El Oriental

Noé Astro Moreno León (born December 6, 1972) is a Mexican Luchador known under the ring name El Oriental, currently works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) but is mainly known for his almost 10-year-long stint in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) along with his sisters Cynthia, Rossy and Esther Moreno.

He is the son of wrestler and promoter Alfonso "Acorazado" Moreno and has worked over 70 tours of Japan.

The person who would later become known as El Oriental was born on December 6, 1972, son of Mexican luchador and wrestling promoter Alfonso Moreno.

Later on Moreno along with Dr. Wagner and Blue Panther trained El Oriental for his professional wrestling career.

In the late 1990s he began working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's (CMLL) Japanese affiliate CMLL Japan, which co-promoted shows with Japanese-based Osaka Pro Wrestling.

In the late 1990s El Oriental began working regularly for CMLL, the world's oldest wrestling promotion.

During his time in CMLL El Oriental won the Distrito Federal Lightweight Championship and worked a storyline feud with Virus that started in a tournament to crown a new Mexican National Lightweight Champion.

Damiancito defeated El Oriental in the finals and the two worked a rivalry centering about both guy's titles although neither changed hands during the feud.

He made his debut on October 23, 1992, in Arena Azteca Budokan, the arena his father operated at the time.

El Oriental adopted the ring name upon making his debut and has competed exclusively under that name since then.

Early in his career he worked mainly in or around his home state of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico State, often working with his sisters Cynthia, Rossy and Esther Moreno.

El Oriental has made frequent tours of Japan, over 70 tours so far.

He made his first tour of Japan early in his career as he worked for W*ING in 1995.

Over the years El Oriental has learned to speak Japanese, which means that he was later used as a translator for other Mexican wrestlers touring Japan.

On September 18, 1998, El Oriental wrestled on CMLL's biggest show of the year, the CMLL 65th Anniversary Show where he teamed up with Sendero only to lose to the team of Virus and Halcon Negro Jr. The following year he wrestled on CMLL's 1999 Ruleta de la Muerte show, where he and his teammates Starman, Astro Rey Jr., Tigre Blanco and Mr. Águila lost to El Satánico, Zumbido, Valentin Mayo, Virus and Rencor Latino in an elimination match.

El Oriental left CMLL not long after the Ruleta de la Muerte show, seeking better opportunities elsewhere.

After leaving CMLL El Oriental quickly ended up working for CMLL's biggest rival Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA).

In Japan he became the frequent tag team partner of Tsubasa, with the duo winning the CMLL Japan Tag Team Championship in 1999.

The team lost the belts to Masato Yakushiji and Naohiro Hoshikawa on July 2, 1999, shortly before CMLL Japan folded.

El Oriental continued to work tours for Osaka Pro even after his association with CMLL ended.

He made his first appearance at a major AAA event when he teamed up with La Parka, Héctor Garza and Máscara Sagrada to defeat the team of El Hijo del Solitario, Abismo Negro, Electroshock, Blue Demon Jr.. at AAA's 1999 Guerra de Titanes show.

Following that event El Oriental became involved in a storyline feud against Pentagón which saw El Oriental's sister Esther join him in the fight against Pentagón and his wife Xóchitl Hamada.

On April 4, 2000, El Oriental wrestled and lost to Abismo Negro during the second day of the Michinoku Pro promoted Super J-Cup.

On December 24, 2000, El Oriental won Osaka Pro's Hirapar Cup, when he won a 13-man battle royal.

During his time with Osaka Pro, he won the Osaka Pro Middleweight Championship on one occasion and also brought the MWF World Welterweight Championship into the promotion, when he lost it to Osaka Pro regular Kabuto Beetle on his last appearance for the promotion.

The two met at the 2000 Rey de Reyes where Pentagón defeated El Oriental.

In June 2000 Oriental teamed with his sister Esther for Triplemanía VIII, which took place in Tokyo, Japan.

The team wrestled to a draw against Pentagón and Xóchitl Hamada as both teams were counted out.

On October 13, 2000, El Oriental defeated Super Crazy to win the UWA World Welterweight Championship, his first AAA promoted championship ever.

He held the title until early 2001 when he was forced to vacate the title after being injured during a match.

After recovering from his injury El Oriental participated in the 2002 Rey de Reyes tournament, but was eliminated by Cibernético in the opening round.

At Triplemania X he was one of six wrestlers who participated in the main event.

Each of the six wrestlers bet the hair of a referee on the outcome of the match.

In 2005 El Oriental began working for Pro Wrestling NOAH as a result of a developing working relationship between NOAH and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración which resulted in several extended tours of Japan.

In August 2008 El Oriental, along with Laredo Kid, Histeria and Antifaz travelled to Japan to compete on Pro Wrestling NOAH's 2007 "Shiny Navigation" tour that ran over ten events from August 19, 2007, until September 2, 2009.

On most nights El Oriental teamed with Laredo Kid against Histeria and Antifaz, sometimes in six man matches teaming with Ricky Marvin while Histeria and Antifaz teamed with Rocky Romero.

On September 3, 2007, he took part in the tour ending, joint AAA/NOAH event called TripleSEM.

He teamed up with Pimpinela Escarlata and Chikayo Nagashima to defeat Cassandro, Takashi Sugiura and Faby Apache.

He has not worked in Japan since September, 2007.

On September 3, 2009, on the last night in Japan Laredo Kid teamed with Super Fly to defeat Atsushi Aoki and Ippei Ota on a joint AAA/NOAH show called TripleSEM.