El Gallito
{{short description|Mexican professional wrestler}}
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{{Infobox professional wrestler
| name= El Gallito
| image=El Gallito.jpg
| caption=El Gallito after winning a match on November 30, 2018
| birth_name= Unrevealed{{efn|name=Unrevealed|Traditionally Mexican sources will not report on the birth name of a masked wrestler who has never been unmasked in the ring.{{cite book|author=Madigan, Dan|title=Mondo Lucha A Go-Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|year=2007|chapter=Okay... what is Lucha Libre?|pages=29–40|isbn=978-0-06-085583-3}}}}
| birth_date= {{birth date and age|October 26, 1991}}
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| resides=
| parents=
| names={{Unbulleted list|Gallito Tapatio|El Gallito}}
| height=1.15 m
| weight=
| trainer={{Unbulleted list|Máscara Mágica|Magnum|Último Guerrero}}
| debut=2012
}}
El Gallito (born October 26, 1991) is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler. He works for the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion where he portrays a face (known as a tecnico in lucha libre, the protagonists of professional wrestling). He is one of the competitors in CMLL's Micro-Estrella ("Micro-Star") division where he competes with and against other wrestlers with dwarfism.
He started his professional wrestling career as a mascota companion for the regular-sized wrestler El Gallo, on who El Gallito's ring persona, masks and tights are patterned on. In 2017 he became an active wrestler in the Micro-Estrella division. He was originally known as El Gallito Tapatio, Spanish for "The Little Rooster from Guadalajara", later shortened to just "The Little Rooster".
Professional wrestling career
El Gallito ("The Little Rooster") started his professional wrestling career as a mascota for El Gallo ("The Rooster") in 2012. As a mascota, he portrayed a diminutive version of El Gallo and competed as the same rooster character as him.. The rooster imagery was supported by his mask, complete with a fake cockscomb on top of his head and fabric wattles dangling from his chin.{{cite news | author = Enciclopedia staff | title = Enciclopedia de las Mascaras | work = El Gallo | location = Mexico City, Mexico | publisher= Editorial Mina | id = Tomo II | date = August 2007 | page=19 | trans-title=Mask encyclopedia | language = es}} As a mascota he would accompany El Gallo to the ring, the character was created primarily to appeal to children and assist El Gallo to portray a tecnico character (called a face, the protagonists in professional wrestling).{{cite book|author=Madigan, Dan|title=Mondo Lucha a Go-Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling|publisher= HarperCollins Publishers|year=2007|chapter=You ain't seen nothing yet: the minis|pages=209–212|isbn=978-0-06-085583-3}}
= Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (2017–2022) =
In early 2017 CMLL recruited El Gallito, and his fellow mascotas Mije and Zacarías el Perico to help establish a Micro-Estrellas ("Micro-Stars") division, featuring only wrestlers with dwarfism. The first match of the Micro-Estrellas division took place on April 30, 2017, and saw El Gallito and Microman defeat Mije and Zacarías in a special featured match.{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/28/meet-microman-pint-sized-wrestler-leading-lucha-libre-revolution/ | title= Meet Microman, the pint sized wrestler leading a 'lucha libre' revolution in Mexico | work=The Telegraph | date=September 28, 2018 | access-date=December 12, 2019 | agency=Agence France-Presse}}{{cite web | url=https://www.cagematch.net//?id=1&nr=173925 | title=CMLL Domingos Arena Mexico |date=April 30, 2017 | access-date=December 12, 2019 | work=CageMatch}} For the first anniversary of the Micro-Estrellas division, CMLL held an eight-micros torneo cibernetico elimination match, featuring the entire active Micro-Estrella division at the time.{{cite web | url=https://www.espn.com/espn/onenacion/story/_/id/23985181/little-person-wrestlers-mexico-lucha-libre-train-become-headliners | title=Little people in the 'lucha libre' are the main event | work=ESPN | access-date=December 12, 2019 | date=July 19, 2018 | first=Nathaniel | last=Janowitz}} Gallito, Mije, Angelito, and Chamuel took on Microman, Atomo, Guapito, and Zacarías, which saw Micropan pin Chamuel to win the tournament while Galliot was the fourth to be eliminated from the match.{{cite web | url=https://www.cagematch.net//?id=1&nr=198020 | title=CMLL Domingos Arena Mexico | date=April 29, 2018 | access-date=December 11, 2019 | work=CageMatch}}
For the 2018 Día de Muertos ("Day of the Dead") supercard show Gallito, Microman, and Atomo defeated Mije, Chamuel, and Zacarías two falls to one.{{cite web | url= https://ovaciones.com/sanson-bicampeon-del-inframundo/ | title=Sansón, bicampeón del inframundo | trans-title= Sansón, double champion of the underworld | date=November 3, 2018 | access-date=November 4, 2018 | work=Ovaciones | first=Arturo | last=Rosas Plata | language=es}}{{cite web | url=http://www.mediotiempo.com/lucha-libre/2018/11/03/sanson-se-mantuvo-como-rey-del-inframundo-en-el-cmll| title=Sansón se mantuvo como Rey del Inframundo en el CMLL | trans-title=Samson remained King of the Underworld in the CMLL | date=November 3, 2018 | access-date=November 4, 2018 | work=MedioTiempo | language=es}} four weeks later the Micro-Estrellas also appeared at CMLL's Leyendas Mexicanas ("Mexican Legends") show where Gallito, Microman, and Guapito defeated Mije, Chamuel, and Zacarías in the second match of the night.{{cite web | url=http://estrellasdelaluchalibre.com.mx/2018-ano-de-emociones-jerry-estrada-regresa-a-la-arena-mexico-despues-de-26-anos-por-leobardo-magadan/ | first=Leobardo | last=Magadan | language=es | work=Estrellas Lucha Libre | access-date=January 16, 2019 | date=December 23, 2018 | title=2018 Año de emociones Jerry Estrada regresa a la Arena Mexico despues de 26 añnos | trans-title=2018 year of emotions Jerry Estrada returns to Arena Mexico after 26 years | archive-date=January 17, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117071502/http://estrellasdelaluchalibre.com.mx/2018-ano-de-emociones-jerry-estrada-regresa-a-la-arena-mexico-despues-de-26-anos-por-leobardo-magadan/ | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url=https://ovaciones.com/es-lucha-libre-patrimonio-cultural-intangible-cdmx/ | title=Es lucha libre Patrimonio Cultural Intangible CDMX | first=Arturo | last=Rosas Platas | work=Ovaciones | language=es | date=December 1, 2018 | access-date=February 3, 2019 | trans-title=Professional wrestling is an Intangible Cultural Heritage CDMX }} At the 2019 version of the Homenaje a Dos Leyendas ("Homage to two legends") show El Gallito and his team once again won their match.{{cite web | url=https://superluchas.com/cmll-homenaje-a-dos-leyendas-2019-los-ingobernables-pelones/ | title=CMLL: Homenaje a Dos Leyendas 2019 - Los Ingobernables, pelones | date=March 16, 2019 | access-date=October 24, 2019 | work=Súper Luchas | language=es | author=Dark Angelita | trans-title=CMLL: Homeage to Two Legends 2019 - Los Ingobernables, bald}} With the popularity of the Micro-Estrellas division, CMLL introduced the CMLL World Micro-Estrellas Championship in December 2019.{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OddYk77K4A | title=CMLL informa 11 de diciembre de 2019 | language=es | publisher=YouTube | author=VideosOficialesCMLL | date=December 11, 2019 | access-date=December 11, 2019 | trans-title=CMLL Informa December 11, 2019}} El Gallito and five other Micro-Estrellas (Chamuel, Atomo, Microman, Guapito, and Zacarías) were involved in the elimination match to determine the first champion on December 25. El Gallito was the second-to-last man eliminated from the match. In the end, Chamuel pinned Microman to eliminate him and win the championship.{{cite web | url=https://www.marca.com/claro-mx/otros-deportes/lucha-libre/2019/12/26/5e040ef822601d996f8b45e2.html | title=Marcela y Chamuel los triunfadores en la gran función de Navidad en el CMLL | trans-title=Marcela and Chamuel are triumphant at CMLL's great Christmas event | date=December 25, 2019 | access-date=January 4, 2020 | work=Marca | language=es | first=Javier | last=Cardoso}}{{cite web | url=https://superluchas.com/cmll-chamuel-primer-monarca-mundial-de-micro-estrellas/ | title=CMLL: Chamuel, primer monarca mundial de Micro Estrellas | trans-title=CMLL: Chamuel, first king of the Micro Stars | date=December 25, 2019 | access-date=January 4, 2020 | work=Súper Luchas | language=es | author=Dark Angelita}}
=Independent circuit (2017–present)=
While working for CMLL, El Gallito, like all wrestlers employed by the company, is allowed to take independent circuit bookings on days he is not needed for their shows. El Gallito's independent circuit appearances usually sees him team with, and face off against, other CMLL Micro-Estrellas. His first non-CMLL match was on June 14, 2017, on a Promociones El Cholo show in Tijuana, Baja California, and saw El Gallito and Microman defeat Mije and Zacarías by disqualification.{{cite web | url=https://www.cagematch.net//?id=1&nr=177823 | title=Promociones El Cholo de Tijuana | date=June 14, 2017 | access-date=May 27, 2020 | work=CageMatch}} On September 15, 2018, El Gallito and Microman defeated Chamuel and Zacarías in a match at the Benito Juarez ExpoMuseo in Mexico City.{{cite web | url=https://www.cagematch.net//?id=1&nr=209322 | title= ExpoMuseo | date= September 15, 2018 | access-date=May 26, 2020 | work=CageMatch}} The Micro-Estrellas also competed at Desastre Total Ultraviolento's 11th Anniversary Show, which saw Gallito and Microman defeating Mije and Zacarías.{{cite web | url=https://www.cagematch.net//?id=1&nr=218637 | title=DTU 11. Aniversario | date= December 18, 2018 | access-date=May 26, 2020 | work=CageMatch}} They also made a special appearance for The Crash Lucha Libre, one of Mexico's largest independent promotions, with El Gallito and Microman once again defeating Chamuel and Zacarías in their March 2, 2019 match.{{cite web | url=https://www.cagematch.net//?id=1&nr=223077 | title= The Crash | date=March 2, 2019 | access-date=May 26, 2020 | work=CageMatch}}
Reception
Súper Luchas magazine described the Micro-Estrellas division debut match between Microman and El Gallito vs. Mije and Zacarías, as "an encounter with a fall that literally stole the night."{{cite web | url=https://en.superluchas.com/microman-gran-acierto-del-cmll-recordamos-la-historia-las-luchas-personas-pequenas/ | title=Micromán, a great success of the CMLL - We remember the history of the struggles of small people | first=Ernesto | last=Ocampo | work=Súper Luchas | date=May 1, 2017 | access-date=May 26, 2020}}
Footnotes
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References
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