Originally Posted by Greg B

It's still very sad. I grew up on wrestling. For almost two decades the WWF used to tape their shows across the street from my office in my hometown. I saw all the greats from Bruno Sammartino and Ivan Putsky to Hogan and on.

I hadn't been keeping up on wrestling until just this year and Eddie Guerrero was my favorite. I could get on the phone with all my latino cousins and friends and we'd talk about him all day. He really brought back lots of fans and the kids loved him and loved to hate him. When he was battling Mysterio it was a real treat.

38 is too young. I expect to see the kids in my neighborhood crestfallen but we'll cheer em' up.

I'll have to remember the good times in wrestling that I witnessed. Like meeting Jessie the Body Ventura and his shoulders were so big they looked like he was smuggling furniture in them. When Andre the Giant stopped by my grandparents' house to get cookies and took up the entire porch and bent it. When King Kong Bundy went to get a snack at the corner deli and was so big he blocked out the sunlight on Market St. and people swerved out of the way with their cars so they wouldn't hit him. The time the Iron Sheik has a $15,000 persian rug swiped from his limo and the cops had to find it. When Road Warriors showed up in town and people mobbed the arena. When Big John Stud moved me out of the way the day King Kong Bundy debuted and we saw he was so huge it looked like a parade passing by.

When Rowdy Roddy Piper parked his car near the basketball court and yelled at the kids playing. right in front of the city's most exclusive businessman's club. That was a riot! Watching the cooks at the diners having to go outside and lay down and rest after the wrestlers would come in and eat everything but the customers.

Shaking hands with some of the wrestlers like Hulk Hogan. His hands were so big if he waved them through the air you figured the moon would rise with a black eye.

I'll never forget Wrestlemania I. Awesome.

Well we'll have to wait to find out what the cause of Eddie's death was.