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Post by Slammywinner on Aug 17, 2010 18:32:20 GMT -5
I remember it was important to me to see the tribute RAW. I knew it likely wouldn't be good news about him, and I wanted to watch his matches one more time without the baggage.
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Post by TheDieselTrain on Aug 17, 2010 18:36:34 GMT -5
I guess I have a morbid sense of humor but I always wondered if Benoit saw NOC and decided to take his life after seeing Johnny Nitro go over Punk for the ECW title. Nitro only made one appearance on ECW after being drafted and wasnt even on the show before the ppv.
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Post by Fade on Aug 17, 2010 18:37:37 GMT -5
I was at Starbucks enjoying a nice latte and got a text..
Despite not knowing much, I assumed someone broke into his house and killed him and his family.
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Post by BigJerichool222 on Aug 17, 2010 18:58:00 GMT -5
I was walking home from the store and my bro told me through the upstairs window as I was nearing the house. I was shocked, that's all. Saddened and shocked. I took my Benoit toy and put the world title on it and put it on a little display as a memorial.
Eventually the toy was stripped of the title, thrown under my bed for a few months and ultimately thrown in the trash.
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Post by Wailing Fungus on Aug 17, 2010 20:08:52 GMT -5
Had just finished watching the ECW match of his from the previous week before I headed back to my room to browse the 'net before RAW finally started. My homepage was an old message board/e-fed and the site's banner had already been replaced by a tribute picture to Benoit - all I'd known until then was the no-show reports. Pretty sure that I started lurking here in order to keep up to date, but I honestly didn't know what to think. It was just one hell of a surreal moment, which just got more and more grim as time went on.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Aug 17, 2010 21:12:30 GMT -5
I did not watch the PPV, but I remember reading here that Benoit no showed the event due to a "family emergency". (creepy to think of now.) I had that Monday off and when I went to WWE.com the "BENOIT DEAD" headline was up and starting mid-afternoon CNN was all over it. There was a press conference with police from outside the Benoit home and honestly, something seemed very off about it, the more detail the police went into. Then I watched the Raw tribute and as many of you know and also have said, there was just an uneasy feeling as the show went on and from the other wrestlers' comments I had pretty much figured that most of them (especially Regal and Chavo) were certain Chris had done it, then on the morning news the following morning they said that it was believed to be a double-murder/suicide, which confirmed it all.
As far as since then goes, I never actively seek out his matches, but if he's on something I'm watching it doesn't bother me. I was a fan but I'll never celebrate the man again, if that makes any sense to anyone. The only one I still have a bit of a hard time watching is Royal Rumble 03, since I was part of the standing ovation he got.
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Post by Throwback on Aug 17, 2010 21:17:32 GMT -5
I remember not hearing about his death that day and I was also late turning on RAW. So when I did turn it on I saw an old match with the Benoit graphic in the corner. Then a minute later his wife and kid's graphic popped up and I was like "What the hell happened?" So I went to wwe.com and read that him and his family were found dead. I was pretty surprised but I didn't think it would turn out to be what it was.
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Post by dlg3000 on Aug 17, 2010 21:17:58 GMT -5
When I first heard about it, I too was in shock. I flipped through the channels to watch the last few minutes of Raw. Then I found out that he had died. They showed his picture and on the bottom 1967-2007. I was in shock and I went online to find out more, I was in such shock.
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Post by celtics543 on Aug 17, 2010 22:35:16 GMT -5
Kind of weird, but it seems that every time I'm away from my computer for a day or more and then check the news sites, someone has died. It happened with Eddie first. I was out all day and checked a wrestling site that night and the reports that he had passed away were all over it. Then with Benoit I'd been out all day and got home just before Raw started. I wasn't planning on watching it, but figured I'd at least see what they were starting with, was out in the kitchen and heard the music they play for the "in memory" screen. Rushed back in and saw that it was Benoit.
I was speachless. I'd read the reports that he had a family emergency and wasn't at the ppv, but I just thought it was a case of his son being really sick or something. Then Vince announced that the whole family was dead and I logged onto Wrestlecrap. I read the reports that said it was most likely a Carbon Monoxide issue, and I believed it whole heartedly. I didn't want to believe anything else. The crazy ideas of Kevin Sullivan murdering them ran through my mind, but I was happy to believe it was Carbon Monoxide.
I put up the WM 20 picture of Benoit and Eddie celebrating as my Facebook profile picture in tribute, but then near midnight the truth started to come out and I immediately took it down. I remember laying on the floor watching CNN and reading on here what the new reports were and feeling more and more sick to my stomach. Benoit was never my favorite wrestler or anything, but I never thought he'd ever be capable of something like what he was being accused of.
Unfortunately the reports of Murder/Suicide were correct and Chris Benoit was forever tainted for me. I can no longer watch his matches, his dvd sits on my dvd rack never having been opened since then, and I don't care how many 5 * matches he had there is no respect left.
I do believe it had to do with his brain injuries, but sometimes I think that's more of a hope. I just needed someone to tell me that there was a reason that went beyond Benoit being a monster. One of the worst days to be a wrestling fan.
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Post by Phil Parent on Aug 17, 2010 23:01:22 GMT -5
First I saw the news he wouldn't wrestle Punk because of a family emergency.
I watched NOC on a feed.
Then I learned of the death. Watched RAW is Benoit online the next day. And during RAW the truth came out and I just stopped being a fan.
Hey, my favourite wrestlers when I was a kid were the Hollywood Blondes. And then I identified with Owen because I was a little brother like him. Then I grew up and appreciated the work of Benoit & Guerrero in WCW.
Pillman died. Owen died. Eddie died. Benoit died.
My fandom died.
I was still following on news site but never actually watching, except for I think Royal Rumble and Wrestlemania for the next year at least. Then I heard of Randy Orton getting a push as a psycho and of a bunch of young guys I had never seen work like Sheamus, Kofi Kingston....I started watching again....
Did I tell you that after discovering the WCW Workraters, I discovered Puroresu and loved Mitsuharu Misawa.
Well, I should have. Broke his neck and died.
THAT almost did me in for good.
The reason I am back to being a passionate wrestling fan is the Nexus. Newcomers are always interesting and exciting to me.
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Post by saintchancellor on Aug 17, 2010 23:19:13 GMT -5
Fantastic posts by all and thank you mods for not locking or deleting this thread. Sometimes, people need to think out loud and look back.
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Post by agent817 on Aug 18, 2010 0:01:20 GMT -5
Maybe I should have gone into detail about my reaction to the whole ordeal.
I remember reading something on a message board about Benoit going home on a family emergency on the day of Vengeance. I wondered why at the time, but I was hoping that he would be back in action soon. I was determined to watch the RAW tribute that Monday. So I did. Next thing I read right after I got done watching RAW, I noticed on the same message board that it could've been a double murder suicide and Benoit was the one who killed them. Honestly, at first, I thought it was some crazy lunatic killer who killed the whole family, but I was wrong. At first, when I read about how Chris was the one who killed them, I thought it was someone trolling around. But then everywhere on that same message board, topics about Benoit left and right. I then didn't know what else to think. Benoit was one of my favorites and it kind of hurt me inside to think what had happened. I couldn't watch a Benoit match the same way again, at least for a while. I was able to watch a match of his last year and I enjoyed it a bit. I slowly regained the ability to watch a match of his the way I did before. Sure, I can't deny what he did, but I can't deny that he was a great wrestler. At the end of the day, it all depends on what you think of the guy.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 18, 2010 0:05:22 GMT -5
Didn't hear about it till Monday afternoon, got off work and manned the boards that night.
That is by far the least fun this place has ever, ever been
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Post by saintchancellor on Aug 18, 2010 0:11:30 GMT -5
Didn't hear about it till Monday afternoon, got off work and manned the boards that night. That is by far the least fun this place has ever, ever been I wasn't here for it, can you explain Slim?
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 18, 2010 0:21:38 GMT -5
Didn't hear about it till Monday afternoon, got off work and manned the boards that night. That is by far the least fun this place has ever, ever been I wasn't here for it, can you explain Slim? Sure, part of the 'no fun ness' was the fact the a lot of people were heartbroken, saddened, shocked, all the things posted about it.. so just going through some of the posts, while it provided therapeutic to those who were struggling with it I understand, were just sad to read. More than that though, you had what seemed like hundreds of people mocking, trolling, spamming, any and everything related.. be it Benoit himself, the family, the WWE, the posters here, just chaos in this place for like three days. I myself banned TONS of people during the course of those three or four days; and I know the other mods did too; and this was a period of time where we weren't nearly as well staffed.. there was say, I don't know, twelve? or so mods a the time, total.. Just not a fun time for what's supposed to be a light-hearted messageboard. I will say there was a lot positive, especially the therapeutic aspect I mentioned earlier as it really did seem to help some people; but as far as being one of the main guys 'behind the scenes' dealing with the blitzkrieg of idiots and such.. not fun at all.
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Post by saintchancellor on Aug 18, 2010 0:24:29 GMT -5
I wasn't here for it, can you explain Slim? Sure, part of the 'no fun ness' was the fact the a lot of people were heartbroken, saddened, shocked, all the things posted about it.. so just going through some of the posts, while it provided therapeutic to those who were struggling with it I understand, were just sad to read. More than that though, you had what seemed like hundreds of people mocking, trolling, spamming, any and everything related.. be it Benoit himself, the family, the WWE, the posters here, just chaos in this place for like three days. I myself banned TONS of people during the course of those three or four days; and I know the other mods did too; and this was a period of time where we weren't nearly as well staffed.. there was say, I don't know, twelve? or so mods a the time, total.. Just not a fun time for what's supposed to be a light-hearted messageboard. I will say there was a lot positive, especially the therapeutic aspect I mentioned earlier as it really did seem to help some people; but as far as being one of the main guys 'behind the scenes' dealing with the blitzkrieg of idiots and such.. not fun at all. Doesn't sound fun. Thank you for explaining, I like hearing the history of this place.
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Post by Chainsaw on Aug 18, 2010 0:24:48 GMT -5
Crushed. Absolutely crushed.
The worse part of things was, I was ready to believe anything else that was coming out of it. That they had been killed in a plane crash. That some crazed person killed them. Hell, even that it was Kevin Sullivan or something insane like that. Then reality sunk in.
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Post by stealthamo on Aug 18, 2010 0:34:00 GMT -5
I was catching updates on Night of Champions as it was happening, and so I heard about Benoit not being there. Like a lot of others, I was disappointed that Benoit wasn't there to face CM Punk, and that Johnny Nitro replaced him.
I found out about Benoit when Raw started. Normally, I would've been online and had found out about it, but I had gone on a run with a few friends from the cross country, and got back right when Raw started. Obviously, seeing the video from the end of Hard Knocks, I feared the worst. I heard details throughout the night, and at first, I was in denial that he hadn't done it. But as the next couple days went by, everything became apparent.
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Post by torcha on Aug 18, 2010 4:49:09 GMT -5
I can't remember if I knew about Benoit no-showing the PPV. When my husband first saw the news of the deaths on WWE's site, I (very stupidly) thought that it was somehow part of the "Vince is dead" storyline, especially since at that point it wasn't on any other wrestling news sites. Within the half hour, though, the Atlanta Journal Constitution's site was following the story.
Due to the lack of details, I also thought it was carbon monoxide poisoning. At the start of the tribute's third hour, I read news sites reporting that police were "confident" it was a double murder/suicide. I broke the news to my husband and stopped watching the show.
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Post by Toxik916 on Aug 18, 2010 7:25:50 GMT -5
I remember that day all too well. I was scheduled to work from 6 pm to 3 am that night so I woke up around 4, I usually never check the internet before work but some reason i logged on and read that Benoit and his family were dead. I was crushed and almost in tears, I called my girlfriend at the time and right when I heard her voice I broke down and started crying. I then called in sick to work because I knew I would be an emotional wreck. My girlfriend came over and we met up with my brother in law to watch the tribute show because we needed each other for support. After the show my girlfriend and I drove home blasting his entrance theme with the windows down.
The next day when the news came out that he killed himself and his family all that sadness turned into anger. I was so upset that I mourned the death of a murderer. My exgirlfriend really helped me with his death. Her dad killed himself and her stepmom and she explained to me that I cant beat myself up for mourning the loss of a hero of mine. She said good people can snap and do unforgivable things.
The Benoit I try to remember is the one who inspired me as a kid, the guy that never gave up on his dream, and the man who was one of the best wrestlers of all time. Not the monster that he was during his final days.
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