3. Eddie Guerrero

Eddie remains one of the most beloved men in the history of the BUSINESS, and people still talk about how much they miss him, nine years after he passed away.
Nobody that has ever stepped foot in a wrestling ring pulled off their MOVES more crisply and cleanly than Eddie did. The stories of him practicing his wrestling as a little kid are very well-known, but it showed in his matches. He wasn’t just someone that grew up as a FAN and then decided to go to a wrestling school one day when he was 18. He was born into the business, and he took it up at an age when most of us were learning how to talk.
He was able to bring Lucha Libre to America, without having a lot of the overly fake-looking spots that some Lucha stars tend to have. They’re flashy, and a lot of the stuff looks cool, but it also looks more like dance, and is filled with too much of the “I’ll stand here while you grab my hand and jump to the top rope, and then I’ll help you flip down into an arm drag” stuff that turns a lot of people off to the product. Eddie had Lucha moves, but his moves always looked like actual wrestling. As he integrated more Japanese and American-style wrestling, the more his matches became art.
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