Ricky Marvin

At the CMLL 70th Anniversary Show, Ricky Marvin teamed with Virus and Volador Jr.. to defeat "The Havana Brothers" (Rocco Quance, Puma Boy and Rocky Romero) in a match that several years later is still remembered fondly.

Marvin returned to Japan on several tours even after CMLL Japan folded, often working for Último Dragón's Toryumon Japan promotion.

Ricardo Fuentes Romero (born January 8, 1980) is a second-generation Mexican professional wrestler, known by his ring name Ricky Marvin, and is most known for his work in the Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Noah.

Fuentes made his debut in 1995, using the ring name White Demon, an enmascarado (masked) character.

In 1998, Fuentes began training in the CMLL wrestling school under Mendoza and Casas, and it was there that he came up with a new ring name, combining his first name, Ricky, and his favorite cartoon character, Marvin the Martian, to create the ring name "Ricky Marvin".

As Ricky Marvin, his first appearance at a major CMLL event came at the second Gran Alternativa of 1999, where he teamed with his mentor Ringo Mendoza.

In the first round, Marvin and Mendoza defeated Apolo Dantés and Alan Stone but lost to eventual tournament winners El Felino and Tigre Blanco in the second round.

On July 16, 1999, Marvin teamed with Sombra de Plata, losing to Fugaz and Sangre Azteca in a match that stole the show, earning the four youngsters a standing ovation from the crowd.

The success of that match earned all four a match at CMLL's 66th Anniversary show on September 24, 1999.

This time, Marvin and Sombra de Plata won the match.

Marvin made his Japanese debut on November 23, 1999, defeating Sangre Azteca, who was also making his debut for CMLL Japan.

The rivalry continued on March 17, 2000, as Ricky Marvin defeated Sangre Azteca in a three falls match on the undercard of the 2000 Jucio Final pay-per-view.

While working for CMLL Japan, Marvin defeated Virus to win the CMLL Japan Super Lightweight Champion on August 6, 2000.

On November 29, 2000, Marvin defeated Virus, this time to win the Mexican National Lightweight Championship.

He held the title once more before the organization ceased operations in early 2001.

Marvin held the championship until December 3, 2001, when he lost it to Loco Max.

In Toryumon, Marvin defeated Super Nova on July 7, 2002, to win the NWA World Welterweight Championship.

Marvin only held the title for 17 days before losing it to Genki Horiguchi, but the title win helped convince Marvin that his future lay in Japan.

In 2003, the CMLL group Los Guapos created Guapos U, a "reality show"-inspired storyline in which young hopefuls competed to earn a spot in the Los Guapos group.

Marvin was one of the wrestlers selected for the first class of Guapos U. During the storyline, fellow "classmate" Zumbido developed a rivalry with Marvin, which got Zumbido kicked out of the group for fighting.

Zumbido and Marvin met in a Lucha de Apuesta match in which both wrestlers put their hair on the line.

The match ended in a draw, and, as a result, both wrestlers had their hair shaved off after the match.

Marvin was the last wrestler eliminated in the Guapos U contest, losing the membership to El Terrible.

From 2003 through 2015 Marvin worked primarily in Japan, only making occasional guest appearances in his native Mexico.

Between 2005 and 2007, he also wrestled as the masked Mushiking Joker character, a storyline arch-enemy of "Mushiking Terry", who was played by his then-tag team partner Kotaro Suzuki.

In 2005 Marvin began working for Pro Wrestling Noah, often appearing at Pro Wrestling SEM events, Noah's league for younger, inexperienced wrestlers.

Over time, Marvin began teaming regularly with Kotaro Suzuki.

While teaming with Suzuki, Marvin also began a storyline feud with Suzuki's masked alter ego "Mushiking Terry", while he wrestled as the masked Mushiking Joker character himself.

The two masked characters wrestled off and on between 2005 and 2007, with both men occasionally wrestling unmasked as well.

On January 21, 2007, Marvin and Suzuki defeated Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.

The team held the title for just over 10 months before losing the championship to the Dragon Gate team "Speed Muscle" (Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino).

Since Marvin was well versed in Lucha libre, he often teamed with or faced luchadors from Mexico who toured with Noah.

On September 3, 2007, Marvin was part of the main event of a joint AAA/Noah show called TripleSEM.

He teamed with Mushiking Terry and Naomichi Marufuji to wrestle against Los Hell Brothers (Cibernético, Charly Manson, and Chessman) in a match that ended in a no-contest due to outside interference.

In August 2008, Marvin often teamed with Laredo Kid and El Oriental as they wrestled against Histeria, Antifaz, and Rocky Romero, all representing the Mexican Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion.

He also worked as the masked character Bengala in Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) and Lucha Underground between 2013 and 2016.

Suzuki and Ricky Marvin were the first Japanese/foreigner team to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, one of three reigns with that championship.

Marvin is also a former GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion in Pro Wrestling Noah, a former CMLL Japan Super Lightweight Champion and Mexican National Lightweight Champion in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and one third of the AAA World Trios Champions in AAA.

He is the son of retired professional wrestler Ricardo Fuentes and brother of Rolando Romero.

Ricardo Fuentes was trained for his professional wrestling career by his father Ricardo Fuentes, a professional wrestler known by the ring name Aries, and later on by Ringo Mendoza, Negro Casas, and Memo Diaz when he began working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).