Gone Too Soon: Deaths That Changed Wrestling by Ian Hamilton

Author:Ian Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2012-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

Unlike their run in WCW, where the pair played off of a slavery-based storyline, this time the Guerreros were united as a pair, who lived their catchphrase of “Lie, Cheat and Steal”. A series of vignettes were filmed, and broadcast on WWE’s SmackDown show to promote the new team. If anyone thought that the stereotype of being sneaky Mexicans was going to get the fans to boo the Guerreros, they would have been proven wrong when the pair received cheers upon their debut.

Los Guerreros were inserted into a tournament to claim SmackDown’s first set of tag team champions - at a time when WWE were treating Raw and SmackDown as separate shows with their own tag team and second-level champions. After beating Rikishi and Mark Henry in the first round, the Guerreros lost in the semi-finals to the team of Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit - the eventual winners - despite the Guerreros locking Benoit in a locker room backstage prior to their match. Despite being on the periphery of the tag team title scene, Los Guerreros would have to wait until that year’s Survivor Series, when they won a three-way tag team match for the belts, with then-champions Edge and Rey Mysterio and former champs Angle and Benoit.

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