Early career (1975–1983) Raymundo Díaz Mendoza was the son of
Ray Mendoza, a well known Mexican professional wrestler and wrestling trainer and the brother of
Villano I (José de Jesús Díaz Mendoza),
Villano II (José Alfredo Díaz Mendoza),
Villano III (Arturo Díaz Mendoza), and
Villano IV (Tomás Díaz Mendoza). Trained by his father and oldest brother, he was not allowed to use the Villano name until he finished his education. Because Díaz's younger brother finished his degree faster than him, he was known as "V" (or 5), even though he is the fourth son of Ray Mendoza.
Mexican promotions (1983–1996) In September 1983, Díaz finally took the mask and the name of his brothers and became Villano V. He immediately began teaming with his brothers, especially Villano I and
Villano IV and engaged in a heated and very popular feud with the trios team of
Los Brazos (
Brazo de Plata,
Brazo de Oro and
El Brazo). On October 21, 1988, Villano I, IV, and V defeated
Los Brazos in a
mask vs. mask match and thus unmasked
Los Brazos.
World Championship Wrestling (1996–2000) Villano IV and V began working for
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as part of the influx of Mexican professional wrestlers in 1996. Villano V made his debut at the 1996
World War 3 event as part of the
Three Ring, 60 man battle royal. Subsequently,
Los Villanos worked mainly the weekend shows such as
WCW World Wide and
WCW Saturday Night. The brothers played the role of a
heel and would occasionally cheat by switching places while the referee was distracted (all Villanos wore identical attire, aside from their
Roman numeral distinctions).
Los Villanos made a couple of appearances on WCW's main shows and PPVs such as Villano IV teaming with
Konnan and
La Parka to defeat
Juventud Guerrera,
Ciclope and
Super Calo at
SuperBrawl VII. They also worked an eight-man tag match at
Clash of the Champions XXXV, alongside
Psychosis and
Silver King against Guerrera, Super Calo,
Héctor Garza and
Lizmark Jr. While working in WCW, Villano IV suffered a neck injury as a result of a
failed move by
Kanyon and
Raven. The injury threatened to force Villano IV into retirement, but he was able to recover and was back teaming with Villano V in WCW in 2000.
Mexican promotions (2000–2017) At the
CMLL 75th Anniversary Show on September 19, 2008, Villano V defeated longtime rival
Blue Panther in a
mask vs. mask match to unmask Panther after 30 years of wearing the mask. The ending was very popular with the vocal crowd at Arena Mexico prompting them to throw money into the ring (a tradition in Mexico after a great match). On March 20, 2009, Villano V lost a mask vs. mask match against
Último Guerrero on the
Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show and was forced to unmask and reveal his real name as per
Lucha Libre traditions. Since losing his mask Villano V regularly wrestles under the ring name "Ray Mendoza Jr." in honor of his father. His brother
Villano IV had also wrestled under the name Ray Mendoza Jr. briefly in WCW many years before. He, along with his brothers Villano III and Villano IV were on hand for the 2010
Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show where CMLL honored their father Ray Mendoza with an in-ring ceremony. On September 20, 2012, Mendoza Jr. made his debut for the Japanese
Wrestling New Classic (WNC) promotion, when he was defeated by
Dave Finlay in the main event at
Tokyo's
Korakuen Hall. Two days later in
Osaka, Mendoza Jr. defeated
Tajiri in another main event. Mendoza announced that he would be retiring in early 2013, with a show on March 16, 2013, as his last professional wrestling appearance. The main event of the show was a
Ruleta de la Muerta tag team tournament, where the losing teams advance instead of the winners and the team that loses in the main event would have to wrestle against each other to determine who would unmask. The teams for the
Ruleta de la Muerta were announced as Ray Mendoza Jr. and Villano IV,
El Mesias and
Mil Máscaras,
Máscara Año 2000 and
Rayo de Jalisco Jr.,
Casandro and
Hijo de Pirata Morgan,
Cien Caras and
Dr. Wagner Jr.,
L. A. Park and
Universo 2000, and
El Solar and
Toscano. The Villano duo lost to Máscaras and El Mesias in the first round and lost to
El Texano Jr. and
Súper Nova in the second round qualifying them for the finals where the losing team would be forced to either unmask (Villano IV) or have their hair shaved off (Mendoza Jr.). The team faced, and defeated the team of
El Hijo de Pirata Morgan and
Cassandro which meant El Hijo de Pirata Morgan had to unmask and reveal his birthname, Antheus Ortiz Chávez, while Cassandro had all his hair shaved off as is traditional with
Luchas de Apuestas losses. On March 21, 2013, only 4 days after his official retirement show Ray Mendoza Jr. was announced as working on CMLL's Arena Coliseo 70th Anniversary Show on April 7, claiming that due to poor attendance for his retirement show he personally lost $38,000 promoting the show and thus was forced to return to wrestling to make that money back. On June 16, Mendoza returned to AAA at
Triplemanía XXI, challenging El Texano Jr. to a future match for the
AAA Mega Championship. ==Personal life==