Warrior Jr.
Not to be confused with his brother, the current Black Warrior Jr..
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Was on the cusp of debuting for CMLL as part of Los Depredadores in 2021, but suffered a serious practice injury that ultimately cost him his life. His "Black Warrior Jr." name was subsequently adopted by his brother. He was survived by his wife Omaraida & their two children, including then- 2 year old Maila.[1][2][3][4]
CMLL luchador Warrior Jr. passed away on Thursday. Warrior Jr., also billed as Black Warrior Jr., was a fourth-generation CMLL/EMLL wrestler. He was the son of Black Warrior, the grandson of Mano Negra, and the great grandson of El Rebelde. His family included the Panthers and the Casas Family; he was married to Negro Casas daughter Omii Casas, and they had two children together. While Warrior Jr. was an independent wrestler, he and Omii promoted shows under the “RO Wrestling” name, using their initials. He came off on the indies as a guy with big ideas and enthusiasm, and a youthful inability to follow through on them.
Warrior had most recently been part of CMLL’s training school and apparently a few times in Arena Coliseo Guadalajara in 2021. His last known match was at that building on August 10th. Warrior Jr. was announced for the August 13th show but didn’t appear. He was listed on other later indie shows but doesn’t seem to have appeared on them. Warrior Jr. was training with Volador Jr. at that time and was expected to be one of Los Depredadores, but never ended up introduced as one of them. Volador did hint early on that there was an additional member yet to be revealed, which may have been Warrior Jr.; that extra member hadn’t been mentioned in recent months.
A luchador passing away at 24 is very strange, and the fact that no one’s explaining what happening – not even attempting a cover story to move attention away from that glaring omission – suggests it’s a sad situation, a rock that no one wants to turn over to find out the mess underneath. CMLL and Warrior’s family have not mentioned a cause of death, and the media stories on Warrior Jr.’s death are just relying on those social media posts.
Miguel Fonseca, who hosts a YouTube wrestling news/opinion channel in addition to running X-LAW, posted a short obituary video for Warrior Jr. In that video, Fonseca says Warrior Jr. suffered a “serious spinal injury” and passed away as a result. No one else has reported this as far as I’ve seen. There are some social media clues that something serious happened with Warrior Jr. last August and a serious injury fits with Warrior Jr.’s abrupt disappearance from wrestling. Fonseca’s video includes no further details about the injury. I know enough of Fonseca that I believe he’d only share a cause of death like that if he believed the story to be true.
Negro Casas, Warrior Jr.’s father-in-law, is scheduled to wrestle tonight in Arena Mexico. Black Warrior is scheduled to return to Arena Coliseo Guadalajara on Tuesday. It would be understandable if either or both of those matches changed. CMLL acknowledged Warrior Jr.’s passing on social media and they likely will have a moment of applause for him tonight in Arena Mexico.
Omii Casas, in a Facebook post on Monday, writes about the last day of her husband Warrior Jr. He returned from a match in Guadalajara very late, got two hours of sleep, they had breakfast, and he went to go train, excited about his dream coming true soon. Warrior Jr. suffered the injury that would kill him in that training session. Casas talks about the difficulties of the last seven months and the love she still has for her husband.
The injury likely took place on August 11th; August 10th was Warrior Jr.’s last match. Miguel Reducindo’s column also said “an injury occurred during training.” Miguel Fonseca’s report mentioned Warrior Jr. suffered a severe spinal issue, which fit with the description of the struggles of the last seven months. There’s a couple of photos of Warrior during the last few months which attempt to obscure the fact that Warrior Jr. is laying down in them; the spinal injury may left him with some level of paralysis. There are also unsourced reports from the last few days, and it’s likely that’s connected to the original injury.
CMLL wrestlers are expected to train regularly at Arena Mexico. Volador was likely holding additional training for Los Depredaores, who were just about a month away from debuting. Those sort of individual classes might be held elsewhere in Mexico City, and Warrior Jr. could’ve been training more elsewhere on his own. Casas’ post is non-specific on the training. It’s possible Warrior Jr.’s fatal injury happened in a CMLL ring, but we don’t really know.
CMLL did not hold a moment of applause for Warrior Jr. on Friday. Volador Jr. wore a black armband, which I presume was for Warrior Jr. but was never specifically acknowledged as such. Volador also did not participate in any post-match interviews. De-emphasizing Warrior Jr. got the media to move straight onto Homenaje a Dos Leyendas coverage without any further discussion into what happened.
I wonder what the October CMLL Informa interview segment with three doctors to put over CMLL’s medical care of their wrestlers was really about now.
Today is the 7th year anniversary of Perro Aguayo Jr. passing away due to his own neck injury. It’s hard to know what could’ve been done different in that case, but it often doesn’t feel like much has changed. Or there was always so much that needed to be improved and it’s not close to being done.
Dalys brought a Warrior Jr. mask to the ring for her match. In the post match interview, Dalys talked about paying tribute to her recently deceased son-in-law and confirmed he suffered his ultimately fatal injuries in Arena Mexico. (She literally said Warrior Jr. died in Arena Mexico, but I understand that to mean the neck injury in training which later led to his death happened in the building.) Omii Casas also posted a photo of Warrior Jr. (Ramses) in a neck harness of some kind. The last seven months must’ve been extremely hard for that family dealing with all of this quietly.
It’s not going to happen this way because it happened behind closed doors and it’s not being written with the same reverence, but Warrior Jr. should be forever remembered and brought up like Sangre India and Oro Jr., who both died on shows in Arena Coliseo.
Lucha de Apuestas Record
| Date | Apuesta | Winner(s) | Loser(s) | Arena and/or Place |
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| 2017.10.26 | mask | Warrior Jr. | Kingstrong | Arena Naucalpan |
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