Shocker (wrestler)

Shocker
Ring name(s) Shocker
Super Shocker
Billed height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Billed weight 98 kg (220 lb)[1]
Born September 12, 1971 (1971-09-12) (age 40)[2]
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico[2]
Resides Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Billed from Los Angeles, California[1]
Trained by Diablo Velasco[2]
Flash[2]
Satánico[2]
Ruben Soria[2]
Debut October 16, 1992

José Luis Jair Soria is a Mexican professional wrestler, who wrestles under the name Shocker. He has in the past branched out into the United States, working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

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Professional wrestling career

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (1995-2005)

Shocker first made a name for himself in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and got his first push when he won the Gran Alterntiva tournament along with his partner, Silver King, in 1995.[3] He capped off the year by defeating veteran Kahoz for his mask.[2] The push continued when he won the NWA Light-Heavyweight for first time when he defeated Black Warrior for the title in 1997.[4] In 1998, he and Mr. Niebla won the CMLL World Tag Team championship but were stripped due to Niebla's injury.[5] In 1999, Shocker really picked up when he turned heel and feuded with Mr. Niebla. The feud culminated in a match at the CMLL 66th Anniversary Show where Shocker and Mr. Niebla wrestled together in a Parejas Suicidas match against another pair of feuding partners, Atlantis and Villano III. The rules were that the members of the team that lost faced each other in a mask vs. mask match. Shocker and Niebla lost the match and Shocker lost his mask.[2] After losing his mask, he was pushed even more, capitalizing on his good looks. He took the nickname "1000% Guapo".[2]

He joined Bestia Salvaje and Scorpio, Jr. in Los Guapos in 2000, but he later had a falling out with the veterans and he had a heel vs. heel feud along with partners like Los Capos and Satánico. He continued wrestling in heel vs. heel feuds, the most notable being against the group that would eventually become Los Guerreros del Infierno. In 2003, he started his own version of Los Guapos with frequent partner Máscara Mágica and El Terrible and feuded with the original Guapos group of Bestia Salvaje, Scorpio, Jr. and Emilio Charles, Jr. who were now wrestling as Los Talibanes ("the Taliban"). The feud peaked with a six man cage match where Terrible took Bestia Salvaje's hair in August. By 2004, Shocker was a full-time babyface teaming with L.A. Park and trading the CMLL World Tag Team titles with Último Guerrero and Rey Bucanero.[6] In June of that year, El Terrible broke away from Los Guapos and won the hair of Máscara Mágica. Terrible's replacement, Alan Stone, did not meet expectations and Los Guapos was effectively ended. For most of the summer, he joined up with Perro Aguayo, Jr. and Negro Casas in a feud against Pierroth, Jr., Vampiro Canadiense and Tarzan Boy. After the feud ended in a steel cage match where Perro Aguayo, Jr. defeated Negro Casas for his hair, Shocker had a program with El Terrible with speculation of a hair vs. hair match on the year end show but the feud didn't take off like expected and the match was replaced with Vampiro and Pierroth vs. Cien Caras and Máscara Año 2000. In 2005, he started out the year well winning the "Junior Cup," a trophy for second generation wrestlers with a finals win over another popular face, Dr. Wagner, Jr.. CMLL didn't build up on it, however, and Shocker was used against the various regular trios like La Furia del Norte and Los Guerreros del Infierno.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2005-2006)

In April, he joined Total Nonstop Action, seemingly replacing Héctor Garza who was blocked from entering the company after steroid problems. He quickly and unsuccessfully challenged Christopher Daniels for his TNA X Division Championship. In 2006, Shocker was named the captain of Team Mexico in the 2006 TNA World X Cup Tournament, but they were unsuccessful in winning the tournament.

Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (2005-2006)

While continuing to work in TNA, he jumped from CMLL, who he had been with for ten years, for CMLL's rival Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) with Vampiro and various other wrestlers. In AAA, he started a feud with Abismo Negro and Cibernético with an angle involving Cibernético attacking his father. After saving his hair in a four way cage match against Cibernético, Latin Lover and Chessman, Shocker turned rudo again and feuded with veteran Sangre Chicana with Shocker claiming that he was the real Amo de escandalo ("Master of Scandal"), which was Chicana's moniker. The two faced off in a hair vs. hair match in El Toreo de Cuatros Caminos in Naucalpan, State of Mexico on the last AAA show of the year with Shocker winning the match.[2]

Return to CMLL (2007–present)

Shocker jumped ship from Asistencia Asesoría y Administración back to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre again in 2007. That same year, he teamed with Perro Aguayo, Jr. and Héctor Garza in a failed bid to win the vacant CMLL World Trios Championship from Ultimo Guerrero, Tarzan Boy and Atlantis in Mexico City on September 29, 2006. In early 2007, he entered a championship tournament for the vacant NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship and lost to Hirooki Goto at the tournament finals in Mexico City on March 4.[7] He and Dr. Wagner, Jr. lost to Perro Aguayo, Jr. and Héctor Garza in a match for the vacant WWA World Tag Team Championship in Tijuana on January 31, 2008.[8]

Shocker has defeated a number of wrestlers in Luchas de Apuestas (bet matches), including Máscara Año 2000, Tarzan Boy, Vampiro Canadiense, Halloween, Kenzo Suzuki, Marco Corleone, Emilio Charles, Jr., Bestia Salvaje, Mazada, Nosawa, Sangre Chicana, Rey Bucanero, and Black Warrior.[2]

On December 14, 2010, Shocker defeated El Texano, Jr. to win the NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship, which predecessor, the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship, he had already held twice before.[9] However, just five days later he suffered a patellar tendon rupture and a meniscal tear in his knee that required surgery and would sideline him for 12 to 16 weeks.[10][11] On May 26, 2011, Shocker was stripped of the NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship.[12] He would finally make his CMLL in-ring return on July 24.[13] On November 16, Shocker formed a new group with Metro and CMLL newcomers Titán and Tritón.[14][15]

Other endeavours

On May 11, 2011, Soria opened his own restaurant, El Che Guapo, in Benito Juárez, D.F.[16] A second El Che Guapo was opened on December 21, 2011, in Mexico City.[17] In October 2011, Shocker became one of four CMLL wrestlers featured in an A&E Latinoamericano documentary series titled El Luchador.[18]

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

  • Arena Pista Revolucion New Wave Tournament Winner: 1994
  • Occidente Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • Occidente Trios Championship (1 time) - with León Dorado and Ídolo I
  • PWI ranked him # 16 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 2002[23]

Lucha de Apuesta record

See also: Luchas de Apuestas
Wager Winner Loser Location Date Notes
Hair Shocker Valentin Mayo Guadalajara, Jalisco 1994  
Hair Shocker Cain Guadalajara, Jalisco January, 1995  
Mask Shocker Kahoz Mexico City, Mexico 01995-12-15 December 15, 1995 [2]
Mask Shocker Rey Bucanero Mexico City, Mexico 01999-07-17 July 17, 1999 [Note 2][24]
Mask Mr. Niebla Shocker Mexico City, Mexico 01999-09-24 September 24, 1999 At the CMLL 66th Anniversary Show[Note 3][2]
Hair Shocker Rambo Obregón, Sonora 2000  
Hair Shocker Emilio Charles, Jr. Mexico City, Mexico 02001-12-14 December 14, 2001 [2]
Hair Los Guapos
(Shocker and Máscara Mágica)		 Tokyo Gurentai
(Takemura and Masada)		 Mexico City, Mexico 02002-05-21 May 21, 2002 [2]
Hair Shocker Vampiro Mexico City, Mexico 02003-04-04 April 4, 2003 [2]
Hair Shocker Máscara Año 2000 Puebla, Puebla, Puebla 02003-07-14 July 14, 2003 [2]
Hair Shocker Tarzan Boy Mexico City, Mexico 02003-09-19 September 19, 2003 [2]
Hair Shocker Scorpio, Jr. Guadalajara, Jalisco 02004-03-21 March 21, 2004 [Note 4][2]
Hair Shocker Scorpio, Jr. Toluca, Mexico State 02004-07-03 July 3, 2004 [Note 5][2]
Hair Shocker Bestia Salvaje Cd. Madero, Tamaulipas 02004-09-25 September 25, 2004 [Note 6][2]
Hair Shocker Halloween Tijuana, Baja California 02004-09-10 September 10, 2004 [2]
Hair Shocker Violencia Unknown 02005-03-31 March 31, 2005 [2]
Hair Shocker Sangre Chicana Guadalajara, Jalisco 02005-12-10 December 10, 2005 [2]
Hair Shocker and Universo 2000 Marco Corelone and Kenzo Suzuki Mexico City, Mexico 02006-12-15 December 15, 2006 [2]
Hair Shocker and Lizmark Jr. Rey Bucanero and Black Warrior Mexico City, Mexico 02007-12-06 December 6, 2007 [2]

Notes

  1. ^ Despite not being a member of the National Wrestling Alliance since 1990 CMLL promotes three "NWA-Branded" titles that are not officially recognized by the NWA.
  2. ^ Finals of a Ruleta de la Muerte, losers advance tournament
  3. ^ Lost a Relevos suicidas match to Atlantis and Villaño III and had to wrestle each other.
  4. ^ Last two men in a Los Guapos vs. Scorpio, Jr., Emilio Charles, Jr. and Bestia Salvaje cage match.
  5. ^ Finals of a Torneo cibernetico that also featured Pierroth, Jr., Rey Bucanero, El Terrible, Héctor Garza, Tarzan Boy and Emilio Charles, Jr.
  6. ^ Last two men in a cage match that also included Zumbido, Negro Casas, El Terrible and Máscara Mágica.

References

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External links

Jerry Estrada  · Pierroth, Jr.  · Dr. Wagner, Jr.  · Atlantis  · Aquarius  · Villaño III  · Shocker  · Último Guerrero  · Rey Bucanero  · Ephesto  · Rush (current)
Canek and Dr. Wagner, Jr.  · Los Cowboys (El Texano and Silver King)  · The Headhunters (Headhunter A and Headhunter B)  · Atlantis and Rayo de Jalisco, Jr.  · La Nueva Ola Blanca (El Hijo del Gladiador and Gran Markus, Jr.)  · Atlantis and Lizmark  · Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Silver King  · Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Emilio Charles, Jr.  · Mr. Niebla and Shocker  · Bestia Salvaje and Scorpio, Jr.  · El Hijo del Santo and Negro Casas  · Los Guerreros del Infierno (Rey Bucanero and Último Guerrero)  · L.A. Park and Shocker  · Atlantis and Blue Panther  · Averno and Mephisto  · Místico and Negro Casas  · Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Último Guerrero  · Los Guerreros de la Atlantida (Atlantis and Último Guerrero)  · Héctor Garza and Místico  · La Sombra and Volador Jr.  · Los Invasores (Héctor Garza and Mr. Águila)  · Los Guerreros de la Atlantida (Dragón Rojo, Jr. and Último Guerrero) (current)