Fuego Del Sol discusses his history with Juventud Guerrera.
Guerrera, who's considered by many to be a pro wrestling legend, is still active on the independent scene today, despite the fact that he's 31 years into his pro wrestling career.
In 2019, Guerrera had a series of bouts with Fuego Del Sol on the independent circuit. In a new interview with Fightful, Del Sol talked about how he ended up facing Guerrera on numerous occasions.
"I went to college in Oklahoma. I won a National title at a college here in Oklahoma playing soccer. After I wrapped up my college career, I started wrestling here a lot. It was a company called World Class Revolution. I traveled around and they brought in a lot of great names for me to wrestle. I remember wrestling Ricochet early on in my career in a four-way. Matt Sydal in a triple threat. There was just so many names. Luckily I got to have a trio of matches with Juventud Guerrera. It was incredible."
Del Sol went on to praise Guerrera for being fun to work with, but also noted that he loves to be active in his night life.
"You hear stories about Juvie. You never know which Juvie is gonna show up is what they say. But he was so fun to work. He always had so many ideas. The first two matches were incredible. I fell for them and it was back and forth. I felt like Rey Mysterio in ’96. We just came up with so many fun, unique sequences and he was pushing me to be better. But then I remember the last time we worked, we did a three day loop of Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Juventud gives his all in the ring, but he also gives his all in the night life as well. I remember it was the Saturday night of this three day loop and I remember they all went out. There’s a video circulating of Juvie that once they made it back to the hotel, a guy had crashed on one of the hotel rooms and it was two queens in the room and Juvie, in all of his Juvie glory, definitely had a few that night and got up on one of the beds and they got a video of him jumping and hitting the craziest elbow on this sleeping wrestler to wake him up. It was insane. It was so funny."
Del Sol finished off by noting that his third match with Guerrera was more of a fun experience, rather than an actual good match.
"I remember the next day him being very hung over. I was like, ‘Juvie, we don’t have to do anything today in this match if you don’t want to do anything.’ He was like, ‘Brother, we still want to do some ideas.’ We got out there and slowly, but surely, he was like, ‘Juvie Driver, brother, we gotta go.’ So he hit it and got out of there. So two out of three great Juvie matches and one extremely fun Juvie experience. I got to experience what other people have experienced with Juvie. So all the love. I’d wrestle him a million times. He’s still killing it in his 40s. So shout out to Juvie."
Fans can see Fightful's full interview with Fuego Del Sol linked above.
Elsewhere in the interview, Del Sol gave some more insight into his recent injury, as well as his return to the ring. Fans can learn more by clicking here.
