EDDIE GUERRERO YOUNG PROFESSIONAL

However, even if we’re to believe he passed his physical prime, he was still among the best do-it-all wrestlers in the company over the final three years of his life, slotting in just behind the likes of Angle, Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho and do I even say it? Chris Benoit.įor that reason, I would have given Eddie Guerrero five more WrestleManias before transitioning him to a non-wrestler role. The explosiveness Eddie exhibited in the mid-to-late ‘90s is what sets him apart from the greatest in-ring performers of that era, and when you fast-forward four or five years, the same level of explosion just isn’t there. I know many wrestlers don’t even hit their stride until their mid-30s, but Kurt Angle, who has spoken in-depth about what it was like working with Eddie Guerrero in recent interviews, maintains that Eddie’s in-ring prime came and went while he was working for WCW, which is amazing to think about considering all the great memories and moments Latino Heat gave us in each of his WWE runs. The way I always figured it, he couldn’t have had too much time left in the ring, especially given what we now know about the health problems he had stemming from a lifetime of drug and alcohol abuse.

Using simulators such as Extreme Warfare Revenge and Total Extreme Wrestling (thanks, Adam Ryland!), I’ve been able to do just that.

As I’ve aged, I’ve pondered the possibility of what Eddie’s later career would have looked like. One of the questions poses an interesting scenario: What would have become of Eddie Guerrero in the wrestling business had he lived the past 15 years? We here at The Wrestling Estate have a very fun edition of the roundtable coming on Friday discussing Eddie’s life and career in wrestling.

EDDIE GUERRERO YOUNG PROFESSIONAL

Tomorrow marks the 15th anniversary of the death of a man who I consider to be one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Eddie Guerrero.

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