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Wrestler: Eddie Guerrero
Real Name: Eduardo Gori Guerrero Llanes
Birthday:
October 9, 1967 - November 13, 2005
Hometown:
Born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Grew up in El
Paso, Texas
Resident of Tampa, Florida
Marital Status: Married w/Kids
Height^ Weight: 5'9
- 223 lbs
Trained by: Gory Guerrero
Debut: 1987
Previous Gimmicks:
Black
Tiger (New Japan)
El Caliente (WCW)
Latino Heat (WWF)
Mascara Magica (Mexico)
Finishing Move:
Frog
Splash
Lasso from El Paso
Favorite Moves:
Figure Four Leglock
Splash Mountain
Black Tiger Bomb
Brainbuster
Catapult
Somersault Senton
Superplex
Gory Special
German Suplex
Pescado
Tornado DDT
European Uppercut
Spinning
Boot Scrape
Trifecta of Vertical Suplexes
Sommersault to Avoid Frog Splash
Powerbomb
Tag Teams/Stables:
Los
Guerreros (WWE) w/Chavo Guerrero
La Pareja Atomica (Mexico) w/El Hijo Del Santo
La Pareja Del Terror (Mexico) w/Love
Machine
Filthy Animals (WCW) w/Billy Kidman, Disqo, Juventud Guerrera, Konnan, Rey Misterio Jr., Torrie Wilson &
Tygress
Latino World Order (WCW) w/Ciclope, Damien, El Dandy, Hector Garza, Juventud Guerrera, La Parka, Psicosis, Rey
Misterio Jr., Silver King, Spyder, Villano IV & Villano V
Los Gringos Locos (AAA) w/Black Cat, Chicano Power, El Misterioso,
King Lion, Konnan, Love Machine & Madonna's Boyfriend
Radicalz (WWF) w/Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn &
Terri
Notable Feuds:
Dean Malenko
Diamond Dallas Page
Chyna
Billy Gunn
Rob Van Dam
Steve
Austin
Spike Dudley
Bubba Dudley
Rikishi
Edge
Chris Benoit
Kurt Angle
Team Angle
Tajiri
John Cena
The
Basham Brothers
Chavo Guerrero
Chavo Guerrero Sr.
Brock Lesnar
Kurt Angle
John Bradshaw Layfield
Basham
Brothers
Rey Mysterio
Ken Kennedy
Randy Orton
Title Histoy:
AAA World Tag Team Champion (1x w/Love
Machine)
ECW World Television Champion (2x)
IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Champion
IWC Tag Team Champion (1x w/Love
Machine)
NJPW Best Of The Super Juniors Winner 1996
WCW World Cruiserweight Champion (2x)
WWA International Cruiserweight
Champion
WWA World Trios Champion (1x w/Chavo Guerrero Sr. & Mando Guerrero)
WWA World Welterweight Champion
WWE
Heavyweight Champion
WWE Intercontinental Champion (2x)
4x WWE Tag Team Champion (2x w/Chavo Guerrero, 1x w/Rey Mysterio,
1x w/Tajiri)
WWE United States Champion (2x)
WWF European Champion (2x)
Short Bio:
Born into
a legendary wrestling family, Eddie Guerrero managed to maintain the storied Guerrero family legacy. In the 1990s, he had
a distinguished career, working for every major professional wrestling promotion in the United States during that period:
World Wrestling Entertainment, World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling.
Guerrero's in-ring
character was that of a crafty, resourceful wrestler who would do anything to win a match. His famous mantra became "Cheat
to win." Despite being a heel for much of his career, he became extremely popular because of his charisma and the fact that
his character seemed to largely be a reflection of himself.
Throughout his career, Guerrero battled many demons outside
of wrestling including alcoholism and an addiction to pain killers. His problems outside of the ring were sometimes integrated
into his professional wrestling storylines. Despite all these issues, Eddie Guerrero managed to be extremely successful, winning
numerous titles during his career, including the WWE Championship.
Early career
Guerrero came from a legendary wrestling family.
His late father, Gory Guerrero, is considered one of the greatest wrestlers in Mexican history. His oldest brother, Chavo
Guerrero, is a legendary junior heavyweight wrestler, feuding with Japanese legend Atsushi Onita. His brother Hector Guerrero
is also somewhat well-known and brother Mando Guerrero wrestles as well. His nephew, Chavo Guerrero, Jr. wrestles in World
Wrestling Entertainment. His uncle Enrique Llanes and cousin Javier Llanes are also popular wrestlers but their popularity
is restricted to Mexico. He also had two sisters, Cuqui and Linda.
Eddie Guerrero was raised in El Paso, Texas, and
attended the University of New Mexico as well as New Mexico Highlands University on an athletic scholarship, where he wrestled
collegiately, before returning to El Paso to train as a professional wrestler. He debuted in 1987 in the Mexican Empresa Mexicana
de Lucha Libre promotion. He became a star in Mexico long before he main evented in the United States.
In 1993, Guerrero
began wrestling in Japan for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he was known as Black Tiger II. In Mexico, he wrestled mainly
for Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion, teaming with El Hijo del Santo as the new version of La Pareja Atómica (The Atomic
Pair), the legendary tag team of Gory Guerrero and El Santo. After Guerrero turned on Santo and allied with Art Barr as La
Pareja del Terror (The Pair of Terror), the duo became arguably the most hated tag team in lucha libre history. Along with
Barr, Konnan and Madonna’s Boyfriend, Guerrero formed Los Gringos Locos (The Crazy Americans), a heel stable.
Guerrero
and Barr's first break would come when they were noticed in late 1994 by the owner of Extreme Championship Wrestling, Paul
Heyman, and were approached about wrestling for him in 1995. However, Barr died before he could join ECW with Eddie. As an
homage to his fallen friend, Eddie adopted his friend's finishing move, the Frog Splash.
Eddie won the ECW World Television
Championship on his debut, and went on to have a series of excellent matches with Dean Malenko before they both jumped to
World Championship Wrestling later that year.
World
Championship Wrestling
In WCW, he found considerable singles success, winning the
United States Heavyweight Title in late 1996 and two World Cruiserweight titles in 1997.
Eric Bischoff never took Eddie
Guerrero, or his friends seriously to accept them as main event stars in WCW. This lead to Guerrero getting coffee thrown
all over him when he requested to be pushed in his character or asked for a raise in his pay for family reasons, and thus
Guerrerro constantly and angrily responded by asking for a release in his WCW contract (in which he did in a live episode
of WCW Nitro). Eddie then left the company for a couple of months, angry at Bischoff for what he had done. However, Eddie
would return to WCW, thus leading to beliefs that maybe Eddie's angry speeches against Bischoff were actually worked (Eddie
would later rebut this on WWE's DVD "The Monday Night War" claiming that he tried to put aside personal differences aside
for the good of the company, yet found himself angry and outraged once more because of Bischoff's continutity of lowering
him and other stars down).
Eddie responded to Bischoff's actions by forming the Latino World Order (also known as LWO),
in which was seen by the fans to be a mockery of Bischoff's nWo stable at the time. It was actually an answer to Bischoff's
refusal to push the Latino wrestlers in spotlights that they deserved to enjoy. Members of the LWO included Psychosis, Rey
Mysterio, Jr., Los Villanos and La Parka. He turned heel in 1998, a role which he is best at, judging from his days in AAA
in Mexico. He was involved in a serious car accident in 1999, in which he was expected to die. However, Eddie managed to survive
the accident, and in just a couple of months he was back to wrestling, despite the fact that he hated working in WCW.
Around
this time, he became unhappy with WCW management and jumped to the WWF in 2000, with Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, and Perry
Saturn. It was a move that Guerrero wouldn't regret.
World
Wrestling Federation
Guerrero and the other WCW wrestlers debuted in the WWF on
January 31, 2000 as the heel group The Radicalz. After dislocating his elbow while performing a Frog Splash, Guerrero was
sidelined for several weeks. In March 2000, Guerrero began pursuing the affections of Chyna, who he referred to as his Mamacita.
Chyna was initially repelled, but allied with him, declaring that she "couldn't resist his Latino Heat". This made Eddie Guerrero
turn face.
After defeating Chris Jericho for the European Championship on April 3, Guerrero held the title for just
under three months. He and Chyna began a feud with Essa Rios and Lita, which culimanted in a title defence on April 30 at
Backlash, which was also billed as the night of Guerrero's prom (he was said to have just earned a GED). Guerrero defeated
Rios after arriving at ringside in a 1957 Chevrolet. Guerrero successfully retained the title in matches with Saturn and Malenko
before finally losing to Saturn on July 23.
Over the next few months, friction began to build between the couple. Chyna
was upset when Guerrero pinned her to advance in the King of the Ring Tournament, but forgave him when he presented her with
a puppy. On August 27, Chyna pinned Trish Stratus in an inter-gender tag match between Chyna and Eddie and Trish and Val Venis,
winning Venis' Intercontinental Championship as a result. Guerrero claimed not to mind, and on September 4 he begged Commissioner
Mick Foley to let him take part in a title defence between Chyna and Kurt Angle, because he was afraid that Angle would injure
Chyna. After Angle levelled Chyna with the title belt, Guerrero "accidentally" pinned her while trying to revive her.
Chyna
became visibly uncomfortable as Guerrero began to cheat in order to retain his title, while Guerrero was upset that Chyna
was posing for Playboy Magazine, even trying to invade the Playboy Mansion to stop the photoshoot. Just when it appeared that
Chyna would leave Guerrero, he proposed to her and she accepted, much to the dismay of her fans. The engagement was called
off when Guerrero was caught showering with two of The Godfather's hos, Mandy and Victoria, claiming that "Two Mamacitas are
better than one!". Guerrero turned heel once again as a result of the incident, and was later defeated for the Intercontinental
Championship by Chyna's friend Billy Gunn.
The Radicalz reunited in late 2000, assisting Triple H in his match with
Stone Cold Steve Austin at Survivor Series. In early 2001, Guerrero feuded with Test, winning the European Championship for
a second time at WrestleMania X-Seven with help from Saturn and Malenko. Guerrero eventually left the Radicalz, siding with
The Hardy Boyz and Lita. At this point, Guerrero developed an addiction to pain medication stemming from his 1997 car accident,
and in May 2001 he was send to rehabilitation. On November 9, 2001 he was arrested for drunk driving and was subsequently
released by the WWF three days later.
Independent
Circuit
Guerrero appeared with numerous independent promotions, including Ring
of Honor, World Wrestling All-Stars ,as well as IWA Mid-South. Following a number of highly acclaimed matches, such as his
bout with Doug Williams at FWA British Uprising, as well as his series of matches with C.M. Punk,he was rehired by the WWE
in March 2002.
World Wrestling Entertainment
Guerrero
returned to RAW on April 1, 2002, attacking Rob Van Dam and reuniting with then heel Chris Benoit. On April 21 at Backlash
he defeated RVD for the Intercontinental Championship. He lost the belt back to RVD a month later in a highly acclaimed Ladder
Match, in the course of which an overenthusiastic fan ran into the ring and knocked the ladder over while he was climbing
it. Guerrero then attacked Steve Austin in a bar, beginning a feud, but Austin left the WWE before a match could take place.
He went on to feud briefly with The Rock.
Los
Guerreros
On August 1 Guerrero and Benoit jumped to SmackDown!. With Benoit starting
to focus on Kurt Angle, Eddie decided to align himself with his nephew Chavo, forming the successful tag team Los Guerreros.
In contrast to a previous WCW storyline with his nephew, Chavo fully adopted his uncle's policy of "Lie, Cheat and Steal"
to win matches as part of the gimmick. The duo entered the 8-team tournament for the new WWE Tag-Team Championship and began
a feud with the newly formed tag team of Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit, who just defeated John Cena and Billy Kidman. Chavo
told Benoit that his former friend Eddie was assaulted by his tag team partner Kurt Angle. Benoit ran to make the save, only
to have himself locked inside a room. Eddie, with a steel chair, assaulted Benoit.
Benoit and Angle managed to overcome
their differences and eventually defeated Eddie and Chavo in the tournament semi-finals. Later on, Benoit and Angle won the
WWE Tag Team Titles after defeating Rey Mysterio and Edge. It is also on this day that Benoit and Angle got revenge on the
Los Guerreros, with Benoit telling Eddie that his nephew was being assaulted by Kurt Angle. Eddie chose not to fall for it,
but in fact Chavo was being assaulted.
Later on, Benoit and Angle fought for a trophy (for being the first WWE Tag
Team Champion). Surprisingly, Eddie and Chavo helped Benoit win this match, to Benoit's surprise. Angle quickly attack his
tag team partner and destroyed the trophy, ensuring that neither man would have it.
Los Guerreros would then be given
another shot at the WWE Tag Team titles. Meanwhile, new champions were crowned, Edge and Rey Mysterio. At Survivor Series
2002, Eddie made Rey Mysterio submit to The Lasso From El Paso. Los Guerreros had just started their reign as the WWE Tag
Team Champions.
Team Angle challenged Eddie and Chavo and eventually captured the Tag Titles. Prior to Judgment Day,
Chavo tore his bicep. This forced Eddie to look for another partner. He chose Yoshihiro Tajiri. They won the Tag Titles at
Judgment Day in a Ladder Match. In the following week, Eddie and Tajiri managed to retain their titles by cheating. In addition,
they also defeated the legendary Roddy Piper and his protegč Sean O'Haire. After Eddie and Tajiri lost the titles to Team
Angle on July 1, Eddie then turned on Tajiri, slamming his partner through the windshield of his low-rider truck.
United States Championship
In
mid-2003, Eddie competed in a tournament for the new WWE United States Championship. He managed to defeat Ultimo Dragon and
Billy Gunn to advance to the final round, where he would meet Chris Benoit who just eliminated Rhyno. In this match, Eddie
is up to his dirty tricks, clocking Benoit with the belt and hitting a Frog Splash. Benoit managed to kick out, however. Eddie
tried to get Benoit in trouble by placing the title belt on top of the unconcsious Benoit. It didn't work, however, since
he knocked out the ref earlier with a belt shot to the kidneys. The match ended thanks to an interference by Rhyno and his
finishing maneuver, The Gore.
At SummerSlam, Eddie retained his title by defeating Rhyno, Benoit, and Tajiri. He reverted
to being a face again by engaging in a rivalry with John Cena. Eddie challenged Cena to a "Latino Heat" Street Fight for the
US championship. Eddie countered Cena's F-U and connected with a Frog Splash for the three count. It was also in this match
that Chavo made his return, assisting Eddie in executing his Frog Splash on Cena.
WWE Championship
As Eddie's popularity
grew, Eddie began seeking the WWE Title. In a storyline, Eddie's singles success made Chavo jealous and Chavo broke from the
team. At this time, the summer of 2003, Eddie began driving a customized lowrider to ringside as part of his ring entrance.
(He has become identified sufficiently with lowriders that he appeared on the cover of the February 2004 issue of Lowrider
magazine; he is the first man ever to appear on the cover of that publication — normally, the cover includes a lowrider
and a bikini-clad woman; the Guerrero cover has the same features but adds him). Guerrero would also capitalize on his "Lie,
Cheat, and Steal" anti-heel image by brazenly (though always behind the referee's back) using illegal tactics to win matches
on occasion. These actions however not only increased his popularity, but also made him comical in which the fans would laugh.
Guerrero
won his first WWE Championship at WWE's No Way Out pay per view on February 15, 2004, defeating Brock Lesnar. He would enjoy
many months of success as champion, which included a win against Kurt Angle at Wrestlemania XX as well as victories over Big
Show and Rey Mysterio. He would later lose the title to John "Bradshaw" Layfield, due to Kurt Angle's interference.
At
SummerSlam, Kurt Angle made Eddie Guerrero submit to the Angle Lock. Eddie made an alliance with Big Show, who also despised
Kurt Angle for firing him while Angle was still SmackDown! general manager. Meanwhile, Angle made an alliance with Luther
Reigns and Mark Jindrak. At No Mercy, Eddie pinned Luther Reigns after using a police baton stolen from a police officer.
Each
week Angle and his allies began targeting Eddie and the Big Show. General Manager Theodore Long booked a Survivor Series Elimination
Match between a team lead by Eddie and a team lead by Kurt Angle. Eddie's team consisted of himself, Big Show, Rey Mysterio
and Rob Van Dam.
Eddie was forced to find another member for his team because Rey Mysterio had just been given an opportunity
to win back the WWE Cruiserweight Championship. Eddie selected John Cena, who was feuding with Carlito, a member of Angle's
Survivor Series team. At Survivor Series, Eddie eliminated Mark Jindrak and landed the Frog Splash to Kurt Angle for the victory.
Eddie,
along with Booker T and The Undertaker, challenged John "Bradshaw" Layfield for a WWE Championship rematch. Along the way,
Eddie found a partner in Booker T. Despite losing two matches in a row as a tag team, Eddie and Booker managed to get along.
At Armageddon, Eddie and Booker worked as a unit, taking down both Bradshaw and Undertaker. The two broke away from the team
and made it clear that it was every man for themselves. Eddie would then be taken out by Undertaker. Afterward, Eddie and
Booker briefly made an unsuccessful run to gain the tag team titles.
Feud with Rey Mysterio
On February 20, 2005, Guerrero once
again became a tag team champion, this time with long time friend and rival Rey Mysterio when they defeated Doug Basham and
Danny Basham at No Way Out.
Many expected the new champions to defend their titles at WrestleMania 21, but after encouragement
from Chavo, instead Eddie challenged Rey, to a one-on-one match so they could "bring the house down." The two wrestled a match
at WrestleMania with Mysterio getting the win. Although visibly frustrated, Guerrero congratulated his partner.
After
several mishaps in the weeks following WrestleMania, the growing tension between Guerrero and Mysterio finally erupted when
they lost their tag titles to new team MNM on the April 21 episode of Smackdown.
On April 28, 2005, Eddie and Mysterio
faced MNM in a rematch for the WWE tag team championships. During the match Mysterio tagged in accidentally and then hit Eddie
off the side of the ring and Eddie landed on the floor. Eddie then got up, but he refused to tag Mysterio. MNM double teamed
Mysterio and threw him out of the ring. Eddie then gave Mysterio a glare and a frown and walked off. As a result, Eddie has
now officially turned heel once again in the WWE betraying his long time friend, Rey Mysterio, who he had dubbed "his family"
earlier in the show.
The next week on SmackDown!, Guerrero appeared to adopt a new, somewhat sociopathic gimmick. Though
Guerrero had historically been characterized by his emotion in the ring, on this edition of the show he viciously and emotionlessly
beat up his former tag team partner, leaving him bruised and bloody on a set of steel steps. At Judgment Day 2005 on May 22,
Guerrero lost to Mysterio by disqualification when Eddie hit Mysterio with a chair. With this heel turn, Eddie began using
his submission maneuver again, known as the Lasso From El Paso. He has also stopped driving his low riders down the ring.
Instead he walks down with new music with a frown on his face. Eddie finally defeated Rey on the first edition of Friday Night
Smackdown in a Steel Cage Match
That June, he appeared at ECW One Night Stand, losing to Chris Benoit.
The Secret
The feud
with Rey Mysterio has involved a "secret" about Rey, which Eddie threatened to reveal if Rey did not do things for him. The
secret would involve Dominick, Rey Mysterio's (real life) son.
On July 15, 2005 Eddie was going to tell the "secret"
about Rey. Eddie's wife, with their two daughters, came in to calm him down. Eddie rudely made them leave. Eddie was then
booked for a match against Rey at The Great American Bash. If Rey won, then the "secret" would be kept. If he lost then Eddie
would tell the whole world the secret. Fortunately, Rey managed to beat Eddie in their Great American Bash match, forcing
Eddie to keep silent.
On the next Smackdown after the Bash, Eddie told the secret anyway, and told Dominick that he
was his real father, causing Dominick to run from his father through the crowd in sadness. Guerrero sat down and read "Eddie's
Bedtime Stories", explaining the details.
According to the storyline, years ago while he was living wild, he got a
woman pregnant. Since she already had seven children, and he did not want any more children, and knowing Mysterio was having
trouble starting his own family, he took Dominick and left him with Rey and his wife to raise. (This angle, supported by Rey
Mysterio, was based on the days of Eddie's drug addiction, which left him with no money and resulted in the breakup of his
marriage, which in real life was restored once he straightened out. Also, during his troubled days Eddie did have a child
out of wedlock, which unlike the storyline he currently supports, though in reality he has only three daughters.) Guerrero
also promised to read Chapter 2 of "Eddie's Bedtime Stories" the following week.
On the next Smackdown after Rey defeated
Christian in a match, Eddie and his female companion (who turned out to be his attorney) showed Rey some custody papers that
stated that Eddie was the legal and biological father of Dominick. Eddie then said that Rey will have to bring his son to
the next Smackdown match to return him.
Dominick was then sent to be in a Foster care. Eddie lost to Rey at Summerslam
2005 in a ladder match for the custody of Dominick.
Challenger
to the World Heavyweight Championship
Eddie Guerrero defeated Rey Mysterio in a
cage match on the premiere of Friday Night SmackDown. On the September 16 edition of SmackDown, it was announced that Eddie
would be challenging World Heavyweight Champion Batista at No Mercy 2005, following his victory over Rey Mysterio. Eddie quickly
proclaimed himself to be Batista's friend, and, the following week, he and Batista were booked to face MNM in a tag team contest.
However, Guerrero claimed to have food poisoning, and merely acted as a spectator during the tag team contest, forcing Batista
to wrestle a de-facto handicap match until Guerrero blind-tagged him late in the match and quickly pinned Joey Mercury. There
is speculation that Eddie might be back to his face character.
The next week, Eddie and Batista teamed up to face the
Legion of Doom (Heidenreich and Road Warrior Animal) in a match for the WWE Tag Team titles. The match was declared a DQ win
for LOD, when MNM interfered and smacked Animal with a chair. Batista, having had enough, grabbed Johnny Nitro and was about
to deliver the Batista Bomb when Eddie swung a chair at Joey Mercury. Mercury ducked and Eddie accidentally hit Batista with
the chair. Eddie quickly gave the chair to Mercury, and lay down on the floor. When Batista turned around, he saw Eddie knocked
out on the floor and Mercury with a chair. A livid Batista gave Mercury a big spinebuster, and smacked the chair off Mercury's
back.
While Eddie came out to the ring on the next SmackDown! acting as Batista's cheerleader, Batista confronted Eddie,
telling him that his time in Evolution had given him "eyes at the back of my head." A hurt Eddie sought to "prove" his desire
for friendship with Batista by selling out his tag team partners John "Bradshaw" Layfield and Christian later that night in
a six-man tag team match to help Batista win.
Batista defeated Eddie at No Mercy to retain his World title. At one
point of the match, Eddie had Batista down and the referee unconscious, and seized a steel chair to make the kill. But just
as he lifted the chair over his head facing an injured Batista (who was face down), Eddie took the chair and threw it back
out of the ring. Batista overpowered Eddie later in the match. At the end of the match, Eddie and Batista shook hands, but
Eddie was seen scowling behind Batista's back. On October 14, 2005 Eddie was in a match against Randy Orton with Cowboy Bob
Orton in his corner for the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Champion. Eddie won by DQ, as Bob Orton pushed
him from the top of the rope as Eddie was attempting a Frog splash. At the end of the match Eddie officially turned face once
again when the Ortons attacked him. Batista came in for the save, and GM Theodore Long made a tag team match between Batista
and Guerrero, and the Ortons.
Return
of Latino Heat
On the October 21 episode, Bob Orton pleaded a back injury to get
himself out of the match. Randy sought help from Ken Kennedy, and the two squared off against Batista and Eddie. At one point,
Ken Kennedy seized a steel chair, climbed up the top rope and sought to jump and strike Batista, who was looking to pin a
downed Randy Orton. Eddie rushed in and covered Batista's back. A surprised Kennedy jumped down from the rope and looked at
Eddie, but then struck him down anyway. Cowboy Bob Orton then rushed to the ring and intefered with an enraged Batista who
was preparing to knock out Kennedy. Along with Randy, the three battered down Batista and Eddie.
Just before the match,
Eddie told Batista that he realized how low he had sunk since being WWE Champion in 2004; having attacked his best friend
Rey Mysterio and acting degenerately. Guerrero told him that Batista shaking his hand at No Mercy had returned his respect
to him.
Theodore Long informed the five and the crowd that next week in San Francisco, there would be a six-man tag
team main event: Batista, Eddie and Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. The Ortons and Ken Kennedy.
On the October 28 episode of
SmackDown!, Batista gave Eddie a surprise gift: it turned out to be Guerrero's low rider that he drove in his ring entrances.
Upon seeing the low rider, Eddie asked Batista to ride on it out to the ring. Eddie's old ring entrance music was played,
and indeed, the Latino Heat is back. That night, Batista, Eddie, and Piper defeated the Ortons and Ken Kennedy. Eddie took
Kennedy out with the Frog Splash while Batista landed the Spinebuster on Randy Orton. The match ended after Piper applied
the sleeper hold on Cowboy Bob.
On the November 11 edition of Friday Night Smackdown!, Eddie Guerrero wrestled the
final match of his career, a victory by disqualification over Ken Kennedy.
Death
WWE confirmed on November 13, 2005 that
Guerrero passed away in his hotel room in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Eddie had an early wake up call at 7 a.m. that he
did not answer. Chavo Guerrero, Jr., who he was traveling with, called the room and again got no answer. When knocks on his
hotel room door went unanswered, security got the door open and Eddie was found dead in the bathroom. He was 38 years old.
WWE.com
later released the following announcement:
"WWE is deeply saddened by the news that Eddie Guerrero has passed away.
He was found dead this morning in his hotel room in Minneapolis. Eddie survived by his wife Vickie and daughters Shaul, 14,
Sherilyn, 9, and Kaylie Marie, 3. Cause of death has not been determined."
On the day of his death, he was set
to face Batista and Randy Orton for the World Heavyweight Championship on November 13 taping of Friday Night SmackDown! to
air on November 18. Due to an injury to Batista's back, Guerrero (or Randy Orton) were more than likely going to win the Championship
away from Batista. However, with Guerrero's death, it is unknown what will happen concerning the Championship.
Pro
Wrestling Illustrated
81st Best Wrestler of the "PWI Years" (2003)
18th Best Tag Team of the "PWI Years" (Los
Gringos Locos, with Art Barr)
Comeback of the Year Award (1999)
Most Inspirational Award (2002)
Most Inspirational
Award (2004)
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