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As a guy with a girlfriend and a kid, this shocks me truly.
When XL first told me this morning i wasn't sure what to believe until i read it on british teletext. He must have been in a messed up place to do this, to kill your own flesh and blood. Just in shock |
I've been hearing numerous reports on and off today. Can anyone summerize and new news that has popped up? I know autopsies have are being conducted today. And I heard from work pretty much the same scenario from TV today.
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lol Miz. Also lol @ the idea of Benoit using the Crossface to murder his family. Think he was playing his theme song in the background?
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Damn, they even interviewed Bret Hart on MSNBC, and he was one of the others that said they had no idea Benoit would do something like this. Yet, the host of the show was just ripping WWE, even talking about them airing a tribute show last night.
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WWE.com has released the text messages/timeline:
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This is so massively fucked up. I can't believe it.
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wow, those messages are eerie
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Seriously fucked up.
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Okay so I was watching Court TV and how ironic is it that they were showing a case where this man suffocated his wife and young son to death.
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<font color=white>This is unreal man. I mean, Chris fucking Benoit. The head and shoulders biggest story in the history of professional wrestling.</font>
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Very eerie messages
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I just love the way everyone is now distancing themselves from the tragedy,the fault does not lie with just one man no matter how hard they try to make themselves believe it.
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Creepy.....
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Benoit threw EVERYTHING away.
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Damn..WWE did the right thing though. But damn..Benoit went nuts..wonder why??
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I wonder how much of an effect on the locker room this is going to have.
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I just wish he sought help if he was having marriage problems or whatever. Like Bret said he thinks anyone in the entire roster would have helped out Chris and supported him if he was depressed or upset about something
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It has to be a devestating blow to the locker rooms morale. I bet many are heartbroken, but are also angry at what happened but it will take people a long time to get over.
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Yknow what would have made this all better? If they found Benoit dead dressed in his old Pegasus Kid outfit, and they pulled him out of the house. Kinda like the scene on Airplane with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Yeah that kid didnt look "normal" tbh
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Sane men who work their ass off for 22 years to become successful in their dream job, have a long history of being a respectful employee/friend and a wonderful family man; who works on making a marriage work for 10 plus years of his life don't just throw all of that away without having a major mental breakdown or mental disease.
What he did is absolutely horrible, tragic and unfathomable. However, by all accounts, I don't believe Benoit was an evil, cold blooded human being. CLEARLY though, I think Chris must have become very mentally ill and incapable of making rational, sound decisions and obviously not in control of himself. --- With that said, I still respect everything he did in that damn wrestling ring. R.I.P. Benoit Family |
When I saw him on TV, he looked about 3 years old.
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I will say I'm glad Chris' other 2 kids weren't in the house at the time, cause god knows it could've been worse. Can't even imagine how his ex will explain their Dad and brother's death to them
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I am no Monk by any means, nor am I any kind of a Behavioral Psychologist, but I'm thinking that it's possible that this disease, and the stress coming from treating it, may have had alot to do with Benoit's state of mind.
I'm not excusing it or condoning it, but it is a possible explanation. |
I'm normally disgusted by jokes that mock the dead...but in Chris Benoit case's, I say make fun of him all you want.
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The Canadian Murderaaaa
hey, where's CanadianCrippla at these days anyways? (CC). Oh right, he's Instant Classic |
From the good ol' c-fed forum. Enjoy
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BENOIT!
BENOIT! Benoit was a wrestler I mean, he was a murderer wrestler Or maybe he was just a murderer But he was still BENOIT! BENOIT! Strangulating his lovely wife, Smothering his kid Texting off to poor Chavo And hanging himself with a WEIGHT-ROOM WIRE! WEIGHT-ROOM WIRE! When all the cops are on the scene, And everybody's dead Only one guy will be hangin'. My money's on BENOIT! BENOIT! And the Benoit hangs in the NIIIGHT... |
Gonna have to say that it was very interesting going through the 16 pages of posts I missed since last night and seeing the range of emotions as well as the confusion over the facts and rumors.
It's hard for a lot of us to accept it, but it appears proven that Benoit murdered his family, then killed himself. We will never know why, and that will eat a lot of us up, because it's human nature to want to reveal the unknown. How could a seven year old have died by his own father's hand? It doesn't make sense. It never does. And yet, life is absolutely fucked up sometimes. While I'm not going to instantly shun all of Benoit's 40 years of life, I can no longer look at him the same way, nor can I see his career in the same, formerly shining light. It's like OJ Simpson. How many people now look at him as one of the greatest wide receivers in football history, and how many people view him as a murderer who got away with it? Reputation and character are always intertwined. And in the span of a nightmarish weekend, Benoit threw both away. Whether it was through immediate madness or the result of a gradual descent into delusion, the fact remains that he was obviously disturbed. And as to why no one saw this coming... no one ever has the benefit of hindsight. That's why no one saw the VaTech killer coming. You can't just suspect everyone for the slightest little thing. So I wouldn't blame people for not seeing it until it's too late; that's human nature. As for how the WWE is handling it now... I think this is the best they can do. Be serious and state the facts. Then take down anything that glorifies Benoit. Some might say that's too harsh, but that's the consequence. The WWE is handling this in the best way they can right now. |
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I'm a brit and luckily, we have CNN and Fox news over here. I heard about the press conference and switched on. My wife and I watched and it hit us hard. Throughout the whole thing, my eleven month old son was asleep in my arms.
I think that's when it dawned on me that it WAS Benoit that did it. When I was holding my little man and thinking that Daniel would never grow up, etc. I couldn't ever contemplate hurting my little boy, let alone entertain the thought of killing him. Benoit must have been pretty fucked up!!! |
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Thoughts about the matter from the Sports Guy, Bill Simmons:
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I have so many things running through my head and I have no idea how to express any of it. Maybe I'll say something at a later date, maybe I won't. I don't know.
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