Noé Astro Moreno León (born December 6, 1972) is a Mexican Luchador known under the ring name El Oriental, currently works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) but is mainly known for his almost 10-year-long stint in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) along with his sisters Cynthia, Rossy and Esther Moreno.
The person who would later become known as El Oriental was born on December 6, 1972, son of Mexican luchador and wrestling promoter Alfonso Moreno.
Over the years El Oriental has learned to speak Japanese, which means that he was later used as a translator for other Mexican wrestlers touring Japan.
[4] The team lost the belts to Masato Yakushiji and Naohiro Hoshikawa on July 2, 1999, shortly before CMLL Japan folded.
On April 4, 2000, El Oriental wrestled and lost to Abismo Negro during the second day of the Michinoku Pro promoted Super J-Cup.
[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] 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.
In the late 1990s El Oriental began working regularly for CMLL, the world's oldest wrestling promotion.
Damiancito defeated El Oriental in the finals and the two worked a rivalry centering about both guy's titles although neither changed hands during the feud.
[18] 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.[19] 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.
[20] El Oriental left CMLL not long after the Ruleta de la Muerte show, seeking better opportunities elsewhere.
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.
In 2005 the Apaches were forced to vacate the Mixed tag team titles, after which AAA held a tournament to crown new champions.
Their reign would come to an end in November, 2007 when they were forced to vacate the championship when Cynthia suffered an injury and was unable to defend the titles.
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.
In mid-2009 Cynthia began appearing less and less on AAA shows, leaving El Oriental free to team up with Kenzo Suzuki and Sugi San to form a trio called La Yakuza, after the Japanese Mafia.
The team started out with a series of victories, but were defeated by Los Psycho Circus at the 2009 Verano de Escandalo.
In Perros del Mal he often teamed with other wrestlers who had left AAA such as Charly Manson or Gran Alebrije.
This time he was booked as part of their 2010 King of Trios tournament, where he formed "Team Perros del Mal" along with El Alebrije and Cuije.