14 Facts About Enrique Torres

Enrique Torres was an American professional wrestler, the oldest three Torres brothers in wrestling.

One of the biggest stars in Southern California in the 1940s and 1950s, Torres held the Los Angeles version of the World Title almost nonstop between 1946 and 1950.

Enrique Torres was born in Santa Ana, California and after a long amateur career entered professional wrestling in July 1946, debuting at the Olympic Auditorium.

Enrique Torres was very successful in the nascent and booming televised wrestling market in the California.

Enrique Torres had no gimmicks, however his signature move was a deftly executed Flying Scissors.

Enrique Torres claimed the Central States championship in 1952 and 1963.

Enrique Torres worked with Alberto and Ramon; Rachel, Enrique Torres's second wife, worked to help train Ramon in the various wrestling holds and tactics.

Enrique Torres retired in 1968 after one last run as a headline star, living in California Hawaii and Nevada.

In 1969 Enrique Torres was asked to make a cameo appearance by Jimmy Lennon, a much loved sports announcer at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles for a celebration of twenty-five years of televised wrestling.

Enrique Torres later moved with his third wife Kata Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Enrique Torres remains highly respected and revered as part of the Japan Wrestling Association where he wrestled the Japanese Sumobasho circuit in the 1960s.

Enrique Torres's success came for his skills, talent, good looks and a convergence of technology and the need for television content in what later became a multi-billion-dollar market.

In 2010, Enrique Torres was voted into the Southern California Pro-Wrestling Hall of Fame by a special committee that looked at pre-1980 wrestlers.

Enrique Torres married Kata in 1963; Kata and he later moved to Canada ultimately to reside in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, they were married for 44 years.