the Saint i Blue Demons, Considered the two greatest legends of Mexican wrestling, succeeded withdraw from the quadrilaterals with the mask on and with the pride intact, although there was an episode in which the face of both was exposed before the public by the famous comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños, “Chespirito”.
In his memoir called Unintentionally wanting, The comedian recalled that during a trip from New York to Mexico that made a stopover in the city of Miami, he was able to travel to the side of the two gladiators, With whom he had shared a special feature at Madison Sqare Garden.
He explained that from the Big Apple in Miami he talked to the Silver Masked man during the plane, but when he arrived at the airport he lost sight of it, So he was given the task of searching for it at the airport.
“I noticed something was missing that had to be there. Oh, of course: what was missing was a pair of fighter masks. And my gaze wandered all around without even seeing the slightest trace of masks, “he recounted in his autobiography.
No luck at first, it was when it comes to migration where he was able to reunite with the Holy and the Blue Demon, though it was without the masks put on and thanks to his keen senses.
“I heard a high-pitched voice identical to the one he had chatted with me on board the plane (another more observer would have noticed that the clothes he was talking about were also the same ones my recent travel companion was wearing). To confirm everything I was deducing, the man was accompanied by another, the hands were huge and were notoriously affected by arthritis“It abounded.
Holy and Blue Demon, exposed
Neither gladiator was able to hide his face again and the three walked around the airport together, And here the powerful actor of Televisa dared to exhibit them in front of people who approached to ask for autographs, but without luck. At first there was annoyance, but then it became a muddy moment.
“I was about to die fulminated by the looks that Rodolfo Guzmán Horta, real name of Santo sent to me (and still luck that was limited to send glances to me instead of flying kicks or flying mares!), mainly when I insisted: ‘You’ll see it’s The Saint! What happens is that the mask was removed ‘“.
It abounded that no one followed the game and that even both fighters dared to acknowledge that they were the pointed characters, Scene that ended with a lapidary sentence uttered by one of the two involved and said: “‘This is the unobjectionable reality: without the mask we are nobody'”.