"The Base God." It's a nickname bestowed upon Gringo Loco for his ability to keep opponents safe in high risk situations. Behind every awesome looking offensive high spot in wrestling, there is the person taking the move who has to provide a stable base to ensure the move goes off without a hitch.
Gringo Loco has proven throughout his career to be the perfect base wrestler for the lucha libre style, allowing impressive-looking ariel maneuvers or fast-paced technical moves to go smoothly with everyone remaining safe.
Speaking to Jeremy Lambert and Stephen Jensen on The Spotlight, Gingo Loco gave the origin story of the Base God nickname.
"I personally, I thrive off keeping people safe. I don't know what it is about me, I think it's in my blood. I like helping people look good. I like everybody being safe at the end of the match. I don't know what it is, it just happened to be what part I took in lucha libre when I first got down to Mexico City. My first real spark of the Base God name was working with New Japan's BUSHI. He was calling a second rope turn-around headscissors, and he was a heavy boy back then, and I was a lot skinnier. We pulled it off multiple times in many matches. He looks at me, and in the broken English-Spanish that he had, 'It's always for sure with you. I don't know what it is, but I feel I can do anything with you.' I took a lot of pride in that, to this day. I actually reconnected with him after 15 years over at GLEAT in Japan. I told him how much of an impact that comment had on me and my entire career. 'Well, you're welcome.' We both had a laugh. It's really, all because of BUSHI, initially. From there, many conversations with DJZ [Joaquin Wilde] and how there are all these Gods of base on the planet, and we started making a list, and we looked at each other and he was like, 'Have you ever dropped anybody?' 'Never, I would never let that happen.' 'You're the Base God, you have to call yourself that.' That's where it really started to become an idea of, 'maybe I should try this out and see how it goes,'" he recalled.
Gringo Loco will show off his base skills on the April 20 episode of ROH TV when he faces Vikingo.
Elsewhere during the interview, Gringo discussed his previous matches with Vikingo and being his first opponent after Vikingo matches were able to stream in the United States. You can find his full commets by clicking here.
Watch the full interview with Gringo Loco in the video above.
