La Parka (wrestler)
Jesús Alfonso Huerta Escoboza (January 4, 1966 – January 11, 2020) was a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler, better known as La Parka who worked for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion AAA from the mid-1990s until 2019. On January 11, 2020, Huerta died from complications arising from injuries that he sustained from a botched move during an October 2019 match.
| La Parka | |
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La Parka in 2019 | |
| Birth name | Jesús Alfonso Huerta Escoboza |
| Born | January 4, 1966 Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico |
| Died | January 11, 2020 (aged 54) Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico |
| Children | 1 |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Bello Sexy Crater Duro Karis la Momia La Parka (II) La Parka Jr. Maligno Santa Esmeralda |
| Billed height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) |
| Billed weight | 101 kg (223 lb) |
| Billed from | Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico |
| Trained by | America Salvaje Resplandor |
| Debut | 1987 |
Escoboza was not the first wrestler to use the ring name "La Parka", Adolfo Tapia was the original La Parka but did not own either the name or the character. In the late 1990s, Escoboza was billed as La Parka Jr. and then in 2003 he became the "official" La Parka while Tapia was forced to stop using the name and instead became known as L.A. Park.
In 2020, he was posthumously inducted into the AAA Hall of Fame.