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Date of Birth:
17 October 1972, Kansas City, Missouri, USA


Birth Name:
Marshall Bruce Mathers III

Nickname
Slim Shady


Height
5' 10" (1.78 m)

Mini Biography
Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on the 17th October 1972, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Son of a fifteen-year-old mother at the time of his birth and a father who left six month later never to return, Marshall spent his early childhood being shoved back and forth from Kansas City and Detroit. He settled on the Eastside of Detroit when he was 12. Switching schools every two to three months made it difficult to make friends, graduate and to stay out of trouble. Being a rap fan for most of his life, Marshall began rapping at the early age of 4. Rhyming words together, battling schoolmates in the lunchroom brought joy to what was otherwise a painful existence.

At the age of 14, he began to get very serious about his rapping but it wasn't until he was 17 that he actually made a name for himself, becoming M& M, which he would later respell as "Eminem". Being rejected by most fellow rappers because of his race, Marshall grew an anger that flows through his music to this day. After failing the 9th grade for three times in a row, he quit school, but remarks that he doesn't consider himself stupid and doesn't advise that people should follow his example. He says that it just wasn't for him. Forcing himself on radio shows, freestyle battles, Marshall threw himself head first into the rap game, where he was swallowed up most of the time. His very first album was titled "Infinite" and, while the album sold less than a thousand copies, it was the gearing up stages for the rapper who became a millionaire. It was then that his daughter, Hailie Jade Scott, was born on December 25th of 1995 with long time girlfriend Kim Scott. Having nothing to lose at all, flat broke and not knowing where he would be living the next week, Marshall set out to rant about life in general, the set quickly caught the ear of hip-hop's difficult-to-please underground. What came out of this was the Slim Shady EP, the early work for the later Dr. Dre revised Slim Shady LP. Down to nearly his last dime, he went into the 1997 Rap Olympics in Los Angeles, basically hoping to win the $1,500 cash price which he badly needed. After battling for an hour and throwing back every race diss thrown at him, Marshall made it to second place losing in a slip up. Furious that he had lost, Marshall didn't even notice that he had been spotted. In the crowd were a few producers from Interscope, and they were handed a copy of the "Infinite" tape by way of a demo. Dr. Dre got to hear it and eventually tracked him down. The two instantly hit it off, recording four songs in the their first six hours of working - three which made it to his first LP. After the album was finished, Dr. Dre asked Marshall to come work with him on his new album. He helped produce several tracks and was on the best songs of the album.

Now officially making it, Marshall and Dre set to make his second LP. The album became the Marshall Mathers LP and won 3 Grammies and was the first rap album ever to be nominated "Album of the Year", selling more than 8 million records in the United States alone. He also stunned critics when he shot down all homophobic remarks by performing "Stan" with Elton John. Currently working on his third LP, Em has made a movie, 8 Mile (2002), and has gone back and brought his friend with him; D-12. Though 2001 was a rough year for the rapper, being charged with weapon offenses, divorcing his wife, and almost going to prison, Marshall explains his life today in one word. "Claimer".

IMDb Mini Biography By: Rod Reece


Spouse
Kimberly Anne Scott (14 January 2006 - 19 December 2006) (divorced)
Kimberly Anne Scott (14 June 1999 - 11 October 2001) (divorced) 1 child


Trade Mark
Spells "Eminem" with the second "e" backwards.

Rarely smiles



Trivia
His 2000 album, "The Marshall Mathers LP", sold 1.76 million copies in the first week of release in the U.S., a record for a solo artist.

His wife Kimberly Mathers was granted physical custody of their 5-year-old daughter, continued financial support, a personal driver, and reinstatement of her credit cards. [29 August 2000]

2000 Album "The Marshall Mathers LP" sold a reported 7 million copies. [January 2001]

3rd January 2001: Album "The Marshall Mathers LP" nominated for 4 Grammy awards at The 43rd Annual Grammy Awards (2001) (TV), including: Album of the Year, Best Rap Album, Best Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for the track "Forget About Dre" with Dr Dre.

Featured in "Entertainment Weekly" magazine (December 22/29, 2000) and was voted #3 for Entertainer of the Year.

Dr. Dre is Eminem's mentor.

Father of Hailie Jade (b. Christmas Day, 1995)

Raised in Detroit, Michigan.

Got joint custody of daughter Hailie Jade. [2001]

With the band D12, Eminem has had a number 10 hit with S**t on you, and a number 2 hit with Purple Hills (originally titled Purple Pills).

The name 'Eminem' came from his initials M(arshall) M(athers).

He has had an operation on his knee, which led to his awkward stance at numerous performances.

Wanted to be a comic book artist

He wears glasses

Cuts his own hair.

Parodied on "Saturday Night Live" (1975) by Chris Parnell.

Has said that he would like his daughter, Haile Jade, to become an actress.

Has a younger half-brother called Nathan (his mother's son from a later marriage), born in 1986.

Made $29,000,000 in 2002 with The Eminem Show LP, as the CEO of Shady Records, and the Anger Managment Tour '02.

On March 23, 2003 his song "Lose Yourself" from the film 8 Mile (2002) became the first rap song to win an Academy Award. He was not in attendance, and one of the song's co-writers, Luis Resto, accepted the Oscar on his behalf.

Won a Juno Award (Canada's Grammy Awards) for International Album of the Year.

The only white person to ever be on the cover of "The Source" and "XXL" magazines.

Adopted niece, Alaina, giving her his last name.

Was the only guest artist appearing on Jay-Z's album, "The Blueprint."

Has a tattoo of his daughter on his right lower shoulder

In his 2004 song, "Like Toy Soldiers", he stated he no longer wants to argue with Ja Rule and other members of Murder Inc.

Failed the 9th grade three times until finally dropping out. He said that he was not stupid [which is evident from interviews and his obvious success], but said that he lacked an interest in school. All he wanted to do was rap.

Favorite movie of all time is Scarface (1983).

Has a half sister and a half brother on his dad's side; Sarah and Michael Mathers.

He was voted the 82nd Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone.

In May 2003, a minor media stir came about when Eminem refused to allow rock parodist 'Weird Al' Yankovic to produce a video for his "Lose Yourself" parody "Couch Potato". Although semi-official statements from Eminem's camp stated that the rapper wasn't being malicious and simply did not want a parody to detract from his image as a serious hip-hop artist, most of the press that covered the story sided with Yankovic. Despite the lack of the music video, the album featuring the parody, "Poodle Hat", earned Yankovic his highest chart debut in "Billboard" (#17) and, in February 2004, his third Grammy Award.

Has custody of his niece Lainie (short for Alaina). Lainie and his daughter Hailie have been brought up together and are considered sisters and he refers to both as his daughters. Lainie was mentioned in the song Mockingbird on the "Encore" album.

Spoofs his character from 8 Mile (2002) in his music video "Just lose it"

Is a Detroit Pistons fan

Has his own record company called Shady Records

The Eminem Show has sold more than eight million albums

To help support his mother, young Marshall worked as a short-order cook at a Michigan family restaurant called Gilbert's Lodge

At the 1997 Rap Olympics in Los Angeles, he came in second.

He has sold over 65 million records worldwide (February 2006).

Created his own fashion line called Shady Limited.

Filed for divorce less than 3 months after re-marrying his ex-wife.

Hired young actress Karli Filips twice to portray his daughter, Hailie Jade in his music videos for "Lose Yourself" and "Like Toy Soldiers". When they shot the Toy Soldiers video, Eminem had to be reminded Karli had played his daughter once before.

Adopted his ex-wife's, Kim, other daughter with another man. Her name is Whitney.

His "D 12" band mate Proof was best man at his second wedding to Kim Matters.

His "D 12" band mate Proof was killed in a night club shooting at 5 am. [11th April 2006]

Eddie Guzelian, a producer on the hit Disney Channel show American Dragon: Jake Long, wrote in his blog for the show that the character of Jake's little sister was named after Hailie, Eminems daughter. Eddie is a big Eminem fan and was actually listening to one of his albums while creating the character.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". Volume 245, pages 121- 122. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2006.

Monday 26th Feb 2001: Winner of Best International Male at the 2001 Brit Awards.

His ancestry is partly German and Swiss-German.

Son of Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr. and wife Deborah R. Nelson (later remarried).

His maternal grandmother Betty Hixson was married five times. He is her grandson from her first marriage.

Ranked #6 on VH1's 50 Greatest Hip Hop Artists.

Is good friends with Jay-Z.

January 2008 - Released from a Detroit hospital after being rushed there during Christmas 2007. His publicist attributed this to a bout with pneumonia.

Is left handed.

Lives in Rochester Hills, Michigan.



Personal Quotes
"I don't want them once they turn 18" - On Britney Spears & Christina Aguilera

"At this point, I'm like "Come up with something new." I hate the same old questions. But it seems like "white" magazines such as Spin and Rolling Stone focus on my "whiteness" more than Black magazines" --On his colour

"Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto, I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now"

"There's a difference between realness and an act, and they're an act, and they know they're an act, and they even say they're an act, they even say they're cornballs, they admit it." --On ICP

"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit."

"My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood." --On his family

"Some asshole kept throwing oranges and other fruit at me while I was onstage. Fucker had an arm like a major league pitcher..." --About one of his concerts.

"Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me."

"I had too much NyQuil and Vivarin again. Lost my stomach all over the place."

"Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night."

"Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that."

"I would never fucking put them in a rhyme. I don't even want them wondering if I was trying to diss them. I got a lot of love for them. I grew up on that shit. The other rappers, whatever." --On the Beastie Boys.

"All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling point...Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in their face."

"I get offended when people say, `So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!"

"You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me"

"It doesn't exactly feel like a shock, but it's all new to me, and I'm taking it in as it comes." --On his rise to stardom.

"A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious."

"A bunch of girls, swinging from a nice chandelier, landing on top of me naked...while I lay in a pool of steaming hot water!" --On his spring break fantasy

"I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white'."

"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."

"Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm fuckin around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess." --On his alter-ego, Slim Shady.

"There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'."

"When I was 9 years old, my uncle put me on to the Breakin' soundtrack. The first rap song I ever heard was Ice-T, 'Reckless.' From L.L. to the Fat Boys, and all that shit, I was fascinated. When L.L. first came out with 'I'm Bad', I wanted to do it, to rhyme. Standing in front of the mirror, I wanted to be like L.L." --On his influences.

"I'm not alone in feeling the way I feel. I believe that a lot of people can relate to my shit--whether white, black, it doesn't matter. Everybody has been through some shit, whether it's drastic or not so drastic. Everybody gets to the point of 'I don't give a fuck'."

"It was an honor to hear the words out of Dre's mouth that he liked my shit. Growing up, I was one of the biggest fans of N.W.A, from putting on the sunglasses and looking in the mirror and lipsinking, to wanting to be Dr. Dre, to be Ice Cube. This is the biggest hip-hop producer ever."

"I had nothing to lose, but something to gain. If I made an album for me and it was to my satisfaction, then I succeeded. If I didn't, then my producers were going to give up on the whole rap thing we were doing. I made some shit that I wanted to hear. The Slim Shady EP, I lashed out on everybody who talked shit about me."

"I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it."

"Anybody with a sense of humour is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end."

"Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence."

"I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and N.W.A. and I never went out and shot nobody."

"I don't like rap anyways, I'm just trying to get my porno career started."

"We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house."

"I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me, was coming to haunt Eminem."

"Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff. But just know Slim Shady is hip hop. I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me."

"If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business." --On homosexuality.

"I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal."

(On if he let's his daughter listen to his music) Yeah, I do. Not all of it I play for her. Some songs, got a lot of cussing, especially the one she's on. So I make her a clean version. 'Cause I protect my Child! Not yours! Rest of the kids I don't care about - buy my album, go murder, rape, pillage, kill!"

(On his Oscar and why he didn't go to the show) "I'm thankful for it, I'm not ungrateful. I'm very grateful. I just don't choose to rub elbows with the whole Hollywood scene. It's not me. If there is just one award show you don't go to you gonna look ungrateful. Period. But me, I just don't like to go to places where I feel outta my element. And me sitting there with a bunch of movie stars and actors, I don't belong. I rap and do hip-hop, the music that I love. I'm about the music. The grammy's are about as far as I'm goin' go outside my element. It's still cool that I got it."

"Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up."

"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit."

"Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end."

"I don't have to say anything to my fans about my music and try to explain it, because they get it, and that's why they are fans, do you know what I mean?"

"Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley, to do Black Music so selfishly and use it to get myself wealthy."

"I remember once when I was 16 he came to my house, we were living on the east side of 8 mile, he came over with a brand new pair of shoes and he threw them at my feet and said 'Put those on', and I said 'why'? He said 'Because I'm tired of you wearing them dirty ass shoes'" His eulogy on the late Proof



Salary
8 Mile (2002) $3,000,000


Where Are They Now
(September 2003) Working on his fourth LP

(November 2004) Released his fourth album, "Encore" on November 12th.

(August 2005) Announced that he isn't retiring from the hip hop industry, but is taking a break to focus on his family.

(December 2005) Released an album called "Curtain Call: The Hits" which is a collection of his greatest hits, with 3 new songs.

(September 2006) Preparing to release a new album entitled 'The Re-Up' under his record label, Shady Records. It will feature new material from Eminem as well as songs from up-and-coming Shady Records artists, such as Stat Quo, Ca$his and Bobby Creekwater. It will also feature Obie Trice, D12, G-Unit and other artists on Shady and G-Unit Records. The first single from 'The Re-Up' will be "You Don't Know" by Eminem, 50 Cent, Ca$his and Lloyd Banks. The album is slated for release in December of 2006 and is executive produced by Eminem.

(May 2009) Released a new album "Relapse" on May 19th 2009 after about 5 years since the release of encore.

(June 2010) Released Recovery in which he expresses his disappointment in his last album.

Eddie Guerrero, one of my favorite WWE wrestlers passed away. He died in the bathroom of his hotel room in Minniapolis with a toothbrush in his hand. Not by alcohol, drugs or other things that were going through my mind, but from massive heart failure brought on by years of substance abuse. Eddie had been clean and sober for four years now and had recently celebrated that achievement. Now I've had my fair share for drug experimentation, but I've never went over board with it. It's safe to say for me that I really don't have a need for it anymore. For someone like Eddie to turn his life around for his own greater good then all of a sudden die, well, I don't think life is really fair.
Eddie was at the prime of his career in the world of professional wrestling. It had been rumored that he was going to have a second title run with the company (for those that don't know, yes, wrestling is scripted. And when the higher ups behind that curtain have faith in a wrestler to put the title on him, that's a big deal in this world of entertainment. That means they feel confident that he's good enough to carry the company help earn the WWE money).
Eddie was a very entertaining character. The writers in the WWE had always tried to make Eddie a "heel" (the bad guy). But fans like me had always cheered for the bad guy, so no matter how bad they made Eddie looked, we just wouldn't buy it and cheered even louder. Eddie's motto in the ring was to "lie, cheat and steal" for a victory. One of his most common tactics was to grab that ever present steel chair when the ref wasn't looking, toss it to his opponent, lay down on the canvas as he was knocked out by it. The ref would turn around, see what had happend and see Eddie's opponent with the "smoking gun" and disqualifies him and give Eddie the victory. He would shoot the crowd (and the camera) that sly grin and we would just eat it up!
The Guerrero family is a wrestling family. From Eddie's papi and grand papi, to his brothers and cousins. All had made there way into the wrestling ring, but only Eddie achieved the big fame that eluded the rest. There's a second Guerrero on the WWE roster and that's his nephew Chavo - who in my opinion is on equal caliber with Eddie. They teamed as a tag-team - were funny as hell - and were also opponents. His family legacy will always live on, go Chavito!
On the WWE's broadcast shows of RAW (on the USA Network) and Smackdown (on UPN), his friends and other wrestlers paid tribute to his legacy as a performer and as a man. They put on wrestling matches and between the matches, they gave their own personal tributes to the man. This was one of the most tear-jerking shows I've seen on TV. I'm guessing because this time, it was REAL. Real emotion, real passion and real love for Eddie.
Outside the ring, he was a family man that loved his wife, mother and his 3 daughters. I'm gonna miss this guy, I don't know him, but he entertained the hell outta me. I'm gonna miss his entrance into the arena with those cool low-riders and I'm gonna miss his antics. Rest it Peace Eddie, Viva La Raza!

tRiBUtE 2 ThE leGenD....

Eddie Guerrero (also known as Eddy Guerrero, born Eduardo Gori Guerrero Llanes on October 9, 1967 in Ciudad Ju?rez, Chihuahua, Mexico, died November 13, 2005 in a hotel room in Minneapolis, Minnesota), was a Hispanic professional wrestler. The most notable companies he worked for were World Wrestling Entertainment, World Championship Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling.
He came from a legendary wrestling family. His late father, Gory Guerrero, is considered one of the greatest wrestlers in Mexican history. His oldest brother, Chavo Guerrero, is a legendary junior heavyweight wrestler, feuding with Japanese legend Atsushi Onita. His brother Hector Guerrero is also somewhat well-known and brother Mando Guerrero wrestles as well. His nephew, Chavo Guerrero, Jr. wrestles in World Wrestling Entertainment. His uncle Enrique Llanes and cousin Javier Llanes are also popular wrestlers but their popularity is restricted to Mexico. He also had two sisters, Cuqui and Linda.
Early careerEddie Guerrero was raised in El Paso, Texas, and attended the University of New Mexico as well as New Mexico Highlands University on an athletic scholarship, where he wrestled collegiately, before returning to El Paso to train as a professional wrestler. He debuted in 1987 in the Mexican Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre promotion. He became a star in Mexico long before he main evented in the United States. In 1993, Guerrero began wrestling in Japan for New Japan Pro Wrestling, where he was known as Black Tiger II. In Mexico, he wrestled mainly for Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion, teaming with El Hijo del Santo as the new version of La Pareja At?mica (The Atomic Pair), the legendary tag team of Gory Guerrero and El Santo. After Guerrero turned on Santo and allied with Art Barr as La Pareja del Terror (The Pair of Terror), the duo became arguably the most hated tag team in lucha libre history. Along with Barr, Konnan and Madonna?s Boyfriend, Guerrero formed Los Gringos Locos (The Crazy Americans), a heel stable.Guerrero and Barr's first break would come when they were noticed in late 1994 by the owner of Extreme Championship Wrestling, Paul Heyman, and were approached about wrestling for him in 1995. However, Barr died before he could join ECW with Eddie. As an homage to his fallen friend, Eddie adopted his friend's finishing move, the Frog Splash. Eddie won the ECW World Television Championship on his debut, and went on to have a series of excellent matches with Dean Malenko before they both jumped to World Championship Wrestling later that year.
World Championship WrestlingIn WCW, he found considerable singles success, winning the United States Heavyweight Title in late 1996 and two World Cruiserweight titles in 1997.Eric Bischoff never took Eddie Guerrero, or his friends seriously to accept them as main event stars in WCW. This lead to Guerrero getting coffee thrown all over him when he requested to be pushed in his character or asked for a raise in his pay for family reasons, and thus Guerrerro constantly and angrily responded by asking for a release in his WCW contract (in which he did in a live episode of WCW Nitro). Eddie then left the company for a couple of months, angry at Bischoff for what he had done. However, Eddie would return to WCW, thus leading to beliefs that maybe Eddie's angry speeches against Bischoff were actually worked (Eddie would later rebut this on WWE's DVD "The Monday Night War" claiming that he tried to put aside personal differences aside for the good of the company, yet found himself angry and outraged once more because of Bischoff's continutity of lowering him and other stars down).Eddie responded to Bischoff's actions by forming the Latino World Order (also known as LWO), in which was seen by the fans to be a mockery of Bischoff's nWo stable at the time. It was actually an answer to Bischoff's refusal to push the Latino wrestlers in spotlights that they deserved to enjoy. Members of the LWO included Psychosis, Rey Mysterio, Jr., Los Villanos and La Parka. He turned heel in 1998, a role which he is best at, judging from his days in AAA in Mexico. He was involved in a serious car accident in 1999, in which he was expected to die. However, Eddie managed to survive the accident, and in just a couple of months he was back to wrestling, despite the fact that he hated working in WCW.Around this time, he became unhappy with WCW management and jumped to the WWF in 2000, with Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn.
World Wrestling FederationGuerrero and the other WCW wrestlers debuted in the WWF on January 31, 2000 as the heel group The Radicalz. After dislocating his elbow while performing a Frog Splash, Guerrero was sidelined for several weeks. In March 2000, Guerrero began pursuing the affections of Chyna, who he referred to as his Mamacita. Chyna was initially repelled, but allied with him, declaring that she "couldn't resist his Latino Heat". This made Eddie Guerrero turn face.After defeating Chris Jericho for the European Championship on April 3, Guerrero held the title for just under three months. He and Chyna began a feud with Essa Rios and Lita, which culimanted in a title defence on April 30 at Backlash, which was also billed as the night of Guerrero's prom (he was said to have just earned a GED). Guerrero defeated Rios after arriving at ringside in a 1957 Chevrolet. Guerrero successfully retained the title in matches with Saturn and Malenko before finally losing to Saturn on July 23.Over the next few months, friction began to build between the couple. Chyna was upset when Guerrero pinned her to advance in the King of the Ring Tournament, but forgave him when he presented her with a puppy. On August 27, Chyna pinned Trish Stratus in an inter-gender tag match between Chyna and Eddie and Trish and Val Venis, winning Venis' Intercontinental Championship as a result. Guerrero claimed not to mind, and on September 4 he begged Commissioner Mick Foley to let him take part in a title defence between Chyna and Kurt Angle, because he was afraid that Angle would injure Chyna. After Angle levelled Chyna with the title belt, Guerrero "accidentally" pinned her while trying to revive her.Chyna became visibly uncomfortable as Guerrero began to cheat in order to retain his title, while Guerrero was upset that Chyna was posing for Playboy Magazine, even trying to invade the Playboy Mansion to stop the photoshoot. Just when it appeared that Chyna would leave Guerrero, he proposed to her and she accepted, much to the dismay of her fans. The engagement was called off when Guerrero was caught showering with two of The Godfather's hos, Mandy and Victoria, claiming that "Two Mamacitas are better than one!". Guerrero turned heel once again as a result of the incident, and was later defeated for the Intercontinental Championship by Chyna's friend Billy Gunn.The Radicalz reunited in late 2000, assisting Triple H in his match with Stone Cold Steve Austin at Survivor Series. In early 2001, Guerrero feuded with Test, winning the European Championship for a second time at WrestleMania X-Seven with help from Saturn and Malenko. Guerrero eventually left the Radicalz, siding with The Hardy Boyz and Lita. At this point, Guerrero developed an addiction to pain medication stemming from his 1997 car accident, and in May 2001 he was send to rehabilitation. On November 9, 2001 he was arrested for drunk driving and was subsequently released by the WWF three days later.
Independent CircuitGuerrero appeared with numerous independent promotions, including Ring of Honor and the World Wrestling All-Stars. Following a number of highly acclaimed matches, such as his bout with Doug Williams at FWA British Uprising, he was rehired by the WWE in March 2002.
World Wrestling EntertainmentGuerrero returned to RAW on April 1, 2002, attacking Rob Van Dam and reuniting with then heel Chris Benoit. On April 21 at Backlash he defeated RVD for the Intercontinental Championship. He lost the belt back to RVD a month later in a highly acclaimed Ladder Match, in the course of which an overenthusiastic fan ran into the ring and knocked the ladder over while he was climbing it. Guerrero then attacked Steve Austin in a bar, beginning a feud, but Austin left the WWE before a match could take place. He went on to feud briefly with The Rock.
Los Guerreros On August 1 Guerrero and Benoit jumped to SmackDown!. With Benoit starting to focus on Kurt Angle, Eddie decided to align himself with his nephew Chavo, forming the successful tag team Los Guerreros. In contrast to a previous WCW storyline with his nephew, Chavo fully adopted his uncle's policy of "Lie, Cheat and Steal" to win matches as part of the gimmick. The duo entered the 8-team tournament for the new WWE Tag-Team Championship and began a feud with the newly formed tag team of Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit, who just defeated John Cena and Billy Kidman. Chavo told Benoit that his former friend Eddie was assaulted by his tag team partner Kurt Angle. Benoit ran to make the save, only to have himself locked inside a room. Eddie, with a steel chair, assaulted Benoit.Benoit and Angle managed to overcome their differences and eventually defeated Eddie and Chavo in the tournament semi-finals. Later on, Benoit and Angle won the WWE Tag Team Titles after defeating Rey Mysterio and Edge. It is also on this day that Benoit and Angle got revenge on the Los Guerreros, with Benoit telling Eddie that his nephew was being assaulted by Kurt Angle. Eddie chose not to fall for it, but in fact Chavo was being assaulted.Later on, Benoit and Angle fought for a trophy (for being the first WWE Tag Team Champion). Surprisingly, Eddie and Chavo helped Benoit win this match, to Benoit's surprise. Angle quickly attack his tag team partner and destroyed the trophy, ensuring that neither man would have it. Los Guerreros would then be given another shot at the WWE Tag Team titles. Meanwhile, new champions were crowned, Edge and Rey Mysterio. At Survivor Series 2002, Eddie made Rey Mysterio submit to The Lasso From El Paso. Los Guerreros had just started their reign as the WWE Tag Team Champions.Team Angle challenged Eddie and Chavo and eventually captured the Tag Titles. Prior to Judgment Day, Chavo tore his bicep. This forced Eddie to look for another partner. He chose Yoshihiro Tajiri. They won the Tag Titles at Judgment Day in a Ladder Match. In the following week, Eddie and Tajiri managed to retain their titles by cheating. In addition, they also defeated the legendary Roddy Piper and his proteg? Sean O'Haire. After Eddie and Tajiri lost the titles to Team Angle on July 1, Eddie then turned on Tajiri, slamming his partner through the windshield of his low-rider truck.
United States ChampionshipIn mid-2003, Eddie competed in a tournament for the new WWE United States Championship. He managed to defeat Ultimo Dragon and Billy Gunn to advance to the final round, where he would meet Chris Benoit who just eliminated Rhyno. In this match, Eddie is up to his dirty tricks, clocking Benoit with the belt and hitting a Frog Splash. Benoit managed to kick out, however. Eddie tried to get Benoit in trouble by placing the title belt on top of the unconcsious Benoit. It didn't work, however, since he knocked out the ref earlier with a belt shot to the kidneys. The match ended thanks to an interference by Rhyno and his finishing maneuver, The Gore.At SummerSlam, Eddie retained his title by defeating Rhyno, Benoit, and Tajiri. He reverted to being a face again by engaging in a rivalry with John Cena. Eddie challenged Cena to a "Latino Heat" Street Fight for the US championship. Eddie countered Cena's F-U and connected with a Frog Splash for the three count. It was also in this match that Chavo made his return, assisting Eddie in executing his Frog Splash on Cena.
WWE ChampionshipAs Eddie's popularity grew, Eddie began seeking the WWE Title. In a storyline, Eddie's singles success made Chavo jealous and Chavo broke from the team. At this time, the summer of 2003, Eddie began driving a customized lowrider to ringside as part of his ring entrance. (He has become identified sufficiently with lowriders that he appeared on the cover of the February 2004 issue of Lowrider magazine; he is the first man ever to appear on the cover of that publication ? normally, the cover includes a lowrider and a bikini-clad woman; the Guerrero cover has the same features but adds him). Guerrero would also capitalize on his "Lie, Cheat, and Steal" anti-heel image by brazenly (though always behind the referee's back) using illegal tactics to win matches on occasion. These actions however not only increased his popularity, but also made him comical in which the fans would laugh. Guerrero won his first WWE Championship at WWE's No Way Out pay per view on February 15, 2004, defeating Brock Lesnar. He would enjoy many months of success as champion, which included a win against Kurt Angle at Wrestlemania XX as well as victories over Big Show and Rey Mysterio. He would later lose the title to John "Bradshaw" Layfield, due to Kurt Angle's interference.At SummerSlam, Kurt Angle made Eddie Guerrero submit to the Angle Lock. Eddie made an alliance with Big Show, who also despised Kurt Angle for firing him while Angle was still SmackDown! general manager. Meanwhile, Angle made an alliance with Luther Reigns and Mark Jindrak. At No Mercy, Eddie pinned Luther Reigns after using a police baton stolen from a police officer.Each week Angle and his allies began targeting Eddie and the Big Show. General Manager Theodore Long booked a Survivor Series Elimination Match between a team lead by Eddie and a team lead by Kurt Angle. Eddie's team consisted of himself, Big Show, Rey Mysterio and Rob Van Dam. Eddie was forced to find another member for his team because Rey Mysterio had just been given an opportunity to win back the WWE Cruiserweight Championship. Eddie selected John Cena, who was feuding with Carlito, a member of Angle's Survivor Series team. At Survivor Series, Eddie eliminated Mark Jindrak and landed the Frog Splash to Kurt Angle for the victory.Eddie, along with Booker T and The Undertaker, challenged John "Bradshaw" Layfield for a WWE Championship rematch. Along the way, Eddie found a partner in Booker T. Despite losing two matches in a row as a tag team, Eddie and Booker managed to get along. At Armageddon, Eddie and Booker worked as a unit, taking down both Bradshaw and Undertaker. The two broke away from the team and made it clear that it was every man for themselves. Eddie would then be taken out by Undertaker. Afterward, Eddie and Booker briefly made an unsuccessful run to gain the tag team titles.
Feud with Rey MysterioOn February 20, 2005, Guerrero once again became a tag team champion, this time with long time friend and rival Rey Mysterio when they defeated Doug Basham and Danny Basham at No Way Out. Many expected the new champions to defend their titles at WrestleMania 21, but after encouragement from Chavo, instead Eddie challenged Rey, to a one-on-one match so they could "bring the house down." The two wrestled a match at WrestleMania with Mysterio getting the win. Although visibly frustrated, Guerrero congratulated his partner. After several mishaps in the weeks following WrestleMania, the growing tension between Guerrero and Mysterio finally erupted when they lost their tag titles to new team MNM on the April 21 episode of Smackdown.On April 28, 2005, Eddie and Mysterio faced MNM in a rematch for the WWE tag team championships. During the match Mysterio tagged in accidentally and then hit Eddie off the side of the ring and Eddie landed on the floor. Eddie then got up, but he refused to tag Mysterio. MNM double teamed Mysterio and threw him out of the ring. Eddie then gave Mysterio a glare and a frown and walked off. As a result, Eddie has now officially turned heel once again in the WWE betraying his long time friend, Rey Mysterio, who he had dubbed "his family" earlier in the show. The next week on SmackDown!, Guerrero appeared to adopt a new, somewhat sociopathic gimmick. Though Guerrero had historically been characterized by his emotion in the ring, on this edition of the show he viciously and emotionlessly beat up his former tag team partner, leaving him bruised and bloody on a set of steel steps. At Judgment Day 2005 on May 22, Guerrero lost to Mysterio by disqualification when Eddie hit Mysterio with a chair. With this heel turn, Eddie began using his submission maneuver again, known as the Lasso From El Paso. He has also stopped driving his low riders down the ring. Instead he walks down with new music with a frown on his face. Eddie finally defeated Rey on the first edition of Friday Night Smackdown in a Steel Cage MatchThat June, he appeared at ECW One Night Stand, losing to Chris Benoit.
The SecretThe feud with Rey Mysterio has involved a "secret" about Rey, which Eddie threatened to reveal if Rey did not do things for him. The secret would involve Dominick, Rey Mysterio's (real life) son.On July 15, 2005 Eddie was going to tell the "secret" about Rey. Eddie's wife, with their two daughters, came in to calm him down. Eddie rudely made them leave. Eddie was then booked for a match against Rey at The Great American Bash. If Rey won, then the "secret" would be kept. If he lost then Eddie would tell the whole world the secret. Fortunately, Rey managed to beat Eddie in their Great American Bash match, forcing Eddie to keep silent. On the next Smackdown after the Bash, Eddie told the secret anyway, and told Dominick that he was his real father, causing Dominick to run from his father through the crowd in sadness. Guerrero sat down and read "Eddie's Bedtime Stories", explaining the details.According to the storyline, years ago while he was living wild, he got a woman pregnant. Since she already had seven children, and he did not want any more children, and knowing Mysterio was having trouble starting his own family, he took Dominick and left him with Rey and his wife to raise. (This angle, supported by Rey Mysterio, was based on the days of Eddie's drug addiction, which left him with no money and resulted in the breakup of his marriage, which in real life was restored once he straightened out. Also, during his troubled days Eddie did have a child out of wedlock, which unlike the storyline he currently supports, though in reality he has only three daughters.) Guerrero also promised to read Chapter 2 of "Eddie's Bedtime Stories" the following week.On the next Smackdown after Rey defeated Christian in a match, Eddie and his female companion (who turned out to be his attorney) showed Rey some custody papers that stated that Eddie was the legal and biological father of Dominick. Eddie then said that Rey will have to bring his son to the next Smackdown match to return him.Dominick was then sent to be in a Foster care. Eddie lost to Rey at Summerslam 2005 in a ladder match for the custody of Dominick.
Challenger to the World Heavyweight ChampionshipEddie Guerrero defeated Rey Mysterio in a cage match on the premiere of Friday Night SmackDown. On the September 16 edition of SmackDown, it was announced that Eddie would be challenging World Heavyweight Champion Batista at No Mercy 2005, following his victory over Rey Mysterio. Eddie quickly proclaimed himself to be Batista's friend, and, the following week, he and Batista were booked to face MNM in a tag team contest. However, Guerrero claimed to have food poisoning, and merely acted as a spectator during the tag team contest, forcing Batista to wrestle a de-facto handicap match until Guerrero blind-tagged him late in the match and quickly pinned Joey Mercury. There is speculation that Eddie might be back to his face character.The next week, Eddie and Batista teamed up to face the Legion of Doom (Heidenreich and Road Warrior Animal) in a match for the WWE Tag Team titles. The match was declared a DQ win for LOD, when MNM interfered and smacked Animal with a chair. Batista, having had enough, grabbed Johnny Nitro and was about to deliver the Batista Bomb when Eddie swung a chair at Joey Mercury. Mercury ducked and Eddie accidentally hit Batista with the chair. Eddie quickly gave the chair to Mercury, and lay down on the floor. When Batista turned around, he saw Eddie knocked out on the floor and Mercury with a chair. A livid Batista gave Mercury a big spinebuster, and smacked the chair off Mercury's back. While Eddie came out to the ring on the next SmackDown! acting as Batista's cheerleader, Batista confronted Eddie, telling him that his time in Evolution had given him "eyes at the back of my head." A hurt Eddie sought to "prove" his desire for friendship with Batista by selling out his tag team partners John "Bradshaw" Layfield and Christian later that night in a six-man tag team match to help Batista win. Batista defeated Eddie at No Mercy to retain his World title. At one point of the match, Eddie had Batista down and the referee unconscious, and seized a steel chair to make the kill. But just as he lifted the chair over his head facing an injured Batista (who was face down), Eddie took the chair and threw it back out of the ring. Batista overpowered Eddie later in the match. At the end of the match, Eddie and Batista shook hands, but Eddie was seen scowling behind Batista's back. On October 14, 2005 Eddie was in a match against Randy Orton with Cowboy Bob Orton in his corner for the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Champion. Eddie won by DQ, as Bob Orton pushed him from the top of the rope as Eddie was attempting a Frog splash. At the end of the match Eddie officially turned face once again when the Ortons attacked him. Batista came in for the save, and GM Theodore Long made a tag team match between Batista and Guerrero, and the Ortons.
Return of Latino HeatOn the October 21 episode, Bob Orton pleaded a back injury to get himself out of the match. Randy sought help from Ken Kennedy, and the two squared off against Batista and Eddie. At one point, Ken Kennedy seized a steel chair, climbed up the top rope and sought to jump and strike Batista, who was looking to pin a downed Randy Orton. Eddie rushed in and covered Batista's back. A surprised Kennedy jumped down from the rope and looked at Eddie, but then struck him down anyway. Cowboy Bob Orton then rushed to the ring and intefered with an enraged Batista who was preparing to knock out Kennedy. Along with Randy, the three battered down Batista and Eddie.Just before the match, Eddie told Batista that he realized how low he had sunk since being WWE Champion in 2004; having attacked his best friend Rey Mysterio and acting degenerately. Guerrero told him that Batista shaking his hand at No Mercy had returned his respect to him.Theodore Long informed the five and the crowd that next week in San Francisco, there would be a six-man tag team main event: Batista, Eddie and Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. The Ortons and Ken Kennedy. On the October 28 episode of SmackDown!, Batista gave Eddie a surprise gift: it turned out to be Guerrero's low rider that he drove in his ring entrances. Upon seeing the low rider, Eddie asked Batista to ride on it out to the ring. Eddie's old ring entrance music was played, and indeed, the Latino Heat is back. That night, Batista, Eddie, and Piper defeated the Ortons and Ken Kennedy. Eddie took Kennedy out with the Frog Splash while Batista landed the Spinebuster on Randy Orton. The match ended after Piper applied the sleeper hold on Cowboy Bob. On the November 11th edition of Friday Night Smackdown!, Batista suffered a brutal back injury, putting him out of action for several months, so the WWE scheduled a Triple Threat match the next Smackdown to get the belt off of the injured Batista. It was speculated that Eddie Guerrero was to become the new World Heavyweight Champion at the SmackDown show scheduled to be taped November 13 in Minneapolis, but sadly that wasn't to be..