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Post by T R W on Jun 27, 2007 11:42:33 GMT -5
Ha no thanks...I'm not shallow enough to feel the need to make my opinions known every single time I post something...plus my Muta picture is much cooler. Well, then quit your complaining then.
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Post by Doomrider on Jun 27, 2007 11:42:40 GMT -5
I think all talk of Benoit should be stopped. By keeping sigs of him or talking about him he is remebered, dosent matter how he is remebered as it keeps his legacy and memories alive. Benoit dosent deserve to be remebered or to have a legacy. But it's not going to stop...people with nothing better to do always feel the need to comment on something they have nothing to do with. It happens all the time...9-11, Iraq War, Paris Hilton, etc. Everyone thinks their opinion is so god damned important. My only opinion is that I'll miss the Crippler and if there is a hell, I'll see him when I get there.
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Post by James Hetfield on Jun 27, 2007 11:42:46 GMT -5
I don't think anyone of us condemns or condones what Benoit did. It was a brutal, savage thing to do, and it was not right. But none of us knew him personally, we only knew him from what he did professionally, and I don't know one person that didn't think Benoit was great at what he did.
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Post by Doomrider on Jun 27, 2007 11:44:16 GMT -5
I don't think anyone of us condemns or condones what Benoit did. It was a brutal, savage thing to do, and it was not right. But none of us knew him personally, we only knew him from what he did professionally, and I don't know one person that didn't think Benoit was great at what he did. You get it.
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Post by fattic on Jun 27, 2007 12:12:05 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone posted this. " The website for ABC News now has an article online as they talked with D.A. Scott Ballard, Ballard says that investigators believe Benoit killed seven year old Daniel with a wrestling choke hold. To read the article, click here" www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3320736&page=1
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Post by James Hetfield on Jun 27, 2007 12:19:42 GMT -5
^ Of course they're going to say that. After all... He WAS a wrestler.
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Post by Nirvana is Happiness on Jun 27, 2007 13:01:46 GMT -5
SHUT THE HELL UP, U ANNOYING TARSH BAGG, GARBAGE BARGAIN PIECE OF CRAP!!!!!! You first need to know how to spell, and go take whatever medication that you are on. I am stating my opinion and I am not the only one who feels this way. I do know how to spell, I was pissed at the time though.
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Post by theeggman on Jun 27, 2007 15:17:55 GMT -5
I dont think I said this yet, so I'll say it now.. RIP Nancy "Woman" and Daniel.
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Post by cjd15 on Jun 27, 2007 15:49:55 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone posted this. " The website for ABC News now has an article online as they talked with D.A. Scott Ballard, Ballard says that investigators believe Benoit killed seven year old Daniel with a wrestling choke hold. To read the article, click here" www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3320736&page=1Well thats because Benoits a wreslter os OMgZ hEz MusTvEz UseDs A WreSTlErZ MOvEz! Watch I bet theyll say He probably used one on Nancy too.
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Post by comebackkid on Jun 27, 2007 15:53:02 GMT -5
everybody better relax
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Post by shrevedude on Jun 27, 2007 17:18:10 GMT -5
I have written a guest column that I am planning to send to a wrestling site, and I was wondering...what in it do you think I could improve?
Here goes:
The past 48 hours have been among the roughest times in our lives for anyone who follows this great business. Actually, to say that it has been among the roughest times is an understatement. There is no question in my mind that you are shocked, devastated, and most of all, in disbelief about the events that have transpired.
Personally, and I feel I speak for everyone who loves this business, I just cannot get it through my head that we all are going to have to remember Chris Benoit not for all of the five star matches that he worked so hard to give us for all these years, but as a murderer who strangled his wife, sickly and perversely smothered his seven-year old child, and then cowardly committed suicide. I was too shocked to pay much attention to the tribute show on Raw last Monday, but since I originally found out that evening that Benoit murdered his wife and son, I cannot even watch a Chris Benoit match now. I cannot even look at a picture of him. All of those great moments I have for Benoit are now gone, and never to come back. Bret Hart said it best on MSNBC Tuesday night, this is certainly something that is going to take us all a long time to get over. However, like McMahon stated last night at the beginning of ECW on Sci-fi, we took the first step in the healing process last night.
Now, we must take the next step in the healing process. We, the people who enjoy the pro wrestling industry, and I’m talking about fans, wrestlers, and others involved in this business alike, need to unite, and help each other cope with this. In my opinion, the best way for us to cope with this is, while we keep the extended families of the Benoits and the Dosses in our prayers, the best thing we can do is put this behind us. Fans, if you go to a show, and happen to run into a WWE Superstar, please don’t bring up Benoit. They are in more shock, devastation, and disbelief than we are.
Wrestling fans, we all need to forget about all of the bad things and problems with the wrestling business, especially what the media states, and focus on why we love pro wrestling. Fans, you need to focus on the spectacle, the athleticism, the entertainment, and the great moments that the business that we love gives us. We should count our blessings that we have this wonderful thing called wrestling that we can enjoy. We also need to remember be thankful of all the performers who put their bodies on the line every night. The performers who may sometimes treat us bad in the storylines, but deep down inside, appreciate the support that we give them. The performers who are willing to accept a death rate that is seven times as high as a normal human being, because they love to entertain us.
Wrestlers, as the problems with the wrestling business, such as steroids, are continued to be dealt with, keep focusing on the values, fundamentals and morals that you have as a wrestler. Whether if you are a name in WWE reading this, or an indy wrestler who wrestles in front of 40 fans, keep working hard to give the fans what they want. Most of all, if you have a drug problem, or something that is bothering you, don’t hold yourself from talking to someone about it. I’m not saying that I think that was what caused Benoit to do what he did, but there will always be help to curve the problem, and there is always hope.
Let me conclude this by emphasizing those last few words in the last paragraph: “There is always hope”.
“E Pluribus Unum”-Out of Many, One
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jun 27, 2007 18:22:54 GMT -5
I hope this doesn't sound disrespectful, but was Daniel Benoit a little person (dwarf)? I just read that the Benoits had him (Daniel) on some sort of growth hormone. Nevermind. I just found out. Pro wrestler Chris Benoit apparently was pumping human-growth hormone into his 7-year-old son in the weeks before he killed his wife, the boy and himself at their suburban Atlanta home while consumed by "roid rage," a prosecutor said yesterday. Fayette County, Ga., District Attorney Scott Ballard said Daniel Benoit had needle marks on his arm. Ballard said he believed the boy had been given growth hormone because his parents considered the boy undersized. "The boy was very small, even dwarfed," Ballard said.
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Post by 49% Motherf**ker, 51% SOB on Jun 27, 2007 18:29:01 GMT -5
I think all talk of Benoit should be stopped. By keeping sigs of him or talking about him he is remebered, dosent matter how he is remebered as it keeps his legacy and memories alive. Benoit dosent deserve to be remebered or to have a legacy. I agree 110%. But there is too many people on here that would rather live in denial then face the fact that Chris Benoit is nothing more then a wife beating, tempertanturm throwing, steroid abusing, child killer, murderer. Or they will keep on making their anti-Cena and Batista threads. Last I checked, they never killed someone or a child.
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Post by class316 on Jun 27, 2007 18:42:30 GMT -5
Guys...I am SO ing pissed off. On WWE 24/7, they show the Monday Night Wars on a weekly basis an air episodes of Nitro and Raw in chronological order. This is probably my favorite part of WWE 24/7. They were just up to February 1997, I believe, and when I checked last night they took the latest episode down. In addition, they also had No Way Out 2007 up there and took that down, as well. Obviously it's because Benoit appeared in both. In No Way Out he was in a six-man tag match with the Hardys and in Nitro back in the '97, he was part of the Four Horseman with Nancy and feuding with Kevin Sullivan. I understand taking away Benoit's merchandise and all that...but I REALLY enjoyed watching the Monday Night War episodes just because wrestling was in its prime back then. I hope they don't just stop showing it altogether. Just edit out all the stuff with the Horseman in it, then, if they want to. That's horrible! Regardless of one's opinion on the guy, having to desicrate episodes and PPVs for ANY reason that is just WRONG!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2007 18:49:18 GMT -5
I am offended for the fact that just because this guy was a wrestler, he is being honored for his death. He has been violent to his wife and child in the past, and in the end they get killed. He was such a man to take the life of a woman and a child. There is no difference from him and any other murderer in the world. Random, but are you by chance a Stone Cold fan? yes and i just got the classic 3:16 shirt live to win is still a wing for his little beoit sigs should be illegal post. seriously how could a picture of a man either wrestling or just posing be offensive to anyone at all?
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Post by s2h on Jun 27, 2007 18:50:09 GMT -5
I think what benoit did was wrong. But he was still the best. The only thing i'm pissed about is they cancelled all Canada shows. and iwas going to the Calgary show.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2007 18:52:30 GMT -5
thats bullcrapthey're gonna take those old episodes off. WWE's really pussing out for no reason at all on such old videos and stuff. they're basically gonna pretend like amazing matches never happened
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Post by vivalaraza1331 on Jun 27, 2007 19:09:50 GMT -5
As a human being, I by no means condone what Chris Benoit ALLEGEDLY did to his wife and child. It's a disgusting and horrendous event and I hope to God no one ever has to go through anything like that. My respect for Chris Benoit the man maybe gone. But the reason I still do and forever will make sure my love for Chris Benoit is well-known is because as a WRESTLER/SPORTS ENTERTAINER, Chris Benoit has given me and future generations of my family and wrestling fans memories I refuse to let go away. Let me re-iterate: I DO NOT condone anything Chris Benoit is being accused of and if he did do so, that will forever tarnish my view of him. But Benoit dedicated 22 years of his life to entertaining millions of people world wide and giving them memories to last a lifetime. We may never know what took place inside the Benoit family residence but we do know one thing: Chris Benoit was invaluable to professional wrestling and, for his legacy in the business to be destroyed because of events that happened in his personal life, would be tragic. We do not personally know the men and women that invade our TV screens on Monday, Tuesday, and Fridays and we should not hold what they do off screen effect the memories we have of them on screen.
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Post by inrogers29 on Jun 27, 2007 19:57:41 GMT -5
thats bull **** they're gonna take those old episodes off. WWE's really pussing out for no reason at all on such old videos and stuff. they're basically gonna pretend like amazing matches never happened Dont they always do that?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2007 20:01:53 GMT -5
All I know is that I REALLY don't like this Nancy Grace lady. You could tell Bret was getting slightly upset with her shoving the thought of "riod rage" down his throat.
Put it this way, I bet Bret winds up being right. I bet it had nothing to do with steroids and that when the results come in, it'll be due to a domestic problem within the household.
EDIT: You also have to love how when they mention the steroids in his home, they completely don't acknowledge Benoit's history with neck injuries and neck problems.
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