Dr. Wagner Jr.

Name Dr. Wagner Jr.
Nicknames El Galeno del Mal (The Evil Doctor) / El Galeno del Bien (After he became Tecnico)
Name history Dr. Wagner Jr. (debut - )
Family Dr. Wagner (father), Silver King (brother), Rossy Moreno (former wife), Leon Del Ring (nephew)
Trained by: Gran Markus, Dr. Wagner
Born: August 12, 1965 - Torreón, Coahuila
Pro Wrestling Debut: April 7, 1986 - Monterrey, Nuevo León
Height 5'10"/177 cms
Weight 216 lbs/98 kg
Signature wrestling moves: Wagner Driver (Michinoku Driver II), Death Valley Driver, Niagara Driver, Top-Rope Diamond Cutter, Flying Splash, Flying Senton, Tiger Driver, Running Lariat, Running Somersault Plancha (off the apron), Running Somersault Plancha (off the ramp)
Titles: Northern Mexico Heavyweight Title, UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title, CMLL World Light Heavyweight Title, CMLL World Trios Titles (3, with Gran Markus Jr. & El Hijo del Gladiador - La Ola Blanca, with Blue Panther & Black Warrior - Los Laguneros, with Fuerza Guerrera & Blue Panther), CMLL World Tag Team Titles (4, with Canek, with Silver King, with Emilio Charles Jr., with Último Guerrero), New Japan Pro Wrestling: IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles (with Kendo Kashin), WWC Hardcore Title, UWA World Heavyweight Title

Juan Manuel Gonzalez Barron is a Mexican professional wrestler who has achieved fame in CMLL and worldwide as Dr. Wagner, Jr. He is the son of Dr. Wagner and brother of Silver King.

Dr. Wagner, Jr. first started wrestling for the Universal Wrestling Association in April 1986 at 20 years of age. The elder Wagner achieved his success in CMLL, and so would it be for the son who adopted his gimmick.

On the day that Dr. Wagner, Jr. was to make his in-ring debut as his father's tag-team partner, Wagner Sr. was involved in a car accident that killed his long-time partner Angel Blanco, leaving Wagner Sr. disabled and unable to continue his wrestling career. When he regained his mobility he took up a job as a taxi driver to earn a living, but continued to actively follow the career of his sons, including his in-ring namesake and a wrestler best known in the United States as Silver King. The two real-life brothers would actually team together to win the CMLL World Tag Team Titles in February 1997, although the titles were vacated six months later when Silver King left CMLL to join the growing lucha roster of World Championship Wrestling.

Wagner's star has continued to rise in Mexico ever since. He has won a variety of different titles for the CMLL promotion. Besides holding the CMLL World Light Heavyweight title he has also been a Trios championship at least four times, including with Gran Markus. Jr. & Hijo del Gladiador and also with Blue Panther & Black Warrior. He has also wrestled extensively in Japan, challenging (and ultimately being defeated by) Jushin Liger for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight belt and tagging with various partners such as his brother and Kendo Kashin, the latter of which he won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team championship with. He has also competed in the U.S. as recently as January 2006, teaming with Rey Bucanero in a losing effort against L.A. Park & Místico at an FMLL show in Chicago. He is most popular when competing in the famed Arena México though, where his charismatic style and popular gimmick cause fans to blow airhorns three times and chant "WAG-NER!" when he's in the ring. Given the fan reaction in Mexico and increasing awareness of the lucha libre style in the United States, his star will surely continue to rise.

In the 2007 Dr.Wagner Jr to be one of the polemics wrestlers in Mexico due to its constant mass media declarations diverse in where he expressed its anger with the CMLL not to program it in fights against Mistico, Atlantis, Ultimo Guerrero or Hijo del Perro Aguayo.

In October 8 of the 2007 sport newspaper "Estadio" publish an interview with Dr.Wagner Jr in where the same one confirmed his departure of the CMLL, which untie surprise during several days and speculations on their future and were not up to one week later that the magazine "Super Luchas" publish another interview with the own Wagner in where this it confirmed his departure of the company and that as of that date was going to be an Free Agent but who was going to fulfill all the presentations that even tapeworm pending with the CMLL.

Dr.Wagner Jr also denied the rumors on his possible incorporation to the AAA (the other big lucha libre company in Mexico) and is speculated on that along with the their brother Silver King fought in shows of TNA that were carried out in the month of December in Mexico City and Monterrey.

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Villano V

Luchador Villano V (Villano Quinto, "Fifth Villain"), was born Raymundo Díaz Mendoza Jr on March 22, 1962 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Villano V is the son of Ray Mendoza, the brother of Los Villanos (Villano I, Villano II, Villano III (Arturo Díaz Mendoza), and Villano IV) and the brother in law of luchadora La Infernal.
He was trained by his father Ray Mendoza and his brother Villano I and made his lucha libre debut in May of 1976 at Arena Naucalpan in Naucalpan, Mexico State.
Villano V worked for many wrestling promotions in Mexico including Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), Grupo Internacional Revolucion (IWRG), World Wrestling Association (WWA), Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).
If you are a long time wrestling fan, you may recognize Villano V from his time he spent working for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the 1990s.
On March 20th, 2009, he lost his mask to Ultimo Guerrero in a match at Arena México in Mexico City.
Since losing his mask Villano V often uses the the Rey Mendoza, Jr. in honor of his father who passed away in 2003.

Villano IV

Wrestlers Name Villano IV (Villano Cuarto)
Nicknames La Pantera Rosa (The Pink Panther)
Name history Leopardo Negro [II] (debut - 83), Villano IV (83 - ), Ray Mendoza Jr. (WCW, 1996), Tony Peña (WCW, 1996)
Family Ray Mendoza (father), Villanos I, II, III, V (brothers), La Infernal (sister-in-law)
Trained by: Ray Mendoza, Villano I
Birth date December 19, 1969 in Tijuana, Mexico
Pro Wrestling Debut 1979 - Arena Naucalpan - Naucalpan, Mexico State
Height 5'8"/172 cms
Weight 209 lbs/95 kg
Signature Wrestling moves Hucararrana, Diamond Cutter, DDT, Senton, Octopus Hold
Titles: Yucatán Welterweight Title, Yucatán Middleweight Title, Naucalpan Welterweight Title, Naucalpan Middleweight Title, WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title, Universal/FULL UWF Super Middleweight Title, UWA World Trios Titles (4, with Villanos I & V), National Atomicos Titles (with Pierroth Jr. & Villanos III & V), AAA Americas Trios Titles (with Villanos III & V), UWA World Tag Team Titles (with Villano V), WWA World Tag Team Titles (with Villano V), IWRG Trios Titles (with Villanos III & V), IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Title, Arena Aztahuacan Tag Team Titles (with Villano V)

Villano IV is a Mexican professional wrestler. Within the stable Los Villanos, he wrestled for Universal Wrestling Association, Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, and World Championship Wrestling. While more popular in the south, he frequently performed as a jobber in WCW, usually appearing on shows like WCW Saturday Night.

He played the role of a heel and would occasionally tag team with a fellow Villano, with whom he could cheat by switching places while the referee was distracted (all Villanos wore identical attire, aside from their Roman numeral distinctions). However, while working for WCW, Villano IV was severely injured by a botched move, by Kanyon and Raven, that would become known as the "Villano breaker."

The other sons of Ray Mendoza who have used the name "Villano" include Villano I, Villano II, Villano III (Arturo Díaz Mendoza), and Villano V.


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Villano III

Wrestler Name Villano III (Villano Tercero)
Real name Arturo Díaz Mendoza
Nicknames El Rey Arturo (King Arthur), La Pantera Rosa (The Pink Panther)
Name history Ray Rosas (debut), Pulpo Blanco, Mancha Roja, Búfalo Salvaje, Rokambole (?? - 01/73), Villano III (01/73 - )
Family Ray Mendoza (father), Villanos I, II, IV, V (brothers), La Infernal (wife)
Trained by: Felipe Ham Lee, Ray Mendoza
Born: March 23, 1952 - Mexico City
Pro Wrestling Debut January 29, 1970 - Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State
Lost mask to Atlantis - March 17, 2000 - Arena México
Height 5'7"/170 cms
Weight 211 lbs/96 kg
Signature wrestling moves DDT, Legdrop, Media Cerrajera, Senton
Titles: UWA World Welterweight Title, UWA World Light Heayvweight Title (2), WWF World Light Heavyweight Title (7), UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Title, WWC Puerto Rican Title (2), CMLL World Light Heavyweight Title, National Trios Titles (with Villano V & Dos Caras), National Atomicos Titles (withVillanos IV & V & Pierroth Jr.), AAA Americas Trios Titles (with Villanos IV & V), IWRG Trios Titles (with Villanos IV & V)

Arturo Díaz Mendoza is a Mexican professional wrestler best known for performing under the stage name Villaño III (In Spanish Villano Tercero) where he is most famous for teaming with one or more of his brothers: Villaño I, Villaño II, Villaño IV and Villaño V.

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Villano II

Wrestler Name: Villano II (Villano Segundo)
Real name: José Alfredo Díaz Mendoza
Name history: Bestia Negra II (debut - ??), Búfalo Salvaje II (1969), Villano II (late 70/early 71 - death)
Family: Ray Mendoza (father), Villano I, III, IV, V (brothers), La Infernal (sister-in-law)
Trained by: Bobby Bonales, Ray Mendoza
Born in Mexico City
Died: April 17, 1989
Pro Wrestling Debut: Early 1969 - Mexico City
Titles held : Arena Coliseo Tag Team Wrestling Titles (with Villano I)

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Villano I

Wrestler Name Villano I (Villano Primero)
Real name José de Jesús Díaz Mendoza
Nicknames La Pantera Rosa (The Pink Panther)
Name history Bestia Negra I (debut - ??), Búfalo Salvaje I (1969), Toro Bill, El Villano, Villano I (late 70/early 71 - death)
Family Ray Mendoza (father), Villano II, III, IV, V (brothers), La Infernal (sister-in-law)
Trained by: Bobby Bonales, Ray Mendoza
Born June 28, 1950 - Mexico City
Obituary date January 4, 2001
Pro Wrestling Debut Early 1969 - Mexico City
Titles: Distrito Federal Heavyweight Wrestling Title, Arena Coliseo Tag Team Wrestling Titles (with Villano II), UWA World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Title, UWA World Trios Title (4, with Villanos IV & V)

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Rolando Vera - Luchador

Rolando Hernández Verástegui, better known as Rolando Vera, was a Mexican professional wrestler and wrestling trainer from Monterrey.

Vera was born on February 1, 1915, in Monterrey, Nuevo León.

Vera was the first local star in Nuevo León. He got his training in wrestling in Tampico, Tamaulipas, while working in a petroleum plant.

During his rookie year, he was a recognizable face among the other local wrestlers, since he had been an amateur wrestler before becoming a professional. Vera has a legendary reputation as a tough wrestler, but he was not always a master of submission. Vera traveled to the United States where he learned the art of holds from a Turkish man named Joe Stanley.

Also, Vera had a four-year reign as NWA World Middleweight Champion at a time when that belt was the greatest prize worldwide in lucha libre. He won the belt from El Santo on October 19, 1956 in his home town of Monterrey, and lost it there on October 13, 1960 to his student René Guajardo.

He also wrestled in Germany, Cuba, France, England and the United States. Nevertheless, many consider the most important part of his career to be the time he spent as a trainer. He left as his legacy many great wrestlers, such as Blue Demon, René Guajardo, Mr. Lince, and Benny Morgan. He was a great técnico, an innovative wrestler (he created moves such as the Reinera and the Regiomontana). He died on March 29, 2001 at 11:30 pm after a heart attack while he slept in his home in Colonia Cumbres ('Colony Summits') in Monterrey. This created a great commotion in Monterrey, where he is considered a legend as big as El Santo and Blue Demon.