Los Espantos

Los Espantos
Los Espantos wearing the distinctive black and white mask all Espantos have worn at some point in their career
Stable
MembersEspanto I
Espanto II
Espanto III
Successors
Name(s)Los Espantos
Los Hermanos Espanto
DebutJanuary 24, 1962
Disbanded1979

Los Espantos (Spanish for "The Terrors"), sometimes referred to as Los Hermanos Espanto ("The Terror Brothers"), was a Mexican professional wrestling group, called a stable. The original Espantos team consisted of Espanto I (José Eusebio Vázquez Bernal) and Espanto II (Fernando Cisneros Carrillo), but later expanded to a trio when Espanto III (Miguel Vázquez Bernal), the younger brother of Espanto I, joined the group. They primarily worked as a rudo (a term used for wrestlers who portray the "Bad guys") faction for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL) and on the Mexican independent circuit. As a team Espanto I and II held the Mexican National Tag Team Championship and Espanto II and III held the Northern Mexico Tag Team Championship. The team of Espanto I and Espanto II are considered among the best rudo teams in the history of lucha libre.

In the mid-1980s a new generation of Espantos appeared when Espanto IV and Espanto V began teaming up, both sons of Espanto III, and with the emergence of Espanto Jr., who was not related to any of the previous Espanto members but was given permission to use the name. Since then a third "wave" of Espantos have begun wrestling including Los Hijos del Espanto, who were trained by Espanto II but not related, and a new Espanto Jr. who is the son of the original Espanto Jr.