Guerrero went on to win the WWF European Championship and WWF Intercontinental Championship before he was released in 2001 due to addiction issues. He moved to WWF during the Attitude Era with his WCW colleagues Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn, who formed a group called The Radicalz. He left WCW in 2000 after the company failed to elevate him to a main event spot. Later that year, Guerrero moved to WCW, where he became WCW United States Champion and WCW Cruiserweight Champion and also led the Latino World Order. After the death of Barr, Guerrero received his first mainstream exposure in the United States in 1995 by joining ECW and winning the ECW World Television Championship. Guerrero spent his early career wrestling in Mexican promotions and forming a popular tag team with Art Barr. He experienced various substance abuse problems, including alcoholism and an addiction to painkillers these real-life issues were sometimes incorporated into his storylines. Despite being a heel for most of his career, he was popular in and out of the ring and was at the peak of his career as a face during 2003–2005, becoming the top wrestler on the SmackDown brand in 2004.
His catchphrase became "I Lie! I Cheat! I Steal!" and was used in one of his entrance themes he partly used this phrase in the title of his 2005 autobiography, Cheating Death, Stealing Life. Guerrero's gimmick was that of a "Latino Heat", a crafty, resourceful wrestler who would do anything to win a match.
Guerrero performed in Mexico and Japan for several major professional wrestling promotions, and in the United States he performed for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and most notably World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/WWE). He was widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential professional wrestlers of all time. A prominent member of the Guerrero wrestling family, being the son of first-generation wrestler Gory Guerrero. Eduardo Gory Guerrero Llanes (Octo– November 13, 2005) was an American professional wrestler.
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