5 Cruiserweight Champions Who Became Stars (& 5 Who Got - TheSportster [3] While in CMLL, he frequently re-teamed with fellow WCW alumnus Rey Mysterio, who had left WCW due to its purchase by the World Wrestling Federation, in CMLL before Mysterio's signing with WWE. Juventud Guerrera | Pro Wrestling | Fandom He let Brian Adams pin him and get an upset victory in a match.[45]. [84], With Benoit focusing on Kurt Angle, Guerrero aligned himself with his nephew Chavo, forming the tag team Los Guerreros. Gory Guerrero was the patriarch of the family. Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2016. from England. [37], On the March 9, 1998 episode of Nitro, Guerrero's nephew Chavo Guerrero lost to Booker T in a match. In one of the team's definitive moments, Chavo told Benoit that his former friend Guerrero was assaulted by his tag team partner Angle. [93] At Backlash, Los Guerreros lost to Team Angle in a rematch. He would compete throughout 1996 and 1997 under a mask, like the one he wore in Mexico and ECW. [44] Guerrero saved Chavo from beatings by Stevie Ray, seeming that he would align with Chavo but he wanted his release. He was so entertaining, but he also had all the technique. [152][153] In a 2020 interview for the documentary Dark Side of the Ring, Chavo explained that Eddie had passed out in the hotel room bathroom with a toothbrush in his hand, and was barely clinging to life when Chavo discovered him. Guerrera will be the. Eddie Guerrero: Movies, TV, and Bio - amazon.com He was such a great wrestler and he got it. [13] He then formed a new rudo stable named Anarqua with Eterno and Steve Pain. [54] At Rebellion, Guerrero and Malenko lost to Gunn and Chyna. Eddie Guerrero Injury Update - IGN The unmasking will serve as a catalyst for Guerrera to seek revenge against Jericho next week on Dynamite. Alongside Rey Mysterio Jr., Billy Kidman and La Parka (now LA Park), Guerrera's most noted rival in WCW was Chris Jericho, who won Guerrera's mask in a match at SuperBrawl 98. Guerrero engaged in a feud with Big Show, which involved Guerrero giving Big Show some laxative laced burritos and then later spraying Big Show from a sewage truck. A few luchadores lost their masks while at World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the nineties. [10] On December 2 at Guerra de Titanes, Guerrera lost the AAA Cruiserweight Championship to Daga in a six-way ladder match. He is interred at Green Acres Memorial Park Cemetery in Scottsdale, Arizona. He teamed with Psicosis in a losing effort against Hijo del Santo & El Santo Jr. Later that night, Juventud & Psicosis attacked Rey Mysterio Jr. and Jeff Hardy (who had just finished a match against one another). Guerrera was not done, also taking the time to thank his fans, family and friends. Overview; Other Matches; Ratings; Comments; Match Data. The two were never married in real life. In September, he formed The Sexicools, a parody of his Mexicools group, with Intocable and Toscano. He was widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential professional wrestlers of all time. Eddie passed away in 2005 due to heart failure caused byatheroscleroticcardiovascular disease. Three months later after being released from WWE, Guerrera returned to Mexico to compete with Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). They defeated D-Generation X at Survivor Series in an elimination tag team match and assisted Triple H in his match with Stone Cold Steve Austin. He challenged Jericho for the title at Clash of the Champions XXXV but lost. His father Gory Guerrero became a star in the U.S., an icon in Texas and a legend in Mexico. Vickie was the wife of the late-Eddie Guerrero. This is for you!!!" He was followed into the sport by his four sons. Mando, the third-youngest of the Guerrero brothers, spent the majority of his career wrestling in the California wrestling territory. [12][16] During his first few pay-per-view events, he competed in dark matches against Alex Wright. Guerrero then appeared in the room and assaulted Benoit with a steel chair. [138], At the end of the May 5 episode of SmackDown!, he saved Mysterio from an attack by Chavo and MNM, before attacking Mysterio, leaving him bruised and bloody after suplexing him onto a set of steel steps, turning heel in the process. [142] During that time he now had a dark comical gimmick. Batista was well aware of Guerrero's sneaky reputation, and despite eventually accepting his friendship (initially to keep an eye on him), Batista would continually play mind games with Guerrero to expose his true intentions. At this point, Guerrero developed an addiction to pain medication stemming from his 1999 car accident and in May 2001 was sent to rehab, missing the entire Invasion storyline featured his former fellow WCW (and later ECW) wrestlers. [86][91][109] They began feuding with the Basham Brothers, but failed to regain the championship at Survivor Series. The Juice is loose again! In the following weeks, Guerrero revealed the details of the secret in a series of what he called "Eddie's Bedtime Stories". Benoit and Angle managed to overcome their differences and eventually defeated Los Guerreros in the tournament semi-finals. Guerrero's father allowed him and his nephew Chavo to wrestle each other during intermissions. During the match, Guerrero struggled with a decision about whether or not to use a steel chair to secure the victory, eventually opting not to use it and losing as a result. Like, Comment, Subscribe please : ) At the Great American Bash on July 24, The Mexicools defeated the newly reunited Blue World Order (Big Stevie Cool, Da Blue Guy, and Hollywood Nova) in a six-man tag team match. 2 of the top 500 wrestlers in the, Ranked No. The group feuded with Velocity main-stay and then-Cruiserweight Champion Nunzio and his tag partner Vito. The duo entered the eight-team tournament for the new WWE Tag Team Championship, sneaking past Rikishi and Mark Henry in the opening round,[85][86][87] before starting a feud with the newly formed tag team of Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit. On September 6, 2014, Juventud made his in-ring debut for Pure Action Championship Wrestling, winning the promotion's Cruiserweight Championship at their final show, Brawl In The Falls III. Despite rumors, Guererra did not jump to AAA's rival CMLL. "I say it before I dedicate this match to Eddy Guerrero. On February 23, 2002, he faced Super Crazy on the debut show of Ring of Honor known as The Era of Honor Begins to crown the first-ever IWA Intercontinental Champion. [11] Guerrero lost the ECW Television Championship back to 2 Cold Scorpio on August 25. Guerrero's team won the match, but Chyna scored the pin on Trish and became a two-time Intercontinental Champion. [48][49] They next feuded with Revolution (Shane Douglas, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn). The Mexicools were short-lived, and Guerrera's time in WWE was only around six months. These frustrations came to a head when Guerrero requested that WCW President Eric Bischoff either push his character or give him a raise for family reasons. Championships held by Guerrera over the course of his career include the AAA Cruiserweight Championship, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, WCW/WWE Cruiserweight Championship, WCW World Tag Team Championship, and WWA International Cruiserweight Championship. According to the 2004 book The Death of WCW, Guerrera was reportedly under the influence of PCP at the time. At No Way Out, the four men faced each other in a fatal four-way match, which Jericho won. He also made note to dedicate his match next week to a late colleague. [14] Guerrera was seemingly written out of AAA on April 19, 2014, when Daga took over the leadership of Anarqua.[15]. Guerrero was one of the final nine men in the battle royal (notably being one of only two men in the group to be under the age of 35, the other being The Giant) until he was tossed out of the ring by Four Horsemen members. Chavo is the oldest son of Gory. He has since defended it in many triple threat matches usually with PAC and Sper Nova and a few single matches with Sper Nova (all of which he has won so far). In a skit before the Royal Rumble match, he drew his number the same time Ric Flair drew his. [5] He followed in the footsteps of his brothers and father, who had also wrestled in Mexico. [94], Five days prior to Judgment Day, his real-life nephew Chavo tore his biceps and forcing Guerrero to look for another partner. "I didn't like the style of my dad's mask, I thought that was old. Guerrero's team consisted of himself, Big Show, John Cena (replacing the originally chosen Rey Mysterio), and Rob Van Dam. In 1991, he would return for WrestleWar, wrestling a dark match, teaming with Ultraman to defeat Huichol and Rudy Boy Gonzalez. In 1992, Guerrero began wrestling in Japan for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he was known as the second incarnation of Black Tiger. At Judgment Day, Guerrero defended his WWE title against JBL, retaining the title after getting himself disqualified, hitting JBL with the championship title. Watch me play a match in the classic Nintendo 64 Video Game - WCW/nWo Revenge. [146] He would make his entrance the following SmackDown! He chose Tajiri, and they won the WWE Tag Team Championship, Guerrero's second and Tajiri's first at Judgment Day by defeating Team Angle in a ladder match. He was posthumously inducted into the WWE, AAA, Wrestling Observer Newsletter and Hardcore halls of fame. In Mexico, Guerrero wrestled mainly for Asistencia Asesora y Administracin (AAA), teaming with El Hijo del Santo as the new version of La Pareja Atmica (The Atomic Pair), the tag team of Gory Guerrero and El Santo. Guerrero started wrestling on the independent circuit after his release from the WWF. Lucha libre legend and former WCW star Juventud Guerrera will wrestle Chris Jericho on next week's episode of AEW Dynamite. All storylines were put on hold, and no WWE employees were forced to perform, although several matches took place, including one featuring Chavo, who finished the match with his uncle's finishing maneuver the frog splash. ", Layfield recounting the match between him and Guerrero at the 2004 Judgment Day event. The Intercontinental Championship was on the line in the match, and whoever scored the pin would win the title. After Mysterio signed with WWE in 2002, Guerrera joined the upstart promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. [145] Batista defeated Guerrero at No Mercy to retain the World Heavyweight Championship in what would be Guerrero's last pay-per-view match. We changed the business." Guerrera began his rise to prominence as a teenager in AAA. "I never spoke about . At No Way Out, Guerrero teamed up with longtime friend and sometimes rival, Rey Mysterio and defeated the Basham Brothers to win his final title, the WWE Tag Team Championship for a fourth time, with it being Mysterio's third reign. Later on, Guerrera became an announcer on Thunder in order to remain on-screen while rehabilitating an injury. During the ensuing physical altercation, Em allegedly pistol-whipped Guerra before being tackled by onlookers. [121] The match witnessed Guerrero bleed heavily mid-way in the match as a result of Guerrero performing a bladejob after a stiff headshot ringside with a chair from JBL. Although visibly frustrated, Guerrero congratulated his partner. Additionally, the song "We Lie, We Cheat, We Steal" that he performed with Chavo was released on the WWE Originals CD. On the date of his death, a triple threat match between himself, Batista, and Randy Orton was supposed to take place to air on the following episode of SmackDown! They received two straight victories over the Dead Pool at Road Wild and Fall Brawl. Then, The Radicalz reunited and feuded with the reformed D-Generation X (Chyna, Billy Gunn, Road Dogg, and K-Kwik). [citation needed]. Great documentary about the late Eddie Guerrero, fans get inside looks on the people that know him, it goes into deeper view into who Eddie is than the Cheating Death, Stealing Life one. Juventud Guerrera blames his youth for signing off on a storyline in WCW where he lost his mask. Guerrero wrestled as the original Mascara Magica in CMLL until his departure in 1992. [10][11] He went on to have a series of acclaimed matches with Dean Malenko before they both signed with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) later that year. [119], In March, he started a feud with fellow Texan John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) after JBL interrupted Guerrero's title match with Booker T.[111][120] The rivalry would soon turn personal when at a non-televised live event, JBL caused Guerrero's mother to suffer a (kayfabe) heart attack while in attendance at ringside. [111][126] Guerrero then allied himself with Big Show. Chavo lost to Dragn at Spring Stampede. In the 21st century, Hector was a part of Total Nonstop Action as both a commentator and a manager of the LAX. In WCW, Guererra made his debut on August 26, 1996, edition of Monday Nitro in a victory over Billy Kidman. At the October 4 SmackDown! Guerrero spent his early career wrestling in Mexican promotions and forming a popular tag team with Art Barr. He briefly wrestled as Kerwin White but reverted back to the Guerrero name when his Uncle passed away. [54] At Unforgiven, Chyna helped Guerrero in retaining his title against Rikishi. [91][104] He quickly reverted to being a face by engaging in a rivalry with John Cena. An autopsy revealed that Guerrero died as a result of acute heart failure due to underlying atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. He would win the the WWE Cruiserweight Championship twice before being released in January of 2006. For several years, she was a part of the WWE developmental system as a member of the Florida Championship Wrestling roster, which was later rebranded NXT. [54] Just when it appeared that Chyna would leave Guerrero, he proposed to her and she accepted. [118], "The chair shot was very stiff. The stipulation of this encounter, per MJF, is that Jericho must hit a top rope maneuver to win. Given "Juvi's" in-ring style, as well as mastery of lucha libre, such a task will be easier said than done. which Edge won thus ending the rivalry. Guerrero later competed in a tournament for the WWE U.S. Championship in July 2003. for the World Heavyweight Championship, in which Guerrero had been booked to win the title so Batista could take time off to heal from an injured back[citation needed], but that was later denied by Batista in his own book. Theodore Long made him return both items before the match. #PORQUECUANDOELJUGOLODICEELJUGOLOHACE #Whenthejuicesaisothejuicemakesoooo FINALLY #THEJUICEISBACK #GETREADY. [15], Guerrero returned to WCW in late 1995 along with Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit with whom he had worked with in NJPW and ECW. [111][129] Afterwards, Guerrero and Booker briefly and unsuccessfully attempted to win the WWE Tag Team Championship. on November 18, 2005 (both filmed November 13, 2005), each aired as tributes to Guerrero. [11] Guerrera returned to AAA on August 30, 2013, joining the recently reformed Mexican Powers stable. Guerrero debuted in 1986. Juventud helped Charly Manson and D-Generation-Mex win their match and joined D-Generation-Mex. Guerrero performed in Mexico and Japan for several major professional wrestling promotions, and in the United States he performed for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and most notably World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/WWE). Guerrero lost the match after receiving a missile dropkick. Chavo then attacked and turned on Guerrero after he suffered a beating from the Basham Brothers on the January 8, 2004 episode of SmackDown!. Guerrera returned to the promotion on April 30 and formed a new stable known as the "Mexican Powers" alongside Psicosis II, Extreme Tiger, Joe Lder and Crazy Boy, although Psicosis II and Extreme Tiger would later leave the group. On March 13, 2004, Guerrero (WWE Champion), along with Big Show, Trish Stratus and Chris Jericho, made a guest appearance on MADtv as he and the other wrestlers "beat up" Frank Caliendo (portraying Jay Leno) while Aries Spears (portraying The Tonight Show Band leader Kevin Eubanks) watched on.
