Joining a class of celebrated athletes from the city across a variety of sports, WWE Hall of Famer Eddie Guerrero has been inducted into the El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame.
As part of the celebration, Guerrero’s life and career were highlighted in a recent article for the El Paso Times covering his early life and career, the struggles he went through at the start of the 2000s, and his historic win over Brock Lesnar to win the WWE Championship at No Way Out 2004 in El Paso.
Guerrero was particularly noted on his ability to play whatever role was needed in a brilliant manner. As stated by Dean Malenko in the article:
“He was just as good at being a heel or a baby face — in wrestling terminology a good guy or a bad guy. Eddie’s the guy you want to hug, kiss him on the cheek, then two seconds later he could do a Jekyll and Hyde in the ring and you’d want to kill him, you wanted to beat him up. He had that kind of mannerism. Guys like that, it’s a very small list of guys. Eddie happens to be one of them.”