local championship billed as the "Word Light Heavyweight Championship", when he defeated Emisario de la Muerte. Hijo del Espanto I's older brother made his in-ring debut in 1988 according to one interview although Hijo del Espanto II did not reveal any other details about his ring name or activities at that point in time. Team history On March 4, 2000 the "El Hijo del Espanto II" character was revealed, with his younger brother becoming "El Hijo del Espanto I". From that point on the two brothers would regularly perform as Los Hijos del Espanto on the Mexican Independent circuit including working for International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) in 2000 and 2001. The team also made occasional trips to the United States, especially the southern states of California and Texas. A match report from 2003 described the team as "walking in Los Espantos footsteps, using a combination of matwork and out of control brawling". On September 25, 2005 El Hijo del Espanto II wrestled, and won his first Lucha de Apuestas, or "bet match", on a Lucha Libre Elite show in Monterrey, Nuevo León. Hijo del Espanto II defeated a wrestler known simply as Sky, forcing Sky to unmask and reveal his real name per lucha libre traditions. Hijo del Espanto II was one of 57 wrestlers that competed in the Amigos para Siempe ("Friends forever") elimination match on August 11, 2012. He was eliminated about halfway through, with the match being won by Axel. Owning the Espanto name El Hijo del Espanto I has on a couple of occasions stated that he was given the rights to use the "Espanto" name by Fernando Cisneros, who was the only living member of Los Espantos at the time. Shortly after the introduction of El Hijo del Espanto II Mexican wrestling promotion AAA introduced a team also known as "Los Hijos del Espanto". At the time El Hijo del Espanto I complained to both AAA and the local boxing and wrestling commission that they were infringing on his copyrights. The AAA Los Hijos del Espanto only worked a couple of matches and were then dropped. Afterwards it was revealed that the second set of Los Hijos del Espantos were portrayed by Sergio and César Andrade Salas who were brothers of Jesús Andrade Salas, who portrayed the original Espanto Jr. from 1984 to 1995. In 2012 Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) introduced a