Gutiérrez began training for a wrestling career at the age of 14, training under
Diablo Velazco in his hometown of Guadalajara, Jalisco. After five years of training he finally, but reluctantly, made his in-ring debut. Gutiérrez later stated that he was nervous for his debut in part because of his fear of the public. He opted to use the
ring name "El Dandy", after several of the wrestlers in Guadalajara gave him the nickname due to his success with women. He made his debut as an
enmascarado, or
masked wrestler, teaming with
Águila Solitaria against Black Indian and Chamaco Hernández. A local promoter asked Gutiérrez if he would prefer to wrestle unmasked instead, leading to Gutiérrez losing the mask and wrestling without a mask for the remainder of his career. At the time his family did not know he had become a professional wrestler, until they saw him on TV against El Dorado. While the match was so well received that the fans in the arena threw money in the ring, Gutiérrez's parents were not enthused with his career choice at the time. The following year, on December 6, El Dandy defeated
Gran Cochisse in a
Lucha de Apuestas, continuing his rise up the ranks of CMLL. On July 17, 1987, he defeated
Kung Fu to win the
NWA World Middleweight Championship.
World Wrestling Association (1993, 2000–2001, 2007) While working for CMLL, El Dandy also wrestled for the
World Wrestling Association (WWA) in Tijuana, Baja California, as he was allowed to take independent bookings on days where he was not needed for CMLL shows. El Dandy and
Corazón de León defeated
Los Cowboys (
El Texano and
Silver King) to win the
WWA Tag Team Championship on July 21, 1993. Their reign lasted 42 days before
Los Cowboys regained the championship. His first
pay-per-view (PPV) show match was as part of the 60-man
battle royal main event of WCW's annual
World War 3 show. He would later unsuccessfully challenge fellow Mexican luchador
Juventud Guerrera for the
WCW World Cruiserweight Championship in January 1998. In his next PPV match, El Dandy,
La Parka,
Psicosis, and
Silver King lost to
Chavo Guerrero Jr., Juventud Guerrera,
Lizmark Jr., and
Super Caló at
Souled Out. For the 1998 Slamboree show, El Dandy was one of 15 wrestlers involved in a battle royal where the winner of the match would face
Chris Jericho for the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship. During his introductions, Jericho referred to El Dandy as the "winner of the
Lou Ferrigno look-a-like contest". In early 2000, El Dandy and Silver King competed under the name
Los Fabulosos. On March 21, 2000, Los Fabulosos defeated XS (Lane and
Rave) in their first televised match under that name.
Mexican independent circuit (2000–2019) Returning to Mexico, El Dandy generally worked for various independent promotions all over Mexico, mixed in with stints for IWRG and AAA. On October 15, 2004, he lost the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship to
L.A. Park. Five months later, El Dandy regained the championship from L.A. Park. His second reign lasted 750 days until
Vangelis won the title on April 15, 2007. Later that same year, El Dandy defeated
El Signo in a 7-man
steel cage lucha de apuestas match. The match also included
El Fantasma,
El Oriental,
Super Muñeco,
Villano III, and
Villano IV, and saw El Dandy pin El Signo causing El Signo to be shaved bald after the match. The longtime rivals split the first four matches between them, leading to "El Juicio Final" on May 18. El Dandy won the match, which meant that El Satánico was shaved bald. 12 days later, in what was billed as his last match, El Dandy defeated Satánico one more time. While the 2014 tour was meant to be his retirement, El Dandy returned to the ring in 2015, working a CMLL match alongside
Negro Casas, defeating El Satánico and
Mr. Niebla. He would also work a limited schedule, with four matches in 2016, and one in both 2017 and 2019. His first IWRG match took place on July 6, 2000, and saw El Dandy, Ciclon Ramirez,
Kato Kung Lee, and
Super Parka lose to
Bombero Infernal,
Dr. Cerebro,
Mosco de la Merced, and
Super Crazy. He was one of eight wrestlers who put his hair on the line in a multi-man
Lucha de Apuestas match; Suicida lost the match and his hair. El Dandy,
Perro Aguayo Jr. Máscara Sagrada, and Máscara Maligna faced off in a
steel cage match where the last person in the ring would either be forced to unmask or have their hair shaved off. Neither Dandy nor Aguayo were involved in the finish, watching from outside of the ring as Máscara Maligna lost and was unmasked. Two weeks later, El Dandy defeated Perro Aguayo Jr. to win the
Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship. The storyline came to an end in the main event of the 2002
Verano de Escándalo show, where Dandy, Aguayo,
Electroshock and
El Zorro faced off in a four-way
Lucha de Apuestas match. In the end, Perro Aguayo Jr. pinned El Dandy, forcing El Dandy to be shaved bald as a result. El Dandy's last match, a victory over El Hijo del Santo, took place on May 11, 2003. ==Personal life==