Hace el Trabajo (RLS CAS)

Hace el Trabajo is a professional wrestling persona created by Nuno Galindo and Paul Keegan for the Lucha Europa promotion, currently in use in the UNION Wrestling promotion, where it is portrayed by Keegan.
Several notable wrestlers have portrayed the Hace el Trabajo character across the years, including both creators, former BWF British Champion Azteka, and current UNION Wrestling star Jack Fry.
== Career ==
=== Lucha Europa (2009-2022) ===
The concept for a well-meaning but universally jobbing character in Lucha Europa was conceived by the promotion's co-founders Nuno Galindo and Paul Keegan originally in 2007, however Hace el Trabajo (Spanish for "Does the Job") wouldn't appear until 2009, during which time he was portrayed by one of the co-founders in a shift-like pattern.
Hace's matches would follow a pattern for much of his tenure with LE; he'd be there, in essence, to allow either a strong face or heel from the promotion to showcase themselves before a bigger match on the horizon. Galindo retired in 2014, leaving Keegan the sole portrayer of the character in LE for the next four years.
In late 2018, however, Jack Fry would, while working with the promotion, which saw a slight shift in his move-set, and- for the first time- a small amount of token offense being allowed in his matches. Notable matches against Almavacia and Hijo del Padre followed this, leading Keegan to opine in 2019 that he felt Fry did a better job as Hace than he or Galindo had. Once Fry departed in mid-2019, the mantle did however pass back to Keegan.
Keegan would try, for the remainder of Hace's time in LE, to keep closer to Fry's style of matches, and in 2022 became one of the first entrants to the Lucha Europa Hall of Fame. During his speech, Keegan thanked fans for embracing the character, and announced that he would be retiring it in LE to allow "new stories to be told".
=== British Wrestling Federation (2012-2014) ===
Between 2012 and 2014, Hace made sporadic appearances in BWF as a jobber to the likes of Davey Mac, Sim Samson and Maelstrom, portrayed exclusively by BWF and LE star Azteka. The link between Azteka and Hace would never be directly addressed within kayfabe, though Mike Fantastic (Mikey Ace elsewhere in the AWS) would joke about it during a feud with Azteka in 2013, requesting that his opponent "save time, and just hacer el trabajo...".
=== PRIZE Wrestling League (2018-2019) ===
Keegan would appear a couple of times as the character in Mikey Ace's PRIZE Wrestling League, most notably jobbing to the likes of Matsuda, in 2018. While Fry was portraying the character in Lucha Europa between 2018 and 2019, he'd also appear in PRIZE, during which time Hace would often be teamed with fellow jobber Lenroy Steede against two top stars (either a team, top faces or heels, or one face and heel running the "can they co-exist" angle) on live shows.
=== Wrestling upLOUD! (2020) ===
Again portrayed by Azteka, who was part-way through an angle that saw him banned from the promotion, Hace would turn up in Wrestling upLOUD! a few times in 2020, during the Lockdown Shows, during this time picking up his sole victory against Hemingway, by DQ following interference from Max Reilly.
=== UNION Wrestling (2023-present) ===
Portrayed once more by Keegan, Hace el Trabajo would appear at the UNION Bring Down The House Event in a short match to put over The Trick, which was a part of his Lucha Europa HoF celebrations. Despite losing, Hace would leave the arena to cheers from the crowd. In 2023, UNION Director of Wrestling Eddie Hamer announced that the promotion had bought the rights to use the character exclusively going forward, and hired Keegan to portray him.
Following this, Hace was used in his original manner as an out-and-out jobber, though this would shift somewhat when Hamer took direct control of UNION's overall booking and re-established the rules on not having jobbers in 2024. Hace had a fairly back-and-forth match with UNION World Champion Mikey Ace after this, though he still would ultimately lose.
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