{"id":38562,"date":"2019-02-14T20:53:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=38562"},"modified":"2019-02-14T20:53:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:53:04","slug":"former-wwe-light-heavyweight-champion-essa-rios-heading-to-spring-break-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/02\/14\/former-wwe-light-heavyweight-champion-essa-rios-heading-to-spring-break-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Former WWE Light Heavyweight Champion Essa Rios Heading To Spring Break 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joey Janela<\/strong> revealed another entrant in this year&#8217;s <em><strong>Joey Janela&#8217;s Spring Break 3<\/strong><\/em>, the third installment of the Spring Break series put on by <strong>Game Changer Wrestling (GCW)<\/strong> over <strong>WrestleMania weekend<\/strong>. For the first time, this year&#8217;s event will take place over two nights, with the annual Clusterf**k Battle Royal getting its own night, on Night Two, entitled <em><strong>The Greatest Clusterf**k<\/strong><\/em>. So far, the first announced entrant is former 1990s WWF character Mantaur, while hardcore legend Necro Butcher, indie legend Slim J and WWE Hall of Famers The Rock N&#8217; Roll Express have also been announced for the two-day event. The latest announcement on Thursday night was unveiled by Janela, and it&#8217;s former WWF Light Heavyweight Champion <strong>Essa Rios<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/JANELABABY\/status\/1096182410780258304<\/p>\n<p>As <strong>Mr. Aguila<\/strong>, he debuted in his native Mexico in 1994, working various independents until he was signed by the WWF in 1997 to be a part of its rebooted Light Heavyweight Division. A skilled luchadore, his time in the WWF, despite holding the WWF Light Heavyweight title, is more well known as being as the man who introduced <strong>Lita<\/strong> to the WWE Universe. His first few years saw him go through several gimmick changes, from Aguila to <strong>Papi Chulo<\/strong> (when he frequently tagged with <strong>Taka Michinoku<\/strong>), before he got a major reboot as Essa Rios alongside the debuting Lita. He departed the WWE shortly after the WCW Invasion angle started in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Samoa Joe vs. Essa Rios: Jakked, March 3, 2001\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fG5ONc6aWac?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Following his WWE departure, he returned to Mexico, originally heading to AAA. In 2004, he attempted a comeback in the US, heading to <strong>TNA\/IMPACT Wrestling<\/strong>, but it was short-lived.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jerry Lynn vs Eric Young vs Taichi vs Mr. Aguila: FULL MATCH (NWA-TNA PPV #96) | IMPACT Full Matches\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vl1AnOwrrC0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2005, he jumped to CMLL, where he spent the next decade with the company. Shortly after joining CMLL, he joined one of the companies top heel factions, <strong>Los Perros del Mal<\/strong>, lead by <strong>Perro Aguayo Jr.<\/strong>, winning the CMLL Trios titles alongside Aguayo Jr and <strong>Hector Garza<\/strong> and the Mexican National Trios titles with <strong>Damien 666<\/strong> and <strong>Halloween<\/strong> (better known as WCW&#8217;s Ciclope). Following Aguayo Jr.&#8217;s departure from CMLL in 2008, Aguila followed, although his departure was brief.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NkW_G1pkSuQ<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, he returned to CMLL once again, remaining with the company until 2015. He worked various independents in Mexico in 2016, before returning to AAA, where he still competes fairly regularly.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AAA Worldwide en Quere\u0301taro  -  El Regreso de Mr. \u00c1guila\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FHvrKugGGZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Janela revealed another entrant in this year&#8217;s Joey Janela&#8217;s Spring Break 3, the third installment of the Spring Break series put on by Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) over WrestleMania weekend. For the first time, this year&#8217;s event will take place over two nights, with the annual Clusterf**k Battle Royal getting its own night, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":38567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[4569,3505],"class_list":["post-38562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-essa-rios","tag-joey-janelas-spring-break-3"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}