EDDIE GUERRERO

Eric Gladstone Mar 25, 2022. 7 minute read

Pro Wrestling Tees’ Powerbomb Pizza Made Me Like Wrestling a Little Less

On March 10, Pro Wrestling Tees announced a collaboration with Uber Eats meant to please the wrestling/pizza/t-shirt lover crossover that defines more than a few of its customers: Powerbomb Pizza. I had some questions: is it a cynical marketing ploy? Does it actually benefit wrestlers? Most importantly, is the food…

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Colette Arrand Jan 16, 2022. 10 minute read

Steve Austin “Wins” the Royal Rumble (1997 Week 2)

About a quarter of the way through an interminable tag team match pitting Goldust and Marc Mero against Hunter Hearst Helmsley and Jerry “The King” Lawler, I paused the episode of Raw and said “This is going to be hard” to myself. Not watching wrestling; watching wrestling is easy, even…

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Colette Arrand Mar 9, 2021. 3 minute read

Eddie Guerrero’s Mullet: A Review

I love a good mullet. I love bad mullets and mediocre mullets, too—really the mullet spectrum runs from “person who gives no fucks to a degree that scares me” to “person who gives no fucks and is really really hot”—and that love, like too many things in my life, has…

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Colette Arrand Feb 21, 2021. 11 minute read

Struggle and Redemption: On Eddie Guerrero’s 2004 WWE Championship Victory

This week marked the 17th anniversary of Eddie Guerrero’s WWE Championship victory over Brock Lesnar at No Way Out 2004, and yes, I am in my feelings about Latino Heat again. More professional wrestling In 1997, Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio Jr. Wrestled a Perfect Match The Royal Rumble Is…

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Colette Arrand Oct 11, 2020. 14 minute read

In 1997, Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio Jr. Wrestled A Perfect Match

Eddie Guerrero’s birthday was this week. He would have been 53. Wrestlers die young—it’s an unfortunate reality of an industry whose primary corporation lobbied away state athletic commission oversight, largely looked the other way on steroid usage and drug and alcohol abuse, and created a concussion-heavy product that only changed…

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