Two star wrestlers have died within a day of each other, both with a confusing name history, with others using the same in-ring name. The Kendo Nagasaki who passed away on January 11, 2020, is Kazuo Sakurada. The LA Parka who died on January 10, 2020, is Jesus Alfonso Huerta Escoboza.
To clarify, the Kendo Nagasaki who passed in not Peter Thornly, the retired British icon, and the LA Parka is not the same performer who was in World Championship Wrestling, as that is Adolfo Margarito Tapia Ibarra, who currently competes in North America in Major League Wrestling as LA Park.
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In November 2019, LA Parka was injured at an AAA show, in Monterrey, Mexico, after a suicide dive went wrong, his feet getting caught in the ropes, and hitting the guardrail and then the floor with his head. Following surgery, the news remained grim, and he survived until January 10. He was 55 years old.
Escoboza actually took the name LA Parka from the original, Ibarra, who began using the name in 1992. Originally LA Parka Jr., Escoboza was often referred to as LA Parka II to help with the misindentification, though in AAA, he was just LA Parka, and had been a top name in the promotion for years. The LA does not refer to Los Angeles, but La Auntetica (The Authentic or The Original).
Early in his career, which began in 1987, Escoboza was known as Bello Sexy, Maligno, Crater, Santa Esmarela, Karis la Momia. His break came in 1996 when he became LA Parka Jr.
Even though LA Park had a falling out with AAA, there was a battle between LA Park and LA Parka II in AAA at TripleMania XVIII in June 2010.
