Eddie Guerrero dead at 38

[TB4000]

'WWE Smackdown!' Star Guerrero Dies

24 minutes ago

MINNEAPOLIS - Eduardo Gory Guerrero, a World Wrestling Entertainment superstar was found dead in his hotel room Sunday in Minneapolis, where he was scheduled to appear that evening in a WWE Supershow. He was 38.


When he didn't respond to a wake-up call, hotel security at Minneapolis Marriott City Center and Guerrero's nephew and fellow WWE wrestler, Chavo Guerrero, forced their way into the room, police said.

There were no apparent signs of foul play or suicide, police said. An autopsy was planned at the Hennepin County medical examiner's office.

He was a featured star on the UPN series "WWE Smackdown!" and son of Mexican wrestler Gory Guerrero.

Chavo Guerrero and McMahon said Guerrero was open about his past drug and alcohol abuse but they said he'd been sober for four years.

In February 2004, Guerrero became the second wrestler of Hispanic heritage to be WWE champion when he defeated Brock Lesnar, a former University of Minnesota wrestling standout. Guerrero lost the title four months later.

In May 2004, UPN aired the special "Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story." The one-hour program chronicled his childhood and his struggle with drug addiction that almost cost him his job, family and life before his recovery and eventual capture of the WWE championship.

[returntosender]

What happened to Brock Lesnar?

And whoa, Eddie's dead.

[LaiSteve66]

:frown: No more Latino Heat. R.I.P.

[DragonKnight]

Aww no...I've actually been checking out the latest angle with him and Batista on Smackdown. This sucks cause he was one of the really hardworking wrestlers with great athletic ability and one of the more fiery personas in the ring. RIP, Eddie. :frown:

[fresh22]

Although I don't follow wrestling as much as I did when I was younger, I thought Eddie was one of the best workers in sports entertainment history (especially those WCW days). He also had really good mic skills. Its hard to find a wrestler who excels at both. Glad he won the wwe heavyweight title. His legacy is cemented.

Like his entrance song states: "Viva La Raza."

[kurei kun]

wwe sure didn't expect this.

[deez nuts]

i wonder who is going to be eddie guerrero's replacement in the smackdown vs. raw 5 on 5 elimination match in the upcoming survivor series.

[BeTheReds]

Good bye old friend...

[Craig]

Should this be in the "Arts & Entertainment" section instead of "Sports" ?

[TB4000]

^ Yeah, I know. But why destroy the illusion, I always say.

[thaite]

I'll let it stay. Despite the theatrics of WWE, these guys are athletes in some way. But if there were some thread where we were gonna discuss the merits of X wrestler verus Y wrestler and who was gonna win the upcoming smackdown, well, that would have to go elsewhere.

[DragonKnight]

Autopsy reports are in. It was heart failure :frown: :
http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/causeofdeath



Vickie Guerrero speaks on Eddie's autopsy report
Nov. 15, 2005

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.”

Man, after all he went through to break the drug habit and drinking. It still caught up with him. Just shows how fragile life is. RIP, Eddie. :frown:

[synty]

its a shame that he was a person who turned his life around but still had his past haunt him