MenacingMonk
War & Peace
When he beat Brock I was 
8 Years Ago Today...(11/13/2005)
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HipHopStan
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Vickie has done pretty well for herself. Who would've thought that the wife of a beloved WWE wrestler could become one of the biggest heels just by talking.rest in peace to one of the GOAT technical wrestlers but Vickie passed his legacy as a entertainment character
When he beat Brock I was
Helping Eddie out was the highlight of Goldberg's "illustrious" WWE career.
no owen breh?
because I know his passing hit me harder than any wrestling death
King P
Legends Never Die
This list lacks any credibility with Owen Hart missing
Jmare007
pico pal q lee
Top ten north american wrestler in history. One of the most complete performers ever.
This match is Eddie 101. Crowd was just watching the match but him and Wild Pegasus (
) MADE THEM CARE about it 
This match is Eddie 101. Crowd was just watching the match but him and Wild Pegasus (
) MADE THEM CARE about it
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Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
sucks i gotta be the one to say i never liked Eddie. he was good at what he did but i was never a fan. i was more of a Benoit guy than an Eddie guy 
rip to eddie. time flies.
rip to eddie. time flies.
Tres Leches
Empire Business
RIP
really liked this match
really liked this match
HamAndEgger
All Star
61 Corpses
The Breh
Original WrestleMania 22 plans for Eddie Guerrero: "It was 24 hours before he passed away, I believe. 24 hours, 48 hours, something like that. We had a call with Vince at home, and we were talking about the preliminary plans for WrestleMania. I know there's this romanticized story about how Eddie was going to get the title, and that was the plan that he was going to get it that night or at Survivor Series. That wasn't the plan. I think Stephanie said that, or alluded to it on the air, and that was not the plan. The plan was that he would lose, and I think they were going to return in December. We had talked about a fascinating idea; I'm not the biggest Bruce Pritchard fan, but to his credit, I believe it was Bruce Prichard who pitched putting Eddie Guerrero at WrestleMania against Shawn Michaels and doing the parallels of their careers. Being the heartthrob in Mexico and this mercurial figure south of the border, and the American version being HBK. They had never really worked, and you would've had such a great dynamic between the two with heel Eddie versus Shawn. That'd be your 'tear the house down,' high quality match at WrestleMania 22 in Chicago. Vince was like, 'God damn, that's really appealing. We could parallel their careers. What kind of footage of Eddie do we have outside of WCW? We could really do some impressive packages.
It was so close.
Dog Based Gremlin
Veteran
i was waiting to see who had the balls to say thissucks i gotta be the one to say i never liked Eddie. he was good at what he did but i was never a fan. i was more of a Benoit guy than an Eddie guy
rip to eddie. time flies.
dude got more popular with his abrupt death, they make him sound like he top 5 of all time,
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
i cant say i saw everything he did...especially his wwe run that really made him..ive seen bits & pieces..but i hated him from the wcw days and hate just carried over..
that video of him blading
HamAndEgger
All Star
Original WrestleMania 22 plans for Eddie Guerrero: "It was 24 hours before he passed away, I believe. 24 hours, 48 hours, something like that. We had a call with Vince at home, and we were talking about the preliminary plans for WrestleMania. I know there's this romanticized story about how Eddie was going to get the title, and that was the plan that he was going to get it that night or at Survivor Series. That wasn't the plan. I think Stephanie said that, or alluded to it on the air, and that was not the plan. The plan was that he would lose, and I think they were going to return in December. We had talked about a fascinating idea; I'm not the biggest Bruce Pritchard fan, but to his credit, I believe it was Bruce Prichard who pitched putting Eddie Guerrero at WrestleMania against Shawn Michaels and doing the parallels of their careers. Being the heartthrob in Mexico and this mercurial figure south of the border, and the American version being HBK. They had never really worked, and you would've had such a great dynamic between the two with heel Eddie versus Shawn. That'd be your 'tear the house down,' high quality match at WrestleMania 22 in Chicago. Vince was like, 'God damn, that's really appealing. We could parallel their careers. What kind of footage of Eddie do we have outside of WCW? We could really do some impressive packages.
It was so close.
Owen hit me the hardest more than Eddie. Not to mention Eddie himself was kinda 'ascended' from his death, just because of the struggles that Eddie overcame and then simply was taken away from them by long term abuse. It goes without saying though, Eddie was a complete wrestler but he is in a bit of a 'what could' have been scenario because obviously he had his dark days. It's a strong warning story for younger wrestlers, just like Benoit was about the dark side of wrestling; Eddie's story is about a man who ultimately found a way to be clean, but the abuse ultimately found a way to kill him long after he stopped.
No doubt though does Eddie deserve to be considered on of the best of the best list.
No doubt though does Eddie deserve to be considered on of the best of the best list.
Good Ol' JR with his Eddie memories:
http://www.jrsbarbq.com/blog/jrs-memories-late-eddie-guerrero1967-2005
I remember the first time that I ever met Eddie Guerrero. It was around 1999 and Eddie flew himself to NYC after a WCW TV taping to meet with Vince McMahon and me at the McMahon home in Greenwich, Connecticut to discuss coming to work in WWE.
Eddie appeared to be nervous and also somewhat 'beaten down' and depressed. It was obvious that his tenure in WCW was getting the best of him. Eddie's brown eyes always told a revealing story and his eyes that day screamed "please get me out of this hell and just give me a chance to be the best that I can be."
Eddie was old school respectful and, growing up in a pro wrestling family of significant distinction, was very soft spoken and humble especially to McMahon was who and still is the top decision maker in the business.
The second generation wrestler wanted out of WCW and simply wanted an opportunity to prove that, even though he wasn't the biggest dog in the fight, that he could more than carry his own and become a major star in WWE.
Obviously, 'Latino Heat' was on the money on that one.
I eventually finalized our contractual arrangements with Eddie along with Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn to all come to WWE after getting their release from WCW and the four debuted on RAW on Monday night January 31, 2000 as a group called the Radicals.
Unfortunately, during his very first match in WWE, Eddie severely injured his shoulder executing his signature 'Frog Splash' and had to miss significant time due to the injury.
I think that this may have been where Eddie and I bonded because he was untrusting of authority figures in the business and was deeply concerned that we were going to void his contract if he couldn't perform after 6 weeks of inactivity based on the language in the contract. I assured Eddie that language was in all contracts to protect WWE from dead beat talents who might want to to milk the system and get paid while being 'injured.' I promised him that he was going to be fine, that we loved him and his work and that he would be paid his weekly check while he was on the injured list plus we would obviously paid for his medical bills.
But, I stressed, you have to trust me.
Eddie did trust me and that trust held our relationship together for years. Even when Eddie would come to me with problems including battling demons that he had to have professional help to get under control to having issues with 'creative' and the direction at times that they wanted to take "Latino Heat.'
I vividly remember the day at a RAW TV when Benoit, Malenko and Saturn came to my make shift office at the arena to tell me that their dear friend Eddie Guerrero needed help and that he needed it immediately. Needless to say, the fiery and proud Hispanic star was none to happy that his friends intervened or that I was confronting him about his 'issues.' I went to Eddie's locker room that he shared with his friends and found him unconscious. There would be no negotiating. It was professional help or goodbye.
Before Eddie became a born again Christian, there were multiple Eddie's. There was the 'good' Eddie who was soft spoken, caring and a pleasure to be around. There was the 'troubled' Eddie who carried massive amounts of guilt around after doing things that he knew were wrong and self destructive. There was the "let's have a few beers Eddie" who was a happy go lucky, funny guy. Finally, there was the hard liquor drinking, aggressive Eddie who perceived that he was 'Andre Size' when he was over served.
We sought help for Eddie but then I had to end up terminating his contract after an incident that occurred after Eddie had attended rehab. Sometimes people have to hit rock bottom before they can dig their way out of the holes that they dig for themselves.
When Eddie returned to WWE in 2002 he was essentially a new man. He carried his Bible with him on the road and when he was having a bad day, Eddie would absorb himself in the word of God and find peace. It was an amazing transformation. It was real.
Professionally, Eddie was, I'd suggest, never happier than he was the night of WM20 in NYC's Madison Square Garden. He and his long time traveling partner and friend Chris Benoit both left MSG as the top two champions in WWE. It was the culmination of a long, challenging journey for two, extremely talented men who both were literally obsessed, perhaps to a fault, with shedding the claim that they were both not 'big enough' to be legitimately considered as 'top guys.'
After 40 years in the business, I don't think that I've ever been associated with any one as multi talented, more complex, dangerously driven and passionate as Eddie Guerrero. He was simply an amazingly gifted man who I feel blessed to have known and to have worked with for the handful of years that we were together in WWE.
Any company who puts an automatic size limit on how big wrestlers must be to be hired with WWE, TNA. etc are making a huge mistake. Because one never knows on that rare occasion when one might find another amazingly gifted, passionate, charismatic, in ring genius who's all of 5'8" and reminds us all of the WWE Hall of Famer Eddie Guerrero.
Eddie was only 38 years of age when he passed away suddenly of heart issues on November 13, 2005 and no one ever I've known has left a more memorable legacy in the pro wresting biz in only 38 years on Earth than the unforgettable Eddie Guerrero.
RIP Eddie....and Viva La Raza.
http://www.jrsbarbq.com/blog/jrs-memories-late-eddie-guerrero1967-2005
I remember the first time that I ever met Eddie Guerrero. It was around 1999 and Eddie flew himself to NYC after a WCW TV taping to meet with Vince McMahon and me at the McMahon home in Greenwich, Connecticut to discuss coming to work in WWE.
Eddie appeared to be nervous and also somewhat 'beaten down' and depressed. It was obvious that his tenure in WCW was getting the best of him. Eddie's brown eyes always told a revealing story and his eyes that day screamed "please get me out of this hell and just give me a chance to be the best that I can be."
Eddie was old school respectful and, growing up in a pro wrestling family of significant distinction, was very soft spoken and humble especially to McMahon was who and still is the top decision maker in the business.
The second generation wrestler wanted out of WCW and simply wanted an opportunity to prove that, even though he wasn't the biggest dog in the fight, that he could more than carry his own and become a major star in WWE.
Obviously, 'Latino Heat' was on the money on that one.
I eventually finalized our contractual arrangements with Eddie along with Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn to all come to WWE after getting their release from WCW and the four debuted on RAW on Monday night January 31, 2000 as a group called the Radicals.
Unfortunately, during his very first match in WWE, Eddie severely injured his shoulder executing his signature 'Frog Splash' and had to miss significant time due to the injury.
I think that this may have been where Eddie and I bonded because he was untrusting of authority figures in the business and was deeply concerned that we were going to void his contract if he couldn't perform after 6 weeks of inactivity based on the language in the contract. I assured Eddie that language was in all contracts to protect WWE from dead beat talents who might want to to milk the system and get paid while being 'injured.' I promised him that he was going to be fine, that we loved him and his work and that he would be paid his weekly check while he was on the injured list plus we would obviously paid for his medical bills.
But, I stressed, you have to trust me.
Eddie did trust me and that trust held our relationship together for years. Even when Eddie would come to me with problems including battling demons that he had to have professional help to get under control to having issues with 'creative' and the direction at times that they wanted to take "Latino Heat.'
I vividly remember the day at a RAW TV when Benoit, Malenko and Saturn came to my make shift office at the arena to tell me that their dear friend Eddie Guerrero needed help and that he needed it immediately. Needless to say, the fiery and proud Hispanic star was none to happy that his friends intervened or that I was confronting him about his 'issues.' I went to Eddie's locker room that he shared with his friends and found him unconscious. There would be no negotiating. It was professional help or goodbye.
Before Eddie became a born again Christian, there were multiple Eddie's. There was the 'good' Eddie who was soft spoken, caring and a pleasure to be around. There was the 'troubled' Eddie who carried massive amounts of guilt around after doing things that he knew were wrong and self destructive. There was the "let's have a few beers Eddie" who was a happy go lucky, funny guy. Finally, there was the hard liquor drinking, aggressive Eddie who perceived that he was 'Andre Size' when he was over served.
We sought help for Eddie but then I had to end up terminating his contract after an incident that occurred after Eddie had attended rehab. Sometimes people have to hit rock bottom before they can dig their way out of the holes that they dig for themselves.
When Eddie returned to WWE in 2002 he was essentially a new man. He carried his Bible with him on the road and when he was having a bad day, Eddie would absorb himself in the word of God and find peace. It was an amazing transformation. It was real.
Professionally, Eddie was, I'd suggest, never happier than he was the night of WM20 in NYC's Madison Square Garden. He and his long time traveling partner and friend Chris Benoit both left MSG as the top two champions in WWE. It was the culmination of a long, challenging journey for two, extremely talented men who both were literally obsessed, perhaps to a fault, with shedding the claim that they were both not 'big enough' to be legitimately considered as 'top guys.'
After 40 years in the business, I don't think that I've ever been associated with any one as multi talented, more complex, dangerously driven and passionate as Eddie Guerrero. He was simply an amazingly gifted man who I feel blessed to have known and to have worked with for the handful of years that we were together in WWE.
Any company who puts an automatic size limit on how big wrestlers must be to be hired with WWE, TNA. etc are making a huge mistake. Because one never knows on that rare occasion when one might find another amazingly gifted, passionate, charismatic, in ring genius who's all of 5'8" and reminds us all of the WWE Hall of Famer Eddie Guerrero.
Eddie was only 38 years of age when he passed away suddenly of heart issues on November 13, 2005 and no one ever I've known has left a more memorable legacy in the pro wresting biz in only 38 years on Earth than the unforgettable Eddie Guerrero.
RIP Eddie....and Viva La Raza.