Mocho Cota | |
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Birth name | Manuel Cota Soto |
Born | Municipio del Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mexico | June 5, 1954
Died | December 22, 2016 | (aged 62)
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Mocho Cota |
Billed height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) |
Billed weight | 84 kg (185 lb) |
Trained by | Releves López |
Debut | 1979 |
Retired | 2007 |
Manuel Cota Soto (June 5, 1954 – December 22, 2016) was a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Mocho Cota. "Mocho" is Spanish for "mutilated", and Cota had lost two fingers. In his career, which began in 1979, he held both the Mexican National Welterweight Championship and the NWA World Welterweight Championship. He worked mainly for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre / Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (EMLL / CMLL) throughout his career.