Rayo de Jalisco Sr.

"Rayo de Jalisco" redirects here. Not to be confused with Rayo de Jalisco Jr..
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Linares and the second or maternal family name is Moreno.

Rayo de Jalisco Sr.
Birth nameMáximino Linares Moreno
BornNovember 22, 1932
Mexico City, Mexico[1]
DiedJuly 19, 2018(2018-07-19) (aged 85)[2]
Guadalajara, Mexico
FamilyRayo de Jalisco Jr. (son)[3]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Águila Negra
Dr. Curtis
El Rayo
Mr. Misterio
Rayo de Jalisco
Tony Curtis
Billed height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Billed weight93 kg (205 lb)[1]
Billed fromJalisco, Mexico
Trained byTony Sugar (brother)
DebutFebruary 1950[1]
Retired1993

Máximino Linares Moreno (November 22, 1932 – July 19, 2018) was a Mexican luchador (professional wrestler) and lucha film star, better known under the ring name Rayo de Jalisco ("The Lightning Bolt from Jalisco"). He is considered to be one of the best wrestlers of his generation. Linares' son followed in his footsteps and is working under the name Rayo de Jalisco Jr., wearing the same distinctive black mask with silver lightning bolt on it when wrestling. One of Linares' grandsons is also a wrestler, known as "Rayman".

During his career, Linares held the NWA World Middleweight Championship on three occasions as well as the Mexican National Tag Team Championship with lucha libre icon El Santo. He was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 1996 and the AAA Hall of Fame in 2014. Linares worked for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre for a large part of his career and was honored by them in 2013 as part of their annual Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show.

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  2. ^ "Falleció El Rayo de Jalisco, legendario luchador mexicano". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. July 19, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference MondoFamily was invoked but never defined (see the help page).