![]() As I watched this match, I kept wondering, who was doing a better job: Benoit's sadistic and brutal work on Guerrero or Guerrero's selling and great babyface combacks. All this leads to Guerrero missing a clothesline and hitting his arm on the post. They have like 8 minutes to work with here, and they start off fast as hell with some pretty difficult sequences. Chris Benoit (Nitro 10/16/95) - I love this match, it's a perfect TV match. Very different from every match that took place in WWF and WCW in 1995.Ħ. I don't know what else to really add to this, but this is a match that feels very much like some of the best ROH matches out there, except this has better workers and it happened in 1995 on a b-show. Chris Benoit (WCWSN 11/18/95) - This is a semi-famous gem from the mid-1990s of WCW, as Benoit and Guerrero proceed to wrestle an insane balls out match that leads to a memorable double knockout finish. Malenko makes a great babyface and does a great job selling the leg in this match.ħ. When I watch Guerrero in matches like these, where he just combines great heelish tricks (lots of begging off, stalling, false sincerity) with his great amazing ability, I'm convince that Guerrero at his best was probably better than any other pro wrestler ever. Watching this match, it's really apparent how Eddy was brilliant at working the crowd through mannerisms and body language, and how important Love Machine Art Barr was in his career for helping him develop personality wise. Dean Malenko (Handheld 9/18/97) - This is a handheld copy, and even though I'm a big Dean Malenko fan, this was the Eddy Guerrero show. Very simple yet excellent TV match, Guerrero's and Mysterio's total control of the audience and storytelling were the high point of 2005 WWE television.Ĩ. So we have this great match, that starts off with Guerrero pretending to wrestle clean and then he finally takes over and gets heat by simply shoving Mysterio off the ropes and just bringing on the intensity. Mysterio, while he couldn't pull off the spots he did in the Havoc '97 match, had become in my opinion the best seller in the world. But, Guerrero's acting, body language, mic skills, and facial expressions had never been better than they were at this point. Mysterio had multiple knee surgeries, and Guerrero's body and back were destroyed from an almost fatal car crash. ![]() ![]() Rey Mysterio (SD! 6/23/05) - Guerrero and Mysterio at this point were no longer the superquick marvels they were in WCW or in their lucha days. Guerrero delivered here and it was a pretty brilliant match.ĩ. Also, there is a great sequence where Low Ki is doing his trademark kicks to Eddy's chest and Eddy catches the foot, turns it into an STF in such a flawless fashion. Even though Low Ki was the champion here, Eddy was wrestling like the touring NWA champions of the past, playing the subtle heel and controlling most of the match with some awesome submissions like the rarely used Inverted Gory Special. Low-Ki (ICW 11/30/01) - This was during the time Eddy was fired from WWE and was going around the indy circuit putting over local indy darlings in wrestling clinics. So, yeah a few days ago I finally finished the set and had some thoughts on Guerrero's best work.ġ0. An internet acquaintance of mine makes essential comps of various great workers around the world of pro wrestling, and in June he finally completed an epic Eddy Guerrero set that was an astounding 36 discs. I felt like writing about Eddy Guerrero since this past Summer, I pretty much watched his whole career unfold.
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