WWE's Eddie Guerrero found dead

[kane2k4]

I just got around the net today, and I read Eddie Guerrero died today. He was 38 years old. He will truly be missed.

 

[Low_Roads]

What a shocker. Yes, he will indeed be missed. He was a real personality in the ring, whether playing hero or bad guy.

PS: I'm not having much luck finding any articles about this. If you have references could you add the links please? I'm most interested in learning more.

 

[Spider-Man]

I was really shock to hear about this. Eddie is one of my favorite wrestlers. And plus off the ring Eddie been through alot. He've been through hell and back. When I heard this from one of my friends I thought it was a very sick joke at first. Then I went to the wwe.com and found out the awful truth. He'll definetely going to be miss. His performance in the ring is awesome and very entertaining.

RIP

Eddie Guerrero

 

[Neutron]

Just Another Druggie..

Going to hell.

I think this should link you to the WWE press conference.

http://sportswrath.com/index.php?showtopic=4789

Look about towards the end of the page. There's a link that says Here Ya go Wiz.

That link should take you to the WWE Press conference,

 

[Ultraticklish1]

I just found out like thirty minutes ago, I was so damn shocked I almost cried. Three daughters, jesus christ. I'm gonna miss him, VIVA LA RAZA

 

[Goodieluver]

Now im waiting for vince to find a way to exploit eddie's death for ratings

He did it for brian pillman

But this is sad news

 

[4stringslinga]

R.I.P. Eddie, another damn good wrestler dead. I just hope vince doesn't exploit it, but vince is an asshole and i wouldn't put him past him. Either way I will miss Eddie!

 

[Goodieluver]

Vince exploited flyin brian pillmans death, which is what officially turned me off from wwf and had me go to wcw.

Odds are he probably died of something drug related, most likely HGH usage, most wrestlers take that hormone to beef up and stay in decent health, its what killed pillman and louie spiccoli and others. Enlarged hearts due to HGH

Amazing how he could total his car in texas, get thrown out his sun roof and survive and then he dies like this

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

this is very sad news as there will be no more eddie chants in the buildings anymoe. what the hollywood brother do not get is why are the old timers like piper nad flair who drink heavily around and the younger blokes all dying off

 

[Budweiserbob!]

:'(

I truly loved Eddie, not just as a wrestler but as a person overall.

He always brought entertainment to the ring but not anymore. 🙁

R.I.P Eddie Guerrero

 

[Goodieluver]

this is very sad news as there will be no more eddie chants in the buildings anymoe. what the hollywood brother do not get is why are the old timers like piper nad flair who drink heavily around and the younger blokes all dying off

To be honest, the older guys never went thru the stuff the younger guys are doin. Yea, they had the steroid and heroin problems in the 80-90's but the young guys were doin HGH and all kinds of supplements to keep goin. Plus the owners dont care if you get hurt or not, if you miss any time, u risk losing your job

 

[TheChameleon]

Eddie will be missed. I don't know what else to say.

 

[eviltickler20]

Viva Latino Heat!

The autopsy report is in!

After the untimely passing of Eddie Guerrero, WWE and the entire sports-entertainment community is still reeling from the devastating loss of a champion. The initial autopsy reports on Guerrero have come in. WWE.com spoke with Eddie’s widow, Vickie Guerrero, earlier today.

“It was heart failure. It was from his past – the drinking and the drug abuse. They found signs of heart disease. She (the examiner) said that the blood vessels were very worn and narrow, and that just showed all the abuse from the scheduling of work and his past. And Eddie just worked out like crazy all the time. It made his heart grow bigger and work harder and the vessels were getting smaller, and that’s what caused the heart failure. He went into a deep sleep.

As soon as they saw his heart, they saw the lining of his heart already had the heart disease. There was no trauma, and Eddie hadn’t hurt himself in any way. It answered a lot of questions. I knew Eddie wasn’t feeling very good for the last week. He was home and kept saying he wasn’t feeling good and we thought it was just “road tired.” So we thought he just had to rest. It answered a lot of my questions, too, because he was just so exhausted. She said it was normal because the heart was working so hard.

When he didn’t call me last night and the night before I knew it was for real, because he would call me every night. I miss his phone calls. I cried through the whole thing (last night).

I loved his laugh. His laugh was the best.

We just celebrated his four-year sobriety last Thursday. We just thought we had life by the handful. We thought we had it all figured out. He worked so hard to make a better life for us.

I’m just overwhelmed by how people are coming out. It’s touched my heart a lot.

Everybody was just in awe last night in how beautifully everything was put together.

All my life was wrestling. All he did was take care of them and live for that. And I don’t know what to do now.”

This is direct from wwe.com

BTW, if anyone saw the dvd on his life, he said something like "if they hadn't found me, I'd be dead in a hotel room today." He was referring to his past with drugs/alcohol. Eerie coincidence, isn't it. :amazed:

 

[4stringslinga]

Well i have to say i loved the tribute show they did. I was fine until i saw Chris Benoit, man that made me tear up even though i don't personally know any of these guys.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

the hollywood brother loved the tribute show even if it did remind him of owen hart tribute show. The hollywood brother loved the eddie clips and also some of the cool t- shirts that eddie sold over the years. he was a very talented man and whether you like or hate wrestling, you got to give latino heat credit for what he did every night of the year no matter what

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

This is fresh news to me, and its sad and unfortunate. God rest his soul.

It's also unfortunate that another wrestler's life is claimed in this way. While I'm sure that many people, fans particularly, never thought of the possibility that he'd die unexpectedly, many people would know to have expected it as a possibility, in retrospect.

In retrospect, this is one of the ugly sides of the business, where wrestlers become addicts or are already addicts coming in. The sad fact is that Vince McMahon pushes his talent to be bigger, stronger, and faster. It wasn't terribly long ago that McMahon was on trial for allegedly pushing roids and other unnatural and harmful drugs on his boys in order to enhance their in-ring performance.

While these choices were made by no one but Guerrero in the end, the temptation IS in the business as a backstage, behind the curtain evil which is driving these men to early retirement, illness, and even death. It needs to stop, but I doubt it will.

Whats particularly sad about this case is that Guerrero was in his prime. If this had happened to someone like Ric Flair, or one of the older hall-of-famers, God forbid, it wouldn't be as shocking. But then this just goes to demonstrate how deadly these drugs can be, and cases like these are a testament to the self-destruction of the drugs themselves.

Its no secret that Eddie Guerrero was on something, possibly speed. In early 2003, he gained an unnatural ammount of mass and muscles, and all of the physical, visual symptoms of drug use were present, even in his in-ring performances. Such symtoms as acne (on his back and chest), volital mood-swings, excessive persperation, etc., were present.

When he said that he beat his addictions, it had showed. His mass had gone down a bit, the acne wasn't there, and he seemed more calm and subdued (excluding the persona of his character on the mic, which calls on him to be volital and angry). Because of this gimmick, it was often hard for the fans to tell when he was suffering the effects of the drugs mentally or it was just his role.

In the end, we're left with the image of a man who had defeated his personal demons and got his life back together, but the damage those demons had inflicted would prove to be too much and would claim his life later.

If theres any silver lining, its that he had won the fight, but suffered a mortal wound, so to speak. Considering relapses, withdrawls, and the other ugly aspects an addict confronts and goes through, he did pull through in the end. And despite his death, perhaps this is what will allow his children and wife to be proud of him, even in death.

People will say what they will, both in the business and out. I myself was never really a fan of Eddie Guerrero until recently, when he took it up a notch and became more sadistic and ambitious (I tend to like heel characters). The story lines helped get him on the cards again, but it was ultimatey Eddie who gave us all that he had. And thats one of the most satisfying things to experience as a fan, that a wrestler you like gives it everything they have. They do everyone proud when they're that way; their family, fellow wrestlers, and fans.

In the end, it was his time. And perhaps it was coicidence that he went full-circle. He had become a better man in his private life, and his character "redeemed" himself storywise. Perhaps it is coincidence this his reformation as a character shortly followed his reformation as a man in the real world.

Its almost fairy-tale like, this man's struggle. I can only hope however that his death sends a messege, a profound messege to all current wrestlers and would-be wrestlers and that by some purging and miracle this business and others with the same backstage situations reform and say "no" to the temptations and pressures of performance enhancing drugs. They are doing no one any favors by being addicted to anything. They are inevitably robbing their family, friends, bosses, fans, and utlimately themselves of life and time spent with them. In this way, drug abuse is just as bad as suicide itself. It effects everyone.

Thats no way to be, thats no way to live.

Still, Eddie Guerrero seemed to have come to terms with others and himself prior to his passing. In what was unknowingly his final few matches and final few live performances before his death, he seemed at peace with himself and on top of the world.

That is the best way to go.

Rest in peace, Eddie Guerrero

 

[Reaper_666]

i watched the tribute 2 him i was almost cryin its like losing a best friend

 

[Taj]

Eddie was a man among men...in and out of the ring. But in Vince's defence, I would'nt say it was all about money, ratings and expoitation. The fans of the WWE would expect the company to do something to pay tribute to one of many who helped raise their ratings. Another tribute show is Smackdown on Friday night, which is a given since he was a part of that show. Just to add another bit of info, he did the same with Owen Hart after his death. Anyways, just wanted to add my 2 cents. It's always the good ones. R.I.P. Eddie...

 

[Budweiserbob!]

I know. I don't really think vince is that heartless.

I mean, looking back at all the superstars during the tribute show, it really shows you how it really took effect on their lives. It shows the human side to the WWE.

Watching almost every superstar shed tears on this terrible incident makes you realise how much more of a family the WWE is than a business.

 

[Goodieluver]

Some of them wrestled with eddie for longer than his wwe career. Benoit, malenko were together in the ecw days of 96 and wrestled against each other even before that

But i still hold true that vince is heartless and only cares about how he can make more money(a wrestler shouldnt die from a stunt he shoulda never been doin i.e owen hart)

Sorry im very bitter at vince and how he ruined the wrestling business.

 

[willywill]

I woke up to this tragedy Sunday. I was gonna go have lunch with my mom and something was kinda itchin' me to check e-mail. I read about it in my e-mail, and my breath caught in my chest. The one guy who had gotten it right and kicked his addictions, a guy who at 28 I looked up to was gone. I then looked at wwe.com to make sure it was true. When wwe.com had it I mostly believed it but in the back of my head I remembered that 1. Eddy was working heel at the time so maybe it was a way to get the fans to really hate him after his run with Rey and 2. Eddy was a comedian, and maybe it was a rib on us fans. At least I was hoping for this to be an angle. I was hoping and praying cause there weren't many details like there was with Pillman; that we'd heard 'VIVA LA RASA' and see Eddy come out in the low rider. The reality sank in when Vickie Guerrero Eddy's wife sent a msg to wwe.com which was picked up by 1wrestling.com asking the fans to respect their privacy. Eddy winning the WWE title against Brock was the last time I truly marked out for anyone or anything. While I don't condone drug or alcohol abuse I will say this: Because Eddy cleaned himself up Eddy is one of only two guys in the business that I respect outside of the ring. My heart sincerely goes out to anyone who ever knew him, or met him, or got his autograph or anything. I feel for every one of them.

As a final note, I'm sitting here writing this post laughing about two things. 1. If Eddy was anything like his character I can just imagine him drop-kicking the person in front of him in line to see St. Peter right into the pearly gates then looking at St. Peter and saying 'Come on essa that don't count, and anyway he tripped man'. 2. The Los Guerrero vignettes are running through my head and I keep hearing 'if you're not cheating, you're not trying.'

Goodbye Eddy

 

[PhoenixMacGyver]

It truly was a shocker. I checked the WWE homepage myself as well, hoping that this was just some random joke or something. It's unbelievable sometimes - you're here one minute, gone the next. Eddie was a person who was so humble, you could really identify with him. Good Luck, man, and good journey...

 

[Magna99]

yeah,i felt sad

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

the hollywood brother think the problem is these guys do too many drugs. the hollywood brother thinks that excess in some things can be bad for you but moderation is okay on some items

 

[F.L. Atlanta 10]

I liked Eddie, even when he was being a total jerk to Rey. *sniffles* R.I.P. Eddie G. You will be missed!