Mysterio at Halloween Havoc, and I can’t criticize it. Goodwillie: A lot of people are going to say Guerrero vs. Monday Night cemented his status as the highlight of Raw. Latino Heat proved that he belonged back in WWE after his forced sabbatical to get clean and sober, and Mr. These two veterans let it all hang out, performing death-defying stunts while incorporating time-tested psychology such as targeting the leg. RVD in a ladder match on Raw on May 27, 2002. Eddie’s performance that night was next to flawless.Ĭorrigan: vs. little man showcase and is the only reason to watch that show. Wagner: Obviously the Havoc 97 match, but also the Brock Lesnar match from No Way Out 2004 when Eddie won the title. I also like his match with Brock Lesnar and the WrestleMania 20 match with Kurt Angle. But for storytelling, psychology and a career-defining moment, there is no doubt this was the best.īautista: His last ECW match with Dean Malenko. Technical wrestling wise, it wasn’t Eddie’s greatest match. Jackson: The WWE Championship match against Brock Lesnar at No Way Out 2004. Two of the greatest of all time at the cusp of their physical primes executing every move to perfection and showing the world not ever to sleep on the WCW cruiserweights. For that era and for this and every era in the foreseeable future, that match will hold up. It turned out, however, that Guerrero was every bit as good as I could have imagined, and even better yet. I wanted to see JBL lose so bad that Eddie Guerrero HAD to become my favorite wrestler.
Seeing JBL’s mug on the match card slide they traditionally promote on the WWE go-home shows, it was easy for me, someone who never really watched wrestling before, to decipher who the babyface was and who the heel was. But the truth is JBL had as much to do with me liking Eddie Guerrero as anything. Eddie may have wrestled Luther Reigns that night. But as the episode pertained to Eddie Guerrero, the WWE Champion was aligning himself against John Bradshaw Layfield in advance of their Texas Bullrope match at The Great American Bash that weekend. John Cena went one-on-one with Da Undertakahhhhhh in the main event and watching it back, the match was quite good and still holds up. Jack Goodwillie: Eddie Guerrero was the WWE Champion at the time I started watching wrestling, and as I’ve spoken about in the past on various roundtables and podcasts with The Wrestling Estate, I believe my first episode of SmackDown (in depth, without coming across it channel surfing) to be the Jepisode. I couldn’t believe the night after WrestleMania 2000 when Chyna actually fell for Latino Heat.
John Corrigan: I missed the night the Radicalz jumped ship to WWE, but I remember Eddie Guerrero’s arm in a sling and his hilarious, yet successful pursuit of his Mamacita. Neal Wagner: Cruiserweight Eddie from WCW. The heel Eddie that had match of the year with Rey Mysterio at Halloween Havoc 1997. That was easily the best Eddie in WCW. That match was just amazing and it was a time when Eddie was one of the best and most consistent in-ring performers. Eddie was also the first wrestler who passed where I was like “damn, I’m not gonna see him anymore.” If WWE is clever enough to fit Eddie into the current storyline with Rey and Seth Rollins, it better be good. My first WrestleMania was 21 and they opened up the show. Juan Bautista: The feud with Rey Mysterio.
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I was about 7 or 8 years old and had just gotten into pro wrestling. I knew there was something special about Eddie and always loved his work both in and out of the ring. Steven Jackson: Seeing him in WCW tagging with Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn. Those two always had entertaining segments together.
What’s your earliest memory of Eddie Guerrero?Ĭhad Gelfand: His Latino Heat gimmick and trying to woo Chyna.
In this edition of The Wrestling Estate roundtable, we pay tribute to the legendary Eddie Guerrero.
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