I thought everything is okay – just trying to cover up his injuries, but then I started seeing that I was driving him everywhere. “The thing to do when guys got hurt, instead of missing work, they took pills, and I thought it was the norm at first. In an episode of ‘The Talk is Jericho’ podcast, she detailed Guerrero’s addiction to painkillers in the aftermath of his 1999 car accident, saying:
The wrestler’s wife, Vickie Guerrero (who is also a wrestling personality and manager) attributed his death to an “aggressive workout regimen” combined with his alcoholism and drug abuse. Moreover, the autopsy found that Guerrero’s organs were unusually enlarged – a side effect of the use of growth hormone. Guerrero’s past substance abuse and alcoholism are generally said to be the underlying causes of his heart failureĪlthough Guerrero was four years sober at the time of his death, it is speculated that his previous substance abuse and use of anabolic steroids contributed to his heart troubles. The report did not detail the underlying causes of his coronary heart disease.Īlong with Chavo Guerrero, wrestlers Chris Benoit, Rey Mysterio, and Dean Malenko visited Eddie’s hotel room to say their final goodbyes before his body was taken away from the scene. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner said that he had died of “natural causes related to arteriosclerotic heart disease”. The autopsy later confirmed the cause of death to be related to acute heart failure. Earlier investigations by the police ruled out possible suicide or foul play. Guerrero was found dead on the bathroom floor of his room and had seemingly died while brushing his teeth as he was found face down with a toothbrush in his mouth.
After numerous calls and knocks went unanswered, the hotel security entered the room by force.
However, when the hotel’s front desk staff gave the wake-up call at 7 am that morning, Guerrero failed to respond and was suspiciously silent in his room. He was travelling with his nephew and fellow WWE wrestler, Chavo Guerrero, for the ‘WWE Super ShowDown’ and was supposed to take part in the scheduled ‘Raw’ and ‘Smackdown!’ tapings that very evening. At 38 years old, Eddie Guerrero died of natural causes related to “arteriosclerotic heart disease”Įddie Guerrero passed away on November 13, 2005, at 38 years old in his hotel room at the Minneapolis Marriott City Center, Minnesota. Just a year before his untimely death, Guerrero had won the title of the WWE World Championship at the ‘2004 No Way Out’ event and was on the cusp of getting another world title. He was known as the ‘Latino Heat’ for his perseverance and tenacity to win any match in the ring.
EDDIE GUERRERO LATINO HEAT PROFESSIONAL
Coming from the prominent Mexican-American Guerrero wrestling family, Eddie was a second-generation professional wrestler who began his career by performing in Mexico and Japan before venturing to America. Eduardo “Eddie” Guerrero was one of the biggest names in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) during his peak in the 90s and early 2000s.
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