I had so many wonderful thing to say about Chris Benoit. When I got a call at work yesterday from a friend telling me about the death of Benoit, his son Daniel and his wife Nancy I started to cry, but I knew I had to control my feelings because no one at work would understand why I was reacting that way, but it was very difficult for me to concentrate on what I was doing, very difficult. I wanted to tell you about some of my Chris Benoit highlights. I wanted to talk about last night�s Raw. I was so pleased by the way things were done. But things changed rather fast after Raw went off last night. And what I originally planned to write unfortunately it isn�t going to happen.
For those of you that haven�t read or heard the latest, it�s not good. I don�t want to give out the brutal details but the investigation is showing that Chris Benoit killed his wife, son and then took his own life. And after I heard what the police and D.A. had to say at their press conference I went from feeling sick to feeling nothing but ANGER. So I want to keep this really short. My tribute to Chris Benoit has now turned into a column that is anything but kind to him.
I saw Chris Benoit as a man that was soft spoken, down to earth and a family man. While I didn�t know him, in a way I kind of felt that I did because I watched him week after week year after year. And I never EVER read one negative thing about him. He seemed to just do his job and never caused any problems. So it is very hard for me to see him now as a monster that took the lives of Nancy and Daniel. The thought of him killing his son gets to me more than anything else. I have no idea what the motive was but how he could kill his son is so far beyond me. It pains me to talk against Chris Benoit because I thought the world of him.
Not only is this whole tragic story getting to me but now, we have the usual main stream media jumping on this because they want to blame steroid use (roid rage) for what Benoit did. Even though the toxicology report won�t be in for several weeks, Fox news channel basically is going with steroids made Benoit do this. And along with this they are just chomping at the bit to get Vince McMahon and wrestling involved. For any of you that would like a transcript of the conversation that took place between two Fox journalists, and I use that term loosely and a Dr. blaming the steroids I will be happy to send it to you.
See this is just so typical and while I might bash Vince on so many levels I will not blame him for what Benoit did. If steroids are found in the toxicology report remember Vince didn�t put a gun to Chris�s head and the only one that I blame for this is Chris Benoit.
I�m just telling you right now I feel that Chris Benoit spit on the business and all of us, the wrestling fans by what happened. I might be coming off like a total bitch but the more I read about this and watch the news the more disgusted and repulsed I become.
Also there are a few on the internet ripping on Vince for giving Benoit a tribute show. I disagree with that. The show was done very well and we don�t know if Vince and the others knew just what happened. I don�t fault Vince at all for the show that he put on last night
Now I would love to see Benoit�s picture removed from the front page of WWE. I don�t know if you are aware of this, but WWE has taken off his merchandise and removed him from their ECW page. Also they have gotten back to some normalcy on the front page by putting Cena, Batista, Sgt. Slaughter and Jeff Hardy�s pictures up and talking about Vengeance.
I apologize if I offended anyone, but you have no idea what Benoit meant to me. This is something that hurts me deeply and I want so much for WWE to move on and just not give Benoit any more publicity. They say tonight ECW and Smackdown will go on with and the shows will be all wrestling and not tribute. I can�t tell you how happy I am about that.
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