History Wrestling / EddieGuerrero

* ILied: Nobody ever seemed to catch on. At one point he told Batista he was giving up his cheating ways and even did resist the temptation to cheat several times despite ample opportunity to do so but then when Batista embraced him for keeping his word Eddie had an evil smirk behind his back and soon enough did go back to cheating. (Batista's part in the story never finished because Eddie died)

* HeroicRROD: Steroids and drug abuse did a number on Eddie's heart. He died of a heart attack. His autopsy revealed that his heart was in such poor shape, it was described by the coroner as belonging to an 80-year-old.

** Eddie patted Super Crazy in the face where he had slapped him earlier after they wrestled in Ring Of Honor for the IWA intercontinental championship.

** La Pareja Atómica con El Hijo Del Santo (a call back to the atomic pair between Gori Guerrero and Wrestling/ElSanto). Hijo Del Santo could later be swapped out for El Titere.

-->
'''Viva la raza!'''

* FleetingDemographicRule: Eddie claiming to be the "father" of Rey Mysterio Jr.'s son was a recycling of Wrestling/BrianPillman claiming to be the "father" of [[Wrestling/{{Goldust Dustin "Goldust" Runnels]]' and Wrestling/TerriRunnels' daughter Dakota in 1997, the difference being that Eddie wasn't a physically-deteriorated maniac and never got Rey's wife as a valet.

* AshFace: The results of the "anti theft device" on Eddie's low riders, as Kurt found out

* BashBrothers: Art Barr, Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr., Chavo Guerrero Jr.

* BloodIsTheNewBlack: Taken UpToEleven at [[Wrestling/JudgmentDay Judgment Day 2004]].

* {{CatchPhrase}}
** ILied!
** ''Viva la raza!''

* CoolTeacher: He and Rey Misterio (the original, not the little successor Eddy feuded with) trained Wrestling/{{Konnan}}
* CrazyJealousGuy: He invaded the playboy mansion to try and stop the photo shoot his girlfriend, Chyna, was doing.
** YourCheatingHeart: Chyna broke up with him for showering with the Godfather's hos.
** GreenEyedMonster: Both of them when the other was Intercontinental Champion, though they had just gotten over it before Chyna found and broke up with him.
* ClusterFBomb: During the infamous Dominic-custody-ladder match with Rey Mysterio, Vickie missed her cue, causing Eddie to be yanked from the hanging belt and fall square on his leg, nearly blowing out his knee. Despite being a Born Again Christian at the time, you can hear Eddie going positively livid in the ring, swearing up a storm while holding his knee in obvious pain, and actually yells "FUCK HER!!!" at one point. Vickie, of course, is his wife.
-->''GODDAMMIT! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MOTHER! FUCK! ER!]] WHERE THE FUCK WAS VICKIE?! GODDAMMIT! FUCK HER!''

* [[LukeIAmYourFather Dominick, I'm your Papi]]: Towards the end of his feud with Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr in the WWE, Eddie revealed that he was the biological father of Rey's son Dominick. Anyone who has ever seen Rey without his mask knew that Dominic is the spitting image of his father, and this detail has never been mentioned since the end of the feud. This was probably one of the reasons the feud became so creepy, many fans just couldn't respond to it. It's not that they didn't care (they cared enough for it to be his most famous wrestle crap induction, prior to the stuff after his death).

** With Chris Benoit, in one of wrestling's most infamous examples. Chris [[DownerEnding pretty much lost it]] after Eddie died.

** Sunday Night Heat Jobber turned Mae Young Classic invite Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and OVW developmental talent Tracy Taylor used the Three Amigos (Amigas in the former's case)
** His widow, Vickie, also used her own variant at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} XXVI'', to a nice reception from the live audience. The internet audience were not so accepting of it unfortunately.

* [[ILied I Lied, Homes]]: Nobody ever seemed to catch on. At one point he told Batista he was giving up his cheating ways and even did resist the temptation to cheat several times despite ample opportunity to do so but then when Batista embraced him for keeping his word Eddie had an evil smirk behind his back and soon enough did go back to cheating. (Batista's part in the story never finished because Eddie died)
* ImportantHaircut: Around the time of his rise to the main event scene.

** Eddie-- along with Chris Benoit, Wrestling/PerrySaturn, and Dean Malenko-- were dubbed the "Vanilla Midgets" by Wrestling/KevinNash in Wrestling/{{WCW}} due to their supposed lack of both size and charisma. Due to this, they were never given a real push in the company. They jumped ship to Wrestling/{{WWE}} where both Benoit and Eddie became world champions and where Eddie showed he had enough charisma to fill a sports arena... which he often did.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Chris Benoit. Eddie's death is a big part of why Atlanta happened -- in the ensuing investigation, accounts by close friends and Benoit's own journals made it very clear that he never managed to move on from it.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: A ''legendary'' case was his Champion vs Championship match at the International Wrestling Cartel against CM Punk that went to a time limit draw with reset for overtime. The belt Eddie held was WWE's Intercontinental Championship and though they allowed Eddie to keep his date with the company (he had been fired but then they hired him back when he started wrestling for other companies) they refused to allow the match to be filmed, even with the promise Eddy wouldn't lose. This is worse in hindsight, as CM Punk would go on to be one of WWE's top stars, meaning not only could the IWC not make any additional money off of their match, ''WWE couldn't either''. True, Punk and Eddy had other matches, but not any like that one and WWE can't use that footage, not without paying for it anyway (nor can IWC). Sadly, Punk didn't arrive on WWE TV until after Eddie's death.

* [[MusclesAreMeaningful Prejudiced For Pecs]]: The reason he could not get a more prominent spot on WCW cards. He did a little better in [=McMahon Land=], where Eddie Guerrero was the first person of such a size and stature to win the WWE Championship and would pave way for the even smaller Rey Mysterio. More than anything this represents the ridiculous size escalation wrestlers went through that Wrestling/VinceMcMahon was largely responsible for. The very first American Heavyweight Champion, Evan Lewis(not the first man to hold the belt but the first to be considered a real "heavyweight"), was one inch taller and forty eight pounds lighter than the 228lbs Eddie! In fact, Eddie was only two pounds lighter than who was perhaps the first ''world'' champion, Wrestling/GeorgeHackenschmidt

** Sunday Night Heat Jobber turned Mae Yong Classic invite Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and OVW developmental talent Tracy Taylor used the Three Amigos (Amigas in the former's case)

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: A ''legendary'' case was his Champion vs Championship match at the International Wrestling Cartel against CM Punk that went to a time limit draw with reset for overtime. The belt Eddie held was WWE's Intercontinental Championship and though they allowed Eddie to keep his date with the company (he had been fired but then they hired him back when he started wrestling for other companies) they refused to allow the match to be filmed, even with the promise Eddy wouldn't lose. This is worse in hindsight, as CM Punk would go on to be one of WWE's top stars, meaning not only could the IWC not make any additional money off of their match, ''WWE couldn't either''. True, Punk and Eddy had other matches, but not any like that one and WWE can't use that footage, not without paying for it anyway (nor can IWC).

* TheRival: Besides the obvious, this Black Tiger was known for feuding with [[Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger Jushin Liger]] and [[Wrestling/ChrisBenoit Wild Pegasus]].

* {{Tweener}}: Initially what one would expect of his Smackdown run except that Eddie was far to over to be considered anything but a baby face, in spite of his antics. He later settled more into the role after the heel heat he gained from his feud with Rey Mysterio died down.

* BreakupBreakout: Whilst it's debatable whether Eddie or Chris Benoit was the first of the Radicals to find real singles success in WWE, Eddie was the first to be World Champion.[[note]]Benoit was the first to win singles gold (albeit 24 hours before Eddie) and the first to main event a pay per view; Eddie's initial singles run garnered more screen time than Benoit's, but Benoit received higher profile feuds. Outside the wrestling world, Benoit's death is far more recognized than Guerrero's so there's still that.[[/note]] Played perfectly straight with Eddie and Chavo, though the latter's been employed for a longer period of time.

* PrejudicedForPecs: The reason he could not get a more prominent spot on WCW cards. He did a little better in [=McMahon Land=], where Eddie Guerrero was the first person of such a size and stature to win the WWE Championship and would pave way for the even smaller Rey Mysterio. More than anything this represents the ridiculous size escalation wrestlers went through that Wrestling/VinceMcMahon was largely responsible for. The very first American Heavyweight Champion, Evan Lewis(not the first man to hold the belt but the first to be considered a real "heavyweight"), was one inch taller and forty eight pounds lighter than the 228lbs Eddie! In fact, Eddie was only two pounds lighter than who was perhaps the first ''world'' champion, Wrestling/GeorgeHackenschmidt
* RealSongThemeTune
** Los Gringos Locos in Wrestling/{{AAA}} used Music/VanHalen's "Jump"
** (in Wrestling/{{ECW}}): Music/PearlJam's "Animal" and Music/GunsNRoses' "Live and Let Die"
** (in Wrestling/RingOfHonor): Music/{{Santana}} featuring Music/RobThomas' "Smooth."

As usual, you can find the basics at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Guerrero The Other Wiki]].

* [[LukeIAmYourFather Dominick, I'm your Papi]]: Towards the end of his feud with Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr in the WWE, Eddie revealed that he was the biological father of Rey's son Dominick. Anyone who has ever seen Rey without his mask knew that Dominic is the spitting image of his father, and this detail has never been mentioned since the end of the feud. This was probably one of the reasons the feud became so creepy, many fans just couldn't respond to it. It's not that they didn't care (they cared enough for it to be his most famous wrestle crap induction, prior to the stuff after his death)

'''Eduardo Gory "Eddie" Guerrero Llanes''' (October 9, 1967 – November 13, 2005) was a Mexican-American {{professional wrestl|ing}}er and a member of the venerable Guerrero wrestling family. He started out his career in childhood, as he and his nephew Wrestling/{{Chavo|GuerreroJr}} were allowed by his father, legendary promoter Gory Guerrero, to wrestle matches during intermissions. From there, Eddie launched into the family business headfirst.

* FightingDirty: As a face, he makes it an art form that the audience supports. As his later ring entrances brings up, he is "honest" about it.

* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: Eddie was an effective enough cheater to win handicap matches with ease, even if it was against the tag team champion Basham Brothers.

Guerrero is fondly remembered to this day by fans as an excellent wrestler and a great human being.

* BittersweetEnding: Eddie had recently cleaned himself up off drugs and become a born-again religious man in an attempt to recover his life. [[https://youtu.be/G4xaB9YGYJU His last match]], against [[Wrestling/KenAnderson Mr. Kennedy]] on the ''[=SmackDown=]'' prior to his death, where he qualified for the ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries'' Match between ''[=SmackDown=]'' and ''Raw''. What makes it moreso is that Eddie used his famous winning trick: grab a chair while the ref's not looking, slam the chair against the canvas, toss it to his opponent, lie down, and get the other guy disqualified when the ref turns around. The scariest thing about the match was afterward, Eddie's last moments on WWE television, when Mr. Kennedy, after being disqualified for the above trick, hit Eddie in the head very hard with the chair, yelling for the referee to "Disqualify that!"

* BittersweetEnding: Eddie had recently cleaned himself up off drugs and become a born-again religious man in an attempt to recover his life. His last match, against [[Wrestling/KenAnderson Mr. Kennedy]] on the ''[=SmackDown=]'' prior to his death, where he qualified for the ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries'' Match between ''[=SmackDown=]'' and ''Raw''. What makes it moreso is that Eddie used his famous winning trick: grab a chair while the ref's not looking, slam the chair against the canvas, toss it to his opponent, lie down, and get the other guy disqualified when the ref turns around. The scariest thing about the match was afterward, Eddie's last moments on WWE television, when Mr. Kennedy, after being disqualified for the above trick, hit Eddie in the head very hard with the chair, yelling for the referee to "Disqualify that!"

** Sunday Night Heat Jobber Wrestling/MercedesMartinez and OVW developmental talent Tracy Taylor used the Three Amigos (Amigas in the former's case)

For the next two years, Eddie slowly climbed to the top of his profession, and at ''[[Wrestling/NoWayOut No Way Out 2004]]'', Eddie hit the top when he defeated Wrestling/BrockLesnar for the WWE Championship. He followed this up the next month at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 20'' by defeating Wrestling/KurtAngle to retain the title, then joined Wrestling/ChrisBenoit following HIS successful win of the World Heavyweight Championship in one of the most memorable images in wrestling history.

** In WWE, Wrestling/KurtAngle managed to be his nemesis both in the ring and as GM throughout Eddie's banner year of 2004.]

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Guerrero is Spanish for "Warrior". And it's actually his real name, too, unlike most wrestlers. After his father Salvador Quesada gained success as Gori Guerrero, all the man's sons have Guerrero in their names.

* BittersweetEnding
** Eddie's last match, against [[Wrestling/KenAnderson Mr. Kennedy]] on the ''[=SmackDown=]'' prior to his death, where he qualified for the ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries'' Match between ''[=SmackDown=]'' and ''Raw''. What makes it moreso is that Eddie used his famous winning trick: grab a chair while the ref's not looking, slam the chair against the canvas, toss it to his opponent, lie down, and get the other guy disqualified when the ref turns around.
** Eddie had recently cleaned himself up off drugs and become a born-again religious man in an attempt to recover his life.
** The scariest thing about the match was afterward, Eddie's last moments on WWE television, when Mr. Kennedy, after being disqualified for the above trick, hit Eddie in the head very hard with the chair, yelling for the referee to "Disqualify that!!"

* PrejudicedForPecs: The reason he could not get a more prominent spot on WCW cards. He did a little better in [=McMahon Land=], where Eddie Guerrero was the first person of such a size and stature to win the WWE Championship and would pave way for the even smaller Rey Mysterio. More than anything this represents this represents the ridiculous size escalation wrestlers went through that Wrestling/VinceMcMahon was largely responsible for. The very first American Heavyweight Champion, Evan Lewis(not the first man to hold the belt but the first to be considered a real "heavyweight"), was one inch taller and forty eight pounds lighter than the 228lbs Eddie! In fact, Eddie was only two pounds lighter than who was perhaps the first ''world'' champion, Wrestling/GeorgeHackenschmidt

* FranchiseZombie The "Eddiesploitation" mentioned above. When the exploitation of his death received the dubious Website/{{WrestleCrap}} Gooker award, this was part of the introduction:
-->''On the marquee of this site, it says, "The Very Worst of Professional Wrestling." Truly, this induction is the very embodiment of that tagline. The seemingly never ending exploitation of the late, great Eddie Guerrero is the absolute worst of pro wrestling, bar none.''

->"We don't ever get caught for nothing! You know why? Because we lie!"

* BloodIsTheNewBlack: Taken UpToEleven at Judgment Day 2004.

In November of 2005, Guerrero was closing in on another world title shot, and was scheduled to be a part of a Survivor Series Match featuring members of the ''[=SmackDown=]'' brand (which Eddie was a part of) going up against members of the ''Raw'' brand. Tragically, however, [[{{WhatCouldHaveBeen}} Guerrero died of heart failure two weeks prior to the event]]. The Monday and Friday following his death, WWE held two special tribute shows in the vein of the Wrestling/OwenHart tribute show a few years earlier, in which storylines were thrown out the window and matches were put on for the sake of tribute.

This would normally be the end of the story, but pro wrestling has a way of dragging things out well past their expiration date; [[CrossingTheLineTwice Eddie Guerrero was no different.]] Just weeks following his death, WWE began a campaign of what came to be known as "[[FanNickname Eddiesploitation]]", where Guerrero's name and legacy were used in the most tasteless ways possible - from Wrestling/RandyOrton telling Rey Mysterio that Eddie was "in hell" to Mysterio acting as if he were receiving heavenly assistance from Eddie's spirt to Eddie's widow Wrestling/VickieGuerrero becoming an on-screen character (who later grew into a surprisingly effective villainous manager/authority figure in her own right). Strangely, the "Eddiesploitation" period heavily pushed Rey Mysterio as Eddie's successor, while Chavo Guerrero was largely ignored. Website/{{WrestleCrap}} gave this exploitation its annual Gooker Award in 2006, with RD Reynolds famously stating that while it was a necessary evil due to the site's mission, the induction was "the hardest induction he'd ever had to write".

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