El Mesías
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International Wrestling Association (1999–2006)
Ricky Banderas began wrestling training in 1996, when he was instructed by a former wrestler. During this time he was enrolled in the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico located in Bayamón, his major concentration was in computer technology, after completing two years of study, he decided to begin wrestling as a profession after meeting Victor Quiñones in the gym. In 1997, after working in the independent circuit he moved to Mexico and performed there, and became involved in a project to develop Hispanic talent organized by the World Wrestling Federation.
Cosme subsequently debuted in the International Wrestling Association (IWA) in 1999. He was given the gimmick of "El Patriota" Ricky Banderas, a name that, according to Cosme, was created by fusing the artistic names of Latin musician Ricky Martín and actor Antonio Banderas. He debuted in Extreme Championship Wrestling on that year, where he worked in a televised match. Following a period of teaming with Los Boricuas, his character was teamed with Germán Figueroa who wrestled as Gran Apolo, and formed a tag team dubbed La Nueva Generacion, which won the IWA Tag Team Championship three times. On August 21, 2000, in a show in Levittown, Puerto Rico, Cosme's character turned on Gran Apolo. Following this, he joined the company's dominant heel stable, Los Intocables, along with Miguel Pérez and Jesús Castillo.After the stable's dissolution, he was involved in another stable named Starr Corporation, where after Cosme's insistence his character became darker and was renamed "El Mesias" Ricky Banderas. Following this, he was teamed up with Shane Sewell in a stable known as Los Hermanos en Dolor.[2] In 2001, Cosme performed in a tryout match for the World Wrestling Federation and in a pay per view event on Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling. He won the IWA heavyweight title for a third time on June 15, 2002 and remained champion until Ramón Gonzalez debuted with the company as Rey Fenix, in a match that he describes as the best match he had wrestled at the moment.
Cosme's gimmick underwent another change when it joined then-dominant heel stable "La Compania" lead by Savio Vega. This was followed by his fourth title run after he defeated Gran Apolo on January 6, 2003. He was booked as a heel until October 9, 2003 when Vega's group turned on him. Following this, he feuded with Slash Venom, which peaked when Vampiro was brought by the company to form a stable which feuded with Gran Apolo and Venom. In 2004, he feuded with Hangman Hughes, Kasey James, El Diamante, and Bison Smith. In 2005, he turned heel again, this time leading a stable known as La Cruz del Diablo which feuded with other groups led by Savio Vega and Ray Gonzalez. Following an angle where he feuded over a number-one contender spot, Cosme departed from the company and signed a contract to wrestle in Mexico.
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (2006–present)
Following the culmination of his contract with the International Wrestling Association, Cosme signed a contract with Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). He debuted on March 12, 2006 as "Muerte Cibernetica" a heel enforcer supposedly brought to the company by Cibernético to feud with La Parka and join his La Secta Cibernetica. This gimmick consisted of Cosme wearing a traditional Mexican wrestling mask, often a modified version of the one used by La Parka. This character was placed in a feud with La Parka, which lasted several months. This angle came to a conclusion at Triplemania XIV, where La Parka won Banderas' mask.
Following a legitimate injury suffered by Cibernético and the mask match, Banderas's gimmick was slightly changed, launching into an angle where he pursued the leadership of Cibernético’s stable, which then went by the name of La Secta Cibernetica. The character was booked to be the leader of the stable after supposedly convincing several members of the group to join him forcing Cibernético out. This lead to Chessman and Charly Manson to also leave the group and form Los Hell Brothers. The events of the angle were used to hype an eventual feud between Cibernético and Cosme’s characters that took place in December 2006. In the angle, Cosme won the first encounter between the two with help of his stable. The angle culminated in a Casket match between the two characters. Cibernético won the match and subsequently "killed" his opponent by throwing him into the ocean. This was used to explain Banderas’s absence when he departed from the company to wrestle in the International Wrestling Association. During this time he also wrestled for Panama Wrestling Crew in Panama and in Ecuador.
Following a few months of performing in Puerto Rico, Cosme returned to Asistencia Asesoría y Administración in an annual event entitled Rey de Reyes under a new gimmick, changing his name to El Mesias as a part of La Legión Extranjera. From then on, he started to get a bigger push as a main event heel, feuding with Cibernético and his stable Los Hell Brothers. During the feud, Cosme took over leadership of La Secta and renamed it La Secta de Mesias. Later in the year, Cosme took both the IWC heavyweight championship from Cibernético and the GPCW SUPER-X Monster Title from La Parka in the preliminary rounds of the AAA World Heavyweight Title tournament. As Mesias, he became the first wrestler to win the AAA World Heavyweight Championship in AAA's pay-per-view event Verano de Escandalo after defeating Chessman by disqualification. On November 29, 2007, he successfully defended the company's championship in a triple threat match at a pay-per-view titled Guerra de Titanes. In March 2008, he returned to AAA after several months of inactivity due to injury. On March 16, 2008, Banderas dropped the championship to Cibernético. He was subsecuently involved in an angle with Vampiro, leding to a match at Triplemania XVI, which concluded as a time-limit draw. On October 24, 2008, Cosme won the Copa Antonio Peña, defeating six other wrestlers in the process. Joaquín Roldán, was responsible for presenting the relevant trophy. On December 6, 2008 at Guerra de Titanes, Cosme won the AAA Heavyweight Championship for a second time, defeating El Zorro with help from former rival Vampiro. He also made a full técnico turn, asking the fans for forgiveness for what he's done while in AAA. On March 15, 2009 at the Rey de Reyes 2009 El Mesias successfully defended the AAA World Heavyweight Championship against Chessman and was then challenged by Dr. Wagner, Jr. directly after the match.
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Lucha de Apuestas
| Date | Apuesta | Winner(s) | Loser(s) | Arena and/or Place |
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| 06/06/18 | mask | La Parka Jr. | Muerte Cibernetica | Toreo de Cuatro Caminos - Naucalpan, Mexico State |
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