For more than twenty years, La Parka was the most recognisable figure in Mexican wrestling: a dancing skeleton with a steel chair, known to children who had never watched a full match. Almost nobody outside Mexico knew that two different men had worn that suit, or that the one the country mourned was not the one who invented it. The character was drawn in 1992 by AAA founder Antonio Peña and given to Adolfo Tapia Ibarra, who made it famous and then took it to WCW, where announcers called him the chairman of the cruiserweight division. While he was in America, Peña put another wrestler inside the same costume. Jesús Alfonso Huerta Escoboza, a journeyman from Hermosillo who had worked as Bello Sexy, Maligno and the mummy Karis la Momia, became La Parka Jr. in 1996 and simply La Parka in 2003, after Peña's legal move stripped Tapia of the name and turned him into L.A. Park. Two skeletons, one costume, and a dispute neither man could win: their 2010 match for the name at Triplemania XVIII in the Palacio de los Deportes ended with interference, a banned piledriver and an annulled result. This lucha libre documentary follows both careers to the night of 21 October 2019 in Monterrey, when a dive through the ropes against Rush ended with a broken neck and a fall that Escoboza never recovered from. He died on 11 January 2020 in Hermosillo, social media had already declared him dead months earlier, and photographs of the wrong man circulated with the condolences. Five Rey de Reyes tournaments, the unmasking of Cibernético, a son given the mummy's name two months before the accident, and a costume that did not stop working when its owner did
For more than twenty years, La Parka was the most recognisable figure in Mexican wrestling: a dancing skeleton with a steel chair, known to children who had never watched a full match. Almost nobody outside Mexico knew that two different men had worn that suit, or that the one the country mourned was not the one who invented it. The character was drawn in 1992 by AAA founder Antonio Peña and given to Adolfo Tapia Ibarra, who made it famous and then took it to WCW, where announcers called him the chairman of the cruiserweight division. While he was in America, Peña put another wrestler inside the same costume. Jesús Alfonso Huerta Escoboza, a journeyman from Hermosillo who had worked as Bello Sexy, Maligno and the mummy Karis la Momia, became La Parka Jr. in 1996 and simply La Parka in 2003, after Peña's legal move stripped Tapia of the name and turned him into L.A. Park. Two skeletons, one costume, and a dispute neither man could win: their 2010 match for the name at Triplemania XVIII in the Palacio de los Deportes ended with interference, a banned piledriver and an annulled result. This lucha libre documentary follows both careers to the night of 21 October 2019 in Monterrey, when a dive through the ropes against Rush ended with a broken neck and a fall that Escoboza never recovered from. He died on 11 January 2020 in Hermosillo, social media had already declared him dead months earlier, and photographs of the wrong man circulated with the condolences. Five Rey de Reyes tournaments, the unmasking of Cibernético, a son given the mummy's name two months before the accident, and a costume that did not stop working when its owner did