Enrique Torres Enrique Torres ( July 25 , 1922 – September 10 , 2007 ) was a Mexican - American professional wrestler , the oldest three Torres brothers in wrestling , and a major star in the late 1940s and 1950s . Personal Background . Torres was married to Maria in 1938 . They had one daughter , Helen , born in December 1939 . They also had a son , Enrique ( Tony ) , born in November 1940 . Later Torres married Rachel in 1950 . They had two sons ; Allan Enrique , born April 1952 , and Jim ( James ) , born June 1956 . Enrique married Kata in 1963 ; Kata and he later moved to Canada ultimately to reside in Calgary , Alberta , Canada , they had forty - four wonderful years together . In his later years Enrique was on kidney dialysis in additional to receiving a kidney transplant in 2006 , then suffered a stroke . On September 10 , 2007 he died as a resident of the Carewest George Boyack Nursing Home in Calgary . Professional Wrestling Career . Torres was born in Santa Ana , California and after a long amateur career entered professional wrestling in 1946 debuting at the Olympic Auditorium and was very successful in the nascent and booming televised wrestling market in the California . He had no gimmicks , however his signature move was a deftly executed Flying Scissors . He used no self given stage name but a Mexican - market newspaper billed him as “ La Pantera Negro de Sonora ” , or " The Black Panther from Sonora , Mexico , " due to his " smooth and lightning - fast moves . " He would later be named " The Mexican Adonis . " In his first year he won the California version of the world heavyweight championship before losing it Gorgeous George , only to win it back the following year . In 1952 Torres and then - rival Baron Leone were involved in a case that went all the way to the Santa Monica Superior Court due to two fans claiming they were injured when Leone threw Torres into the crowd . Leone claimed if he was capable of the feat he ' d leave wrestling to play for the Southern Cal football team , and the two were exonerated . One of Torres ' greatest matches was in February 1953 while he was the reigning Pacific Coast Heavy Weight champion , and he wrestled world heavyweight champion Lou Thesz to a one - hour draw . The gate was a then - record $ 5000 in Sacramento . He also claimed he Central States championship in 1952 and 1963 . Due to his success Torres ' brothers Alberto and Ramon wanted to join him in wrestling . Enrique worked with Alberto and Ramon ; Rachel , Enrique ’ s second wife , worked to help train Ramon in the various wrestling holds and tactics . In time , with hard work and training in Oakland , CA they received Enrique ' s blessing and later went on the road . The three went on to be involved in a ' Vachon - Torres Brother War ' in Georgia against the Vachon wrestling family . In 1971 Alberto would be the first to die , as a result of a ruptured pancreas . Ramon would later die August 2000 of heart failure . In addition to his singles titles , Torres also held numerous tag team championships teamed with Bobo Brazil , Leo Nomellini , Ronnie Etchison , Johnny Barend , Jess Ortega , and his brothers in the 1950s and 1960s , ranging from Texas to the Central States territory . Enrique and Alberto wrestled a headliner match in Havana , Cuba the night that the Batista regime fell to Castro ’ s rebel army in 1959 and returned to the US with the help of his Promoter , Benny Ginsberg and his connections in Cuba . Enrique retired in 1968 after one last run as a headline star , living in California and Nevada . In 1969 Enrique was asked to make a cameo appearance by Jimmy Lennon , a much loved sports announcer at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles for a celebration of twenty - five years of televised wrestling . Enrique later moved with his third wife Kata Calgary , Alberta , Canada . In 2006 , a Japanese reporter viisted Calgary , Canada to meet and interview Enrique one last time . Enrique was highly respected and revered as part of the Japan Wrestling Association where he wrestled the Japanese Sumobasho circuit in the 1960s .