WWE Superstar Chris Benoit & Family Found Dead

[flames_1987]

There's defintley still wresting fans out there, just cruising around on facebook groups, some people just refuse to beleive this happened.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp

When they decided to put on the tribute show they probably didn't know the details of the deaths. One of their most respected performers has just been found dead, what else are they supposed to do?

Continue on with the Mr. McMahon murder angle?

There are plenty of things to criticize Vince McMahon for but this isn't one of them.

Benoit let them know on Saturday that he cancelled out of the PPV because of a family problem. On Monday they all show up dead? Don't they have a clue? They must have had a feeling that he murdered them.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

Feel free to pass judgement on this murder-suicide situation in Toronto last night . . . . three dead.

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/229465

See that just makes my point. I didn't even hear about this. Yet the same murder by a someone in the limelight is front page news. Maybe I just have too much underlying disdain for all the press celebrities eat up.

The tragedy part of this I can easily understand. The rest? Nope. And I was a fan of Stampede Wrestling before colour tv was invented.

Agreed. Well except for the Stampede Wrestling, I never really watched, but I did watch lots of the WWF.

And that's all I've got to say about that.

Cowperson

Thanks Forest

[J pold]

The fact that a T.V. show was aired glorifying the career of a murdered just disgusting…

He is a pathetic coward and that is how he should be remembered

[RW99]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...x.html?cnn=yes

Sorry if already posted.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Kobatuzzied

Benoit let them know on Saturday that he cancelled out of the PPV because of a family problem. On Monday they all show up dead? Don't they have a clue? They must have had a feeling that he murdered them.

That's a gigantic stretch, you can't be serious. I am sure they threw the tribute together last minute and were unaware of the murder or couldn't confirm that it was true. Either way I wouldn't blame the WWE for that mistake, it was done with good intentions.

What is this murder/death plot that everyone is talking about? Can someone fill me in. I don't watch.

[bigtmac19]

Originally Posted by flames_1987

I have to say, that when I was younger it was sure easy to idolize wrestlers. I could only imagine when I was 13 if someone like Brett Hart did this, I would be a complete mess. Feel bad for this kids who looked up to this guy and I feel just as bad for his fellow wrestlers. Some of his close friends having to hear all this, that must be like hell on earth. What a bizzare story

My youngest is 13, he is really really bummed out about this. He knows Wrestling is fake, but he still loves to watch. He was at Wrestlemania this year, was the best time he's ever had. I know he is extremely bothered about Benoit hurting his son, he just cannot understand it. This isn't something that can be easily explained to him either, as there is no explanation for something so awful. I'm sure this will bother him for a while.

[Bertuzzied]

Too bad a bible won't help out Benoit in hell.

Pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife, suffocated his 7-year-old son and placed a Bible next to their bodies before hanging himself by the pulley of a weightlifting machine, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators also found prescription anabolic steroids in the house, Lt. Tommy Pope of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department. He would not comment on Benoit’s state of mind or possible motive.
Autopsies showed all three died of asphyxiation, Pope said.
Benoit’s wife, Nancy, was killed Friday in an upstairs family room, her feet and wrists were bound and there was blood under her head, indicating a possible struggle, Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard said.
The son, Daniel, was likely killed late Saturday or early Sunday, the body found in his bed, Ballard said.


http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/...6/4290499.html


I think the stupid WWF have an idea of what happened before they aired that tribute to a murderer!!

World Wrestling Entertainment said on its Web site that it asked authorities to check on Benoit and his family after being alerted by friends who received “several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning.”
The WWE, based in Stamford, Conn., said authorities asked that it not release further information on the deaths.

[Flamescupbound!]

Originally Posted by Kobatuzzied

I hope the tools at WWE got the ratings they were wanting. I still can't beleive they did a tribute show for a murderer. Pathetic company.

Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com is reporting that World Wrestling Entertainment will not distribute their three hour Chris Benoit tribute show that aired last night on the USA to their international affiliates for airing.
The Score in will also not air the program in its regularly scheduled RAW replay slots.

That doesn't make any sense. The WWE obviously isn't so stupid to knowingly air a tribute to a murderer. It's obvious they didn't know.

Hell, you even quoted a tabloid that says they are not distributing the tribute(now that they know it was a murder). I don't like the WWE, but come on now...

[Bobblehead]

While I think the WWE can be rightfully accused of many things, in this case I don't think there was much they could do.

I'm sure that, at the moment they needed to make a decision about Raw, that a tribute was probably the best possible solution. In hindsight it looks bad, but they needed to pull the plug on the live production and they probably figured they had to do something.

[JayP]

There's no way the WWE knew about Benoit being the murderer before airing the tribute show.

Just take a quick look around WWE.com. Chris Benoit's profile is gone and all his merchandise has been removed from the shop. The site is edited to the point where Wrestlemania 20's description reads "Triple H defends his World Heavyweight Championship against Shawn Michaels." (which I believe was a match that Benoit eventually won).

I can understand the argument for removing the profile, but completely removing all merchandise related to Benoit is the WWE distancing themselves for him. And for good reason.

[corporatejay]

I have refrained from commenting on this story until we receiver more confirmation (I'm not against speculation, but just wanted to get all the facts) and frankly I feel like i've been kicked in the stomach.

I was a HUGE wrestling fan for a solid decade + and always had the utmost respect for Benoit. Often considered one of the best technical wrestlers of his era he always put on great matches, watching him was always a treat.

As someone who was in the spotlight and from Alberta many people felt like they "knew" him, so to find out he did something like this is just unbelievable.

Unfortunately his legacy will be that of a murdering monster who killed his family, and it sickens me to think what was going through his head for those 36+ hours while his wife lay bound and gagged.

I will no longer remember him for the wrestler he was, but the monster he turned out to be.

[tkflames]

I am not really a WWE fan, but for those of you who remember the passing of Owen Hart, there was quite a large uproar after that event for a lack of respect by the WWE. People expected them to halt their event immediately and pay adequate tribute in the following RAW show the next day. Ever since then it has seemed like WWE makes an effort to overdo the tribute to passing superstars (see Eddie Guerero). I think they had to air a 2 or 3 hour program or whatever it is (because tv stations expected that) not knowing the details of the death. Had they not done a tribute show last night they would have been hammered the other way had this been an accident.

[Ozy_Flame]

The man I pity the most in all this (other than the Benoit family) is poor Chavo Guererro. Two years ago he finds his uncle Eddie dead in the bathtub, and then now he's the one who receives ominous text messages from a volatile Chris Benoit before his death.

That man has suffered more than anyone can imagine.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

The man I pity the most in all this (other than the Benoit family) is poor Chavo Guererro. Two years ago he finds his uncle Eddie dead in the bathtub, and then now he's the one who receives ominous text messages from a volatile Chris Benoit before his death.

That man has suffered more than anyone can imagine.

where did you read this? what did the text messages say?

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

where did you read this? what did the text messages say?

I don't know what the text messages said, but the word around the the wrestling websites and forums is that Chavo received the message. I visited so many sites this morning, I can't pinpoint the one that said it, but I imagine The Wrestling Observer or Wrestlecrap might have links. I'll try and backtrack.

Even if its not confirmed, I wouldn't be surprised if Chavo did receive it. Benoit was so close with the Guerrero family, and Chavo was pretty much a confidant (sp) to Benoit after Guerrero's death. Him and Dean Malenko were probably the closest out of anybody.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by Flamescupbound!

That doesn't make any sense. The WWE obviously isn't so stupid to knowingly air a tribute to a murderer. It's obvious they didn't know.

Hell, you even quoted a tabloid that says they are not distributing the tribute(now that they know it was a murder). I don't like the WWE, but come on now...

Agreed. WWE's tribute ran at 5:00 MT. This was before major news outlets were even announcing that Benoit and his family were dead.

The only thing WWE knew was that he and his family were dead, and that he had called in to miss the weekend shows due to a "family emergency." It as much as they might have guessed murder/suicide, it certantly was not evident that it was a likely conclusion.

WWE needed to air something, as the show obviously needed to be cancelled, and tribute shows are their standard answer when a wrestler dies. Nothing at all to fault WWE about in this regard.

[Ozy_Flame]

The WWE has done everything right in handling this situation. I see no fault for anything on their part in their response to the death.

[browna]

nm

[arsenal]

Originally Posted by Kobatuzzied

Benoit let them know on Saturday that he cancelled out of the PPV because of a family problem. On Monday they all show up dead? Don't they have a clue? They must have had a feeling that he murdered them.

Well, guess you better not call into work and say you can't make it due to a "Family Ememrgencey", since that murder - suicide is the only explanation for this excuse...