Eddie Guerrero/Billy Graham

[魔界5号]

I was just reading about Eddie Guerrero and found out his funeral was officiated by "Superstar" Billy Graham of all people, which kind of surprised me because I didn’t know those two were ever particularly close and it just seems like quite a random pairing of guys to be friends, yet according to a report on a Meltzer radio show with Billy from 2005, they were good friends outside the ring and Billy conducted the funeral at his own church?

Does anyone know if the connection/friendship between these two has ever been explained? Google turns up basically nothing, I can’t really pinpoint how or why they’d have ever met or come into contact and for Billy to be officiating at his funeral, they had to be pretty close.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

In Jericho's book he says he had no idea why this happened either

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The only explanation I can wrap my brain around is that someone said "we could get Billy Graham to do the funeral" and someone else thought they were talking about the televangelist.

[XIII]

I remember Jericho said that he showed up and Superstar essentially had a tv run sheet with the amount of time every had to talk….which Jericho immediately ignored. I think his reasoning was “what’s he going to do? Go to commercial?” LMAO.

[celtics543]

I assume it's a religion thing. Eddie got really into religion when he got clean and Superstar became a religious man as well. I can't see another connection. Maybe Superstar was close with the older Guerrero's?

[THE FVNKER]

Apr 5, 2023 2:22:28 GMT -5 魔界5号 said:

I was just reading about Eddie Guerrero and found out his funeral was officiated by "Superstar" Billy Graham of all people, which kind of surprised me because I didn’t know those two were ever particularly close and it just seems like quite a random pairing of guys to be friends, yet according to a report on a Meltzer radio show with Billy from 2005, they were good friends outside the ring and Billy conducted the funeral at his own church?

Does anyone know if the connection/friendship between these two has ever been explained? Google turns up basically nothing, I can’t really pinpoint how or why they’d have ever met or come into contact and for Billy to be officiating at his funeral, they had to be pretty close.

Sorry to necro such an old thread, but I was listening to RVD's podcast yesterday and he asked the same question.  Took a few minutes but I found this, as I was scratching my head about their connection as well.


www.wrestlezone.com/news/229003-funeral-information-for-eddie-guerrero-more

[tirtefaa]

Weren't they neighbors? I seem to remember hearing something about Eddie becoming friends with Graham shortly after his return to WWE and their wives were supposedly close.

[THE FVNKER]

Jun 3, 2023 16:14:11 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

Weren't they neighbors? I seem to remember hearing something about Eddie becoming friends with Graham shortly after his return to WWE and their wives were supposedly close.

I guess it was something like that.  I kinda just skimmed the article.  I think it said their wives were friends or something, so I'd say theres a decent chance they at least lived close to eachother.

[tirtefaa]

Jun 3, 2023 19:07:09 GMT -5 THE FVNKER said:

Jun 3, 2023 16:14:11 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

Weren't they neighbors? I seem to remember hearing something about Eddie becoming friends with Graham shortly after his return to WWE and their wives were supposedly close.

I guess it was something like that.  I kinda just skimmed the article.  I think it said their wives were friends or something, so I'd say theres a decent chance they at least lived close to eachother.

I remember the first time this became evident was when Billy was doing press after his death, and mentioned steroids, which led to Kennedy shooting his mouth off, which then shot him in the foot.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

As far as I know, once Eddie got clean, he became very religious and became close with Superstar over that as well as perhaps drug use. I believe Superstar was some kind of sponsor for him.

[lildude8218]

Eddie had moved to Arizona where Superstar lived. That's the only connection that I know of.