César González

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César Cuauhtémoc González Barrón
Statistics
Ring name(s) El Invasor
Silver King
Dr. Wagner Jr. (Once)
Black Tiger (3)
Bronco
El Hermano de Dr. Wagner Jr.
Ramses
Billed height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Billed weight 98 kg (220 lb/15.4 st)
Born January 9, 1968 (1968-01-09) (age 40)
Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico
Trained by Dr. Wagner
Grand Markus
Debut November 1985
For the Dutch bobsledder with the same name, see César González (bobsledder).
For the Venezuelan footballer with the same name, see César Eduardo González.

César Cuauhtémoc González Barrón is a Mexican professional wrestler, and actor known best as Silver King or Black Tiger III. He is the son of luchador Dr. Wagner and the brother of Dr. Wagner, Jr..

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[edit] Career

He began his career as Silver King in the Universal Wrestling Association and lost his mask early to El Hijo del Santo. He formed a tag team with El Texano called "The Cowboys" and the tandem saw success with a UWA and WWA World Tag Team title reigns and an appearance on WCW's Clash of the Champions XIX in 1992 being defeated by The Fabulous Freebirds. In 1993, Texano and Silver King jumped to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre where they continued their success by winning the vacant CMLL tag titles. In singles competition, Silver King feuded with veterans such as Scorpio and Emilio Charles, Jr. and he won the CMLL World Heavyweight title by defeating Black Magic Norman Smiley in 1994. In 1996, he and his brother Dr. Wagner, Jr. defeated Dos Caras and Último Dragón to win the vacant CMLL World Tag-Team titles but in 1997, Silver King joined WCW full time and gave up his half of the title.

Other than a Cruiserweight title challenge against Juventud Guerrera on the 1998 Fall Brawl pay-per-view, he did not receive much of a push, mostly wrestling in opening matches, even though he was a member of the short-lived Latino World Order. He began teaming with El Dandy as Los Fabulosos with Stacy Keibler managing but when Vince Russo took over booking, most of the luchadores in WCW's employ were released or given a much smaller role. After leaving WCW, he returned to CMLL and began wrestling for CMLL's Japanese affiliate, New Japan Pro Wrestling. In 2001, he adopted the Black Tiger character previously used by Eddie Guerrero. As Black Tiger, he wrestled several tours with New Japan and had an unsuccessful IWGP Tag Team Championship attempt with his brother against Jushin Liger and El Samurai in 2001. In 2003, New Japan used Mexican wrestlers less and less so Black Tiger wrestled mostly for CMLL, usually as Dr. Wagner, Jr.'s back-up. However, since Black Tiger was supposed to be Japanese (for the Mexican storyline - New Japan had always given the Black Tiger character to a foreigner), the relationship was not publicly recognized by CMLL even when Tiger, Wagner and Universo 2000 won the CMLL World Trios title that year.

After losing the title to Canek, Black Warrior and Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. in 2004, Dr. Wagner, Jr. turned técnico (face) when Dr. Wagner, Sr. died. This left Tiger without much to do and he wrestled mainly in IWRG, Arena Coliseo, CMLL's secondary arena, or he filled in holes in Arena Mexico cards. In 2005, Rocky Romero debuted as New Japan's new Black Tiger. González continued to use the name but CMLL decided to repackage him as "El Bronco." His debut, where he teamed with Elektro (a wrestler from AAA) and L.A. Park against the original members of Los Guerreros del Infierno, was a huge failure. The crowd did not buy Elektro or Bronco and a rematch set for next week on top of the Gran Alterntiva tournament was quickly changed with Hijo del Lizmark and Místico filling in and Bronco replacing Lizmark in the tournament. Elektro was never used again and Bronco was used occasionally in midcard roles. Despite the name change in CMLL, he continued to wrestle as "Black Tiger" in IWRG and in independent promotions. After months of delays due to injuries, he finally lost the Black Tiger mask to L.A. Park in his hometown of Torreón and began wrestling as Silver King again. He stars in the Paramount Pictures Production Nacho Libre as Ramses, in which he dons a golden mask; since then, he has gone on to wrestle in Mexico as the Ramses character.[citation needed]

[edit] In wrestling

  • Finishing and signature moves
  • As Black Tiger
  • Managers

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

[edit] Luchas de Apuestas record

See also: Luchas de Apuestas
Wager lost/won Winner Loser Where Date Note
Mask El Hijo del Santo Silver King Tijuana, Baja California 11/13/87 -
Hair Kendo Silver King Tijuana, Baja California 2/19/88 -
Hair Silver King Black Power II Mexico City 12/6/90 -
Masks Silver King & El Texano Can-Am Express (Doug Furnas & Phil LaFon) Naucalpan, Mexico State 7/12/92 -
Masks Silver King & El Texano Los Crazy Stars Naucalpan, Mexico State 11/8/92 -
Hair Silver King Loco Zandokan Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico State 12/4/92 -
Hair Silver King Scorpio Mexico City 9/30/94 -
Hair Silver King Ari Romero Mexico City 2/9/95 -
Hair Miguel Pérez, Jr. Silver King Mexico City 9/22/95 -
Hair Emilio Charles, Jr. Silver King Mexico City 9/27/96 -
Hair Silver King La Fiera Mexico City 3/21/97 -
Mask L.A. Park Black Tiger III Torreón, Coahuila 2/4/06 -