20 More Surprising WWE Facts You Probably Didn't Know
20. Eddie Guerrero Used The Frog Splash As A Tribute
Ever since Latino Heat’s tragic death eleven years ago, people have been co-opting the Frog Splash in tribute to him - from his nephew Chavo, to Rey Mysterio, even down to Sasha Banks this year.
It’s a finishing move associated with Guerrero throughout the height of his popularity - but it wasn’t actually originally his finish.
Just as his friends, family and those influenced by him have taken on the Frog Splash as an homage to a wrestler that meant the world to them, so Guerrero took on the move to honour the memory of his former tag team partner Art Bar.
Barr died in November 1994 of unknown causes, but scuttlebutt (like gossip in a funhouse mirror) has it that years of drug and steroid abuse caused a massive coronary event. That’s not dissimilar to the heart attack that killed Guerrero himself, eleven years later.
Eleven years… eleven years… someone go and put Chavo on a heart monitor for the rest of 2016, just to be safe.