About Shocker (wrestler)
José Luis Jair Soria (born September 12, 1971), best known under the ring name Shocker, is a Mexican retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). He has previously worked for AAA in Mexico, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the United States and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in Japan. Soria is a second-generation professional wrestler; his father, Rubén Soria, was an active wrestler from 1963 to the 1970s. Working as Shocker, he has held the CMLL World Tag Team Championship on three occasions with Negro Casas, Mr. Niebla and L.A. Park. He is also a former holder of the CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship, the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship (twice) and the NWA World Historic Light Heavyweight Championship. He has won the Gran Alternativa tournament in 1995, the Copa de Arena México in 2001, La Copa Junior in 2005 and the Copa Revolución Mexicana in 2011. Shocker holds several Luchas de Apuestas ("bet match") victories over Máscara Año 2000, Tarzan Boy, Vampiro Canadiense, Halloween, Kenzo Suzuki, Marco Corleone, Emilio Charles Jr., Bestia Salvaje, Mazada, Nosawa, Sangre Chicana, Rey Bucanero and Black Warrior. He is talked about in the Netflix movie Lucha Mexico. He appears in the first season of An Idiot Abroad, where Karl Pilkington was sent by show producers Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to Mexico to see one of the Seven Wonders of the World, Chichen Itza. While he was there, he was tasked with learning how to wrestle; Soria was his trainer. He worked his first match on October 16, 1992, using the ring name Shocker, an enmascarado or masked wrestler. Shocker began working for CMLL in 1994, and by 1995, he slowly began receiving a push from the promoters when he won that year's Gran Alterntiva tournament along with his partner, Silver King. He has won the Gran Alternativa tournament in 1995, the Copa de Arena México in 2001, La Copa Junior in 2005 and CMLL Copa Revolución Mexicana in 2011.
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