Primo Colón

Edwin Carlos Colón Coates (born December 21, 1982) is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler.

He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he performed under the ring name Primo Colón, or simply Primo.

He is currently signed to World Wrestling Council (WWC) under his real name, Eddie Colón.

He is the son of Carlos Colón and the younger brother of Carlos (Carly) Colón Jr. (who performs in WWE under the ring name Carlito) and Stacy Colón.

He began wrestling in the World Wrestling Council (WWC), where he won the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship five times, as well as numerous secondary and tertiary titles.

Colón debuted in 1999, wrestling in the cruiserweight division.

He won the first title on February 10, 2001, when he defeated Damian Steele for the WWC World Junior Heavyweight Championship.

His feud with Steele continued for a month, during which he dropped and recovered the title on March 10, 2001.

He feuded over the title for six months, losing and winning it once.

By autumn, Colón was involved in a storyline involving Justin McCully, continuing a similar pattern.

In early 2002, Colón was involved in a storyline with Rey Mysterio Jr, who defeated Colón for the title on January 6, 2002.

Mysterio held the title for two months before dropping it back on April 6, 2002, which marked Colón's final Junior Championship reign.

Following a long feud with Rico Casanova and then Kid Kash, the belt was held up and Colón ascended to the Heavyweight division.

Shortly after Carly Colón signed with WWE, a tournament was organized to determine the new champion.

Colón was considered an early favorite and reached the final, but lost.

Colón then entered a feud with El Diamante over the WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship.

In late 2004, Colón was involved in a battle royal for the first contender's position.

One week later on November 6, 2004, Colón defeated El Bronco and won the Universal Heavyweight Championship for the first time in his career.

He then entered a feud with El Diamante, eventually dropping the title to him.

On July 31, 2005, he formed a tag team with his father as part of the Funking Conservatory‘s television show, !Bang!, competing against Dory Funk, Jr. and Johnny Magnum.

The team was victorious, winning the promotion’s Television Tag Team Championship.

On March 5, 2006, he participated in WCW Saturday Night tribute show World Wrestling Legends: 6:05 - The Reunion, he was defeated by Vampiro.

In 2007, Colón signed a developmental contract with WWE, being assigned to Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW).

He was teamed with Eric Pérez, forming a tag team known as The Puerto Rican Nightmares, and they became the first wrestlers to hold the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship.

On July 13, 2007 at World Wrestling Council’s anniversary event, ‘’Aniversario 2007’', Colón wrestled Christian Cage in a match that resulted in a double-countout.

On May 7, 2007, Colón had a closed door workout match before the ‘’Raw‘’ television tapings where he was evaluated by the personnel responsible for talent management.

The following day, Colón participated in a dark match before that night’s ‘’SmackDown‘’ television tapings, where he defeated Shannon Moore.

Upon being promoted to the main roster in 2008, he was teamed with Carlito.

Subsequently, The Colóns became the first team to hold the WWE Tag Team Championship and World Tag Team Championship at the same time, making them the first Unified WWE Tag Team Champions.

After Carlito left the promotion, he began teaming with his cousin Orlando Colón (best known in WWE as Epico), with whom he held the WWE Tag Team Championship once.

On January 26, 2008, Colón made his Florida Championship Wrestling debut, defeating Shawn Osbourne.

On February 23, Colón and Eric Pérez, collectively known as The Puerto Rican Nightmares, defeated Heath Miller and Steve Lewington in a tournament final to become the inaugural FCW Florida Tag Team Champions.

The team lost the title to Brad Allen and Nic Nemeth on March 23, 2008, before winning them back via disqualification on April 15, 2008.

They lost the title to Drew McIntyre and Stu Sanders on May 6, 2008.

On July 17, Colón and Pérez reclaimed the title by defeating McIntyre and Sanders.

On August 16, Colón and Perez lost the title to Nic Nemeth and Gavin Spears.

On August 18, 2008 episode of ‘’Raw‘’, Colón made his main roster debut under the ring name ‘’'Primo Colón’'’ and was involved in a backstage segment with Raw General Manager, Mike Adamle, talking about his dislike for his brother Carlito‘s attitude and how he was nothing like him.

His in-ring wrestling debut on the Raw brand took place on August 25, when he defeated Charlie Haas, dressed as Carlito and named Charlito, in singles competition.

After signing with WWE, Primo would make occasional appearances with WWC while working for WWE until 2016.

After two years of inactivity, Colón left WWE in 2020.