Arturo Beristain

Arturo Beristain
Beristain during an interview in 2017
Birth nameArturo Beristain
Born (1949-09-05) September 5, 1949 (age 75)
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Filoso (I)
Hijo del Gladiador
Santiago Ayala
Talismán
Billed height1.71 m (5 ft 7+12 in)
Billed weight87 kg (192 lb)
Billed fromMexico City, Mexico
Trained byPedro Nieves
Rolando Vera
Rafael Salamanca
DebutJanuary 1971
Retired2005

Arturo Beristain (born September 5, 1949) is a Mexican retired professional wrestler, or Luchador in Spanish, who works as a wrestling trainer at the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's (CMLL) gym in Mexico City, Mexico. Beristain is best known for working under two different ring names, Talismán and El Hijo del Gladiador; both personas started out as enmascarados, or masked, and Beristain lost both masks in Luchas de Apuestas. He lost the Talismán mask to Atlantis in 1984 and the Hijo del Gladiador mask to Rencor Latino in 2000. As Talismán, Beristain won the Mexican National Welterweight Championship twice, the Mexican National Middleweight Championship and the Mexican National Lightweight Championship. As el Hijo del Gladiador he has won the CMLL World Trios Championship with Gran Markus, Jr. and Dr. Wagner Jr. and the IWRG Intercontinental Middleweight Championship. When Beristain lost the "Hijo del Gladiador" he was announced as "Arturo Beristain Ramírez" to further the storyline that he was actually the son of wrestler "El Gladiador", but his last name is not actually Ramírez.