WWE blurring the line between reality and fiction with their latest Sin Cara storyline

A few days ago Joey Styles, WWE's former announcer who still works for them on their website WWE.com, penned an intriguing column entitled "Who deserves to be called Sin Cara?", which successfully managed to blur the line between reality and fiction.  Styles used the past real life dispute between Sin Cara Azul (Luis Ignascio Urive Alvirde) and Sin Cara Negro (Jorge Arias) over who was entitled to use the ring name Mistico in Mexico in 2005 to cast some doubt over who genuinely deserves the Sin Cara gimmick in WWE today.  So where does the truth end and the spin begin in that article?

It's hyperbolic to start off the piece by saying that the "two Sin Caras have been at war for more than ten years", when Alvirde didn't get christened as Mistico, the same name Arias had been using in Juarez for almost five years, by CMLL until 2004, and their dispute over the rights to the name was relatively brief, although some residual tension between the two has persisted ever since.  Styles also exaggerates how big a star Arias was as the original Mistico, incorrectly giving the impression that he once worked for CMLL using that name and when he left the company they gave that name to Alvirde instead.  It makes sense though that Arias lost the rights to the Mistico name because he never saw fit to trademark the gimmick, which allowed CMLL to be the first to do so and win the subsequent legal battle over the rights to the name despite Arias' prior usage, probably due to a combination of their wealth providing them with better lawyers and the quirkiness of Mexican trademark law.

However, it is indeed true that Arias "attempted to hold on to the identity he created" by competing as "Mystico" and "Mistico de Juarez" after he lost his lawsuit against CMLL in 2005.  Arias recounts a very familiar tale over how CMLL persuaded him to stop using those variants of his original Mistico name:  

I was soon out of work.  CMLL called all the local promoters and said if they allowed me to work as ‘Mistico,' then they would no longer be allowed to use CMLL stars on their events.  I was forced to change my name.

Paco Alonso, the owner of CMLL, who has the reputation of holding a grudge infinitum, has used similar tactics against El Hijo del Santo ever since they fell out about pay in 2006, banning all of his wrestlers from appearing on any independent shows Santo was booked on.

In response, Alvirde played dumb claiming that "all of this was unbeknownst to him":  

I didn't know another Mistico had existed for two years before I started using the name.

Though it's possible that Alvirde wasn't aware of Arias using the gimmick before him, given that he didn't make his debut in Ciudad Juarez as Mistico until after the legal battle was over, it's hard to believe that no-one in CMLL was aware of it given that their top wrestlers tour the whole country.  Stemming from a vociferously negative response by local fans aware of the backstory to the new Mistico's debut in the city, there was talk about doing a feud between Alvirde and Arias in 2006 in Northern Mexico, but for some reason that never transpired, which may explain the continuing ill feeling between these two in real life so many years later.

From there the article descended into the usual worked storyline fluff piece, though it was amusing to see Styles talk about Arias' pre WWE American career without mentioning the initials TNA, which gave him his first job in the U.S. under his new name of Incognito in 2006 as a member of Team Mexico for their World X Cup tournament that year.  Arias impressed in his debut performance as part of a 16-man gauntlet match at TNA Sacrifice and he was used by the company until he missed a TV taping shortly thereafter, blowing the opportunity they gave him.  He had to work on independent shows for over three years before getting another chance with the American big leagues when WWE signed him to a developmental contract in early 2010.  His future with WWE seams bleak, as his match with the Blue Sin Cara at the Hell In A Cell PPV was disappointing and the feud isn't getting over with live crowds.