History Wrestling / EddieGuerrero

For the next two years, Eddie slowly climbed to the top of his profession, and at ''[[Wrestling/NoWayOutWWE 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.

* DirtyCoward

* LukeIAmYourFather: Towards the end of his feud with Rey Mysterio in the WWE, Eddie revealed that he was the biological father of Rey's son Wrestling/DominikMysterio. Anyone who has ever seen Rey without his mask knew that Dominik 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). Ironically, this ended up great fodder for Rey's own feud with Dominik eighteen years later, after Dominik turned on Rey and made a FaceHeelTurn. He managed to generate great heat from the crowd by antagonizing Rey via claiming that Eddie ''should've been'' his father.

Over the next year-and-a-half, Eddie's career fluctuated from high to low: he helped build the credibility of Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield as a world champion over the summer of 2004, but he was also involved in one of the most tasteless and Website/{{WrestleCrap}}-worthy feuds of all time as he feuded with Rey Mysterio over the custody of Mysterio's son Wrestling/DominikMysterio (who, kayfabe, was revealed to actually be the biological son of Guerrero).

* [[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.

* ThreeAmigos: His name for his sequence of three consecutive vertical suplexes.

Over the next year-and-a-half, Eddie's career fluctuated from high to low: he helped build the credibility of Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield as a world champion over the summer of 2004, but he was also involved in one of the most tasteless and Website/{{WrestleCrap}}-worthy feuds of all time as he feuded with Rey Mysterio over the custody of Mysterio's son Dominick (who, kayfabe, was revealed to actually be the biological son of Guerrero).

* ClusterFBomb: During the infamous Dominick-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.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Towards the end of his feud with Rey Mysterio 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 Dominick 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). Ironically, this ended up great fodder for Rey's own feud with Dominick eighteen years later, after Dominick turned on Rey and made a FaceHeelTurn. He managed to generate great heat from the crowd by antagonizing Rey via claiming that Eddie ''should've been'' his father.

* 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.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Towards the end of his feud with Rey Mysterio 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).

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 later 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".

* WakeUpCall: Eddie Guerrero's loss to Super Crazy at ''The Era Of Honor'' begins was only his second loss since returning to the independent circuit and only his first loss of that year. However, it was also the first loss Guerrero had to someone he thought he knew for sure he was better than, which caused him to become introspective and consider if he could needed to seriously improve as a pro wrestler or had simply lost that much or had perhaps gotten rusty.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Guerrero is Spanish for "Warrior". And it's actually his real name, too, unlike most wrestlers.

* WakeUpCall: Eddie Guerrero's loss to Super Crazy at ''The Era Of Honor'' begins was only his second loss since returning to the independent circuit and only his first loss of that year. However, it was also the first loss Guerrero had to someone he thought he knew fore sure he was better than, which caused him to become introspective and consider if he could needed to seriously improve as a pro wrestler or had simply lost that much or had perhaps gotten rusty.

* WorthyOpponent: He had a sort of respect for Rey Mysterio Jr. and John Bradshaw Layfield, despite having wrestled a multitude of matches with the two.

** IdiotBall: You'd think, after a while, refs would get wise to this trick and call him on it but it usually worked right up to his last match.
*** You're expecting ''refs'' [[EasilyDistractedReferee to get wise to ANYTHING]]?! Are you a wrestling fan or not?..well, they did start to get wise right up until WWE realized the crowd ''liked'' Eddie cheating and the refs went back to being utterly clueless.
** This is how he retained the WWE title from Kurt Angle at Wrestlemania XX.

* ActionDad: Eddie had three daughters; two with his wife Vickie and one child out of wedlock.

* BloodIsTheNewBlack: Taken UpToEleven at ''Wrestling/JudgmentDay 2004'' after a brutal showdown with [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]].

** Sample lyrics from Los Guerreros theme, ''Viva La Raza'': "We can't be beat/Comin' from the streets of the ghetto/At the end of the week/We get to keep your ''dinero''/You're fast asleep when we sneak in your ''casa''/Your life sucks 'cause you're bankrupt and we laughin'/You can't trust us, ''ese'', 'cause we ''Latin''!"(''Can You Feel The Heat'' [[UpToEleven is worse]])

* AntiHero: To NominalHero levels, or would be if wrestling ever claimed to work on that kind of morality. Eddie was a dirty cheater who used various tricks to win his matches, including [[GlassJawReferee harming innocent referees]]. He was cheered for, so he was a face.

* WorthyOpponent: Rey Mysterio Jr. and John Bradshaw Layfield.

* 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.

* 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 (one of which is [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]]), leading to her walking out on him.

* DomesticAbuse: When playing a Heel. He was verbally and emotionally abusive towards 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".

For the next two years, Eddie slowly climbed to the top of his profession, and at ''[[Wrestling/NoWayOutWrestling 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.

* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: In his book, there are only two people he has any negative things to say. One of them is Wrestling/KevinNash, who he describes as one of the most arrogant people he had the displeasure of knowing and truly feels that he is evil. Not helping that Nash stated that him and Chris Benoit becoming world champions in 2004 was [[JumpedTheShark the moment wrestling died for him]].