![]() ![]() Both stories of Eddie's life are a worth experience and reading from the wrestler and from the human behind the wrestler truly makes you feel like you get a deeper understanding of how much pain comes with the pleasure they can get out of it. Overall, I think that this book is very good for anyone who has any of the problems of addiction to alcohol or is a fan of wrestling. It also shows that you shouldn't mess with anything involving addiction, it ruins your life to a point where most people can't come back from. I think that him hitting such a low point, possibly the lowest you could ever hit, and then coming back better from it, winning back exactly what he had except better, it really showed that it is possible to take addiction head on. Hearing all the stories of Eddie's fall into addiction of alcohol and it taking him down to a point where he loses his job and family, it really shows you that addiction is not just a word to be thrown around or something that is not important, it is a real problem. You see how they are on TV and you think that they must have it great, but when you hear about all the drugs, drinking, and adversity that comes along with it, you truly learn to appreciate the work they do. Anyway, the book is really good, it is a very honest inside look on how the business, the wrestlers life, actually is. 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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