El Paso, Texas · CMLL · AAA · NJPW · ECW · WCW · WWE · 1986–2005
Eddie Guerrero beat Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship at No Way Out on February 15, 2004 — a 5′8″ second-generation luchador pinning a 295-pound former NCAA champion with a frog splash — and for the twenty months between that night and his death on November 13, 2005, he was the best all-around performer in the company. 2004WWE Champion — the frog splash on Brock Lesnar at No Way Out, February 15He was the youngest son of the Guerrero wrestling dynasty of El Paso — Gory Guerrero’s boy, brother to Chavo Sr., Mando and Hector, uncle to Chavo Jr. — and he worked everywhere that mattered: CMLL and AAA in Mexico, New Japan as the second Black Tiger, ECW, WCW, and finally WWE, where the character built from his real flaws — the liar, the cheat, the thief you loved anyway — became one of the most durable acts the company has produced.
The resume is deeper than the one title. He and Art Barr headlined AAA’s When Worlds Collide in Los Angeles on November 6, 1994, losing their hair to El Hijo del Santo and Octagon in the match that showed American promoters what lucha libre could draw. He won the ECW World Television Championship twice in 1995, and his farewell series with Dean Malenko is part of ECW legend. In WCW he took the United States Championship at Starrcade 1996 and the Cruiserweight Championship twice, and his title-versus-mask loss to Rey Mysterio Jr. at Halloween Havoc on October 26, 1997 is still the standard answer to “best cruiserweight match ever televised in America.” In WWE he won the European, Intercontinental and United States Championships, four WWE Tag Team Championship reigns — two with Chavo as Los Guerreros, one each with Tajiri and Rey Mysterio — and the WWE Championship he defended against Kurt Angle at WrestleMania XX by untying his own boot to escape the ankle lock.
He died in his Minneapolis hotel room on November 13, 2005, found by Chavo, of acute heart failure linked to cardiovascular disease — two days after beating Mr. Kennedy on the November 11 SmackDown, and roughly four years into a sobriety he spoke about constantly; he had been public about the addictions that got him fired from WWE in 2001 and about the recovery that brought him back. 20years of tributes — and the frog splash still wins matches on WWE televisionWWE aired tribute shows on November 14 and 18, and inducted him into the Hall of Fame on April 1, 2006, with Chris Benoit, Rey Mysterio and Chavo handling the induction. The legacy is not archival; it is on television weekly. Rey Mysterio dedicated his 2006 world title win to him and, on the 20th anniversary in November 2025, published a letter to Eddie at The Players’ Tribune. Chavo carried the family name across every major promotion. And Dominik Mysterio — the boy from the 2005 custody storyline — built his heel career explicitly on Eddie’s playbook, down to winning at SummerSlam 2025 with a faked chair shot, a loose boot and a frog splash.
Fifteen documented bouts across four promotions and eleven years — the title changes, the two canonical Rey Mysterio matches, and the final SmackDown win over Mr. Kennedy. A curated ledger, not a career count; no career win–loss total is published because no verified one exists. His Mexico and Japan records are represented by the When Worlds Collide match only, because those are the rows this pass could date to the day. Filter by match type, tap any column header to sort, and turn spoilers on to reveal results.
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| Res | Date | Promo | Event | Opponent(s) | Stipulation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L | 1994-11-06 | AAA | When Worlds Collide — Los Angeles | El Hijo del Santo & Octagon | Hair vs. mask — with Art Barr, as La Pareja del Terror | — |
| W | 1995-04-08 | ECW | Three Way Dance — Philadelphia | 2 Cold Scorpio | Singles — first US singles gold | ECW World Television Championship |
| W | 1996-12-29 | WCW | Starrcade | Diamond Dallas Page | Tournament final | WCW United States Heavyweight Championship |
| W | 1997-09-14 | WCW | Fall Brawl | Chris Jericho | Singles | WCW Cruiserweight Championship |
| L | 1997-10-26 | WCW | Halloween Havoc — Las Vegas | Rey Mysterio Jr. | Title vs. mask — the canonical cruiserweight match | WCW Cruiserweight Championship |
| W | 2000-04-03 | WWE | Raw | Chris Jericho | Singles — Latino Heat and Mamacita arrive | WWF European Championship |
| W | 2002-04-21 | WWE | Backlash | Rob Van Dam | Singles — three weeks into the second WWE run | WWE Intercontinental Championship |
| W | 2002-11-17 | WWE | Survivor Series — New York | Edge & Rey Mysterio; Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit | Triple threat elimination — Los Guerreros, with Chavo | WWE Tag Team Championship |
| W | 2003-07-27 | WWE | Vengeance | Chris Benoit | Tournament final for the revived title | WWE United States Championship |
| W | 2004-02-15 | WWE | No Way Out — Daly City | Brock Lesnar | Singles — frog splash after a Goldberg spear; the summit | WWE Championship |
| W | 2004-03-14 | WWE | WrestleMania XX — Madison Square Garden | Kurt Angle | Singles — retains by untying his boot to slip the ankle lock | WWE Championship |
| L | 2004-06-27 | WWE | The Great American Bash | JBL | Texas bullrope match — the reign ends on a contested finish | WWE Championship |
| W | 2005-02-20 | WWE | No Way Out | The Basham Brothers | Tag — with Rey Mysterio | WWE Tag Team Championship |
| L | 2005-08-21 | WWE | SummerSlam | Rey Mysterio | Ladder match — custody of Dominik hung above the ring | — |
| W | 2005-11-11 | WWE | SmackDown | Mr. Kennedy | Singles — his final match, two days before his death | — |
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Curated ledger · documented highlights · some bouts are not listed
The bouts the reputation rests on. Star ratings are deliberately not published: Observer figures for these matches were not verified in this pass, and this page does not guess at numbers.
vs Rey Mysterio Jr.
WCW Cruiserweight Championship vs. mask
vs El Hijo del Santo & Octagon
Hair vs. mask, with Art Barr — AAA's American breakthrough
vs Brock Lesnar
WWE Championship — the summit
vs Kurt Angle
WWE Championship — the untied boot
Championships in AAA, ECW, WCW and WWE, spread across every weight class he was allowed into. Independent and Mexican reign dates beyond those stated were not verified in this pass and are not invented here.
February 15, 2004 – June 27, 2004 · won from Brock Lesnar at No Way Out, retained against Kurt Angle at WrestleMania XX, lost to JBL in a Texas bullrope match at The Great American Bash · the first Mexican-American WWE Champion, a framing WWE itself uses
Two reigns as Los Guerreros with Chavo (from Survivor Series 2002), one with Tajiri (Judgment Day 2003 ladder match), one with Rey Mysterio (No Way Out 2005)
July 27, 2003, beating Chris Benoit in the tournament final at Vengeance to become the revived title’s first champion
September 2000, and again at Backlash on April 21, 2002 from Rob Van Dam, three weeks after his return
April 3, 2000, from Chris Jericho on Raw — the night Latino Heat and Mamacita entered the vocabulary
Starrcade, December 29, 1996, over Diamond Dallas Page in the tournament final
Fall Brawl 1997 from Chris Jericho; regained November 10, 1997 from Rey Mysterio Jr., two weeks after losing the Halloween Havoc mask match
April 8, 1995 from 2 Cold Scorpio, and again that July — his ECW run lasted barely five months and is still talked about
With Art Barr, 1994, as La Pareja del Terror — the most hated team in Mexico, by design
Family first, always — even the groups that were not family were about family.
Eddie Guerrero, Art Barr (with Konnan, Chicano Power and others in the wider Gringos Locos unit)
The great heel act of early-90s Mexico: a Mexican-American and a gringo playing anti-Mexico villains so effectively that the hair-vs-mask loss to El Hijo del Santo and Octagon headlined When Worlds Collide on November 6, 1994. Barr died three weeks after that match; Eddie carried the frog splash for the rest of his career in tribute.
Eddie Guerrero, and most of WCW's Latino roster
Founded in October 1998 as an nWo parody with a real grievance under it — Eddie's on-screen complaint about WCW wasting its Latino talent was barely a work. Short-lived, dissolved around his 1999 car-accident recovery, and affectionately revived by WWE storylines decades later.
Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn; later Eddie & Chavo Guerrero
The Radicalz jumped from WCW together on January 31, 2000 and changed the in-ring standard of the main roster on arrival. Los Guerreros, with Chavo from 2002, turned the family shtick into gold — 'We lie, we cheat, we steal' started as a heel mission statement and became a babyface anthem, which tells you everything about how the audience took to him.
Four masks and names before the world knew his face: Mascara Magica (CMLL) → Black Tiger II (NJPW) → Eddie Guerrero everywhere else — and finally Latino Heat, the persona that was mostly just him, turned up.
The masked name in Mexico City, tagging with El Hijo del Santo as La Pareja Atomica — the respectful lucha apprenticeship before the heel turn that made him.
The second man under the Black Tiger hood, working New Japan's junior division against Jushin Thunder Liger, Wild Pegasus and the class of the era. He won the 1996 Best of the Super Juniors under it.
Charming, jealous, larcenous — the character born in the Chyna storyline and perfected on SmackDown: lowriders, the Three Amigos, lie-cheat-steal finishes where the referee never saw a thing. WWE's shorthand for a whole style of babyface cheating is still, functionally, 'doing an Eddie.'
The championship-era Eddie: the same act with the weight of representation on it. He talked openly about sobriety, faith and family, and the El Paso-to-title-belt arc — told in his autobiography Cheating Death, Stealing Life — is why the reign meant more than its 112 days.
Gory Guerrero's youngest son to WWE Champion, in nineteen working years.
Trained by his father Gory Guerrero and his brothers, debuts in Mexico while still studying at New Mexico Highlands University.
Headlines AAA's Los Angeles breakthrough show on November 6 with Art Barr, losing hair to El Hijo del Santo and Octagon. Barr dies weeks later; Eddie adopts the frog splash permanently.
Two ECW Television Championship reigns and the Malenko series in five months; WCW signs him before the year is out.
Drops the Cruiserweight Championship to Rey Mysterio Jr. in the title-vs-mask match on October 26 — the match a generation of smaller wrestlers points to.
Falls asleep at the wheel on New Year's Day and nearly dies. The painkiller addiction that follows shapes the next four years.
Arrives in WWF on January 31 with Benoit, Malenko and Saturn; wins the European and Intercontinental titles and becomes Latino Heat.
Released on November 12, 2001 amid addiction problems — the low point he spoke about openly for the rest of his life.
Returns clean on April 1, wins the Intercontinental Championship from Rob Van Dam at Backlash within three weeks, then builds Los Guerreros with Chavo.
Beats Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship at No Way Out on February 15, retains against Kurt Angle at WrestleMania XX on March 14, and shares the confetti with Chris Benoit. Loses the title to JBL on June 27.
The custody-of-Dominik storyline peaks in the SummerSlam ladder match on August 21; a face turn and a last title shot against Batista follow. He beats Mr. Kennedy on the November 11 SmackDown and dies in Minneapolis on November 13, at 38.
Inducted April 1, 2006 by Chris Benoit, Rey Mysterio and Chavo. Rey dedicates his WrestleMania 22 world title win to him.
Rey Mysterio publishes a letter to Eddie at The Players' Tribune on November 13, 2025; Dominik Mysterio's whole championship act — down to a SummerSlam win built on a faked chair shot and a frog splash — runs on Eddie's playbook.
Who he went to war with — and in this career, war and love kept trading places.
The defining opposite number, twice. Halloween Havoc 1997 was the perfect athletic version; the 2005 feud — built on the claim that Eddie, not Rey, was Dominik's biological father, with custody hung above a SummerSlam ladder on August 21, 2005 — was the ugly soap-opera version, and Eddie played the villain of it brilliantly. Rey has spent twenty years honouring him for both.
One night, February 15, 2004, and the most-cited underdog title win of its era: the Goldberg spear, the DDT, the frog splash, and a champion who wept with the belt because everyone watching knew what the road there had been.
The technician-versus-trickster pairing. The WrestleMania XX defense on March 14, 2004, won by untying his own boot to slide out of the ankle lock, is the single cleanest expression of the character ever filmed. Angle has called him one of the greatest of all time.
The 2004 feud that ended the reign — a bloody Judgment Day match and the Texas bullrope finish at The Great American Bash on June 27 that took the title on a reversed-decision technicality. The blood loss at Judgment Day remains one of the era's most infamous images.
Friend, travel partner, Radicalz co-founder, and the other half of the WrestleMania XX confetti scene on March 14, 2004 — an image the industry now views through everything learned in 2007. Their 2003 United States Championship tournament final at Vengeance was the on-screen version of a twenty-year friendly argument.
The record of him — what he made, and what has been made about him.
His autobiography, published months before his death — unusually frank about addiction, the 1999 car accident, the firing and the recovery.
WWE's career retrospective DVD set, built around the title win.
Raw on November 14 and SmackDown on November 18, 2005 were full tribute episodes. Every November since brings on-air acknowledgments, and the 20th anniversary in 2025 brought a wave of them, led by Rey Mysterio's Players' Tribune letter.
A recurring playable legend in WWE's games, frog splash and lowrider entrance included.
The marks he left, stated plainly.
Won from Brock Lesnar at No Way Out with a frog splash after a Goldberg spear; retained against Kurt Angle at WrestleMania XX; lost to JBL in a Texas bullrope match. WWE frames him as the first Mexican-American WWE Champion.
Inducted April 1, 2006 in Rosemont, alongside Bret Hart's class, by Chris Benoit, Rey Mysterio and Chavo Guerrero — the first posthumous induction of the modern annual ceremony era. Also honoured by AAA's hall, the Hardcore Hall of Fame and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.
Tag gold in Mexico with Art Barr, two ECW Television reigns, the WCW United States and Cruiserweight titles, and eleven championships in WWF/WWE across two runs.
As Black Tiger II in New Japan — part of the junior heavyweight class that reshaped two continents' idea of what smaller wrestlers could headline.
The October 26, 1997 title-vs-mask match with Rey Mysterio Jr. is still the reference point for televised cruiserweight wrestling in America.
The frog splash, the Three Amigos, and the fake-the-foul chair spot are living moves in WWE — Dominik Mysterio retained the Intercontinental Championship at SummerSlam 2025 with a match built entirely of Eddie references, boot escape and frog splash included.
Deliberately absent: a career win-loss total, star ratings, and any invented precision about his Mexico and Japan reigns — dates this pass could not verify to the day are described in prose rather than tabulated. His final match is dated to the November 11, 2005 broadcast, with the taping-date caveat noted in the module header.
Follow, connect and verify.
He was found unconscious by his nephew Chavo in his Minneapolis hotel room on the morning of November 13, 2005, and could not be revived. The cause was acute heart failure resulting from underlying cardiovascular disease; his widow Vickie has said the years of earlier substance abuse contributed to the heart condition, even though he had been publicly, proudly sober for roughly four years. He was 38, and had wrestled — and won — on SmackDown two days earlier.
Yes, once — from February 15, 2004, when he pinned Brock Lesnar at No Way Out with a frog splash after Goldberg’s interference, to June 27, 2004, when JBL took the title in a Texas bullrope match at The Great American Bash. In between he retained against Kurt Angle at WrestleMania XX by untying his boot to escape the ankle lock — the most Eddie finish imaginable. WWE frames him as the first Mexican-American WWE Champion.
Yes — Class of 2006, inducted on April 1, 2006 in Rosemont, Illinois, the night before WrestleMania 22, in the same class as Bret Hart. Chris Benoit, Rey Mysterio and Chavo Guerrero handled the induction. He is also in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame, AAA’s hall, and the Hardcore Hall of Fame.
As a living tribute-slash-inheritance. Dominik is the child at the centre of the 2005 Eddie–Rey custody storyline, and his modern heel act leans into the idea that he is “Eddie’s boy” in spirit: frog splash finisher, lie-cheat-steal tactics, and a SummerSlam 2025 Intercontinental title defense against AJ Styles built almost entirely of Eddie spots — the faked chair shot, a loose-boot escape echoing WrestleMania XX, then the frog splash. Rey wrote in his 2025 anniversary letter that Eddie would have loved what Dominik has become in the ring.
A win over Mr. Kennedy on the SmackDown broadcast of November 11, 2005 — two days before his death. The episode was taped earlier that week, as SmackDown was; this page publishes the broadcast date and notes the caveat rather than guessing at the taping date. His last pay-per-view match was the World Heavyweight Championship challenge against Batista at No Mercy on October 9, 2005, his 38th birthday.