A Weekend of Guerrero

I never even realised it had just gone fifteen years since he passed away. It...does not feel like fifteen years. And so I watched some Eddie Guerrero, as I often tend to do. 

Eddie Guerrero & Chris Benoit v Bubba Ray & Spike Dudley (RAW, 7/1/02)

Well this was pretty dang nifty. Eddie and Benoit have that real snap to everything they do and Benoit's chops are treated as being real game-changers (and look and sound lethal). You look at those names and you think Spike Dudley getting his butt kicked for a few minutes might be fun and you would be correct. Eddie and Benoit both hit awesome back suplexes and I like how Eddie is the cheapshotting wee prick while Benoit is the straight ahead machine. This was during the Bubba Ray singles push that I don't remember lasting very long, but he doesn't look like much of a victor after the post-match beatdown. Spike's bump through the table on the floor is also fairly ludicrous. 

Eddie Guerrero v Booker T (RAW, 7/8/02)

This was like three minutes long, but about all you could really ask for out of a three minute match that's essentially setup material for a bigger main event later on. Eddie bumps nicely for all of Booker's strikes, then as Booker goes for the axe kick Eddie dropkicks him in the quad. It looked pretty great as Booker was in the air as Eddie connected with the dropkick, plus he did it super fast so it never looked telegraphed at all. Either way this is leading to:

Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Big Show, X-Pac & Kevin Nash v RVD, Booker T, Goldust, Bubba Ray & Spike Dudley (RAW, 7/8/02)

This was alright. Not close to the best ten-man tag on a Monday Night RAW involving Chris Benoit and X-Pac, but then not much of anything is close to that. Match felt like an RVD showcase as he got the most screen time and did all of his RVD things on offence, then played face in peril for a minute and fought back by doing his RVD things. He was fine. X-Pac was the most featured for his side and looked pretty good. I would've guessed he was gone by this point but evidently I'd have been a fool. Eddie never really got to do much so the best part of team nWo/Latino Wolverines (that is very bad I'm so sorry) was Michaels being a dipshit on the floor. I so badly wish we got more heel Michaels during his second run because he was very obnoxious here and I'll always love his hyperactive bumping as a heel. Nash comes in for his first appearance in three months - torn bicep - and as soon as he started moving I was like "how many times had he torn his quad by this point?" and then he went and tore his quad. I honest to god had no idea this was the match where he got injured again and I felt pretty bad for the guy considering he literally just came back from a previous muscle tear. Hebnar throws up the X, things break down, Michaels hits a blindside superkick and that's that.