| Negro Casas | |
|---|---|
 Negro Casas at an outdoor wrestling event. | |
| Birth name | José Casas Ruiz |
| Born | January 10, 1960[1] Mexico City, Mexico[2] |
| Family | Casas |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Pepe Casas Jr.[3] Negro Casas |
| Billed height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[2] |
| Billed weight | 79 kg (174 lb)[2] |
| Billed from | Mexico City, Mexico[2] |
| Trained by | Pepe Casas[4] Raúl Reyes[4] Tony Sugar[4] Rodolfo Ruiz[4] |
| Debut | October 19, 1979[4] |
José Casas Ruiz (born January 10, 1960) is a Mexican professional wrestler (called a Luchador in Spanish) and professional wrestling trainer working for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) under the ring name Negro Casas. He is the son of former wrestler turned referee Pepe Casas, and part of the large Casas wrestling family; brother of professional wrestlers El Felino and Heavy Metal and uncle of Puma, Tiger, Canelo Casas, Rocky Casas, Danny Casas and many more.
Casas has trained several wrestlers, including Mephisto, Kazushige Nosawa, T. J. Perkins, Rocky Romero, and Ricky Marvin. Casas has worked all over the world, making appearances for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the United States of America as well as touring with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in Japan for over a decade.
In Mexico, Casas is known for his work in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), wrestling sporadically for the promotion from 1980 until 2023. Casas has also wrestled in Mexico for the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), World Wrestling Association (WWA) and International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG). In 2008 Negro Casas joined with Mr. Niebla and Heavy Metal to form the group La Peste Negra (Spanish for "the Black Plague"), a group that would later be joined by El Felino.
- ^ Arturo Rosas Plata (September 18, 2009). "La Hora Cero!". Ovaciones (in Spanish). Mexico, D.F.: Editorial Ovaciones, S. A. de C.V. pp. 17–18. Número 21713 Año LXII. Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. Retrieved September 19, 2009.
- ^ a b c d "Statistics for Professional wrestlers". PWI Presents: 2008 Wrestling Almanak and book of facts. Kappa Publications. pp. 66–79. 2008 Edition.
- ^ Centinella, Teddy (February 24, 2015). "En un día como hoy… 1980: André el Gigante se presenta en El Toreo… Santo y Bobby Lee hacen equipo en la Arena López Mateos". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved February 25, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Muñoz, Javier (August 19, 2009). ""Siempre me he divertido luchando": Negro Casas". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). Archived from the original on January 3, 2010. Retrieved August 21, 2009.