Espanto IV and V
| Espanto IV and V | |
|---|---|
| Tag team | |
| Members | Espanto IV Espanto V |
| Name(s) | Los Espantos Los Nuevo Espantos |
| Debut | 1989 |
| Disbanded | 2001 |
| Promotions | Independent circuit |
Brothers Espanto IV and Espanto V (Spanish for "Terror 4"/"Scare 4" and "Terror 5"/"Scare 5") are a Mexican professional wrestling tag team who has worked primarily as a rudo (term used for wrestlers who portray the "Bad guys") team on the Mexican independent circuit. While both brothers have been unmasked in the ring no documentation of their birth names have been found.
They are the sons of professional wrestler Miguel Vázquez Bernal, better known as Espanto III and adopted the Espantos name and mask eight years after their father retired from wrestling. Their uncle Jose Eusebio Vázquez was also a wrestler, better known as Espanto I but was killed in 1968. Espanto IV retired in 2001 and Espanto V is semi-retired, working only the occasional show around his hometown of Torreon, Coahuila.
The wrestlers known as "Espanto IV" (Spanish for "Terror 4" or "Scare 4") and Espanto V ("Terror 5"/ "Scare 5") were both born and raised in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico sons of Miguel Vázquez Bernal, better known by his ring name, Espanto III. As Espanto III, Vázquez was an active wrestler from the 1960s through the early 1980s. In a 1996 interview Espanto IV revealed that their father never pushed them to become wrestlers, insisting that they learn a trade as well as train for wrestling to make sure they had options in life. Espanto IV also shared the fact that it took a lot of convincing from the brothers to allow them to be known as "Espanto IV" and "Espanto V", but the fact that Vázquez and Fernando Cisneros Carrilo (Espanto II) had given Jesús Andrade Salas permission to work as Espanto Jr. finally convinced their father to allow them to become "Espanto IV" and "Espanto V" instead of being a "Junior" or "hijo" ("son").
In 1989 Espanto IV and Espanto V made their in ring debut, both wearing the distinctive black mask with a white cross of the original Los Espantos. and soon verified that they were legitimately the sons of Espanto III, not "storyline" releatives or wrestlers who paid to use the ring name of a famous wrestler. Due to the secretive nature of masked wrestlers in Mexico, it is unclear if Espanto IV and V's 1989 debut was their "true" debut or if the brothers actually made their in-ring debut prior to 1989 using other masks and names to gain experience. The two worked regularly as a tag team in and around the Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico area under the names Los Espantos or Los Nuevo Espantos and would work for the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) among others. The brothers later toured Japan, working for the Japanese Universal Wrestling Federation and Michinoku Pro. In Japan they unsuccessfully challenged the Great Sasuke and Gran Hamada for the UWA/UWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship on April 19, 1993. They also appeared on the Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) Fourth Anniversary Show, teaming up with Super Delfin, where they lost to the Great Sasuke, Kendo and Choden Senshi Battle Ranger.
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