The father of lucha libre passes away - Alejandro “Black Shadow” Cruz - RIP
Friday, March 09, 2007 - Scott Adams
Friends, relatives and fellow Luchadors gathered at Pantheon Garden to bid a final farewell to “The Black Shadow”. The Lucha legend was buried today in Mexico. He was 82 when he passed.
The Black Shadow real name Alejandro Cruz was born in the city of León, Guanajuato. He grew up idolizing the likes of Chino Achiu, Henry Pilusso and Murciélago Velázquez, and while he was a lucha enthusiast, his initial ambitions were to seek a career as a professional musician. He moved to Guadalajara to purse those dreams but he eventually gave up and abandoned them for lucha libre. Before becoming a luchador, he worked as a shoemaker, and he practiced some sports like cliffdiving and football (soccer).
His professional debut was a loss against Rito Romero on June 21, 1942 at the Arena "Canada Dry" in Guadalajara. He used the name "Jungla" Cruz, which he didn't really like, and his first outfit was made out of leather. Jungla Cruz was a popular newspaper comic strip character so the promoter he first wrestled for, an Arab called Elías Simón, gave him that name.
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