Stuka Jr

Professional wrestling career

Stuka Jr. made his professional wrestling debut in 2005 after training with his older brother Stuka. He took the name Stuka Jr. after his brother, adopting a ring outfit adorned with German Iron Crosses and a mask fashioned to look like aviator goggles and a German helmet. Initially the Stuka brothers teamed together, winning the Northern Mexico Tag Team Championship not long after Stuka Jr. made his wrestling debut. By 2006 Stuka Jr. was signed to a full-time contract with the Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

Stuka Jr. made his CMLL debut on April 30, 2006, working mainly in the opening matches while receiving additional training from CMLL's head trainer Satánico. Stuka Jr.'s first headline exposure came when he participated in the first Torneo cibernetico qualifier for the 2007 Leyenda de Plata tournament on May 18, 2007, where he was eliminated by eventual winner Mr. Águila. A month later Stuka Jr. participated in the 2007 version of CMLL's Torneo Gran Alternativa, teaming up with Veteran Negro Casas. The team lost to Dr. Wagner Jr. and Máscara Purpura in the first round. On September 28, 2007, Stuka Jr. teamed up with Metalico and Valiente to defeat Los Infernales (Euforia and Nosferatu) and Loco Max on the undercard of CMLL 75th Anniversary Show.

Teaming with Flash / Fuego

By 2008 Stuka Jr. had begun teaming with Flash on a semi-regular basis, especially on CMLL's "lower level" shows away from Arena Mexico. When CMLL announced that they were bringing back the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship in June 2008, the team of Stuka Jr. and Flash was one of the 16 teams entered in the tournament. The first three rounds of the tournament took place on June 22, 2008, and saw Stucka Jr. and Flash defeated Astro Boy and Molotov in the first round, the Los Guerreros Tuareg team of Nitro and Skandalo in the quarter final and Bronco and Diamante Negro in the semi final. The team faced and defeated Los Infernales (Nosferatu and Euforia) in the final on June 28 to win the Arena Colise Tag Team Championship. Stuka Jr. and Flash teamed with Máscara Purpura to defeat the Guerreros Tuareg team of Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max and Skándalo at CMLL's 2008 Infierno en el Ring event. Throughout late 2009 Stuka Jr. and Flash worked a series of matches against Los Infernales, including a successful tag team title defense on December 14, 2008. Los Infernales defeated Stuka Jr. and Flash at CMLL's La Hora Cero PPV on January 11, 2009, but the Coliseo Tag Team title was not on. In June 2009 Stuka Jr. along with El Hijo del Fantasma, Sangre Azteca and Dragón Rojo Jr. traveled to Europe to wrestle at the Hot Air Fair, an art exhibit featuring a wrestling show for the fair-goers. Stuka Jr. and Flash teamed with Metalico at CMLL's 2009 Infierno en el Ring event as the trio lost to the team of Virus, Euforia and Skandalo.

On December 19, 2009, the Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. announced that Poder Mexica had been stripped of the Mexican National Trios Championship because Black Warrior had left CMLL, breaking up the team. At the same time they announced an eight-team tournament to crown a new trios champion. The top half of the bracket took place on December 22, 2009, and the bottom half of the bracket took place on December 29. In the top bracket Stuka Jr. teamed with Máscara Dorada and Metro for the first time ever and defeated Guerreros Tuareg (Arkangel de la Muerte, Loco Max and Skándalo) in the first round and Los Cancerberos del Infierno (Virus, Euforia and Pólvora) in the second round to qualify for the finals. The bottom bracket took place on December 29, 2009, and saw the team of Poder Mexica (Sangre Azteca, Dragón Rojo Jr., and Misterioso Jr.) qualify for the final. On January 6, 2010, Mascara Dorada, Stuka Jr., and Metro defeated Poder Mexica to become the new Mexican National Trios Champions, making Stuka Jr. a double champion. In mid-2010 Stuka Jr. and Metal Blanco started a storyline feud against Máscara Mágica and Exterminador, that played out on CMLL's weekly shows in Guadalajara, Jalisco. On July 27, Stuka Jr. and Metal Blanco won a Lucha de Apuesta, masks vs. hair match. Stuka Jr. and partner originally looked like they would have to unmask after losing the third fall, but the local wrestling commission voided the results of the third fall due to cheating by Máscara Mágica and Extreminador, restarting the match. In the end Stuka Jr. and Metal Blanco won the third and deciding fall, forcing their opponents to be shaved bald pr. lucha libre traditions. By virtue of holding the Mexican National Trios Championship Stuka Jr. participated in the 2010 Universal Championship tournament. Stuka Jr. was part of "Block A" that competed on the July 30, 2010 Super Viernes show. He was the second wrestler eliminated in the seeding battle royal and then lost to his Mexican National Trios Championship partner Mascara Dorada in the first round of the actual tournament. On November 18, Máscara Dorada announced he was relinquishing the Mexican National Trios Championship. Stuka Jr.'s and Metro's new partner was to be determined in an online poll. On December 20, CMLL announced that Delta had won the poll and was now one third of the champions, alongside Stuka Jr. and Metro On January 9, 2011, Stuka Jr., Delta, and Metro lost the Mexican National Trios Championship to Ángel de Oro, Diamante and Rush. He was briefly unmasked by Euforia on Spanish TV in late March 2011, but his face was blurred out on television. In late 2012 Stuka Jr. began to develop a rivalry with Japanese wrestler Namajague, initiated by Namajague's attempts to cheat his way to victory over Stuka Jr. Stuka Jr. and Fuego successfully defended the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship against Namajague and his La Fiebre Amarilla ("The Yellow Fever") partner Okumura. Through the series of Arena Coliseo tag team matches Namajague began targeting Stuka Jr. specifically, more intent on hurting and humiliating him including tearing Stuka Jr.'s mask open during the match. In late 2013 Rey Cometa was added to the storyline as it also drew in Okumura as Namajague's back up. On March 3, 2013, Stuka Jr. and Fuego's four and a half year reign as the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Champions came to an end, when they lost the title to Namajague and Okumura. On March 15, 2013, Stuka Jr. and Rey Cometa defeated La Fiebre Amarilla in the main event of the 2013 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show, forcing Okumura to have all his hair shaved off and Namajague was unmasked and had to reveal his real name, Kyosuke Mikami, as per lucha libre traditions. In late March 2013 Stuka Jr. was announced as a participant in the 2013 En Busca de un Ídolo ("In search of an Idol") tournament that would take place from May to July 2013 as one of eight competitors. From January 14 to 19, 2014, Stuka Jr. worked the New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and CMLL co-produced Fantastica Mania 2014 tour, which marked his debut in Japan. For the entire tour, Stuka Jr. worked undercard matches, alongside Rey Cometa. On April 27, Stuka Jr. won the 2014 Reyes del Aire tournament, outlasting a field that included Averno, Mephisto, Ephesto, Mr. Niebla, Valiente, Tritón, Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr., Rey Cometa, Niebla Roja, Puma and Tiger. In January 2015, Stuka Jr. returned to Japan to take part in the Fantastica Mania 2015 tour, during which he unsuccessfully challenged Mephisto for the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship.

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments