It’s been a while since she’s been wrestling, but it appears that 3rd Generation wrestler Shaul Guerrero, daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Eddie Guerrero and former Smackdown GM Vickie Guerrero, is training again for a potential return to the squared circle. Yesterday, Chicago indie wrestler Gringo Loco (AIW, Freelance) shared a photo of himself with Shaul Guerrero – alongside her husband, WWE Superstar Aiden English – from his training, where he mentioned sharing the ring “with a Guerrero.” Sources have stated she is indeed back in training.
Apparently our training is becoming known. Ya just never know who might show up. Aiden English and Eddie Guerrero’s daughter paid us all a visit tonight . It was an absolute honor to share the ring tonight with a Guerrero. pic.twitter.com/1ojgWd701J
— GringoLoco (@GringoLocoOG) December 15, 2017
Shaul Guerrero has been with the WWE twice before, starting with Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) in 2011. Debuting under the name Raquel Diaz, she started tagging with current WWE Superstar Noami, before winning the Queen of FCW Championship, where she feuded with another WWE Superstar, Paige. Shortly after dropping her title, she left FCW to enter rehab for an eating disorder. “I was really close to Joey Mercury when I was in FCW, he was my mentor/coach,” she said in a 2014 interview with H2H Radio. “He, along with the strength and conditioning coach, noticed that I was really sick and I was just not mentally okay and physically doing a really bad job of doing what I needed to do and they finally convinced me to go into rehab for a long time disease I had.”
After a year away, she returned to the WWE and this time with the newly re-branded NXT. She made her NXT TV debut and continued to feud with Paige, but after a few months, she was released by the WWE in a round of WrestleMania season roster cuts that also included former Nexus member Mason Ryan, Oliver Grey (aka UK star Joel Redman) and Danny Burch (aka Martin Stone). Burch has since returned to NXT as the tag team partner of Oney Lorcan.
With the added exposure that WWE is giving to women’s wrestling now compared to 2014, there would clearly be opportunities now that may not have been present then. And we all know how WWE loves their multi-generational wrestlers. Not only is Shaul’s parents of WWE lineage, her grandfather Gory Guerrero is one of Lucha Libre’s forefathers. But WWE may not be the only possibility – with Ring of Honor‘s big announcement with Women of Honor expanding in 2018 and the rebuilding of the Impact Knockouts division (and just the general boom in women’s wrestling on the indies), we could be seeing a new and improved Shaul Guerrero (or Raquel Diaz) back in the ring in 2018.
