Juan José Barrón Medina (born September 22, 1952) is a retired MexicanLuchador, orprofessional wrestler, under the ring nameGran Cochisse. Barrón is currently working as one of the head trainers at theGimnasio delDiablo Velazco wrestling school inGuadalajara,Jalisco, Mexico. The school is one of the wrestling schools forConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). While wrestling he used the ring characterGran Cochisse, aNative American character that incorporated traditional Native American imagery including the feathered headdresses and facepaint. He was nicknamedEl Indio Bravo ("The brave Indian") and is named after theApache chiefCochise. Early in his career he often teamed withÁguila India (Indian Eagle) to form a successful tag team. During his wrestling career Barrón held theUWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship one time and theNWA World Middleweight Championship three times.

Juan Barrón made his professional wrestling debut on October 2, 1966, at only 14 years of age, after training under Mexico's most renowned wrestling trainerDiablo Velazco. Barrón adopted aNative American character while wrestling called "Gran Cochisse" ("The Great Cochise") named after theApache chiefCochise. Gran Cochisse wore the traditional feathered headdresses, facepaint and often carried atomahawk with him to the ring to support the character.^[1] Gran Cochisse formed a regular tag team with Aguila India ("Indian Eagle"), to form a very popular and successfultag team. Together the team held the Occidente (western) Tag Team Championship at least once.

It was not until 1984, a full 18 years after his debut that Gran Cochisse won his first major singles title when he defeatedEl Satánico on AUgust 18, 1984 to win theNWA World Middleweight Championship.^[2] His first reign with the title only lasted 27 days, as he lost it to Satánico on September 14 that same year as part of a long running feud between the two. Cochisse regained the title from Satánico only a few weeks later on September 30, 1984, and held it until November 18, 1984, before losing it toGran Hamada^[2] Gran Cochisse's third and final run with the NWA World Middleweight Championship began on May 18, 1986, when he defeatedChamaco Valaguez to win the title and lasted 152 days, longer than his previous two reigns combined, until he was pinned byKung Fu on October 17, 1986, and lost the belt.^[2] In the latter years of the 1980s Gran Cochisse began working for theUniversal Wrestling Association (UWA) where he became theUWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Champion on September 16, 1988, by defeatingBlue Panther.^[3] His run with the UWA title lasted for 225 days in total, until April 29, 1989, when he was beaten byRingo Mendoza.^[3] In the early part of the 1990s Barrón worked as anenmascarado, or masked, character calledEspectro de Ultratumba ("The Ghost from beyond the grave") but by then it was obvious that his career as an active wrestler was winding down. In the late 1990s Gran Cochisse greatly reduced his schedule and began working full-time training wrestlers.

Gran Cochisse is one of the trainers for CMLL's wrestling school in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and thus has been involved in training a lot of the wrestlers CMLL currently employs as well as students who have gone on to work for other promotions around the world. The following is a list of some of the wrestlers Gran Cochisse has trained.

Barrón is married to retired professional wrestler La Magnífica and together they have at least four children. One their daughter wrestles as the current version ofLa Magnífica while another daughter wrestles under the name Super Estrella. Their son wrestles asSaturno who is under a CMLL contract. He is the father-in-law of CMLL wrestlerEl Sagrado who is married to one of Barrón's daughters that is not involved in professional wrestling.^[33]

• Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre
  • NWA World Middleweight Championship (3 times)^[2]
• Universal Wrestling Association
  • UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[3]
• Western Mexico
  • Occidente Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Águila India

• 1952 births
• Living people
• Mexican male professional wrestlers
• Mexican professional wrestling trainers
• Professional wrestlers from Jalisco
• 20th-century male professional wrestlers
• 20th-century Mexican professional wrestlers
• NWA World Middleweight Champions
• UWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Champions

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