Every Stable & Tag Team That Eddie Guerrero Has Been Part Of, Ranked Worst To Best
Sophia Edwards Eddie Guerrero's skills both as an entertainer and in-ring performer created some of the best moments sports entertainment has ever seen. The list of WWE superstars he inspired is too long to name. "Latino Heat" will forever be one of the greatest liars, cheaters, and show stealers the wrestling industry has ever known.
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With all his solo championships reigns, it's easy to forget how successful Eddie's partnerships were. Guerrero's five tag team title runs don't nearly tell the full story of how almost every faction he joined impacted wrestling. Eddie was a major part of many stables and Tag Teams that shaped WWE and WCW.
7 Teaming With Tajiri
Most people forget this tag team run even exists. During a feud with Team Angle, Chavo Guerrero suffered an injury that left Eddie without a partner in the middle of the rivalry. When it was announced Tajiri would join Eddie to face Team Angle at Judgment Day, most fans were left scratching their heads. Then, the two won the Tag Team titles in their first match as partners.
The alliance was short-lived, but every match and promo from the duo was entertaining. The team ended with a heel turn from Eddie and, although they never reunited after their split, the partnership set up a rivalry that continued through Guerrero's first U.S. Championship run.
6 Eddie & Chyna
The romantic love story between the two was the career boost both Chyna and Eddie needed. The two started as enemies when Chyna joined Too Cool but were quickly united by their undeniable chemistry. They even competed in a rare tag-team Intercontinental Championship match that led to Chyna's second run as the only woman to ever hold the title. Eddie also held the belt for the first time when he "accidentally" pinned Chyna in a triple threat match.
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They were the odd couple of WWE for a short stint and audiences couldn't get enough of them. Chyna's first major storyline as a face was also a product of this faction. Although it was short-lived leading to a heel turn from Guerrero, it boosted both superstars and even elevated the Intercontinental Championship.
5 Latino World Order (LWO)
Although many think the Latino World Order was just a rehash of the NWO, Eddie started the LWO with a pretty poignant angle, and one he stood by in real life. Any WCW fan would tell you the Latino talent on the show was completely underutilized. LWO was at least an attempt to give a stacked roster of Latino Wrestlers, that included: Rey Mysterio, Juventud Guerrera, and Psicosis, a chance to shine.
The LWO never got the airtime it needed to become a top-tier faction and Eddie suffered a car accident soon after its formation. The group was eventually squashed by a reunited NWO and forced to disband. Regardless of its terribly short run, to this day we still see LWO shirts in the crowds of live wrestling shows everywhere proving the stance Guerrero took against WCW lasted longer than the company itself.
4 Filthy Animals
One of the funniest factions to ever step into the ring, Filthy Animals featured some of the best gags and biggest characters in WCW. They were constantly breaking the rules, tormenting people backstage, and stealing from wrestlers like Ric Flair. Eddie was a part of the original iteration of the group where he invited many of the gimmicks that became staples in his career including the infamous "fake chair knockout."
Filthy Animals will forever be remembered for their antics, but, make no mistake, every member of this faction from Konnan to Billy Kidman was top tier in the ring. The stable held multiple Tag Team titles and feuded with everyone from Harlem Heat to The Wolfpack. It also featured a maskless Rey Mysterio and gave him his first major push as a superstar.
3 Los Guerreros
When Eddie first teamed with his nephew, Chavo, it seemed like a normal "midcarder plus midcarder" team up, but, instead, became a family affair audience adored. When Chavo first arrived at WCW, he was paired with Eddie in an "odd couple" unit, where he had too big of a conscience to cheat like his uncle. It wasn't until the two were paired together in the WWE that the duo took off.
Eddie and Chavo held the Tag Team titles on two separate occasions. Their internal struggle as a family was a storyline almost anyone could empathize with. When they turned babyface to feud with John Cena and B-2, Los Guerreros quickly became fan favorites. A split-up was inevitable since the faction launched Eddie into the main event card, where he eventually became the WWE Champion and also helped Chavo have a career that lasted over a decade.
2 Teaming With Rey Mysterio
No wrestler will ever be more associated with Eddie Guerrero's career than Rey Mysterio. One never existed in a wrestling promotion without the other from AAA to ECW, from WCW to WWE. The two were always an exciting tag team, and few partners have teamed up across as many promotions as these two did. In 2005, they defeated The Basham Brothers to win their first Tag Team titles as a unit.
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Rey and Eddie also had some of the best rivalries of their careers against each other. The two were the first Tag Team champions to ever face off at WrestleMania and even had a "winner gets custody of Dominik Mysterio" match. Friends in real life, Eddie's untimely death was the motivation for one of the greatest underdog storylines ever, with Rey winning the World Heavyweight Championship.
1 The Radicalz
Key players in the Monday Night Wars, the Radicalz are undoubtedly one of the most important factions of all time. When Eddie Guerrero, Chis Benoit, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn showed up in the crowd on Raw they changed the game. Four of the best wrestlers WCW ever had, the Radicalz were forced out by the politics and bad decisions that eventually tanked WCW.
Their choice to leave proved to be the right one as all four went on to find success in the WWE holding multiple singles titles after the Radicalz split up. At WrestleMania XX, Eddie and Benoit won both brand championships and embraced in what would've been a hall of fame moment for the stable, if not for the tragic events of one of its members.