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.
I had not considered that. the WWE will be in a hell of a spot if it works out that way. maybe, just maybe it was not chris, vince knew that this afternoon, and then decided to go ahead with the tribute. what do you think?
It just occurred to me that the WWE had two guys on the agent payroll who they could have sent after Chris when he didn’t show up for the house show: Dean Malenko and Arn Anderson - neither of whom he could have refused entry. Woulda, coulda shoulda ... that should have been the first move when the company’s example of dependability ditched a show for mysterious reasons. Then again; Benoit was so good and solid that his only dive off the grid would hardly be anticipated to end up the horror it turned out to be.