Chris Benoit

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Do you feel he was the GOAT Technical wrestler over Bret Hart? I have them both at about equal.
Bret's the best because along with all the great shyt he did for the viewers in terms of storytelling and making his work look believable, he also did the most important thing better than pretty much anyone. Don't hurt yourself and don't hurt anyone else.
 

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Even if Benoit hadn't killed his wife and son, he still had a lot of unresolved mental issues. Eddie's death was something he never recovered from. He said Eddie was the person who could always talk him out of something. Maybe he could have talked Benoit out of kicking someone out of the locker room for eating chicken near his bag. :hhh:

There's a good chance he would have killed himself at some point. Hell, he was probably going to do it that weekend regardless. WWE wouldn't promote him like that, but he would still get in the HOF and his personal life wouldn't have been looked into so much. But the double murder basically gave people an invitation to see that he was one of the GOAT wrestlers, but a horrible person.
 

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He died at the peak of my wrestling craze and I was only 7.

Cause of the Vince death storyline I thought it was part of the show. I even tried to buy his action figure after it happened (already had one of him but this one came w/ a ladder :noah:) since they still had it at Target on that Wednesday. My dad wouldn't let me and had a long conversation with me about what he did and it finally sunk in.

I think the story that best describes how this impacted the industry is Undertaker letting Miz back in the locker room after realizing who kicked him out couldn't let him back in anymore. It feels very symbolic of a lot of the change that occurred in the product since I would watch on a regular basis as a kid.

damn how did your dad break this down to you at 7?
 

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What is the IWC’s obsession to keep talking about that lunatic? :hhh:

A timeless meme that refuses to die next to "What" chants and "Attitude Era byke" begging.

Better than the attempt to meme'd Macho Man after his death which was fukking pathetic.

Sometimes I wish I could quit this wrestling shyt cold turkey:francis:
 

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Was watching benoit vs malenko I think on peacock it was in a wcw ppv and Nancy is at ringside yelling "nooooooo chrriiissss nooooooo"
I started thinking of other things
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A timeless meme that refuses to die next to "What" chants and "Attitude Era byke" begging.

Better than the attempt to meme'd Macho Man after his death which was fukking pathetic.

Sometimes I wish I could quit this wrestling shyt cold turkey:francis:


What happened there?
 
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