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This is where the story begins. El Hijo del Vikingo was never an important wrestler. He was a filler wrestler, never intended for starring roles. As you can see, he stands out for making some flights that many classify as 'very impressive', but he's not really that great wrestler as you may think, as there are plenty of wrestlers of that kind in Mexico. Just take a look at what CMLL has to offer and you'll realize there are many wrestlers far more spectacular than him, like Máscara Dorada, Neón, or maybe Komander and Bandido which are perhaps the most famous. CMLL is a company sunk in the past in many ways, which is why they are lacking in areas such as their exposure or marketing, which is why their product has remained somewhat hermetic during all these years, being the longest-running wrestling company in the world.
If El Hijo del Vikingo got the spotlight it was thanks to comments made by Meltzer and Kenny Omega about what a "great, wonderful and spectacular wrestler" he was. But that's because neither Meltzer nor Kenny Omega really know a damn thing about mexican 'lucha libre'. All they knew was AAA shit since at that time AAA and AEW had an alliance. And among the shitty wrestlers that AAA had (because all the icons and legends of that company abandoned it thanks to the idiot Dorian Roldan and his complex of being a fat dwarf with a small penis who inherited a successful and consolidated company for himself), El Hijo del Vikingo was the most striking for his acrobatic jumps.
