Wrestler Profile

Rocky Romero

Rocky Romero is wrestling's great connector — Azucar himself, the sweet-moving junior heavyweight whose in-ring resume spans two decades and whose backstage diplomacy built the working relationships connecting New Japan, AEW, CMLL and ROH. Few figures matter more to modern wrestling's borderless era.

In the ring: multiple IWGP Junior Tag Championships with Forever Hooligans and Roppongi Vice, CMLL history as a former world champion, and the eternal Black Tiger mask lineage. His sneaky-good singles runs continue past age 40 with clockwork forearms.

As executive and ambassador, he brokers the dream matches fans assume happen naturally. WrestleRanks voters rank Rocky on both ledgers: azucar in the ring, architecture behind it.

Promotions

Rocky Romero is associated with CMLL (2025–2026).

PWI rankings history

Rocky Romero has been ranked in the PWI 500 15 times, first at No. 189 in 2004 and most recently at No. 62 in 2024. The highest placement is No. 37, reached in 2007.

Placements by year: 2004 (No. 189), 2005 (No. 146), 2006 (No. 181), 2007 (No. 37), 2008 (No. 108), 2009 (No. 141), 2010 (No. 254), 2011 (No. 291), 2012 (No. 237), 2013 (No. 358), 2014 (No. 117), 2021 (No. 195), 2022 (No. 239), 2023 (No. 79), 2024 (No. 62).

Compiled from the annual rankings published by Pro Wrestling Illustrated. See the 2024 edition.

Teams and factions

Past faction affiliations include Chaos.

Rocky Romero in the WrestleRanks rankings

Rocky Romero is tracked as a respected veteran on WrestleRanks. WrestleRanks standings are decided one week at a time, from fan voting and editor input. Read more about how our rankings work, or see the live, interactive profile with weekly rank history and voting on the Rocky Romero ranking page.

More CMLL wrestlers

Difunto · Angel de Oro · Esfinge · Akuma · Apocalipsis · Arkalis