Arturo Beristain (born September 5, 1949) is a retired
Mexican professional wrestler, or
Luchador in
Spanish, who works as a wrestling trainer at the Mexican
professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's (CMLL) gym in
Mexico City,
Mexico. Beristain is best known for working under two different
ring names,
Talismán and
El Hijo del Gladiador; both personas started out as
enmascarados, or masked, and Beristain lost both masks in
Luchas de Apuestas. He lost the Talismán mask to
Atlantis in 1984 and the Hijo del Gladiador mask to
Rencor Latino in 2000. As Talismán, Beristain won the
Mexican National Welterweight Championship twice, the
Mexican National Middleweight Championship and the
Mexican National Lightweight Championship. As el Hijo del Gladiador he has won the
CMLL World Trios Championship with
Gran Markus, Jr. and
Dr. Wagner Jr. and the
IWRG Intercontinental Middleweight Championship. When Beristain lost the "Hijo del Gladiador" he was announced as "Arturo Beristain Ramírez" to further the
storyline that he was actually the son of wrestler "El Gladiador", but his last name is not actually Ramírez.