Eddie Guerrero WCW
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Eddie Guerrero - World Championship Wrestling In WCW, Eddie Guerrero found considerable singles success, winning the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship in late 1996 and the WCW World Cruiserweight Championship twice in 1997. One such title match was against Rey Misterio, Jr. at Halloween Havoc. Eddie Guerrero lost the match, but called it his favorite match in the February 2004 edition of SmackDown! magazine and his autobiography (published posthumously). Despite Eddie Guerrero's success and popularity, he was one of many wrestlers who were frustrated at never being given a chance to be main event stars in WCW. These frustrations came to a head when Eddie Guerrero requested that WCW President Eric Bischoff either push his character or give him a raise for family reasons. Bischoff responded by throwing coffee at Eddie Guerrero (In Eddie's autobiography, he says apparently Bischoff accidently knocked his coffee off the table, and it was a complete accident that Eddie was hit). The wrestler, furious, demanded Bischoff release him from his WCW contract on a live episode of WCW Monday Nitro. Eddie Guerrero then left the company for a period of months, angry at Bischoff for what he had done. However, Guerrero later returned to WCW, leading to the belief that maybe Guerrero's angry speeches against Bischoff were actually a work (Guerrero later confirmed it to be a worked shoot). Eddie Guerrero would later rebut this on WWE's DVD Monday Night War claiming that he tried to put personal differences aside for the good of the company, yet found himself angry and outraged once more because of Bischoff's continued refusal to elevate Guerrero and other similar wrestlers. Eddie Guerrero responded to Bischoff's actions by forming the Latino World Order (or LWo), which was understood by the fans to be a mockery of Bischoff's New World Order. The group was an answer to Bischoff's refusal to push Latino wrestlers in ways they deserved. The group eventually grew to encompass almost all the Mexican wrestlers working for WCW at the time. However, Eddie Guerrero was involved in a serious car accident in 1999 that cut short the lWo storyline. Eddie Guerrero survived the accident and returned to wrestling in a matter of months. After his return, he continued to be displeased with WCW management and signed with the WWF in 2000 along with top WCW stars Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn. Eddie Guerrero WCW |
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