Blue Panther

Genaro Vazquez Nevarez is a Mexican professional wrestler currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), better known by his ring name Blue Panther. The "Blue" part of his ring name is an homage to Aníbal, a wrestler he looked up to growing up who wore a blue mask.
==Professional wrestling career==
Blue Panther began wrestling in northern Mexico in the late 1970s before getting noticed by René Guajardo in Monterrey. Guarjardo got Panther booked in the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) and Panther made his debut in their main building, El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos in Naucalpan, in 1981. He wrestled on the undercard as a rudo (heel) before getting his first push in 1984 by winning the UWA World Welterweight Championship from veteran worker El Matemático at the end of the year. He had a feud with Black Man that saw him lose his UWA Welterweight Championship but win Black Man's mask in 1986. During the remainder of his UWA career, he won the UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship from Gran Hamada and traded the title back and forth with Solar I and won the mask of Kendo.
In 1991, he jumped to Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) and began a feud with Atlantis over the NWA World Middleweight Championship. Although Blue Panther was unsuccessful in his August title challenge, the feud established him as a top rudo in EMLL, leading to him defeating El Satánico to become the first CMLL World Middleweight Champion when the company changed names and created new World Championships. In late 1991, he began feuding with the American Love Machine. Their April 1992 "Mask vs. Mask" mask, where Love Machine was disqualified for using an illegal Martinete, sold out Arena México and 8,000 fans watched the match on big screens outside the arena. The following month, he jumped to Antonio Peña's new Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion and continued his feud with Love Machine with a "hair vs. mask" match win in July 1993. The match featured a double turn which led to Love Machine becoming a rudo and forming Los Gringos Locos with Eddie Guerrero.
Much of his time in AAA was spent in programs for the the Mexican National Middleweight Championship. He worked programs with Ángel Azteca, Super Astro, Solar I and Octagón. After the 1994 economic crisis in Mexico, he started his own promotion with several business partners called PROMELL (later Promo Azteca). When the promotion failed, he returned to AAA briefly in 1997 but he was unhappy being programmed with Máscara Sagrada, Jr. and jumped to CMLL by the end of the year. In 1998, Panther teamed with Dr. Wagner, Jr. and his real-life nephew Black Warrior to form "Los Laguneros." The team won a tournament to win the vacant CMLL World Trios Championship. In 1999, Panther and Wagner teamed to feud with Negro Casas and El Hijo del Santo for the CMLL World Tag Team Championship with an unsuccessful title challenge in September of that year. In 2000 and 2001, Los Laguneros successfully defended their titles against Los Villaños (III, IV and V) and the team of Negro Casas, Emilio Charles, Jr. and Tarzan Boy while Blue Panther had a singles feud with Olímpico.
In 2002, Black Warrior left Los Laguneros and the trios titles were vacated. Fuerza Guerrera replaced Black Warrior and they won another tournament for the CMLL World Trios title but they reigned for only three months before dropping the titles to Black Warrior, Atlantis and Mr. Niebla. Over time, Blue Panther was getting booked more as a técnico (face) and began to team with former rivals, Atlantis, Lizmark, Jr. and Mr. Niebla as La Ola Azul in a feud with Los Guerreros del Infierno. In 2004, Atlantis and Blue Panther defeated Último Guerrero and Rey Bucanero to win the CMLL World Tag Team Championship. Three months after successfully defending the titles against Olímpico and Rey Bucanero, Atlantis and Panther lost the titles to the team of Averno and Mephisto in April 2005. When Atlantis turned rudo, Panther feuded with him off and on and the two often ripped at each other's masks, hinting at a possible mask vs. mask match. On September 19, 2008, he lost his mask to Villaño V in Mexico. He was unmasked as Genaro Vazquez Nevarez.
==In wrestling==
*Finishing moves
:*El Nudo Lagunero (Standing figure four leglock)
*Signature moves
:*Double underhook backbreaker, sometimes transitioned into a submission hold
:*Fujiwara armbar
:*Surfboard
*Tag teams and stables
:*Los Divinos Laguneros
==Championships and accomplishments==
*Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
:*Mexican National Middleweight Championship (2 times)
*Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
:*CMLL World Middleweight Championship (1 time)
:*CMLL World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Atlantis
:*CMLL World Trios Championship (2 times) - with Black Warrior and Dr. Wagner, Jr. (1) and Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Fuerza Guerrera (1)
:*Mexican National Trios Championship (2 times) - with Fuerza Guerrera & Psicosis and Fuerza Guerrera & El Signo
:*Torneo Gran Alternativa 1999 - with Último Guerrero
:*Leyenda de Azul (2000)
*Pro Wrestling Illustrated
:*PWI ranked him #70 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 2000
*Universal Wrestling Association
:*UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
:*UWA World Welterweight Championship (1 time)
*World Wrestling Association
:*WWA World Middleweight Championship (1 time)
:*WWA World Welterweight Championship (1 time)
===Luchas de Apuestas record===
Wager	Winner 	Loser 	Location 	Date 	Notes
Masks	Blue Panther and Matemático	La Bestia and Simio Blanco 	Monterrey, Nuevo León 	January 28, 1979 	
Mask 	Blue Panther 	Oro 	Monterrey, Nuevo León 	1980 	 
Mask 	Blue Panther 	Gorila Infernal 	Xalapa, Veracruz 	February 23, 1984 	 
Hair 	Blue Panther 	El Brillante 	Querétaro, Querétaro 	June 24, 1984 	 
Mask 	Blue Panther 	Bull Power 	Puebla, Puebla 	September 7, 1984 	 
Mask 	Blue Panther 	Luzbel 	Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas	October 18, 1984 	 
Masks	Blue Panther and Black Man 	Los Sombras de Plata 	Naucalpan, Edomex 	November 20, 1984 	
Mask 	Blue Panther 	Black Man 	Naucalpan, Edomex 	February 16, 1986 	 
Mask 	Blue Panther 	El Avispón Negro 	Naucalpan, Edomex 	March 16, 1986 	 
Mask 	Blue Panther 	Kendo 	Tijuana, Baja California 	May 1988 	
Mask 	Blue Panther 	Love Machine 	Mexico City 	April 3, 1992 	 
Hair 	Blue Panther 	Vulcano 	Mexico City 	April 9, 1993 	 
Hair 	Blue Panther 	Love Machine 	Tonalá, Jalisco 	July 18, 1993 	 
Mask 	Blue Panther 	El Nuevo Huracán Ramírez, Jr.	Cuernavaca, Morelos 	February 3, 2000 	
Mask 	Blue Panther 	Lizmark Jr. 	Mexico City 	September 28, 2007	
Mask 	Blue Panther 	Tigre Universitario 	Monterrey, Nuevo León 	July 5, 2008 	 
Mask 	Villaño V 	Blue Panther 	Mexico City 	September 19, 2008	 
Hair 	Blue Panther 	Diluvio Negro II 	Monterrey, Nuevo León 	December 18, 2008 	
==External links==
* CAGEMATCH.net Profile
* Profile
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