Héctor Garza
Héctor Solano Segura (June 12, 1969 – May 26, 2013) was a Mexican professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Héctor Garza. During his career he worked for various major Mexican professional wrestling promotions such as Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Perros del Mal Producciones and, at the time of death, AAA. Garza also worked for several major promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in the United States.
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| Birth name | Héctor Solano Segura |
| Born | June 12, 1969 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico |
| Died | May 26, 2013 (aged 43) Punta Allen, Quintana Roo, Mexico |
| Cause of death | Lung cancer |
| Children | El Sultán (son) |
| Parent(s) | Humberto Garza (father) |
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| Ring name(s) | Héctor Garza |
| Billed height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Billed weight | 95 kg (209 lb) |
| Billed from | Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico |
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| Debut | September 4, 1992 |
| Retired | October 7, 2012 |
Solano was a second-generation wrestler, son of Humberto Garza. His own son, known as El Sultán, also became a professional wrestler after Garza's death. The extended Garza family includes Angel Garza and Humberto Carrillo (formerly known as Último Ninja). In 2017 Garza Jr. adopted a ring persona similar to that of Solano, paying homage to his uncle's rudo ("bad guy") persona and wrestling style.
At the time of his death, Garza was in the middle of his second reign with the Mexican National Heavyweight Championship. He had also won the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship, the CMLL World Tag Team Championship three times, the CMLL World Trios Championship five times in CMLL and the IWC World Heavyweight Championship, the Mexican National Light Heavyweight Championship and the Mexican National Tag Team Championship. He was posthumously inducted in the AAA Hall of Fame.