Erick Aguilar Muñoz (born February 24, 1987) is a Mexican luchador (professional wrestler) better known by the ring name Super Fly. He worked for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) since 2005 until 2021. Super Fly is best known as a tecnico (the Spanish term for a "good guy" or "Face" character in wrestling) and the co-leader of the AAA wrestling group Real Fuerza Aérea, but
after turning rudo (the Spanish term for a "bad guy" or "heel" character in wrestling) and joined the group La Milicia and its umbrella group La Sociedad. Super Fly is the son of luchador El Seminarista, not to be confused with one of his trainers, Skayde, who has also wrestled under the same ring name.
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Professional wrestling career
The wrestler who would later be known as Super Fly was born on February 24, 1987, the son of Mexican Luchador El Seminarista (Spanish for the Seminarist or Seminarian) and grew up wanting to be a professional wrestler like his father. Through his fathers contacts the future Super Fly was trained by highly renowned Mexican wrestling trainer Skayde and by Psicosis before making his debut at just 14 years of age. He originally did not wrestle under the name "Super Fly" but employed an unknown ring name and for the first couple of years. On February 11, 2003 Super Fly won his first ever Lucha de Apuestas (bet match) winning the mask of Perverso. in 2005 he adopted the ring name "Super Fly", a name that he has used ever since.
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
In 2005 he signed a contract with Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), one of Mexico's two largest promotions. In 2006 he became one of the founding members of a group called Real Fuerza Aérea (Spanish for "Royal Air Force") alongside Laredo Kid and Nemesis. The group made their debut at the 2006 Rey de Reyes losing to the team known as Los Diabolicos (Ángel Mortal, Mr. Condor and Marabunta). Real Fuerza Aérea soon expanded with several other young, high flying tecnico wrestlers such as Aero Star, Pegasso and Rey Cometa. Real Fuerza Area (Super Fly, Rey Cometa, Laredo Kid, and Nemesis) challenged the Black Family (Dark Ozz, Dark Espiritu, Dark Cuervo and Dark Escoria for the Mexican National Atómicos Championship at Triplemanía XIV, but the match ended in a no-contest. As a result of the match the Atómicos title was held up, but the Black Family won the rematch the following month.
Together with Pegasso, Super Fly qualified for the finals of a tournament to crown the first AAA World Tag Team Champions at the 2007 Rey de Reyes show. The match was a four corners elimination match that also included Guapos VIP (Alan Stone and Zumbido), The Mexican Powers (Crazy Boy and Joe Líder) and winners The Black Family (Dark Cuervo and Dark Ozz). At Triplemanía XV, on July 15, 2007, Super Fly teamed up with Super Caló to wrestle Laredo Kid and Gran Apache in a Suicida Incredible match where the losing team would have to wrestled each other with their mask on the line. Laredo Kid and Apache won the match, forcing Super Fly and Super Caló to wrestle each other that same night. Super Fly won, unmasking Super Caló after the match in what was Super Fly's biggest Apuesta win to date. Two weeks later Super Fly was one of eight wrestlers who participated in the first ever Alas de Oro, while Super Fly managed to eliminate both Pegasso and Aero Star he was unable to overcome Extreme Tiger in the final moments of the match and lost. On September 3, 2009 Super Fly and Laredo Kid defeated the Japanese duo of Atsushi Aoki and Ippei Ota on the AAA/Pro Wrestling Noah co-promoted TripleSEM event that took place in Tokyo, Japan. At the 2007 Antonio Peña Memorial Show Real Fuerza Aérea leader Laredo Kid suffered a serious injury when he broke his leg during a match, because of this injury Super Fly was suddenly promoted to co-leader of Real Fuerza Aérea. On March 3, 2008 Super Fly qualified for the 2008 Rey de Reyes tournament when he and Billy Boy defeated Los Vipers Revolution (Antifaz and Histeria) and Los Bellos Stone (Chris Stone and Super Caló). He did not make it past the opening round of the tournament as he was eliminated by eventual tournament winner El Zorro. At Triplemanía XVI Super Fly, Aero Star, and El Ángel lost to the Black Family (Dark Ozz, Dark Cuervo and Dark Escoria in a six-man tag team match. Super Fly also participated in the 2008 Alas de Oro tournament but was the sixth man eliminated, by Jack Evans.
Lucha Underground (2014–2015)
Super Fly, masked once more, debuted on Lucha Underground on the December 10, 2014 broadcast in a match against King Cuerno. On February 7, 2015, Super Fly lost his mask for the second time in a Mask vs. Mask Lucha de Apuestas against Sexy Star. After the match, Pentagon Jr. broke his arm (Kayfabe). On June 3, 2015, Super Fly made his return and turned heel attacking Sexy Star in a submission match against Pentagon Jr.
Championships and accomplishments
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
AAA World Trios Championship (1 time) – with Averno and Chessman
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him #398 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2015