Jose Luis Rivera
| Jose Luis Rivera | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Marcelino Rivera Alicea |
| Born |
August 13, 1960 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) |
Jose Luis Rivera Mac Rivera Black Demon Red Demon Conquistador Uno Conquistador #1 Sultán Jose Luis Rivera Shadow #2 |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Billed weight | 249 lb (113 kg) |
| Billed from | "Somewhere in Latin America". Puerto Rico. |
| Trained by | Diablo Velasco |
| Debut | 1970s |
| Retired | 1994 |
Marcelino Rivera Alicea (born August 6, 1960) better known as Jose Luis Rivera is a Puerto Rican semi-retired professional wrestler. He was notable for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (today known as WWE) where he was also known as Conquistador #1 or Conquistador Uno when he teamed with fellow Puerto Rican Jose Estrada, Sr..
Jose Luis Rivera started his professional wrestling career in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in the state of Florida. According to Rivera, he also wrestled amateur in the gyms before going professional and wrestling the likes of "Superstar" Billy Graham, Ox Baker, and Ivan Koloff.
Rivera signed on the then-World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) and made his debut on July 10, 1970 as the heel Red Demon where he fought and defeated by pinfall preliminary wrestler Mike Conrad. According to Rivera, his first match with the WWWF was with Ivan Koloff.
In 1982, Rivera returned to the WWWF, but by this time was now under new leadership as Vincent Kennedy McMahon had bought the WWWF from his father Vincent James McMahon during the time Rivera was absent, and changed the name of the company in 1979 to World Wrestling Federation (WWF) Rivera then changed his nickname to Mac Rivera and was mostly used as a face preliminary wrestler for WWF TV-Tapings, excluding a non-televised event in which Rivera participated in a 22-men Battle Royal won by Bob Orton Jr. After a losing streak during all of 1982 and early 1983, Rivera finally broke his losing streak defeating "Baron" Mikel Scicluna on New York City at Madison Square Garden on March 20 in a match where Scicluna was believed he would win. Rivera, however was unable to step up the card and eventually continued his losing streak, now as Jose Luis Rivera and occasionally as Mac Rivera as well, but would defeat Scicluna again at a WWF untelevised event on May, 18. Untelevised victories over fellow preliminary wrestlers Rene Goulet, Butcher Vachon, Bob Bradley would follow, with Rivera eventually ending 1983 in a winning streak. Rivera would start 1984 continuing his winning streak throughout January of that year with televised victories over fellow preliminary wrestlers Tony Colón, Frankie Williams, and Israel Matia, and an untelevised victory over John Callahan but was eventually defeated by another preliminary wrestler, Tiger Chung Lee. Starting with an untelevised $20.000 battle royal won by André The Giant on January 21, Rivera was once again unable to move up the card and found himself on the losing end of many matches, losing to more-established stars such as SD Jones, Mr. Fuji, and Tony Garea, although Rivera would come victorious in matches against less-established wrestlers such as Charlie Fulton and Fred Marzino. One of Rivera's highlights was a boxing match against "Boxing" Bob Orton, Jr. in early 1986. Orton would win the match by TKO. This was "warn up" for Orton as he had an upcoming boxing match against Mr. T.
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