4. RIP Chris Benoit, Royal Fumble

Posted by Bob Ross at 06-26-2007 03:30 PM
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On June 25, 2007, I learned that WWE's Chris Benoit was found dead in his home with his family.  That is just some shocking news, cause Benoit was one of my favorite wrestlers.  I remember my most vivid memories of Benoit were when he had his feud with the Rock in summer 2000 for the WWF title and how good of a wrestler he was, and how good of a personality he was.  He was someone who tried their best in this business, someone who gave it their all to accomplish their goals as a WWE Superstar.  Even recently, with all the wrestlers like Cena and Lashley who just focus on winning by popularity, Benoit still had an ametuer(sp) wrestling style that couldn't be beat.  The last time I saw him in person was at WrestleMania 23 in his match against MVP, and everyone gave him a standing ovation when he won.  He was a good wrestler, and a good man.  RIP Chris Benoit.

I hope all those murder-suicide rumors aren't true.  If he did that, then wow.  That's some crazy mess.  But why would he skip an event and go all the way to Georgia, just to kill his family and himself?  Something doesn't add up there and it doesn't make sense.  There is something more to the situation.  I would even believe someone holding his family hostage so he had to come home and then the killer told them to go to seperate rooms and just killed them all or something.  Some fans out there are psycho like that, ya never know.  This is a mystery to be solved and I hope it will be solved very soon.  I pray that Benoit didn't have the audacity to do something like that.

I bet Vince McMahon is kickin himself in the ass for doing that stupid McMahon is dead storyline.  It better just dissappear altogether, as it is a really stupid thing to do.  Last week, wrestlers had the bell tribute to Vince, when next week, they will be doing it again...this time for real. Last week were fake tears and acting, this time, it's for real; they really did lose a friend. It was a good idea to empty the arena because noone would have known if Benoit being dead was true or not.  Hell, I had a hard time believing it just because of the entire McMahon thing. I wonder how Johnny Nitro feels as well, considering he took Benoit's place at Vengeance which was supposed to be Benoit's ECW Championship win.  He would have made a credible ECW champion too since he was actually in the real thing in the 90's.  So sad.

We used Benoit on SmackaDown Episode 10 in the main event to face Stone Cold Steve Austin for the SMF Championship.  I remember in my commentary, I praised Benoit for his great wrestling ability.  But I never commented on his personality, why?  Because the man was so quiet, and I'm finding out he was quiet in real life too.  When was the last time you have seen Benoit on the mic?  Rarely these past few years.  Scary, but they do say the quiet ones are the worse, but I don't believe anything that says Benoit would do something like that, eek.  But check out SmackaDown Episode 10 and leave any comments regarding Benoit.  It's kinda scary that the random button picked Benoit, it's almost like that Eddie storyline in SVR2006 when he died in the game and then in real life.  Eek.

On another subject, we DID use Benoit as well in the Royal Fumble match.  However, we recorded the footage about two weeks prior to his death.  We will show the original Royal Fumble match, including Benoit.  So while the text may be updated on the CPV, the actual gameplay footage is older so that's why you may see SMF guys pay tribute to Benoit, but you will see Benoit in the Royal Fumble like nothing is wrong.  I actually think me and JJ are going to speak in our normal voices for the first time when Benoit comes out as respect.

Speaking of the Royal Fumble, yeah I've had some major computer issues this past weekend.  It was suppsoed to be up by Thursday, but since my alptop is acting stupid, it may be around Sunday.  (I could do a Saturday release I think, but who would watch it on a Saturday night????)  So, look out for it this Sunday, it's probably the biggest CPV yet.  Cracklash had one more match or so, but they didn't have a Royal Fumble match.

Speed will be up on Wednesday, and it will be Steven Segal vs. Mr. Wollenburg.  There will be no mention of Benoit anywhere because Speed was done on Saturday, so there was no way of putting any RIP Benoit anywhere.  But it will be up tomorrow, it was supposed to go up a day before I release the Royal Fumble, but oh well.  Shit happens.

The matches are gonna be pretty great, so look out for it.  I am impressed with how the matches turned out myself, so I'm looking forward to it all coming together.

As always, we will give you updates on what's going on with stuff.  For the wrestling fans, this has been a tough week.  Hopefully, The Royal Fumble can provide you with some entertainment to cheer everyone up from this shocking Benoit death and get everyone's mind offa it.

Bob Ross, suck my thigh, peace.

EDIT AS OF 3:15 EDT:

Well, it looks like Chris Benoit is the man who killed his family and himself. I don't even know to celebrate his life, pay him a tribute or to feel disgusted at what he did.  I never feel sympathy for people who take their own lives, it's just selfish and silly.  On the other hand, he supposedly killed others as well.  In any case, if he did do what he supposedly did...I don't even have words then...
 

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