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thanks for posting the best post in this whole thing. I think as we become more removed from the sudden nature of this incident more people will come to realize that while YES, what he did we cannot forgive, it's highly doubtful that it was the same man we grew up with on our televisions, posters and minds. The thing is, though, he was. Maybe the guy changed from when he was in Japan or ECW, but this is the same guy we were watching a week ago against Burke, not knowing he was capable of this.

Just an assumption, but I doubt many would attend the funeral. Perhaps Chavo, Dean and a few others. I'd add Ron Simmons to that list. If only, to say his catchphrase and cash another check If only they'd have interviewed him for the tribute show.

I know what you're saying, but laying bibles beside the family members you just killed does kind of suggest that religion was involved on some level, if only that he thought there was a heaven he could send them to.

Regardless of whether he was clean or not, by the time the toxicology results are back it will have gone from assumption to perceived fact that he was on them.

Unless I missed it, we don't know what position he was in, or the size of the bed.

Also, I agree. No way of knowing if it was a crossface. Nothing to suggest it was anything other than a choke, and sounds extremely sensationalist to suggest it was a crossface. Wasn't the initial suggestion smothered with a bag.

Humming his theme tune...

Wait, what? Briscoes?

Oh, Shannon.

By the same token, though, Punk seems like the sort of person who'd want to wrestle just to be able to do something. Same with someone like Chavo and others close to Benoit.

To be fair, all that happened after he had been wrestling for years and made it to the top of his profession.

Because a psychotic break doesn't really apply in a case like this. He was on the road already and gearing up for a PPV where he'd be leading the ECW brand. He'd have to pre-meditate something like this to know that he was going to skip the show(s), go back home, kill the wife and then kill the son the next day. If his wife called him home like he told the WWE, they could have gotten into a fight and he killed her in the heat of the arguement, and then kill his son and himself. I can't find any records of house shows 21 or 22/6, so it's likely he returned home after the ECW tapings. He then phoned in saying he wouldn't be able to return to the road. He was scheduled to main event the 23/6 house show, which he didn't show up to. Maybe he had already killed Nancy at this point, maybe he was planning it for later, we may never know. But it looks like he didn't get a plot while on the road, then asked to leave to be able to kill her.

Yeah. If we are going with the notion of Heaven & Hell, the substance abuser and the murderer aren't going to the good one. Which raises the question: Is it better to sin at the beginning of your life, seek forgiveness, and die, OR lead a fairly good life, commit a horrible act and die? I'll grant it, Eddie never killed anyone, but I'm just asking a general question. Well, if we're going into Catholicism, which I assume Eddie was, then you can repent your sins and get into heaven. From a moral point of view, neither is ideal but it's probably better to learn and mend your ways. It depends on the scale of the misdemeanor though, of course.

Yeah. If we are going with the notion of Heaven & Hell, the substance abuser and the murderer aren't going to the good one.

I thought he went home, and then called to say he couldn't make the PPV due to a family emergency. Also, reports say that he killed his wife Saturday night and his son Sunday morning while he was still in bed.

So ECW's faces are CM Punk, Tommy Dreamer, Balls, Nunzio? Maybe Miz? I'm guessing they'll turn Cor Von or draft someone over.

Oh, Shannon.

A week with Chavo's retirement angle. The WWE wont use this as an angle.

The first thing I thought of when I heard what Benoit had done was roid rage. I'm guessing the media may go with this angle as well. This ties up with the theory that life as a wrestler lead to his downfall.

Just found out. That's some fucked up shit.

They write it down in a little book.

awesome

As raped as it's been, I'm gonna be watching SD from now on purely for Kenny D. Plus, it's gonna be interesting to see who can step up to the plate to fill the midcard.

Unless he's drafted to ECW or SD, Johnny Nitro has been fucked over a little bit by the draft. He went from IC contender to heatless jobber tag-team pretty quickly, and now his partners been drafted whil a bunch of more over mid-carders have come to Raw.

I can't see us beating you first game of the season. If we do, thoug, it may be a long hard season. Add that to our next five games being against Man U, Chelsea, Bolton (although I don't think they'll do that well without Allardyce), Arsenal and Liverpool, and I don't think we'll make the flying start we did last season. I'd rather play the big 5 at the end of the season when they have one eye on Europe/FA Cup finals. We beat United and Liverpool that way. This season could well see the band of clubs under the top 4 doing getting larger and competitive. West Ham are spending a lot, Allardyce and O'Neil at Newcastle and Aston Villa will probably have good seasons. Everton & Spurs should have good seasons again, and hopefully Pompey will be in the mix (although that all depends on what strikers we sign). I can see Wigan, Man City and Fulham having bad seasons and competing with the promoted clubs for the relegation spaces. Derby will likely struggle, I'm afraid, but the money they gain will stand them in good stead in the future. They may be the Watford of this season.