5 years ago today.....

[RaginRonic]

Originally Posted by DAMN iNATOR You're right, everything about that day is fucked up and very creepy. Everything except for that very emotionally stirring memorial RAW show for him. I mean, considering what he'd done, Vince could've just said "fuck him... let him rot in hell for all I care..." but he didn't. He gave the fans and the talent what they needed: an emotional outlet for their grieving and mourning. In the interest of keeping the rest of this post as short as possible I won't post all 13 parts of the show, but if you search the title, Remembering Chris Benoit - 06/25/2007 - RAW: Corpus Christi, TX, and then whatever part of 13, you should find it all on the YT.

The sight of that empty building...damn, that's fucking creepy. I'd bet that there were less than 30 people in the whole building then. o.o

And, to me, the whole Benoit disaster, as I call it, left behind an ugly legacy that, while Chris knew his way around a ring, that everyone lost, nobody won, and a huge mess was left in the wake of what happened that brutal June 2007 night, which I think that WWE is still cleaning up even today, given how hair-trigger the U.S. government is when it comes to drugs in anything that resembles sport.

It's good though that WWE's relations with Canada didn't take a tumble as a result of him. I don't think that WWE can afford to lose Canada as an international base, because if that happened, I'd think that other countries would run like hell from WWE in the wake of that.

I likely will be forever conflicted by what he did. Just not knowing how to handle anything related to him in my own mind as a fan of wrestling really sucks. =S