Chris Benoit found dead (From WWE.com)
 

http://www.wwe.com/

I hope this is a work.

WTF is this shit?

Oh god no.

What the hell....are they fucking with us??

If WWE removes this, so I dont get in trouble, I took a screenshot.

http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/1265/sadkj0.jpg

Well I have The Score on, and I live in Canada, so if he's really dead they'll say something about it.

No, i seen it myself

so is how the angle is going to play out? people will start dying off until the car bomber/murderer is revealed?

It's gotta be a work...

O_ O what the fuck is going on?

PWInsider is reporting it as well.

Goodbye Wolverine. :(

I hope this is the case.

no way it is a work:-(

If it were real it would have an "R.I.P. Chris Beniot" and the year of birth and death, then again it is WWE.

Holy fucking shit.

holy shit
this better be a fucking sick joke

what the FUCK is going on. FUCK WWE

Fuck.

one would think that if a whole family were found dead in their home that it wouldve been picked up by cnn or msnbc or some shit havent heard anyting on it all day

If this is a work, it's the most tasteless thing WWE has ever pulled, and I, for one, will boycott the company for pulling such a stunt.

I really hope we are all laughing at ourselves later tonight over this when we find out that it was all a work.

WHAT THE FUCK. Seriously now, this is fucking bullshit. TERRIBLE joke. The way it's stated just pisses me off. WHAT THE FUCK, once again.

If it was a stunt, why would PWInsider report it as legit?

Theres no way it's a work, Benoit wouldn't have agreed to do it, no way. Just weird how it was the day after he had "personal problems".

There's going to be stories about this for weeks before we find out the truth.

What...the fuck?!

I kinda agree, if this is a work I'll really never forgive WWE. It's not funny.

How the fuck would they both be dead, that shit fucked up, since he had a family emergency last night.

This isn't a work, doubt the WWE would pull anything like that off.

RIP Benoit.

Wow.

And yeah, there is no way this is a work. That would be ridiculous.

This had better be a fucking joke.

No no no no no no no, fucking no

This is terrible, terrible news.

I don't really know what to say.

Holy fuck. I need confirmation on it either being legit or a work. PLEASE let it be a work.

This is seriously the worst.

WHAT THE FUCK????

As much as I pray that this is a work (because that would be a much better alternative, even though that'd be pretty fucking sick), it can't be. It said he AND HIS FAMILY. They wouldn't include that if it was a work.

Sounds to me like homicide. Which is fucked up. Seriously...

I can't really process this right now, btw. There's a large part of my that refuses to believe this.

I cant believe this...Im am seriously hurt right now...

IT HAS GOT TO BE A WORK. FUCK. No way Benoit is dead. I just don't buy it. You think you woulda heard something about it. Maybe they are going with a serial killer angle. This is definitely make it or break it for the WWE. Completely fucking tasteless angle. Chris Benoit is not dead :(

Meltzer is reporting it now to.

This sucks

I also think the Vince death angle is pretty much... well, for lack of a better word, dead as well. Sherri they could have played off; no way they can do a fake death now. Not when it the guy who prolly would have been their next fucking ECW champion.

Fuck. Eddie and Benoit??? Just three years ago...

The WWE would never stoop that low. There is no way this is a work. It's fucking disgusting, though. My God. R.I.P., Crippler.

I just read it on Wrestling Observer. It's legit.

Woah.

If this ISN'T a work, they had better be fucking sure to distinguish this from the WORK that is McMahon's death.

If this is fucking true, Vince better come out and pay tribute. End the fucking stupid Mcmahon death angle, if this is true. It can't be though. God Damnit, I am never watching wrestling again if this is an angle.

At the moment I'm failing to believe this.

If it's true it royally fucks up the Vince storyline, but that's beside the point.

All of them dead? I can't get my head around this.

I still think they will go ahead with the Vince shit, just delay it a week.Hell, they did all that Eddie stuff...

Oh my fucking God. I cannot believe this.

WHAT THE FUCK


NO

Waaaaiiiit

So I'm reading this article posted yesterday about Benoit supposedly GOING HOME due to a family emergency.

http://www.powerwrestling.com/news/board.php?Show=4325

I thought he just didn't show... or maybe it's a coverup. But if he went home, and now he and his family (key word here... the report is his FAMILY) are dead... then seriously... did he snap or something? Or did someone else snap?

This is bizarre. I don't know how to react.

Holy fuck I can't believe this.

As much as I'm sure it's legit, I want to cling on to the tiny piece of hope that it IS an angle.

No fucking way

My God, didn't even know it was his whole family. How fucking horrible.

His whole family though :S

So many emotions going through me right now.

Completely thought this was a work with him missing the PPV last night for "family issues" and still have a hard time believing this. Eddie I was surprised about but this I'm more in a shock about. Ridiculous.

Yeah, there's going to be a shit load of speculation, but we should probably hold off until there's more concrete info about what happened or even cause of death....

Meltzer specifically said Benoit, his wife, and his son were found dead.

What. The. FUCK!?!

Good Lord I hope he didnt do what I think he did

This is really ghey, making Vince's "Death" Seem even more innappropiate

Or someone else did

I'm literally shaking right now. I cannot believe this.

Chris, Nancy, and their kids.

Horrible.

OMG RIP if this is true. I can not believe this.

Maybe it was something like Carbon Monoxide poisoning?

I think you're thinking what a lot of people are thinking, but like I said probably not the time to speculate just yet.

No, really?

I really don't know what to say.
Wrestlers have been dropping so much recently that it's almost numbing.

But this... Benoit and his entire family.
Shit, Benoit was always in the running for my favorite wrestler EVER.
FUCK!!

...I don't think I can watch WWE anymore.
I mean, it's been shitty enough not to, but after this.... I don't think there's anything that can bring me back to watching.

The most obvious speculation would be that, given the "he went home" thing.

The second most obvious speculation was that this was like a hit job... or something that targeted them, ala the Charles Manson / Sharon Tate thing (in a way).

Fuck, I'm speculating now.

I don't even want to think about what happened.

I'm in utter shock. My condolences go out to the rest of the Benoit family.

Was there any known problems in Benoits life?

This doesn't make any sense.

Fuckin' horrible.

I'm so shaken up...

Holy fucking shit, I can't even say anything this is just too much.

Could be... that would be like some sick joke from whatever higher power you believe in, though.

RIP Chris and his family.

Still cannot believe this.

I wonder how poor Dean Malenko is feeling right now.

I feel so bad for everyone backstage at Raw right now.

Right now, saying something like "RIP" or "my condolences" is like confirming that they're all gone.

I'm in total shock and denial. I'm not even letting my mind think about it.

I started with utter disbelief (as in, it's a work I don't believe it)
Then I went on to being upset, literally close to tears
Then I kinda just went into shock
Now I'm back to disbelief (but in a different way to before)

What I don't get is there was a a family emergency before he even went home. So something bad happened before he got there and the fact that they all wound up dead just makes no sense. The only thing I can figure is if they were murdered the killers were harrassing his family and when he got home they killed him and his family.

Exactly how I feel :'(

Yeah, out of everyone in the lockerroom, he's gotta be the guy who's taking it the hardest.

Ironic that tonight was supposed to be a three hour McMahon-centered episode.

Well, it's three hours to pay tribute to one of the greatest technical grapplers in the business. Ever.



(geez, that irrational part of me just wants Eddie and Benoit to walk out tonight and go... "WE LIED!!!")

Its like anyone who's been trained in the Dungeon is Cursed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Benoit’s WIKI page Death:On June 25, 2007, wwe.com announced shockingly that Benoit and his family were found in his home dead. No other details are known at this time.

Goodbye, old pal...he was another superstar who was way way way too young to die (40). Well, he will be happy to see his best friend Eddie Guerrero up there in Heaven. Not to mention, a lot of us are still getting over Sensational Sherri’s sudden passing. I don’t mean to be stupid, but maybe Vince should be taking this as a lesson, that death isn’t something you can put into the script of your life and fake it when it really happens, like a wrestling storyline. This just further goes to prove that we must live every day to the fullest, for we never know when it will be our turn to return to the ground, and life is way too short to be running around scared of dying. We might as well make good use of the time we get with friends and family in our earthly lives, because some of these people we will surely not see for quite some time after our/their passing.

It says this in wikipedia

D"eath Angle

On June 25th the WWE announced Benoit and his family to be dead, but it has been confirmed this is part of the 'murder' storyline that has also taken Mr. McMahon's "life"


Hope it's true

And guys like Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho, Lance Storm, and William Regal are probably taking this hard.

And the fans who will be at Raw live tonight, they probably won't find out about this until right before the show starts.

Simply can't take in this news, just off to bed and saw this, now have to stay up to see what is said on Raw.

I haven't seen any timeframes involved as most sites are crashing (inc WWE.com), but if this happened yesterday - is it another case of the 'show must go on' BS? People were saying how poor it was, maybe a coincedence, I dunno. Pretty unforgivable if it was.

RIP Chris, you were a true Champion in every sense of the word.

TNA is reporting it as well.

http://www.tnawrestling.com/news/fullnews2.php?all=1416

I swear to god if this is part of that shitty ass storyline then im never watching WWE again.

They cant toy with our emotions....we all knew Vince wasnt dead.

There is still a small part of me that believes this is all a work and is tied to the McMahon/Death angle and that they are just covering this up really, really well. I mean, there's no secrets in wrestling anymore right? Maybe McMahon has figured out some ways to shock people again and get them watching...I wouldn't put it past him! The man is a genius.

I really think there's a chance we will all be laughing at this thread later....well, not all of us will be laughing. I think many people will be disgusted.

Anyway, my point here is we shouldn't assume things just yet.

It has changed already by now...

Dunno if what you said is true or not, Sickboy, but I do hope it is also. It’s pretty fucking pathetic to use wrestling as a veiled way of toying with people’s emotions.

And Benoit's page was most recently edited on Wikipedia as such:
On June 25, 2007, WWE.com reported that Benoit and his family were found dead in their Atlanta home and that police were investigating the situation.

Now, I’m no writer or anything for WWE, but if, if, they are using this as a way of continuing the McMahon death angle as though the WWE has a hidden serial killer, it would be pretty damn disgusting.

I hope so too.

I checked the atlanta journal constitution site. http://www.ajc.com/
You would think they would have something up about it. nothing is reported there yet.

One of my favorites of all time

I checked Wiki (fountain of accurate info that it is) staright away. Didn't mention this as a work on there earlier.

And why would they kill him off?

I so badly hope this is an angle.

I'll be soooo relieved.

Anger at the tastelessness would come later.

I checked the Atlanta news stations websites and nothing was mentioned and I'm sure they would've picked up on a story involving a whole fucking family being found dead by now.

This is pretty hard to believe. I remember when Eddie died pretty much every section of WWE's homepage had videos, pictures, news, interviews, etc about him. They only have a short story and a section for pictures for Benoit. They still have a WWE mobile link up which you think they would replace pretty quickly.

Could be that I'm just trying to find excuses to believe this isn't real at this point but does seem a bit odd. Hope this is part of the storyline.

I hope no one is seriously using Wikipedia as a reputable source, and that those things are just being posted as speculation.

Although fuck... I'm sure everyone's with me that this being an angle, no matter how sick, twisted, perverted, and horrible, would still be better than the real thing.



We're getting the same reactions as when Eddie died, btw. Same ones.

<font color=goldenrod>I'm just fucking stunned.</font>