Jorge Moraza is an American professional wrestler, better known by the

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Jorge Estrada. He is a former

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North American Heavyweight champion and participated in the first televised match of NWA Total Nonstop Action.

Professional wrestling career

Moraza was trained by

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and debuted in 1999 as "Jorge Estrada". He wrestled in Georgia's NWA Wildside as well as Rhodes's Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling, winning the TCW Tag Team Championship with Glacier (Ray Lloyd). Estrada also wrestled for

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during 2000, including a match against Simon Diamond and Johnny Swinger in their first appearance as a team. Estrada's biggest exposure came in the early days of the Total Nonstop Action (TNA) wrestling promotion. From the first TNA event in June 2002, he wrestled with the gimmick of an

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as part of The Flying Elvises trio until that group disbanded in October. Estrada continued to wear the Elvis jumpsuit as a solo wrestler, and took a valet named Priscilla. During this time, he won the NWA North American Championship from Paul Atlas at the

54th Anniversary Show on October 26 in

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. Curiously, his status as champion was never mentioned on TNA programming, even though TNA was the flagship promotion of the NWA at the time and the North American Championship was ostensibly the second-highest in status behind the World Heavyweight Championship. Estrada never appeared on-camera with the belt, as TNA's agreement with NWA only extended to the World Heavyweight and Tag Team championships. Instead, Estrada was booked as an

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against the

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group Sports Entertainment Xtreme (SEX). After he rejected their offer to join them, members of the group physically stripped Estrada of his costume during an assault. The leaders of SEX then debuted an overweight wrestler with the name Disgraceland to taunt Estrada, wearing his costume. Estrada defeated Disgraceland on the March 5, 2003 TNA

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and disappeared from TNA shortly after. He returned to the independent circuit, including some matches with IWA Mid-South. Estrada lost the North American Championship on May 3, 2003, to Hotstuff Hernandez in NWA Wildside.

Championships and accomplishments

* Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling ** TCW Tag Team Championship ( 2 times) – with

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(1 time) and Sonny Siaki (1 time) *

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( 1 time) * Independent Wrestling Association **IWA Mid-South North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *''

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'' **Ranked No. 182 of the top 500 wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2003

References

External links

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