“A lot of subtle racism holding back all the Latinos and we all know that one of the reasons we beat Vince McMahon is because those guys were out there doing those weekly car crashes.
In an interview with Hollymood Entertainment, Konnan, a former wrestler in WCW, talked about the mistreatment Latino wrestlers faced in the WCW. They defied the odds and put on a show for the fans even though they weren’t given many opportunities due to their size and wrestling style. Guerrero and other Latino wrestlers like Rey Mysterio, Psicosis, Konnan, Juventud Guerrera, and much more were trailblazers in WCW and ECW for mainstream American wrestling in an industry where there weren’t many Latinos. Even though the cruiserweight division made WCW lots of money and made the product way different than their WWF competition. The head of WCW, Eric Bischoff, believed that most of the wrestlers in the cruiserweight division, who were mostly Latinos, didn’t have the size or muscle to compete in the main event, much less compete in a high mid-card match. His career in WCW was mildly successful, but he was never given a chance to be a main eventer or a high mid-card wrestler. In the early 2000s, Guerrero asked for his release from WCW to join the WWF. Guerrero would be the WCW United States Champion and a 2-time WCW Cruiserweight Champion. After being in ECW he would go on to wrestle for World Championship Wrestling where he would go on to join WCW to fight in their cruiserweight division and also to compete in a rating war at the time against Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation (now WWE).
Guerrero got his big break in Extreme Championship Wrestling in 1995 where he would be a 2-time ECW Television Champion. Guerrero was a two-time WCW Cruiserweight Champion and one-time WCW United States Champion. Guerrero was trained to wrestle by his father and wrestled for different promotions around the world. Wrestling was in his blood as his father Gory Guerrero was a former wrestler who revolutionized the early ages of Lucha Libre in Mexico, and his brothers would follow suit which made it inevitable that he would be the next to join the family lineage. Note: this article will not be discussing his career in Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling for the sole reason that I want to put a big focus on his career in WWE where he had lots of success as a Latino wrestler.Įduardo Gory Guerrero was born on Octoin El Paso, Texas.
Let’s explore a retrospective of the career of Eddie Guerrero in WWE and how he became the Latino pioneer in WWE. But most importantly he has shown his Latinx pride and Mexicana heritage in World Wrestling Entertainment, and has inspired not only regular fans but many of the Latinx fans watching wrestling. From his techniques in the ring to his funny personality, Guerrero has a legion of fans who love him (and also sometimes hate him). Undoubtedly Eddie Guerrero is considered the best wrestler to lace up a pair of boots.
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