Felipe Ham Lee

Felipe Ham Lee

Name Felipe Ham Lee Real name Felipe Hahn Lee Nicknames El Peligro Amarillo, El Principe Chino, El Dragon de Oro Name history Hahn Lee/Ham Lee (NWA), Bing Ki Lee (PNW), Felipe Ham Lee, The White Avenger/The Avenger, El Santo (NJPW, 1973) Family Maestro(s) Lou Thesz Birth date, location February 5, 1932 - Guanajuato, Guanajuato Obituary date March 2, 2011 Debut, location April 1953 - Havana, Cuba September 1957 in Mexico City Lost mask to Height 172 cm/5' 8" Weight 85 kg/187 lb Signature moves Chops Titles: NWA Hawaii Tag Team Championship (w/Pedro Morales), NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (w/Luther Lindsey)

Notes

His real surname was Hahn, but it was modified to Ham. Competed in Mr. Mexico bodybuilding contests in 1952 and 1953 before debuting in wrestling. Wrestled under his real last name in NWA. In his stint in Pacific Northwest Wrestling he went as Bing Ki Lee. He was wrongfully nicknamed as "El Príncipe Chino" (The Chinese Prince) He was not Chinese he was from Korean ascendance. Tag Team partner of Pedro Morales in NWA.

Ham Lee holds the strange distinction of wrestling as El Santo during 1973 in New Japan Pro Wrestling. Ham Lee has explained the incident as himself and other Mexican wrestlers being left stranded in Japan by an unscrupulous promoter, and wrestling as El Santo paid well enough to get himself and his compatriots back to Mexico.

He ran the wrestling training school, Club-Atletico Ham Lee.

Source

• Lucha Libre 57

Luchas de apuestas record

Date	Apuesta	Winner(s)	Loser(s)	Arena and/or Place
66/09/09	hair	René Guajardo	Felipe Ham Lee	Arena México - Mexico City
66/08/28	hair	Felipe Ham Lee	Cavernario Galindo	Puebla
1977/03/06	mask	Felipe Ham Lee	The Monster	Plaza de Monumental Monterrey

Gallery

as El Santo

as El Santo in Japan, 1973