Último Guerrero

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Último Guerrero
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January 2013, before he was unmasked
Birth name José Gutiérrez Hernández
Born (1972-03-01) March 1, 1972 (age 52)[1]
Gómez Palacio, Durango, Mexico[2]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Cóndor Dorado[1]
El Flanagan[1]
Último Guerrero[1]
Billed height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Billed weight 93 kg (205 lb)[2]
Billed from Gómez Palacio, Durango, Mexico[2]
Trained by Tinito[1]
Halcón Suriano[1]
Debut September 19, 1990

José Gutiérrez Hernández, better known under the ring name Último Guerrero (Spanish for Last Warrior) is a Mexican Luchador (Spanish for professional wrestler) currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where he is also part of the booking committee and former CMLL World Heavyweight Championship. Último Guerrero is a charter member of the stable of wrestlers known as Los Guerreros de Infierno / Los Guerreros de la Atlantida and has made appearances for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling where he as part of Team Mexico won the 2008 World X Cup. Guerrero and Dragón Rojo, Jr. are the longest reigning CMLL World Tag Team Champions in history. Último Guerrero is not related to lucha libre legend Gory Guerrero or any of his children, "Guerrero" in this case is the Spanish word for warrior and not his surname. Up until September 19, 2014 Último Guerrero lost his mask after losing a match to Atlantis after which he was forced to unmask and reveal his birth name.

Professional wrestling career

Gutiérrez was trained in "Gimnasio El Ranchero" by Tinito and Halcón Suriano and made his debut in 1990 as "Halcón Dorado" (Spanish for "Golden Hawk").[1] Shortly after his debut he changed name and "ring persona", or gimmick as it's called in professional wrestling, and became known as "Flanagan".[1] He worked for several years in local promotions in his native Durango area before getting his first break in "Promo Azteca". Guerrero and his training partner Super Punk changed their names in 1996 with Guerrero adopting the "Último Guerrero" name and Super Punk becoming "Último Rebelde" as they started teaming together using a hooligan inspired gimmick. The team was scheduled to lose their masks in a "Luchas de Apuestas mask vs. mask" match (a "Bet match" where the loser would unmask), but instead Último Guerrero decided to sign with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in late 1997 and thus saved his mask.[3]

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre

Último Guerrero with his son Taurus and Canelo Casas at an outdoor event.

Initially Guerrero worked lower card matches, in the first to third match on the show with some success. On September 11, 1998 he defeated Mr. Águila in his first ever mask vs. mask match forcing his opponent to unmask and reveal his real name.[1] As Mr. Águila already worked for the World Wrestling Federation without the mask it was not seen as a surprise. In 1999 Último Guerrero teamed up with veteran Blue Panther to win the Gran Alternativa tournament where a young wrestler teams with a veteran in an 8 team tournament.[4] Winning the Gran Alternativa tournament is usually a sign that the promotion has plans to move a wrestler up the rankings. Shortly after winning the tournamentwards, Guerrero won a match to become the number one contender for Great Sasuke's NWA World Middleweight Championship. Último Guerrero did not win the match but the fact that he worked a featured match in CMLL's main arena, Arene México, showed that the company had plans for him.

Los Nuevos Infernales

Not long after his NWA World Middleweight title match Guerrero began teaming with Rey Bucanero and soon after the duo was recruited by veteran Satánico to be part of a newly created stable of wrestlers called Los Nuevos Infernales ("The new Infernals"), an updated version of Los Infernales which Satánico was a founding member of in the 1980s.[5] The group worked as bad guys, referred to as heels or "Rudos" in professional wrestling. The team of Guerrero and Bucanero were given a series of wins in order to move them up the rankings. In July, 2000 the team defeated Lizmark and Lizmark, Jr. to earn a place in a match to crown new CMLL World Tag Team Championship. On August 4, 2000 the team defeated Mr. Niebla and Villano IV to win their first CMLL World Tag Team Title.[6] During the spring of 2001 the Nuevo Infernales storyline took a turn as Guerrero and Bucanero began to act more and more like Satánico was holding the young team back. This tension led to Guerrero and Bucanero turning against Satánico during a match where Satánico was facing Tarzan Boy, causing him the match. Afterwards all three wrestlers united, stating that they were kicking Satánico out of the group and replacing him with Tarzan Boy.[5] The trio was later expanded by Máscara Mágica, who was filling in for an injured Tarzan Boy and ended up staying with the group after he returned. The storyline between Satánico and Los Nuevo Infernales continued on as Satánico began to assemble his own group of "Nuevo Infernales" recruiting Averno and Mephisto to join his group. Before joining the storyline both Averno and Mephisto had worked for CMLL in low card matches and were repackaged with in-ring personas that fit with the "Nuevo Infernales" image. The two groups of Infernales met in a three on four Steel cage match where the winning team would earn the right to be called "Los Nuevo Infernales" which was the main event of the CMLL 68th Anniversary Show.[5] In the end Máscara Mágica was the last man in the cage, giving Satánico's group the victory and the rights to the name.[7]

Los Guerreros de Infierno

Jushin Thunder Liger tearing at Guerrero's mask during Liger's tour of Mexico

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Main article: Los Guerreros del Infierno

Último Guerrero, Rey Bucanero and Tarzan Boy kicked Máscara Magica out of the group and then decided on the name Los Guerreros del Infierno (The Warriors from hell) as their new name. After changing their name Guerrero and Bucanero started to work a storyline against Negro Casas and El Hijo del Santo over the tag titles. After a match with an inconclusive finish in September, Casas and Santo defeated Guerrero and Bucanero for their titles on November 2.[6] In May 2002, Guerrero and Bucanero defeated Santo and Casas to regain the tag titles.[6] Shortly after winning the titles Guerrero and Bucanero began working with Damián 666 and Halloween of La Familia de Tijuana and then began feuding with Vampiro Canadiense and Shocker. In December, Último Guerrero defeated Shocker for the CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship, his first singles title in CMLL.[8] The storyline continued into 2003 with Shocker defeating Guerrero in a singles match to earn a title shot but losing against Guerrero when the title was on the line a week later. When L.A. Park signed with CMLL in December 2003, he aligned himself with Shocker and they immediately began to feud with Guerrero and Bucanero. The two teams traded the CMLL Tag Team Championship in early 2004. Atlantis and Blue Panther defeated Guerrero and Bucanero for their tag titles on June 25.[6] In 2005, Último Guerrero began an angle with Místico during the early part of the year, losing a singles match to him on February 25. 2005 leading to a tag program with Guerrero and Bucanero against Místico and Dr. Wagner, Jr.. Guerrero and Bucanero joined Universo 2000 in his feud with Perro Aguayo, Jr.'s Los Perros del Mal group leading to several rudo versus rudo match-ups.

Los Guerreros de la Atlantida

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Main article: Los Guerreros de la Atlantida

Near the end of 2005 Guerrero helped Atlantis during a match and thus turned Atlantis Rudo and made him a part of Los Guerreros, changing their name to Los Guerreros de la Atlantida (the Warriors of the Atlantis).[9] In May 2006, Guerrero won CMLL's annual "Grand Prix" tournament that featured wrestler for Mexico, Japan and the United States. At the end of the month, Los Guerreros Rey Bucanero, with Guerrero and Tarzan Boy tearing up Bucanero's tights, signifying he was no longer a member of the group. On July 14, 2006 Rey Bucanero defeated Guerrero for his CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship, ending the reign after 3 and a half years.[8]

On June 29, 2007 CMLL's annual Gran Alternativa Tournament took place at Arena Mexico. Guerrero teamed up with Euforia but the team was defeated by Místico and his partner La Sombra.[10] After the loss Guerrero publicly asked Dr. Wagner, Jr. to join him for to challenge Místico and Negro Casas for the CMLL Tag Team Championship. The match was held on July 13, 2007 at Arena Mexico and saw Guerrero and Wagner win the titles.[6] A week later Guerrero and Wagner lost the titles back to Místico and Casas, making the team the shortest reigning tag team champions ever.[6] The loss caused the two fighting in mutual accusations of betrayal, which in turn led to a feud between the two wrestlers. On July 27, at Arena Mexico, Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Místico held a mano a mano match which was decided by a treacherous intervention by Guerrero, who climbed into the ring, attacked Wagner from behind and caused him to lose the match, tn the aftermath, Guerrero ripped off Wagner's mask. On August 3, 2007, Guerrero teamed up with Atlantis and Sangre Azteca against Dr. Wagner Jr., Alex Koslov and Volador Jr. at Arena México after the match Guerrero took the microphone and challenged Wagner for a mask versus mask match but no match ever came of it as Dr. Wagner, Jr. left CMLL shortly after. In 2008 Último Guerrero teamed with newcomer Dragón Rojo, Jr. to win the 2008 Gran Alternativa tournament.[11]

Último Guerrero in December 2010.

After Blue Panther lost his mask to Villano V, Guerrero began siding with Panther as they were both "Laguneros" (from the "lagoon" area) seeking revenge for the unmasking. Guerrero, Panther, Black Warrior and other wrestlers from "the lagoon" formed a group called Ola Lagunero (Spanish for "the Lagoon wave") and feuded with Los Villanos. On December 22, 2008 Guerrero defeated Dos Caras Jr to win the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship.[12] On March 20, 2009 Último Guerrero faced Villano V in a mask vs mask match at the Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show. Guerrero won two falls to one and thus forced Villano V to unmask and reveal his real name as per Lucha Libre tradition.[13] Subsequently Villano IV has been talking about challenging Último Guerrero to get revenge for his brother's unmasking but no mask vs. mask match has been announced yet. On April 2, 2009 Guerrero successfully defended his CMLL World title against Rey Mendoza, Jr. (the unmasked Villano V) on an independent wrestling promotion show in Gómez Palacio, Durango, marking the first time the CMLL title was defended on a non-CMLL show.[14] On July 12, 2010, at the Promociones Gutiérrez 1st Anniversary Show Último Guerrero participated in a match where 10 men put their mask on the line in a match that featured five pareja incredibles teams, with the losing team being forced to wrestle each other with their mask on the line. His partner in the match was Averno, facing off against the teams of Atlantis and Olímpico, Místico and El Oriental, Histeria and La Sombra, Volador, Jr. and El Alebrije.[15] Averno and Último Guerrero was the third team to escape the match. In the end Místico defeated El Oriental to unmask him.[16] On August 16, 2010 it was announced that Último Guerrero was one of 14 men putting their mask on the line in a Luchas de Apuestas steel cage match, scheduled to be the main event of the CMLL 77th Anniversary Show.[17] Último Guerrero was the eighth man to leave the steel cage, keeping his mask safe. The match came down to La Sombra pinning Olímpico to unmask him.[18] On November 2, 2010, Guerrero and Dragón Rojo, Jr., who replaced an injured Atlantis, defeated Mr. Águila and Héctor Garza to win the CMLL World Tag Team Championship.[19] After the title win, Rojo, Jr. was made an official member of Los Guerreros de la Atlantida.[20] On April 8, 2011, Último Guerrero won his third Torneo Gran Alternativa, this time teaming with Escorpion, becoming the first person to have won the tournament three times.[21] In May, Guerrero became a member of the CMLL booking committee.[22] On August 12, Guerrero lost the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship to Héctor Garza, ending his reign at 963 days, the third longest in the title's history.[23] Guerrero and Atlantis faced each other in a big grudge match on September 23, which saw Atlantis pick up the win.[24] In July 2012, Guerrero officially kicked Rey Escorpión from Los Guerreros del Infierno, though he had turned on the group weeks earlier, and named Euforia and Niebla Roja as his replacements.[25] On the August 3 Super Viernes show, Guerrero and Rojo, Jr. lost the CMLL World Tag Team Championship to Atlantis and Diamante Azul, ending their reign at 640 days, the longest reign in the title's history.[26]

In early 2013 the long running feud between Atlantis and Último Guerrero came to the forefront of CMLL booking once more. The two were booked for the 2013 Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles tournament, forcing the two rivals to team up. Before their qualifying round both Atlantis and Gurrero stated that they would put their differences aside for the sake of the tournament. Atlantis and Guerrero displayed the teamwork they had developed by being partners in Los Guerreros de la Atlantida for several years as they defeated the teams of Valiente and Pólvora, Diamante Azul and Euforia and finally Dragón Rojo, Jr. and Niebla Roja to qualify for the finals of the tournament.[27][28] The finals took place as part of the 2013 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas show and saw La Sombra and Volador, Jr. win the match and the tournament. Following the loss a frustrated Atlantis attacked Último Guerrero and tore his mask apart.[29] Atlantis subsequently made a Luchas de Apuestas challenge to Último Guerrero that was not immediately accepted.[30] The two rivals officially signed the contrat for the mask vs. mask match on March 21, but did not announce an actual date for the match.[31] The act of signing a Luchas de Apuestas match between two of the top ranked CMLL workers without announcing a specific date has let people to speculate that it would take place at the CMLL 80th Anniversary Show in September, 2013.[32] During the celebration of Atlantis' 30th anniversary as a wrestler Guerrero appeared after a match to berate Atlantis, which turned out to only be a distraction for the real Último Guerrero to attack Atlantis from behind. The two identically dressed Guerreros proceeded to beat up Atlantis and tear his mask apart. Following the match Último Guerrero introduced his brother "Gran Guerrero".[33] It was not been verified if Gran Guerrrero actually is the brother of Último Guerrero, someone not related to Guerrero, or as speculated by many his son who wrestled for CMLL as Taurus.[34] The much anticipated and hyped Mask vs. Mask match between Guerrero and Atlantis at the 80th Anniversary Show on September 13 never came to fruition as the two were defeated in a Relevos Suicidas match by La Sombra and Volador Jr., who instead advanced to the Lucha de Apuestas against each other.[35] From January 14 to 19, 2014, Guerrero worked his first Fantastica Mania tour, co-produced by CMLL and New Japan Pro Wrestling in Japan.[36][37] On March 28, 2014, Guerrero, Euforia and Niebla Roja defeated Los Estetas del Aire (Máscara Dorada, Místico and Valiente) for the CMLL World Trios Championship.[38] On August 29, Guerrero defeated La Sombra in the finals to win the 2014 Universal Championship, becoming the first two-time winner of the tournament.[39]

On September 19, Guerrero lost to Atlantis in the main event of the CMLL 81st Anniversary Show and thus was forced to unmask for the first time in his career and reveal his birth name José Gutiérrez Hernández.[40][41][42] In January 2015, Guerrero returned to Japan to take part in the Fantastica Mania 2015 tour, during which he defeated Atlantis in a rematch.[43] On February 13, Los Guerreros Laguneros lost the CMLL World Trios Championship to Sky Team (Místico, Valiente and Volador Jr.).[44] On July 17, Guerrero defeated Rey Escorpión in a Lucha de Apuestas in the main event of Sin Salida forcing Escorpión to have all his hair shaved off after the match as per the stipulation.[45] On August 31, Guerrero defeated La Sombra to win the NWA World Historic Middleweight Championship.[46]

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2008)

Último Guerrero and Rey Bucanero were invited to be a part of the 2008 TNA 2008 World X Cup Tournament, where they along with Averno and Volador, Jr. comprised that year's "Team Mexico". Guerrero and Bucanero defeated Team Japan representatives "Speed Muscle" in the first round of the Tournament. Team Mexico won the tournament and became the 2008 World X Cup holders.[47] While Volador made more appearances for TNA, Último Guerrero and Rey Bucanero have yet to work for TNA since then.

Personal life

Many sources mistakenly list Hooligan and Ephesto as brothers of José Gutiérrez but they are not blood relatives. Gutiérrez, Ephesto, and Hooligan trained together and became close friends leading to often referring to each other as "brother" without having any blood relationship. Hooligan and Ephesto are brothers which is why Ephesto is sometimes mistaken for Gutiérrez's brother as well. In 2008 Último Guerrero introduced "Último Guerrero, Jr." to the wrestling world. While it is not uncommon for fake relatives to be promoted in Lucha Libre it is believed that Último Guerrero, Jr. is indeed the son of Último Guerrero. Later on Guerrero, Jr. would be reintroduced as Gran Guerrero, with the storyline that he was the much younger brother of Último Guerrero.

In wrestling

  • Finishing moves
  • Signature moves
  • "El Luchador de Otro Nivel" (Spanish for "The Wrestler of Another Level")
  • "El Ultimo de su Estirpe" (Spanish for "The Last of his Kind")[49]

Championships and accomplishments

  • Federacion Mundial de Lucha Libre
  • Champion du Monde (1 time)[56]
  • Lucha Libre Azteca
  • PWI ranked him #10 of the best 500 singles wrestlers in the Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) 500 in 2009.[58]
  • Copa Mundial (2014)[59]
  • Copa NSK (2013)
  • Universal Wrestling Entertainment
  • UWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Atlantis[60]
  • Best Tag Team of the Decade (2000–2009) – with Rey Bucanero[62]

Luchas de Apuestas record

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See also: Luchas de Apuestas
Winner (wager) Loser (wager) Location Event Date Notes
Último Guerrero (mask) Mr. Águila (mask) Mexico City, Mexico CMLL 65th Anniversary Show September 11, 1998 [1][63]
Último Guerrero (mask) Difunto II (mask) Monterrey, Nuevo León Live event August 3, 2001 [1]
Último Guerrero (mask) Cuchillo (hair) Mexico City, Mexico Live event November 17, 2002 [1]
Último Guerrero (mask) Stuka (hair) Gómez Palacio, Durango Live event June 10, 2006 [1]
Último Guerrero (mask) Guerrero Zulú (mask) Chiapas, Mexico Live event September 29, 2007 [1]
Último Guerrero (mask) Super Parka (hair) Monterrey, Nuevo León Live event November 3, 2007 [1]
Último Guerrero (mask) Villano V (mask) Mexico City, Mexico 2009 Homenaje a Dos Leyendas March 20, 2009 [13]
Último Guerrero (mask) Scorpio Jr. (hair) Toluca, Mexico State Live event November 19, 2010 [Note 1][64]
Atlantis (mask) Último Guerrero (mask) Mexico City, Mexico CMLL 81st Anniversary Show September 19, 2014 [40][41][42]
Último Guerrero (hair) Rey Escorpión (hair) Mexico City Sin Salida (2015) July 17, 2015 [45]

Notes

  1. ↑ Ruleta Rusa match that also included Toscano, Místico, El Sagrado, Misterioso II, El Felino and Shigeo Okumura

References

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