José Estrada, Sr.
| José Estrada Sr. | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | José Estrada |
| Born | 1946 (age 70–71) Puerto Rico |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | José Estrada Super Medic I Super Medico I Conquistador Dos Carlos Estrada Carlos José Estrada Super Medico |
| 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 | 1992 |
José Estrada Sr. is a retired Puerto Rican professional wrestler who was a longtime mainstay of the World Wrestling Council as well as having stints in North American promotions, most notably two separate periods of time for the World Wide Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Federation (WWWF/WWF). First in the late 1970s until 1984, holding the now inactive Junior Heavyweight Championship under his real name. From 1987 until 1989 he worked as Conquistador Dos, working as part of a masked team known as Los Conquistadores. He has also worked extensively in his native Puerto Rico, primarily for the World Wrestling Council (WWC) where he played the masked "Super Medico I", where he teamed both with a masked Don Kent in 1984 and his son José Estrada Jr. in 1990. He worked with the WWC in 2007 as a wrestling manager. His son is also a retired professional wrestler, who worked primarily in Puerto Rico.
Estrada made his professional wrestling debut in 1975 in his native Puerto Rico working for the local World Wrestling Council (WWC) promotion. In WWC he was given the masked ring character Super Médico I ("Super Medic 1"), teaming with Super Médico II to form Los Super Médicos, sometimes also referred to simply as Los Médicos, often wrestling clad in all white. On December 25, 1976 the team defeated Hercules Ayala and Victor Jovica to win the WWC North American Tag Team Championship.Los Super Médicos held the titles until March 4, 1977 where they were defeated by the team of Danny and Michel Martel. By 1978 Estrada found himself working for the New York-based World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) Carlos José Estrada, sometimes billed simply as Carlos Estrada or José Estrada. On January 20, 1978 Estrada defeated Tony Garea in a tournament final to win the WWWF Junior Heavyweight Championship, a championship that had been inactive for at least six years prior to the tournament. Three days later Estrada dropped the championship to Tatsumi Fujinami who would then bring the championship with him to Japan. In 1981 he returned to Puerto Rico as Super Médico I, teaming with Super Médico II to win the North American Tag Team Championship from Los Pastores ("The Sheepherders"; Luke Williams and Butch Miller) in April, only to lose them back to Los Pastores in May after a brief, but bloody storyline feud between the two teams. He would continue to work for the WWWF, now simply the WWF after his brief return to Puerto Rico and also worked for the Japanese New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) promotion through the WWF's tours of Japan.
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