| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | José Estrada 1946 (age 78–79) |
| Children | 4; includingRico Suave andJosé Estrada Jr. |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | José Estrada Super Medic I Super Medico I Barrabás #2 Conquistador Dos Carlos Estrada Carlos José Estrada El Super Medico 24k White Angel |
| Billed height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Billed weight | 98 kg (216 lb) |
| Billed from | Puerto Rico "Somewhere in Latin America" |
| Debut | 1975 |
| Retired | 1993, 2007 |
| Military service | |
| Branch |  United States Army |
| Battles / wars | Vietnam War |
José Estrada Sr. (born 1946) is aPuerto Rican retiredprofessional wrestler who was a longtime mainstay of theWorld Wrestling Council as well as having stints in North American promotions, most notably two separate periods of time for theWorld Wide Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Federation (WWWF/WWF). First from 1976 until 1983, holding the now inactiveJunior Heavyweight Championship under his real name. From 1987 until 1990 he worked asConquistador Dos, working as part of amasked team known asLos Conquistadores. He has also worked extensively in his native Puerto Rico, primarily for theWorld Wrestling Council (WWC) where he played the masked "Super Medico I", where he teamed both with a maskedDon Kent in 1984 and his sonJosé Estrada Jr. in 1990. He worked briefly in an earlyIWA as commissioner of the company then with the WWC in 2007 as a wrestling manager. His son is also a retired professional wrestler, who worked primarily in Puerto Rico.
Migrated toNew York in 1959. Served a tour of duty with theUnited States Army in theVietnam War. Estrada made his professional wrestling debut in 1975 in his nativePuerto Rico working for the localWorld Wrestling Council (WWC) promotion. In WWC he was given themasked ring characterSuper Médico I ("Super Medic 1"), teaming withSuper Médico II to formLos Super Médicos, sometimes also referred to simply asLos Médicos, often wrestling clad in all white. On December 25, 1976 the team defeatedHercules Ayala andVictor Jovica to win theWWC North American Tag Team Championship.[1][2]Los Super Médicos held the titles until March 4, 1977 where they were defeated by the team of Danny andMichel Martel.[1][2] By 1978, Estrada found himself working for theNew York-basedWorld Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) Carlos José Estrada, sometimes billed simply as Carlos Estrada or José Estrada. On January 20, 1978, Estrada defeatedTony Garea in a tournament final to win theWWWF Junior Heavyweight Championship, a championship that had been inactive for at least six years prior to the tournament.[3][4] Three days later Estrada dropped the championship toTatsumi Fujinami who would then bring the championship with him to Japan.[3][4] In 1981 he returned to Puerto Rico as Super Médico I, teaming with Super Médico II to win the North American Tag Team Championship fromLos Pastores ("The Sheepherders";Luke Williams andButch Miller) in April, only to lose them back toLos Pastores in May after a brief, but bloody storyline feud between the two teams.[1][2] He would continue to work for the WWWF, now simply the WWF after his brief return to Puerto Rico and also worked for the JapaneseNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion through the WWF's tours of Japan.
In 1983, he returned to Puerto Rico once more and with hisSuper Médicos partner won the WWC North American Tag Team Championship for the third time on July 10, 1983 when they defeatedKing Tonga and El Gran Apolo, holding the titles for three months before Tonga and Apolo regained the belts.[1][2] He would work for the WWF again in 1984 before returning full-time to Puerto Rico. Back in Puerto RicoLos Super Médicos moved up in the tag team ranks as they won their first everWWC World Tag Team Championship on September 10, 1983 defeating the team ofCarlos Colón andPedro Morales.[5][6] Between December, 1983 and January, 1984, the "Super Medicos" had a feud for the World Tag Team titles against Hercules Ayala and King Tonga, which began on a televised match in late December 1983 when Ayala and Tonga unmasked one of the "Super Medicos" (probably #2). The feud continued on January 6, 1984, on another match during which Ayala and Tonga unmasked Super Medico #2 (his manager, Barrabas, covered his face with his jacket). On January 13, 1984, the two teams had a match in Ponce in which Ayala and Tonga managed to unmask both Super Medics (they left the ring areas with towels around their faces so the fans never saw them). Finally on January 20, the team of Hercules Ayala and King Tonga defeatedLos Super Médicos for the titles in a cage match in Ponce, only to drop them toLos Super Médicos 22 days later. Their second run as the WWC World Tag Team Champions came to an end on April 25, 1984 at the hands of The Invaders (Invader I andInvader III)[5][6] In AugustLos Super Médicos won the World tag team championship again, but in October the team was stripped of the titles as Super Médico II was unmasked and was played byDon Kent, not the man that actually won the title with Estrada.[5][6] Following the revelation that Kent had replaced Johnny Rodz and Kent left the area, leaving Estrada asSuper Médico I on his own.Super Médico I andBlack Gordman won the WWC World Tag Team Championship briefly in December 1984.[5][6] After the brief tag team run Estrada, still asSuper Médico I turned face and won theWWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship on February 10, 1985, beating former partner Black Gordman.[7][8] His first reign ended on June 8, 1985 when he lost it toFidel Sierra, but regained it a month later.[7][8]Eric Embry ended Estrada's second run, swapping the title back and forth in May of the following year as well.[7][8]
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In 1987, José Estrada Jr. returned to the World Wrestling Federation, he adopted a new masked persona, known asConquistador Dos, teaming withJosé Luis Rivera asConquistador Uno, to form a team known asLos Conquistadores, which despite both wrestlers being Puerto Rican were billed as from "Somewhere in Latin America". The team was used mainly as enhancement talent, with their primary function to make other tag teams, especiallyface teams.Los Conquistadors participated in the1988 Survivor Series. At the Survivor Series they were part of a "5 teams vs. 5 teams" special elimination match, teaming withDemolition (Ax andSmash),The Brain Busters (Arn Anderson andTully Blanchard),The Bolsheviks (Nikolai Volkoff andBoris Zhukov),The Fabulous Rougeaus (Raymond andJacques Rougeau). The five tag teams took on the collective face team ofThe Powers of Pain (The Warlord andThe Barbarian),The Rockers (Shawn Michaels andMarty Jannetty),The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith andDynamite Kid),The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart andJim Neidhart) andThe Young Stallions (Jim Powers andPaul Roma). The match came down toLos Conquistadors and the Powers of Pain as the last team on each side, with The Powers of Pain winning after Demolition's managerMr. Fuji switched sides and helped the Powers of Pain win the match.[9] This match would make the only timeLos Conquistadors would wrestle on a WWFpay per view (PPV) show. By 1989, Estrada worked in singles matches, both as "Conquistador Dos" and under his real name. He left the WWF in 1990.
Estrada returned to Puerto Rico once his WWF stint ended in the spring of 1989, once again working asSuper Médico I. On May 28, 1989, he defeated Jonathan Holiday to win theWWC World Junior Heavyweight Championship for the first time.[10][11] He would later lose the title to, and regain it from Chicky Star before losing it for good toEddie Watts.[10][11] As part of the feud with Chicky Starr, Starr managed to unmask Super Medico, who had to get under the ring to avoid the fans seeing his face. The following week, however, Starr tried the same trick again and actually took off Super Medico's mask, but this time Super Medico had painted his face white and caught Starr by surprise and pinned him, regaining the title (WWC TV show). In 1990, Estrada teamed up with a newSuper Médico III, with his son José Estrada Jr. wearing the mask. The two defeatedLos Mercenarios (Cuban Assassin and Jerry Morrow) March 31, 1990 to win the WWC World Tag Team Championship, Senior's fifth and Junior's first title reign.[5][6] They lost the titles to Lance Idol andRick Valentine but quickly regained them. In September the titles were held up after a brutal match against another masked tag team known as the Texas Hangmen (Killer andPsycho), butLos Super Médico won them back after another brutal match between the two teams on September 22, 1990 only to lose them to the Texas Hangmen a week later.[5][6] On November 10 that same yearLos Super Médicos defeated Eric Embry and Rick Valentine to win theWWC Caribbean Tag Team Championship for the first time.[12][13] In December, they lost the titles back to Embry and Valentine, but regained them in January.[12][13] The reign ended only days later when Valentine and Gran Mendoza defeated them for the championship.[12][13]
Estrada would retire by 1993, worked as a professional wrestling trainer inHumacao, Puerto Rico and makes special appearances at times. He worked with WWC in 2007 as a wrestling manager.
He is the godfather toJohnny Rodz' daughter.
