Jerry Estrada

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Jerry Estrada

Name	Jerry Estrada
Real name	Gerardo Hernández Estrada
Nicknames	El Puma
Name history	Jerry Estrada (debut - )
Family	none
Maestro(s)	Alberto Mora, Herodes
Birth date, location	January 10, 1958 - Monclova, Coahuila
Obituary date	n/a
Debut, location	1978 - Monclova, Coah
Lost mask to	n/a
Height	5'10"/178 cms
Weight	191 lbs/87 kg
Signature moves	Media Cerrajera, Flying Senton, Tope Suicida, Salida de Bandera
Titles:	National Middleweight Title, National Trios Title (w/ Pirata Morgan & Hombre Bala), CMLL World Light Heavyweight Title, National Light Heavyweight Title, Puerto Rico: WWC World Junior Heavyweight Title (2)

Biography

When famed wrestling reporter Dave Meltzer first began watching lucha libre, he wrote that the three best workers in the EMLL were El Dandy, Pirata Morgan, and Jerry Estrada. In fact, the first match from Mexico ever to get a vaunted four-star rating in Meltzer's newsletter may have been Estrada's hair match with Satanico in March 1990. A Northern-based wrestler from Monclova, Estrada came to Mexico City on the early 1980s at the suggestion of Herodes, one of the men who had trained him. He gained a reputation as a bit of a wild man, but Estrada's working ability ensured his placement on the wrestling scene. Working rudo in the middleweight and light-heavyweight divisions (he won titles in both categories), he was expected to be able to brawl, fly, wrestle technically, stir up the crowd, and even compete with an eye patch on as a member of Los Bucaneros, Pirata Morgan's pirate-themed trio. His standout attribute was his bumping, particularly the high handstand-like vaults he took on backdrops outside of the ring.

Estrada was seldom the focus of his promotions, instead being tasked with making the tecnicos look good. He did main event one of the 1994 Triplemania shows (Estrada jumped to AAA a month or so after the promotion's inception) against newly turned Heavy Metal, but that match ended in disaster, with the finish supposedly being changed multiple times. After Estrada won the match as (apparently) planned, Antonio Peña ordered a fourth fall, promptly won by Metal. This all led to Estrada storming off without getting his head shaved. Perhaps his greatest moment was in his hometown when he took the hair of longtime rival Stuka on a match taped for television.

In spite of his reckless style and a long period of apparent retirement, Estrada remained semi-active through at least 2019. In his old age he usually wrestles in the North, but in 2018 he found his way back to Arena Mexico one last time on a show featuring several legends from the past.

Luchas de apuestas record

Date	Apuesta	Winner(s)	Loser(s)	Arena and/or Place
??/??/??	hair	Jerry Estrada	Cachorro Mendoza	Mexico City
82/02/28	hair	Jerry Estrada	Tony Arce	Pista Arena Revolución - Mexico City
83/01/23	hair	Chamaco Valaguez	Jerry Estrada	Pista Arena Revolución - Mexico City
83/07/01	hair	Jerry Estrada	Franco Colombo	Arena México - Mexico City
83/08/12	hair	Jerry Estrada	Javier Llanes	Arena Coliseo - Mexico City
83/09/25	hair	Cachorro Mendoza	Jerry Estrada	Arena Coliseo - Mexico City
86/09/05	hairs	El Signo, El Texano & Negro Navarro	El Dandy, Talismán & Jerry Estrada	Arena México - Mexico City
88/??/??	hair	Jerry Estrada	Ultraman	unknown
89/??/??	hair	Jerry Estrada	Kato Kung Lee	Arena México - Mexico City
89/10/20	hair	Jerry Estrada	Javier Cruz	Arena México - Mexico City
90/03/23	hair	Satánico	Jerry Estrada	Arena México - Mexico City
91/09/08	hair	Jerry Estrada	La Fiera	Arena México - Mexico City
94/04/26	hair	Heavy Metal	Jerry Estrada	Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
94/10/30	hair	Jerry Estrada	Stuka	Plaza de Toros Buenaventura - Monclova, Coahuila
98/06/19	hair	Jerry Estrada	Stuka	Arena Siglo XXI - Nuevo Laredo, Tamps.
99/10/03	hair	The Panther	Jerry Estrada	Arena Coliseo - Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
02/08/15	hair	Jerry Estrada	Stuka I	Arena Olimpico Laguna, Gomez Palacio, Durango
02/10/04	hair	Pimpinela Escarlata & Hijo del Enfermero	Jerry Estrada & Misterioso	Auditorio de Tijuana - Tijuana, Baja California
02/10/31	hair	Stuka Jr.	Jerry Estrada	Arena Olimpico Laguna, Gomez Palacio, Durango
02/11/03	hair (1)	Jerry Estrada	Espectro Jr.	Arena Solidaridad - Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
(1) Espectro Jr. lost the wig attached to his mask