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Juventud Guerrera PROFILE |
Juventud Guerrera profile written by
Wayne K. Wilkins
Juventud Guerrera - The man known in the world
of professional wrestling as The Juice, one of
the most inspirational yet controversial
professional wrestlers to ever arrive from the
Mexican world of professional Lucha Libre
wrestling. Juventud Guerrera is the son of the
legendary Mexican performer, Fuerza Guerrera,
and is most famous for his work in Mexico with
the likes of Rey Misterio Jr, Psicosis and
Konnan. Juvi arrived on the scene in the 90's
thanks to a contractual deal by Konnan with the
American wrestling promotion known as Extreme
Championship Wrestling. The ECW was famous for
hit's high risk and highly innovative and unique
style that gained its high risk innovation from
the style of Lucha Libre, meaning it was only a
matter of time before the Lucha Libre wrestlers
arrived in the USA. Juventud Guerrera was one of
the first masked professional Lucha Libre
wrestlers to work in the mainstream television
world of American professional wrestling. The
popularity of the Lucha Libre superstars in the
ECW lead to the biggest promotion in the world,
which at the time was World Championship
Wrestling, stealing the Lucha Libre wrestlers
from the ECW and implementing their high risk
and highly popular wrestling styles on their
flagship shows, Monday Nitro and Thursday
Thunder.
Juvi quickly became one of the
most popular Mexican professional wrestlers of
all time. He became famous for his high-risk and
sometimes controversial style of professional
wrestling. High-risk because he would do
whatever it takes in his matches, whatever he
could with whoever he was working with, whether
it be Billy Kidman, Rey Misterio Jr, Psicosis
and even the heavyweight competitors in the WCW
at the time. Controversial because he would
often go over his given time limits for his
matches with Wrestlers he was working with,
would often create his own high-spots when
working with his friends which would often
create a more impactful and high-risk and highly
innovative match, which of course went down bad
with the management due to the insanely high
risk atmosphere of the bump, high spot and the
television time it could take to perform these
spots.
Juvi Guerrera created a perfect
image of what it meant to be a professional
wrestling outlaw. He comes to the ring and owns
the ring there and then, he simply wants to
create the perfect show, he wants to give the
people what they want and when they want it. The
majority of professional wrestling fans nowadays
enjoy the high risk style of professional
wrestling over the classic chain wrestling and
ground and pound wrestling of the past, and Juvi
is one of the few people in the business who can
do this to perfection. Juvi brings to the ring a
combination of charisma, style and talent; he
works to give the fans what they pay for.
Similar to the way that the early Total Nonstop
Action Wrestling promotion would do anything
high-risk, long matches of perfection, Juventud
Guerrera was doing the very same in the ring
around the country before TNA was even
considered. This is how Juvi is seen however, he
is seen as controversial for this very reason,
the fact that he wants to get in as many spots,
as many moves and as many pops from the crowd as
possible TIME LIMITS are not friends of the Juvi
Juice to say the least!
Any professional
wrestling fan has to respect Juvi for what he
has done. The RF shoot interview of Juventud
Guerrera is very informative. It covers all of
the above as well as the controversial incident
during an Australian tour. It also features Juvi
talking about his future plans including
Wrestlers who he would enjoy working with,
including the likes of Matt and Jeff Hardy, Sabu,
Ric flair and many more. Juvi had always dreamed
of going to the WWF, and as we know, Juvi
arrived in the WWE years later. Juvi comments on
how the fans perceive him, his thoughts on
people in the business such as Kevin Nash and
Hulk Hogan, his friendship with Scott Hall, his
compliments from Ric Flair and his greatest
moments in professional wrestling.
This
shoot interview was one I found very
entertaining and very informative from start to
finish. Everything I described above was
discussed in depth during the shoot interview.
From his break into the business to his father's
thoughts on him losing his mask EVERYTHING is
discussed.
I will say that you do NOT
know Juventud Guerrera until you have seen this
shoot interview presented by RF Video.
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