Black Terry

Esteban Mares Castañeda (born September 3, 1952) is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Black Terry.

Wrestling since 1973, he was once part of a group called Los Temerarios alongside Jose Luis Feliciano and Shu El Guerrero.

He has previously worked as the masked character Guerrero Maya ("Mayan Warrior") where he formed the group called Los Guerreros Del Futuro ("The Warriors of the Future") with Guerrero del Futuro (a masked Feliciano) and Damian El Guerrero.

He is the father of wrestler Guerrero Maya Jr.. although the relationship is not officially recognized due to Guerrero Maya, Jr. being a masked wrestler.

Mares made his professional wrestling debut in February 1973, using the ring name Black Terry but later adopt a masked ring character called "La Gacela", Spanish for "The Gazelle".

On November 20, 1977, Mares was forced to remove the La Gacela mask after losing a Lucha de Apuesta ("Bet match") to El Signo.

Following the mask loss he reverted to working as Black Terry.

While he was known mainly for being a technical wrestler during his early years Black Terry displayed a much rougher, violent style once he joined together with Shu El Guerrero and Jose Luis Feliciano to form Los Temerarios ("The Fearless") in the early 1980s.

The early 1980s was the boom for trios wrestling matches in Mexico, especially with the success of Los Misioneros de la Muerte (El Signo, El Texano, and Negro Navarro), and Los Temerarios built on that success with a number very well received trios matches.

The three were so successful they became the first holders of the Distrito Federal Trios Championship, a title that was sanctioned not by a wrestling promotion but by the Mexico City wrestling and Boxing commission and was not technically owned by one single promotion.

Los Temerarios would later lose the Distrito Federal Trios Championship to a trio of young Japanese wrestlers, Yoshihiro Asai, Hata Hirokazu, and Naoki Sano, at a show in Naucalpan, State of Mexico.

As Black Terry he became a main stay of the Universal Wrestling Association's lighter divisions, especially the Lightweight division where he won the UWA World Lightweight Championship from Black Man on September 30, 1981.

After 823 days as champion Black Terry lost the UWA World Lightweight Championship to Negro Casas on January 1, 1984.

One of Los Temerarios initial opponents was a popular team called Los Cadetos del Espacio ("The Space Cadets") consisting of El Solar, Super Astro, and Ultraman, with whom Los Temerarios had a series of matches, including a Luchas de Apuestas match between the two teams that left all three Temerarios without their hair.

On November 20, 1989, Los Temerarios won the Mexican National Trios Championship, which at the time was the most respected Trios championship in Mexico, when they defeated Los Destructores (Tony Arce, Emilio Charles, Jr., and Vulcano).

In the late 1990s and early 2000s Black Terry became associated with International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), a regional promotion in Naucalpan, Mexico State.

He became the head trainer at IWRG's training school and as such had a hand in training many of IWRG's and wrestlings future main eventers.

One of the wrestlers trained by Black Terry became known as Multifacético ("Multi-faceted") and was later revealed to be Black Terry's son (currently known as Guerrero Maya Jr.. in CMLL).

As Multifacético Terry's son worked as a tecnico (the Spanish term for a wrestler who portrays a "good guy" character) and had a lot of promotional support behind him.

The heavy focus on the inexperienced, and at times accident prone Multifacético saw the fans react in the opposite way, booing him instead of supporting him.

Their run with the title lasted until January 1, 1991, when they lost the championship to Los Arqueros del Espacio ("The Space Archers"; El Arquero, Danny Boy, and Lasser).

The title loss was part of a long running storyline between the two teams, a storyline that later saw Los Temerarios defeat Los Arqueros del Espacio, in this case Robin Hood, Danny Boy, and Lasser, in a Luchas de Apuetas match.

By the end of 1991 Black Terry and Jose Luis Feliciano both began working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), ending Los Temerarios.

In CMLL Mares and Feliciano were both given new ring identities, including new masks to give them a fresh image.

Terry became known as "Guerrero Maya" ("The Mayan Warrior") and Feliciano became known as "Guerrero del Futuro" ("The Warrior from the Future").

The two, together with Damian El Guerrero became known as Los Guerreros del Futuro and started a storyline with CMLL's top fan favorite trio at the time, Los Metálicos (Oro, Plata, and Bronce).

Los Guerreros del Futuro won the Distrito Federal Trios Championship, but since CMLL did not publicly acknowledge that Guerrero Maya was previously Black Terry they were never presented as two-time champions.

It is not clear exactly when or how Los Guerreros del Futuro lost the Distrito Federal titles, mainly due to lack of record keeping, but by 1995 the team of Ciclón Ramírez, El Nuevo Huracán Ramírez, Jr. and El Hijo de Huracán Ramírez were the Distrito Federal Trios Champions.

As Guerrero Maya he also competed in a number of singles matches, including a tournament for the newly created CMLL World Middleweight Championship, a tournament won by Blue Panther.

Los Guerreros del Futuro participated in CMLL's Salvador Lutteroth Trios Tournament in honor of CMLL founder Salvador Lutteroth.

The tournament took place on March 24, 1995, and the trio lost in the first round to Los Brazos (Brazo de Oro, Brazo de Platba, and El Brazo) By late 1996 Los Guerreros del Futuro had disbanded and Mares left CMLL.

For a while he worked as under the ring name El Hijo del Diablo ("The Son of the Devil"), a character that was later given to someone else.

With time his in-ring skills improved and his long-running feud with Black Terry eventually showed that he had wrestling skills and the two put on some of the best IWRG matches in 2008 according to SuperLuchas Magazine.

During the storyline between the two Multifacético defeated Black Terry to win the IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship.

As part of his promotional push as a top star, Multifacético defeated Black Terry in a Lucha de Apuesta on April 7, 2008, leaving his father bald as a result.

Black Terry later won the IWRG Welterweight Championship from Fuerza Guerrera.

In early 2009 Multifacético left IWRG and became Guerrero Maya, Jr. in CMLL, finally confirming that he was indeed Black Terry's son.

IWRG held their first Torneo Relampago de Proyeccion a Nuevas Promesas de la Lucha Libre ("Projecting a new promise lightning tournament") on January 1, 2010.

The tournament saw a wrestling veteran team up with a rookie for a tag team competition designed to give more exposure to the rookies.

Black Terry teamed up with his trainee Alan Extreme, but lost in the first round to Dinamic Black (rookie) and Chico Che.