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.

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

Leone claimed if he was capable of the feat he'd leave wrestling to play for the Southern Cal football team, and the two were exonerated.

[2] In addition to his singles titles, Torres also held numerous tag team championships teamed with Bobo Brazil, Leo Nomellini, Ronnie Etchison, Johnny Barend, Jess Ortega, and his brothers in the 1950s and 1960s, ranging from Texas to the Central States territory.

In 1969 Enrique 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.

His 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.

He used to say, "that these cauliflower ears didn't come from sleeping on hard hotel pillows, as well as his knee, back and other injuries sustained in the arena ring.

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