El Satánico
Daniel López López (born October 26, 1949), best known under the ring name El Satánico (Spanish for "The Satanic"), is a Mexican professional wrestling trainer and retired professional wrestler. He originally wrestled masked until losing his mask a year into his career, performing unmasked from thereon. The majority of his 52-year in-ring career was spent in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where he worked as a rudo (the antagonists, also known as heel in professional wrestling lingo).
El Satánico was a founding member of the Los Infernales ("The Infernals") stable from its creation in the early 1980s through 2008, being a part of every single incarnation of the group. Los Infernales won the CMLL World Trios Championship three times and the Mexican National Trios Championship three times. As a singles competitor, he won the CMLL World Middleweight Championship, the CMLL World Welterweight Championship once, the Mexican National Middleweight Championship three times, the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship four times, and the NWA World Middleweight Championship.
For years, López worked at the CMLL wrestling school, playing a part in the development of almost every wrestler that worked for CMLL in the 2000s. He later opened his own school independent of CMLL. He wrestled on a reduced schedule on the Mexican independent circuit before his retirement at Homenaje a Dos Leyendas in March 2026.
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