Huracán Ramírez (Spanish for "Hurricane Ramirez") is a fictitious character, originally invented for the 1952 Mexican Lucha film of the same name. After the movie opened in theaters Huracán Ramírez also became a professional wrestling character, primarily played by luchador Daniel García Arteaga, who wrestled under that name for over thirty years. The rights to the name and image of Huracán Ramírez is not owned by García, which has led to a number of other wrestlers using the name "Huracán Ramírez" or variations there of such as Huracán Ramírez II, Huracán Ramírez, Jr. Hijo de Huracán Ramírez ("Son of Huracán Ramírez") and so on, but with no actual family relationship to Daniel García.

The character Huracán Ramírez was the title character of the the 1952 Mexican Lucha film Huracán Ramírez that starred actor David Silva as the eponymous Ramírez, a masked professional wrestler or luchador enmascarado. While Silva acted the part both as the masked Ramírez and his unmasked Alter ego Fernando Torres, the wrestling sequences were performed by real-life luchador Eduardo Bonada. In the film a young Mexican, whose father is a professional wrestler, decides to follow in his father's footsteps by adopting the secret identity of Huracán Ramírez, a masked luchador, and he fights in the ring in spite of his father's wishes to the contrary.

The character's name came from combining a natural disaster with a strong Spanish last name to appeal to the Mexican crowd. Initially he was named "Huracán López", but it was laster changed to Huracán Ramírez to avoid confusion with Tarzán López, one of the top Mexican Luchadors at the time. The sequel, El Misterio de Huracán Ramírez ("The Mystery of Hurricane Ramirez") came out in 1962 and featured David Silva reprising his role, while the wrestling sequences were all played by Daniel García, who also took over the character in the wrestling ring. Silva played the lead role of the unmasked Huracan in the first 4 films, to be replaced by Pepe Romay in later films. García's face was never shown in any of the six films he appeared in, nor was it generally known that García played the character in the wrestling ring until after his retirement. The Huracán character is property of Juan Rodríguez Mass and his father, José Rodríguez, the director of the first Huracán film, who allowed Daniel García to use the character in the ring up until his retirement. Following García's retirement from the ring Juan Rodríguez wanted to give the mask and character to a new wrestle, tying it in with a new Huracán Ramírez movie he was promoting. García resented the idea that someone else would cash in on the popularity he gained while wrestling. In 1988 he voluntarily unmasked on television, condemning Rodríguez Mass' plans and the character in general. The planned Huracán Ramírez film was released in 1989 but did not make a lot of money.

A total of eight "Huracán Ramírez" movies were made in all and a ninth in the same "Family". Unlike the Santo movies, these films tended to focus more on dramatic subplots and musical numbers, and never really gave the Huracán Ramírez character a lot to do in the films from an action standpoint. García's played the part of Ramírez in five of the movies, indicating that he did not wear the mask for the "Torito" movies of 1979 and 1982, nor the 1989 move that was filmed after García's fallout with producer Juan Rodríguez Mass.

• Huracán Ramírez (Hurricane Ramirez) (1952)
• El Misterio de Huracán Ramírez ("The Mystery of Hurricane Ramirez") (1962)
• El Hijo de Huracán Ramírez ("The Son of Hurricane Ramirez") (1966)
• La Venganza de Huracán Ramírez ("The Revenge of Hurricane Ramirez") (1967)
• Huracán Ramírez y la Monjita Negra ("Hurricane Ramirez and the Black Nun") (1973)
• De Sangre Chicana ("Of Chicano Blood") (1974)
• Torito Puños de Oro ("The Little Bull with the Golden Fists") (1979)
• Torito De Tepito ("The Little Bull from Tepito") (1982)
• Huracán Ramírez contra los Terroristas ("Hurricane Ramirez vs. the Terrorists") (1989)

In 2007 a character called "Huracán Ramírez, Jr" appeared in the film Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy (also known as Mil Mascaras: Resurrection).^[1] The person playing Huracan Jr. was not related to any of the wrestlers who played Huracan Ramirez in the original movies.^[2][3]

The original "Huracán Ramírez", Eduardo Bonada, adopted the mask and ring name as an active professional wrestler with the approval of film direct José Rodríguez, thinking that the "real life Huracán Ramírez" would be a good way to ensure the success of his movie. Bonada did not enjoy wrestling under the mask, hiding the fact that he was actually a quite well known movie star in his own rights. At one point he unmasked and revealed that he had been playing "Huracán Ramírez", but was now moving on to other projects. After Bonada gave up the character a number of wrestlers worked as "Huracán Ramírez" all over Mexico, but the local boxing and wrestling commissions who regulate professional wrestling in Mexico objected to the deception. In 1953 the movie producers held a tryout to see who would be the "one" "Huracán Ramírez" in the wrestling world. They chose Daniel García to play the part, but never publicly acknowledge who had taken over the mask and the ring character. Later in the year he made his official Mexico City debut in a match against El Medico Asesino. García wrestled as "Huracán Ramírez" for over thirty years, become one of the most popular wrestlers in Mexico as well as other Middle American countries such as Bolivia and Ecuador.

In the mid-1980s García wanted to ensure that the "Huracán Ramírez" character was passed on to another generation in the tradition of Santo passing his name on to El Hijo del Santo and Blue Demon's legacy being continued by Blue Demon, Jr. This and issues over sharing of profits from "Huracán Ramírez" merchandize led to a fallout between García and Rodríguez Mass led to Mass threatening to take the "Ramírez" character away from García all together.^[4] Following the threat García voluntarily unmasked on national television, ensuring that everyone knew who the true "Huracán Ramírez" was. The move did prevent any subsequent wrestlers working as "Huracán Ramírez" from gaining anywhere near the popularity of the original. In subsequent years several wrestlers have used ring names such as Huracán Ramírez II, Huracán Ramírez, Jr. Hijo de Huracán Ramírez and variations there off, or names inspired by Ramírez such as "Ciclón Ramírez".

The "Huracán Ramírez" character has been used or included in a number of different non-Lucha Libre contexts. Replicas of his mask has been for sale through a number venues, including such non-wrestling venues as Amazon.com and Halloween stores.^[5] The distinctive blue and white mask has also been included as an option in the Create a Wrestler (CAW) option of a number of pro wrestling video games such as WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009.^[6]

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