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	After [[Villano III \| Villano III's]] passing, he took upon more of a figurehead role in in the Villano wrestling dynasty. He also began training his sons [[Villano V Jr.]] and [[Rokambole Jr. (Kaving) \| Rokambole Jr.]] and eventually teamed with them alongside [[Villano IV]].		After [[Villano III \| Villano III's]] passing, he took upon more of a figurehead role in in the Villano wrestling dynasty. He also began training his sons [[Villano V Jr.]] and [[Rokambole Jr. (Kaving) \| Rokambole Jr.]] and eventually teamed with them alongside [[Villano IV]].



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			Villano V (Raymundo Diaz Mendoza, 62) passed away Thursday. He posted videos on Facebook just a few days ago and seemed to be still working in acupuncture recently. Two of his sons wrestle as [[Villano V Jr.]] and [[Rokambole Jr.]] (a name V used early in his career). Those two and a third non-wrestling son posted on Facebook that there would be no burial, per Villano V’s wishes, but they would hold a mass with his ashes. Record reports Mendoza had a lethal heart attack while at home, and those sons discovered the body too late to do anything. Villano V’s wife Chely passed away earlier in March; many of Mendoza’s close friends noted he never recovered from that loss and took some solace in the idea that they were now reunited. Villano V is the last number in the series, but he’s the second-youngest brother. The brothers were only allowed to take on the Villano name when they had completed their education, and the youngest Villano IV got it done quicker than Villano V. [[AAA]] and [[CMLL]] posted remembrances.

			The final time Villano V (or Ray Mendoza Jr., the name he tended to use after his unmasking) came up in the lucha libre news was last spring. Villano V was living in [[Monterrey]] and had been appointed as one of the commissioners there. The Monterrey Commission has been among the strictest in the country in recent years, and AAA came to them unprepared. Their big plan to make mainstream waves was to have YouTube content creator Adrian Marcelo wrestle [[Chessman]] on the first [[TripleMania]] Monterrey. To AAA’s surprise, the Monterrey Commission required Marcelo to take a competency test before giving him a wrestling license and allowing him to get in the ring. Villano V ran that workout and ran it hard. Marcelo instead decided this wasn’t what he had signed up for and quit midway through the test. I don’t believe Villano V specifically wanted Marcelo to fail the test, but he was going to make sure Marcelo earned that license. He wanted Marcelo to work as hard as he and his brothers had to become wrestlers, as expected of all wrestlers when Mendoza broke in the 70s. Villano V entered wrestling in an era where it was supposed to feel and look natural. He enjoyed that moment of protecting wrestling from the spectacle AAA wanted to present. The Villanos were tough-nosed fighters emphasizing the fight, and he demanded to see the same fight out of anyone else who wanted to call themselves a luchador.

			Villano V’s style made him both a great fit at times and a tough one at other times. His biggest visibility to English-speaking fans was his time in [[WCW]] between 1997 and 2000, years that paid very well and didn’t help his career beyond that. WCW had little idea to do with most Mexican wrestlers, the Villanos included. Brothers [[Villano IV\|IV]] and V wrestled well and rarely got much to do beyond that. In Mexico, before and after, the two Villanos were successful on their own and as a team with [[Villano I\|Villanos I]] and [[Villano III\|III]] at different times. The [[Los Villanos\|Villanos I, IV, and V]] triple mask match victory over [[Los Brazos]] is an iconic match of its time, and the feud between those families continues to this day. Both families were key parts of the promotion best known as [[UWA]], and would’ve been champions countless times if that promotion didn’t fall apart in the early 90s. Villano V followed his brothers I and III as a singles champion in the dying dates of the promotion. Brothers IV and V made the fortunate decision to get into AAA in 1995, which meant they were along for the ride when a bunch of AAA's roster departed for both [[Promo Azteca]] and, eventually, WCW riches.

			Like many ex-WCW luchadors, the Villanos floated around Mexico in the early 2000s without much of a set home. The Villanos spent a couple of years in CMLL from 2000-2002, then returned for a longer run in 2007 as sort of rudo outsiders. Villano V was part of the [[CMLL 74th Anniversario\|74th Aniversario]], a cage match where [[Blue Panther]] took [[Hijo del Lizmark]]’s mask. Villano V and Blue Panther started to wrestle constantly in early 2008. CMLL tried to play it up as a three-decade-long feud leading into the big match, which didn’t ring true. There was shared history; Panther had trained under Villano I at one point, and both had long ties back to the UWA.

			Blue Panther/Villano V match felt underwhelming as an Aniversario match, even with them feuding all year. 2008 was also [[Mistico]] as hot as ever against [[Perro Aguayo Jr.]], also incredibly hot with the [[Perros del Mal]] behind him. Both Mistico and Perro got hurt in the weeks leading up [[CMLL 75th Anniversario\|the Aniversario]], which seemed to scuttle the dream apuesta match. Villano V also suffered a shoulder injury leading into the show, which seemed certain to hurt the quality of the match as well. You can read back my preview from the time; I’m pessimistic about the whole Aniversario that year. I’m also dead wrong.

			Villano V/Blue Panther is one of the great apuesta matches of the time. Two men slug it out and fight for their lives. Villano V bled from the back of his head after connecting with a chair on the dive, maybe the last time someone bled in a big CMLL match. That also leads to one of the enduring moments of the night – Villano IV coming out to help his brother change masks to clean off the blood, and Mistico accusing the Villanos of performing a diabolical switch to cheat Blue Panther. (It doesn’t appear they actually switched, but it lives on forever as an urban legend.) Villano V blocked a Blue Panther [[tirabuzon]] attempt into a unique cradle and shockingly keeps a hold of Panther for the three count. CMLL re-released matches from this Aniversario show during the pandemic and has now put it behind the paywall; that version looks very nice. I implore you to instead watch the lower res version that WarriorX2000 put up in the weeks following the show (or the versions I’ve snuck up on Daily Motion.) If nothing else, jump to the last moments of the match and watch through the next couple of minutes. The re-released CMLL version includes new commentary and some editing; they try their best, it’s professional, and it’s just impossible to meet that moment. The original commentary, the Televisa commentary, is wildly unprofessional – [[Leobardo Magadan]], [[Leo Riano]], and [[Dr. Alfonso Morales]] all start talking over each other, the cameras cut to fans going crazy, and it’s bedlam the production is struggling to capture. It’s an out of control moment, with no one believing what they just saw. Only the most diehard Villano fans believed he had a chance; almost everyone had chalked this up as Villano V coming in from the indies to lose his mask in his last moment in the spotlight against a CMLL stalwart. Blue Panther was already a legend and was surely going to keep his mask until the day it was time for him to step aside and help a young wrestler on the way up. There was no way Blue Panther was losing that match, and then the referee counted to three. It is the biggest surprise in the history of CMLL Aniversario shows.

			(aside 1: in retrospect, Mistico versus Perro Aguayo wasn’t happening that year even if both men were healthy. Mistico simply could not lose, it made no sense for Aguayo to lose. He was too hot to lose. He was also quitting CMLL days later. The public didn’t know it, but Aguayo had already decided to quit to turn the Perros del Mal group into a [[Perros del Mal (promotion)\|Perros del Mal promotion]]. It would’ve made no sense for him to take the ultimate loss while trying to get his own thing going. No one had any idea though. CMLL also seems to have had plans years in advance – Blue Panther beat Hijo del Lizmark, Villano V beat Blue Panther, [[Ultimo Guerrero]] beat Villano V – so the apuesta match was happening regardless of Mistico/Perro.)

			(aside 2: in looking through those blog entries, I re-discovered this Aniversario was intended to be a PPV, then CMLL or Sky pulled it in the last days with no explanation. The more things change, the more they stay the same. I believe we listened to an audio-only internet feed of the main event and talked about it in a chat on this blog, not quite believing our ears about the finish. A sports recap show on Sundays named “Accion” would air clips of AAA and CMLL each week, so that’s where we first saw some of the mask match, and the full version aired the following week. We didn’t really know how good it was until then. That part has changed a lot.)

			Villano V was hunted by every wrestler from the [[Torreon]] region for the next six months, every one of them wanting to avenge their local icon Blue Panther. Ultimo Guerrero cornered him in early 2009, and got the mask match as part of that year’s [[Dos Leyendas, 2009\|Homenaje a Dos Leyendas]]. That match is also great, though it didn’t have the same emotional punch off the Aniversario show. Villano V couldn’t pull the upset this time, history turned back in favor of the CMLL home team. Villano V renamed himself Ray Mendoza Jr. following the mask loss, and stuck around for about a year and a half more. (As still sort of an outsider rudo, he teamed a lot with [[Naito]], [[Yujiro]], and [[Taichi]] as they came through Mexico on excursions.) CMLL really didn’t have much for Villano to do, and he exited in 2010 to team with his brothers again and work a lot of legend’s shows. He helped his sons, originally Kaving and Kortiz, later Villano V Jr. and Rokambole Jr., start in the wrestling business. Villano V threw his retirement show in 2013, a big [[Ruleta de la Muerte]], where he and his brother shaved [[Cassandro]] (a bit) and took [[Hijo del Pirata Morgan]]’s mask. The retirement show tanked, leaving Villano V in significant debt after the show that was supposed to see him off – so he took a few more dates. A reunion of Villano III, IV, and V to wrestle [[Psycho Circus]] for [[TripleMania XXIII]] went similarly poorly. PPV viewers were treated with all sorts of production gaffs. People in the building endured the Villanos, especially Villano III, having a terrible night. (Villano IV’s future successes would’ve seemed impossible that day.) Villano V had a handful of more matches, but was essentially retired going into the TripleMania and essentially stayed that way. Villano V was honored this past July and teased fighting the newest version of the Brazos, but it didn’t seem like he was actually returning.

			Villano IV, who recently began working as lucha libre commissioner in [[Mexico City]] and also runs a candy store, is now the last remaining of the five Villanos brothers. [[Villano II]] passed away young, and really I, III and V all never got to enjoy their later years. (The anniversary of Villano III’s death was just a few days ago.) 62 seems old when you’re young, but you figure out it’s not near long enough as you get older.

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	\|birthdate=[[March 22]], [[1962]] - [[Mexico City]]		\|birthdate=[[March 22]], [[1962]] - [[Mexico City]]
	\|obituarydate=[[August 29]], [[2024]] (aged 64)		\|obituarydate=[[August 29]], [[2024]] (aged 62)
	\|debut=[[March 15]], [[1977]] - [[Arena Raff]] - [[Nezahualcóyotl]], [[Mexico State]]		\|debut=[[March 15]], [[1977]] - [[Arena Raff]] - [[Nezahualcóyotl]], [[Mexico State]]
	\|lostmaskto=[[March 20]], [[2009]] - [[Arena México]], [[Mexico City]] (vs [[Ultimo Guerrero]])		\|lostmaskto=[[March 20]], [[2009]] - [[Arena México]], [[Mexico City]] (vs [[Ultimo Guerrero]])

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