Emilio Gonçalves

**Emiliano Cristian Fernández** (born May 16, 1996) is a Cuban-American professional wrestler, model & socialite.

## Early life

Fernández was born on May 16, 1996 in Santa Clara, Cuba to his parents Cecelia Dolores Fernández and Estebán Jose Fernández, who are of Spanish descent. Fernández has an older sister, Elena, an older brother, Israel, a middle sister, Salina, and a younger sister, Mariana. His father was an underground boxer who would take part in unlicensed fights, earning huge paychecks that he’d used in order to provide for his family. Fernández’s father would partake in numerous fights, eventually being scouted by a boxing manager after earning major credit due to his impressive win-loss ratio. Fernández’s father was signed a million-dollar deal in 2002, hence moving his family from Cuba to The United States, starting his boxing career when Emiliano was only 8.

## Professional wrestling career

#### PWR Wrestling (2020)

On December 27th, 2020, Fernández would make his wrestling debut appearance at the second PWR event, Holiday Havoc, which was hosted by his sister Olivia Gonçalves. During the main event of the event which consisted of Olivia Gonçalves & Helena Rose, the titantron would show Emilio, Chino & Zander attacking Rose's significant other, Tahj Najee. Due to this distraction, Fernández's sister would use the opportunity to catch Rose off guard and successfully retain her PWR World Championship.

#### Lightning Live (2021-present)

On March 14th, 2021, Fernández made his debut for Lightning during it’s premiere episode of Lightning Live. Unannounced, he made an appearance in the crowd during Chino v. Atarian. Near the end of the match, Fernández hopped the barricade and attempted to distract Atarian to assist Chino in victory. When the assist wasn’t enough, Fernández entered the ring to break a pin fall attempt by Atarian; ending the match in a disqualification. Fernández & Chino would proceed to double-team on Atarian, leading to his own partner, Tahj Najee, coming to his rescue.

Fernández would make his official in-ring debut on May 2nd, 2021, on the second episode of Lightning Live. He would team up with Chino as **Los Diablos** to take on **The** **Star-Studded Hittas** (Atarian & Tahj Najee). In this match, Atarian & Najee would have the upper-hand until Olivia officially made her debut in Lightning, aligning herself with her husband Chino and brother Emilio. Using similar tactics to Emilio on Lightning Live 1, Olivia would distract the opposing team allowing Fernández to catch Najee off-guard, using him to knock Atarian off the apron & rolling Najee up for the victory.

On Lightning Live 3, Olivia would enter herself last minute into the Wet n’ Wild Swimsuit Gauntlet match, beating Claudia La’Prez. Following this, Olivia would take to the mic to express that Lightning was gaining popularity solely due to appearance of Emilio, Chino & herself. She’d continue to list ways that would bring Lighting from rags, and raise it to riches. Eventually, Atarian & Najee would hear enough of what she had to say and proceeded to interrupt her by coming into the arena. As they were making their way down, Emilio & Chino would quickly use their distraction to their advantage; attacking Atarian & Najee on the entrance ramp. As the brawl continued, Atarian & Najee would gain the upper hand, while Helena Rose came to get her revenge on Olivia.

The following month on Lightning Live 4, Los Diablos & Olivia Gonçalves were set to face The Star-Studded Hittas & Helena Rose in a 3 on 3 mixed tag-team match. Main eventing the show, the match would be filled with action and aggression. Olivia would take out Rose, and proceed to distract the referee; allowing Chino & Emilio to double-team Atarian behind the referees back, and winning the match.

After a small break, Lightning Live returned with it’s fifth episode. The Star-Studded Hittas were scheduled to have a rematch against Los Diablos, but instead they would face two masked local competitors. Reasoning behind Los Diablos failing to arrive to the show is unclear.

## Personal life

Fernández had previously lived in Santa Clara, Cuba and Manhattan, New York. Along with his brother & sisters, he was homeschooled for the majority of his life living in The United States. Upon turning 18, he took time to find himself and what he aspired to do in his life. At the age of 19, Fernández enrolled into Pratt Institute, a private university where he partook a degree in fashion design. During his time in university, news of his father broke out regarding an affair which revealed that he had been in a relationship with a mystery woman during his boxing career. Due to rapid spread of the news in the media, Fernández attempted to keep close with the family, but remained in New York with his sister, Salina, as the remaining family members returned to Cuba. During Fernández's junior year in university, his father had suddenly died in January 2013 at the age of 44, suffering a heart attack at their family home. The news of his father passing had put a halt to the career aspirations Fernández had set for himself, and he decided to return to Cuba where he'd tend to being with his family following the families loss. As the years passed, Fernández finally returned to the States in 2019, following the news of his sisters pregnancy. He stayed with Salina & Sebastian until the birth of his niece, Rosalía Adalyn Mendoza, and helped the couple with adjusting to their new family life. He would soon return to Manhattan, where he'd complete his Fashion Design degree in the summer of 2020.

Fernández is known as a womanizer amongst the Hollywood circle he pursuits, and has been known to partake in many one-night-only relationships with women he encounters. He cites this reasoning being the way his father treated his mother growing up, and the news he had been in an affair with another woman while Fernández was a child made him question commitment. The most public showing of this happening was in February 2021, when it had seemed Fernández was in a relationship with wrestler Azalea Blacc, taking her out on a date for Valentine's Day but quickly breaking it off with her the next day.

He was introduced to the wrestling lifestyle by his sister and her fiancée when he lived with the couple in 2019, and many of the relationships he had taken on would be with people in the wrestling industry. Due to the exposure, he would finally take it upon himself to learn to be a professional wrestler, looking to Sebastian, his brother-in-law, specifically for training. In a quote from a 2021 issue of Paper Magazine, Fernández cites his inspiration to wrestle as "a way to honor my father and his legacy, regardless of what the media thought of him, I know I must hold his legacy to the stars where he resides."

In early 2021, former professional wrestler Akira Brookelle revealed that she was pregnant, but didn’t announce who the father was. Keeping under the radar, Fernández was found to be the father after the two had a once night stand in late 2020. In June 2021, Brookelle birthed their daughter Isla Cecelia Fernández.

## In wrestling

#### Finishers

* **Final Mortífero** (Argentine facebuster) — 2021–present
* **Gota de Pasión** (Lifting double underhook sitout facebuster) — 2021–present

#### Nicknames

* The Prince of Paramour
* People's Sexiest Man Alive
* Latin Lothario
* Hijo De Dios
* El Galán

#### Managers

* Olivia Gonçalves
* Chino

#### Entrance themes

* "Lotto" by Joyner Lucas — 2021 (as Los Diablos)
* **"Toketeo" by Ghetto Kids** — 2022-present