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Posted on 11/13/2005 9:29:17 AM PST by Sir Gawain
WWE reports Eddie Guerrero found dead
By COREY DAVID LACROIX -- SLAM! Wrestling
WWE.com is reporting today that Eddie Guerrero was found dead this morning in his hotel room in Minneapolis, MN.
No cause of death has been reported, Guerrero is survived by his wife Vickie and two daughters.
Guerrero had an absolutely stellar wrestling career, marked by his ability to deliver athletically competent, emotional, and ultimately awe inspiring performances in the ring. At the same time, it seemed he was constantly fending off his own personal demons in the form of alcohol and drug dependency. Those struggles were immortalized in the released DVD Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story.
SLAM! Wrestling will have more as this story develops.
My love of pro wrestling dates back to when I saw my first match on UHF tv, spanish-speaking tv in nyc in 1975. I was 7, and the WWE was called the WWWF at the time.
Though it wasn't exactly to my taste, I stuck around through the national expansion of the then WWF in the 1980s. I stuck around past 2000 and to see McMahon buy WCW and win the wrestling war. It's just not the same anymore - the humor isn't that funny, the personalities are dull, and the matches don't tell varied stories anymore, though the level of athletecism is many times greater.
And yes, my screen name is indeed a reference to the last good guy pro wrestler I liked, Bret Hart. Though even as a kid, I always favored the 'heels.' :-)
Hate to see him go. Too bad my last memory of him is his framing Mr. Kennedy (who I wanted to win).
Superstar Graham was on the Wrestling Observer radio show this past hour, and suggested that the cause of death may relate back to a very stiff chair shot Eddie took last Tuesday at the WWE Smackdown tv tapings in a match against Ken Kennedy.
It's too early to tell and frankly, I'm annoyed that Graham would spread an inflamatory rumor like that without any real evidence. Another thing, Graham strangely comes across as if he is making a wrestling promo, even though he was speaking sincerely. Just strange.
His comment has been removed, but it looks like his keyword addition remains.
Thanks for the link...
As I have posted, I have been a wrestling fan for decades...
And Eddie was one of the very best grapplers and performers.
It was great to see Rowdy Roddy Piper in the ring recently with Eddie and Eddie patting Roddy on the back, considering the "fued" between Roddy and the Guerrero family from the 80's!
That would be Da Crusher, the man who made Milwaukee famous; though in his case, it was more old age than anything else - Reggie Lisowski was 79 when he passed away.
I've been a fan since 1975, at the tender age of 7, watching WWWF broadcasts on snowy UHF channels. It has never been as cool as it was back then!
It is an accomplishment. It means the business believes you are the top person at the time to bring in crowds and sell products.
What ever happened to Stone Cold? (I haven't watched wrestling since the WCW went away).
My favorite "Gertnerisms":
"Well well well. Welfare recipients and homeless vagabonds of Asbury Park, NJ and to the thousands upon thousands watching me coast to coaston pay-per-view. At this time allow me to introduce (as if you could possibly stop me) the contingent, the masters of the three-way-dance. In the ring at this time he is the most outspoken commodity in ECW, he is the voice of a generation and the silence behind the violence, Sign Guy Dudley."
"And then there's me, I'm like milk, I do a body good, the Quintessential Studmuffin, the man who's wit is more tongue in cheek than a lesbian orgy, Joel Your Girlfriend Has Me On Her Speed Dial Because She Likes the Way I Star 69 Her Gertner"
"Joel " The girls like to call me Fred Flinstone because they love the way I make there BED ROCK" Gertner"
"And there's me, Joel, the biggest ladykiller in Buffalo since O.J. Simpson, Gertner."
"Well, well, well if you got an hour, I've got the power. Joel 'You can't have your pudding if you don't eat your meat' Gertner."
"The quintessential muffstuffer opps I mean studdmuffin "Just like the Rubix Cube, the more you play with it, the harder it gets"
"Joel "Harder than the tree that hit Sonny Bono" Gertner"
"Joel "Bigger and better than the Titanic, because only 400 women went down on the Titanic" Gertner"
"Also in the ring at this time, standing before me and intimidating the masses. From the twisted steel section of Dudleyville, 25 and 3/8 inches of the largest arms in the world attached to the man who last night took such liberties with your mother that he is now recognized as your father in 17 states, the gargantuan who is known as Big Dick Dudley."
"It is rich marvelous I, The Quintessential Studmuffin Joel "The skinless bananna in your tropical fruit salad of love" Gertner"
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Head Butt.... Snork!
What a man!!!
They didn't do the 3-way title match tonight. Wait till next week and see what happens.
I took my son to see a Smackdown show last weekend. He loved Eddie.
Viva La Raza
That's what I read. Reading the after report on one site, I think I will remember to watch Smackdown this week
Sorry, your analogy is flawed. The text of the article is comparable to "Elijah Wood reached the pinnacle of his career by starring in the LOTR movies."
i recently read that Superstar Graham is going to be officiating at Eddie's funeral.
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