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Dionicio Castellanos - Career

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Castellanos started wrestling as Psicosis in his native Mexico in 1989 after being trained by the original Rey Misterio 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. He first made a name for himself in the United States in ECW in 1995 putting ...

Dionicio Castellanos: Encyclopedia II - Dionicio Castellanos - Career

Dionicio Castellanos - Career

Castellanos started wrestling as Psicosis in his native Mexico in 1989 after being trained by the original Rey Misterio 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.

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 Psicosis and La Parka go for the vacant title, which Psychosis won. He then lost it to Jushin Liger the same night.

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 wrestler who assumed the name "Psicosis" when he originally left the promotion. The two had a "name vs. name" ladder match at Triplemani XIII but Histeria ran in and took the name for himself so the feud evolved into a three way feud.

In 2005 Castellanos signed a contract with WWE. He appeared at the WWE-promoted ECW One Night Stand PPV on June 12, losing to Rey Mysterio, and first appeared on WWE television on the June 18, 2005 airing of Velocity, teaming with Super Crazy to defeat Akio and Billy Kidman.

On July 24, 2005 at the Great American Bash in Buffalo, NY, Psicosis hit his guillotine leg drop on Steven Richards to aid in the pin to secure the Mexicools' win against the bWo.

On Smackdown! December 2, 2005 Super Crazy and Psicosis competed in an over the top rope battle royal against 5 other tag teams managing to win the match and earn a tag team title shot against MNM at Armageddon 2005.