Sometimes, being a wrestling fan is tough sometimes. When you think your watching some great matches and think that it's the top of the mountain, it ends somehow. Being a fan of wrestling since 2000, my first pay per view being No Mercy, I did miss a lot of wrestling growing up. I didn't know ECW. I didn't know about WCW. All I cared about was WWE and that's it. And then comes Eddie Guerrero. Everytime he was in a match, I cheered for him. Many really don't know the love I have for Eddie.
Over the years after I started watching, yeah, got a lot of people talking bad about wrestling. Yes, it's true that it is fake. That's why it's called entertainment for a reason. I love everything about it and I miss being there live. And Eddie was the man to entertain the crowd.
October 2005, me and my dad went to see Smackdown, live from Reno and there was Eddie, at the time being a major heel becoming a face again. To see him smile and cheat for a win made me smile and stand up and clap. Eddie amazed me that night like never before. I wanted to continue cheering him on. I wanted him to be on top of the mountain again and hold the title. It was the last time I would ever see Eddie perform.
The following month, my dad told me that a wrestler recently died on television and I was wondering who it was. Turned out that Eddie had passed away and I was heartbroken. I've lost my favorite wrestler in the 5 years I was a fan of it. Watching both tribute shows made me cry that I lost a great wrestler.
Fast forward 6 years later, I'm watching Eddie's DVD's at the moment and see how it was when Eddie was still around. Yeah, I do get comments that wrestling is all show but I smile and think of Eddie. He was the one who put the Hispanic community right there and made sure to raise above the others and not care. Eddie remains to me one of my favorite wrestlers of all time because he fought his demons and defeated them.
Maybe that's why I don't mark out anymore because where's the passion I saw in Eddie years ago? With Edge retired and everyone else just there, nothing else seems to fit this picture much. That's why I don't watch TNA because it's bad. As for ROH, I don't watch it either because it's yet to make that huge impact on me at the moment.
Sin Cara might be that light some old school fans are waiting for. He may not be Eddie but he is a gifted luchador that wants to make it big in this business. With time, he will be big and maybe then, I will mark out in the future. Why must I ramble about this you might ask? Because of two reasons:
1: I will miss Eddie Guerrero every single day and to hope that one day in the future, to see Eddie perform a great match in the heavens with the other greats.
And 2: To let the haters know to continue hating on Cena, and the matches and all this kind of stuff. I'm not the one to rant (I got many friends that do that on Tuesday night) because I tend to just watch and enjoy, just like how I did when I first saw WWE live for the first time.
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