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Dionicio Castellanos Torres is a Mexican professional wrestler also known as Psychosis or Psicosis. He was a two-time WCW Cruiserweight Champion and is now performing for World Wrestling Entertainment on the SmackDown! brand, in its cruiserweight division. Also a member of The Mexicools with Super Crazy and Juventud.
Career
Castellanos started wrestling as Psicosis in his native Mexico in 1989 after being trained by the original Rey Misterio and his brother, Fobia.
Some of his biggest feuds were with Rey Misterio Jr. and El Hijo del Santo. He frequently teamed with La Parka, Juventud Guerrera and Juvi's father, Fuerza.
He first made a name for himself in the United States in ECW in 1995 putting on some fantastic matches against Misterio Jr.
He then switched to World Championship Wrestling as Psychosis where he was part of the Latino World Order (LWO) and won the Cruiserweight Title. He was frequently managed by Sonny Onoo and had a regular tag team with La Parka. He was paired with Juventud Guerrera occasionally too. When Guerrera won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title on WCW TV and then got injured, Vince Russo stripped Guerrera and had Psicosis and La Parka go for the vacant title, which Psychosis won. He then lost it to Jushin Liger the same night.
On September 27 1999 Psychosis competed in a máscara contra caballera (mask vs. hair) match against Billy Kidman. Kidman won, and Psychosis was forced to unmask.
He left WCW before the sale to Vince McMahon and was part of the short-lived Xtreme Wrestling Federation, wrestled in World Wrestling Allstars and also for All Japan Pro Wrestling. He was also part of "La Familia" with Konnan, Juventud Guerrera, Halloween and Damien in Xtreme Pro Wrestling, an adaptation of the group in Mexico consisting of Psychosis, Halloween, Damien 666 and Rey Misterio, Sr.
He had a dispute with AAA in Mexico which held the rights to his ring name, so he switched it to Nicho El Millionaro and continued to work in Mexico, mostly in Tijuana with occasional dates in the United States and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. In 2005, he returned to AAA to feud with wrestler who assumed the name "Psicosis" when he originally left the promotion. The two had a "name vs. name" ladder match at Triplemani XIII but Histeria ran in and took the name for himself so the feud evolved into a three way feud.
In 2005 Castellanos signed a contract with WWE. He appeared at the WWE-promoted ECW One Night Stand PPV on June 12, losing to Rey Mysterio, and first appeared on WWE television on the June 18, 2005 airing of Velocity, teaming with Super Crazy to defeat Akio and Billy Kidman.
On July 24, 2005 at the Great American Bash in Buffalo, NY, Psicosis hit his guillotine leg drop on Steven Richards to aid in the pin to secure the Mexicools' win against the bWo.
Profile
- Height: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
- Weight: 200 lb (91 kg)
- Birthday: May 19, 1971
- Hometown: Tijuana, Baja California
- Other Gimmicks: Psychosis, Psicosis, El Salvaje, Nicho El Millionaro, Nicho, Psicosis the Millionaire
- Trainer: Rey Misterio, Fobia
- Managers: Sonny Onoo
Finisher/Trademark moves
- Flying Legdrop
- Sitout Front Suplex
- Psycho Stunner
- Catapult Stomp Suicida
- Super Hurricanrana
- Flying Spinning Heelkick
- Facebuster
- Corkscrew Somersault Senton
- Flying Senton
- Guillotine Leg Drop
- Jumping over the top rope headbutt dive
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