{"id":46573,"date":"2019-05-11T21:38:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T01:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46573"},"modified":"2020-08-10T21:38:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T01:38:53","slug":"pour-one-out-for-the-real-silver-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46573","title":{"rendered":"Pour one out for the real Silver King"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If most people heard the name C\u00e9sar Cuauht\u00e9moc Gonz\u00e1lez Barr\u00f3n<\/strong>, they\u2019d have no clue to whom that was.\u00a0 Frankly, if most people heard his ring name, Silver King<\/strong>, they\u2019d probably have very little clue to who he was, either.\u00a0 Then again, I am some lowly brogger living in America, and I\u2019d wager to say that those who lived in Mexico, the names probably would definitely trigger more recognition than it would anywhere outside of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Silver King passed away on May 11, 2019<\/a>, inside the wrestling ring, while performing at a show in London, England.\u00a0 Reports say it was due to a heart attack, but there\u2019s still no official cause of death released, officially.\u00a0 He was wrestling fellow luchador, Juventud Guerrera when this tragedy occurred, and it\u2019s definitely a sad day in professional wrestling when one of the boys goes out so suddenly and unexpectedly.\u00a0 Silver King was 51 years old, which definitely classifies as \u201cway too soon,\u201d especially considering he was still actively performing literally up until his death.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although his career legacy is vastly greater and more colorful when you look at his accolades in Mexico and pretty much anywhere outside of the United States, I always remembered him the most from his time in WCW, when unfortunately he and many other Mexican wrestlers were primarily a part of the company to be jobbers and\/or the guys to warm up the crowds, usually by jobbing.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve always had an affinity for the jobbers of wrestling, because most of the time, superstars are boring and one-dimensional, and it\u2019s only by the strength of the guys doing the jobs to them, do they even look good.<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember just about all of them from WCW; Silver King, El Dandy, Damien, La Parka, Psychosis, Villano IV and V, Hector Garza, Ciclope, Lizmark Jr. and Juventud Guerrera.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not just out of convenience to fit my narrative, but Silver King always stood out to me, because he was one of the few Mexican expats on the roster, that wrestled without a mask.\u00a0 Furthermore, he was always a little on the tubby side of stout, yet in spite of his bulk, he was still as agile and high-flying any other luchador, which just added to the ironic entertainment value he brought to WCW.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Although he never really achieved any notable success in WCW, I was always entertained whenever he actually got any screen time.\u00a0 There was once a match where Silver King had a match with I think it was Dean Malenko, and the entire match came to a screeching halt because Chris Jericho decided to interrupt the match so he could read a list of the 1,004 holds he knew, to further his feud with Malenko.\u00a0 I remember an irate Silver King simply being escorted out of the ring and out of the arena with no conclusion to the match while this was occurring, and thinking man, how disrespectful to shit on Silver King like that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in 2000, there was a very specific episode of Thunder where I got last minute tickets, and had a sign in the crowd that was on the show throughout the entire episode where on one side said \u201cMR. TITO SUX\u201d and the other said \u201cFROOT BOOTY.\u201d\u00a0 I still have this match on a VHS recording somewhere, and to this day it still provides an entertaining story for my friends and I, because FROOT BOOTY was blurred, and the aforementioned Mr. Tito was this whiny internet columnist we wanted to drop down a peg who we knew saw it, based on the reactions from his column in following days.\u00a0 Well, on this episode, was probably the pinnacle of Silver King\u2019s WCW tenure, when he was paired up with El Dandy, and they were packaged as Los Fabulousos, most primarily known because of the fact that they were accompanied by Miss Hancock<\/a>, AKA Stacy Kiebler.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although I\u2019m pretty sure they did the job then too, that night, I still remember their ring entrance, where Silver King would get right up into the camera and lick his thumb and pinky and sweep his fingers across his eyebrows, trying to be all Rico Suave and failing miserably because he\u2019s kind of dumpy and a jobber.<\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t long after the inevitable failure of the Los Fabulosos gimmick did Silver King and presumably countless others were released by WCW.\u00a0 I never really bothered to follow what happened in the rest of his life afterward, although I learned that he was in the Jack Black film, Nacho Libre<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing is, at least within my circle of friends, Silver King wasn\u2019t just a wrestler, he became an identity.\u00a0 At the Brazilian restaurants where I\u2019ve eaten countless pounds of meat and brought numerous friends to dine at throughout the years, the guys that went around the restaurant delivering meat on skewers to the tables, were all deemed Silver Kings.\u00a0 Their uniforms, complete with cowboy hats, were basically the same attire that the actual Silver King wore to the ring during his time in WCW, and therefore the association became a thing and then it became permanent.<\/span><\/p>\n

From then on, regardless of their uniforms, all servers at Brazilian restaurants became Silver Kings.\u00a0 The actual Silver King may not have gotten the respect and admiration he might have deserved in WCW, but to my friends and I, Silver Kings were integral parts of our dining experiences and commanded a necessary resepct.<\/span><\/p>\n

Becoming commonplace vernacular among my friends and I, I can\u2019t think of any more level of respect that Silver King possibly could\u2019ve gotten outside of the wrestling community.\u00a0 I am definitely sad to hear that the man that started it all has left us, but at least I can take solace in the fact that the name Silver King will never be forgotten, and never have the risk of not being spoken again, because as long as there is meat to be eaten at Brazilian restaurants, the idea of Silver Kings will never die.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If most people heard the name C\u00e9sar Cuauht\u00e9moc Gonz\u00e1lez Barr\u00f3n, they\u2019d have no clue to whom that was.\u00a0 Frankly, if most people heard his ring name, Silver King, they\u2019d probably have very little clue to who he was, either.\u00a0 Then again, I am some lowly brogger living in America, and I\u2019d wager to say that … Continue reading Pour one out for the real Silver King<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,56,129,54],"class_list":["post-46573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-eulogy","tag-food","tag-nostalgia","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46575,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46573\/revisions\/46575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}