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Alfredo Pasillas was a Mexican professional wrestler, best known for his work in the promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the ring name Arkangel de la Muerte. He is often referred to as just Arkangel, and previously worked under the ring name Mister Cid until 1991. His name means "Archangel of Death" in Spanish.

Professional wrestling career
Early career Alfredo Pasillas made his professional wrestling debut in 1985, using the ring name "Mr. Cid", an enmascarado (masked) character partially inspired by El Cid, an 11th-century Castilian nobleman. Five months later, Arkangel won the CMLL World Welterweight Championship from Super Delfin on a show in Kawasaki, Japan. When CMLL celebrated their 70th anniversary in 2003, Arkangel de la Muerte was booked in a Luchas de Apuestas match versus Ángel Azteca. Arkangel won and unmasked Azteca, in what was Ángel Azteca's last high publicity match. In 2004, Arkangel held the Distrito Federal Welterweight Championship for a short period of time before losing the title to Ludwig Star. In 2004, Arkangel de la Muerte became one of the founding members of a group called Pandilla Guerrera (Spanish for "Warring Gang"), a sub group of the top rudo group in CMLL, Los Guerreros del Infierno (Spanish for "the Warriors of Hell"). The Pandilla Guerrera group consisted of undercard wrestlers, teaming together in the hopes of improving their position on the card. When the group only saw limited success by the association with Los Guerreros del Infierno, they decided to break away from them in 2007. Arkangel, along with Nitro, Doctor X, Hooligan, Loco Max and Skándalo, formed a group called Rebeldes del Desierto (Rebels of the Desert), later renamed Los Guerreros Tuareg (Tuareg warriors). Arkangel was the co-leader of the group along with Nitro. On October 18, 2009, Arkangel was one of 12 wrestlers who put his mask on the line in a 12-man Luchas de Apuestas cage match. He was the ninth person to escape the cage and keep his mask safe. In the mid-2000s Pasillas began working as a trainer for CMLL's lucha libre school, helping train young men and women for a wrestling career as well as providing additional training for lower ranked wrestlers. As part of his role Arkangel transitioned into working in the second or third match of the card against younger wrestlers to give them more experience and further their training. In the latter half of the 2010s Pasillas became the head coach of the CMLL lucha libre school, a position he was first introduced as when CMLL presented Generación 2011, a group of trainees under Arkangel's supervision that included Magnus, Dragon Lee (who later became known as "Místico"), Enrique Vera Jr., Hombre Bala Jr., Super Halcón Jr., El Hijo del Signo and Boby Zavala. On January 1, 2011, Arkangel competed for the first and only time in CMLL's semi-regular Reyes del Aire ("Kings of the Air") tournament. The elimination match saw Arkangel and Ángel de Plata pin each other simultaneously thus eliminating both from the tournament. In early 2011 Arkangel teamed up with Black Warrior to compete in a tournament to determine the first ever Universal Wrestling Entertainment (UWE) Tag Team Championship. The team lost to La Máscara and Latino in the first round. Arkangel would hold the Chilean-based Federacion Universitaria de Lucha Libre (FULL) world championship on two occasions between 2013 and 2015. He first won the championship on a FULL show in Chile and then brought the championship with him to Mexico where he lost it to El Gallo on January 14, 2014. He would later regain the championship from El Gallo and later lose it to Boby Zavala at some point in 2015. In early 2016 Arkangel teamed up with his student El Hijo del Signo to compete in a tournament for the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship, the team ended up losing their first-round match to Disturbio and Virus. Pasillas' final wrestling match was on June 9, 2018, and saw the team of Arkangel, Kwato-San and Sangre Azteca defeat the trio of Bengala, Eléctrico and Oro Jr. on the undercard of an Arena Coliseo show. ==Death==
Death
Pasillas was scheduled to wrestle on a CMLL show on June 12, 2018, but had informed the bookers that he was not feeling well and was replaced by El Hijo del Signo on the show. The following morning, June 13, his wife found him dead. It was reported that Pasillas died from cardiac arrest. ==Championships and accomplishments==
Championships and accomplishments
Consejo Mundial de Lucha LibreCMLL World Welterweight Championship (1 time) • Mexican National Welterweight Championship (1 time) • Comision de Box y Lucha Distrito Federal • Distrito Federal Welterweight Championship • Distrito Federal Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Guerrero de la Muerte • Distrito Federal Trios Championship (1 time) – with Guerrero de la Muerte and El FelinoFederación Universitaria de Lucha Libre • FULL World Championship (2 times) • Regional Mexican Championships • Acapulco Welterweight Championship (1 time) • Guerrero Welterweight Championship (2 times) • Naucalpan Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Pantera II (as Mr. Cid), with Canelo Casas (as Mr. Cid), with Guerrero de la Muerte (as Arkangel) • Naucalpan Welterweight Championship (1 time) – as Mr. Cid ==Luchas de Apuestas record==
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