Psicosis
| Dionicio Castellanos | |
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| Born | May 19, 1971 Tijuana, Baja California |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Psicosis, Psychosis, El Salvaje, Nicho El Millionaro, Nicho, Psicosis the Millionaire, El Jet de TJ |
| Billed height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) |
| Billed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
| Trained by | Rey Misterio, Sr. Fobia |
| Debut | March 10, 1989 |
Dionicio Castellanos Torres (born May 19, 1971 in Tijuana, Baja California) is a Mexican professional wrestler best known by his stage names, Psychosis or Psicosis. He was a two-time WCW Cruiserweight Champion and is now performing for World Wrestling Entertainment on the SmackDown! brand in its cruiserweight division.
Career
Castellanos started wrestling as Psicosis in his native Mexico in March 1989 after being trained by Rey Misterio, Sr. and his brother, Fobia.
Some of his biggest feuds were with Rey Misterio Jr. and El Hijo del Santo. He frequently teamed with La Parka, Juventud Guerrera and Juvi's father, Fuerza Guerrera.
He first made a name for himself in the United States in ECW in 1995 putting on some fantastic matches against Misterio Jr.
He then switched to World Championship Wrestling as Psychosis where he was part of the Latino World Order (LWO) and won the Cruiserweight Title. He was frequently managed by Sonny Onoo and had a regular tag team with La Parka. He was paired with Juventud Guerrera occasionally too. When Guerrera won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title on WCW TV and then got injured, Vince Russo stripped Guerrera and had Psychosis and La Parka go for the vacant title, which Psychosis won. He then lost it to Jushin Liger the same night.
On April 19, 1999 Psicosis defeated Blitzkrieg, Juventud Guerrera and Rey Mysterio in a 4-way to win the WCW Cruiserweight Championship for the first time, only to lose it to Rey Mysterio not long after.
On September 27 1999 Psychosis competed in a máscara contra caballera (mask vs. hair) match against Billy Kidman. Kidman won, and Psychosis was forced to unmask.
Psychosis had a second, forgettable Cruiserweight Title reign in WCW. When the previous champion Lenny Lane, who portrayed a flamboyant homosexual on television, got WCW in hot water with the GLAAD, Lane was pulled from television and Psychosis was given the belt to lose to Disco Inferno.
He left WCW before the sale to Vince McMahon and was part of the short-lived Xtreme Wrestling Federation, wrestled in World Wrestling All-Stars and also for All Japan Pro Wrestling. He also made a brief return to ECW as well, competing there from July-November 2000. The highlight of his second run was an incredible match with Yoshihiro Tajiri at the ECW Arena. He was also part of "La Familia" with Konnan, Juventud Guerrera, Halloween and Damien in Xtreme Pro Wrestling, an adaptation of the group in Mexico consisting of Psychosis, Halloween, Damien 666 and Rey Misterio, Sr.
He had a dispute with AAA in Mexico which held the rights to his ring name, so he switched it to Nicho El Millonario and continued to work in Mexico, mostly in Tijuana with occasional dates in the United States and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. In 2005, he returned to AAA to feud with a wrestler who assumed the name "Psicosis" when he originally left the promotion. The two had a "name vs. name" ladder match at Triplemania XIII but Histeria ran in and took the name for himself so the feud evolved into a three way feud.
Psicosis made a few appearances for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and wrestled at the TNA Pay-Per-View Victory Road 2004 as part of the 20 man international invitational, he was eliminated and the Tournament went on to be won by fellow luchadore and former LWO member Héctor Garza.
In 2005 Castellanos signed a contract with WWE. He appeared at the WWE-promoted ECW One Night Stand 2005 PPV on June 12, 2005 losing to Rey Mysterio, and first appeared on WWE television on the June 18, 2005 airing of WWE Velocity, teaming with Super Crazy to defeat Akio and Billy Kidman.
Psicosis, Super Crazy, and Juventud would group together to form a stable known as The Mexicools. The group made their debut as heels on June 23, 2005 when all three members rode to the ring on a John Deere lawn mower, with the sticker saying Juan Deere to be more Mexican, wearing matching coveralls and attacked both participants of a Chavo Guerrero and Paul London's WWE Cruiserweight Championship match.
Juventud cut a promo questioning the lack of "true Mexican Luchadores" in the cruiserweight division, before going on to deride the current state of Mexican Americans in general. Psicosis dubbed the lawnmower they arrived on a "Mexican Limo 2005" and the group claimed that even Mexico's President mocks Mexicans in the United States (he was referring to Vicente Fox's controversial remark that Mexican immigrants do the jobs "not even the blacks want to do"). Juventud then stated that they were "no longer there to clean toilets and work for "them" (the "gringos") but "they" were going to be working for "us" (The Mexicools)", before dubbing the team "not Mexicans but Mexicools!" In the following weeks, they would continue to interfere in matches and mock the stereotypical image of Mexicans in the United States, even coming to the ring each with their own riding lawnmower.
On July 24, 2005 at the Great American Bash in Buffalo, New York,in a match against the members of the bWo in a six-man tag match, the group pinned Steven Richards to secure the Mexicools' first PPV win. The trio then turned face by feuding with Nunzio and Vito.
During the December 2, 2005 edition of SmackDown! Super Crazy and Psicosis competed in an over the top rope battle royal against 5 other tag teams, the pair managed to win and earned themselves a match against MNM at Armageddon 2005 for the WWE tag team titles, unfortunately for the Mexicools, MNM lost the tag team titles before their match.
During the January 27, 2006 edition of SmackDown! Super Crazy and Psicosis defeated The Dicks and F.B.I. in a three-way tag team match to win spots in the Royal Rumble match on January 29, 2006. During that same Royal Rumble Match, Psicosis entered at Number 4, but was quickly eliminated by Rey Mysterio.
During mid-2006 the ECW brand was redeveloped and with this came the expectations that Super Crazy would leave Psicosis, and SmackDown!, for the new ECW. This was later fueled with a match that would see Yoshihiro Tajiri and Super Crazy team up and face the F.B.I. at ECW One Night Stand 2006. At this time Psicosis's partnership with Crazy began to crumble when Psicosis repeatedly abandoned Crazy during incidents with a monster heel known as The Great Khali. This could probably start a slow heel turn for Psicosis thus starting a fued with Super Crazy. On the June 23rd edition of Smackdown!, Psicosis and his partner Super Crazy received a title shot for the WWE Tag-Team Championship. The Mexicools seemed to have won the match as Super Crazy was about to perform his signature moonsault on Brian Kendrick until Psicosis tagged himself in and attempted a flipping senton, which Kendrick was able to roll away from. The match ended with a loss for the Mexicools, which ended in a fight between both members.
In wrestling
- Previous managers
- Quotes
- "I am the real psycho, I am PSICOSIS!"
- "We are not Mexicans, we are ... Mexicools!"
- "Your ass is grass... and we are the lawnmower!"
- Finishing and signature moves
- Psycho Guillotine (Diving leg drop)
- Inverted suplex slam
- Psycho Stunner (Stunner)
- Super huracanrana
- Diving spinning heel-kick
- Facebuster
- Corkscrew somersault senton
- Senton Backsplash (as labeled by WCW)
Championships and accomplishments
- 1-Time Mexican Welterweight Champion
- 1-Time Mexican Tag Team Champion (with Fuerza Guerrera)
- 2-Time Mexican Six-Man Tag Team Champion (with Fuerza Guerrera & Blue Panther and Halloween & Damián 666)
- 1-Time Mexican Eight-Man Tag Team Champion (with Histiera, Mosco 1 & 2)
- 1-Time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion (not recognized by New Japan Pro Wrestling)
- PWI ranked him # 107 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003.
- 2-Time WCW Cruiserweight Champion
- 1-Time WWA Cruiserweight Champion
- World Wrestling Association
- 3-Time WWA Welterweight Champion
- 1-Time WWA Middleweight Champion
- 1-Time WWA Six-Man Tag Team Champion (with Fuerza & Juventud Guererra)