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Santos Escobar

Jorge Luis Alcantar Bolly is a Mexican wrestler signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown roster under the ring name Santos Escobar. Alcantar is the son of legendary wrestler El Fantasma.

Bolly is better known by the ring name El Hijo del Fantasma, and has previously played for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, Lucha Underground, and Impact Wrestling. In WWE he held the NXT Cruiserweight Championship once.

Alcantar was introduced to the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in 2008, after leaving IWRG. He managed to win the CMLL World Trios Championship twice alongside Héctor Garza and La Mascara. On the first occasion, despite never having teamed up together, they managed to reach the final of the tournament for the assignment of the vacant belts and defeat Blue Panther, Dos Caras Jr. and Mistico in the decisive match.

On August 5, 2008, they lost the titles to Último Guerrero, Negro Casas and Atlantis. On January 18, 2009, in a rematch, they managed to regain the titles. After the fight, El Hijo del Fantasma received many compliments from Averno. In June 2009, he also captured the Middleweight Title which he lost on February 14, 2010 against Negro Casas.

On January 28, 2023, at the Royal Rumble, he participated in the match of the same name entering with number 10 but was eliminated by Brock Lesnar. On the February 10 episode of SmackDown, he took part in a fatal 4-way match which also included Karrion Kross, Madcap Moss and Rey Mysterio to determine Gunther's next challenger for the Intercontinental Championship but it was Moss who prevailed. On the March 31 episode of SmackDown, Escobar entered the annual André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal but was eliminated by Braun Strowman.

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