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As the post by lward99 relates, that was a rare storyline that ended up as a shoot (despite both participants attempts to minimize it forever after). Sullivan had problems with Pillman that spilled forth and had to be played like business as usual. While I don’t have any basis to believe Dave Sullivan had anything to do with this I’d consider the police writing all that off as kayfabe BS to be negligent.

My 25% unscripted goes to the leeway wrestlers are given for on-the-fly filler. Some, like Benoit, could be entrusted to fill a half hour with no script at all. Most need active direction and at least one practice session. Benoit was unusual for usually cutting time out for that no matter how low his opponent was on the roster.

I maintain that a murder-suicide or a suicide after finding one’s family dead is not characteristic of a man who’s gimmick was being unable to do a gimmick. Like John Wayne, Benoit was unable to act his way out of a wet paper bag without being himself. He had all the professional, social and employer support anyone could hope for so I just can’t see the scenario these initial reports are trying to illustrate. Also note that he attended a Catholic school...no suicide allowed.

I just heard a rumor, and it sounds bad, but its weird, we'll find out soon enought, but the story right now, is that his wife may have killed his son, told him to come home, and when he did, and found out, killed her, then himself.

I hope none of this is true, he really was one of my favorite wrestlers, but I am already hearing there was a note explaining everything....it also explains why they need to run tests since everyone appears to have died on a different day. The neighbors found the bodies, and the WWE appears to have also called the police based on weird text messages Benoit sent to some other wrestlers.

Correct on the Kevin Sullivan stuff. I was just being a wiseguy raising up Purple Haze!

Benoit was a skilled wrestler and could tell a great story in the ring, whether given 10 minutes or 30 minutes, you are correct.

Any info coming out tonight is more likely rumor, innuendo, or downright speculation. I’ll just wait for more official news to come out in the coming days - wed may be big. I’m with you in that the ‘double murder-suicide’ doesn’t pass my instinctive gut test. But who knows?

If it is indeed a double-murder suicide, with Benoit killing his wife (the mother of his child) and then their child, the WWE is in the unenviable spot of having honored a killer, one who turned his rage on himself. A sleepless night in the WWE Inner Circle tonight - something like that has to be spun and quickly made to go away.

Hard to imagine either is likely. Wait and see.