Dark Cuervo

Dark Cuervo
Ring name(s)	Dark Cuervo El Cuervo Heavy Dracula
Billed height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Billed weight	87 kilograms (190 lb)
Born	January 4, 1974 (1974-01-04) (age 37) Toluca, Mexico State, Mexico
Trained by	Dos Caras Impala
Debut	February 28, 1996

Jaime Ignacio Tirado Correa (born January 4, 1974) is a Mexican Luchador (wrestler) who is best known as Cuervo / Dark Cuervo, a heel character that works for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) and has been part of The Black Family since it was formed in 2001 when Charly Manson formed the stable. During his time in the Black Family La Cuervo has been a member of both Lucha Libre Latina (LLL) and La Secta del Mesías, its predecessor La Secta Cibernetica and La Legión Extranjera but now the Black Family is its own independent entity.

Professional wrestling career

Jaime Correa trained under Dos Caras and Impala before making his wrestling debut in 1996. Correa debuted as El Cuervo (Spanish for "The Raven"), a Goth inspired character complete with white face paint and black markings. In 1998 Coerra briefly used the name "Heavy Dracula" but abandoned it after only a few months and reverted back to El Cuervo. In 1999 El Cuervo became a member of Abismo Negro's short lived stable Los Vipers Extreme, a splinter of the Los Vipers group that feuded with the other faction Los Vipers Primera Clase led by Cibernético. After only a few months the two Viper stables were reunited but without El Cuervo.

The Black Family

Main article: the Black Family

In the early parts of 2001 El Cuervo teamed up with other four other wrestlers that all used a similar gimmick, look and attitude as Cuervo to form the stable the Black Family. The other wrestlers were Charly Manson, Escoria and Ozz. Early on in the stable's lifetime Charly Manson suffered a grave injury after falling from a ladder during a match which put Manson out of wrestling for a long period. The Black Family brought in Chessman to be the fourth member. Around the time of Chessman joining the Black Family became part of Lucha Libre Latina (LLL), the Mexican version of the New World Order, a group led by Chessman's long time friend Cibernético. Even though they were part of a much larger group the four men still worked as a unit, a stable within the stable.

On July 18, 2003 the Black Family won their first championship as a unit when they defeated Oscar Sevilla and Los Barrio Boys for the Atómicos title, but their run only lasted 31 days before Sevilla and Los Barrio Boys regained the titles.^[1] It would be just over a year before the Black Family got another opportunity to hold the titles as they won them on August 20, 2004.^[1]

La Secta

Main article: La Secta

In 2005 Cibernético formed a new group called La Secta Cibernetica that included his friends Charly Manson and Chessman and through Chessman's membership the Black Family was also invited to join this new supergroup. The group assisted Cibernético in his fight with La Parka (the AAA version), being unable to prevent him from being unmasked at TripleMania XII.^[2] Later in the year Muerta Cibernetica was brought in to get revenge on La Parka. When Cibernético suffered a sever knee injury Muerta Cibernetica took over the group and kicked Cibernético out.After holding the Atómicos titles for 789 days the Black Family lost to the Mexican Powers (Crazy Boy, Juventud Guerrera, Joe Lider and Psicosis II) on October 18, 2006.^[1] Not long after they lost the tag team titles Chessman turned "Technicó" and sided with Cibernético and Charly Manson to form "Los Hell Brothers" fighting against La Secta, now known as "La Secta del Mesias" as Muerta Cibernetica changed his name to "El Mesias". With Chessman out of the Black Family the team invited Espiritu to leave Los Vatos Locos and join them, the invitation was accepted without any friction from the rest of Los Vatos Locos. Sometime in 2006 all four members of the Black Family changed their names slightly adding the word "Dark" in front of their names, thus Ozz became 'Dark Cuervo although the names are use interchangeably. In early 2007 Cuervo teamed with Dark Ozz to compete in a 16 team tournament to crown the first ever AAA World Tag Team Champions. in the end four teams met in the finals at the Rey de Reyes 2007 event. Dark Ozz and Dark Cuervo defeated The Mexican Powers (Crazy Boy and Joe Lider), Los Guapos (Alan Stone and Zumbido) and Real Fuerza Aérea AAA (Pegasso and Super Fly) in an elimination match to win the titles.^[3] Cuervo became a double champion when the Black Family won the Atómicos titles from the Mexican Powers on May 20, 2007.^[1] The dual title situation only lasted until TripleMania XV where the Mexican Powers team of Crazy Boy and Joe Lider won the Tag Team Championship.^[3][4]

End of La Secta

In early 2008 El Mesias and the rest of La Secta was kicked out of La Legión Extranjera with La Legión putting El Mesias out of commission for a while. When El Mesias returned to active competititon tension began to build between the Black Family and El Mesias. The tensions culminated after El Mesias lost a Steel Cage "Street Fight" Match to Vampiro at Verano de Escandalo (2008) which lead to the Black Family attacking El Mesias officially severing their relationship.^[5] After breaking up La Secta del Mesias the group began to feud with El Mesias. DUring the fall and winter of 2008 both Charly Manson and Chessman made hints at them possibly returning to the Black Family but Manson got injured and taken off TV while Chessman turned on the group after feinting friendship. On January 9, 2009 Chessman teamed with the Psycho Circus (Killer Clown, Psycho Clown and Zombie Clown) to end the Black Family's Atómicos title run.^[1] In November and December 2010 Cuervo and Ozz took part in All Japan Pro Wrestling's World's Strongest Tag Team League. The duo managed to win four out of their eight matches in the tournament and finished fifth out of nine teams in the final standings.^[6]

El Inframundo

In May 2011, Cuervo, Ozz and Espíritu joined La Parka and Drago to form technico group El Inframundo ("The Underworld") and battle Cibernético's Los Bizarros, which also included their former stable mate Escoria.^[7] Cuervo and Ozz returned to All Japan Pro Wrestling in September 2011 and, after Ozz pinned AJPW Unified World Tag Team Champion KENSO in a six man tag team match, were named the number one contenders to KENSO's and The Great Muta's title.^[8] On October 9 at Héroes Inmortales, La Parka turned rudo and jumped to Los Perros del Mal, effectively dissolving El Inframundo.^[9] On October 23, Cuervo and Ozz defeated Muta and KENSO to win the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship.^[10]

In wrestling

• Finishing moves

• Brainbuster
• Sharpshooter

• Signature moves

• Diving splash
• Low blow
• Suicide dive

Championships and accomplishments

• All Japan Pro Wrestling

• AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – with Dark Ozz^[10]

• Asistencia Asesoría y Administración

• AAA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ozz^[3]
• Mexican National Atómicos Championship (3 times) – with Escoria, Ozz and Chessman (2), Dark Escoria, Dark Ozz and Dark Espiritu (1)^[1]

Luchas de Apuestas record

See also: Luchas de Apuestas

Wager	Winner	Loser	Location	Date	Notes
Hair	El Cuervo	Kung Fu	Unknown	Unknown
Hair	El Cuervo	El Goelador	Unknown	Unknown
Hair	El Cuervo and ??	Los Mohicanos (I and II)	Tlalnepantla, Mexico State	Unknown
Hair	El Cuervo	Tony Rivera	Naucalpan, Mexico State	01996-11-03 November 3, 1996
Hair	El Cuervo	Cobra	Naucalpan, Mexico State	01997-03-02 March 2, 1997
Hair	El Cuervo	El Mohicano, Jr.	Tlalnepantla, Mexico State	00998-03-15 March 15, 998
Hair	El Cuervo	Mohawk	Tlalnepantla, Mexico State	01999-12-17 December 17, 1999

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Lucha 2000 Staff (2004-12-20). "Los Reyes de Mexico: La Historia de Los Campeonatos Nacionales" (in Spanish). Lucha 2000. Especial 21. 
2. ^ "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion TripleMania". ProWrestlingHistory.com. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/mexico/aaa/triple.html#xii. Retrieved 2009-02-19. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} SuperLuchas staff (December 26, 2007). "2007 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas. issue 244. 
4. ^ "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion TripleMania". ProWrestlingHistory.com. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/mexico/aaa/triple.html#xv. Retrieved 2009-02-19. 
5. ^ "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion Verano de Escandalo". ProWrestlingHistory.com. http://www.prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/mexico/aaa/verano.html#2008. Retrieved 2009-02-19. 
6. ^ Zayfren (2010-12-05). "Resultados Real World Tag League, décimo segundo día: ya están los finalistas" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. http://superluchas.net/2010/12/05/resultados-real-world-tag-league-decimo-segundo-dia-ya-estan-los-finalistas/. Retrieved 2010-12-05. 
7. ^ "Nace El Inframundo" (in Spanish). Récord. May 6, 2011. http://www.record.com.mx/luchalibre/2011-05-06/nace-el-inframundo. Retrieved May 7, 2011. 
8. ^ Soy Rudo (September 20, 2011). "AJPW: Dark Ozz y Dark Cuervo retadores al AJPW World Tag Team." (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. http://superluchas.net/2011/09/20/ajpw-dark-ozz-y-dark-cuervo-retadores-al-ajpw-world-tag-team/. Retrieved September 21, 2011. 
9. ^ "Héroes Inmortales con hechos inimaginables" (in Spanish). Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. October 10, 2011. http://luchalibreaaa.com/heroes-inmortales-quinta-edicion.php. Retrieved October 13, 2011. 
10. ^ ^{a b} "『プロレスＬＯＶＥ in 両国 vol.13』" (in Japanese). All Japan Pro Wrestling. October 23, 2011. http://www.all-japan.co.jp/schedule/tour03.php?taikai_id=201. Retrieved October 23, 2011. 

External links

Professional wrestling portal

• AAA profile

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Name	Cuervo, Dark
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Date of birth	January 4, 1974
Place of birth	Toluca, Mexico State, Mexico
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