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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2013 11:42:28 GMT -6
Watched Unforgiven 2000 during my workout this morning. What a great little PPV that wasn't one of the big 4 back in the day. Olympic Hero Kurt Angle is probably my all-time favorite wrestler for the run he had as that first gimmick. Tag team match was Edge and Christian vs. The Hardys w/Lita. Main Event was a four way match which is a bit much, but the talent was pretty good in it - Kane, Undertaker, The Rock and, yes, Chris Benoit. Now I'm not going to state that Benoit needs his own DVD "the Best of Benoit" or anything like that. I would think putting him on the cover of a ppv or best matches dvd is probably not a good idea either. However, I think its time to start including his matches in at least PPV specific DVDs or history DVDs. Are we really just not going to ever have certain Pay-Per-Views ever available to purchase because of him? I don't see what this accomplishes. Obviously I'm not condoning what he did. But to act like the WWF didn't exist while he was employed there is a bit silly. Let the people make a decision what they want to bring into their homes. Feel horrible about it? Donate $5 or something from every dvd that has Benoit in it and have it go to a foundation of some sort that would make some sense to the memory of his wife and child. I would assume if we stopped the selling of all products, services and media that has anyone connected with someone who has done something considerably heinous we'd be missing more important things than a wwf dvd.
In a different debate, I don't even feel comfortable having an opinion on what kind of person Benoit was. He murdered his family and himself. These actions are obviously horrible. I'm not for sure how this happened or why - no one is for sure. If a man has a horrible amount of brain damage mixed with steroid abuse, does this make him an "evil" person. The whole event makes me sick when I think about his wife and child. I alos kind of cringe though when I hear words like evil when describing Benoit the person, not actions. I'm just not sure. I guess I've been fairly close with people who work with the mentally ill and I have a different perspective on this. Not saying its the right perspective, just different.
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Post by Positivity KS on Dec 1, 2013 21:43:26 GMT -6
I still haven't ruled out Kevin Sullivan to be perfectly honest with you.
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Post by beebo on Dec 3, 2013 18:46:42 GMT -6
We'll never really know the deal with Benoit. I don't feel the need to judge him. Should we ever learn something new, that might change. But I sincerely believe it's not going to be an open/shut case regarding "evilness."
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Post by Positivity KS on Dec 13, 2013 23:48:45 GMT -6
Can anybody explain this to me? I've always been fairly fascinated by it:
Wrestler's Wikipedia site updated before bodies found
Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to mention his wife’s death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.
ATLANTA — Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to mention his wife’s death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.
Benoit’s Wikipedia entry was altered early Monday to say that the wrestler had missed a match two days earlier because of his wife’s death.
A Wikipedia official, Cary Bass, said Thursday that the entry was made by someone using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, Conn., where World Wrestling Entertainment is based.
An IP address, a unique series of numbers carried by every machine connected to the Internet, does not necessarily have to be broadcast from where it is registered. The bodies were found in Benoit’s home in suburban Atlanta, and it’s not known where the posting was sent from, Bass said.
Benoit strangled his wife and son during the weekend, placing Bibles next to their bodies, before hanging himself on the cable of a weight-machine in his home, authorities said. No motive was offered for the killings, which were discovered Monday.
Also Thursday, federal drug agents said they had raided the west Georgia office of a doctor who prescribed testosterone to Benoit.
The raid at Dr. Phil Astin’s office in Carrollton began Wednesday night and concluded early Thursday, said agent Chuvalo Truesdell, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration. No arrests were made.
Hours before the raid, Astin told The Associated Press he had treated Benoit for low testosterone levels, which he said likely originated from previous steroid use.
Among other things, investigators were looking for Benoit’s medical records to see whether he had been prescribed steroids and, if so, whether that prescription was appropriate, according to a law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity because records in the case remain sealed.
Astin prescribed testosterone for Benoit, a longtime friend, in the past but would not say what, if any, medications he prescribed when Benoit visited his office Friday.
State medical records show that Astin’s privileges were suspended for three months in 2001 at a Georgia hospital for ``reasons related to competence or character.’’
Astin did not return calls to his cell phone from the AP on Thursday.
Anabolic steroids were found in Benoit’s home, leading officials to wonder whether the drugs played a role in the killings. Some experts believe steroids cause paranoia, depression and violent outbursts known as “roid rage.’’
Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard said in a statement Thursday that he could not immediately comment on the raid.
Benoit’s page on Wikipedia, a reference site that allows users to add and edit information, was updated at 12:01 a.m. Monday, about 14 hours before authorities say the bodies were found. The reason he missed a match Saturday night was “stemming from the death of his wife Nancy,” it said.
Reporters informed the Fayette County district attorney’s office of the posting Thursday, and the agency forwarded the information to sheriff’s investigators, who are looking into it, a legal assistant said in an e-mail to the AP.
WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt said that to his knowledge, no one at the WWE knew Nancy Benoit was dead before her body was found Monday afternoon. Text messages released by officials show that messages from Chris Benoit’s cell phone were being sent to co-workers a few hours after the Wikipedia posting.
WWE employees are given WWE e-mail addresses, McDevitt said, though he did not know whether Chris Benoit had one.
“I have no idea who posted this,” McDevitt said. “It’s at least possible Chris may have sent some other text message to someone that we’re unaware of. We don’t know if he did. The phone is in the possession of authorities.’’
On Thursday afternoon, the Wikipedia page about Benoit carried a note stating that editing by unregistered or newly registered users was disabled until July 8 because of vandalism.
In other developments Thursday, Ballard told the AP that 10 empty beer cans were found in a trash can in the Benoit home. An empty wine bottle was found a few feet from where Benoit hanged himself, Ballard said.
It could take several weeks for toxicology tests to be completed on Benoit to see what substances, if any, were in his system.
Benoit took four months off from work in 2006 for undisclosed personal reasons, McDevitt said.
“He was feeling depressed, that kind of thing,” McDevitt said.
In the days before the killings, Benoit and his wife argued over whether he should stay home more to take care of their mentally retarded 7-year-old son, according to an attorney for the WWE wrestling league.
The child had a rare medical condition called Fragile X Syndrome, an inherited form of mental retardation often accompanied by autism.
Chris Benoit’s father, Michael Benoit, declined to comment on the slayings when reached Thursday by telephone in Alberta, Canada. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.
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