There are not many cases of actors and television personalities who, several years after his brief peak in popularityand when they seemed already totally forgotten, they have a new opportunity.
Hugo Quiril is one of them. Martial artist and stuntman who rose to some prominence in Titans in the ring and other local wrestling cycles of the 80s and 90s, took advantage of that moment of popularity to star in some action movies.
Now he has his little revenge thanks to stream: integrates the fictional gang of thieves who intend to steal the World Cup in world robbery, the Argentinian series Star+ with Joaquín Furriel e Benjamin Amedeo.
in the comedy of six episodes with a World Cup imprintQuiril plays Néstor Tacchini, an employee of the Electroshock company who works in the warehouse loading and unloading goods.
Like the real Hugo, Tacchini was a karate teacher in his youth and had a stint in television breaking ice barshe played villains in various movies and performed other feats in various entertainment shows.
In fiction, the character of Benjamín Amadeo convinces Lucho, the protagonist of the story played by Furriel, to recruit Tacchini because he thinks that the gang he put together to steal the World Cup You need someone who has physical strength and knows martial arts, both to neutralize a guard or to defend them if things get out of hand.
A Life in the Rings and Kid 10
Tacchini’s character has a lot of Quiril’s real-life anchor, which I have been practicing martial arts since I was 5 years oldlong before stepping into the wrestling ring.
Just at 21, a friend of his father who played Don Quixote Titans in the ring taken a test to enter the emblematic program of Martín Karadagián.
Quiril’s skill and experience in the ring surprised the producers and it helped him to do it remain within the group of substitute wrestlersbut training like another.
In the summer of 1983, Karadagián offered him to be Kid 10’s replacementwho had gone on vacation. That same season he personified the “cunning, intelligent, and dexterous” black ant..
The season ended up being a hit and Quiril was set as Kid 10the one who jumped in and did stunts in a white tank top, green pants, and antennas on his head that they have become an item of Titanes merchandise.
“They came from the United States. They put those little antennas on me which were very ridiculous, but that’s how it is, where the captain rules, the sailor doesn’t rule, you had to put on your swaddling clothes and leave, there was no other choice”, Quiril once told the niche site Zeta cult.
Kid 10 brought him popularity on the show but it also gave him great fright. In October ’83, during a fight against Morgan the pirateQuirillo he jumped out of the ring and appeared to break his neck after hitting his head hard on the floor of concrete.
According to the doctors who attended him later, Hugo miraculously survived, but was unable to fight for some time. to fully recover.
Kato, its most emblematic ninja
Despite that step Titansfight fans remember Quiril most for the character he would play a few years later on the show fight harda detachment of Titans -with Rubén Peucelle as its main promoter– which debuted in 1988. Let’s talk about Kato, the Great White Ninjathe alias he had to adopt due to copyright issues.
Kato was one of the heroes of the show and had his own music: “You are the White Ninja, the warrior of love and peace”was heard as they showed the best moments of this one fighter with an imposing physique and wearing a sash, shoulder pads and long white boots.
Under that pseudonym, he traveled to Paraguay in the early 1990s to join the cycle of struggle super catch; and preserved in two other programs of this same discipline: World fight (1993) and Total Fight (1994).
It was in those years that Quiril he took advantage of Kato’s fame to venture into fictionboth in cinema and on television. In 1989 she worked in The ExterminatorsGuillermo Francella’s action comedy e Emilio Dissilike the brave officer.
It was also part of the sequel The Exterminators II: Revenge of the Dragon, released a year later. Already proved the experience of him as actor-fighter and stuntmanin 1992 it was part of the popular Telefe series tail brigadewhere he played Brigacopthe team robot.
The awakening in 100% Fight
Like many of the actors and fighters who lost their jobs when wrestling ceased to be a television business, Quiril returned to “fighting” professionally in Fight 100%..
In the cycle that Telefe premiered in 2006 and brought Leone MonteroHugo played Japanese wrestler Shuto Omori, looking very similar to Kato, the Great White Ninja-And joins the group of good guys led by Vicente Viloni.
Under that alias, participated in Fight 100%. that first season, but had no appearances the next. He returned for the last edition of 2010. He was unable to enter either of them playoffs.
The following year, Hugo ventured into cinema again in another action comedy titled devil and protagonist John Palomino. There she played Lieutenant Colonel Varela.
Not even he could have imagined that, more than a decade later, it would again enter a film set, and have its world premiere stream– thanks to world robbery.
Source: Clarin
