A Career Retrospective Of Silver King , One Of Mexico's Greatest Luchadores
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Fast Links • Silver King Was The Son Of The Legendary Dr. Wagner • Silver Kings Forms Los Cowboys And Wins The CMLL World And Tag Team Championships • Silver King Becomes Part Of WCW's Cruiserweight Division • Silver King Wrestles in New Japan As Black Tiger César Cuauhtémoc González Barrón , also called Silver King , is one of the extraordinary luchadores in Mexican wrestling history . His vocation traversed 35 years across a heap of various advancements , including Universal Wrestling Associtaion ( UW Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre ( CMLL ) and Lucha Libre AAA World Wide in Mexico ,All Japan Pro Wrestling ( AJPW ) , New Japan Pro Wrestling ( NJPW ) , and World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) , among numerous other more modest associations all over the planet . He brought home a sum of 17 titles all through his celebrated lifetime , and, surprisingly, featured in the 2005 film Nacho Libre as the miscreant Ramses . Silver King's sad demise came during a match in Camden Town , London , England , against Juventud Guerrera on May 11 , 2009. He fell in the ring and passed on from a respiratory failure presently at 51 years old. How about we dive into the amazing vocation of the one who Chris Jericho once expressed ( during his humorous presentation of the Cruiserweight Battle Royal at WCW Slamboree 1998 ) " If he wins 12 more matches he'll be moved up to Golden King . " RELATED : How Lucha Libre Is Different Than American Wrestling ( and How It's The Same ) Silver King Was The Son Of The Legendary Dr. Wagner Silver King had a staggeringly rich family heritage in lucha libre . He was the child of the amazing luchador Dr. Wagner and the sibling of Dr. Wagner Jr. He started his profession in November 1985 under the name El Invesor , which was Spanish for " The Invader . " Within a year , he changed his name and started functioning as the Luchador Emmascadero ( covered grappler ) Silver King in the UWA . He wouldn't have the cover for a really long time , as he lost in a Lucha de Apuestas to El Hijo del Santo on November 12 , 1987. A Lucha de Apuestas is a " wagered " match where every contender risks something - - commonly their veil something on the line - - normally their cover or hair - - and while exposing the luchador should likewise uncover their actual name . That was the point at which it became realized that Silver King was one of Dr. Wagner's children . Silver Kings Forms Los Cowboys And Wins The CMLL World And Tag Team Championships Shortly in the wake of being exposed , Silver King framed a label group with El Texano known as Los Cowboys . They brought home their most memorable label group titles in WWA in Mexico in 1991 , followed up by taking the UWA label titles back to Mexico in mid 1992. Los Cowboys took part in a tourname crown NWA Tag Team Champions in WCW at Clash of the Champions XIX , however were crushed in the principal round by the Fabulous Freebirds . They lost their WWA label titles to El Dandy and Corazon de Leon ( Chris Jericho ) in July 1993 however won them back two months after the fact . Sometime thereafter , Los Cowboys impacted , and Silver King came out on top for his most memorable singles title , overcoming El Texano for the UWA World Light Heavyweight Championship . Los Cowboys kept on cooperating and joined CMLL in mid 1994 , and Silver King crushed Black Magic to come out on top for the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship in December 1994 , making Silver King twofold titles with his hero . He brought home the label championships with his sibling Dr. Wagner Jr. in February 1996 , and withdrew for WCW in 1997 when they were marking a horde of luchadors . RELATED : 13 Greatest Mexican Wrestlers In WWE History , Ranked Silver King Becomes Part Of WCW's Cruiserweight Division Silver King appeared for WCW on the June 9 , 1997 Monday Nitro , cooperating with Psychosis and La Parka in a terrible exertion against Juventud Guerrera , Super Calo and Ultimo Dragon . He would basically wrestle in multi - man labels with and against other luchadors , however made his PPV debut World War 3 1997 in the three - ring fight World War 3 1997 in the three - ring fight imperial . He tested for the Cruiserweight title unsucessfully on different occasions in 1998 , including a PPV misfortune to Juventud at Fall Brawl . Ruler joined Eddie Guerrero's Latino World Order in December 1998 , however the gathering disbanded not long after Guerrero got in an auto collision . He got somewhat of a push in mid 2000 as a label group with El Dandy , known as Los Fabulosos . They got numerous label title shots yet couldn't take care of business . Silver King was delivered by WCW in May 2000 . Silver King Wrestles in New Japan As Black Tiger Silver King got back to CMLL and be wrestling for their accomplice , NJPW . He took on the Black Tiger trick in 2001 ,following Mark Rocco and Eddie Guerrero . Ruler got back to Mexico in 2003 as Black Tiger , even as Rocky Romero was presented as Black Tiger IV . He at last lost the cover to L.A. Park in a Lucha De Apuestes in February 2006. Lord had a concise spat AJPW , and came out on top for the World Junior Heavyweight Championship over Katsuhiko Nakajima . RELATED : The Wild History Of Mexixcan Wrestling's Biggest Title , The AAA Mega Championship Silver King joined AAA in 2008 and would work there and on the Mexican indies until his troublesome passing in 2019. On June 6 , 2010 , he became known as " Silver Cain " to get a veil back on as another person . That evening Cain and Ultimo Gladiator came out on top for the AAA label championships pin James Storm of Beer Money Inc. He proceeded to fight with his sibling Dr. Wagner Jr. over the AAA Mega Championship , however neglected to bring home the championship on various events . In April 2012 , King and Wagner Jr. wiped the slate clean to take on the insidious El Consejo stable . Anyway , that August at Triplemania XX , King turned on his sibling once more , uncovering he was the head of El Consejo the entire time . He left AAA in 2014 , and returned in 2017 after time on the indies . Following his passing , his body was shipped to Mexico and let go in his old neighborhood of Torreón , Coahuila . He was after death enlisted into the AAA Hall of Fame on August 3 , 2019 at Triplemania XXVII .
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