In the worldview of Mexican wrestling the show is crucial. This was understood by Jesús Alberto Huerta (Hermosillo, Sonora, 1966 – 2020), who decided to cope with the skull suit. The parka, as they decided to name the character, aimed to be a great villain, although Huerta preferred to give him joy. He was the only fighter in the 90s who was dancing to dance the choreography of Thriller by Michael Jackson instead of showing the muscle. People did not hesitate to get hooked. The joy of his fight has turned off this Saturday when he died at age 54 due to renal failure.
The dance steps of the parka were clumsy, on the quadrilateral they wore their skills to despair rivals than their movements of the canvas. On his shoulders, the long hair to Jimmy Page looked out. The man behind the suit, who tried to simulate a great skull, won weighed. It was death with a stop obesity. And that involuntary humor caused it to become one of the great idols of the Mexican struggle. In the still sands of all Mexico there are masks of the great icons such as the saint, Blue Demon and also the parka. “We did not follow the game to his dances because we landed him with blows,” the fighter mask year 2000 tells this newspaper. “He was very charismatic, gave lucidity to his character,” he adds.
Jesús Alberto Huerta became a specialist in replacing identities. His premiere in the great wrestling sands did so in 1995 under the name of Karis la Mummy, a character that had already been used by three other fighters. And a year later the owner of one of the main wrestling in Mexico, the triple A, offered to take care of a high popular character: the parka. The creator of that character was Adolfo Tapia who, for that year, decided to try his luck in the United States, but did not agree that someone else would take his place. Huerta, under the protection of the company, occupied the vacancy. “It is the bone sack and many meshes,” the presenter shouted in each function.
The enmity between Huerta and Tapia, the Parkas, transcended the script of Mexican wrestling. There was a legal dispute by the name that ended up winning triple A and Huerta, so the creator had to manage them with a word game: Park. In 2010, both combatants faced themselves to settle who would keep the name, but, after all paraphernalia, the fight was invalidated. Thus the dispute was settled. “I have given life to Parka, people have supported me,” Huerta insisted. Thus became the banner of the Mexican wrestling company, AAA, from the masks, t -shirts, action figures and even even in a video game.
The Parka race stopped dry on October 21 of last year. That night, in a function in Monterrey, fighter Calaca tried to leave between two strings from the quadrilateral to fall on a rival, Rush. It was a risky, but routine movement. The feet of the parka were stuck and the trajectory of their movement deviated. He crashed into the retaining wall that divides the public. Pum. The metallic sound foreshadow the worst. The fighter did not move and there the mystique of wrestling vanished to take him to the hospital. Little by little he recovered mobility in his limbs and the ability to speak. That accident aggravated his state of health. On January 10 he suffered a renal failure until he died.
“If you do not love and respect wrestling you are nothing,” the parka told her son, also a fighter, in her last days. “We as fighters are aware of the risk we run. We know that we can not get off the ring, there is no deception. We are prepared in case we have to die,” this newspaper Mask is 2000. The parka of garden, away from Thriller In the background and the great cheers, he has left.
