#183: Eddie Guerrero vs. John Cena, WWE Smackdown (9/11/2003).
This is a Latino Heat Parking Lot Brawl.
Here is another request for the blog, given to me by my boss at work!
A week before this, Cena stole Eddie’s lowrider, and Eddie demanded this non title showdown.
John Cena is still a rising star on the Smackdown brand, while Eddie Guerrero is arguably the hottest wrestler in the entire company right now. It’s getting very hard for WWE to not pull the trigger on Latino Heat’s big push.
In the Parking Lot, Cena asks the referee whether or not there are definitely no rules in this match. He says if Eddie wants a street fight, he’s going to get it. He’s very hyper.
Cena says that Eddie wants to butcher him, but he can’t even beat his own meat right. Thuganomics John Cena is based as fuck.
Eddie Guerrero shows up to the brawl in a nice lowrider truck. You got random wrestlers on the Smackdown roster surrounding both men and the cars. Here we go! Eddie strikes first with the United States Championship to the gut, and then he sends Cena into one of the cars. Cena fires back by tossing Eddie into one of the random cars surrounding them. He gives Eddie some nice strikes, before shoving Eddie onto another hood.
Eddie and Cena fight atop one of the cars and looks for a suplex, but Cena counters it and suplexes Eddie on the top of the car. Cena opens up a mini van, and pulls out a bunch of landscaping equipment. He starts up a lawn mower, and tries to run Eddie over, but Latino Heat avoids it and sends Cena into a car. Cena shoves Eddie back first into the hood of a car, and Cena grabs a shovel next. Eddie avoids a shovel strike, and kicks Cena in the gut.
Eddie with a flapjack onto the hood of the car. Now Eddie has the shovel, but he misses his strike and takes out a headlight. Eddie uses a car door and runs it into Cena’s chest. Eddie uses the seatbelt to choke Cena out. Eddie sends his knee to Cena’s chest, then smashes his face off the trunk. Eddie opens the trunk up, and Cena takes advantage by stomping on Eddie. He throws him in the trunk, and shuts it. He talks trash, and Eddie pops out of the trunk, hitting Cena in the process.
They fight back to the Iron Circle of cars, and Cena tosses Eddie onto a windshield, shattering it. Cena makes the cover, and Eddie kicks out. Cena shuts a car door on Eddie’s shoulder, and Eddie still kicks out. Cena goes to kick the door shut on Eddie, but Latino Heat moves. He sends Cena head first into the driver’s side door, busting it into a thousand pieces! Cena tries to battle back, as he sends Eddie face first through another window.
Cena makes the cover, and Eddie kicks out. Somehow, neither man is bleeding from going through glass. Cena climbs into a car, hoping to drive away. Eddie finds him, and smashes his head into the steering wheel. Eddie takes the cigarette lighter out, and uses it on Cena’s chest! Cena is trying to get away, but Eddie is relentless. Cena fights back with a back body drop that crushes Eddie onto the hood of a car. Cena covers, and Eddie is able to kick out.
Cena lifts Eddie up for the FU, but Eddie counters out of it and drives his knee into the midsection. He hip tosses Cena onto the hood of another car. Here’s Chavo Guerrero out of nowhere with a trash can lid to the head of Cena! Eddie hits a Frog Splash from car to car on Cena to win the match!
Very fun brawl that utilized the stipulation well. I like when these kinds of matches that seem insignificant try to make good use of whatever stip is attached to it. Both Eddie and Cena made sure that the story of the match was the cars, and the parking lot, and that helped this a lot. There was good physicality, and both men got a pretty equal amount of offense in on each other. This is one of the more popular Parking Lot Brawls in wrestling, and considering the quality these two fit into an eight minute match, it’s not hard to see why.