

Guerrero and his brothers also feuded with Cavernario Galindo and his brothers. Several months later, he won the Mexican National Middleweight Championship, which he held for approximately one year. In 1945, he briefly held the Mexican National Welterweight Championship. He made his debut for the Mexico City promotion Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre (EMLL) in 1943 and was named "Rookie of the Year" later that year. He began his career in Mexico working under the ring name Joe Morgan, but later changed his name to Gory Guerrero-a reference to his bloody matches.
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He wrestled his first professional wrestling match on September 14, 1937, jobbing to El Rojo. In Mexico, Guerrero joined a gym with the intention to learn to box, but instead learned lucha libre from Diablo Velasco and El Indio Mejía. His family moved to Mexico, and Guerrero's father used his English-language skills to work as an interpreter in Guadalajara. He attended school in the United States until the age of nine when his mother died. Guerrero was born in Ray, Arizona to a family of migrant workers. He was also the patriarch of the Guerrero wrestling family. He wrestled primarily in Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre (EMLL) between the 1940s and 1960s. Salvador Guerrero Quesada (Janu– April 18, 1990), better known as Gory Guerrero, was one of the premier Mexican-American professional wrestlers in the early days of Lucha Libre when most wrestlers were imported from outside Mexico. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Guerrero and the second or maternal family name is Quesada.
