The variety of early deaths in wrestling is likely one of the harder issues for followers to reconcile concerning the sport they love. There was arguably no larger loss throughout the decade of the 2000s than Eddie Guerrero, who died from coronary heart failure in 2005 whereas an lively member of WWE’s roster. Given simply how well-liked he was with followers and colleagues alike, Guerrero’s loss of life stays one of many extra tragic moments in a sport already full of them. Talking to “No Contest Wrestling,” Dominik Mysterio pointed to Guerrero’s passing as the primary time wrestling broke his coronary heart.
“I used to be nonetheless younger on the time,” Mysterio started. “I do not keep in mind exhibiting emotion as a child except I used to be like bodily damage… I at all times saved to myself. So I keep in mind once we’re watching at house when Eddie had handed, and the video package deal that they performed with the Three Doorways Down tune, and I simply keep in mind crying as a child watching this. Remembering him, and simply what he had executed with me, and simply all the things that like we had gone by way of and that angle, you understand? So I do not forget that as a wrestling fan, as a result of I knew I wasn’t gonna see him once more.”
Mysterio’s connection to Guerrero dates again lengthy earlier than Mysterio ever stepped within the ring himself. 8-year-old Dominik was a central determine within the notorious 2005 storyline involving Guerrero, his father Rey, and the query of Dominik’s true parentage. The purely fictional storyline created a singular bond between the 2, which Mysterio mentioned made the loss much more private.
“I get to understand his work a lot extra now,” Mysterio added. “As a result of I am residing by way of it, attempting to honor it, and simply his matches and seeing how good he was. It makes me respect a lot extra the time I did get to spend with him.”
