10 years....RIP Nancy & Daniel Benoit

[Heelish]

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

I say this a lot about Chris probably have said it on here but I can't watch his matches anymore. Got WM 22 on DVD and I just skip his match against JBL. Really can't watch the MITB match at WM 21 or the ladder match he had against Jericho. Dope match but

along with the other shots to the head before that and afterwards. Just a sad situation all around.

 

[MrFirst2doit]

10 years today brehs for them smh. 2 more days for ol dude.

Crazy story. Still after all these years.

he would of been 17 getting ready for his senior year... tragic... RIP..

 

[richaveli83]

I had stopped watching wrestling at that point so I didn't really know what was going on. I was at work and went to the break room during lunch to watch tv and I saw Marc Mero on Nancy Grace or Bill O'Reilly I forgot which one. He was talking about all the travel and pain wrestlers have to go through. I said out loud "this dude was married to Sable who was in playboy. Why are they interviewing him?" A white guy in the break room said "he's talking about that wrestler that killed his wife and kid." I was like who and then he told me and I was shook.

I was naive and went on the network last week to watch the tribute to Benoit but I saw it was a highlight of matches in 2007.

fukk Benoit for what he did!

 

[Konnan]

I say this a lot about Chris probably have said it on here but I can't watch his matches anymore. Got WM 22 on DVD and I just skip his match against JBL. Really can't watch the MITB match at WM 21 or the ladder match he had against Jericho. Dope match but

along with the other shots to the head before that and afterwards. Just a sad situation all around.

He blocked the chair shot with his hands only to take an even worse head shot by bouncing his head off the floor

 

[Vice Queen]

I remember watching RAW that day and feeling uneasy during the show. Like instinct was telling me that Benoit did that.

The wrestlers all looked like they were slowly learning what happened and hesitant to say anything. Tears weren't shed like they were for Eddie.

Then the news dropped..... Emotions were high, it was wild.

 

[stro]

I think it's always been super telling that all the people that knew him best (Regal, Malenko, Jericho) all immediately assumed he did it from the jump.

 

[THEREALBRAND]

As time goes on my contempt for Benoit just gets stronger. When it happened I realized it was a horrible thing, but I was young enough to not fully grasp how despicable it was. Now as I get closer to fatherhood myself I can't think of a more reprehensible act than killing your own kid with your bare hands. There's a lot of terrible things you can do in this world, but doing that to a person that's so innocent and puts all of their unconditional love and trust into you is IMO the most horrific. Anybody that supports this man in any way or thinks the WWE/wrestling should honor him is sick.

I truly wish the WWE removed every mention of him from every broadcast that he was ever a part of.

I think it's always been super telling that all the people that knew him best (Regal, Malenko, Jericho) all immediately assumed he did it from the jump.

That's why I never bought into the conspiracy theories surrounding the situation.

 

[stro]

As time goes on my contempt for Benoit just gets stronger. When it happened I realized it was a horrible thing, but I was young enough to not fully grasp how despicable it was. Now as I get closer to fatherhood myself I can't think of a more reprehensible act than killing your own kid with your bare hands. There's a lot of terrible things you can do in this world, but doing that to a person that's so innocent and puts all of their unconditional love and trust into you is IMO the most horrific. Anybody that supports this man in any way or thinks the WWE/wrestling should honor him is sick.

I truly wish the WWE removed every mention of him from every broadcast that he was ever a part of.



That's why I never bought into the conspiracy theories surrounding the situation.

The conspiracy theories have always been from smarks trying to find ways to justify why their favorite wrestler wasn't a fukking monster and make themselves feel better about not feeling bad about continuing to watch/enjoy his work. As if there weren't 20 years of documented behavior of him being a fukking creepy abusive psycho before he killed his family.

I've always been able to pretty easily separate art and artist (IE, I'm of Jewish descent but I sure as fukk am going to not like the Lethal Weapon series or not be interested in whatever Mel Gibson is up to, I still watch and enjoy Benoit/Snuka matches, etc), so I've never really understood why people couldn't just be open that they still liked Benoit matches without having to come up with crazy Alex Jones level conspiracy bullshyt. I mean, A LOT of everyone's favorite wrestlers are absolute pieces of shyt, just like a lot of people's favorite actors and musicians are pieces of shyt. You can still enjoy their work while recognizing they're garbage people.

But it's pretty telling when damn near everyone that knew him for more than a few years and wasn't from the generation before him that idolized him (like Edge and Punk) were not surprised he did what he did.

 

[RammerJammer]

As time goes on my contempt for Benoit just gets stronger. When it happened I realized it was a horrible thing, but I was young enough to not fully grasp how despicable it was. Now as I get closer to fatherhood myself I can't think of a more reprehensible act than killing your own kid with your bare hands. There's a lot of terrible things you can do in this world, but doing that to a person that's so innocent and puts all of their unconditional love and trust into you is IMO the most horrific. Anybody that supports this man in any way or thinks the WWE/wrestling should honor him is sick.

I truly wish the WWE removed every mention of him from every broadcast that he was ever a part of.



That's why I never bought into the conspiracy theories surrounding the situation.

Right, I realized that what happened was tragic but I just couldn't grasp how much of a despicable a human being that Benoit was, now at 20, I understand it and hell if I was older than I was in 2007, I probably would've took a long break from wrestling

 

[Vinny Lupton]

Wow i remember this like it was yesterday.

I remember that monday night raw thread going from :dwayne: to :vinceshock: to :flairwow:

shyt was crazy
I fell asleep at like 6pm
woke up when Raw was starting to an empty arena like
shyt was surreal

 

[James Dean]

The aftermath was nuts. I remember Nancy Grace on CNN being the biggest bytch during this time smh.

This shyt really shook up the industry.

And we got cheated outta Punk Vs Chris smh. I felt for Punk dude was broken.

 

[Alexander The Great]

shyt was crazy
I fell asleep at like 6pm
woke up when Raw was starting to an empty arena like
shyt was surreal

when Raw was supposed to start and they popped up that RIP Chris benoit I was like how did I not hear about this all day? shyt was crazy

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

"yesterday" he no showed the ppv all i think was damn, hope hes aiight, why would he no show
then "today" found out he was dead
then during raw found out it was a murder suicide
raw was still doing benoit tributes.... shyt was so awkward

then we found out his fukking brains was mashed potatoes from all the diving headbutts and chairshots

 

[NoMorePie]

"yesterday" he no showed the ppv all i think was damn, hope hes aiight, why would he no show
then "today" found out he was dead
then during raw found out it was a murder suicide
raw was still doing benoit tributes.... shyt was so awkward

then we found out his fukking brains was mashed potatoes from all the diving headbutts and chairshots

Yeah it was surreal. Doctors even said his brain acted as if he was some 80+year old with Alzheimer's or some shyt like that


10 years already man damn