History Wrestling / EddieGuerrero

* SkunkStripe: His final hairstyle was blonde highlights.

(A little note: Eddie was the youngest of four brothers. So young, his nephew Chavo is only three years younger than him.)

** For most of his career, Eddie's was either Rey Mysterio Jr. or Dean Malenko.

* BashBrothers: Art Barr, Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr, Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr

* CrazyJealousGuy: He invaded the Playboy mansion to try to stop the photo shoot that his girlfriend Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was doing.

* {{Determinator}}: At ''Judgment Day 2004'', Eddie and Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield had both got cut open during their WWE Championship match, yet they simply kept coming after each other. Eddie's literal crimson mask redefined the Muta Scale that night. As JBL recalled later, "I've been in car wrecks that were less painful than that match!"

* DomesticAbuse: When playing a Heel. He was verbally and emotionally abusive towards Wrestling/{{Chyna}} when the two of them were kayfabe-dating in 2000, escalating to him assaulting her friends and eventually cheating on her. During a face-off with The Rock two years later, he also says that he became furious with his daughters when he found out that they had a poster of The Rock next to one of their father, and that he tore it up and burned it in a rage over their cries "to discipline them" because he thought they weren't showing their father the respect he felt he deserved, causing Rock to call him a "sick psychopathic freak".

* EvilGenius: In what sadly turned out to be his last match, on the November 11th (taped November 8th), 2005 ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'', he defeated [[Wrestling/KenAnderson Mr. Kennedy]] by disqualification with his "chair fake" routine.

* 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.

** Eddie-- along with Chris Benoit, Wrestling/PerrySaturn, and Wrestling/DeanMalenko-- 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 that he had enough charisma to fill a sports arena... which he often did.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Wrestling/ChrisBenoit. 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.

* LukeIAmYourFather: 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).

* OppositesAttract: His on-screen romance with ''Wrestling/{{Chyna}}!''

** The Filthy Animals in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, with Rey, Wrestling/{{Konnan}}, Wrestling/BillyKidman and Wrestling/TorrieWilson.

* PresentAbsence: His legacy is still felt in the WWE even nearly two decades after his death. Immediately following his demise, WWE launched a wellness program for their talents to ensure they are systematically clean. Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}}'s main event push and subsequent storylines revolve around him, his other good friend Wrestling/ChrisBenoit's MurderSuicide is partly fuelled by Benoit's depression over Eddie's death, and his wife Wrestling/{{Vickie|Guerrero}} became a prominent figure for the next decade following his death. A lot of WWE's prominent wrestlers during TheNewTens are also inspired by Eddie, notably Wrestling/SashaBanks and first female Triple Crown and Wrestling/GrandSlamChampion Wrestling/{{Bayley}}.

** Black Tiger won the most points in block B New Japan's ''Best Of The Super Junior III'' round robin with ten, tying with El Samurai and Wild Pegasus, who each got ten points in block A. This lead to a short knockout tournament between the three of them and runner up with 8 points in Block B [[Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger Jushin Liger]], with Black Tiger beating Jushin Liger in the final match.

* VillainousBreakdown: When Eddie turned heel in the spring of 2005 because of his massive jealousy of Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr, the MoodWhiplash from his "Hispanic cool dude" act to that of a raving lunatic was truly something to behold. Eddie's psychotic rages during this period would have to make the list if one were to catalog the most disturbing gimmicks in wrestling.

* BashBrothers: Art Barr, Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr., Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr.

* BastardBoyfriend: With Wrestling/{{Chyna}} in the Attitude Era. At first, they seem genuinely in love with one another, but after Chyna wins the Intercontinental Title things turn sour as Eddie plays a BadSamaritan and steals it from her under the guise of a hug when she's knocked out by Kurt Angle during a Triple Threat match, then becomes increasingly angry, controlling and abusive to her once she starts to suspect what really happened, attacking her friends, feigning illness, manipulating her through a marriage proposal, and eventually cheating on her with the Godfathers' former hoes, leading to her walking out on him.

* VitriolicBestBuds: He and Rey Mysterio Jr have been portrayed as [[ArchEnemy worse of enemies]] and [[HeterosexualLifePartners best of friends]]

Guerrero wrestled around the world for the next few years, traveling both to Japan (where he met up with Wrestling/ChrisBenoit and Wrestling/DeanMalenko) and Wrestling/{{ECW}}, where he started to gain a foothold in the American wrestling industry. When he arrived in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Guerrero was made a part of the promotion's now-legendary Cruiserweight division, delivering solid matches with just about everyone he faced (including longtime friend Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr). It was in WCW that the seeds were sown for Guerrero's "Lie Cheat and Steal" gimmick, as he pushed Chavo (who had also signed with WCW) into believing the mantra "Cheat 2 Win" (going so far as to force an unwilling Chavo to wear a shirt with the saying).

In 2001, Guerrero was released from the company after an arrest for drunk driving, which happened following his being sent to rehab months earlier. Facing the loss of his career and possibly his family, Eddie started at rock bottom and worked his way back up. Eddie cleaned himself up and spent the first few months of 2002 wrestling for independent promotions (including the debut show of Wrestling/RingOfHonor) before returning to WWE in April of 2002; by then, his nephew Chavo had signed with the company, and the two became a tag team, banking on Eddie's old "Cheat 2 Win" gimmick in WCW and turning it into their gimmick ("We lie, we cheat, and we steal...but [[AtLeastIAdmitIt at least we're honest about it]]"). "Lie, Cheat, and Steal" became part of Eddie's repetoire for the remainder of his career, whether he was a face or a heel.

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: He repeatedly lied, cheated, and steal during his heyday. And he admitted them unapologetically.

* CardCarryingVillain: To quote the ''Cheating Death, Stealing Life'' DVD, "I lie, I cheat, I steal, but hey-- at least I'm honest about it."

** ILied!
** ''Viva la raza!''
* CheapHeat: Eddie got in trouble during a WWE live event in Deutschland, where he responded to unexpected booing by screaming "Germany Sucks!" Of course, in news media this was almost completely overshadowed by JBL goose stepping around the ring and waving the Nazi salute.

* BadassBeard: Or goatee. It depends.

** The Frogsplash became Eddie's signature move, but it was his partner Art Barr who originally used the move; when Barr died, Eddie started using the move in tribute to his partner.

** The FrogSplash became Eddie's signature move, but it was his partner Art Barr who originally used the move; when Barr died, Eddie started using the move in tribute to his partner.

* EvilGenius: In what sadly turned out to be his last match, on the November 11th (taped November 8th), 2005 ''Wrestling/{{WWESmackDown}}'', he defeated [[Wrestling/KenAnderson Mr. Kennedy]] by disqualification with his "chair fake" routine.

** The Frogsplash became Eddie's signature move, but it was his partner Art Barr who originally used the move; when Barr died, Eddie started using the move in tribute to his partner.

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

* 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, [[WoundedGazelleGambit 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!"

* CardCarryingVillain: To quote the ''Cheating Death, Stealing Life'' DVD, "I lie, I cheat, I steal, but hey - at least I'm honest about it."

* ColorCharacter[=/=]CoolMask: As Black Tiger

* CompanionCube: After ripping of Rey Mysterio's mask, Eddie would talk to it as if it were Rey Mysterio and force other people to wear it, then act is if ''they'' were Rey Mysterio.

* 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, Wrestling/{{Chyna}}, was doing.

* {{Determinator}}: At ''Judgment Day 2004'' Eddie and Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield had both got cut open during their WWE Championship match yet they simply kept coming after each other. Eddie's literal crimson mask redefined the Muta Scale that night. As JBL recalled later, "I've been in car wrecks that were less painful than that match!"

* DomesticAbuse: When playing a Heel. He verbally and emotionally abusive towards Wrestling/{{Chyna}} when the two of them were kayfabe-dating in the year 2000, escalating to him assaulting her friends and eventually cheating on her. During a face-off with The Rock two years later, he also says that he became furious with his daughters when he found out they had a poster of The Rock next to one of their father, and that he tore it up and burn it in a rage over their cries "to discipline them" because he thought they weren't showing their father the respect he felt he deserved, causing Rock to call him a "sick psychopathic freak".

* DyingAsYourself: Even though the damage he had done to his body was what eventually killed him, he had by then managed to clean himself up, and didnt end up dying from an overdose like his less fortunate contemporaries Wrestling/{{Test}} or Wrestling/BamBamBigelow.

* FiveMovesOfDoom: Spinning headscissors, three amigos, lasso from El Passo or Frog Splash.

** The Black Tiger Bomb, which was practically a contractual obligation with that gimmick

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

** Eddie also used an elevated cloverleaf called the "Lasso from El Paso" and it was also used in tribute by some WWE wrestlers ([[Wrestling/IvelisseVelez Sofia Cortez]])

* ILied: Nobody ever seemed to catch on. At one point, following the feud with Rey Mysterio where he'd gone off the rails, 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. Soon enough did go back to cheating, particularly in the charismatic "Viva la Raza" way that he was known for in the past, charming Batista himself into going along with it. This was obviously meant to end in Eddie suckering Batista in a long game to continue their feud for the title, but this never played out fully because Eddie died three weeks in.

** Eddie-- along with Chris Benoit, Wrestling/PerrySaturn, and Wrestling/DeanMalenko-- 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.
** A prime example of this ideology in WCW pops up in one match Eddie had against Chris Benoit. It was an incredibly solid match and the crowd was behind them, but the commentators spent the entire match talking about Kevin Nash and Hulk Hogan, and barely commentated on the action in the ring. But that was typical of WCW during the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]] era.
* {{Jobber}}: His WCW appearances up until 1996 Starrcade when he competed for and won the United States Championship or in other words, for seven years! Good thing for him most of those were dark matches.

* AntiHero: To NominalHero levels, or would be if wrestling ever claimed to work on that kind of morality. He was cheered for so he was a face.

* [[NWordPrivileges S Word Privileges]]: Let's face it: no non-Hispanic Superstar could have gotten away with exploiting all the worst cultural stereotypes for all they were worth. To quote one of his entrance themes: "You wanna be Latino? If you're not cheating, you're not trying!"

* CoolCar: Eddie loved his low riders. He was bringing out a new one, usually a convertible with hydraulics, nearly every week for a while. Sometimes he even got a CoolCar-intro at "dark" shows (wrestling matches that were not filmed for broadcast).

* CoolCar: Eddie loved his lowriders. He was bringing out a new one, usually a convertible with hydraulics, nearly every week for a while. Sometimes he even got a CoolCar-intro at "dark" shows (wrestling matches that were not filmed for broadcast).

* CoolCar: He was bringing out a new one, usually a convertible with hydraulics, nearly every week for a while. Sometimes he even got a CoolCar-intro at "dark" shows (wrestling matches that were not filmed for broadcast).

** YourCheatingHeart: Chyna broke up with him for showering with the Godfather's hos.

Guerrero wrestled around the world for the next few years, traveling both to Japan (where he met up with Wrestling/ChrisBenoit and Wrestling/DeanMalenko) and Wrestling/{{ECW}}, where he started to gain a foothold in the American wrestling industry. When he arrived in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Guerrero was made a part of the promotion's now-legendary Cruiserweight division, delivering solid matches with just about everyone he faced (including longtime friend Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr.). It was in WCW that the seeds were sown for Guerrero's "Lie Cheat and Steal" gimmick, as he pushed Chavo (who had also signed with WCW) into believing the mantra "Cheat 2 Win" (going so far as to force an unwilling Chavo to wear a shirt with the saying).

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's name 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 (Chavo lated revealed that he was originally offered the push, but he refused, so it went to Eddie's friend Mysterio). 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".

-->One woman isn't enough for me, amigo.