Full
name: Eduardo Gory Guerrero Llanes.
Born: October 9, 1967 in Juarez,
Mexico
Died: November 13, 2005 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota
Height: 5’8" ((173 cm)
Weight: 220 lbs. (100Kg)
Finishing move: Frog Splash, Lasso
from El Paso.
Aliases/Nicknamess: Latino Heat,
Black Tiger, Mascara Magica Career highlights:
1. WWE Champio defeated Brock Lesnar at No Way
Out on February 15, 2004);
2. WWE Tag Team Titles (3 times);
3. WWE Intercontinental title (2 times);
4. WWE United States Title (defeated Chris Benoit
in tournament final at Vengeance 2003);
5. WWE European Title (2 times);
6. WCW United States Title,
7. WCW Cruiserweight Title,
8. ECW Television Title (2 times)
Early Career:
Eddie Guerrero is a professional wrestler performing
for World Wrestling Entertainment on the Smackdown!
brand. He comes from a legendary wrestling family.
His late father, Gory Guerrero, is considered
one of the greatest wrestlers in Mexican history.
His three brothers Chavo Guerrero, Hector Guerrero
and Mando Guerrero all followed in their father's
footsteps and became professional wrestlers. Guerrero's
nephew, Chavo Guerrero, Jr. also became a wrestler.
Guerrero's uncle Enrique Llanes and cousin Javier
Llanes are popular wrestlers in Mexico.
Eddie wrestled mainly for Asistencia Asesoria
y Administracion (AAA) in Mexico, teaming with
Art Barr forming the tag team Los Gringos Locos.
They became the most hated team in lucha libre
history. They were noticed in late 1994 by the
owner of Extreme Championship Wrestling, Paul
Heyman, and were to wrestle for him in 1995. Sadly,
Art Barr died before he could join ECW with Eddie.
Successes:
While in ECW, Eddie won the ECW World Television
Title right away. He also had a series of excellent
matches with Dean Malenko before they both jumped
to World Championship Wrestling later that year.
In WCW, he found considerable singles success,
winning the United States Heavyweight title in
late 1996 and two World Cruiserweight titles in
1997. He was involved in a serious car accident
in 1997 that almost cost him his life, but returned
to the ring a few months afterwards. He turned
heel in 1998, a role which he is best at, judging
from his days in AAA in Mexico. Around this time,
he became unhappy with WCW management and jumped
to the then-WWF in 2000, with Chris Benoit, Dean
Malenko, and Perry Saturn.
In WWE, he has been fairly successful, spending
time as both a heel and a babyface. But by this
time, he developed an addiction to pain medication
stemming from his 1997 car accident and was briefly
released to enter rehabilitation. He would return
several months later back in his old form.
Starting in the summer of 2003, he 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 won his first WWE Championship at WWE's
No Way Out pay per view on February 15, 2004,
defeating Brock Lesnar. He also has enjoyed success
as both a singles and tag team superstar being,
at one time in 2003, both the WWE United States
and WWE Tag Team Champion simutaneously.
Throughout his career, Guerrero encountered various
substance abuse problems 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, Guerrero
managed to be extremely popular, winning numerous
titles during his career, including the WWE Championship.
Guerrero became a born again Christian in 2002.
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