Vickie Guerrero

Vickie Lynn Benson
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Ring name	Vickie Guerrero
height	163 cm
Fighting weight	64 kg
birth	April 16, 1968 El Paso , Texas , USA
debut	2005

Vickie Lynn Benson , née Lara, (born April 16, 1968 in El Paso , Texas ) is an American wrestling actress. She is better known by her ring name and former real name Vickie Guerrero . She became known for her time at WWE , where she appeared regularly in their wrestling shows. She is the widow of the late wrestler Eddie Guerrero . She is currently the manager of the wrestler Nyla Rose at All Elite Wrestling .

Private life

Guerrero married Eddie Guerrero on April 24, 1990. Together they have two daughters, Shaul Marie (born October 14, 1990) and Sherilyn Amber (born July 8, 1995). She is also the stepmother of Eddie's youngest daughter Kaylie Marie (* 2002), who was born during her and Eddie's brief marital separation. Shaul Marie is under WWE contract and currently wrestlet as Raquel Diaz in the WWE Development League, WWE NXT . Guerrero married Kris Benson in 2015 and took his last name.

Career

World Wrestling Entertainment

2005-2006

Vickie Guerrero didn't play a role in the wrestling business before her husband died. She only appeared briefly as part of her husband's storylines . Eddie Guerrero, who was under contract with the WWE, died unexpectedly on November 13, 2005 as a result of a heart defect in his hotel room in Minneapolis. WWE owner Vince McMahon said at a press conference after Eddie Guerrero's death that WWE would honor the Eddie family forever. Several months later, Vickie Guerrero appeared frequently on television shows of the WWE, usually within a storyline between Chavo Guerrero , her nephew, and Rey Mysterio , a good friend of her late husband, in which she initially constituted to try to settle the dispute, but later on Chavo Guerrero took sides. Guerrero became a heel through this action and subsequently appeared as the manager of Chavos. She also filled this role in a subsequent feud between Chavo and Chris Benoit , which ended with the pairing up.

2008-2014

In early 2008, WWE formed by Guerrero and Edge around the group La Familia , consisting of Chavo Guerrero, whose bodyguard Bam Neely, Curt Hawkins , Zack Ryder and Edge. As part of this storyline, the then General Manager of SmackDown, Vickie Guerrero and Edge fell in love and then got married ( Kayfabe ). She used her power to see her “lover” in the title race for the World Heavyweight Championship , and later also the WWE Championship . During this time, Batista , CM Punk , The Undertaker , Jeff Hardy , John Cena and Triple H were feuders. Alicia Fox and Big Show were also involved in these feuds .

She was interim general manager of RAW after Stephanie McMahon was attacked by Randy Orton . From April 6, 2009 to June 8, 2009 Guerrero was the official general manager of Monday Night RAW and gave her place as general manager of SmackDown to her predecessor and former assistant Theodore Long. During a storyline with Santina Marella , Guerrero became the new Miss Wrestlemania. The story ended in a hog pen match at Extreme Rules on June 7, 2009, Santina Marella won, but was later fired by Donald Trump . A day later, she announced her resignation as general manager of RAW and left the WWE to take care of her children.

Vickie Guerrero with
Dolph Ziggler on RAW

For the 10th anniversary episode of Smackdown on October 2, 2009, she introduced Teddy Long to her new boyfriend Eric Escobar and returned to WWE as his manager. Mr. McMahon hired Guerrero a short time later as Teddy Long's advisor while he was on observation. She ended working with her boyfriend Eric Escobar after he lost a WWE Intercontinental Championship match to John Morrison . At WrestleMania 26, she took part in a 10 Divas Tag Team Match, and won it for her team, after a frogsplash in memory of her late husband Eddie Guerrero. After that she was regularly employed as a manager for LayCool ( Layla El & Michelle McCool ) from January to May 2010 . From September 7 to November 30, 2010, she was the pro on NXT season 3 of Kaitlyn , which won that season.

From June 2010 Guerrero worked as the manager of Dolph Ziggler . She helped Ziggler win the Intercontinental Title from Kofi Kingston . After losing the title to Kingston, she feuded with Ziggler against Kelly Kelly and Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship . She was the acting general manager after an attack on Teddy Long at SmackDown. She named Ziggler the new World Heavyweight Champion on February 15, 2011 after taking the title from Edge on her own initiative. After Long's return, Guerrero and Ziggler, who lost the title to Edge on the evening of the appointment, were fired as part of the storyline and had to leave SmackDown.

On March 4, 2011, Guerrero then switched to RAW and was still to be seen at the side of Dolph Ziggler. From September 2011 to June 18, 2012 she also looked after Jack Swagger .

On October 22, 2012, she was appointed Managing Supervisor of RAW. In the course of a feud with Dolph Ziggler against AJ Lee and John Cena , RAW's business relationship with Ziggler ended on December 17, 2012 after two and a half years. On July 9, 2013, Guerrero was fired as Managing Supervisor and replaced as General Manager by her assistant Brad Maddox. Eight days later, Guerrero became permanent general manager of SmackDown for the second time.

On June 23, 2014, Guerrero lost in a match against Stephanie McMahon , whereupon she was sacked within the storyline . After the match, she threw Stephanie McMahon into a mud pool. This was the first time in seven years that Guerrero had become the Face . This was used as a reason to write her off the TV shows, as she had asked for a release several months earlier. At the beginning of August 2014, the qualified medical administration specialist announced that she had accepted a position in her old area of ​​activity and that she was responsible for processing insurance applications in a pharmaceutical company.

All elite wrestling

Since 2020

In the special edition Fight for the Fallen of the TV show AEW Dynamite on July 15, 2020, Guerrero was introduced as the manager of Nyla Rose. Previously, Guerrero had cameo appearances for All Elite Wrestling . For example, she appeared as a co-commentator in the December 17, 2019 issue of AEW Dark .

criticism

Since Vickie Guerrero had played no role in the wrestling business before her husband's death and her first regular appearances and storylines in the WWE were related to developments after Eddie Guerrero's death, there was repeated criticism that she exploited his death and used it for her own Profiling. The WWE received very negative reviews for processing Eddie Guerrero's death. The trade magazine Wrestling Observer awarded the promotion the "Award" "Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic", on the website WrestleCrap.com the visitors chose the treatment of Eddie Guerrero's death by WWE and widow for the "2007 Gooker Award" . The Gooker Award is named after a particularly ridiculous wrestling gimmick, a man-sized turkey ("Gobbledy Gooker"), embodied in 1990 by Eddie Guerrero's brother Hector .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vickie Guerrero got married on Wrestlingcorner.de, accessed on July 16, 2020.
2. ↑ http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/WWE_News_3/article_15359.shtml , accessed on July 25, 2008
3. ↑ CALDWELL'S WWE RAW RESULTS 6/23: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of live Raw - final MITB PPV hype from DC, IC Title match, Vickie's farewell, much more. Accessed July 21, 2014
4. ↑ Vickie Guerrero's new career surprised . POWER-WRESTLING.DE. August 3, 2014. Archived from the original on August 9, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 2, 2014. 
5. ↑ CHRIS SCHRAMM: Guerrero storyline dubious award winner , February 15, 2007 (Eng.)

Web links

Commons : Vickie Guerrero  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Vickie Guerrero's WWE Profile
• Vickie Guerrero's WWE Profile (German)
• Profile on Neckbruch.com
• Profile on Cagematch.de