This article is to the original Canelo Casas. To the others wrestlers that uses the name check Canelo Casas (disambiguation) .
Profile
Heavy Metal
Name Heavy Metal
Real name Erick Francisco Casas Ruiz
Nicknames
Name history Canelo Casas (debut - 92/05), Heavy Metal (92/05 - )
Family Pepe Casas (father), Negro Casas and Felino (brothers), Black Star (cousin), Canelo Casas , Danny Casas , Destroyer , Puma & Tiger (nephews), Nanyzh Rock (niece), Princesa Blanca , Dalis La Caribeña (sister-in-law)
Maestro(s) Pepe Casas , Raúl Reyes , Negro Casas , Felino
Birth date, location October 4 , 1970 - Mexico City
Obituary date
Debut, location February 14 , 1988 - Arena Azteca Budokan - Mexico City
Lost mask to
Height 5'8"/173 cms
Weight 194 lbs/88 kg
Signature moves La Casita , Heavy Metal Cradle, Plancha , Slingshot somersault bodyblock , Heavy Punch (punch to the face), Running Corner Dropkick
Titles: Naucalpan Tag Team Titles (as Canelo Casas, w/ Arkangel ), National Welterweight Title (2, once as Canelo Casas), WWA World Welterweight Title , National Tag Team Titles (w/ Latin Lover ), UWA World Light Heavyweight Title , AAA Campeón de Campeones Championship , IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Title , IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship (w/Negro Casas & Felino )
Notes Heavy Metal is an upper card tecnico in CMLL. He's usually allied with his brothers Negro Casas and Felino . As with other CMLL upper tecnicos, he doesn't really have any ongoing feuds of his own, but just opposes the various forces of evil on a weekly basis.
Heavy is a regular relatively recent jump from AAA . Sources say Metal was angered about Konnan being allowed to return to the promotion, feeling he (and others) had worked hard to rebuild the promotion after Konnan had left the company and raided it for talent. When Antonio Pena made it clear Konnan would be a part of AAA, Metal left, jumping first to IWRG (where he still also wrestles) and then to CMLL .
Metal showed up in CMLL as a very muscular wrestler, which seemed to diminish his work in the ring. In recent months, he's cut his weight down and looked like a much improved wrestler.
Metal appears to be very proud to be champion; he always wore the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Title and IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship title to the ring, even in CMLL matches, when he held those titles. This lends credence to the idea that he no longer holds the UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship (and maybe it's the belt Silver Star is using); if Metal had a championship, he certainly wouldn't keep it a secret.
Luchas de apuestas record
Date
Apuesta
Winner(s)
Loser(s)
Arena and/or Place
??/??/??
hair
Heavy Metal
Rambo
unknown
1988 /09/11
hair
El Pantera II & Canelo Casas
Mr. Cid & Bestia Verde
Arena Naucalpan - Naucalpan, Mexico State
1989 /02/03
hair
Ultraman 2000
Canelo Casas
Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California
1990 /08/??
hair
Canelo Casas
El Mestizo
Arena Coliseo - Mexico City
1992 /11/15
hair
Heavy Metal
Barba Negra
Arena Xochiaca - Xochiaca, Mexico State
1994 /04/26
hair
Heavy Metal
Jerry Estrada
Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
1994 /09/28
hair
Heavy Metal
Tony Arce
Jalapa, Veracruz
1998 /03/01
hair
Heavy Metal
Sangre Chicana
El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State
1999 /09/17
mask (1)
Heavy Metal
Kick Boxer
Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera - Mexico City
2001 /11/23
hair (2)
Héctor Garza
Heavy Metal
Plaza México - Mexico City
2003 /06/15
hair (3)
Heavy Metal
Pirata Morgan
El Toreo - Naucalpan, Mexico State
2003 /08/31
hair (4)
Heavy Metal
El Brazo
Arena Solidaridad - Monterrey, Nuevo León
2004 /10/16
mask (5)
Heavy Metal
Mosco de la Merced AAA
Plaza de Toros La Concordia - Orizaba, Veracruz
2008 /05/23
hair (6)
Heavy Metal
Toscano
Arena México - Mexico City
2008 /06/13
hair (7)
Texano Jr.
Heavy Metal
Arena México - Mexico City
2011 /03/18
hair
Heavy Metal
Electro Shock
Playa de Toros - Aguascalientes
(1) Cage match with Octagon and Jaque Mate; (2) Four way match with Aguayo Jr. & Latin Lover; (3) Match with Sangre Chicana and Texano; (4) Cage match w Zorro, Chicana, Texano & O. Sevilla; (5) Cage match with Zorro, Incotable, Psicosis & Histeria; (3) w/ Perro Aguayo Jr. ; (5) JAULA: Alex Koslov , Damian 666 , Marco Corleone , Mr. Aguila , Shocker , Terrible , Negro Casas & Perro Aguayo Jr.
Gallery
Canelo Casas
Another picture of Canelo Casas
1993
with unknown title
drugged out circa 1996
in his Road Warrior-like shoulderpads
With mask
In WWF
1999
Canelo Casas
Heavy Metal
Funny 2009
Canelo in 1988
