Villano V

Villano V in 2006
Personal information
Born	Raymundo Díaz Mendoza (1962-03-22)March 22, 1962 Mexico City, Mexico[2]
Died	August 29, 2024(2024-08-29) (aged 62)
Children	2
Parent	Ray Mendoza (father)
Relative(s)	Villano I (brother) Villano II (brother) Villano III (brother) Villano IV (brother) Villano III Jr. (nephew) El Hijo del Villano III (nephew)
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Ray Mendoza Jr. Rokambole Villano V Villano Quinto
Billed height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Billed weight	100 kg (220 lb)[2]
Billed from	Mexico City, Mexico[2]
Trained by	Ray Mendoza Villano I[3]
Debut	March 15, 1975[3]
Retired	2017

Raymundo Díaz Mendoza (March 22, 1962 – August 29, 2024), best known by hisring nameVillano V (Spanish: "Villano Quinto";English: "Villain the fifth"), was a Mexicanluchador (orprofessional wrestler). Following his unmasking in 2009, he worked under the ring nameRay Mendoza Jr., as a tribute to his fatherRay Mendoza.

Díaz was part of a well-known Mexican wrestling family that includes four otherVillanos,I,II,III andIV. Since making his debut in 1975, Díaz wrestled for every major Mexican wrestling promotion, includingUniversal Wrestling Association (UWA),Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) andConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).^[4] He also worked for the United States–basedWorld Championship Wrestling (WCW) asenhancement talent, usually appearing on secondary shows likeWCW Saturday Night.

Raymundo Díaz Mendoza was the son ofRay Mendoza, a well known Mexican wrestler and wrestling trainer and the brother ofVillano I (José de Jesús Díaz Mendoza),Villano II (José Alfredo Díaz Mendoza),Villano III (Arturo Díaz Mendoza), andVillano IV (Tomás Díaz Mendoza). Trained by his father and oldest brother, he was not allowed to use the Villano name until he finished his education. Because Díaz's younger brother finished his degree faster than him, he was known as "V" (or 5), even though he is the fourth son of Ray Mendoza.^[4] In May 1976, Díaz made his professional wrestling debut using the name "Rokambole" (originally used by his older brother Arturo before he became Villano III). Mendoza worked for several years under this name, gaining experience without the pressure of the Villano name.^[5]

In September 1983, Díaz finally took the mask and the name of his brothers and became Villano V. He immediately began teaming with his brothers, especially Villano I andVillano IV and engaged in a heated and very popular feud with the trios team ofLos Brazos (Brazo de Plata,Brazo de Oro andEl Brazo). On October 21, 1988, Villano I, IV, and V defeatedLos Brazos in amask vs. mask match and thus unmaskedLos Brazos.^[4] Over the years, Villano V and his brothers worked forUniversal Wrestling Association (UWA),Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) andConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and with shorter runs withInternational Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) andWorld Wrestling Association holdingtag team and trios titles in all federations.^[6]

Villano IV and V began working forWorld Championship Wrestling (WCW) as part of the influx ofluchadores in 1996. Villano V made his debut at the 1996World War 3 event as part of theThree Ring, 60 man battle royal.^[7] Subsequently,Los Villanos worked mainly the weekend shows such asWCW World Wide andWCW Saturday Night.^[8] The brothers played the role of aheel and would occasionally cheat by switching places while the referee was distracted (all Villanos wore identical attire, aside from theirRoman numeral distinctions).Los Villanos made a couple of appearances on WCW's main shows and PPVs such as Villano IV teaming withKonnan andLa Parka to defeatJuventud Guerrera,Ciclope andSuper Calo atSuperBrawl VII.^[9] They also worked an eight-man tag match atClash of the Champions XXXV, alongsidePsychosis andSilver King against Guerrera, Super Calo,Héctor Garza andLizmark Jr.^[10] While working in WCW, Villano IV suffered a neck injury as a result of afailed move byKanyon andRaven. The injury threatened to force Villano IV into retirement, but he was able to recover and was back teaming with Villano V in WCW in 2000.^[11]

At theCMLL 75th Anniversary Show on September 19, 2008, Villano V defeated longtime rivalBlue Panther in amask vs. mask match to unmask Panther after 30 years of wearing the mask. The ending was very popular with the vocal crowd at Arena Mexico prompting them to throw money into the ring (a tradition in Mexico after a great match).^[12] On March 20, 2009, Villano V lost a mask vs. mask match againstÚltimo Guerrero on theHomenaje a Dos Leyendas show and was forced to unmask and reveal his real name as perLucha Libre traditions.^[13] Since losing his mask Villano V regularly wrestles under the ring name "Ray Mendoza Jr." in honor of his father.^[14][15] His brotherVillano IV had also wrestled under the name Ray Mendoza Jr. briefly in WCW many years before.^[16] He, along with his brothers Villano III and Villano IV were on hand for the 2010Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show where CMLL honored their father Ray Mendoza with an in-ring ceremony.^[17] On September 20, 2012, Mendoza Jr. made his debut for the JapaneseWrestling New Classic (WNC) promotion, when he was defeated byDave Finlay in the main event atTokyo'sKorakuen Hall.^[18] Two days later inOsaka, Mendoza Jr. defeatedTajiri in another main event.^[19]

Mendoza announced that he would be retiring in early 2013, with a show on March 16, 2013, as his last wrestling appearance. The main event of the show was aRuleta de la Muertatag team tournament, where the losing teams advance instead of the winners and the team that loses in the main event would have to wrestle against each other to determine who would unmask. The teams for theRuleta de la Muerta were announced as Ray Mendoza Jr. and Villano IV,El Mesias andMil Máscaras,Máscara Año 2000 andRayo de Jalisco Jr.,Casandro andHijo de Pirata Morgan,Cien Caras andDr. Wagner Jr.,L. A. Park andUniverso 2000, andEl Solar andToscano. The Villano duo lost to Máscaras and El Mesias in the first round and lost toEl Texano Jr. andSúper Nova in the second round qualifying them for the finals where the losing team would be forced to either unmask (Villano IV) or have their hair shaved off (Mendoza Jr.). The team faced, and defeated the team ofEl Hijo de Pirata Morgan andCassandro which meant El Hijo de Pirata Morgan had to unmask and reveal his birthname, Antheus Ortiz Chávez, while Cassandro had all his hair shaved off as is traditional withLuchas de Apuestas losses.^[20] The undercard featured a match with Ray Mendoza Jr.'s sons Kaving and Kortiz, teaming withDr. Cerebro andCerebro Negro losing to the team ofEita,Fénix, Freelance, andMike Segura.^[21] On March 21, 2013, only 4 days after his official retirement show Ray Mendoza Jr. was announced as working on CMLL's Arena Coliseo 70th Anniversary Show on April 7, claiming that due to poor attendance for his retirement show he personally lost $38,000 promoting the show and thus was forced to return to wrestling to make that money back.^[22] On June 16, Mendoza returned to AAA atTriplemanía XXI, challenging El Texano Jr. to a future match for theAAA Mega Championship.^[23]

Raymundo Díaz Mendoza was the fourth son and seventh child overall ofJosé Díaz Velazquez and Guadalupe "Lupita" Mendoza. His brothers, like himself all became wrestlers: José de Jesús (Villano I), Alfredo (Villano II), Arturo (Villano III) and Tomás (Villano IV).^[5] His mother Lupita died in 1986, his second oldest brother Alfredo died in 1989, his oldest brother José de Jesús died in 2001 and his father José Diaz died on April 16, 2003.^[5] Díaz was adamant that his sons get a good education instead of becoming wrestlers, wishing that they become lawyers or doctors as he wanted to spare them the physical suffering he experienced himself. Once he realized that his two oldest sons had begun wrestling under masks he agreed to train them and help their wrestling careers. He was also instrumental in training his youngest two sons, although he insisted they both get college degrees before they were allowed to begin wrestling. Since his youngest son Tomás finished his education first he became known as "Villano IV" while Raymundo, the second youngest son, became "Villano V".^[5] Mendoza has two sons, who are also professional wrestlers, the two began their careers as the masked characters Kortiz, and Kaving. Mendoza's nephews (sons of Arturo Mendoza) wrestle asVillano III Jr. andEl Hijo del Villano III.^[24] On June 6, 2017, Mendoza introduced Villano V Jr., his oldest son who had worked as "Kaving" up until that point, to the public after the young luchador was officially licensed under the name and presented him with the distinctive Villano mask.^[25]

Díaz died on August 29, 2024, at the age of 62.^[26]

• Asistencia Asesoría y Administración / AAA
  • AAA Americas Trios Championship (2 times) – withVillano III andVillano IV^[27]
  • Mexican National Atómicos Championship (1 time) – with Villano III, Villano IV andPierroth Jr.^[28]
• International Wrestling Revolution Group (Grupo Internacional Revolucion)
  • IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship (1 time) – with Villano III and Villano IV^[29]
  • Copa Higher Power (2003)
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • PWI ranked him #112 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of thePWI 500 in 1998.^[30]
• Universal Wrestling Association
  • UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (2 times)^[31]
  • UWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Villano IV^[32]
  • UWA World Trios Championship (5 times) – with Villano I and Villano IV (4),Scorpio Jr. and Shu El Guerrero (1)^[33]
• Universal Wrestling Entertainment
  • UWE Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – with Villano IV^[34]
• World Wrestling Association
  • WWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Villano IV^[35]
  • WWA World Trios Championship (1 time) – with Villano III and Villano IV^[36]
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  • Worst Match of the Year (2015)with Villano III and Villano IV vs.Monster Clown,Murder Clown andPsycho Clown on August 9^[37]
  • Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2022)

• Ray Mendoza Jr. atIMDb
• Villano V's profile atCagematch,Internet Wrestling Database

• 1962 births
• 2024 deaths
• Latino World Order members
• Masked wrestlers
• Mexican male professional wrestlers
• Professional wrestlers from Mexico City
• 20th-century male professional wrestlers
• 20th-century Mexican professional wrestlers
• 21st-century male professional wrestlers
• 21st-century Mexican professional wrestlers
• Mexican National Atómicos Champions
• UWA World Trios Champions
• UWA World Tag Team Champions
• UWA World Light Heavyweight Champions

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