José Estrada Jr. (born August 25, 1973) is a Puerto Rican former

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best known for his time in the

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(WWF) as a member of

Los Boricuas Los Boricuas were a professional wrestling stable that originated in the World Wrestling Federation in the late 1990s. The name was derived from a popular nickname for Puerto Rican people, since all the stable's members were from Puerto Rico. Dif ...

Professional wrestling career

World Wrestling Council

The Super Medicos

In the

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(WWC), Estrada was known as Super Medico III and teamed with his father

José Estrada Sr. José Estrada Sr. is a retired Puerto Rico, 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 WW ...

(Super Medico I) as the Super Medicos. The first won the

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from Rick Valentine and

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on November 10, 1990, before losing the title back to the team on December 15 of that year. They began their second reign on January 6, 1991, losing the title to Valentine and new partner Gran Mendoza 17 days later.

Singles competition

A few months later, Estrada—now known as Super Medic III—defeated American

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to win the

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on April 20, 1991. He lost the title to

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on July 6, 1991. Super Medic III regained the title from Price on July 13, before losing it to

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on August 3, 1991. Also, during his career, he worked in various promotions in Japan and Mexico such as

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, IWA Japan,

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and

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World Wrestling Federation (1997–1998)

Estrada made his

(WWF) debut in June 1997 as a member of

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's Los Boricuas stable with Miguel Pérez Jr. and Jesús "Huracán" Castillo. They were mainly involved in

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with other stables including the

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and the

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(DoA). The feud with DoA was voted the Worst Feud of the Year by the ''

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''. During

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's tag team

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, Los Boricuas engaged two teams (Savio and Miguel, and José and Jesús), fighting on ''

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''. Vega left the group in July, but the remaining members still fought as a tag team on ''Raw'' and ''

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'' until October 1998. Estrada was

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while facing

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in the latter's television debut match on the June 22, 1998, episode of ''Raw is War''.Copeland, Adam. ''Adam Copeland On Edge'' (p.109) The incident was the result of a botched

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senton, which led to Estrada being counted out shortly into the match. Los Boricuas competed on '' Super Astros'' until the show ended in August 1999 and all three left the company. Estrada retired from wrestling shortly after.

Later career

In 2001, two years after retiring from wrestling Estrada worked a one-night appearance for

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. In 2005, Estrada came out of retirement and began wrestling full time again returning to

. His last match was in California at an independent show for Battleground Pro Wrestling losing to The Associate on September 26, 2009.

Championships

(

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) – with Super Medico I **

(

) **

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( 4 times) – with Super Medico I (3) and Muhammed Hussein (1) *Americas Wrestling Federation (Puerto Rico) **AWF World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with 24 K *

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(

) *

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:* Worst Feud of the Year (1997) – vs.

References

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