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Post by hCo.Bro™ [brandon_lee] on Jun 29, 2007 22:28:39 GMT -5
“…WWE superstar Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and son Daniel are dead.”
Four days later and those words of Vince McMahon still ring in my ears as if I just heard them. The news of the Benoit family’s passing has made me terribly distraught and it was very hard to comprehend. It was just the Tuesday of last week when Benoit wrestled on TV and the following Monday RAW opened to a “in memory of….”. Then as hours passed, Benoit was announced as the alleged murder of his wife, son, and himself.
I sit here in my own personal gym, as I have for the past few days, trying to make sense of the traumatic situation. The hours I usually spend working out and training have been wasted as I sit alone in the dark on a cold steel chair. From time to time the darkness and my imagination play tricks on me as a silhouette of a man hangs in the far corner. I constantly come back to the same question that everyone and their mother wants to know… “Why?”
Benoit has long been one of my favorite wrestlers and one of reasons I decided to become a wrestler myself. Everything he stood for and represented in the business was what I wanted to accomplish. I wanted his passion, his desire, his respect. I have always hoped and dreamed to train with the “crippler” and carry on his teachings. None less that dream will never come true. Hell, I never even had the opportunity to meet the man and know him, not the wrestler.
From what has been said about him and from the words of others, he seemed to be a very caring person and a great human being. This is what makes it so hard to cope with. What would posses someone who did so much for others to take his wife and sons life along with his own? So many stories have been speculating and fabricating its hard to think any of them to be true, hell I have my own theory too. So many factors could have made the years of holding back and keeping things in to detonate. The thought of losing everything can and has driven the best of men to do horrific things.
A lot of people have lost all respect for Benoit; I for one have not, to an extent that is. Before the tragedy people would consider him one of the best if not the best and future hall of fame inductee. That’s how I still see Benoit. I never knew him personally, so I don’t feel entirely inclined to judge him. I forever will remember him for the accomplishments and things he did for the wrestling business. He in part inspired me to become a wrestler and I hope to one day to do the same to someone else. In his memory I will do the best I can to shed light on the legacy he left tarnished. And in his memory I dedicate my match at the Daylight Slayings Time Special to him. Also to the other great superstars who left this world “too soon” I dedicate the Slay ‘em All match.
This event has taken me so off balance that I was seriously complentating weither or not to even compete on the special. I now realize that that’s not how Benoit would have wanted it, how Eddie, Awesome, Candino, Crash, Davy Boy Smith, Pillman, Perfect, any of them would have wanted it. In honor of them all I vow to not only once again defeat Los Homos, but I vow that I will win the Slay ‘em All match and soon become the X Breed champion. Why? Because I posses all the qualities that a true champion should. I have the intelligence, the integrity, the intensity, the determination, the passion, the drive, the charisma, the physical ability, even the testicular fortitude. Don’t believe me? Watch me. What you see, is what you’ll get… the next X Breed Champion.
Four days later and those words of Vince McMahon still ring in my ears as if I just heard them. The news of the Benoit family’s passing has made me terribly distraught and it was very hard to comprehend. It was just the Tuesday of last week when Benoit wrestled on TV and the following Monday RAW opened to a “in memory of….”. Then as hours passed, Benoit was announced as the alleged murder of his wife, son, and himself.
I sit here in my own personal gym, as I have for the past few days, trying to make sense of the traumatic situation. The hours I usually spend working out and training have been wasted as I sit alone in the dark on a cold steel chair. From time to time the darkness and my imagination play tricks on me as a silhouette of a man hangs in the far corner. I constantly come back to the same question that everyone and their mother wants to know… “Why?”
Benoit has long been one of my favorite wrestlers and one of reasons I decided to become a wrestler myself. Everything he stood for and represented in the business was what I wanted to accomplish. I wanted his passion, his desire, his respect. I have always hoped and dreamed to train with the “crippler” and carry on his teachings. None less that dream will never come true. Hell, I never even had the opportunity to meet the man and know him, not the wrestler.
From what has been said about him and from the words of others, he seemed to be a very caring person and a great human being. This is what makes it so hard to cope with. What would posses someone who did so much for others to take his wife and sons life along with his own? So many stories have been speculating and fabricating its hard to think any of them to be true, hell I have my own theory too. So many factors could have made the years of holding back and keeping things in to detonate. The thought of losing everything can and has driven the best of men to do horrific things.
A lot of people have lost all respect for Benoit; I for one have not, to an extent that is. Before the tragedy people would consider him one of the best if not the best and future hall of fame inductee. That’s how I still see Benoit. I never knew him personally, so I don’t feel entirely inclined to judge him. I forever will remember him for the accomplishments and things he did for the wrestling business. He in part inspired me to become a wrestler and I hope to one day to do the same to someone else. In his memory I will do the best I can to shed light on the legacy he left tarnished. And in his memory I dedicate my match at the Daylight Slayings Time Special to him. Also to the other great superstars who left this world “too soon” I dedicate the Slay ‘em All match.
This event has taken me so off balance that I was seriously complentating weither or not to even compete on the special. I now realize that that’s not how Benoit would have wanted it, how Eddie, Awesome, Candino, Crash, Davy Boy Smith, Pillman, Perfect, any of them would have wanted it. In honor of them all I vow to not only once again defeat Los Homos, but I vow that I will win the Slay ‘em All match and soon become the X Breed champion. Why? Because I posses all the qualities that a true champion should. I have the intelligence, the integrity, the intensity, the determination, the passion, the drive, the charisma, the physical ability, even the testicular fortitude. Don’t believe me? Watch me. What you see, is what you’ll get… the next X Breed Champion.
. I really would have liked to add more and go into furter detail in places but time just wouldnt permit. Good luck to all and God bless.