Hector Guerrero

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Hector Guerrero Llanes
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Ring name(s) Hector Guerrero
Gobbledy Gooker
Lazer Tron
Billed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Billed weight 239 lb (108 kg/17.1 st)
Born October 11, 1954 (1954-10-11) (age 53)
Mexico City, Mexico
Resides Tampa, Florida, United States
Billed from El Paso, Texas
Trained by Gory Guerrero
Debut 1973

Hector Manuel Guerrero Llanes (born October 11, 1954) is a Mexican-American professional wrestler, better known simply by his paternal name, Hector Guerrero. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a Spanish color commentator, road agent and on air manager for the Latin American Xchange.

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[edit] Career

Guerrero was born in Mexico City, Mexico, but his family relocated to El Paso, Texas in the United States of America when he was young. Guerrero attended the University of Texas at El Paso, graduating with a bachelor's degree in physical education.

Guerrero trained as a wrestler under his father, Gory, and debuted in 1973 as Hector Guerrero. Early in his career, he wrestled primarily in California, often teaming with his brothers Chavo and Mando.

In the mid-1980s, Guerrero wrestled for NWA: Jim Crockett Promotions as the masked Lazer-Tron. Guerrero teamed with Jimmy Valiant and feuded with the New Breed. Guerrero went on to feud with Denny Brown for the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship, and teamed with Manny Fernandez as "The Latin Connection" until Fernandez turned on him to join Rick Rude and Paul Jones.

After leaving the NWA, Guerrero joined the United States Wrestling Association, where he became known for throwing a compound (supposedly extracted from jalapeño) in the eyes of his opponents to temporarily blind them. Guerrero teamed with Dr. Diablo until inadvertently throwing the extract in Diablo's eyes and blinding his own partner, causing the team to split.

In the late 1980s, Guerrero wrestled in the American Wrestling Association, winning the AWA World Tag Team Championship with Dr. D.

[edit] Gobbledy Gooker

In 1990, Guerrero appeared in the World Wrestling Federation at the Survivor Series, wearing a turkey costume and performing under the name Gobbledy Gooker.

The Gobbledy Gooker "hatched" from an oversized egg, which had been on display at WWF events prior to the Survivor Series, and heavily hyped on television. However, crowd reaction was very negative, with fans booing as the costumed Guerrero danced in the ring with announcer "Mean" Gene Okerlund (play-by-play announcers Gorilla Monsoon and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper tried their best to be enthusiastic). Critics were universal with negative reviews, and the character was quickly retired, receiving very few mentions afterwards, and leaving it a mystery if the character was ever even intended for more than short term use, although the gimmick did lend its name to the annual WrestleCrap Gooker Award for worst gimmick, storyline, or event in wrestling.

After the character was shelved the WWF didn't mention it for years, until it became fashionable to mock mistakes made in the past. At this point The Gobbledy Gooker was revived for WrestleMania X-Seven to participate in the "Gimmick Battle Royal". Though the costume was very different from the original, Hector Guerrero did again don the costume, being the second person eliminated in the match, with Repo Man being the first.

[edit] Later career

When "Mean" Gene Okerlund was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006, he recalled some of his famous interviews and he acknowledged the fact that it was Hector Guerrero in the costume telling: "Hector, we had a lot of fun, but all of this is forgotten." And then the camera took a shot of a shy Hector Guerrero.

Guerrero appeared with the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion in 1995, unsuccessfully challenging 2 Cold Scorpio for the ECW Television Championship at Return of The Funker.

Guerrero appeared in World Championship Wrestling in 1997 to confront his brother Eddie about his onscreen behavior. He left the promotion after losing to his brother in a singles match on an episode of WCW Saturday Night. Eddie Guerrero stated in his autobiography that Hector left WCW because he was unhappy with the way he was treated. [1]

On March 1, 2007, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling announced that Guerrero had been hired by TNA as a Spanish color commentator and road agent. On March 8, 2007, he was presented with an award for "achievements in the sport of professional wrestling" by TNA and the Hispanic Legacy Foundation. [2]

On May 1, 2008, Guerrero accepted an offer from LAX to become their new (on-screen) advisor and mentor. On May 11, 2008, Guerrero managed LAX to three victories and the TNA World Tag Team Championship. He interfered in the second and third matches, first helping Homicide pin AJ Styles, and then helping remove Johnny Devine from Team 3D's corner.

[edit] In wrestling

  • Finishing and signature moves
  • Nicknames
  • The Mexican Bandito

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

  • Pro Wrestling Federation
  • PWI ranked him # 423 of the best 500 singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003.

[edit] Personal life

Guerrero is the son of Salvador "Gory" Guerrero Quezada and a member of the Guerrero wrestling family. His uncle, Enrique Nieves, was a wrestler, as were his brothers, Chavo, Mando and Eddie, and his nephew, Chavo, Jr.. He is a Christian. [3]

[edit] References

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  1. ^ Guerrero, Eddie with Michael Krugman, Cheating Death, Stealing Life: the Eddie Guerrero Story (Pocket Books:2005), p.144
  2. ^ Total Nonstop Action Wrestling "Hector Guerrero Joins Total Nonstop Action Wrestling"
  3. ^ Bonham, Chad, Wrestling With God (2005), pp.123-138
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