The artisanal wrestling of Eddie Guerrero vs. Dean Malenko: photos
See classic images of WWE Hall of Famer Eddie Guerrero and his longtime rival (and out-of-ring friend) Dean Malenko in Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling.
Wrestling fans stateside caught their first glimpse of Eddie Guerrero vs. Dean Malenko in the rings of Extreme Championship Wrestling in 1995.
Both Superstars were second-generation athletes. WWE Hall of Famer Eddie Guerrero, who passed away in 2005, was the son of lucha libre legend Gory Guerrero.
Malenko's father was the incomparable Prof. Boris Malenko.
"It was just greed of knowledge and they were trying to prove to each other the knowledge they had was better than the other," third-generation Superstar Finlay said of Guerrero and Malenko.
"It was just an amazing thing to watch."
"Many times when you see two guys that are very technically gifted it can be non-interesting to a non-pure wrestling audience," Cesaro commented, before adding ...
... "Those two made it mainstream and they made it very entertaining and very awesome. That's what I'm doing today."
"I'm very proud ECW afforded them the opportunity to ply their trade in front of an audience that to this day fondly remembers their state-of-the-art presentation all the way back to 1995," Paul Heyman said.
Outside the ring, Guerrero and Malenko were dear friends who essentially spent the remainder of their careers together after meeting in Japan in the early 1990s.
