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Juan Alvarado Nieves (July 30, 1961 – October 15, 2013) was a Mexican '' luchador'' (
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). He was best known under the
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El Brazo (
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for "the Arm"), which he used since his debut in 1980. Alvarado was part of the
Alvarado wrestling family The Alvarado wrestling family, also referred to as ''La Dinastia Alvarado'' ("The Alvarado Dynasty") in Spanish, is a Mexico City based family of professional wrestling, professional wrestlers. The family works primarily in Mexico but have made app ...
, which includes his father Shadito Cruz, five brothers who used the "Brazo" name at some point and several third-generation wrestlers.


Professional wrestling career

Alvarado made his debut as "El Brazo", an Enmascarado (masked wrestler) who worked mainly in
Tag team Tag team wrestling is a type of professional wrestling in which matches are contested between teams of multiple wrestlers. Tag teams may be made up of wrestlers who normally wrestle in singles competition, but more commonly are made of establis ...
action with his brothers who worked as Brazo de Oro ("Gold arm") and
Brazo de Plata José Luis Alvarado Nieves (March 19, 1963 – July 26, 2021) was a Mexican '' luchador'' best known under the ring name Brazo de Plata, a name he had used since his debut in 1977. He is also well known for his appearances in WWE as Super Por ...
("Silver Arm"). Los Brazos, as they were billed, wrestled all over Mexico and made appearances for the
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based "NWA Hollywood Wrestling". Over the years Brazo de Plata and his brothers competed in a large number of Luchas de Apuestas ("Bet fights") where they put their masks or hair on the line against their opponents. Los Brazos' most famous Luchas de Apuestas occurred on October 21, 1988, when Brazo de Plata, Brazo de Oro and El Brazo all placed their masks on the line in a match against another well known Lucha libre family, Los Villanos, in this case
Villano I José de Jesús Díaz Mendoza (June 28, 1950 – January 4, 2001), best known by his ring name Villano I (Spanish language, Spanish: "Villano Primero"; English language, English: "Villain the first"), was a Mexican ''Lucha libre, luchador'' ''w ...
, Villano IV and Villano V. The match was the culmination of a long feud (Storyline) between the two families and saw all six wrestlers bleed profusely during the bout. In the end Los Villanos won the match forcing all three Brazos to unmask and reveal their real names as its tradition in these types of matches. Despite losing their masks Los Brazos remained successful in the ring winning various tag team and trios titles such as the UWA World Tag Team Championship,
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, WWA World Tag Team Championship and the WWA World Trios Championship By the 1990s Los Brazos worked mainly for
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Co., Ltd. (CMLL; , "World Wrestling Council") is a ''lucha libre'' professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City. The promotion was previously known as (EMLL) (''Mexican Wrestling Enterprise''). Founded in 1933, it is the oldest profe ...
(CMLL) where Brazo de Plata, Brazo de Oro and El Brazo won the CMLL World Trios Championship from Los Infernales ( Pirata Morgan, Satánico and MS-1) on April 6, 1993. Los Brazos lost the titles to Dr. Wagner, Jr., Gran Markus, Jr. and El Hijo del Gladiador. Los Brazos began teaming less and less with Brazo de Oro working more backstage in CMLL. El Brazo began working under various ring names such as ''Tio Lucas'', ''Latin Boiler'', ''Ingordable'' and ''La Puerca'', but his expanding waist line made it hard to hide who was actually behind the various gimmicks. In 2008 El Brazo signed with Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración (AAA) and quickly inserted himself in his brother Brazo de Plata's storyline with a group known as ''Los Guapos VIP''. Initially it looked like El Brazo was siding with his brother, only to turn on him and join Los Guapos VIP, taking the (storyline) control of the Los Guapos VIP group. The storyline fight of the two brothers came to a crescendo at Guerrera de Titanes 2008, where they faced off in a steel cage match where the loser would have his hair shaved off. El Brazo lost and had his hair shaved to put at least a temporary end to the storyline. On November 5, 2011, El Brazo debuted a new ''exótico'' persona, La Braza, and aligned himself with Cassandro and
Pimpinela Escarlata Mario González Lozano (born April 18, 1969) is a Mexican '' luchador'', or professional wrestler, who works as an ''exótico'' for the Mexican Lucha Libre AAA World Wide promotion and Lucha Underground under the ring name Pimpinela Escarlata. ...
in their battle with fellow ''exóticos'' Nygma, Pasión Cristal, Polvo de Estrellas and Yuriko.


Other media

El Brazo has appeared in the video game '' Lucha Libre AAA: Héroes del Ring''.


Death

Alvarado died on October 15, 2013, due to complications from
diabetes Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels. Diabetes is due to either the pancreas not producing enough of the hormone insulin, or the cells of th ...
. Alvarado was inducted into the
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on August 17, 2014, at Triplemanía XXII.


The Alvarado family

The Alvarado wrestling family spans three generations starting with Shadito Cruz followed by his 6 sons and a third-generation who have begun wrestling in recent years, which includes Juan Alvarado's son that works as " El Brazo, Jr.". All second-generation Alvarados use wrestling names with the term "Brazo" in it, El Brazo (Juan Alvarado Nieves), Brazo de Oro (Jesús Alvarado Nieves), Brazo de Plata (José Alvarado Nieves), Brazo de Platino ("Platinum Arm"; Daniel Alvarado Nieves), Super Brazo (Martin Alvarado Nieves) and Brazo Cibernetico (Cybernetic Arm; José Aarón Alvarado Nieves). † = deceased


Championships and accomplishments

* Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración **
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(Class of 2014) *
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** CMLL World Trios Championship ( 1 time) – with Brazo de Oro and
Brazo de Plata José Luis Alvarado Nieves (March 19, 1963 – July 26, 2021) was a Mexican '' luchador'' best known under the ring name Brazo de Plata, a name he had used since his debut in 1977. He is also well known for his appearances in WWE as Super Por ...
**
Mexican National Trios Championship The Mexican National Trios Championship (''Campeonato Nacional de Tríos'' in Spanish) is a three-man tag team professional wrestling championship, sanctioned by the "Comisión de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F." (''Mexico City Boxing and Wrestl ...
( 3 times) – with Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata (2), Brazo de Plata & Super Elektra (1) *Comision de Box y Lucha Distrito Federal **
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( 1 time) – with Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata **Distrito Federal Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Brazo de Plata *Federacion Internacional de Lucha Libre **FILL Trios Championship (1 time) – with Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata *
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**'' Legado Final'' (2011) – with El Hijo del Brazo *
Universal Wrestling Association The Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) was a Mexican ''Lucha Libre'' or professional wrestling promotion based in Naucalpan, Mexico State that operated from 1975 until 1995. The name of the actual promotion was Promociones Mora y Asociados and ...
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UWA World Trios Championship The UWA World Trios Championship is a tag team professional wrestling championship created by the Mexican Universal Wrestling Association and defended there until the UWA closed in 1995. Since then, the championship has been defended in various p ...
( 3 times) – with Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata *
World Wrestling Association The World Wrestling Association (WWA) (Asociación Mundial de Lucha Libre in Spanish language, Spanish) is a lucha libre promotion based in the Tijuana-area of Mexico. It was founded in 1986 by Benjamin Mora Jr.. It featured some of Mexico's best ...
** WWA World Trios Championship ( 1 time) – with Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata *''
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(Class of 2021) as part of '' Los Brazos''


''Luchas de Apuestas'' record


See also

* List of ''exóticos''


Footnotes


References


External links


AAA profile
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