More on Eddie Guerrero

WWE.com has details of the initial autopsy report, confirming that Eddie Guerrero died from heart failure. His wife Vickie gave her response to the news:

It was heart failure. It was from his past – the drinking and the drug abuse. They found signs of heart disease. She (the examiner) said that the blood vessels were very worn and narrow, and that just showed all the abuse from the scheduling of work and his past. And Eddie just worked out like crazy all the time. It made his heart grow bigger and work harder and the vessels were getting smaller, and that’s what caused the heart failure. He went into a deep sleep.

As soon as they saw his heart, they saw the lining of his heart already had the heart disease. There was no trauma, and Eddie hadn’t hurt himself in any way. It answered a lot of questions. I knew Eddie wasn’t feeling very good for the last week. He was home and kept saying he wasn’t feeling good and we thought it was just “road tired.” So we thought he just had to rest. It answered a lot of my questions, too, because he was just so exhausted. She said it was normal because the heart was working so hard.

Sounds like a case of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, brought on by his past indiscretions. It could have happened any time.

The big wrestling sites are the best places to go for all the specifics, but I've collected here some links to the reaction from more mainstream sources online regarding the untimely death of Eddie Guerrero.

Yahoo!'s Buzz Index notes cyberspace's reaction to the news of Eddie's passing, with the surprising statistic that searches for Eddie shot up over 16,000 percent since the news came out.

Elsewhere, MetaFilter pays tribute to Eddie in its own way, while Plastic has a good story (and some not-so-good commentary) on the inevitable controversy that surrounds the death of a pro wrestler in this modern age, when taking the time to heal an injury can cost a superstar his livelihood.

I'll add more links here as I find them.