Héctor Garza

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Héctor Solano Segura[1]
Ring name(s) Héctor Garza[1]
Héctor Garza, Jr.
Billed height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Billed weight 95 kg (210 lb; 15.0 st)[2]
Born June 12, 1969 (1969-06-12) (age 40)[1]
Monterrey, Nuevo León
Billed from Monterrey, Nuevo León[2]
Trained by Mr. Lince
Mario Segura[1]
Blue Fish
Debut September 4, 1992[1]

Héctor Solano Segura (born June 12, 1969) is a Mexican professional wrestler, known by his ringname as Héctor Garza, who is currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

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[edit] Career

Solano began wrestling as Héctor Garza in 1992 after being trained by his two uncles for the FILL promotion in his native Monterrey. In 1995, he brought to Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre on the técnico (face) side as part of CMLL's rebuilding after the split with Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. He was put over veteran rudos (heels) like Bestia Salvaje and Satánico in hair matches and Garza quickly became one of the top técnicos in the company. In the following year, he teamed with Dos Caras and La Fiera to win the CMLL World Tríos Title and won the "Copa Junior," a tournament for the sons of wrestlers. However, after being a part of the shocking El Hijo del Santo heel turn, he jumped for a short period to rival AAA.

His stay in AAA was short although he did participate in a match on the 1997 World Wrestling Federation Royal Rumble pay-per-view when the WWF and AAA had a working agreement. He went to World Championship Wrestling later in the year and WCW added "Jr." to his name although his father wrestled as Humberto Garza. He was best known in WCW for his twirling turnbuckle to floor plancha called the corkscrew plancha. Other than a victory over Scott Hall, he did not receive any push, mostly wrestling on WCW's minor shows, even when he became part of the Latino World Order. On February 25, 1999 he suffered the weirdest of wrestling injuries in a match against Psicosis on WCW Thunder when he tore his scrotum[1]. Later in 1999, he returned to AAA and became part of a multi-man feud with other younger wrestlers like Heavy Metal, Latin Lover and Perro Aguayo, Jr.. Different combinations of the four battled in various gimmick matches with Garza winning Metal's hair in 2001. In 2002, the focus of the feud became Latin Lover and Héctor Garza. In 2003, the two faced each other in a hair vs. hair match and, for the first time in Garza's career, he lost.

In 2004, he returned to the United States for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling during AAA's working agreement with the company. Along with Abismo Negro, Juventud Guerrera, Mr. Águila and later Heavy Metal, "Team Mexico" was successful in winning the America's X-Cup. After Team Canada was repackaged, Team Mexico became faces, with Garza getting particularly good reactions from the crowd. In Mexico, he also turned face when he teamed with Latin Lover in a program with Abyss. In June, he jumped back to CMLL, claiming that AAA owner Antonio Peña owed him money for Garza's dates in TNA.

While the AAA-TNA deal was still in effect, Garza wrestled exclusively in Mexico. In CMLL, he helped Perro Aguayo turn heel and became involved in Aguayo's feud with El Hijo del Santo. Eventually, he would help found La Furia del Norte with El Terrible and Tarzan Boy. Teaming with Tarzan and Terrible, La Furia chased after and defeated the CMLL Tríos champions Black Warrior, Canek and Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. Meanwhile in the United States, the AAA-TNA deal was dead so TNA decided to bring Garza back. He returned for TNA Victory Road 2004, TNA's first three hour pay-per-view when he won a Twenty Man X-Division Gauntlet. The push continued with a match against NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett on TNA's weekly TV show. In 2005, he was set to wrestle Scott Hall at TNA Final Resolution 2005 but was arrested in Houston, Texas with steroids that were legal in Mexico but illegal in the United States (He claimed to be using these steroids because of a knee surgery he had); he was replaced by Jeff Hardy in the match. Garza was deported, effectively ending his career in the United States. Garza claimed that he did not know the steroids were illegal in the United States and that he was humiliated by the guards. Garza would later sell t-shirts that read "If Pepe el Toro is innocent, so is Héctor Garza," alluding to the story of an old movie where a carpenter is incriminated on a murder and goes to jail where he finds the true assassins and fights with them and pops out the eye of the master mind to make him confess "Pepe el Toro es inocente".

After being deported, he returned to working full time in Mexico for CMLL. He teamed with Perro Aguayo, Jr. against Los Capos and became a major part of the new group, Los Perros del Mal along with members of La Furia del Norte, Los Pierroths and La Familia de Tijuana. In August, Pierroth, Jr. was kicked out of the group and Garza volunteered to face him in a hair vs. hair match, which Garza won. After the Dr. Wagner, Jr. vs. Atlantis mask vs. mask match fell through, CMLL decided to go with Héctor Garza and Perro Aguayo, Jr. vs. Universo 2000 and Máscara Año 2000 double hair vs. hair matchas the main event of the EMLL 72nd Anniversary show. Three weeks before the show, Garza hit Máscara Año 2000 with a "Martinete" (tombstone piledriver), a move that takes wrestlers out for weeks in Lucha Libre. The match for the anniversary show was changed to a triangle match with Universo 2000 vs. Perro Aguayo, Jr. vs. Héctor Garza where the last man to get pinned gets his hair shaved. In the end, Universo pinned Garza with help of a low blow from his brother, Cien Caras, and Pierroth's valet, La Nazy.

[edit] In wrestling

  • Finishing moves
  • Signature moves

[edit] Championships and accomplishments

  • Federación Internacional de Lucha Libre
  • FILL Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • International Wrestling council
  • IWC World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[1]
  • PWI ranked him #283 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003
  • PWI ranked him #19 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 2004
  • WWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Perro Aguayo, Jr.[10]

[edit] Lucha de Apuesta record

See also: Luchas de Apuestas
Wager Winner Loser Location Date Notes
Hair Héctor Garza MS-1 Unknown Unknown  
Hair Héctor Garza Satánico Mexico City 01994-04-07 April 7, 1994  
Hair Héctor Garza El Brazo Mexico City 01995-08-04 August 4, 1995  
Hair Héctor Garza Bestia Salvaje Mexico City 01995-12-01 December 1, 1995 Three way match with Satánico
Hair Héctor Garza Satánico Mexico City 01995-12-15 December 15, 1995  
Hair Héctor Garza Pirata Morgan Puebla, Puebla 01996-07-29 July 29, 1996  
Hair Héctor Garza Toro Irisson Xalapa, Veracruz 02000-10-27 October 27, 2000  
Hair Héctor Garza Loco Zandokan II Tijuana, Baja California 02001-01-26 January 26, 2001  
Hair Héctor Garza Heavy Metal Mexico City 02001-11-23 November 23, 2001

Four way match with Perro Aguayo, Jr. and Latin Lover
Hair Héctor Garza Pimpinela Escarlata Monterrey, Nuevo León 02003-07-06 July 6, 2003  
Hair Latin Lover Héctor Garza Monterrey, Nuevo León 02003-10-26 October 26, 2003  
Hair Héctor Garza Pierroth, Jr. Mexico City 02005-08-19 August 19, 2005  
Hair Universo 2000 Héctor Garza Mexico City 02005-09-16 September 16, 2005 Three way match with Perro Aguayo, Jr.
Hair Héctor Garza Super Parka Monterrey, Nuevo León 02007-03-18 March 18, 2007  
Hair Perro Aguayo, Jr. Héctor Garza Mexico City, Mexico 02008-03-21 March 21, 2008  

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Hector Garza profile". Online World of Wrestling. 
  2. ^ a b c "Statistics for Professional wrestlers". PWI Presents: 2008 Wrestling Almanak and book of facts (Kappa Publications): pp. 66-79. 2008 Edition. 
  3. ^ PWI StaffPWI Staff (August, 2008). "Pro Wrestling Illustrated 500 - 2008: 123 Hector Garza". Pro Wrestling Illustrated (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, USA: Sports and Entertainment publications LLC): p. 82. October 2008. 
  4. ^ "Independent Wrestling Results - May 2002". onlineworldofwrestling.com. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/other/2002-05.html. Retrieved 2008-07-06. 
  5. ^ "National Heavyweight Title". Puroresu Dojo. 2003. http://www.wrestling-titles.com/mexico/mex-h.html. 
  6. ^ "Comision de Box y Lucha Libre Mexico D.F. National Tag Team Title". wrestlingtitles.com. 2007-11-30. http://www.wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved 2007-10-15. 
  7. ^ "C.M.L.L. World Tag Team Title". Puroresu Dojo. 2003. http://www.wrestling-titles.com/mexico/emll/cmll-t.html. 
  8. ^ "C.M.L.L. World Trios Title". Puroresu Dojo. 2003. http://www.wrestling-titles.com/mexico/emll/cmll-6.html. 
  9. ^ Flores, Manuel (July 18, 2008). "Histórico de ganadores del torneo: La Gran Alternativa" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. http://superluchas.net/2008/07/18/historico-de-ganadores-del-torneo-la-gran-alternativa/. Retrieved September 5, 2009. 
  10. ^ "W.W.A. World Tag Team Title (Mexico)". Puroresu Dojo. 2003. http://www.wrestling-titles.com/mexico/wwa/mx-wwa-t.html. 

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