Chavo Guerrero, Jr.

Salvador Chavito Guerrero III also known as Chavo Guerrero, Jr. (born October 20, 1970 in El Paso, Texas) is a third generation wrestler and member of the famed Guerrero wrestling family. He is the grandson of Gory Guerrero; the son of Chavo Guerrero Sr.; the nephew of Eddie Guerrero, Hector Guerrero, Mando Guerrero, and Enrique Llanes; and the cousin of Javier Llanes and Hector Mejia. He is currently working on the SmackDown! brand of World Wrestling Entertainment.

His grandfather Gory Guerrero was one of the most famous wrestlers in Mexican history. His father, Chavo Guerrero, Sr., was also a legendary wrestler in Mexico, and worked in WWE as a part-time wrestler and full-time manager. One of his uncles, Eddie Guerrero, was one of WWE's biggest stars. Eddie performed for the SmackDown! brand, as did Chavo Sr. (aka Chavo Classic) Chavo Jr. has two other uncles (Mando and Hector) who have had successful careers in the business, although not at the level of Gory, Chavo Sr., or Eddie.

Career

WCW

Chavo Jr. started wrestling in 1994, and very quickly joined WCW. While in WCW, Chavo shared the limelight with his uncle Eddie, becoming a reluctant ally of his uncle's. As part of their storyline, Eddie would continually try to make Chavo adopt Eddie's cheating tactics, but Chavo often refused to do so. Eventually, his treatment at the hands of Eddie would drive him "bonkers" and Chavo adopted the gimmick of a psycho fixated with a hobby-horse he dubbed "Pepè." This led to an infamous feud with Norman Smiley, which resulted in Smiley tossing Chavo's horse into a wood chipper. Another result of his insanity, he was disallowed from joining his Uncle Eddie's stable of the Latino World Order, a take-off of the famed WCW stable nWo. The stable included every Latino wrestler in the WCW except Chavo. He was also a member of the comedy stable the Misfits in Action, billed as "Lieutenant Loco".

WWE

After the demise of WCW, Chavo was eventually signed by the WWF (now WWE) where he was known simply as Chavo Guerrero. He spent time as an undercard wrestler before becoming a trainer for one of WWE's Tough Enough competitions. Soon after returning to the active roster, Chavo was aligned with his uncle Eddie, forming the successful tag team "Los Guerreros." In contrast to his previous WCW storyline with his uncle, Chavo fully adopted his uncle's policy of "Lie, Cheat and Steal" to win matches as part of the gimmick. The duo would soon win the tag titles.

The tag team eventually turned face and as Eddie's popularity grew, Eddie began seeking the WWE Title. In a storyline, his uncle's singles title ambitions made Chavo jealous and Chavo turned on Eddie, broke from the team, and became a heel. He was soon joined by his father Chavo Sr. who sided with his son instead of his brother. After the feud with Eddie finished, Chavo became a wrestler in the cruiserweight division soon capturing the WWE Cruiserweight title on several occasions.

On an August 26, 2004 episode of SmackDown!, Chavo Guerrero suffered a concussion due to Billy Kidman's Shooting Star Press and had to be taken to hospital.

Chavo returned several months later as face, exacting revenge from Kidman, but shortly returned to his heel persona with no real explanation. Chavo went on to become Cruiserweight Champion once again at No Way Out on February 20, 2005 after eliminating Paul London in a 6-way cruiserweight gauntlet match. London eliminated the other 4 members of the match, including the cruiserweight champion Sho Funaki. He would lose the title to Paul London in a battle royal a few weeks later (a few days earlier, he had suffered a broken orbital bone that would sideline him for several weeks, so he had to lose the title).

Kerwin White

On June 30, 2005, Chavo became one of the last minute trades in the 2005 WWE Draft, which saw him jump from SmackDown! to RAW. The next week, on RAW, he denounced his Hispanic heritage in favor of the Anglo-American way. This came after two weeks of being battered by the Mexican faction, The Mexicools. This led to him changing his persona to Kerwin White, a stereotypical, middle-class white Anglo-American man. His new catchphrase became the pun, "If it's not white, it's not right." Though the phrase would later change to "If it's not Kerwin White, it's not right" because the original version sounded racist, but the catchphrase would later be phased out completely. Many references to the Chavo Guerrero name was edited to Kerwin White and at one time, The RAW roster page referring to the Kerwin White character was the most looked at page on WWE.com during the month of June 2005.

Soon after his debut, White started making suggestive remarks towards African-Americans, specifically directed towards Shelton Benjamin. On an episode of RAW, Kerwin cost Shelton a match against Rob Conway. Shelton Benjamin defeated Kerwin White by disqualification the following week when Kerwin attacked Shelton with his golf club. At WWE Unforgiven 2005, White was beaten by Benjamin. White then hired Nick Nemeth to help him in his matches.

However, following the death of his uncle, Eddie Guerrero, Chavo's Kerwin White persona was abandoned immediately.

Death of an Uncle

On the morning of November 13, 2005, Chavo Guerrero checked into the same hotel with uncle Eddie Guerrero due to a planned WWE "Supershow" in which both RAW and SmackDown! would be filmed from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chavo was alerted by hotel security that Eddie did not respond to a wake-up call and after security opened the locked door to the room, Chavo found his uncle, but as he said in his video tribute to Eddie, someone who he saw as "his brother," unconscious. Chavo attempted CPR but Eddie was declared dead when paramedics arrived on the scene. His uncle's death sent shockwaves worldwide throughout the entire wrestling community.

Later that afternoon, Chavo appeared in a press conference with WWE Chairman Vince McMahon to address Eddie's sudden passing. They announced that both shows that week would be tributes to Eddie. These events resulted in Chavo reverting to his previous ring name Chavo Guerrero to continue the Guerrero legacy. As Chavo Guerrero, he defeated John Bradshaw Layfield on the November 18, 2005 episode of WWE SmackDown!, using the "Three Amigos" triple suplexes and the Frog Splash in tribute to Eddie. He also used the cheating tactic of throwing a steel chair to an opponent who catches it (while laying down himself) as the referee turns around and disqualifies the opponent, which Eddie made famous. The atmosphere of the match was very emotional and high-energized.

Chavo even began using the "Three Amigos" and the Frog Splash as a tribute to his Uncle Eddie. On the January 9, 2006 edition of RAW, Chavo beat Rob Conway to qualify for the Royal Rumble. He was the 22nd man in the Royal Rumble, and was the 11th contender eliminated. He was eliminated by Triple H rather quickly, much to the confusion of fans who believed that Chavo was set to have a push. Triple H challenged Chavo to a match the next night on RAW, HHH claimed that he couldn't get revenge on Rey Mysterio or Eddie Guerrero, Chavo was the next best thing. Chavo put on a fantastic effort but ultimately fell victim to HHH's pedigree.

A month later, on the February 24th, 2006 edition of Friday Night Smackdown!, Chavo attacked Randy Orton with the Three Amigos and the Frog Splash when Orton began to insult Eddie Guerrero, and talk about the heritage of the Ortons. Chavo was soon dragged out by security, but kept yelling to Orton that he "forgot about the Guerreros; the greatest wrestling family".

On the February 27, 2006 edition of RAW, Chavo faced off against Shelton Benjamin in a qualifying match for the Money in the Bank Ladder Match at Wrestlemania 22. During the match, Randy Orton interfered and hit Guerrero with the R.K.O. This allowed Shelton to get the pinfall victory. The following week Chavo defeated Snitsky on WWE's online program Heat.

On the April 3, 2006 edition of RAW, Chavo came out to address the crowd. He thanked the fans for all the support they had given him and his family and for keeping his Uncle Eddie's spirit alive, but he expressed his disappointment in not having a title match at WrestleMania 22. He felt tonight would become his WrestleMania and he was going to dedicate his match to his Uncle Eddie. He proceeded to challenge Shelton Benjamin for the Intercontinental Championship, but ended up losing after he missed a Frog Splash, allowing Benjamin to connect with his T-Bone Suplex finisher. In a segment that aired on WWE Unlimited, an emotional Chavo Guerrero decided to quit the WWE after believing he had let his family, Eddie, and the fans down and expressed his doubts about being a wrestler. WWE.com has since taken down his profile perhaps to make this kayfabe more convincing. He has appeared in the 2006 Backlash advert, but it was made several months in advance, long before Chavo's retirement. He didn't return at Backlash, but there was several "We want Chavo" chants. Chavo was spotted backstage at a TNA event leading some to believe a possible contract with TNA is on the way. However, some say that he was only watching the show while visiting friends.

SmackDown!

On May 13, 2006 Chavo appeared at a SmackDown! house show in El Paso, TX, defeating Finlay. Chavo also appeared at WWE Judgement Day 2006 to support Rey Mysterio, confronting JBL backstage, and celebrating with Mysterio after his victory. Chavo again was at Rey's side on the May 26, 2006 edition of SmackDown! helping Rey beat JBL. There is heavy talk of putting Chavo back on Smackdown! since he "quit" RAW.

On the edition of Smackdown Mysterio tried to convince Chavo into returning, which Guerrero appeared to consider. On June 14, 2006, wwe.com released a poll with the following question: Should Chavo come out of retirement and return to WWE?

Chavo and Mark Henry had a confrontation on the June 16, 2006 edition of Smackdown!. Henry insulted Guerrero about not wrestling anymore. When Chavo confronted him on the issue, Henry attacked him.

Recently Chavo appeared on SmackDown! helping Rey Mysterio retain his title versus Mark Henry by disqualification when Chavo brought a chair to the ring and Rey pretended Mark had hit him with the chair causing the DQ. This was a classic ploy used by Eddie Guerrero.