What a strange day it’s been, ever since I found out about Chris Benoit’s death round about this time yesterday. Now I’ll admit I was a pretty big wrestling fan back in the day, like in the late 80’s/early 90’s period of Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior, who wasn’t really? As I grew older wrestling became more and more marginalised by other, way more important things in life until 1999 when flicking through channels on Sky, I came across the Royal Rumble late one Sunday night. Meh I though, nothing else on at 1am, why not?
See back in those days I was an extreme nightowl, I’d stay up till all hours of the morning just fucking around doing nothing. But anyways, 1999 Royal Rumble, one match in particular got me hooked again, The Rock beating 50 shades of blue out of Mick Foley. Seriously, watch it, you’ll be amazed… Anyways, 1999 through 2003 was a pretty good wrestling period, lots of memorable matches, I personally attended many live shows from 2002 through 2006 and, hey, it entertained me. And during this period, one of my favourite wrestlers was Chris Benoit, so for the last day or so I’ve been building up to a tribute to him as he died yesterday.
Alas not to be as it appears he killed his wife and son over the weekend before taking his own life in a pretty cowardly way out. How fucked up is that? It was just last week he was here in Charlotte filming an episode of ECW at Bobcats Arena, then he went back to Atlanta and offed his family then himself! So everything has turned from sadness to absolute astonishment, once things became clearer the reactions of RIP turned to RIH and now it seems that the WWF (screw this WWE bull) are basically trying to brush the 7 years Benoit spent with them under the rug, going as far as to removing his name from the main event of the WrestleMania XX DVD (the main event he won no less) in their online store… Just last night they broadcast a poignant 3 hour tribute to him, of course this was before anyone knew he was a cold blooded murderer, now they’ll be fighting back the negative press from this.
It’s just kinda messed up. I’m sure somewhere, some kid is wondering why his hero just went and killed his family for no apparent reason. I guess we’ll never know…
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3 responses to “Crazy Day”
This is a very sad story. Nobody will ever know what was in his head. Anyways …. night owl.. I’ll say you were …and this gives a bad name to owls and nights.
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So sad…….those were the days..eh….sleepin all day up all night…i still remember the noise from your room grrrrrrrr ;)
I think 1997-2000 were wrestlings 2nd golden age. What year did WWE buy WCW? That is when it all went downhill.