the wrestling world is in mourning after the passing of another member of the famed Guerrero wrestling family. the world lost Chavo Guerrero Sr. at the age of 68 years old after battling a short battle with Liver Cancer. he grew up in the business as his father Gory was a legendary name in the wrestling business. he was the oldest of 6 children from his father Gory and his mother Herlinda which were 4 boys and 2 girls. all the boys would up wrestlers. his brothers were Hector Guerrero (who is most famous as the guy who was in the infamous "Gobbledy Gooker" customer at WWE Survivor Series 1990), Mando Guerrero, and his most famous brother the late Eddie Guerrero (who worked in ECW, WCW, ROH and WWE and passed away on November 13, 2005). he was also the father of wrestler Chavo Guerrero Jr.
Chavo Sr. was the first one in the family to wrestle due to being the oldest son of Gory, he wrestled for several wrestling promotions all over the world inducing AWA, All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling and was in the WWE in 2004 as part of the storyline feud between his Son Chavo Jr and his youngest brother Eddie.
during his career he won several titles incuding the original WWE Cruiserweight championship (the belt that was originally the WCW Cruiserweight title, but was renamed the WWE Cruiserweight title after WWE's bought out WCW and then unify it with the WWE Junior Heavyweight tile, the belt was retired in 2007 but WWE revived the Cruiserweight division with a new belt with new linage with no connection to this belt in 2016.) , the NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship which he won the belt 3 times.
he most recently appeared in the wrestling federation/telenova hybrid show "Lucha Underground" in which he tried to help his son Chavo Jr win a "loser leaves town" match against Rey Mysterio Jr. which Mysterio won.
his son Chavo Jr. broke the news of his father's passing on Instagram
http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/chavo-guerrero-sr-dead-dies-passes/#.WJ9_dSlrg_4
Chavo Sr. was the first one in the family to wrestle due to being the oldest son of Gory, he wrestled for several wrestling promotions all over the world inducing AWA, All Japan Pro Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling and was in the WWE in 2004 as part of the storyline feud between his Son Chavo Jr and his youngest brother Eddie.
during his career he won several titles incuding the original WWE Cruiserweight championship (the belt that was originally the WCW Cruiserweight title, but was renamed the WWE Cruiserweight title after WWE's bought out WCW and then unify it with the WWE Junior Heavyweight tile, the belt was retired in 2007 but WWE revived the Cruiserweight division with a new belt with new linage with no connection to this belt in 2016.) , the NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship which he won the belt 3 times.
he most recently appeared in the wrestling federation/telenova hybrid show "Lucha Underground" in which he tried to help his son Chavo Jr win a "loser leaves town" match against Rey Mysterio Jr. which Mysterio won.
his son Chavo Jr. broke the news of his father's passing on Instagram
http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/chavo-guerrero-sr-dead-dies-passes/#.WJ9_dSlrg_4