Remembering Eddie Guererro

Let me just say that I loved how WWE remembered Eddie this week. I love how the other wrestlers, WWE and elsewhere, remembered Eddie this week. I loved how you guys remembered Eddie this week on the comments... awesome stuff, you guys. Now the rest of you see what I'm talking about when I say wrestling fans more than anyone else frequent this thing. They're numerous and they're passionate, even though they don't show it in comments often. They mostly show it in e-mails. I loved the comments this week though.

To the non-wrestling fans, I'm sorry I haven't posted anything for you guys in a week or so, I truly am, but this was just too important. I'll be back next week with some non-wrestling related stuff.

Ah, how to properly finish this off... I thought of answering questions about Eddie. Then I thought about posting some pics from RAW. I thought about posting some more pics from his career. Then I thought... why not do all three. Enjoy.

First though, here's a statement from Eddie's wife from WWE.com about how he died.


Remembering Eddie: Statement From Vickie Guererro

It was heart failure. It was from his past – the drinking and the drug abuse. They found signs of heart disease. She (the examiner) said that the blood vessels were very worn and narrow, and that just showed all the abuse from the scheduling of work and his past. And Eddie just worked out like crazy all the time. It made his heart grow bigger and work harder and the vessels were getting smaller, and that’s what caused the heart failure. He went into a deep sleep. As soon as they saw his heart, they saw the lining of his heart already had the heart disease. There was no trauma, and Eddie hadn’t hurt himself in any way. It answered a lot of questions.

I knew Eddie wasn’t feeling very good for the last week. He was home and kept saying he wasn’t feeling good and we thought it was just “road tired.” So we thought he just had to rest. It answered a lot of my questions, too, because he was just so exhausted. She said it was normal because the heart was working so hard. When he didn’t call me last night and the night before I knew it was for real, because he would call me every night. I miss his phone calls. I cried through the whole thing (last night).

I loved his laugh. His laugh was the best. We just celebrated his four-year sobriety last Thursday. We just thought we had life by the handful. We thought we had it all figured out. He worked so hard to make a better life for us. I’m just overwhelmed by how people are coming out. It’s touched my heart a lot. Everybody was just in awe last night in how beautifully everything was put together.

All my life was wrestling. All he did was take care of them and live for that. And I don’t know what to do now.


Remembering Eddie: Ask B.a.D

Q: What was your favourite thing about Eddie Guererro as a performer?

A: The fact that he was just that... a performer. Inside the ring and out. He was fantastic at both. Eddie was a master at working the crowd. Rarely is there a performer who can do both, let alone do both as well as he did.


Q: What do you think Eddie's best match was?

A: That's like asking what your favourite RVD match is, or your favourite AJ Styles match. I can't pick, there's too many.

If I had to pick the ones that stand out in my mind the most, I'd say the match with Rey at Halloween Havoc in WCW in the late 90's (97, I think), his match with Benoit on RAW a few years back, or his match with RVD in the ladder match. But anytime he fought any of these three individuals, no matter what amount you paid, you we're gonna get your money's worth.

The other one that stands out is his title win from Lesnar in 2004. Not because the match was the best he'd had, although it was damn good, it was the end result. One of the most emotional title wins I've ever seen. From being fired in from WWE in 2001 to being the WWE Champion in 2004... it doesn't get much better than that.


Q: What do you think of Cowherd's comments?

A: F*cking tasteless. You know what, if you don't like wrestling, that's fine. No one in their right mind would hold the fact that you don't enjoy a particular form of entertainment against you. But, if you know nothing about it, don't presume to comment on something you don't know about, especially when it concerns someone's death.


Q: Whose death do you think is more tragic, Eddie or Owen's?

A: Not a fair question. Any loss of life, at any level, is tragic. But I will say that the way that Owen died was more tragic. Owen was my favourite wrestler of the entire Hart family.

But the way that he died aside, I'd have to say Eddie's, if for no other reason than the fact that he had turned his life around in 4 years. Especially now that we know he was clean, and that he didn't die because he had been using again. That's a good thing, no doubt, but still.


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R.I.P. Eddie Guererro.

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