Eddie Guerrero

Eddie Guerrero married Vickie Guerrero on April 24, 1990 and had two daughters, Shaul Marie and Sherilyn Amber.

In the period of brief separation from his wife, Eddie had a relationship with Tara Mahoney. He has a daughter Kaylie Marie, from this relationship. Though Eddie reconciled with his wife, he and Tara continued to remain close friends.

He died on November 13, 2005, at the age of 38, in Minneapolis. He was found unconscious in his hotel room by Chavo, who attempted CPR. He was pronounced dead by the paramedics when they arrived. The autopsy revealed the cause to be acute heart failure due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Eddie Guerrero was born on 9 October, 1967 in El Paso, Texas to Gory Guerrero, a former professional wrestler, and Herlinda. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1985 and later attended the University of New Mexico on an athletic scholarship. He was soon absorbed into collegiate wrestling.

His brothers Mando, Hector, and Chavo are professional wrestlers as well. He had two sisters, Maria and Linda. Often, Chavo and Eddie would accompany their father to wrestling promotions and would wrestle each other during intermissions.

Eddie Guerrero first wrestled as the original Mascara Magica in CMLL, professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City, from 1987 until he left in 1992 to join Asistencia Asesoría y Administración in Mexico. He along with El Santa formed a tag team and were known as the Atomic Pair.

He later partnered with Art Barr and they soon became a noticeable duo. Paul Heyman of the Extreme Championship Wrestling approached them, but Barr passed away in 1994 before they could join.

He later began wrestling in Japan for New Japan Pro Wrestling. He was popularly called the reincarnation of Black Tiger. His return in 1996 proved successful as he won a tournament of junior heavyweights.

He won the ECW World Television Championship in his debut match for ECW in 1995 and later signed up with the World Championship Wrestling. He worked as a jobber for WCW and mostly wrestled with Terry Funk under WCW.

He later started appearing in pay-per-view events and his first event was at World War 3, where he competed in the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.

Eddie Guerrero was inducted into the WWE, AA, Wrestling Observer Newsletter, and Hardcore halls of fame.

He was ranked the 11th greatest wrestler of all times in a WWE poll. Ric Flair, Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle, and Shawn Micheals have considered Guerrero as the greatest professional wrestler.