Few Mexican fighters kept their identities with great suspicion, and one of them was just Santo. The gladiator who marked an era in the sport of costalazos, has always been very careful and he was not used to exposing his face, However, few managed to expose it for the public.
The first attempts to “unmask” a Santo They took place in the 1980s, as his sporting career drew to a close. The gladiator flirted several times (1982 and 1983) in the show “Today“Who was driving? Guillermo Ochoa, taking off and quickly putting on the mask.
However, in 1984, Santo participated in the program “Counterpoint“Led by Jacobo Zabludovsky, where for the third time he showed his face quickly, although everything was magnified when the communicator retransmitted the image Rodolfo Guzman to his news “24 hours“Where he froze the image and exposed his face of the historical gladiator.
Guillermo del Toro also exposed it
A year ago, the Mexican director Guillermo del Toro organizes an exhibition called “Home with my monsters“, where he gave a sample of his cinematographic work, but not only that, but dedicated a space to the Saint, a character whose follower is faithful, insofar as he has a collection of objects Rodolfo Guzman.
There, Del Toro took the cover of “Silver Masked” since he exhibited the accreditation Santo which approved him as a member of the National Association of Actors, the same one in which he appeared without a mask.
His nephew revealed his identity
The ‘Silver heir‘, like his nephew Rodolfo Guzman, posted a photo a few months ago on his social networks, where you can see him as a child being embraced by the Saint without a mask, exposing the identity “Masked with silver‘.
“He would bring me presents from his travels, record my voice, make me declare, sing, announce myself as a ‘star’ and ask for applause at family gatherings. He loved me deeply and I loved him, for me he was my grandfather, my adored Papi Rudy, for others he was “Santo El Mascarado de Plata‘”wroteSilver heirto accompany emotional photography.