Eddie Guerrero wanted to quit pro wrestling just months before he passed away, according to Chavo Guerrero

Former WWE star Chavo Guerrero was interviewed on "INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet." You can read a couple of the transcribed highlights below but be sure to scroll down to watch the entire interview.

Chavo Guerrero on his status with AEW:

“You know what? That was fun, I had a good time there. It was real quick. We were just getting into what we were starting to do, then Young Rock called for that other season. I knew that it was coming and I told Tony I’ve got to do Young Rock at some point. He told me that we would deal with it when it comes. Then it came and I said, ‘Look man, this is what I am making over there.’ He was like, ‘Ok that’s a lot’, but he said, ‘Go and do what you’ve got to do.’ It was originally only supposed to be for 2 months. It ended up being 3 months. When I came back (originally), he said come back and you’ll still have a job here. But when I came back, things changed. I’m still on good terms with those guys.”

On why he left WWE:

“Eddie (Guerrero) had a great mind for the business. He just didn’t want to be on the road anymore. He loved his family a lot. He really, really did, and he wanted to be home with his family. I remember before he passed, like 6 months before, I remember him coming to me and saying, ‘I don’t want to be here anymore.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said, ‘I don’t want to wrestle anymore.’ I said, ‘Dude, drop out and do something else.’ He got really mad and said, ‘What am I going to do? What else am I going to do? This is what we do. We wrestle.’ I said, ‘It doesn’t matter. Your family life is more important. What good is it if you are away from your family all of the time?’ That’s why I left WWE. My kids at the time were 8 and 11 maybe, and I just didn’t want them growing up without a dad. I had already been on the road for 20 years. I didn’t want to be that casualty and divorced from wrestling and the whole thing. Everything you work hard for and you lose it. I didn’t want to get divorced. I didn’t want my kids to grow up without a dad. That’s kind of why I left. It’s funny because they don’t really remember me being gone all the time.” 

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