Histeria

Alfonso Peña (born June 10, 1969) is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Histeria currently working for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide.

He also worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the ring name Morphosis.

Alfonso Peña made his professional wrestling debut in 1985 and for the next 10 years worked for various promoters on the Mexican independent circuit, without making much of a name for himself.

In 1995 he began working for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) under the ring name Quarterback II, a football ring character complete with a mask that looked like a football helmet.

Initially he was teamed up with Quarterback I, but the team never made much headway.

In 1997 the original Histeria, now known as Super Crazy, left AAA to work for Promo Azteca.

AAA owner Antonio Peña decided to reuse the character without publicly acknowledging that a different wrestler was playing the role.

Quarterback II was given the outfit and name and from that moment forward became the "official" Histeria and made part of Los Vipers.

On August 23, 1998, Histeria, Psicosis, Maniaco and Mosco de la Merced teamed up to participate in a tournament for the vacant Mexican National Atómicos Championship, representing Los Vipers.

Los Vipers won the tournament by defeating Los Payasos (Coco Amarillo, Coco Azul, Coco Negro and Coco Rojo) in the finals to win the Atómicos title.

Over the following months Los Vipers began a storyline feud with another group called Los Vatos Locos, which at the time consisted of Charly Manson, May Flowers, Nygma and Picudo.

On February 14, 1999 Los Vatos Locos defeated Los Vipers to win the Atómicos championship.

Los Vipers won the title a second time on September 17, 1999, when they defeated Los Junior Atómicos (Blue Demon, Jr., La Parka, Jr., Mascara Sagrada, Jr. and Perro Aguayo, Jr.).

Los Vatos Locos managed to end Los Vipers second reign only three months later as they defeated Psicosis and partners on the undercard of the 1999 Guerra de Titanes show.

Los Vipers regained the Atómicos title on April 15, 2000, effectively ending the storyline with Los Vatos Locos.

Los Vipers reigned as Atómicos champions for over a year, until they were surprisingly upset by a little known group called Los Regio Guapos (Hator, Monje Negro, Jr., Potro, Jr. and Tigre Universitario) on August 19, 2001.

Los Regio Guapos only held the title for under two months before Los Vipers regained the title and began their fourth reign with the Atómicos title.

Their fourth reign also turned out to be the last reign for Los Vipers, ending on November 23, 2001, as a new version of Los Vatos Locos (Espiritu, Nygma, Picudo and Silver Cat) defeated them in one of the featured matches of the 2001 Guerra de Titanes.

In 2005 Histeria left Los Vipers and turned tecnico (fan favorite) in 2005.

Around the same time the original Psicosis returned to AAA and immediately began a storyline with Psicosis II over the rights to the Psicosis name.

The storyline included a Steel Cage match that took place at Triplemanía XIII, but ended in a "no-contest" as Histeria interfered in the match when he attacked both wrestlers.

Subsequently the feud over the Psicosis name became a three-way feud between the Original Psicosis, Psicosis II and Histeria.

The feud for the Psicosis name ended with Histeria winning a ladder match, earning the rights to the name - rights he handed over to Antonio Peña.

Peña would later decide to allow Psicosis II to keep the ring character, making the storyline a moot point.

In 2007 Histeria joined Psicosis II and Abismo Negro to reform Los Vipers, this time called Viper's Revolucion.

Later on when Mr. Niebla joined the group both Psicosis and Histeria sided with him and kicked Abismo Negro out of the group.

They were later joined by Black Abyss, an Abismo Negro clone character.

The feud with Abismo Negro was supposed to be settled at Triplemanía XVI in a cage match, but it was cancelled in the weeks leading up to the event, followed by Mr. Niebla leaving AAA.

Following Mr. Niebla's defection from AAA Psicosis II, Histeria and Black Abyss were used less frequently and not in any long term storylines.

Peña is best known for the 14 years he worked for AAA, until leaving in 2009.

He is the second person to wrestle as "Histeria", taking over from the previous wrestler who became known as Super Crazy.

There was later a third Histeria wrestling for AAA.

In the summer of 2009 both Psicosis II and Histeria left AAA, citing their dissatisfaction with the lack of bookings and thus lack of pay.

They began wrestling on the independent circuit still using the names Histeria and Psicosis, although they later modified their names to "Histeria Extreme" and "Psicosis Extreme" when AAA started making threats about legal sanctions and introduced Psicosis III and Histeria III.

The pair worked for a number of promotions including International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) and were regulars for the Perros del Mal wrestling promotion.

On April 12, 2010, a contingent of former AAA wrestlers including Histeria, Psicosis II, Maniaco, El Alebrije and Cuije appeared on a Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) show in Puebla, Puebla.

The group drown into the arena in a black SUV and attacked La Sombra, El Hijo del Fantasma and La Máscara after they just finished wrestling.

Brazo de Plata, Místico and Jon Strongman tried to help out but were kept away by CMLL rudos Averno, El Texano, Jr. and El Terrible.

Following the attack the former AAA wrestlers returned to the SUV and left the arena.

Until December 25, 2016, Peña's real name was not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers, but on December 25 he lost a Lucha de Apuestas match to Carístico, which forced him to unmask and reveal his real name per lucha libre traditions.