El Satánico

Daniel López López (born October 26, 1949) is a Mexican luchador (professional wrestler) and trainer, best known under the ring name El Satánico (Spanish for "The Satanic One").

He was originally an enmascarado (masked wrestler), but lost the mask early in his career and has performed unmasked ever since.

The majority of his in-ring career was spent in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where he worked as a rudo (the antagonists also known as heel in professional wrestling lingo).

López made his professional wrestling debut on June 17, 1973, using the name El Satánico Dr. No ("The Satanic Dr. No") named after the James Bond movie villain Dr. No.

A short time later, the name was shortened to just "El Satánico".

He was originally an enmascarado, or masked character, but lost his mask as a result of a Lucha de Apuesta, or "bet match" against El Vengador on January 4, 1974, and never allowed to wrestle wearing the mask again as a result of the Lucha de Apuestas stipulation.

On October 19, 1979, Satánico won his first wrestling championship when he defeated Cachorro Mendoza to win the Mexican National Middleweight Championship.

His first reign lasted 161 days and was an indicator of what the future held for Satánico as it was the first of many titles he would hold.

El Satánico was one of the main members of the Los Infernales ("The Infernal Ones") stable from its creation in the early 1980s through 2008 and was a member of every single incarnation of the group.

Los Infernales won the CMLL World Trios Championship three times and the Mexican National Trios Championship three times.

He's also won the CMLL World Middleweight Championship, CMLL World Welterweight Championship once, the Mexican National Middleweight Championship three times, the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship four times, and the NWA World Middleweight Championship five times in his career.

On March 28, 1980, Satánico moved up from the Mexican title to the world title as he defeated Satoru Sayama for the NWA World Middleweight Championship.

In the early 1980s, the Trios concept became very popular in Mexico, spearheaded by the trio called Los Misioneros de Muerte (the Missionaries of Death) who worked for rival promotion Universal Wrestling Association (UWA).

EMLL decided to create a trio of villains, or Rudos as they're called in Lucha Libre, to capitalize on the popularity of the Trios phenomenon.

MS-1, El Satánico and Espectro Jr. were chosen to form Los Infernales (the Infernals).

Due to various injuries Espectro Jr. was forced to retire from wrestling altogether, which led to Pirata Morgan becoming the third Infernales, giving birth to the most successful incarnation of Los Infernales.

Satánico held the Mexican National Middleweight title again in 1981-1982 and would hold it in 1988/1989 as well.

Satánico split his time between trios matches and wrestling in the middleweight division, defeating Lizmark to start his fourth reign on December 2, 1983.

By the middle of 1984 Satánico became involved in a long, draw out heated feud with Gran Cochisse, a feud that saw Sátanico and Cochisse trade the title back and forth.

On October 14, 1984, Satánico won the UWA World Middleweight Championship from Súper Astro.

In March 1985 Los Infernales participated in a tournament to determine the first-ever Mexican National Trios Champions; in the finals of the tournament, Los Infernales defeated Los Brazos ("the Arms"; El Brazo, Brazo de Oro, and Brazo de Plata) to become the first Mexican National Trios champions.

While his first reign lasted just 30 days he would hold it a further two times between 1982 and 1983 by defeating César Curiel and El Jalisco for the title, before losing it for the third and final time to Lizmark on June 3, 1986.

A month after losing the Middleweight title Satánico moved from the Middleweight division to the light heavyweight division when he defeated Ringo Mendoza to win his first NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship, holding it for 87 days before Mendoza regained it.

In October 1986, Pirata Morgan left the group to form a new group called "Los Bucaneros", in his place Los Infernales recruited Masakre to be their third member.

While MS-1 and Masakre worked as a tag team, Satánico focused more and more on singles competition, which meant that Los Infernales made fewer appearances as a trio.

During this time period.

Satánico won his third Mexican National Middleweight title as well as his second and third NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship.

During this time Satánico and Pirata Morgan were embroiled in a long feud, pitting the former Infernales members against each other.

The feud saw Morgan win the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship from Satánico on October 21, 1989.

In the early 1990s, Los Infernales reformed, reuniting MS-1, Satánico, and Pirata Morgan once more.

The trio participated in the tournament to crown the inaugural CMLL World Trios Champions.

Los Infernales won the tournament, defeating Los Brazo in the finals to become the CMLL World Trios Champions on November 22, 1991.

Former Infernales member Masakre had formed his own group, Los Intocables (the Untouchables) consisting of himself, Pierroth Jr.. and Jaque Mate ("Checkmate").

Los Intocables were immediately paired against Los Infernales to create a Rudos vs. Rudos storyline, playing off both the championship chase and the history between the two groups.

On March 22, 1992, Los Intocables won the CMLL World Trios Title, however, Los Infernales got the final victory in their feud as they defeated Los Intocables for the championship on September 20, 1992.

On April 5, 1992, Satánico defeated longtime rival Lizmark to win his fourth and final NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship.

His final reign with the title lasted 111 days until Apolo Dantés beat him for it.

For years López worked at the CMLL wrestling school, playing a part in the development of almost every wrestler that worked for CMLL in the 2000s.

He later opened his own school independent of CMLL.

He wrestles on a reduced schedule on the Mexican independent circuit.