{"id":70474,"date":"2020-06-12T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=70474"},"modified":"2020-06-12T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:16:08","slug":"cmll-veteran-ares-el-guerrero-passes-away-at-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/06\/12\/cmll-veteran-ares-el-guerrero-passes-away-at-50\/","title":{"rendered":"CMLL Veteran Ares el Guerrero Passes Away at 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lucha libre world has been again by tragedy, following a terrible week that has already seen the passing of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/06\/07\/former-cmll-uwa-veteran-el-impala-passes-away-at-68\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>El Impala<\/strong><\/a> (June 7), <a href=\"https:\/\/criteriohidalgo.com\/la-copa\/sumo-virus-nueva-victima-en-la-lucha-libre\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Super Bracito<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>(June 5),\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/06\/04\/aaa-uwa-luchador-matematico-ii-passes-away-at-50\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matem\u00e1tico II<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(June 4), and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/06\/02\/dragon-chino-ii-rip\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dragon Chino II<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(June 2), all being ruled due to COVID complications. On Friday it&#8217;s being reported that another veteran, <strong>Ares el Guerrero<\/strong> from <strong>Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)<\/strong> has passed away at the age of 50, although no details of his death have been released as of yet. The news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LuchayBoxPuebla\/posts\/742163619922179\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was first broken<\/a> by the Puebla lucha libre commission on Facebook.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Puebla lucha libre commission and the Arena Puebla facebook page have announced Ares el Guerrero (Jos\u00e9 Francisco Gonz\u00e1lez L\u00f3pez) has passed away at the age of 50. Ares was one of the local Puebla luchadors who&#39;d wrestle on the CMLL Monday streams.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T2CJcw6HLl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/T2CJcw6HLl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mdEHriLq3i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/mdEHriLq3i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; luchablog (@luchablog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/luchablog\/status\/1271540028028727296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jos\u00e9 Francisco Gonz\u00e1lez L\u00f3pez<\/strong> entered the world of lucha libre in 1988 at the age of 18, working for various smaller independent promotions. In 1998, he made his debut with CMLL and has worked regularly with the company ever since, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sbHQoZcsIlM\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last appearing on February 17, 2020<\/a>, in Puebla, Mexico, the region that he routinely wrestles on independent shows. He is a former Puebla Tag Team Champion alongside his partner, <strong>Baby Killer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CMLL: Centella de Oro, SWAT vs. Policeman, Ares el Guerrero, 2009\/07\/06\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DeEaldxiZcs?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>Originally a masked luchador for the bulk of his career, he lost his mask in a match against <strong>Black Tiger<\/strong> (the Mexican version, not the one from NJPW). He had recently undergone a name change, becoming <strong>Ares El Poblano<\/strong> last September.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tigre Rojo Jr, Rey Samuray, Tony Iron VS Ares el Guerrero, Blue Center, King Roker Jr\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_aphTblzCEY?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>LWOPW sends out our deepest condolences to the entire L\u00f3pez family, as well as Ares el Guerrero\u2019s fans, friends, and colleagues. Stay tuned to the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop.\u00a0You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70478\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/06\/Ares_el_Guerrero_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/06\/Ares_el_Guerrero_1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/06\/Ares_el_Guerrero_1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/06\/Ares_el_Guerrero_1-336x420.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lucha libre world has been again by tragedy, following a terrible week that has already seen the passing of El Impala (June 7), Super Bracito\u00a0(June 5),\u00a0Matem\u00e1tico II\u00a0(June 4), and\u00a0Dragon Chino II\u00a0(June 2), all being ruled due to COVID complications. On Friday it&#8217;s being reported that another veteran, Ares el Guerrero from Consejo Mundial de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":70479,"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":[17,547,6],"tags":[6524,676],"class_list":["post-70474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cmll","category-in-memorium","category-north-america","tag-ares-el-guerrero","tag-cmll"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70474","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=70474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}