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Eddy Guerrero
Eduardo Gory "Eddy" Guerrero Llanes (October 9, 1967 – November 13, 2005) was a Mexican-American professional wrestler born into the Guerrero wrestling family. Guerrero wrestled in Mexico and Japan and in several major professional wrestling promotions in the United States. He wrestled in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and in World Wrestling Entertainment (Then WWF, later renamed to WWE). Guerrero's gimmick was that of "Latino Heat", a crafty, resourceful wrestler who would do anything to win a match. His catch phrase became "Cheat to Win." Despite being a villain for most of his career, he got over in and outside the ring.
Guerrero came from a wrestling family. His father, Gory Guerrero[2] was a wrestler in Mexico, a prominent wrestling trainer and an influential figure in Mexican professional wrestling. His mother is Herlinda Yañez, sister of professional wrestlers Enrique, Mario, and Sergio Yañez. His three brothers Chavo Guerrero, Sr., Hector Guerrero, and Mando Guerrero all followed in their father's footsteps and became professional wrestlers.[2] Guerrero's nephew, Chavo Guerrero, Jr. also became a wrestler, while his uncle Enrique Llanes (Yañez) and cousin Javier Llanes (Yañez) wrestled in Mexico. As a boy, Guerrero's father allowed him and Chavo Jr. to wrestle one another during intermissions in the wrestling promotions that Gory held. Gory held wrestling promotions for nearly 15 years in the El Paso Coliseum.
Guerrero was born in and raised in El Paso, Texas and attended the University of New Mexico as well as New Mexico Highlands University on an athletic scholarship, where he wrestled collegiately, before returning to El Paso to train as a professional wrestler.
From 1987 until 1992 Guerrero wrestled in Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre (EMLL) (now Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), World Wrestling Association (WWA) in Mexico and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the United States.
In Mexico, he wrestled mainly for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, teaming with El Hijo del Santo as the new version of La Pareja Atómica (The Atomic Pair), the tag team of Gory Guerrero and El Santo.
After Guerrero turned on Santo and allied with Art Barr as La Pareja del Terror (The Pair of Terror), the duo became arguably the most hated tag team in lucha libre history. Along with Barr, Konnan, Chicano Power, and Madonna’s Boyfriend, Guerrero formed Los Gringos Locos (The Crazy Americans), a villainous stable. Locos feuded mostly with El Hijo del Santo and his partner Octagón, eventually ending in a Hair vs. Mask match at the first lucha pay-per-view in America, When Worlds Collide, which they lost.
Guerrero and Barr's first break would come when they were noticed in late 1994 by the owner of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), Paul Heyman, and were approached about wrestling for him in 1995. Barr, however, died before he could join ECW with Guerrero.
In 1993, Guerrero began wrestling in Japan for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), where he was known as the second incarnation of Black Tiger. He won the NJPW Junior Heavyweight Super Grade Tag League Championship with Great Sasuke in 1993, which made him the most successful Black Tiger. He became more successful upon his return when he won the Best of the Super Juniors 1996 tournament of junior heavyweights. He received a shot at the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion The Great Sasuke at NJPW Skydiving J but lost the match.
Guerrero won the ECW World Television Championship from 2 Cold Scorpio on his debut in ECW, and went on to have a series of acclaimed matches with Dean Malenko before they both signed with World Championship Wrestling later that year. Guerrero lost the ECW Television Championship to Malenko on July 21 of that year, but Guerrero regained the title on July 28. Guerrero lost the ECW Television Championship back to 2 Cold Scorpio on August 25. The next day, they had their last match which ended in a draw in a two out of three falls match at the ECW Arena. After the match, the locker room emptied and the two were carried around the ring by their fellow wrestlers while the crowd chanted "please don't go".
I had the pleasure of being in the front row for every one of those ECW matches and, to this day, they were some of (if not THE) best wrestling matches I have ever seen. The emotion before, during, and after the Malenko Guerrero farewell match was something that will never be matched. - Brett
Guerrero returned to WCW in late 1995, along with Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit, with whom he had worked with in NJPW and ECW.
Guerrero participated in a tournament for the vacant WCW United States Heavyweight Championship and defeated DDP in the final round at Starrcade 1996 to win the United States title. His reign came to an end at Uncensored when Dean Malenko defeated him for the title.
In the opening match of Fall Brawl 1997, Guerrero defeated Jericho to win the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship. He dropped the Cruiserweight title to Rey Mysterio, Jr. at Halloween Havoc in a Title vs. Mask match where Mysterio's mask was also on the line. On the November 10 edition of WCW Monday Nitro, he regained the Cruiserweight title back from Mysterio, and made a successful title defense against Mysterio at World War 3. Guerrero dropped the title to Último Dragón on the December 29 episode of Nitro.
Guerrero and the other WCW wrestlers debuted in the WWF on the January 31, 2000 edition of Raw is War as The Radicalz, interfering in a match involving the New Age Outlaws. During his first match with the WWF, a tag team match with the Radicalz against the Outlaws, Guerrero performed a Frog Splash off the top rope and severely injured his elbow on the landing. As a result, he was sidelined for several weeks.
Guerrero won his first WWF title on the April 3, 2000 edition of Raw is War by defeating Chris Jericho for the WWF European Championship.
In early 2001, Guerrero feuded with Chris Jericho, Benoit, and X-Pac over Jericho's Intercontinental Championship. At No Way Out, the four men faced each other in a Fatal Four-Way match, which Jericho won. Guerrero focused on the European Championship, feuding with the champion Test defeating him at WrestleMania X-Seven to win his second European Championship with help from Saturn and Malenko.
Guerrero started wrestling on the independent circuit after his release from WWF in November of 2001. On February 23, he faced fellow Mexican Super Crazy on the debut show of Ring of Honor known as The Era of Honor Begins to crown the first-ever IWA Intercontinental Champion. On February 24, he debuted in the Australian promotion World Wrestling All-Stars (WWA) at The Revolution beating the champion Juventud Guerrera and Psicosis in a Triple Threat match for the WWA International Cruiserweight Championship On March 1, he defeated the champion CM Punk and Rey Mysterio in a Triple Threat match for the IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship. He dropped the title back to Punk one day later on March 2. He vacated the WWA Cruiserweight title in April 2002 after returning to WWF.
Guerrero returned to WWF on the April 1, 2002 and remained there until his passing on November 13, 2005.
His list of championships is as follows:
AAA World Tag Team Championship – with Art Barr
AAA Hall of Fame (Class of 2008)
ECW World Television Championship (2 x)
IWA Mid-South Heavyweight Championship
LAWA Heavyweight Championship
NJPW Junior Heavyweight Super Grade Tag League Championship – with
The Great Sasuke
Best of the Super Juniors (1996)
PWF World Tag Team Championship– with Hector Guerrero
WCW Cruiserweight Championship (2x)
WCW United States Heavyweight Championship
WWA International Cruiserweight Championship
WWA Welterweight Championship
WWA Trios Championship – with Chavo Guerrero and Mando Guerrero
WWE Championship
WWE Tag Team Championship (4 x) – with Chavo Guerrero (2), Tajiri
(1), and Rey Mysterio (1)
WWE United States Championship
WWF European Championship (2 x)
WWF Intercontinental Championship (2 x)
Eleventh Triple Crown Champion
Sixth Grand Slam Championship
Luchas de Apuestas
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Wager
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Winner
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Loser
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Location
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Date
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Hair
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Eddie Guerrero
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Ari Romero
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Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua
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1987
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Hair
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Eddie Guerrero
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Negro Casas
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Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua
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Unknown
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Hair
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El Hijo del Santo and Octagón
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Eddie Guerrero and Art Barr
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Los Angeles, California
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November 6, 1994
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Hair
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Eddie Guerrero
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Chavo Guerrero, Jr.
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San Diego, California
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July 12, 1998
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Courtesy Wikipedia.
Compiled by Brett Schwan
