Fidel Sierra

So...

During your time in Florida and in Pacific Northwest, I think that's maybe one of the first times you encountered somebody that you did some teaming with on and off throughout the next quite a few years, and you're kind of running mates at the CAC too, Mr. Fidel Sierra?

Yes, sir.

Met him, you know, in Florida Territory the first time, and, you know, they got the TV up there, the matches, and I look over and it says Cuban Assassin.

You just can't take, take, take, take, take.

I mean, that's, that's my personal opinion.

I started out, you know, first time going out there honoring Fidel Sierra and I fell in love with it because of the cause, because of seeing the guys and you just don't ever know what tomorrow brings.

And then, you know, I was going and then they said, Hey, you know, did you ever thought about being on the advisory board? Yeah.

And, you know, I've got to, I met him a couple of times at CAC.

Didn't have like, you know, long life discussions or anything, but certainly the past couple of years, his buddy, uh, David Sierra, the Cuban assassin has come to, uh, Waterloo to the Tragos.

So I'd love to get Ricky there too sometime.

Cause I think he'd have a good time and, you know, enjoy, uh, needling the Cuban assassin a little bit.

That's what you're there for is to learn and to learn how to, how to be in a two out of three fall match and then how to tell, tell stories and things like that.

And I worked with guys like Dave Sierra, Cuban assassin and Rick Oliver, who I worked with in Texas.

a couple of times in Houston, but they were great workers and they were great teachers and really great guys.

I met Billy Jack there, Buddy Rose, me and Mike Miller, I'll never forget.

Going back to Rip Oliver, I had wrestled him in Texas, and I knew what a great worker he was back then.

And then when it came to Oregon, he was a top guy, and Buddy was a top guy.

But they were in that phase of their career where they understood in order to stay competitive, viable they had to help their opponents be viable and credible and they were veterans that weren't selfish they wanted to help the young guys because it's just better for them i think it was a group effort man it really was and i'm lucky again fidel sierra dave sierra human assassin one of the guys who honest to god really helped me in the tag matches as rip did too so Yeah, it was a fun time to be there, man.

And he had a lot of really good guys.

I don't know who The Breakdancers are.

I think The Saint wasn't The Saint, Fidel Sierra maybe, doing basically an El Santo gimmick there in Florida.

I might have that wrong, but I think that's who it was.

I don't know who The Breakdancers were.

Or a quarter.

So this is mostly him built to team with Cuban Assassin, you know, Fidel Sierra.

Oh, from... pacific northwest

well and like wcw in the mid 90s and on they were the commandos oh that's right okay they had some i watched a lot of wcw saturday night matches and it was kind of from that fun period where it was almost its own universe yeah um so like they were feuding with scott and steve armstrong okay and um Who else? Riggs and Bagwell, the American males.

November 29th, 1986, World Wrestling Council in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mighty Igor defeated Al Perez for the Puerto Rican title.

And in Pacific Northwest, Portland, Oregon, at Sports Arena, The Assassin, that's Dave Sierra up there, defeated Rip Oliver to win the Pacific Northwest title in a title versus mask match.

Finally, November 30th, 1986, WWF is in Toronto, Ontario, at the Maple Leaf Garden.

15,000 people.

And, um, also had some success early in his career as a baby face in Puerto Rico.

Um, but this was kind of geared to, you know, for the whole Cuban Commandos era, um, in WCW for, um, him and, and Fidel Sierra, the, the Cuban Assassin.

Um, you know, I'd met him back at CEC, uh, a few years ago, um, and, um, he was a, he was a nice guy, and, you know, he's preserving, preserving history, being a part of that.

I think he recently took a ch- a position on the CEC's board.

... were there any cards that you, that you worked on or, or, uh, you know, a- as I said, you know, Corey can throw comments in as well, but that, that were, like, a little bit more challenging or a little bit unique, I guess, from your standpoint?

Um, yeah.

Well, with Ricky Santana, um, and I kind of alluded to this with Curt Von Hess's card, um, it was a situation where I kind of charted out his card, not with, like, the moves, just the structure, and I'm like, "Man, he's exactly like Fidel Sierra." And we ran into the same thing with Hiro Matsuda and Duke Keomuka, um, where it's like y- we, I ha- we had to reach in the bag of tricks because otherwise it's like there's no reason to bring in one of the partners.

Yep.

I s-

Fidel Sierra?

I don't know which Cuban Assassin.

No, the other Cuban Assassin.

That's a different Cuban Assassin.

That's the Florida Cuban Assassin.

That's Fidel Sierra, uh-

Oh