Fuerza Guerrera

Fuerza Guerrera (born December 13, 1953) is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado (or masked professional wrestler) who made his debut in 1978.

In his career Guerrera has worked for every major wrestling organization in Mexico including Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), AAA, Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), World Wrestling Association (WWA) and International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG).

Throughout his career Fuerza Guerrera has held many titles for CMLL, AAA and IWRG.

Fuerza Guerrera's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans.

Only his paternal surname is known, as his son Eduardo Aníbal González Hernández' name is a matter of public record making Fuerza Guerrera's paternal surname "González" as well.

Eduardo González is better known as luchador Juventud Guerrera.

Fuerza Guerrera is Spanish for "Warrior Strength", not to be mistaken for the surname Guerrero.

The wrestler who would become known as Fuerza Guerrera trained for his professional wrestling career under Dick Angelo, he would later receive further training from Gallo Tapado, Raul Reyes, El Solar, El Espectro and Ángel Blanco.

He made his professional wrestling debut in 1977 under the ring name Cachorro González (Spanish for "Cub González").

in his debut match he faced, and lost to, Rokambole (later Villano V) and Leopardo Negro (Villano IV) in San Pedro, Puebla.

After wrestling as Chachorro González for over a year González wanted to adopt an enmascarado character by the name of "Star Wars", but the local promoter, Señor Barradas, did not want wrestlers with English names.

Instead he adopted the name "Fuerza Guerrera", a name he came up with inspired by the Aztec warriors of Latin America.

Fuerza Guerrera also adopted a black mask with red and blue markings – red representing passion and blue representing peace, a mask that quickly became his trademark.

He made his in-ring debut as Fuerza Guerrera on December 19, 1979, in Arena Naucalpan.

Since his debut Guerrera has almost always worked as a Rudo, a "bad guy" or "Heel" character, a choice he took early on as it fit with both his personality and his wrestling style.

The combination of Guerrera's in-ring skills, natural charisma and unique mask quickly landed him a regular job working for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), Mexico's largest wrestling promotion.

Guerrera would go on to make several successful title defenses until he lost to Águila Solitaria on June 2, 1980.

Guerrera regained the title three days later and went on to have an 808-day reign that included successful title defenses against Pantera II, Americo Rocca, his trainer Gallo Tapado, Misterioso and Octagón.

On September 25, 1981, Fuerza Guerrera made his first appearance at a major EMLL show as he wrestled and defeated Negro Casas on EMLL's 48th Anniversary show.

On November 6, 1983, Guerrera defeated Aguila Venezolana in a tournament final to win the vacant Mexican National Lightweight Championship, the first professional wrestling championships of his career.

In May, 1984 Guerrera vacated the title when he moved from the lightweight weight class (between 63 kg and 70 kg) and into the Welterweight weight class (between 70 kg and 78 kg).

On December 3, 1985, Fuerza Guerrera captured the Mexican National Welterweight Championship when he defeated Javier Cruz.

Guerrera held the title for approximately 240 days before vacating the title as he left EMLL to work for other wrestling promotions in Mexico.

By late 1988 Guerrera had returned to EMLL and captured the NWA World Welterweight Championship on October 4, 1988, when he defeated Solar II and won the highest ranking title in the Welterweight division at the time.

In 1989 Guerrera also began working part-time in the Tijuana, Baja California based World Wrestling Association promotion, winning the WWA Welterweight Championship twice in 1989 and 1990.

During his title reign Fuerza Guerrera began a long running storyline feud that quickly drew big crowds as the two talented young wrestlers worked a series of very highly thought off matches.

On December 14, 1990, Fuerza Guerrera and Octagón were involved in a three-way Luchas de Apuesta ("bet match"), round robin tournament along with Huracán Ramírez where their masks were on the line.

In the end Guerrera managed to defeat both Octagón and Ramírez, forcing the two to face off with their mask on the line.

Guerrera sat on the sideline and watched Octagón defeat Ramírez and unmask him after the match per Lucha Libre traditions.

On December 15, 1991, Guerrera and Octagón were once again involved in an Apuesta match where each could potentially lose their mask.

The two teamed up to take on El Hijo del Santo and Black Shadow, Jr. in a Relevos suicida match, where the losing team is forced to wrestle each other with their mask on the line.

Fuerza Guerrera pinned El Hijo del Santo to keep both his and Octagón's mask safe, while Hijo del Santo would go on to unmask Black Shadow, Jr. On February 15, 1992, Fuerza Guerrera became the first ever CMLL World Welterweight Champion when he defeated El Khalifa in the finals of a 4-man tournament.

Guerrera only held the title for 22 days before losing it to America.

In mid 1992 CMLL head booker Antonio Peña decided to break away from the promotion and start on his own, founding a company called Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, later known simply as AAA.

When Peña left CMLL a lot of wrestlers, especially younger wrestlers and lower weight division wrestlers, left with him to AAA, among those to leave was Fuerza Guerrera and his rival Octagón who moved to AAA to continue their feud.

One of Peña's creations was the annual Triplemanía event, starting with Triplemanía I on March 30, 1993, where Fuerza Guerrera teamed with Heavy Metal and Rambo in a loss to Octagón, El Hijo del Santo and Villano III.

In the months following Triplemanía I Fuerza's son, working under the name Juventud Guerrera, made his debut in AAA and began teaming with his father on a regular basis.

On November 6, 1994, Fuerza Guerrera teamed with Madonna's Boyfriend, and Psicosis to defeat Rey Mysterio, Jr., Heavy Metal, and Latin Lover on the undercard of AAA's first ever Pay-Per-View AAA When Worlds Collide.

On December 2, 1994, Fuerza and Juventud Guerrera defeated Heavy Metal and Latin Lover to win the Mexican National Tag Team Championship, a title the team held for 181 days before losing the belts to Latin Lover and Panterita del Ring.

The father son team would also win the WWA Tag Team Championship Los Guerreras also teamed with Psicosos to win the WWA Trios Championship from El Hijo del Santo, Octagón and Rey Misterio, Jr. Fuerza Guerrera would also briefly hold the IWC World Middleweight Championship.