During interviews, he revealed that he had been trained by a number of Monterrey local wrestlers, both before making his debut and after, such as Arcángel, Cachorrro Zapata, Chucho Villa, Garringo, Mario Segura, Pequeño Diamante and Katsuyori Shibata.

[2] Rey Hechicero made his debut on February 15, 2001, in his home town of Monterrey, Nuevo León working for a local wrestling promotion.

In 2004, he was listed as having worked a number of matches for the Naucalpan, State of Mexico-based International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), but did not tour extensively outside Nuevo León.

[2] In the following years, he worked for a number of wrestling promotions as they toured through Monterrey, including winning the mask of Caifán Rockero I on a Perros del Mal show in March 2010.

On December 25, 2014, Rey Hechicero unsuccessfully challenged Black Terry for the FLLM Master Championship on a Cara Lucha show in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl.

Hechicero was the only member of Generacion 2014, who was not a related to someone working for CMLL or a second-generation wrestler, and he and Espiritu Negro were notably older than the rest of the group.

After the first round, Hechicero won almost every single weekly online poll, propelling him to the top of the ranking at the end with a total of 565 points, 114 more than the second place Cavernario.

In the week between the first and the second round, Hechicero teamed up with Virus and Cachorro to defeat Negro Casas, Cavernario and Dragon Lee on the May 23 Super Viernes show.

[16] In the second round Hechicero lost to Cavernario but defeated both Dragon Lee and Cachorro to earn a total of 250 points, including the majority of the online poll votes.

On the October 10, 2014 Super Viernes show, Hechicero debuted a new look, including a new mask design and trunks in black with gold or red embellishment.

[29] In January 2016, Hechicero made his Japanese debut by taking part in the CMLL and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) co-produced Fantastica Mania 2016 tour.

In the first round, the CMLL trio defeated The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian) and Kamaitachi, but lost to The Kingdom (Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) in the semi-finals of the tournament.

[38] The four men made their debut on the January 31 episode of Dynamite, appearing ringside during Jon Moxley's singles match against Jeff Hardy.

[40] The following night on Collision, Hechicero made his AEW singles debut, facing Moxley's Blackpool Combat Club (BCC) stablemate, Bryan Danielson, in a losing effort.