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Though familiar, Eddie Guerrero’s story still a worthy Biography

Eddie Guerrero

Eddie Guerrero

Watching the A&E Biography on Eddie Guerrero that aired on Sunday, May 26, I can’t really say that I learned much new, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it.

The fact is that by this point, between all that has been written about the entire Guerrero family, Eddie’s autobiography, the WWE-produced DVDs and then everything that came out after his out-of-nowhere death in November 2005, there is a dearth of already-existing material.

Ah, but then WWE opens its vault, with mostly previously-unused footage filmed in 2004, and drops a line on us from Eddie himself, driving around El Paso while being filmed:

“Enjoy the ride as long as you can, because it’s not going to be there forever.”

Or

“If God were to take me today, I can honestly say that I’m satisfied, I really am. I’m pleased with the way that my career has gone.”

Those are lines to build around, which is what the producers smartly did.

As a wrestling fan, where can I watch all that footage? He goes into a taco shop and buys tacos for everyone, checks out the murals on the overpass pillars, drives by the El Paso County Coliseum where he used to run around as a kid on his father’s shows.

Magic. And it had just been sitting somewhere until now.

Stepping back for a moment, it’s important, as I have written recapping other episodes, in the Biography series, that this is not meant solely for wrestling fans.

While you or I, as hardcore fans, will question why Art Barr and Eddie’s whole rise to superstardom started with Barr in Mexico and then on the When Worlds Collide pay-per-view, I get why it wasn’t on here, and not just because Barr is a problematic person, due for a Dark Side of the Ring episode.

Skipping Latino World Order in WCW? I’m okay with that, as it might just confuse current WWE fans with the existing LWO.

Ignoring that Guerrero jumped from WCW alongside Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn — “vanilla midgets” as per Kevin Nash — is fair, I guess, as you can’t talk about Benoit without opening up a whole can of worms. That means we were also denied that magic moment, at WrestleMania XX, with Guerrero and Benoit both as World champions, hugging in Madison Square Garden.

As fans, we can find just about all that if we truly want it.

So what is Eddie Guerrero’s story?

And, looking back, it’s about repetition. In this case, that was more than fine.

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