8 Years Ago Today....

[ayumidah]

It was a Sunday morning and I was doing random stuff online and I remember going to PWinsider and seeing the headline. It didn't click with me for awhile, until I went to wwe.com and it was there too, and Chris Jericho's message board. Remember telling my dad and he following me back to the computer to try to get more news. And staring at his birth-death years, thinking that Eddie was only 20 years older than I was at the time.

It was a sad, sad day. Can't believe it's been eight years already.

[Joshie el Gato Rey]

Didn't find out until the day after when I was watching the news before going to work. Bummed out the rest of the day and my coworkers understood how I felt about wrestling and especially after I explained everything Eddie had been through. 11/14 is just not a good day for me. Found out Eddie died that day and six years later on that day my dad has his heart attack that ended up taking him.

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

I turned on RAW to see that they were doing the ten-bell salute for Eddie. I was stunned. The fact that it's been 8 years since he passed away almost feels surreal. Eddie was and always will be one of my favorite wrestlers. You'll be hard pressed to find a guy who was so fantastic in the ring and so charismatic outside of it. Intense, comedic, sympathetic, he could do it all. Viva La Raza, Eddie.

[fuzzywarble, squat cobbler]

My fellow El Pasoan. I was shocked mostly because our families have a couple of mutual friends. Still can't believe he's gone.

[fuzzywarble, squat cobbler]

I just read the old thread that was made after his death was announced. Man, he was loved by so many people. Nice to see his Hispanic heritage didn't get in the way of him making it big or being universally loved.

[metylerca]

I wasn't watching much at the time. I had come home from a weekend at my uncle's and my mom called me downstairs where the news had just broke the story. There were interviews with Vince, Stephanie and Chavo on and I didn't let it sink in that he had died until the next night's RAW. Now when I watch his old stuff, it bums me out that he definitely looked to be having a lot of fun in 2005, especially with the Batista storyline that took place during the fall. I regret not watching more of that period, as going back now, there was a lot of solid gold stuff from Guerrero on Smackdown in the fall of 2005.

[I'm Team Bayley and Indi]

the day before he died on the Saturday, here in the UK, Smackdown was repeated on the afternoon, a friend of mine, a non-wrestling fan came around because was going around drinking but I didn't want to go out just yet because wrestling was on.

He begrudgingly watched it with me, during the Eddie/Kennedy match though he really started to get into it, he became highly entertained by his antics and as the match finished he turned to me and said "Eddie Guerrero is awesome"

It's good to know that even in his last match, he made a new fan

[modestgenius]

Our internet was down at the time so I had no clue.

I'd got home from school and had been playing Smackdown Vs Raw 2006 which had just come out, maybe the day before I'd got past the part of the story where Undertaker choke-slamed Eddie into a casket and buried him alive - I was loving it.

Then my sister gets a call from her friend about something unreleated, and when the calls was over she tells me that her friend just told her that Guerrero was dead.

My heart felt like it stopped and I said "It was Chavo right?" and I instantly felt disgusted that I thought that. My sister didn't know which it had been.

Can't say I recall much that night.

I go to school the next day and I use my lunch to go on the computer and check it was true.

Tuned into RAW. Even with everyone on stage - it just didn't really sink in until Big Show came out for his match with his face all red and Joey Style's goes "If you're wondering what it takes to make a 500 pound giant cry, its the loss of a dear friend". Show was pretty hard to watch after that.

[chazraps]

I hadn't been watching for a few months and was at college when my dad, who lived in Minnesota at the time, called me to ask if I ever met "That wrestler who died."

I didn't hear about it so when my dad said it was "Eddie something," I tried to think of who in the 80s had the name "Eddie" that would have passed on as 2002-2004 we lost so many 80s greats in rapid succession. When my dad mentioned it was someone we had seen compete at a Nitro a few years back I said "Not Eddie Guerrero?"

That night I watched for the first time in forever, and it was the only time I watched until, for some reason, the 2007 draft. Really heartbreaking, his win and reign in 2004 was probably my last favorite moment as a fan up to that point.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Nov 13, 2013 15:21:32 GMT -5 I'm Team Bayley and Indi said:

the day before he died on the Saturday, here in the UK, Smackdown was repeated on the afternoon, a friend of mine, a non-wrestling fan came around because was going around drinking but I didn't want to go out just yet because wrestling was on.

He begrudgingly watched it with me, during the Eddie/Kennedy match though he really started to get into it, he became highly entertained by his antics and as the match finished he turned to me and said "Eddie Guerrero is awesome"

It's good to know that even in his last match, he made a new fan

This is a beautiful story, thanks for sharing it. Genuinely.

[Kayfabe FAN don't want none]

If only
www.kayfabenews.com/eddie-guerrero-returns-after-eight-years-of-playing-possum/

[bootytea]

Very sad day indeed.

I do remember reading that he was going through his normal morning routine when his heart suddenly gave out.

As much as I like Eddie, there is always this lingering thought that he may have been abusive to Vickie. I remember someone here bringing it up when there was a discussion over the ladder incident at Summerslam where he was yelling towards the top of his lungs.

It could just have been his passion for the business though. Its a real tragedy what drugs can do to the human mind.

[543Y2J]

R.I.P Eddie, the total package, a truly extraordinary talent/character while also having a top level game in the ring, a deserving HOF'er and one of my greatest of all time. Gone way too soon, especially considering the classic matches he could have had with HBK, Bryan and Punk etc

[BigJerichool222]

I thought nothing of it when I read the news; I legitimately thought it was the "other" Eddie Guerrero. YOU KNOW, the "older" Eddie Guerrero, a relative that Eddie shares a name with that was such an old school legend that he made it into a Legends of Wrestling video game.

...then I went to wwe.com.

And then not only was I incredibly sad and mournful, but I felt like the biggest idiot in the world. That day was not a good day for little ole me.

[Big Daddy Bad Booking]

Nov 13, 2013 17:05:53 GMT -5 543Y2J said:

R.I.P Eddie, the total package, a truly extraordinary talent/character while also having a top level game in the ring, a deserving HOF'er and one of my greatest of all time. Gone way too soon, especially considering the classic matches he could have had with HBK, Bryan and Punk etc

WM 22 should have been HBK and Guerrero. And I believe Guerrero faced off against Punk in the indies (although a WWE feud would be OVER THE TOP!!). If anything, I think Eddie would have retired or at least went part-time before Punk/Bryan made it big.

[Toxik916]

I was at the Cow Palace in San Francisco when he won the WWE Championship and I cried tears of joy that night and then I cried tears of sadness when he left us too soon. Eddie was my guy, and I'm glad I got to see the biggest moment of his career live. That day I was Eddie Guerrero, as a Mexican-American he won the title for all of us.

[thetower52]

I just put in his tribute show DVD

[Deleted]

I stopped watching regularly about a year before this, but I remember a family friend calling me up to telling me that he had died. Crazy.

[Essential1]

I was online playing Smackdown vs RAW 2006 and notied someone mentioned it in the chat room. I thought it was a work till I logged online and was shocked.