Biography:

Jorge Guzmán is better known as El Hijo del Santo ("The Son of the Saint"), is a Mexican professional wrestler, political activist and one of the most successful stars in Lucha Libre. He is the son of the legendary professional wrestler, film actor and Mexican folk hero El Santo.

"Santito," as he is sometimes referred, was the only one out of El Santo's eleven children to become a professional wrestler. He began wrestling without his father's consent and made his official debut as "El Hijo del Santo" in October of that year after he earned his college degree in Communication Science as per his father's request. He shared his father's look, the silver mask, tights and cape, and moves but he was shorter and, although he would never become the same cultural icon, he would become a better in-ring performer than his father.

He won his first title, the UWA World Lightweight title, on October 1985. In 1990, he debuted in Japan for Gran Hamada's Universal Lucha Libre promotion and moved up a weight class by winning the UWA Welterweight title as well as the WWA Welterweight title. In late 1991, he left WWA and vacated the Welterweight title but continued to wrestle for UWA. On 1996 via disqualification and took a brief hiatus but return to wrestle the same year. Santo and Casas began teaming together on 1998 and chased Scorpio and Salvaje's recently won CMLL Tag Team titles, Santo and Casas defeated Scorpio and Salvaje for the titles on 1999. On 2002 Santo took a sabbatical from CMLL with Perro Aguayo, Jr. filling in his spot on the roster. He returned to CMLL in the summer of 2004.

Other than his work as a wrestler, he is the subject of a comic book, starred in three films, the most recent being Infraterrestere in 2003, and appeared on the Mexican reality show Día de Perros. He was also the star of a 5 episode animated series on the Mexican version of Cartoon Network titled Santo Contra Los Clones (Santo vs. The Clones). In the summer of 2007, he gained notoriety for his campaign to save sea turtles on the Gulf of Mexico.

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