![]() ![]() ![]() Two weeks before his death on Apin El Paso, Texas, Guerrero's liver failed and he developed cirrhosis due to hepatitis./r/conspiracytheories is the place to discuss every aspect of conspiracy theorism, from theories and current events to debunkings and popular culture. Guerrero would also open his home to aspiring wrestlers, training them in the backyard in an old ring. The sons would go on to become professional wrestlers, and out of all of them, Eddie enjoyed the most success and went on to have one of the greatest careers of all time.Īfter retiring from active wrestling, Guerrero sold auto insurance. They had six children: four sons Chavo, Mando, Héctor, Eddie, and two daughters, Maria and Linda. Guerrero's wife Herlinda was the sister of wrestler Enrique Llanes. He also invented the back to back stretch hold which has been modified into a facebuster move (Gory Bomb), a piledriver (Barry White Driver), a powerbomb (Stu Hart Special), a reverse STO (The Deal) or a neckbreaker/backbreaker (Widow's Peak). Guerrero is credited with the invention of La de a Caballo (Camel Clutch) and the Gory Special, a type of backbreaker. With age his in-ring performing decreased until his ultimate retirement in the 1980s. In addition, he helped run shows in NWA Hollywood Wrestling for two years, and later he booked shows for World Class Championship Wrestling. He also began to branch out into booking and training with Dory Funk Sr. He worked as an independent in the mid-1960s. Guerrero broke away from EMLL in 1966 after refusing to drop the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship to Ray Mendoza. Mando, Gori, Chavo, Hector and Eddie Guerrero in the late 80s In 1954, he wrestled a championship match against NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz but did not win the title. He defeated Lopez for the NWA Middleweight title. He also feuded with Enrique Llanes and his tag team partner Tarzán López. Guerrero also appeared in some of El Santo's films. In the late 1940s, Guerrero began tag teaming with El Santo as the undefeated La Pareja Atómica (The Atomic Pair). Guerrero and his brothers also feuded with Cavernario Galindo and his brothers. ![]() Several months later, he won the Mexican National Middleweight Championship, which he held for approximately one year. In 1945, he briefly held the Mexican National Welterweight Championship. He made his debut for the Mexico City promotion Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre (EMLL) in 1943 and was named "Rookie of the Year" later that year. He began his career in Mexico working under the ring name Joe Morgan, but later changed his name to Gory Guerrero-a reference to his bloody matches. He wrestled his first professional wrestling match on September 14, 1937, jobbing to El Rojo. In Mexico, Guerrero joined a gym with the intention to learn to box, but instead learned lucha libre from Diablo Velasco and El Indio Mejía. His family moved to Mexico, and Guerrero's father used his English language skills to work as an interpreter in Guadalajara. He attended school in the United States until the age of nine when his mother died. Guerrero was born in Ray, Arizona to a family of migrant workers. He was also the patriarch of the Guerrero wrestling family. He also wrestled primarily in Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre (EMLL) between the 1940s and 1960s. He wrestled in the early days of Lucha Libre when most wrestlers were imported from outside Mexico. Salvador Guerrero Quesada (Janu– April 18, 1990), better known as Gory Guerrero, was a Mexican-American professional wrestler. ![]()
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