1. Salvador Guerrero Quesada, better known as Gory Guerrero, was one of the premier Mexican-American professional wrestlers in the early days of Lucha Libre when most wrestlers were imported from outside Mexico.
12 Facts About Gory Guerrero
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Gory Guerrero wrestled primarily in Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre between the 1940s and 1960s.
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Gory Guerrero was the patriarch of the Guerrero wrestling family.
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Gory Guerrero attended school in the United States until the age of nine when his mother died.
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Gory Guerrero's family moved to Mexico, and Guerrero's father used his English-language skills to work as an interpreter in Guadalajara.
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In Mexico, Gory Guerrero joined a gym with the intention to learn to box, but instead learned lucha libre from Diablo Velasco and El Indio Mejia.
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Gory Guerrero wrestled his first professional wrestling match on September 14,1937, jobbing to El Rojo.
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Gory Guerrero made his debut for the Mexico City promotion Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre in 1943 and was named "Rookie of the Year" later that year.
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Gory Guerrero feuded with Enrique Llanes and his tag team partner Tarzan Lopez.
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Gory Guerrero broke away from EMLL in 1966 after refusing to drop the NWA World Light Heavyweight Championship to Ray Mendoza.
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Gory Guerrero began to branch out into booking and training with Dory Funk Sr.
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Two weeks before his death, Gory Guerrero's liver failed and he developed cirrhosis due to hepatitis.