Juventud Guerrera: Encyclopedia II - Juventud Guerrera - Career

Juventud Guerrera - Career

Juventud Guerrera wrestled in many Mexician independent promotions as a masked wrestler but he made his name in World Championship Wrestling.

Juventud Guerrera - World Championship Wrestling

In WCW, Juvi (as he was sometimes known) lost his mask in a match against Chris Jericho in WCW, and later became an announcer on WCW Thunder, after he suffered an injury. Juvi often imitated The Rock by calling himself The Juice and saying The Rock's catch phrases. Juvi was released from WCW after an "incident" in Australia where Juvi embarrassed the company by making a scene publicly while under the influence of what was believed to be PCP. The night before he smoked an unknown substance given to him by an unknown party at a nightclub. The next morning he ran into the hotel lobby and began attacking everyone in sight, including other wrestlers. It was his second offense as he had a previous DUI against him. WCW didn't even bother to tell Juvi that he had been released from his contract. He had to find out from his friends who had read about it on the internet.

Guerrera went on to wrestle for many other promotions including Xtreme Pro Wrestling, WWA, AAA, and Frontier Wrestling Alliance until he joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Juventud Guerrera - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

In TNA Juvi was joined by fellow AAA wrestlers: Mr. Águila, Héctor Garza, Abismo Negro, Heavy Metal to form a group first know as Team AAA, then later as Team Mexico to compete in TNA's World X-Cup Matches.

When TNA's working relationship with AAA came to an end the group dispanded, and Juvi was released to continue working for Lucha Libre promotions.

Juventud Guerrera - World Wrestling Entertainmment

Juventud Guerrera had signed a contract with WWE in spring 2005. He debuted on television, wrestling simply as Juventud (the Guerrera was dropped, possibly to avoid confusion with Chavo and the late Eddie Guerrero) on June 18, 2005, defeating Funaki on SmackDown!'s sister show Velocity. On June 23 he, Super Crazy and Psicosis (collectively called "The Mexicools") interrupted a match between Chavo Guerrero and Paul London by riding to the ring on a lawn mower and attacking both wrestlers.

This was followed week by week of The Mexicools interrupting matches and beating down seemingly random wrestlers and cutting promos, Juventud quickly established himself as the mouthpiece/leader of the group and began using his old gimmick name of "The Juice".

At the 2005 Great American Bash on July 24, the Mexicools defeated the bWo, a team led by Stevie Richards, in a six-man tag team match.

After more weeks of interruptions and sneak attacks, Juventud and the group were sent down to the Smackdown B-show, WWE Velocity. The group fueded with Velocity main-stay and cruiserwieght champion, Nunzio and his tag partner, Vito. Members of the Mexicools picked up numerous pin fall victories over the champion during this time.

At the October 4 Smackdown tapings, for Velocity, Juventud (along with Super Crazy and Psicosis) faced Brian Kendrick, Paul London, Scotty 2 Hotty and Funaki in an over-the-top battle royal with the stipulation that the winner would receive a title shot at the Cruiserweight championship at WWE No Mercy. After finally eliminating Paul London, Juventud won the battle royal and the title shot. At the event on October 9, he defeated Nunzio following a Juvi Driver to capture his first ever WWE Cruiserweight Championship.

Juventud later went on to lose that the title back to Nunzio at a live event in Italy, mentioned only on WWE.com. On November 25 however, Juventud regain the gold on an edition of Smackdown from England, following a Juvi Driver. Guerrera lost the title to Kid Kash at WWE Armageddon on December 18, 2005.

On January 6, 2006, WWE announced that Juventud had been released from the company. His final match aired later that evening on Friday Night Smackdown, a cruiserweight title rematch against Kid Kash which Juventud lost. During this match Juventud would use many high flying moves that WWE told its cruiserweights to tone down and the 450 splash a move WWE outright banned, the match would end up going long over its assigned time. There is speculation that going long during the match cost Juventud his job - the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back after a lengthy record of behavior problems during his short tenure with the company.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Career", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki