Extreme Tiger Extreme Tiger ( April 4 , 1981 ) is a Mexican professional wrestler best known for his time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) as Tigre Uno and in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración ( AAA ) . In AAA he was the 2011 Rey de Reyes and as well as one half of the AAA World Tag Team Champions with Jack Evans . Professional wrestling career . After training under Rey Misterio , Tiger debuted in late 1998 at the age of just 17 . Over the years he has wrestled as Tyger Mask , an imitation of the Japanese Tiger Mask character before settling on the name " Extreme Tiger " ( some times spelled Xtreme Tiger ) . He first gained notoriety as part of the World Wrestling Association ( WWA ) in Tijuana , Baja California , which became his " home territory " . He also began working for " Desastre Total Ultraviolento " ( DTU ) and " Nueva Generation Xtrema " ( NGX ) , adopting a more hardcore style of wrestling that involved the use of weapons , tables , chair and ladders in the matches . Asistencia Asesoría y Administración ( 2006 – 2012 ) . Through DTU ' s connection to Asistencia Asesoría y Administración ( AAA ) Extreme Tiger began working for the promotion in 2006 , working as a " rúdo " ( bad guy ) who was used in random lower to mid - card matches . After wrestling as a mid - card wrestler throughout the year , he became a " tecnico " ( good guy ) in 2007 . shortly after turning " téchnico " , Tiger won the annual Alas de Oro tournament . Later in the year , he reverted to a rudo as he began teaming with Halloween and Juventud Guerrera as " La Familia de Tijuana " . On April 27 , 2008 Extreme Tiger and Halloween defeated The Mexican Powers ( Crazy Boy and Joe Lider ) to win the AAA World Tag Team Championship , his first title in AAA . The team held the title for nearly five months , although Halloween did not wrestled for part of that time , before losing the championship to " La Hermandad 187 " ( Joe Lider and Nicho El Millonario ) on September 14 . After the title loss , Halloween left AAA , ending " La Familia de Tijuana " . Tiger then participated in the 2008 Alas de Oro , but was unable to win the tournament for the second year in a row as he was eliminated as the second to last competitor , leaving only Jack Evans and 2008 winner Aero Star . In 2009 Extreme Tiger participated in a tournament to crown the first ever AAA Cruiserweight Champion . Tiger defeated Crazy Boy in the first round of the tournament and Jack Evans in the semi - finals . The finals was a triple threat match that also included Alan Stone and Alex Koslov , which Koslov won to become the first Cruiserweright champion . A few weeks later , at Triplemania XVII , Extreme Tiger won the Cruiserweight Title from Koslov in a multi - competitor match that also included Alan Stone and Crazy Boy . On August 21 , 2009 at the 2009 " Verano de Escandalo " , he lost the title in an elimination match when he was the last man eliminated by Koslov following a low blow . Extreme Tiger lost the title in his first title defense . Following the " Verano de Escandalo " show then - champion Alex Koslov was fired ( in storyline terms ) from AAA and the title was vacated . Extreme Tiger was one of five participants selected to wrestle for the vacant title at " Heroes Inmortales III " . Tiger won his second Cruiserweight Title by winning 5 - man ladder match against Sugi San , Jack Evans , Rocky Romero and Teddy Hart . In subsequent months Alex Koslov has returned to AAA as part of " La Legión Extranjera " and continued to make challenges to Extreme Tiger , who managed to retain the title in all of their matches . On June 6 , 2010 , at TripleMania XVIII Tiger lost the Cruiserweight Championship to Jack Evans in a four - way elimination match , which also included Nosawa and the man who eliminated him from the match , Christopher Daniels . Tiger ' s elimination was a direct result of someone coming to the ring wearing an Extreme Tiger mask , then revealing himself to be Rélampago . On March 18 , 2011 , Extreme Tiger defeated Carlito Caribbean Cool , El Mesías and L . A . Park to become the 2011 Rey de Reyes and earn a guaranteed shot at the AAA World Heavyweight Championship . Just three days later Extreme Tiger and Jack Evans defeated " Los Maniacos " ( Silver King and Último Gladiador ) to win the AAA World Tag Team Championship . Tiger and Evans made their first successful defense of the title on June 18 at TripleManía XIX , defeating the TNA team of Abyss and Mr . Anderson in a steel cage match . Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( 2014 – 2016 ) . Tiger made his TNA Wrestling debut at Lockdown 2014 in Miami , pulling off a huge win in his first match by defeating multi - time X Division champion , Manik ! In TNA he goes by the ring name Tigre Uno . In the weeks leading up to his debut , a series of videos aired on IMPACT spotlighting the high - flying superstar . On December 12 , 2016 , Uno announced his departure from TNA .