Black Terry

Professional wrestling career Mares made his professional wrestling debut in February 1973, using the ring name Black Terry but later adopted 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.

Los Temerarios 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. 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.

International Wrestling Revolution Group 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. 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.

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. Later that year Black Terry joined forces with Cerebro Negro and Dr. Cerebro to form Los Terribles Cerebros, a trio that defeated Los Oficiales (Oficial 911, Oficial AK-47, and Oficial Fierro) to win the Distrito Federal Trios Championship on December 7, 2010. In 2011 Black Terry unveiled Los Nuevo Temerarios consisting of himself, Durok and Machin, a group that did not last long before being replaced by Bombero Infernal and Alan Extreme. In 2012 IWRG renamed their "Rookie and Veteran" tournament to El Protector, where Black Terry once again teamed up with Alan Extreme, losing in the first round to Saurman and Veneno.

CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship On December 25, 2016, Negro Navarro and Black Terry, two independent wrestlers who did not work for CMLL, defeated the team of Guerrero Maya Jr. and The Panther for the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship. The match took place at the Lucha Memes show "Chairo 7: Hell In a Christmas Cell", a non-CMLL show.

Championships and accomplishments Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Negro Navarro Distrito Federal Trios Championship (1 time) – with Guerrero del Futuro and Damian El Guerrero International Wrestling Revolution Group IWRG Intercontinental Welterweight Championship (3 times) IWRG Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with El Diablo Jr. I Distrito Federal Trios Championship (2 times) – with Dr. Cerebro and Cerebro Negro Mexican local promotions Jalisco Welterweight Championship (1 time) Naucalpan Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Blue Panther Naucalpan Trios Championship (1 time) – Shu el Guerrero and José Luis Feliciano Naucalpan Welterweight Championship (1 time) Universal Wrestling Association UWA World Lightweight Championship (1 time) Mexican National Trios Championship (1 time) – with Guerrero del Futuro and Shu El Guerrero Distrito Federal Trios Championship (1 time) – with Jose Luis Feliciano and Shu El Guerrero

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