Hector Guerrero

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Hector Manuel Guerrero Llanes United StatesUnited States
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Data
Ring name Hector Guerrero
Gobbledy Gooker
Lazer Tron
height 185 cm
Fighting weight 108 kg
birth October 11, 1954
Mexico City , Mexico
Announced from El Paso , Texas
Trained by Gory Guerrero
debut 1973

Hector Manuel Guerrero Llanes (born October 11, 1954 in Mexico City , Mexico ) is a Mexican-born American wrestler who now works as a wrestling commentator and road agent for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . Guerrero, who usually went by the patronymic Hector Guerrero , is a member of the Guerrero family, which produced numerous personalities in the wrestling business.

Career

Hector Guerrero was born in Mexico, but his father, the wrestler Gory Guerrero , soon moved with the family to El Paso, where Hector grew up with his brothers Chavo , Mando and Eddie . Hector attended the University of Texas at El Paso , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in physical education.

Hector received wrestling lessons from his father and made his debut under his real name in 1973. In the following years he mostly competed in California in the local promotion of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), often together with his brothers in tag teams . In 1978 Hector received the NWA Americas Tag Team title for the first time in a team with Chavo , which he was able to achieve five more times by the end of his career. From the mid-1980s, Hector joined the Georgia-based NWA promotion Jerry Crockett Productions , where he appeared masked as Lazer Tron . Hector won other NWA regional titles, including the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship , the NWA Florida Junior Heavyweight Championship, and the NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship before leaving the NWA and joining the smaller American Wrestling Association , which featured stars like Hulk in the 1980s Hogan had produced. Hector was also successful in this league, receiving both the AWA Southern and the AWA World Tag Team Championship .

In 1990, the World Wrestling Federation developed a new gimmick for a wrestler before the major event Survivor Series , which they introduced into their broadcast: Part of the set of the regular WWF broadcasts before that was an oversized egg, which the commentators repeatedly pointed out. In the Survivor Series, the Gobbledy Gooker "hatched" from this egg: Hector Guerrero, disguised as a man-sized turkey, who danced in the ring with ring announcer Gene Okerlund . The audience's reaction to this gimmick was very negative, the character immediately disappeared from the WWF. However, she still received an award from the wrestling magazine Wrestling Observer as "Worst Gimmick" of the year and was named after the Gooker Awards of a wrestling website, which annually honors the most despicable storyline or plot of a wrestling organizer with this. For years, WWF avoided mentioning the Gobbledy Gooker. Despite this, he was among the past gimmicks that the WWF reactivated in 2001 for a one-time gimmick battle royal at pay-per-view Wrestlemania.

Hector turned his back on WWF, in 1992 he was active in Smoky Mountain Wrestling , 1995 in Extreme Championship Wrestling , 1996 to 1997 followed a brief appearance in World Championship Wrestling , which he ended after a brief feud with his brother Eddie. After he played the Gobbledy Gooker again in 2001, Hector Guerrero played his last match as an active wrestler in 2003.

In March 2007 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling announced that Guerrero had signed a contract there as a road agent and commentator for the Spanish-speaking area. Since May 2008, Guerrero also appeared in the shows of the league as the storyline manager of the Latin American Xchange tag team , which was able to secure the TNA World Tag Team Championship through Guerrero's interference in matches .

Wrestling titles at a glance

  • Championship Wrestling from Florida
  • NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship
  • NWA Florida Junior Heavyweight Championship
  • NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship - with Chavo Guerrero
  • American Wrestling Association
  • Jim Crockett Promotions
  • NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship
  • NWA Hollywood Wrestling
  • 2 × NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship
  • 6 × NWA Americas Tag Team Championship - with Chavo Guerrero (1), Black Gordman (1), Barry Orton (1) and Mando Guerrero (3)
  • NWA Tri-State
  • NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Tri-State version) - with Ron Sexton
  • Pro Wrestling Federation

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personal data
SURNAME Guerrero, Hector
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guerrero Llanes, Hector Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city