Vickie Guerrero speaks on Eddie's autopsy report

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Nov. 15, 2005

After the untimely passing of Eddie Guerrero, WWE and the entire sports-entertainment community is still reeling from the devastating loss of a champion. The initial autopsy reports on Guerrero have come in. WWE.com spoke with Eddie's widow, Vickie Guerrero, earlier today.

"It was heart failure. It was from his past - the drinking and the drug abuse. They found signs of heart disease. She (the examiner) said that the blood vessels were very worn and narrow, and that just showed all the abuse from the scheduling of work and his past. And Eddie just worked out like crazy all the time. It made his heart grow bigger and work harder and the vessels were getting smaller, and that's what caused the heart failure. He went into a deep sleep.

As soon as they saw his heart, they saw the lining of his heart already had the heart disease. There was no trauma, and Eddie hadn't hurt himself in any way. It answered a lot of questions. I knew Eddie wasn't feeling very good for the last week. He was home and kept saying he wasn't feeling good and we thought it was just "road tired." So we thought he just had to rest. It answered a lot of my questions, too, because he was just so exhausted. She said it was normal because the heart was working so hard.

When he didn't call me last night and the night before I knew it was for real, because he would call me every night. I miss his phone calls. I cried through the whole thing (last night).

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More here.

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1. .

:kick:

[Shell Beau]

2. Very sad!

He was so young! :cry:

[Faygo Kid]

3. Tragic. Steroids.

We have seen it time and time again. Eddie Guerrero used to be a lightweight, or middleweight. Then he got absolutely huge. What a tragic tradeoff. If I am wrong, apologies, but this problem is terrible in wrestling. Angers me, but mostly saddens me.

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4. ..

:kick: for the night crew.

[bigwillq]

5. That's so sad.

:cry:

[Ekirh]

6. Thanks for posting this . . .

I saw it on the few wrestling boards I frequent but it keeps on hitting me every time I've seen it . . .


Watched the Tribute Show for him yesterday (Another one Friday). . I didn't cry . . but when the crowed started to go "Thank you Eddie" "clap clap clap" I got over whelmed for a bit.


Steroids or not . . . I'm not going to speculate (although like someone mention it is a bad problem in wrestling). . . it is still a huge loss. . . and just my condolences all around to family and friends.

R.I.P Eddie. . if there is a Heaven . . I know your chilling with your former partner Art Barr once again . . .