Negro Casas
Mexican professional wrestler (born 1960) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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José Casas Ruiz (born January 10, 1960) is a Mexican professional wrestler (called a Luchador in Spanish) and professional wrestling trainer working for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) under the ring name Negro Casas. He is the son of former wrestler turned referee Pepe Casas, and part of the large Casas wrestling family; brother of professional wrestlers El Felino and Heavy Metal and uncle of Puma, Tiger, Canelo Casas, Rocky Casas, Danny Casas and many more.
Negro Casas | |
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Birth name | José Casas Ruiz |
Born | (1960-01-10) January 10, 1960 (age 64)[1] Mexico City, Mexico[2] |
Family | Casas |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Pepe Casas Jr.[3] Negro Casas |
Billed height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[2] |
Billed weight | 79 kg (174 lb)[2] |
Billed from | Mexico City, Mexico[2] |
Trained by | Pepe Casas[4] Raúl Reyes[4] Tony Sugar[4] Rodolfo Ruiz[4] |
Debut | October 19, 1979[4] |
Casas has trained several wrestlers, including Mephisto, Kazushige Nosawa, T. J. Perkins, Rocky Romero, and Ricky Marvin. Casas has worked all over the world, making appearances for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the United States of America as well as touring with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in Japan for over a decade.
In Mexico, Casas is known for his work in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), wrestling sporadically for the promotion from 1980 until 2023. Casas has also wrestled in Mexico for the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), World Wrestling Association (WWA) and International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG). In 2008 Negro Casas joined with Mr. Niebla and Heavy Metal to form the group La Peste Negra (Spanish for "the Black Plague"), a group that would later be joined by El Felino.