Eddie Guerrero was loved by millions of wrestling fans all over the world, and unfortunately the former WWE Champion passed away far too soon.
The wrestling world was hit pretty hard by Eddie’s death, and in the hours that followed his passing there were a lot of questions that needed to be answered.
Chavo Guerrero recently spoke with Chris Van Vliet, and he noted that Vince McMahon met him at Eddie’s hotel room. According to Chavo, Vince McMahon asked if he should hold a show following Eddie’s passing, and Chavo insisted that Eddie would not want him to cancel.
“After Eddie passed, Vince — actually, Vince, Triple H, Shawn Michaels all came to me at Eddie’s hotel room and were in the hallway, and they were like ‘What do I do?’ Vince goes, ‘Do I cancel the show?’ And I’m like, ‘Ab-so-lutely not. Eddie would never have wanted you to cancel the show. The show must go on, we have to do the show’ … I can’t say that I made the final decision [but] they wanted my opinion on it. And whether he would have taken it or not? It’s up to him, it’s his show. But I told him, ‘No! You don’t do that, absolutely not. Whether you do a tribute show or whatever, the show goes on. And I want to wrestle. And he said, ‘All right.’ And I came out that night as Chavo Guerrero with blond hair.”
Chavo added that when he went on to face JBL he felt like he was being guided.
“You know, I was guided. I felt that Eddie was there with me, I was guided through it. Plus I had JBL, wanted to wrestle me and put me over. So you know, he’s a guy that loved Eddie. I loved Eddie, we all did. So you know, the fans were behind [me], it was like I couldn’t do anything wrong that night. I look back at that match, it was just super-special, man. Super special, to just get in that ring and just performing. And Mick Foley, I think maybe a couple weeks afterward. He wasn’t even with the company, but when I saw him after somewhere, he goes, ‘Chavo, when you climbed up for that frog splash at the end of that match and you hit that frog splash, one two three.’ He goes, ‘That was such a special moment.’”
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