[3] Shortly after Colley left Demolition and was replaced by Barry Darsow, Colley and Rivera would form the masked Shadows tag-team, and they would make their debut as a team in Worcester, Massachusetts, on March 17, 1987, at a house show defeating the team of Lanny Poffo and Nick Kiniski,[4] and The Shadows would have their first TV match also in Worcester, Massachusetts, on April 23, 1987, when they teamed with fellow jobber "Iron" Mike Sharp and lost to Blackjack Mulligan, Billy Jack Haynes and Tito Santana.
[4] The Shadows scored a rare victory in Detroit, Michigan when the defeated they team of S. D. Jones and Lanny Poffo.
They had one pay-per-view appearance, as part of the 10-team elimination match at the Survivor Series 1988, where The Conquistadors and The Powers of Pain were the last two teams left in the ring.
After shocking the wrestling world by outlasting several formidable tandems, The Conquistadors eventually lost when Mr. Fuji tripped up Uno and The Barbarian hit him with a headbutt to win the match for The Powers of Pain.
[13] Backstage, Edge and Christian, looking like they had just come out of the showers, politely challenged Los Conquistadors for a title shot the next night.
On Raw the following night, Edge looked confident as he made his way through the backstage area toward the ring, until he found Christian seemingly put through a table.
On the July 17, 2003 edition of SmackDown!, Rob Conway and Nick Dinsmore, who were both working in Ohio Valley Wrestling at the time, assumed the roles of Los Conquistadors in a match in which they were defeated by Rey Mysterio and Billy Kidman.
Unlike previous versions of Los Conquistadors, Conway and Dinsmore wore black and gold masks with exposed mouths along with blue shoulder pads.
On the October 8, 2018 episode of Raw, a man dressed in a Conquistador outfit, later revealed to be Kurt Angle, won a WWE World Cup Qualifying Battle Royal by last eliminating Baron Corbin.
The next week on Raw, jobber Billy Bain dressed as a Conquistador (assumed to be Angle) to take on The Authors of Pain in a losing effort.
The Los Conquistadors costumes of Edge and Christian from 2000 were made available as alternative outfits in the video game WWE SmackDown vs.