 After achieving stardom in Mexico's oldest promotion, Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre, Gonzalez Cruz joined the breakaway promotion, the Universal Wrestling Association, where he held four more world championships in the early 1980s.Gonzalez Cruz came from a working-class family and was the youngest of seven children.At the age of twelve, his older brother Jesús, who was also a professional wrestler, began teaching him basic wrestling moves.