Adolfo Margarito Tapia Ibarra (born November 14 is a Mexican
Luchador enmascarado, or masked
professional wrestler. For years he has worked under the
ring name L.A. Park, but is best known throughout the world as
La Parka, especially from his many years in
World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He was forced to change his name from "La Parka" to "L.A. Park" (Short for
La Auténtica Park; "The Original Park") in early 2003 when
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) owner
Antonio Peña asserted his copyright claims to the La Parka character, barring Tapia from using the name as he promoted his own
La Parka. Tapia has worked for every major and a lot of minor wrestling promotions in Mexico as well as wrestling in Japan. Tapia's uncle originally wrestled as Volador, but later changed his character to
Super Parka after Tapia gained world wide fame as La Parka. In 2008 a wrestler called "Black Spirit" made his professional wrestling debut and in 2010 it was officially acknowledge that he was the son of Adolfo Tapia when he started to work as
El Hijo de L.A. Park ("the son of L.A. Park") He has held the
IWC World Heavyweight Championship once.