLL's En Busca de un Ídolo ("In search of an Idol") in early 2012, a tournament with a similar concept, this time with eight wrestlers contending for the trophy.

Diamante qualified for the second round of the tournament with three wins and one loss.

The second round was less successful for Diamante as he ended last, with two losses, but the major development took place in his last tournament match where he debut a new mask and trunk design, a silver and black scheme very reminiscent of Lucha libre legends El Santo and El Hijo del Santo and Axxel, one of El Santo's grandsons.

Diamante made his first trip to Japan in January, 2012 appearing on two jointly promoted shows between CMLL and Japanese based New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) called Fantastica Mania.

On the first night Diamante teamed up with Japanese natives Jushin Thunder Liger and Tetsuya Naito defeated Mephisto, Shinsuke Nakamura, Yujiro Takahashi.

On the second night Diamante, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Naito lost to Mephisto, Takahashi and Kazuchika Okada.

In March 2012, CMLL repackaged Metro, giving him a new blue and white mask and outfit, and changing his name to "Diamante Azul", which led to some confusion since CMLL already had a wrestler using the ring name "Diamante" on their roster.

Diamante participated in the 2012 Leyenda de Azul tournament, but was outlasted by tournament winner Diamante Azul.

On July 12, 2012, Diamante and Misterioso Jr. were the last two survivors in a torneo cibernetico, qualifying for a match for the vacant Occidente Heavyweight Championship.

The following week Diamante defeated Misterioso Jr. to win his first singles championship.

Diamante held the title for just under two months, losing it to Olímpico on September 18, 2012.

In January 2013, Diamante returned to Japan to take part in the three-day Fantastica Mania 2013 event.