Shocker (wrestler)
| Shocker | |
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Shocker during an outdoor event in 2013 | |
| Birth name | José Luis Jair Soria |
| Born | September 12, 1971 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Shocker Super Shocker |
| Billed height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Billed weight | 98 kg (216 lb) |
| Billed from | Los Angeles, California |
| Trained by | Diablo Velasco Flash El Satánico Rubén Soria |
| Debut | October 16, 1992 |
| Retired | February 1, 2023 |
José Luis Jair Soria (born September 12, 1971) is a Mexican retired luchador or professional wrestler, who works under the ring name Shocker. He works for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in Mexico and has previously worked for AAA in Mexico, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, in the United States and New Japan Pro-Wrestling 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 CMLL Copa Revolución Mexicana in 2011.
He is talked about in a 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.