Chavo Guerrero has🧜 some 🥂choice words for Rey Mysterio Jr. about appropriating the wrestling gimmick of his late uncle, Eddie Guerrero.
Mysterio Jr., 48, who has had wrestling feuds with both Chavo and Eddie over the decades, entered the ring at WrestleMania 39 in Los Angeles earlier this month to the “Los Guerreros” theme in homage to Eddie, who passed in 2005 at just 38 years old.
Speaking on “Captain’s Corner” recently, Chavo, 52, took issue with Rey “prostituting” the family name by using the theme.
“I gotta tell you this, I just don’t understand why Rey Mysterio still has to — look, we all love Eddie. But we’re not going out with his gimmick and our gimmick, it was Los Guerreros’ gimmick and come out with the Los Guerreros’ ‘We Lie, We Cheat, We Steal’ and everybody’s like, ‘oh yeah, keeping Eddie’s memory alive,'” Chavo said, .
“I say no dude. I’m tired of people — and this is not a bitter thing, this is the truth. We worked hard for that last name. This whole family worked really, really hard to get that name to where it was and we’re tired of people prostituting it in a sense and using it for their benefit.
“So Rey Mysterio, I’m sorry that no one knows who Rey Mysterio Sr. is, Rey Mysterio Jr. No one knows who he is and I’m sorry that you have to latch on to the Guerrero family and we’re just kind of tired of it so, thank you for keeping Eddie’s name alive, thank you for keeping the Guerrero name alive but we don’t need you, we’re good, you know what I’m saying?”
Talk naturally turned to 💯whether Mysterio and Guerrero could have one last match.
“I don’t think Rey could hold a candle to me right now to be honest,” Chavo said.
“Comment and let us know if you’d like to see that rivalry again. We’ll finish it up. We’ve wrestled everywhere. We wrestled in Lucha Underground, we’ve wrestled all over Mexico. If you’d like to see someone come in and beat the living crap out of Rey…”
Mysterio Jr., who was recently inducted int🦂o the ℱWWE Hall of Fame, is teaming up with musician Bad Bunny against the former’s son Dominik and Damian Priest at WWE Backl😼ash on Sat., May 6.
Rey defeated Dominik in that꧃ WrestleMania 39 match.
Eddie Guerrero’s name has been mentioned frequently in the father-son feud with Dominik claiming at one point — as part of the storyline — that he wish♍ed Eddie w♑as his father.