Fray Tormenta

Biography

Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez was born to José Gutiérrez García and Emilia Benítez on May 9, 1945, in San Agustín Metzquititlán, Hidalgo as the sixteenth of their seventeen children.

Currently, Fray Tormenta stars as a supporting character in the Mexican comic book series Místico: El Principe de Plata y Oro as a mentor to the lucha libre wrestler Místico.

In real life, although Fray Tormenta is now retired from professional wrestling, he still works at the orphanage as a priest and has inspired one of his children to take up his mantle so that the legend of Fray Tormenta can live on. The masked wrestler, whose real name is unknown, calls himself Fray Tormenta Jr. Although semi-retired from wrestling since 2001, he still wrestled occasionally and on January 11, 2011, won his second Lucha de Apuesta, by defeating Bugambilia, Super Crazy, X-Fly, Bestia 666 and Boy Danger, to win Bugambilia's hair. On July 3, 2011, Tormenta teamed with El Pantera and Solar to defeat Black Terry, Negro Navarro and Scorpio, Jr. at International Wrestling Revolution Group's Festival de las Mascaras. After the match Gutiérrez announced that he had wrestled his final match.

In popular culture

The video game characters King from Tekken, Crasher Wake from Pokémon, Tizoc from Fatal Fury, Leon from F-Zero, and Greco from Chrono Cross were inspired by his story, as were the movies Nacho Libre with Jack Black playing Ignacio/Nacho as the Fray Tormenta inspired character and the French film L'Homme au masque d'or (fr) with Jean Reno playing Father Victorio Gaetano.

Luchas de Apuestas record

Winner (wager)Loser (wager)LocationEventDateNotesFray Tormenta (mask) El Hijo de Judas (mask) Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas Live event Fray Tormenta (mask) Bugambilia (hair) Pachuca, Hidalgo Live event