Posted on 06/25/2007 3:53:58 PM PDT by HitmanLV
We are still awaiting further details, but PWInsider.com is extremely saddened to report that former WWE and WCW World champion Chris Benoit and his wife, former WCW and ECW personality Nancy "Woman" Benoit were both found dead today in Atlanta, Georgia. Obviously this will be a huge developing story in the days to come but at this point, we'd like to express our deepest condolences to the Benoits' family, friends, and fans at this time.
A meeting is currently ongoing at WWE TV and it is expected that tonight's three hour Raw will now be dedicated to Benoit's memory.
6:09 Update: WWE.com issued the following statement this afternoon:
"WWE is sad to report that Chris Benoit and his family have been found dead in their home. Police are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths. Tonight's Raw will be a tribute to Chris and his family."
Could be. Was he close to Shawn Michaels?
Benoit is being described as very anti-religious.
http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/6964262
Rather good editorial imho; I’m sure most who have an interest have seen it, 10 pages of responses.
Like the gent said in the other thread and I think I concur; “it’s the roids man.”
Doubt it. Also, wrestlers often use stage names, come to think of it, so “S” could be the real name of someone on the roster who uses another name.
He was close to Malenko, yes. Who knows?
I wasn’t aware of them being close either. What made me wonder was Chris leaving the Bibles by Nancy & Daniel. Thought maybe he had attempted to contact Shawn especially since Shawn led a prayer in the locker room for Eddie.
I thought about the name thing too. Maybe he contacted Chavo by his real name, Salvador. Which would mean the “C” is someone else.
Now I’ve confused myself :)
Pro wrestling is a sick and crazy world. In that context, I would consider guys like Dean Malenko, Benoit, Bret & Owen, and a handful of others to be fairly normal in that world.
Something unthinkable happened to Benoit’s mind that day. The bogey man of choice seems to be to blame steroids, but Benoit wasn’t pushed for a freaky physique. He was pushed for his talent.
As for the other person he reached out to, I’m sure we will find out. One of them was Chavo. I get the Wrestling Observer and no doubt some details will be revealed within those pages in the next week or so.
re: bibles
The authorities didn’t say if it was open to a particular verse, which might offer some insight. When the guy said there were bibles there, any reporter worth their mustard should have asked. They were busy on the steroids angle. The MSM comes through again!
Chavo acknowledged Chris contacted him & that the messages were “weird”. I was just wondering if Chavo may actually be the “S”.
Dave Meltzer on Fox news yesterday explicitly said Chavo got the text messages, so I think that’s a safe assumption. While he has been wrong in the past, he seemed fairly sure about this.
They’re always first to pick up the ball & run. Even if it’s in the wrong direction. They don’t report the news anymore. They create it.
Yeah, I remember the old-school “rasslers”...Ric Flair, King Kong Bundy, George “The Animal” Steele, Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat, etc...and how about real old-school, like Bob Backlund and Bruno Sammartino???
I used to watch WCW with my “redneck” friends back in the mid-1990s...they had some good storylines back then...the NWO and all that...I actually liked Benoit when he was in WCW with the Four Horsemen...he always put on a good show. What a shame he had to go out like he did.
Rasslin’ has gone downhill big time in the last several years...WWE sucks compared to the old NWA and WCW. This Benoit thing may be the final nail in the WWE coffin...good riddance...
The MSM is being typically bad with this story - they seemed to have decided that this is about steroids, but I don’t see that as a likely connection. Strange.
When the idea of "roid rage" was brought up, Booker remarked, "The media is going to put a spin on it, you know. We know that. WWE knows that. Did the guy last week who murders his wife and kid last week have any form of roid rage? He was a cop. This happens in any form of life. I feel like the human life is a delicate piece of equipment and everyone has their breaking point. We don't know what his breaking point was. You don't know what my point is, I don't know what your point is. We're all human. I just think it was a huge malfunction and whatever it was, we may never know. It's not for us to know. It's out of our hands and with God now."
I’m not really up on my wrestling history, but I think that a lot of the old MACW folks ended up in the old-school NWA. Flair and the Andersens in particular.
The thing about those guys was that they were, for lack of a better term, normal. Take Dusty Rhodes. Dusty Rhodes looked like some big beer-drinking redneck you’d run into down at the local truck stop, with his crazy accent and his beer gut. The kind of guy that’d hang out in a country bar, down a few beers, then get into a fight with a couple of out-of-towners and kick some ass. Same thing with Wahoo McDaniel, he had a belly. “Number One” Paul Orndorff was practically a midget compared to modern wrestlers, yet he was extremely good technically and played the role of the quiet, yet arrogant bad guy to perfection. Ric Flair was (and still is) the consummate showman, a good but not awesome wrestler whose personality made up for it.
When somebody like Ricky Steamboat or Jimmy Snuka came along, admit it, we were all like “wow, that guy’s cut!” Steamboat wasn’t all that big, and I don’t think Snuka was either. But they were in fantastic shape compared to a lot of the other wrestlers of that day.
Jump forward a few years, and all of a sudden everybody became these hyper-inflated Hulk Hogan clones. Even Snuka bulked up massively. And my least favorite was always The Ultimate Warrior. Is he even alive now? My God, he looked like some sort of real-life He-Man caricature. What he must have been pumping into his body to get like that, I don’t even want to think about.
Combine all that with the increasingly weird storylines, and it just ran me off.
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I don’t think it could have been said any better than that.
He is. And continues to be "out there". Been run off every board I know of that he joined.
I was ticked off a few years back when some creeps dug out an old criminal record of his, when he was a teen. Terrible - the guy worked hard and made a good life for himself, above board. Good career, good talent, very lovely wife - turning it around is to his credit, and all some people could do was dig up a 20 year old incident. Rotten.
He makes a lot of sense here and I was very pleased to read it. I couldn’t have said it better, either.
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