Luis Urive

Biography

Luis Ignacio Alvirde Urive is a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, best known as Místico. He rose to prominence in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), becoming the promotion’s top técnico and one of Mexico’s biggest wrestling stars before signing with WWE in 2011, where he was repackaged as Sin Cara. He later returned to Mexico and eventually reclaimed the Místico name in CMLL.

A member of a wrestling family, Urive is the son of wrestler Dr. Karonte and the brother of several professional wrestlers. His original Místico character, introduced as the protégé of wrestling priest Fray Tormenta, became one of the defining figures of Mexican wrestling during the 200...