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[amante]

wow?!?

 

Not cheapen or make light of this tragedy but any news on how Dean Malenko is feeling?

[SevenZeroFive]

pwede ba mgpost ng recap ng episodes? kng ndi padelete nalng... WWE RAW Results -- Remembering Chris Benoit

Story posted by Tim Brown on June 25, 2007

 

# Vince McMahon is in the ring at RAW in Corpus Christi, Texas with the arena 100% empty. McMahon explains what was suppose to happen tonight on RAW (with the Mr. McMahon angle) and then confirms that Atlanta Police found Chris Benoit and his family dead in their new Atlanta suburban this afternoon. McMahon, teary eyed and about to break down, says that tonight we will pay tribute to Chris Benoit. We go directly to a tribute video of Chris Benoit.

 

# We're back on RAW with Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler. The arena is empty, both are clearly very upset. Jim Ross confirms that Chris, his wife Nancy, and son Daniel were all found dead today. Lawler says that this is going to be one of the most difficult shows that him and Ross have ever done.

 

# Steve Austin is now on to speak about Benoit. Austin says that he is one of the hardest working people he has ever met, even if there were only 30 people in the building. He says he has nothing but respect for Chris Benoit and that he loves him.

 

# We're with Michael Cole and JBL in the empty arena. Cole says that Chris Benoit's children defined who he was. Coles says that Benoit's children were the most wonderful, respectful, well dressed children. JBL says that he always had his boys in suits and they would always come up and shake your hand. He continued to talk about a recent conversation with Benoit and says that he doesn't want to be here doing this, but would rather be calling a match with Chris and having a cocktail afterwards. Cole sends us to a John Cena video of him offering his condolences.

 

# We're ringside in the empty arena with Joey Styles and Tazz. Both of them remember Chris Benoit and his days in ECW. They talk about him coming into the company from Japan. Tazz recalls that he told Paul Heyman that when he brought in Chris Benoit, he brought some credibility to his company. Both of them offered very nice stories of Chris Benoit. Joey Styles talks about how excited that he was when Chris Benoit was recently drafted to ECW. We go to a tribute of Chris Benoit wrestling in WWE's ECW.

 

# Vince McMahon is now in the ring. Vince says that tonight on RAW they were going to pay tribute to his on-air character, Mr. McMahon who had died. He says that was only a storyline, but the death of Chris Benoit is very real and they will be paying tribute to him in this very special three hour episode of RAW.

 

# We go to WCW Hog Wild 1996 to see Chris Benoit vs. Dean Malenko. JR and King lead us in saying that Benoit loved wrestling with Malenko who was one of his best friends, and remind us that Chris's wife Nancy, who fans will know as "Woman" from WCW, was very active at ringside in this match.

 

# Dean Malenko is now on. He says that Benoit has enriched his both his career and life. He says he first met Chris in the mid 90's in Japan along with Eddie Guerrero. They were all together for the ups and downs, goods and bads, and supported eachother through the times. He says that Chris was a private person and kept to himself. Malenko says he is honored to have spent the last 15 years with Chris.

 

Malenko says it's hard to lose his two best friends so close together, Chris and Eddie. People called them the three amigos of throwing out suplexes in the ring. Malenko says that Chris always helped young and upcoming talent. He says his greatest gift to Chris was giving him the Crippler Crossface then Benoit needed a finisher.

 

He says that the one thing he can hold on to is knowing that his two best friends are now together in Heaven.

 

# We're back with JBL and Michael Cole who say that no matter if he won or lost, Chris would look out into the crowd and they would always give him an ovation because they knew how hard he worked even if he lost.

 

# We go to the Chris Benoit/JBL cage match from Smackdown 2006.

 

# Stephanie McMahon is up next. She says he was passionate about wrestling, but more passionate about his family. She says that Benoit was one of the only people genuinely happy for her and Triple H when they got married, and she will always know Chris as her friend.

 

# Chavo Guerrero says that Benoit was part of his family. He says Chris Benoit was the first person he called when he found Eddie. Chavo says that Benoit was a guy with a heart of stone and the only time he ever heard him cry was when he told Chris about Eddie's death.

 

Chavo says that just last week he spent the night at Chris' house and had a great time spending time with Chris, his family, and his dogs. Chavo talks about the times where Chris took Chavo's kids to the movies with his kids, and how they really were family. He says it was a pleasure, a privelege and an honor to be in the ring with Chris.

 

He says the last thing that Chris said to him was on the phone, "I love ya Chavo", which was not something Chris said to people outside of his family.

 

# We're back with Taz and Joey Styles saying they are there to celebrate Chris' wrestling career which began in Japan, which leads us into a match between Benoit as The Pegasus Kid against Thunder Liger in New Japan.

 

# William Regal is up to talk about Chris Benoit, saying that he was the hardest working person in professional wrestling he had ever met. "Chris Benoit is the absolute best."

 

# We're back in the empty arena with Vince in the ring again. He once again says "[Tonight's storyline was to be the alleged demise of my character Vince McMahon, but in reality Chris Benoit, his son and wife are dead. Their bodies were discovered this afternoon in their new Atlanta home. The authorities are undergoing an investigation. We can only offer our condolences to the extended family of Chris Benoit. All we can do is pay tribute to Chris Benoit. We will offer you some of the most memorable moments in Chris's professional life.]" He says that tonight will be a tribute to one of the greatest WWE Superstars of all time.

 

# JR and King introduce the next match, which is the infamous Jericho/Benoit ladder match.

 

# A very emotional Edge is up next who says he had three people in this industry who he felt he could really talk to, and two of them are gone now. Edge says that throughout his own personal issues, Chris was the first person he would go to. He says Chris cared, and didn't just pat him on the back, he actually cared. Edge says that everyone in the locker room loves Chris.

 

He reminisces about recently when Chris was backstage doing his warm up exercises and his son was backstage with him doing them, in his shirt and tie as always. Edge says that Chris would be mad at him right now for crying on TV, but he can't help it and will miss Chris greatly.

 

# JBL remembers a funny story where Chris Benoit threw a couple guys out of the locker room and wouldn't let them dress with the other wrestlers because they didn't have enough respect for them. JBL says Chris was right and that those particular guys didn't deserve to be in Chris' presence.

 

# Triple H is up to talk about Chris. He says one word that comes to mind when he thinks about Chris is "respect". He remembers a time where a young wrestler showed disrespect to a wrestler, and Chris made him do 1000 squats right there in the locker room. Chris stood right beside him and did them as well. The next day when the young wrestler came in and could barely move his legs, Chris made him do 500 more.

 

HHH gets teary-eyed remembering WrestleMania 20 when he won the title with his family there in the building with him. He says that there was no one in the world who he respected more then Chris, because Chris earned it.

 

# The Benoit/Michaels/HHH main event from WrestleMania 20 airs next.

 

# Lawler speaks about Chris' family Nancy (formerly Woman of WCW) and his son, saying that you need to appreciate your family while you have them. JR says that one of the greatest moments in wrestling history occurs at the end of the WrestleMania 20 main event with Chris Benoit.

 

# We're back for the conclusion of WrestleMania 20 with Eddie Guerro and Chris Benoit embracing after the match to end the show.

 

there, at least now we know there won't be any post-Benoit angles.. they cancelled their whole show for this one..

[tamago]

I'm kinda torn over the whole thing. I admired Benoit's in-ring capabilities and I do believe that he deserves a tribute. But as Larry said, since its a murder-suicide, how can they glorify a murderer?

[rdaq97]

I'm kinda torn over the whole thing. I admired Benoit's in-ring capabilities and I do believe that he deserves a tribute. But as Larry said, since its a murder-suicide, how can they glorify a murderer?

 

you don't. yes, it's wrong any way you look at it. even if he had reason to. nobody should have to suffer through this kind of tragedy. but nobody knows all the facts. and i think it's best to keep speculation to a minimum until all the facts have been made public.

 

this is a black day for wrestling fans in the world over.

[xycho_g]

pota foul! double murder-suicide??!...

 

rip chris benoit...

Edited June 26, 2007 by xycho_g

[Larry]

Chris Benoit is without a doubt one of the greatest in ring workers of all time.

 

and judging from all the stories I've heard about him from fans and workers alike he was a stand up guy.

 

he's the one person in the business who seems to be a legitimate nice guy

 

I still remember the episode of Tough Enough when he was there coaching the contestants and showing them how to take a suplex bump, everyone was in awe in them and you can see in their body language that they really respected him.

 

but

 

if he *did* k*ll his son.

 

then he's lower than a piece of sh1t.

 

I'm really hoping that he didn't.

[clubber_lang]

^ True, true...

[Larry]

swiped from another board

 

nothing official (and could be just pure hearsay), but :

 

"A Cousin of a GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigations) has heard in his circle is that Chris Benoit's wife killed their son Daniel, called Chris and told him to rush home because of an emergency which is why he missed last Sunday's Vengeance PPV. Upon arriving home Benoit killed his wife in a rage for the death of his son and then killed himself Monday morning. His wife's body was found in the master bedroom, strangled with the cord from an alarm clock. The son's body was found in his room apparently suffocated with a garbage bag. Chris then wrote a suicide note explaining what had happened, apologized to his family, his other children (from a separate relationship), and his fans. He then fashioned a slip-knot noose from from rope taken from the garage and hung himself from the banister in the foyer of his suburban Atlanta home."

Edited June 26, 2007 by Larry

[clubber_lang]

nothing official (and could be just pure heresay), but :

 

"A Cousin of a GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigations) has heard in his circle is that Chris Benoit's wife killed their son Daniel, called Chris and told him to rush home because of an emergency which is why he missed last Sunday's Vengeance PPV. Upon arriving home Benoit killed his wife in a rage for the death of his son and then killed himself Monday morning. His wife's body was found in the master bedroom, strangled with the cord from an alarm clock. The son's body was found in his room apparently suffocated with a garbage bag. Chris then wrote a suicide note explaining what had happened, apologized to his family, his other children (from a separate relationship), and his fans. He then fashioned a slip-knot noose from from rope taken from the garage and hung himself from the banister in the foyer of his suburban Atlanta home."

 

If this one is true, I can't say I would blame Benoit for killing her. I mean, that was a kid...

 

Still, remains to be seen what really transpired...

 

For all we know, somebody broke in and killed them all...

[dr_nightman]

tragic loss, pareho ng nawala yung champions ng wrestlemania 20 and to think these two were the most hard working wrestling superstars in the business.

[revi]

I admired Chris Benoit since his WCW days.. I felt that his style is similar to Bret Hart who is also one of my favorites..

 

I just can't believe that he is now dead.. a suicide at that.. or to make it worse.. double murder-suicide.. The thought sickens me.. Can't wait for the investigation to unfold.. The story behind Benoit's death.. What really happened? What pushed him if he did murder his wife/son?

 

Whatever the investigation brings to the table, WWE should just keep their mouths shut and should not comment at all on the deaths.. They should just focus on Benoit as a wrestler.. I believe that as great as Benoit was, the wrestling world should not forget his contributions to the sport.. If he did k*ll his wife and son, he should be condemned as a person but not as a wrestler..

 

A tribute was already done (as posted by SevenZeroFive) by WWE.. And I think it is befitting of Benoit's contributions as a wrestler.. We can not erase the fact that if he did murdered his wife &/or son.. This scenario will haunt us forever and will forever etch Benoit's character.. As such, a quiet tribute like what WWE did is the best thing to do in this situation..

[hitman531ph]

We don't glorify murder. However, the investigation isn't over yet.

 

No one can deny that Chris Benoit was one of the pillars of WWE/ECW. He is one of the most respected wrestlers that WWE/ECW ever had.

 

The Rabid Wolverine is no more. Goodbye Chris Benoit.

[hitman531ph]

RIP to 'Sensational' Sherri. She was 49.

[Flash Sentry]

I'm kinda torn over the whole thing. I admired Benoit's in-ring capabilities and I do believe that he deserves a tribute. But as Larry said, since its a murder-suicide, how can they glorify a murderer?

 

As I said over at East Side Boxing forum: I think they're paying tribute to Benoit the wrestler and colleague of theirs. The word's still out on what actually happened.

[hitman531ph]

ABC News

 

Wrestling Champ Chris Benoit Found Dead With Family

 

Death Comes a Day After Wrestler Missed Pay-Per-View Appearance

 

Wrestling star Chris Benoit, his wife, Nancy, and their 7-year-old son, Daniel, were found dead in their suburban Atlanta home Monday. The deaths are being investigated as a possible suicide and double homicide, authorities told ABC News.

 

Lt. Tommy Pope of the Fayette County Sheriff's Department told ABC News that Benoit had missed several appointments over the weekend, leading concerned parties to ask police to do a "welfare check." When sheriffs arrived at the Benoits' home, they found the wrestler, his wife and their son dead.

 

There were no signs of gunshot wounds or stabbing, according to Pope. Authorities are not ruling out other causes, such as poisoning, suffocation or strangulation. Pope told ABC News that his department is looking at this situation as a "possible double murder, suicide."

 

Pope said "the instruments of death were located on scene," but he would not specify what those instruments are or where in the house the bodies were found. Pope added the department is "not actively searching for any suspects outside of the house."

 

An autopsy has been scheduled for Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. However, it could be weeks before there is a result.

 

Benoit, 40, was scheduled to spar against C.M. Punk in a pay-per-view event Sunday night in Houston for the Extreme Champion Wrestling title. But Benoit canceled before the event, citing personal reasons.

 

A native of Edmonton, Alberta, Benoit was known in the ring as the "Canadian Crippler."

 

Following the announcement of the deaths, World Wrestling Entertainment issued a statement: "Chris was beloved among his fellow superstars, and was a favorite among WWE fans for his unbelievable athleticism and wrestling ability. He always took great pride in his performance, and always showed respect for the business he loved, for his peers and toward his fans. This is a terrible tragedy and an unbearable loss. WWE extends its sincere condolences and prayers to the Benoit family and loved ones in this time of tragedy."

 

WWE announced that it would drop its planned Monday night line-up on the USA Network to air a three-hour tribute to Benoit.

 

In a sport known for bravado and bullying, Benoit was very much beloved and respected by his peers. He was passionate about his profession and served as a mentor to many younger, up-and-coming performers. As an indication of how much the fans enjoyed him, when the crowd in Houston's Toyota Center learned Sunday night that he wouldn't be there, they chanted, "We want Benoit!"