TheCasas wrestling family, at times calledLa Dinastia Casas ("The Casas Dynasty") in Spanish, is a Mexican family ofluchadors, orprofessional wrestlers. The Casas family perform primarily in Mexico but have made appearances in theUnited States of America,Canada,Europe andJapan over the years.
The Casas family started inlucha libre in 1964 when José Casas Granados started wrestling under thering namePepe Casas. A second-generation of Casas brothers is also active wrestlers starting with Pepe Casas' oldest son José Casas works under the ring nameNegro Casas, younger siblings Jorge Luiz works asEl Felino and Erick Casas is better known asHeavy Metal.[1][2][3] Pepe Casas has at least one other son, a son who is not involved in wrestling at all but whose children are also third-generation Casas wrestlers. Jorge Luiz' sons are also professional wrestlers, working asmasked wrestlersTiger andPuma,[2][3] while sons and daughters of another Casas brother (or brothers) are wrestlers are working under the ring namesCanelo Casas,[4]Danny Casas,[2] Destroyer and Nanyzh Rock. A cousin on Pepe Casas has worked under the ring name "Black Star", one of multipleLuchadors to use that name.[1] José Casas is married toPanamanian professional wrestlerDalys la Caribeña, whom he also trained for her in-ring career and he is the brother-in-law of Rafael Ernesto Medina Baeza, better known under the ring nameVeneno ("Venum"). Jorge Luiz Casas is married to Blanca Rodriguez, who until the summer of 2014 wrestled asPrincesa Blanca; Blanca Rodriquez is not the mother of Tiger and Puma. InLucha Libre it is not uncommon for some wrestlers, especially masked wrestlers, to pay for the rights to use a well-established name and play a character that is supposedly a family member of a well knownluchador family.[5] This practice does not appear to apply to the Casas family as far as evidence suggests.[1][2][3] but it is possible that the true parents of some of the third-generation wrestlers is not entirely accurate, for years Tiger and Puma claimed to be the nephews of Jorge Luiz (El Felino), but later revealed that they were indeed his sons but wanted to make a name for themselves instead of being "Felino Jr." or "El Hijo del Felino" ("The Son of Felino").[2][3]
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| Cacho Medina | José Casas Granados (Pepe Casas) | "Brother" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rafael Medina (Veneno) | Dalys la Caribeña | José Casas (Negro Casas) | Jorge Casas (El Felino) | Blanca Rodriguez (Princesa Blanca) | Erick Casas (Heavy Metal) | Casas Brother | Black Star | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diamante | "Daughter" | Tiger | Puma | Canelo Casas | Danny Casas | Destroyer | Nanyzh Rock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||