Eddie Guerrero

Eddie Guerrero remains, for my money, the most complete wrestler of his generation. He absorbed every style on earth—lucha libre in Mexico, the hard-hitting Japanese scene, American storytelling in WCW and WWE—and stitched them into something nobody else could replicate. His lying, cheating, stealing villain act worked because the audience could feel the genuine joy and struggle underneath it, and his redemption arc made the championship run feel earned in a way scripted sports rarely achieve. Losing him at thirty-eight still stings. Every undersized technician who headlines arenas today is walking through a door that Eddie kicked open, and the Hall of Fame plaque barely covers the debt.

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Name (English)

Eddie Guerrero

Name (Japanese)

エディ・ゲレロ

Reading

えでぃ・げれろ

Born

October 9, 1967 – November 13, 2005

Origin

El Paso, Texas, United States

Occupation

professional wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Goat

High school

Jefferson High School

University

University of New Mexico

Awards & achievements

• WWE Hall of Fame
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame
• AAA Hall of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20Guerrero
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44374

Tags

• Texas
• professional wrestler

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.