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That's true. Jericho might be the only one who would come close but he still had a damn good career outside Benoit matches. I mean for any future best of or wrestler collection releases down the road.

So do you think Punk is gonna pull a Briscoe sweep on Burke? MVP did that in the US Title match on PPV last month. It's a fresh ploy for WWE. They'll do it.

This "lets forget Chris and do random stuff" route is better then the planned shit.

They got balls giving Piper a live mic right now.

That was a good little match that did well to serve its purpose. Nitro looked really strong and the top face wins when he pretty much had to right now. Leave it to Marvin to actually nit-pick about this. Cena could have squashed Nitro straight up just to pop the crowd and make the potentially large viewership tuning in happy.

Wasn't Nailz mentioned on the Warrior dvd? Wasn't he name-dropped during the McMahon Death angle?

Or, they thought Benoit would be back by tonight and would put the title on him and put it over as a fluke. While saving the Viscera or Cor Von main event run and the eventual Punk title reign. Figured that..It must suck to be CM Punk that him winning the belt wasn't even Plan B worst case scenario.. I think they wanted his title win to mean something, in other words, beating Benoit. Now, he'll probably win it off Nitro in a few weeks, maybe on the next PPV.

They might just run with Nitro now.

Or, they thought Benoit would be back by tonight and would put the title on him and put it over as a fluke. While saving the Viscera or Cor Von main event run and the eventual Punk title reign.

Smart move by Vince, I guess. Putting Cena out right away. Establishes that they are moving on. Also, more people would be tuning in for this show then ever, Cena would keep them around and maybe in the process get people to watch ECW for once.

Punk-Burke 2/3 falls, tonight.

So far, of all these cable people, only Sheperd Smith appears to have made any effort to do research.

Can't believe someone tried to say that being given the ECW title was a factor in the brutal death of a 7 year old.

Shepherd did a good job of research, even pulling Dynamite out of nowhere and actually mentioning Benoit's career and influences but O' Riley and others just march right to "STEROIDS DUH!" angle.

He did his research, thats for sure.

Dogs are fed and ready for a new home, come in through the back so you don't have to destroy the front to find the bodies. Chavo got the message on sunday morning, correct? Yet no one thought to check on him until the next day? There was a delay between Benoit sending the message and Chavo receiving it. It was mentioned at the press conference. No, I got that. I meant, why did they wait til monday to call the local police if he got the message which was sent apparently on saturday night the next morning?

Dogs are fed and ready for a new home, come in through the back so you don't have to destroy the front to find the bodies. Chavo got the message on sunday morning, correct? Yet no one thought to check on him until the next day? Someone sends a txt like that, it should ring more alarms then "gee, I guess he no-showed tonight".

Its been said that its all matches. No angles or skits.

His father started using roids as a teen. Benoit probably wanted to give Daniel a head start.

Based on what they said......he likely didn't hear either beg. She had blood on her head he probably clocked her and knocked her out...and his son was asleep.... I still just think the guy lost his fucking mind, but who's to really know.....All that weird bible shit for all I know it was his weird planned way of going to see Eddy again and taking his family with him. So he believed Eddie was in Hell? Randy wouldn't lie.

Cancel the taping, have Cole/JBL, Tazz/Styles simply say "In light of the Chris Benoit murder investigation, WWE and all of it's talent have decided it wasn't in their best interest at heart to peform" and just show clip show "best of ecw/smackdown". You can't go on the air right now and resume the show as nothing happened nor can you pay tribute...

The only thing that has and hopefully, ever will compare is Owen's death and that is obviously still a world of difference. One was a stunt gone wrong that he was willing to take...the other was a brutal mess that doesn't end good.

Only Austin's speech failed to really feel sad or emotional.

I thought Benoit was found in the weight room and Nancy in the living room.

I just cant fathom that he probably spent a whole day knowing he killed his wife and kid. I wonder if he ordered Vengeance and saw Nitro won the title and called it a life.