9 Best WCW Luchadores

5. Juventud Guerrera

It's 'The Juice', baby!

When Eddie Guerrero was asked to describe Juventud Guerrera during a 2002 RF Video Shoot Interview, he perfectly summed him up by labelling him a 'talented nut'. It's true that Juvy was tremendously talented, but his outside-the-ring antics often overshadowed the good work he did inside of it.

The son of Mexican wrestling legend Feurza, Juventud began his career in 1992 for AAA at just 18 years of age. He had a lengthy and spirited rivalry with Rey Mysterio Jr., which brought him to the attention of ECW, Japan and, finally, WCW.

His first couple of years in WCW were like those of many other luchadores that the company brought in, in that he was not given any sort of storyline to sink his teeth into but rather instructed to go out and have good matches with the likes of Mysterio, Psicosis and Dean Malenko (i.e. the guys WCW wanted to push).

Juventud's career received a boost in 1998 when he won the WCW Cruiserweight Championship. Not long after winning the title, he lost his mask in a Mask Vs. Title match to Chris Jericho at the Superbrawl PPV. Throughout the course of the year he had many great matches against Jericho, Mysterio and Billy Kidman.

One of Guerrera's best matches came to the underrated Blitzkreig at the 1999 Spring Stampede pay-per-view, where the two men tore the roof off of the building with a blistering back-and-forth encounter. Guerrera joined the Filthy Animals stable not long after.

It would be his last significant role with the company, as he was fired after an unsavoury drug-fuelled incident during a tour of Australia in October 2000. He showed up in TNA, WWE and AAA once WCW folded, but his best work is undoubtedly as a member of the talented WCW lucha invasion of the mid-to-late 90s.