>In the early ’90s, Oro (Gold) was a promising young star in EMLL (now CMLL). He won the Mexican National Tag Team Championship with his brother Plata (Silver) and the NWA Middleweight Championship after defeating Mano Negra (The Black Hand). But on October 26th, 1993, Oro, unfortunately, wrestled his last match.
>That night, the semi-final at Arena Coliseo in Mexico City pitted the team of Oro, Brazo de Plata (Silver Arm AKA Super Porky), La Fiera (The Wild Beast) versus Dr. Wagner Jr. (Silver King’s older brother), Jaque Mate (CheckMate) and Kahoz. Before the match officially started, Kahoz (Leonel Chato Hernandez), who was inside the ring and partially screened by the referee, used this advantage to draw nearer to Oro and viciously struck him between the throat and breastbone with his open hand.
>Oro, who was in his team’s corner outside of the ropes, tumbled to the floor. He recovered and approached Kahoz, who was now on the ring’s opposite side and in his team’s corner. Oro vehemently challenged him to get in the ring to wrestle instead of hitting him with cheap shots like he had just done. Kahoz seemed to play possum and didn’t seem too enthused about acquiescing to Oro’s unyielding invitation.
>This Kahoz was the second person to adopt the character. The original Kahoz was inspired by El Murcielago (Bat) Jesús Velazquez, who slyly hid bats and spiders inside his mysterious cape, then set them free to perturb the fans. The original Kahoz was meant to induce psychological terror amongst the fans and wrestled barefoot to "ground" his thirst for destruction and curve his bestial wildness. He sometimes carried a sacred skull that supposedly belonged to a Franciscan friar who helped the poor. It was meant to counterbalance the tremendous evil within Kahoz.
