Francisco Islas Rueda (born December 3, 1973), better known by his ring name Super Crazy, is a Mexican luchador (or professional wrestler). In Mexico, Islas has worked for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) and made appearances for various independent promotions but is not currently associated with one specific Mexican promotion. As Super Crazy, Islas gained American exposure by working for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) between 1998 and 2000 and for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) between 2005 and 2008.
Super Crazy in action.
Early Career
Francisco Islas made his professional wrestling debut in February 1988, at just 14 years of age, after being trained by his older brother Rey Pantera. Islas took the ring name "Super Crazy". He initially worked as an enmascarado, or masked wrestler, but lost the mask just over a month after his debut when he lost a Luchas de Apuestas (a "bet match") to El Seminarista in March 1988.
From 1988 until 1995 Super Crazy was a mainstay on the Mexican independent circuit working for various promotions, including appearances for the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) in the year leading up to its closure. In the UWA Super Crazy won the UWA World Welterweight Championship on November 17, 1995 and held the title when the UWA closed in December 1995.
After the UWA closed Super Crazy still used and defended the UWA title on various independent shows but once he signed with Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion in 1996 the title was not mentioned. In AAA he was given a new gimmick, a masked Rudo (villain or heel) character called "Histeria" (sometimes Anglicised as "Hysteria"). Together with Abismo Negro, Maniaco, Mosco de la Merced I and Mach-1 he comprised a wrestling group called Rudos de la Galaxia (Spanish for "The bad guys of the universe"), a group that was involved in a storyline feud with a tecnico (good guy or face) group called Los Cadetos del Espacio (Spanish for "the Space Cadets").
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In the spring of 1997 Islas, as Histeria, made a couple of appearances for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) due to an AAA/WWF working agreement. Histeria worked mainly against Los Cadetos del Espacio, especially Venum in his appearances on RAW is WAR and Shotgun. Islas resumed working as "Super Crazy" when he left AAA to join the newly created Promo Azteca. Super Crazy also continued his feud with Venum, who now worked as "Venum Black" after leaving AAA, a feud that culminated in a "mask vs. hair" match where Super Crazy defeated Venum Black.
Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW)
Super Crazy was signed to a contract by Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) owner Paul Heyman in 1998 after Heyman saw him work for the WWF and on the recommendation of Konnan who had worked for Heyman.
He defeated CW Anderson in the quarter-final round on March 4, Little Guido in the semi-final round and Rhino in the final round at the Living Dangerously pay-per-view, despite interference from The Network. Crazy made his first televised title defense against Rhino on the March 31 episode of ECW on TNN. Super Crazy went on a hiatus for the next few months until pre-taped vignettes began airing on television in October, which hyped his return at the November to Remember pay-per-view. He was initially booked to face CW Anderson at the event but he was replaced by Kid Kash.
Later in the night, he participated in a match for the World Tag Team Championship between the Unholy Alliance (Yoshihiro Tajiri and Mikey Whipwreck) and Full Blooded Italians (Little Guido and Tony Mamaluke). Crazy substituted for Whipwreck after the latter got injured. FBI retained the titles.
Crazy teamed with Unholy Alliance against Hot Commodity (E. Z. Money, Julio Dinero and Chris Hamrick) in a six-man tag team match on the November 19 episode of Hardcore TV. Crazy's team lost and the Unholy Alliance turned on him when Whipwreck helped Tajiri in defeating Crazy in a match.
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Crazy brought Kid Kash as his mystery partner against Unholy Alliance in a tag team match at Massacre on 34th Street on December 3, which Crazy's team lost. Crazy and Kash were pitted against Unholy Alliance and Full Blooded Italians in a three-way dance at ECW's final pay-per-view Guilty as Charged on January 7, 2001.
Independent Circuit and Return to AAA
After ECW folded, Super Crazy wrestled for different promotions in the US, including the hardcore promotions Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), cementing his status as "the Extreme Luchador" or "the Insane Luchador". He also began working for Puerto Rico-based International Wrestling Association (IWA).
At Ring of Honor's debut show, The Era of Honor Begins on February 23, 2002, Crazy defeated Eddie Guerrero to become the inaugural IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion. He was defeated for the title on April 6 by Andy Anderson.
Crazy regained the title on April 13 when Anderson forfeited it due to injury. Crazy lost the title once more on April 20, when he was defeated by Anarchy. Super Crazy also held the IWA Hardcore Championship on nine occasions between 2002 and 2005. He also held the IWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship three times in that time period.
On February 24, 2001, Super Crazy defeated Pablo Marquez to win the UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship, which like the UWA Welterweight title was still used on the independent scene in Mexico and Puerto Rico. By the end of 2001 Super Crazy vacated the UWA Junior Heavyweight title.
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Super Crazy made a couple of special appearances for his old company AAA, teaming with El Alebrije and Randy to defeat Máscara Magligna, Pentagón and Monsther at the 2001 Verano de Escandalo.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)
He made four tours with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in 2002 and 2003. His first tour lasted from November to December 2002 and saw him work mainly tag matches, teaming mainly with Koji Kanemoto and/or The Stampede Kid against a variety of opponents including Jushin Thunder Liger, El Samurai and Heat.
His second tour took place in February 2003 and saw Super Crazy team up mainly with Curry Man and Tiger Mask. Super Crazy mainly faced Jushin Thunder Liger's CTU faction. The third tour took place in May 2003, this time Super Crazy often worked with other Luchadors touring NJPW at the time including Último Guerrero, Rey Bucanero and Sangre Azteca.
His fourth, and so far final, NJPW tour took place in October and November 2003, again Crazy mainly worked in tag team matches, siding with Koji Kanemoto or Tiger Mask against a variety of opponents.
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
In 2005, Super Crazy signed a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Super Crazy's first appearance on WWE television came during the June 18, 2005 airing of SmackDown!'s sister show WWE Velocity, teaming with Psicosis to defeat Akio and Billy Kidman.
The Mexicools
Jim Ross shoots on the Mexicools
Psicosis, Super Crazy, and Juventud grouped together to form a stable known as the Mexicools. The group made their debut as heels on the June 23, edition of SmackDown! when all three members rode to the ring on John Deere lawn mowers with the decals altered to say Juan Deere (John in Spanish) and wearing matching coveralls.
The Mexicools making their entrance on "Juan Deere" lawnmowers.
They then attacked Chavo Guerrero and Paul London during their Cruiserweight Championship match. Juventud cut a promo questioning the lack of "true Mexican luchadores" in the Cruiserweight Division, before going on to deride the current state of Mexican Americans in general. Psicosis dubbed the lawnmower they arrived on a "Mexican Limo 2005" and the group claimed that even Mexico's president mocks Mexicans in the United States (in reference to Vicente Fox's controversial remark that Mexican immigrants do the jobs "not even the blacks want to do").
Despite being introduced as heels, the group quickly became favorites of the audience and eventually began acting as faces. They received strong approval from the audience even during their debut, which occurred in Tucson, Arizona.
The Mexicools' first PPV debut was on July 24 at The Great American Bash, defeating bWo in a six-man tag team match. During the December 2 SmackDown!, Super Crazy and Psicosis competed in an over the top rope battle royal against 5 other tag teams. The pair managed to win and earned themselves a match against MNM at Armageddon for the WWE Tag Team Championship. Unfortunately for the Mexicools, MNM lost the tag team titles before their match.
Not long after, Super Crazy and Psicosis became the only Mexicools left in WWE, as Juventud was released from WWE on January 6, 2006. Super Crazy and Psicosis continued to wrestle as a tag team, but Super Crazy got his own push as a singles competitor, eventually earning himself #1 contendership for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.
By June 2006 Super Crazy's partnership with Psicosis on SmackDown! Super Crazy suffered an injury to his left knee at a house show which occurred on April 21, 2007, in Oberhausen, Germany. The injury was believed to be a MCL tear.
Super Crazy returned to action on June 1 in a match taped for Heat, losing to the returning William Regal. On the July 2 of Raw, Super Crazy was Mr. Kennedy's opponent in a Beat the Clock match. Before the match began, Super Crazy appeared to have agreed to let Kennedy win, however, he defeated Kennedy with a roll-up shortly after the match began, while Kennedy was performing his introduction. Kennedy assaulted Super Crazy later that night. Kennedy then defeated Super Crazy in a grudge match two weeks later.
In October 2007, Super Crazy formed a tag team with Jim Duggan. As part of the 2008 WWE Supplemental Draft, Super Crazy was drafted to the ECW brand. Super Crazy returned to SmackDown (although wearing an ECW shirt), losing to The Brian Kendrick. On the August 19 episode of ECW on Sci-Fi, Super Crazy debuted on the ECW brand, teaming with Evan Bourne and Tommy Dreamer against and lost to John Morrison, Chavo Guerrero and The Miz. On the September 5 episode of SmackDown, he defeated Ryan Braddock but was kicked by Vladimir Kozlov after the match. On the October 17 episode of SmackDown, he lost to Kendrick's bodyguard, Ezekiel Jackson. Super Crazy's last WWE match took place the following week on the October 24 episode of SmackDown, losing to Kendrick.
Return to the Independent Circuit
Shortly after his release from the WWE Super Crazy returned to Mexico, working a series of shows for El Hijo del Perro Aguayo's Perros del Mal Producciones. Super Crazy wrestled several matches against the "Los Perros del Mal" group, and reuniting for one night with his former The Mexicools teammate Juventud Guerrera.
On January 10, 2009, Super Crazy defeated X-Fly (former Rudos del Galaxia teammate Mosco de la Merced under a new name) in a "Hair vs. Hair" Luchas de Apuestas His latest appearance for Los Perros del Mal saw Super Crazy side with Los Perros, teaming with Perro Aguayo Jr.
On February 14, 2009, Super Crazy made his return to International Wrestling Association in Puerto Rico where he won the Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship for a third time by defeating Joe Bravo. Super Crazy held the title until May 16, 2009, where he lost the title to Rick Stanley at IWA's Juicio Final Show.
On May 2, 2009, he challenged Blue Demon Jr. In July 2009, Crazy traveled to Japan to participate in All Japan Pro Wrestling's Junior League. Crazy qualified for the semifinal by defeating NOSAWA Rongai and Toshizo and wrestling to a draw against Kaz Hayashi. In the semifinal Crazy defeated Minoru, before losing to Shuji Kondo in the final on August 7.
On June 6, 2010, Super Crazy appeared at AAA's Triplemanía XVIII as a representative of Perros del Mal Producciones. On June 20, 2010, Super Crazy was a surprise at AAA's television taping in Zapopan, Jalisco. He would team with Foreign Legion members Chessman and Alex Koslov losing to Extreme Tiger, Joe Líder and Nicho el Millonario. During the main event, Crazy along with Los Perros del Mal attacked Dr.
On December 5, 2010, Super Crazy wrestled for Xplosión Nacional de Lucha (XNL) in Chile, facing XL and Giger in a three-way, two-fall match, where the first fall would be contested for XL's XNL Championship and the second for Crazy's X-LAW Junior Heavyweight Championship. In 2010 and 2011, Super Crazy represented Los Perros del Mal in the group's feud with Los Psycho Circus.
On May 29, 2011, at Perros del Mal Producciones' third anniversary show, the two groups faced each other in a six man tag team steel cage Masks vs.
In 2012, he wrestled for a month with Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Noah, where he had a lot of matches, including a match against Ricky Marvin for the XNL Championship and a title match against the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions de ANMU (Atsushi Aoki and Kotaro Suzuki) with Marvin, but they were defeated. In July 2012, he returned to Noah.
In June 2013, he returned to Noah with his nephew Pesadilla, in the Southern Navigation tour. In July, Los Mexitosos entered in the NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League for the vacant GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. However, they lost, with only six points.
In late 2013, Crazy and Pesadilla returned to Noah as Crazy Dynasty. Crazy made a return to Noah yet again on March 8, 2014, at Great Voyage in Tokyo, where he won a three-way dance against Jonah Rock and Xtra Large.
He continued to make appearances for NOAH throughout 2014 including teaming with Matt Striker in the 2014 Junior Heavyweight Tag League. The pair finished third in their block with four points and after another two-month hiatus, Super Crazy received a GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship opportunity against champion Daisuke Harada at Great Voyage in Yokohama on October 12.
On March 15, Crazy appeared in Noah for the first time that year at Great Voyage in Tokyo, teaming with Jonah Rock, Yoshinari Ogawa, and Zack Sabre Jr. in a losing effort to Captain Noah, Taiji Ishimori, Muhammad Yone, and Katsuhiko Nakajima. Crazy replaced Takeshi Morishima in the 2015 Global Tag League and teamed with Mitsuhiro Kitamiya, marking Crazy's first heavyweight tournament in Noah.
The team failed to win a match and finished last in their block with zero points. From July 18 to August 5, Crazy took part in Noah's Global Junior Heavyweight League. Despite winning his first three matches jumping out to an early lead in his block, Crazy lost his final three matches including a match on the final day against Bengala (played by former partner Ricky Marvin) which would have brought Crazy into at least a tie for first place in his block. Alas, Crazy finished in a four-way tie for third place with six points.
In September, Crazy teamed with Hitoshi Kumano in the Global Junior Tag League marking Crazy's fourth consecutive appearance in the tournament. The pairing won only one match and finished last in their block with just two points.
In December 2021, Crazy returned to AJPW to take part in the 2021 World's Strongest Tag Determination League, teaming with TAJIRI, where they finished the tournament with a record of two losses and one double count out, failling to advance to the semifinals. Later that month, on December 16, Crazy defeated Izanagi to win the World Junior Heavyweight Championship.
Crazy returned to NOAH, in July. On July 22, Crazy along with Ricky Marvin, billed as Los Mexitosos defeated Special Assault Team (Atsushi Aoki and Kotaro Suzuki) to win the GHC Heavyweight Junior Tag Team Championship. They lost the titles to Genba Hirayanagi and Maybach Taniguchi, Jr. on March 10, 2013.
Crazy spent the first six months of 2013 in Mexico. However, he returned to NOAH in June with his nephew Pesadilla, in the Southern Navigation tour. In July 2013, Los Mexitosos took part in the 2013 NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League for the vacant GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.
They finished the tournament with a record of three wins and one loss, same as block winners Atsushi Kotoge and Taiji Ishimori, but failed to advance to the finals due to losing to them in their head-to-head match. On January 5, 2022 at Reboot, Crazy made his return to NOAH, joining the Los Perros del Mal de Japón stable. On February 9, Crazy challenged Daisuke Harada to a title match for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. Prior to their title match, Crazy pinned Harada, before stating that he would take title back to Mexico, if he won the championship. On February 23 at Gain Control In Nagoya, Crazy unsucessfully challenged Daisuke Harada for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship. Crazy made his last match for the promotion on May 5, teaming with Los Perros del Mal de Japón stablemate El Texano Jr., in a winning effort against Atsushi Kotoge and Haoh.
Personal Life
Islas is married to Maria Ramírez and they have two children together. He has a tattoo of a sun on one of his upper biceps, as well as a Mexican designed signature tattoo on the other. Islas appeared in a German television contest between Joachim Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf when one of them had to wrestle alongside Islas.
| Organization | Championship | Times |
|---|---|---|
| Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) | None | - |
| Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) | World Television Championship | 1 |
| International Wrestling Association (IWA) | Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship | 3 |
| New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) | None | - |
| World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) | None | - |