this is Mr. Perfect:
This is Paul Orndorff:
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.
It was a month after Lesnar got in the WWE . IT was on the way back from Insurrection. Hall and Mr Perfect were fired immediately after it, signalling the end of the WWE incarnation of the nWO. Mr Perfect had only been back in the WWE for about 3 months.
that's interesting...
lesnar doesn't strike me as the type.
He was one of those "My body is a temple" types as a wrestler in college...
LOL! An anniversary made memorable with ruined shorts for a souvenir! You brought back some memories of Southwest Championship Wrestling during the mid 1980s when I was stationed at Ft. Hood, traveling wherever possible to see these weird guys whose posters my barracks buddy literally covered the walls with. We saw all the Von Erichs, the Sheepherders (pre-Bushwackers they were drunk, vicious and fined a lot for seriously injuring people), Exotic Adrian Street and his valet Ms. Linda, The Bull Manny Fernandez, the Missing Link, "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, the Fabulous Freebirds, "Mad Dog" Buzz Sawyer, Tommy Rich, the Minnesota Wrecking Crew, Mil Mascaras, Tully Blanchard before he teamed up with Arn Anderson, Cowboy Scott Casey (who got his leg broken in two places by the Sheepherders right in front of me - sick), Eric Embry, Terry Allen (who went on to become Magnum TA), Eddie Gilbert, your acquaintance Kamala and some upstart named Rick Rude.
In the last twenty years about 20 to 25% of those guys have passed away. It's a hard lifestyle.
Can't remember Mr. Perfect, is that Paul Orndorf?
I live in California and have had quite enough of La Raza, so God Bless America. Prayers for the Guerrrero family. I thought he was a great wrestler as well.
Yep, Mr. Perfect has some phisical problem and played the part of a manager in the ring about the time he died.
Probably steroids and other drugs got him also.
I forgot the exact cause of death, but Mr. Perfect was a young guy as well.
Mr. Pefect was in his 40s and it was a heart Attack with coke.
you can never tell with wrestlers, but I won't assume anything until the autopsy comes out.
I'm in Ohio :)
you too.....have fun :)
yes it is amazing there haven't been more in-ring fatalities, but these guys still get torn up.
Old Guys like the Undertaker need to take 3 or 4 months off per year to heal anymore.
I wish to extend my heartfelt condolences to Eddie's wife Vickie, his children, and the rest of the Guerrero Family. I loved watching Eddie perform, and his antics in the ring made me laugh alot, as well as him amazing me with his ring savvy. I have been a wrestiling fan for many years, and "Latino Heat" was one of my favorites. I am just wondering how his last opponent on SmackDown feels about this event. I hope and pray that it wasn't a brain bleed that caused Eddie's untimely demise. I know that the LOrd has a place already in HEaven for Eddie, and he will be watching over his loved ones, and the business he loved so very much. My prayers are with the Guerrero Family, and his WWE Family. "Viva La Raza", and God Bless you and yours Eddie Guerrero!!
I guess I'm an animal......WHAT does that make YOU??? Eddie Guerrero gave his life to and for the wrestling business, and you are VERY insensitive for making that comment!!! Let the Eddie Guerrero rest in peace!!! HE fought the good fight against his own personal demons, and doesn't need someone like you making cracks about the business he loved so much!!!
I remember watching the old Houston Wresting with Paul Boesch.
One thing that they did back in those days was carry a small razor into the ring so at the proper time they could cut their own forehead. Blood a plenty. Up close their foreheads were terribly scarred, thick and rough.
Jose Lothario, Mil Mascaras, Ernie Ladd (a hero in his hometown of Houston, a mega-heel everywhere else), the Funks, and the Briscos. Other stars who came into the area were Brute Bernard, Harley Race, the evil Playboy Gary Hart, Red Bastien, Ivan Putski, Superstar Billy Graham, the late, great Gino Hernandez, Andre, Tony Atlas and Al "don't call me a Mexican, I'm an Indian" Madril.
The Sam Houston Coliseum was a dark, smelly old municipal building in downtown Houston used mostly religious revivals, second rate circuses, and pro wrestling. I never got to visit as my parents didn't care that it would be the ultimate birthday or Christmas present. They continued to give me socks and crap like that.
Once back in the mid 1940's my Grandfather was paid to saw a board under the ring partially in two so the ring would break at some time. I don't know anything else about this as he died a few months before I was born.
I once saw Jose Lothario at Memorial City Mall. Barrel chest and bird-legs. Nick Kozak owned a wrecker company named Kozaks Towing. He had one beat up truck and he was the only employee. That was sad.
The Mexican wrestlers started wearing masks so that they could wrestle night after night under different names. If memory serves Spoiler I (one) was among the first Americans to wear a mask. I never found out why.
I remember Ivan Putski tearing license plates in half. I found out that it wasn't a trick that he was just that strong.
Oh the memories!!
isthisnickcool didn't make the italicized comment.
He was addressing the nasty comment.
anthraciterabbit made the nasty comment.
Plus Nick has been here 5 years and this is your first day.
Learn your way around or you won't be around long.
Hey Darks, we may have one right up your ally!!
slow WAY the hell down here.....
nick didn't make the comment.
Please read before you flame. It will make your life much easier around FR....ok?
Howdy Mike!
Looks like a two poster too.
Oh well..............
Eddie didn't need them to get praise here. I didn't like the La Raza junk, but he also didn't consult with me.
Take care!
yeah...
I don't pay attention to whatever goes on in their show. It's all schtick.
Very little on TV or the movies is real.
The actors involved were real.
I no longer watch wrestling. I don't pay $10.00 to see a movie either.
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