The Guerrero wrestling family has a long history in professional wrestling, from Patriarch Gory Guerrero to Chavo Guerrero Jr in the third generation of the family. Like other wrestling families, most of the members of the Guerrero family were trained by the family patriarch, Gory Guerrero. The family spent most of their lives between Mexico and Texas, where they lived in the border city of El Paso.
After Gory retired from wrestling, he would train his sons in a wrestling ring in the backyard of the family house and ran independent shows in both El Paso and across the border in the Mexican city of Juarez. The shows not only gave Gory's older children Chavo, Mando, and Hector the chance to wrestle in front of a decent crowd but his younger son Eddie also entertained the crowds during the intermission of shows. As a WWE Superstar, Eddie Guerrero would take his family name to new heights.
10 Hector Guerrero Was TNA's Spanish Color Commentator
Hector Guerrero is the third of Gory Guerrero's four sons and began wrestling in 1973. Hector has had a long career, having wrestled for WWE and WCW throughout his career. Hector would wrap up his full-time in-ring career in 2001 but signed a contract with TNA wrestling to work as the Spanish color commentator in 2007. During his time as an on-screen figure in TNA, Hector would manage the Latin American Exchange faction, made up of Homicide and Hernandez at the time, the group was also managed by Shelly Martinez.
Guerrero wrestled in a single match for TNA, teaming with LAX against Beer Money Inc and Jacqueline. Hector would leave TNA in 2015, after working for the company for eight years. Guerrero announced the departure via Twitter.
9 Gory Had Two Daughters
Given the attention that Gory Guerrero and his sons receive, you would be forgiven to think that he only had male children. However, Gory Guerrero also had two daughters with his wife Herlinda. The two daughters were named Maria and Linda Guerrero, but not much is known about them as they didn't seem to follow their father into professional wrestling, unlike their brothers. Maria was born in 1947, two years before Chavo Guerrero Sr, making her Gory's oldest child.
Linda Guerrero also avoided the family business, instead choosing to work as a television and news presenter. When Gory Guerrero was inducted into the El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame, his daughters Linda and Maria were on stage to accept the induction on his behalf. Their brothers Hector and Mando were present.
8 Herlinda was also from a Wrestling Family
It wasn't just Gory Guerrero that connected the Guerrero family to professional wrestling but the family's matriarch, Herlinda Guerrero, also had a connection to professional wrestling. Herlinda Guerrero was originally Herlinda Llanes before her marriage to Gory Guerrero, as she was the younger sister of Enrique Llanes. Enrique wrestled for the Mexican wrestling promotion EMLL during his career as well as Houston Wrestling in Texas. Llanes was a former NWA Middleweight Champion and Mexican National Light Heavyweight Champion.
This wasn't Herlinda's only connection to professional wrestling. Herlinda was involved in a segment between Eddie Guerrero and his rival John "Bradshaw" Layfield during a house show in El Paso, Texas. After JBL attacked Eddie with the WWE Title, Herlinda confronted JBL before having a heart attack in the ring. According to JBL, it was Eddie who came up with the idea of his mother having a heart attack in front of his children and a wild crowd in El Paso.
7 Hector Guerrero Was The Gobbledy Gooker
At Survivor Series 1990, two wrestlers made their WWE debut. Wrestling as a part of Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Team, The Undertaker would make his official first WWE appearance, despite making his actual first appearance on an episode of Superstars, which was aired after Survivor Series. The second debut went to the Gobbledy Gooker, who emerged out of a giant egg placed at ringside. The Gobbledy Gooker would drag Gene Okerlund to the ring and dance in front of the live crowd.
The wrestler inside the Gobbledy Gooker costume was Hector Guerero, the son of Gory Guerrero, the older brother of Chavo and Eddie Guerrero, and the uncle of Chavo Guerrero Jr, who would also wrestle in WWE. Guerrero would occasionally return to WWE as the Gobbledy Gooker, with the last time being in 2001 as a part of the Gimmick Battle Royal at WrestleMania 17.
6 Chavo Guerrero defeated Chavo Guerrero for a WWE Title
While it isn't uncommon for fathers and sons to wrestle in professional wrestling, it is extremely rare in WWE. Wrestlers of multiple generations are rarely of an age difference where WWE will book them against each other. It is even rarer with a WWE title on the line. However, that is what happened between Chavo Guerrero Jr and his father Chavo Classic.
On an episode of SmackDown, Chavo Classic and Chavo Guerrero Jr competed in a Triple Threat match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship. The match, which also included Spike Dudley, would end after Chavo Classic inadvertently pinned his son after being knocked down by Spike. Chavo Classic would hold the title for a month before losing it to Rey Mysterio on an episode of SmackDown in what would be Chavo Classic's last WWE match.
5 Gory Wrestled For WWE
While Eddie, Chavo Jr, Chavo Classic, and even Hector Guerrero had memorable runs with WWE, fewer fans will know that Gory Guerrero also wrestled for the McMahon family promotion. Gory would make appearances for WWE's forerunner Capitol Wrestling Promotion. Gory would wrestle for the promotion in January and February 1958, but never had any matches of note. Guerrero also challenged Lou Thesz for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at an EMLL event. Guerrero challenged Fritz Von Erich for the number one contender spot for the NWA World Title but was unsuccessful both times.
4 Eddie's Daughter Was Briefly With WWE
In 2010, five years after Eddie Guerrero passed away, Shaul Guerrero signed a WWE developmental contract. Shaul was sent to WWE's developmental promotion at the time, Florida Championship Wrestling where she become the Queen of FCW after defeating Aksana. Shaul would hold the title until it was deactivated by Summer Rae in 2012. Shaul would also hold the FCW Diva's Championship after defeating Audrey Marie in December 2011.
When WWE moved its developmental system from Florida Championship Wrestling to NXT and the Performance Center, Guerrero was one of the many wrestlers brought over from the previous promotion. Despite having a victory over Paige, Shaul would eventually leave NXT in 2014 and take a prolonged hiatus away from wrestling. Shaul would return to wrestling briefly in 2018 for Reality of Wrestling before returning to wrestling in 2020 where she has gone on to work for All Elite Wrestling as a ring announcer.
3 Shaul Guerrero Wasn't Allowed To Use The Guerrero Name
While working in WWE Developmental, Shaul Guerrero would go by Raquel Diaz instead of her legal last name. Considering how much of a star Eddie Guerrero was, and how much of a bankable name Guerrero still is to this day, it was WWE that wouldn't let Shaul use her father's last name. According to Shaul Guerrero, the decision to not give her the Guerrero family name when she was starting was because if she was bad it would sully the Guerrero name.
In 2016, Shaul would marry fellow professional wrestler Matt Rehwoldt, who also worked in WWE as Aiden English. The pair met when they were both in the WWE developmental system. English wrestled for WWE from 2012 until he was released in 2020 as a part of the COVID-19 releases. English has since gone on to join TNA and New Japan Pro-Wrestling as a member of the commentary team, something he began doing towards the end of his run in WWE.
2 Eddie and Chavo are Uncle and Nephew
Given how close they were in ages, you would be forgiven for thinking that Chavo Guerrero Jr and Eddie Guerrero were brothers or cousins. However, the reality is that Eddie was Chavo's uncle. The reason for the small age gap between the generations was due to Eddie being the youngest of Gory Guerrero's children, born when his oldest brother Chavo Sr was already 18 years old. Three years after Eddie was born, Chavo Guerrero Sr fathered Chavo Guerrero Jr.
Due to their closeness in age, Chavo and Eddie would often wrestle against each other at wrestling events promoted by Gory Guerrero in the family's hometown of El Paso or across the border in Mexico. Eddie and Chavo would wrestle together in both WCW and WWE, with Chavo coming to WWE during the sale of WCW. Chavo and Eddie would hold the WWE Tag Team Titles twice together while wrestling as Los Guerreros.
1 Gory Guerrero was a Wrestling Innovator
To create a move and have it named after you in professional wrestling is an honorary mark that few wrestlers have. The Guerrero family patriarch doesn't just have one move named after him, but Gory Guerrero has multiple moves named in his honor. Gory is credited with creating the Gory Special, the Gory Bomb, and the Gory Neckbreaker, all three of which are named in his honor. There are also several other wrestling moves that Gory Guerrero was credited with creating and pioneering in professional wrestling.
The most common move that Gory Guerrero created but doesn't often get credit for is the Camel Clutch. Even though the move was popularized by wrestlers with Middle Eastern gimmicks, like the Sheik, or the Iron Sheik, the move was first created and used by Gory Guerrero and was called La de a Caballo.