10 REAL Backstage Wrestling Fights You Didn't Know About

10. Eddy Guerrero Vs. Road Warrior Hawk

The strange aspect of this story - not Hawk being in a backstage shoot fight, because he was prolific in that regard - was in how it started.

Eddie Guerrero was a perfectionist, so much so that the tiniest mistake undetectable to everybody else was a source of great embarrassment to him. He was a great wrestler who aimed for greatness, and knew how good he was - he didn't leave WCW for the WWF in 2000 because he wasn't ambitious and didn't think he had what it took - but he was mostly humble and intensely dedicated to the craft and improving, constantly, at it. At his funeral, Mike Tenay told Eddie's mother that Eddy was the most humble person he had ever encountered "in a business of prima donnas".

In a bitter, almost comical irony, the one time that Guerrero put himself over, he was punched in the face for it.

When teaming with Art Barr, in a legendary run, Guerrero believed he was one-half of the best tag in the world. He was probably right. He said this to of all people Road Warrior Hawk, who responded by saying that Guerrero was in the best junior heavyweight tag team in the world. Guerrero disagreed with the caveat, and was suddenly sucker-punched.