Published 17:57 IST, September 26th 2019
WWE World Championship: Eddie Guerrero's historic win back in 2004
At No Way Out 2004, Eddie Guerrero won the WWE Championship for the first and last time before his untimely death in 2005. Read more as we look back at the bout
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One of WWE's historic matches happened at Way Out Pay-per-view in Daly City, California in 2004. WWE legend Eddie Guerrero h won a 15-man battle royale to become Number One Contender for WWE Championship. Young but brutal Brock Lesnar was WWE Champion at time and winner of match would go to Wrestlemania XX as WWE Champion. Eddie Guerrero h never held a WWE World Championship in his entire wrestling career.
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WWE World Championship: Brock Lesnar dominates Eddie Guerrero
Eddie Guerrero h faced a lot of challenges in his career including his pill diction. Guerrero me his way to this match and it was turning a fresh p in his career where he finally reached top of lder. match began and Lesnar almost immediately started dominating Eddie. Delivering Suplexes and throwing Eddie away with ease, Lesnar me Eddie seem like easy work.
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re were moments in match where Eddie Guerrero used his wit to make Lesnar miss his moves. Eddie delivered some amazing moves on Lesnar too which aggravated an injury Lesnar sustained on his left knee. Eddie took vant of injured knee by attacking Lesnar on it and even putting him in submission locks. A lot of Brock's energy was drained but champion did t submit.
Brock Lesnar finally delivered an F5 to Eddie Guerrero but hurt referee in process. This led to referee being oblivious to what happened in ring. Brock went outside ring and came back with his championship belt as he set Guerrero up for his next move. Out of where, Brock's rival - Goldberg - appeared and delivered a brutal Spear to Brock. crowd went wild as Eddie Guerrero attempted pin as a barely conscious referee tried to make three count.
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Brock countered Guerrero and set him up for ar F5 as Guerrero pulled off biggest reversal of his career and delivered a DDT onto belt which was lying beneath m. unconscious referee did t tice and Eddie me a Frog Splash onto Brock and pinned him. crowd erupted as Eddie celebrated his first-ever WWE Championship win. He jumped into crowd to celebrate as arena applauded. He hugged his teared-up mor and celebrated with new belt. This was iconic wrestler's only World Championship reign before his untimely demise in 2005.
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