page_title: Andrade (wrestler)
section_title: Professional wrestling persona
hierarchical_section_title: Andrade (wrestler) / Professional wrestling persona
caption_attribution_description: English: Andrade Cien Almas performs his finisher a Hammerlock DDT on Aleister Black at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans on April 7, 2018
context_page_description: Manuel Alfonso Andrade Oropeza is a Mexican professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Andrade.
  A third-generation wrestler, Andrade made his professional wrestling debut a month before his 14th birthday and worked under the name Brillante Jr. He is perhaps best known for his near eight year tenure working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre under the ring name La Sombra. In CMLL, he won the 2007 Torneo Gran Alternativa tournament, the 2011 Universal Championship and at one point he was a triple champion; holding the Mexican National Trios Championship, NWA World Historic Welterweight Championship and CMLL World Tag Team Championship at the same time. He also made appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is a former IWGP Intercontinental Champion. While working as La Sombra, Andrade was one of the founding members of the Los Ingobernables wrestling group, and won the masks of El Felino, Olímpico and Volador Jr. by defeating them in Lucha de Apuestas matches before losing his own mask to Atlantis.
context_section_description: Throughout his career, Andrade has portrayed two main characters, "La Sombra" and "Andrade ('Cien' Almas)", with both of those characters having phases of being a face (a "good guy") as well as a heel (a "bad guy").
  From 2007 through 2014, he portrayed the masked character "La Sombra" as a face, a young, high-flying wrestler who used a lot of high-flying lucha libre moves, especially dives off the top rope and occasionally out of the ring to the floor. At the time, he often used a split-legged corkscrew senton dive off the top rope to finish his matches.
  When he transitioned from a face to a heel character in 2014, he developed a more individual personality, acting cockier and more laid back in the ring, acting unimpressed with his opponents by adopting a more arrogant, Tranquillo attitude that became synonymous with all the Los Ingobernables members. As a heel, he began using the Sombra Driver (sometimes referred to as the Shadow Driver), a Schoolboy suplex, that illustrated his transition from high-flyer to a more power based wrestler.
  Initially, the Andrade "Cien" Almas character was portrayed as a face, although without much depth to the character. His heel turn in 2016 saw a return of the arrogant Tranquilo character he had used with success while working as "La Sombra", now bolstered by the presence of Zelina Vega, who helped him win matches by unfair means. After his heel turn, Almas often uses running double knee smash against an opponent sitting in the corner of the ring, or on occasion on an opponent leaned against the ring post on the outside of the ring to make the move look more dangerous. After his heel turn, Almas often won his matches by using a hammerlock DDT (which he named La Sombra), including his NXT Championship victory over Drew McIntyre.
caption: Almas performs a hammerlock DDT on Aleister Black
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