I've always been a fan of wrestling, and Eddie Guerrero was always an amazing athlete, so reading his auto-biography is a no brainer right? Well, the fact that he has also died since the release inspires me to read it even more. Cheating Death, Stealing Life, frog-splashed its way into my wrestling book top ten. Other than my usual gripes about there not being enough interesting road stories, this was a solid book. It was actually pretty hard-warming for a wrestling book. When Eddie finally got his shit together, his life got back and track and he was called back up to the WWE. Eddie talks about all the times drugs and alcohol nearly cost him everything, eventually seeing him living in a crappy apartment and wrestling on the independent circuit just to make ends meet. Unlike in the ring, no punches are pulled. In fact, it probably contributed to his early death.Įddie's story goes from Mexico to Japan, from ECW to WCW, and finally to the WWE and the battles with addiction that eventually got him fired. He touches on his partying lifestyle early, which is good since later parts of the book show how much that lifestyle would threaten to destroy his life. The wrestling stuff started on page one.Įddie covered a lot of ground in the early goings, from growing up in a wrestling family and eventually breaking into the business in Mexico. One of the early indicators of how much I'll like a pro-wrestling biography is how quickly they make with the wrestling action. Eddie Guerrero was one of my favorites ten of those years and his death was one of the big reasons I quit watching. Cheating Death, Stealing Life is the biography of Eddie Guerrero, chronicling his early life up until shortly after he won the WWE Heavyweight title.Ĭonfession Time: I was a big professional wrestling fan for a quarter of a century.
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