La Parka
- January 5, 2024
- Wrestler
Quick Facts
La Parka Biography
| Name | La Parka |
| Birthday | Nov 14 |
| Birth Year | 1965 |
| Place Of Birth | Mexico |
| Birth Country | Mexico |
| Birth Sign | Scorpio |
| Parents | Raymundo Ibarra, Camila Ibarra Banda |
| Siblings | El Hijo de Cien Caras |
| Children(s) | El Hijo de L.A. Park |
La Parka is one of the most popular and richest Wrestler who was born on November 14, 1965 in Mexico, Mexico. Masked professional wrestler/luchador from Mexico who had a long, successful career. His real name was Adolfo Tapia.
He teamed with Diamond Dallas Page to pull a trick on The Macho Man Randy Savage in the ring.
While working for CMLL La Parka was allowed to also wrestle for independent promotions in Mexico, the US and Japan. During his time on the independent circuit L.A. Park developed a long-running and very intense feud with El Hijo del Santo and Blue Demon Jr., interjecting himself in a storyline that played off the original rivalry between El Santo and Blue Demon creating a feud that headlined various shows all over Mexico and involves three of the most famous masks of the 1980s and 1990s.
Adolfo Tapia made his professional wrestling debut in 1982 at the age of 16, using his real name. Later on he would wrestle as the masked El Gringo in the Monclova, Coahuila region and as El Minero in Mexico City. Tapia lost his first Lucha de Apuesta, or bet match, to Climax II and was forced to take off the El Minero mask and reveal his real name, as per Lucha libre traditions. In 1988 he changed his ring character to El Asesino de Tepito (“The Assassin from Tepito”), a rudo (villain) character he used in 1988. He lost the Asesino de Tepito mask in an Apuesta match against Astro de Oro at some point in 1988. Following the mask loss Tapia adopted a character called Principe Island (“Island Prince”), a character he would use until 1992. As Principe Island he won the masks of wrestlers Gran Cóndor, Principe Judas, Guerrero Negra and Bestia Negra I. On November 21, 1987 he lost the Principe Island mask to El Hijo del Santo. Following his mask loss he started working as the masked Invasor del Norte I as well as still taking bookings as Principe Island. The double bookings came to an end on June 26, 1991 when Stuka unmasked the Invasor del Norte character, revealing that Tapia played both characters.
His brother Eustacio Jimenez Ibarra also became a professional wrestler.
La Parka Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Wrestler |
| House | Living in own house. |
La Parka is one of the richest Wrestler from Mexico. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, La Parka 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He entered his first professional wrestling match when he was only 16 years old.
He became best known under his masked persona El Gringo.
Adolfo Margarito Tapia Ibarra (born November 14, 1965) is a Mexican luchador enmascarado (masked professional wrestler), who currently performs as L.A. Park for Major League Wrestling in the United States and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) in Mexico. He is best known throughout the world as La Parka, especially from his many years in the American World Championship Wrestling promotion. He has worked for every major and multiple minor wrestling promotions in Mexico, as well as participating on multiple wrestling tours in Japan. He is a three-time world champion, having held the IWC World Heavyweight, IWC World Hardcore, and IWL World Heavyweight championships all once.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
| Height | 6 ft 0 in |
La Parka height 6 ft 0 in La weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
Who is La Parka Dating?
According to our records, La Parka is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, La Parka’s is not dating anyone.
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When Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara took over the creative portion of WCW in late 1999, the duo had Ferrara’s voice dub English over the intercom while La Parka would be doing interviews in Spanish. This often ended with a confused Gene Okerlund exclaiming “What the hell was that?!” Among other things the voice- over explained that La Parka was a fan of Skeletor from Masters of the Universe and other comedic comments. During this time, he teamed with Kaz Hayashi, a Japanese wrestler who also used a “Comedic voice over” gimmick and referred to La Parka as “Skull Captain”. La Parka left WCW in 2000.
Facts & Trivia
La Ranked on the list of most popular Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Mexico. La Parka celebrates birthday on November 14 of every year.
Tapia was forced to change his ring name from “La Parka” to “L.A. Park” (short for La Auténtica Park; “The Original Park”) in early 2003 when AAA owner Antonio Peña asserted his copyright claims to the La Parka character, barring Tapia from using the name as he promoted his own version of the gimmick (AAA’s new “La Parka” is widely known as La Parka II among fans).
Is LA Park and La Parka the same?
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.
How many La Parka are there?
For the next seven years, there were explicitly two La Parkas. With the fight over the name, though, the AAA Parka was the only La Parka that wrestled on national television.
Is La Parka dead?
January 11, 2020
How old is La Parka?
54 years (1966–2020)
Why did La Parka change his name?
He renamed “La Parka Jr.” and had a court order drawn up that prevented Tapia from being billed as “La Parka” in Mexico, claiming that Peña had the copyright to the character. The legal battle between Tapia and AAA forced Tapia to change his name to “L.A. ParK”, short for “La Autentica ParK” (K pronounced as “Ka”).