The person who would later become known as El Oriental was born on December 6, 1972, son of Mexican professional wrestler and wrestling promoter Alfonso Moreno. Later on Moreno along with
Dr. Wagner and
Blue Panther trained El Oriental for his professional wrestling career. On December 24, 2000, El Oriental won Osaka Pro's Hirapar Cup, when he won a
13-man battle royal. On September 3, 2009, on the last night in Japan Laredo Kid teamed with Super Fly to defeat
Atsushi Aoki and
Ippei Ota on a joint AAA/NOAH show called
TripleSEM. On September 3, 2007, he took part in the tour ending, joint AAA/NOAH event called
TripleSEM. He teamed up with
Pimpinela Escarlata and
Chikayo Nagashima to defeat
Cassandro,
Takashi Sugiura and
Faby Apache. On September 18, 1998, El Oriental wrestled on CMLL's biggest show of the year, the
CMLL 65th Anniversary Show where he teamed up with
Sendero only to lose to the team of Virus and Halcon Negro Jr. The following year he wrestled on CMLL's 1999
Ruleta de la Muerte show, where he and his teammates Starman,
Astro Rey Jr.,
Tigre Blanco and
Mr. Águila lost to
El Satánico,
Zumbido, Valentin Mayo, Virus and
Rencor Latino in an elimination match. El Oriental left CMLL not long after the
Ruleta de la Muerte show, seeking better opportunities elsewhere.
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración After leaving CMLL El Oriental quickly ended up working for CMLL's biggest rival Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). He made his first appearance at a major AAA event when he teamed up with
La Parka,
Héctor Garza and
Máscara Sagrada to defeat the team of
El Hijo del Solitario, Abismo Negro,
Electroshock,
Blue Demon Jr. at AAA's 1999
Guerra de Titanes show. Following that event El Oriental became involved in a storyline feud against
Pentagón which saw El Oriental's sister Esther join him in the fight against Pentagón and his wife
Xóchitl Hamada. The two met at the 2000
Rey de Reyes where Pentagón defeated El Oriental. In June 2000 Oriental teamed with his sister Esther for
Triplemanía VIII, which took place in Tokyo, Japan. The team wrestled to a draw against Pentagón and Xóchitl Hamada as both teams were counted out. On October 13, 2000, El Oriental defeated
Super Crazy to win the
UWA World Welterweight Championship, his first AAA promoted championship ever. He held the title until early 2001 when he was forced to vacate the title after being injured during a match. At
Triplemania X he was one of six wrestlers who participated in the main event. Each of the six wrestlers bet the hair of a referee on the outcome of the match. El Oriental represented referee Hijo del Tirantes in the match, but was not involved in the finish of the match as
Heavy Metal pinned
Sangre Chicana. Between late 2002 and mid-2003 El Oriental suffered various injuries that kept him out of the ring for long stretches of time. At the 2003
Guerra de Titanes Cynthia Moreno, El Oriental,
Mascarita Sagrada and
Pimpinela Escarlata defeated Faby Apache,
Gran Apache,
Mini Abismo Negro and Polvo de Estrellas in a
Relevos Atómicos de locura match (Spanish for "Eight-man madness match"), a match that featured two teams of four, each composed of a male wrestler, a female wrestler, an
Exótico wrestler and a
Mini-Estrella In the mid-2004 El Oriental's sister Cynthia started a storyline feud with the Apache family, primarily Faby Apache and Gran Apache that would last until 2009. On August 1, 2004, Cynthia and El Oriéntal unsuccessfully challenged for the
AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship, losing to Gran Apache and Faby Apache. The teams would subsequently clash on several occasions, with the Apaches managing to retain the mixed titles each time. In 2005 the Apaches were forced to vacate the Mixed tag team titles, after which AAA held a tournament to crown new champions. Cynthia and El Oriéntal defeated Gran Apache and
Tiffany in the semi-final and then defeated
Chessman and
La Diabólica in a one night tournament at
Verano de Escandalo to become the new AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champions. While Cynthia was recuperating from an injury Gran Apache and
Mari Apache won the vacant title as well as turning
técnicos (good guys) in the process. When Cynthia returned to the ring she and her brother turned
rudo (bad guy) when they attacked Gran and Mari Apache after a successful title defense. At the 2008
Verano de Escandalo Oriental and Cynthia Apache regained the AAA World Mix Tag Team Championship from the Apaches, making them the only team to have held the title twice. The brother / sister duo later won another Mixed Tag Team Championship called the VIP Mixed Tag Team Championship, again from Hamada and Pentagón Black, although it may have been the same physical belts used to represent the championships. During the third day of the "King of Trios" event El Oriental lost to
Chuck Taylor in a singles match. During mid-2010 El Oriental began working for a newly created wrestling promotion, backed by
MTV2 called
Lucha Libre USA, wrestling on their first television taping on June 19, 2010. On January 22, 2011, El Oriental and
Tinieblas Jr. became the first ever
LLUSA Tag Team Champions by defeating the Puerto Rican Power (PR Flyer and San Juan Kid) and Treachery (
Rellik and
Sydistiko) in a
three-way tag team match.
Los Invasores In the spring of 2010 El Oriental began working for Promociones Gutierez in
Nuevo Laredo and through this association began working with various CMLL wrestlers who made regular appearances in Nuevo Laredo as well. Through this connection El Oriental became associated with the
Los Invasores storyline that featured CMLL wrestlers fighting against a number of former AAA wrestlers, his main opponent in the storyline was
Místico. El Oriental and Místico teamed up for a five team
Parejas Incredibles match on July 12, 2010, at the
Promociones Gutiérrez 1st Anniversary Show where the losing team was forced to wrestle each other under
Luchas de Apuestas, mask vs. mask rules. The other teams were
Último Guerrero and
Averno,
Atlantis and
Olímpico,
El Alebrije and
La Sombra,
Histeria and
Volador Jr. Místico and El Oriental ended up being the last team and were forced to wrestle for their masks. After a long match Místico defeated El Oriental. After the match El Oriental was forced to remove his mask and show his face. He announced that his real name was Noé Astro Moreno Leon, that he was 37 years old and had been wrestling for 18 years at that point in time. ==Wrestling trainer==