Test writing about Eddie in 2005

[mcstoklasa]

It's dark to think Test died himself a few years after writing this.


The following is from Andrew Martin's website:

I've been up all night and haven't realy slept as everyone knows by know Eddie Guerrero has passed away. Everybody knows Eddie had his demons but he had been clean for a long time, it was way to soon for him to go and he leaves behind to beautifull young daughters and a wonderfull life my heart goes out to them. Eddie was a huge help to me he helped me progress in the ring and we even wrestles ar wrestlemania in houston in 2001 for the european championship. Eddie i pray you are in a better place and THANKYOU for everything you taught me.

Now instead of usually talking about what I'm up to I'm going to break down the reality of this business we call wrestling. When I say "who's next" I'm not coining Goldbergs line I'm actually wondering who's next? who's next to die? I can think of at least 15 to 20 people who have died from various things mostly prescription pain killers.

For all you wanna be wrestlers who wanna get in this business..escpecially now when wwe doesn't pay you anymore than you would make at a 9 to 5 job let me break some things down for you. When I started wrestling I had never seen or heard of vicodin or percocet or soma. How come so many wrestlers die from these medications and football players and hockey players don't? The answer is simple..wrestlers especially wwe wrestlers work 5 days a week all year long taking bump after bump in the ring, a doctor explained it to me like this..everytime you take a fall in the ring it's like gettin rear ended by a car going 20mph so how many bumps in the ring a night do you take? multiply that by how many times a week you work all year long..that's a hell of a lot of whiplash and pain.

I can remember hearing a conversation from some unamed wwe head guys talking about how this certain person needs to go to rehab but they couldnt send him because he was to important to the show..that's the reality people thta is how we are treated...look at me I break my neck in the ring had to have 2 discs taken out of my neck and a steel plate put in and was told at the time by Johny Ace in his exact words were when I asked if my job would be in jeopardy he said "we don't fire people with injuries like that" Hmm that's funny cause 2 months after surgery I got fired because I wasn't working my 7 years of busting my ass for them and putting over the bosses son while my foot was broken in a cast was all forgotten about.

I remember when I was bein trained by Bret and I met Bad News Allen he said this to me and I'll never forget it "all wrestlers are to Vince are puppets and when he is done playing with you he throws you away but sometimes he'll dust you off bring you back and play with you some more" That is the truth people...when Johny Ace called me and told me they were releasing me which of course he put all the heat on Vince...I said to him what kind of message are you sending the boys that if they get hurt they are going to get fired? So all the guys who don't want to lose their jobs what do they do...pop a couple of percocet or vicodin and mask the pain cause god forbid they say they are hurt and lose their job...I'm not going to name any names but I know at least a dozen or so wrestlers who are addicted to these things for that very reason...get hurt lose your job...

I just turned 30 my back aches everyday, I have a metal plate in my neck and yes I got in the business at the right time and have a lot of nice things but is it all worth it? you guys don't see the ugly side of this business..yes wrestling is entertainment but the bumps and bruises are real and sometimes they don't go away...

So think long and hard before you get in this business cause I can tell you first hand that if your not working or making them money they don't give a **** about you....and the sad part is Eddie was clean and I guarantee he won't be the last one to die in the next 12 months..so that's why i say who's next? Don't take your life for granted it's a gift..don't go to bed mad and tell the people you care about you love them because you never know....take care

[lovingway]

Test made some really good postings about the business the last few years he was alive. I kinda feel he was one of those guys who wanted to get out of the business but didn't have anything to fall back on

[King Ghidorah]

Someone told me they found him face first in a pizza, is their any truth to that?

[Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill]

Sept 2, 2012 19:03:32 GMT -5 King Ghidorah said:

Someone told me they found him face first in a pizza, is their any truth to that?

Eddie or Test?

[chazraps]

I really don't mean to speak ill of the dead when I say this, but I'm having a bit of difficulty reconciling that the person who penned those words was the same person who was the face for the movement of vocally advocating steroid use in wrestling.

[Deleted]

Sept 2, 2012 19:04:42 GMT -5 Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill said:

Sept 2, 2012 19:03:32 GMT -5 King Ghidorah said:

Someone told me they found him face first in a pizza, is their any truth to that?

Eddie or Test?

Eddie was brushing his teeth when he died and Chavo was the one who found him.

[apolloniajames]

Sept 2, 2012 19:15:39 GMT -5 @supersweetbotch said:

Sept 2, 2012 19:04:42 GMT -5 Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill said:

Eddie or Test?

Eddie was brushing his teeth when he died and Chavo was the one who found him.

And Test was lying on his couch when he was found.

[Slanted and Enchanted]

Test had pizza the night he died. I'm not sure about dying face first into the pie. I read that he was found naked (while dead) on the floor by a neighbor across the street. His windows were open at the time.

But yeah I remember reading this article the first time he published it and this was one of the first things I thought about when I learned he died. It is both eerie and sad to think about.

[Slanted and Enchanted]

Sept 2, 2012 18:56:32 GMT -5 lovingway said:

Test made some really good postings about the business the last few years he was alive. I kinda feel he was one of those guys who wanted to get out of the business but didn't have anything to fall back on

The tragic thing was that Test had already been retired for a year when he passed away. But sadly the life he had lived took its toll on him by that point.

[Sam Punk]

That is very interesting.

[A damn road sign]

Sept 2, 2012 19:31:55 GMT -5 Slanted and Enchanted said:

Sept 2, 2012 18:56:32 GMT -5 lovingway said:

Test made some really good postings about the business the last few years he was alive. I kinda feel he was one of those guys who wanted to get out of the business but didn't have anything to fall back on

The tragic thing was that Test had already been retired for a year when he passed away. But sadly the life he had lived took its toll on him by that point.

He wasn't, he'd just completed a tour of Japan the week before he died and was schedule to head out on another one a fortnight or so later.

[lovingway]

Sept 3, 2012 10:36:59 GMT -5 A damn road sign said:

Sept 2, 2012 19:31:55 GMT -5 Slanted and Enchanted said:

The tragic thing was that Test had already been retired for a year when he passed away. But sadly the life he had lived took its toll on him by that point.

He wasn't, he'd just completed a tour of Japan the week before he died and was schedule to head out on another one a fortnight or so later.

In fact, I think the reason TNA didn't keep him was due to being too jacked and everybody looking at the business for steroid and other drug use

[Deleted]

Sept 3, 2012 10:36:59 GMT -5 A damn road sign said:

Sept 2, 2012 19:31:55 GMT -5 Slanted and Enchanted said:

The tragic thing was that Test had already been retired for a year when he passed away. But sadly the life he had lived took its toll on him by that point.

He wasn't, he'd just completed a tour of Japan the week before he died and was schedule to head out on another one a fortnight or so later.

Fortnight?

[Jimmy]

Sept 2, 2012 19:15:32 GMT -5 chazraps said:

I really don't mean to speak ill of the dead when I say this, but I'm having a bit of difficulty reconciling that the person who penned those words was the same person who was the face for the movement of vocally advocating steroid use in wrestling.

Also it's the same guy who after writing this went back to WWE less than a year later.

[Metalheadbanger Man]

Sept 3, 2012 16:29:33 GMT -5 @ambrosefan said:

Sept 3, 2012 10:36:59 GMT -5 A damn road sign said:

He wasn't, he'd just completed a tour of Japan the week before he died and was schedule to head out on another one a fortnight or so later.

Fortnight?

2 weeks.

[Urfarkendarf]

Sept 3, 2012 16:29:33 GMT -5 @ambrosefan said:

Sept 3, 2012 10:36:59 GMT -5 A damn road sign said:

He wasn't, he'd just completed a tour of Japan the week before he died and was schedule to head out on another one a fortnight or so later.

Fortnight?

2 weeks

[molson5]

When you get fired from TNA over concerns about your steroid use (if that's what happened), then you have a serious issue.

His post was insightful - I rolled my eyes when he started to blame the WWE but then he acknowledged the great financial awards he was lucky enough to get, and also spoke to want-to-be wrestlers about whether it's all worth it. So he was able to see the whole picture and all the players, which is something a lot of guys who were cast off from the WWE aren't able to do.

And has someone has said - it's odd that he was so seemingly aware of mortality and yet pushed himself further and further to the brink. He seems like something of a deep guy, maybe with some depression issues and a sense of destiny and powerlessness about his future.

[DXKramer]

Sept 2, 2012 19:03:32 GMT -5 King Ghidorah said:

Someone told me they found him face first in a pizza, is their any truth to that?

Luna was the one who was found face down on a slice of pizza.