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10 Things WWE Want You To Forget About Chris Benoit . GET INVOLV
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By: tnafanforum Date: August 10, 2015, 4:44 am
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I would love you all to get i voided in this topic because
everyone has got something to say about this man !, you can not
take anything away from him he was a great wrestler and he was
one of the best in WWF/WWE at the time ..
The name Chris Benoit immediately brings up negative feelings
among wrestling fans because of the double murder he committed
in June of 2007. He killed his wife Nancy, his son Daniel and
then himself in his own home. It was shocking and is the biggest
dark cloud that hangs over World Wrestling Entertainment.
It would be easy to just put “everything” in terms
of things that WWE wants us to forget about him, but
that’s not what this is. Instead, it will look at specific
examples of Benoit related things that WWE goes out of their way
to avoid as best they can. WWE have nothing on their network
about him or any of his matches ...
This isn’t being done to sensationalize Benoit or anything
of that nature. It’s just a way to cover some wrestling
history and not all History is good when it comes down to WWE ..
This is one of them subjects that is very painful to write
about and talk a lit . Yes it is seven years after the double
murder suicide he committed, but it is still talked about in
2015 . Benoit was one of my favorite wrestlers and I really
think he would of been a HOFer .
While there are dozens of things WWE wants us to forget about
Chris Benoit, here are ten of the more important ones from his
time in WWE from early 2000 right up until his death in 2007 and
the aftermath that followed.
Number 10
The Smackdown brand was amazing in late 2002 with Paul Heyman as
the main booker. Brock Lesnar was the young WWE Champion feuding
with The Undertaker and six guys were known as “The
Smackdown Six” because of the great matches they had on a
weekly basis. The six wrestlers were Benoit, Kurt Angle, Edge,
Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio and Chavo Guerrero.
At the October No Mercy 2002 PPV event, Benoit and Angle faced
off with Edge and Mysterio to crown the first ever tag team
champions on the Smackdown brand.
The match was a perfect example of what great tag team wrestling
is. The babyfaces (Edge & Mysterio) were isolated form each
other for a long period of time while the dysfunctional
Angle/Benoit team were dominant for much of it. There were crazy
breakup moves with guys getting out of submissions and then a
killer tag team move where Mysterio did a moonsault off
Edge’s shoulders. Angle made Edge tap out with the ankle
lock for the win.
If you’ve seen the match then you know how amazing it was.
It’s an example of time and place being so important. If
that match took place at a WrestleMania or SummerSlam it would
be celebrated as one of the biggest and best matches ever.
Because it was No Mercy, maybe it’s not remembered as
well. Of course because of Benoit it’s forgotten now.
It was a match that I called the greatest tag team match in WWE
history and definitely the best match in WWE that year. Today
it’s completely ignored by WWE due to Benoit’s
involvement.
Number 9 another tag team match but this time it is with his
best friend Y2J
Chris Jericho was one of Benoit’s best friends. They were
tag team partners, they had great matches together and they
created a lot of memories for fans that were unforgettable.
Unfortunately due to the real life circumstances surrounding
Benoit’s death,
Here are some quotes from Jericho in October 2014 talking about
his next DVD that comes out early next year: “Putting
together a couple of my DVDs, and we’re working on the
second one right now, that’s probably a combined total of
about fifty matches that are on there between those two DVDs but
I could never include a Benoit match. One, I don’t think
I’m allowed to. Two, I don’t know if I’d want
to, and that was one of the greatest moments of my career.
Absolutely one of my favorite opponents and probably a dozen
classic matches that I’d want to put on there, including
the ladder match we had at the Royal Rumble in 2001, which I
think is one of the best ladder matches of all time, totally
forgotten because of Chris and the fact they don’t show
any of his matches anymore.”
“Also too what was voted the best match in Raw history by
a lot of people, Jericho and Benoit vs. Triple H and Austin, so
famous for being the night H tore his quad during the match, the
crowd going bananas and the first time anybody had vanquished
the evil Steve Austin and Triple H. It was a huge night in WWE
history, a huge moment in the history of the Tag Team
Championships and a huge moment in the history of my career, and
I can’t ever see that match really. I can’t watch
that match. I think I’ve watched it once and it’s
good, it’s a great classic five star match, but it’s
always tainted when I see Chris Benoit.”
Jericho is right about the Rumble ladder match and that tag
match on Raw. That Raw match is arguably the best in the history
of that show and it’s completely forgotten just because
Benoit was a part of it. It’s a shame, but it’s
understandable why WWE wants to erase it from their history.
8. CM Punk Was Supposed To Face Him On Show He Missed Due To His
Death
“Chris Benoit was my hero and I was privileged enough to
work with him and to know him as a person and to call him my
friend. Even though I’ll never get to wrestle him, he
taught me a lot. I just hope I can do his memory good by always
being the best I can be.” – CM Punk
That was the message from a teary eyed CM Punk on the June 25,
2007 edition of Raw. One night earlier, Punk was supposed to
face Benoit for the vacant ECW Title at the “Vengeance:
Night Of Champions” PPV event. Benoit no showed the event
because of the incident in his home and Punk faced Johnny Nitro
instead. It was later revealed that Benoit was going to beat
Punk and then they’d have a feud over it with Punk likely
getting in during a feud all about earning respect.
The feelings of Punk were expressed when he thought that Benoit
was murdered in his home as opposed to actually committing the
murder, so he should be excused for getting all emotional in
that situation. However, what that video really showed is that
Punk really wanted to work with Benoit and had a lot of respect
for him.
It’s not like it was a major show that WWE brings up all
the time, so it’s easy for WWE to forget about it because
the average fan isn’t going to remember a random June 2007
PPV anyway.
7. The Vince McMahon “Death” Storyline On Raw
The June 11, 2007 edition of Raw ended with Vince McMahon
walking out of the arena into a waiting limo and then as he
closed the door, the limo blew up. We all knew he wasn’t
really dead of course, but it was an intriguing storyline.
The next week, Stephanie McMahon showed up to say that the June
25 edition of Raw would be a celebration of Vince’s life.
That’s how Raw went off the air on June 18, 2007. That
celebration didn’t happen because of Benoit, which will be
looked at on the next page.
What about that storyline anyway? What was the plan?
Here’s how former WWE writer Chris DeJoseph explained it
to PWTorch a few years later.
“I think at the time everybody was into Whodunit? Okay, we
are given the task of coming up with a Whodunit? We sat around
that room enough hours and days and finally came up with:
We’re going to blow up Vince. We had a pretty long-term
storyline. I think the idea was for Vince to just be missing and
his body is burned beyond recognition, he is gone, something
like that, I think. The idea was to say he was actually dead. I
think it was going to be a scramble for power in the company.
That was really the idea behind it. Now that he was gone,
everybody was fighting for power and everybody has different
motives. What were some of those motives to get the
power?”
It was an angle that WWE could do only once and never again. Due
to the Benoit death two weeks later, it had to be dropped.
The reason WWE wants you to forget about it is because they had
to end this massive angle due to the real life situation with
Benoit, who they obviously want us to forget too.
6. An Entire Episode Of Raw Was Dedicated To Him
There have been 1,125 episodes of WWE’s flagship show
Monday Night Raw, which began back in January 1993. When WWE
reached milestones in recent years like the 1,000th episode or
the 20 year anniversary, they were considered big deals. What
WWE doesn’t want you to know about Raw is that they
dedicated an entire episode to Chris Benoit.
It was June 25, 2007 and Raw was supposed to take place in
Corpus Christi, Texas. Instead, the show started with Vince
McMahon in the ring talking about how Chris Benoit had passed
away. At the time, WWE didn’t know that he committed the
double murder suicide of his wife, his son and himself, so they
aired a tribute episode similar to what they had done for Owen
Hart and Eddie Guerrero in the past.
For the next three hours on that episode of Raw, WWE superstars
and divas talked about how sad they were about Benoit’s
death. Matches of Benoit were shown for the entire episode while
WWE’s commentators were also on hand to offer thoughts
about him.
Leading up to the show, it really wasn’t known that Benoit
had committed murder. The incident was from a day earlier, so by
the time Raw started there were still questions about it. By
late Monday night, most people knew the truth and that’s
why it’s a decision that likely haunts WWE to this day.
It’s the one episode of Raw that will probably never be
uploaded to WWE Network if they ever decide to upload all of
them. This is one night of Raw WWE truly wants all of us to
forget.
5. Users Can’t Create Him In WWE 2K15 Video Game And
Upload Him Online
Chris Benoit Wwe2k15
This is a fairly recent story about WWE’s 2K15 video game
that was released within the last couple of months. Fans like to
create characters in the game to give them fantasy matchups that
they otherwise couldn’t see.
Fans are free to upload a lot of things to the community
creations in the game, hell people are always making TNA and ROH
stars on it too . but a Chris Benoit face is not one of the
things you can use. One fan openly complained to WWE and 2K
asking them why he was banned from the game for up to two weeks
and then he found out it was because he had uploaded
Benoit’s face to the online community.
There are certain things that fans should know aren’t
welcome in WWE’s online community for their game:
pornographic material, excessive swearing and anything Chris
Benoit related to all a no no for WWEs games ..
It’s smart for WWE to monitor those kinds of things
because it’s their right to protect what does or
doesn’t make it on their online community. If they
don’t want Benoit’s image on there then they have
every right to prevent it and the fans have got to respect
that...
4. Randy Orton Beat Him For World Title At SummerSlam 2004
WWE.com
WWE.com
Randy Orton has been one of WWE’s two biggest stars in the
last 12 years along with John Cena. His role in the company has
been important as a guy that has mostly been a top heel that has
also had some decent face runs too.
Orton is a 12 time WWE World Heavyweight Champion that became
the youngest World Champ in WWE history in 2004 when he was just
24 years old. Ten years later, nobody has beaten that record. It
might never happen because WWE is reluctant to push talent at
such a young age, so that record could be his for a long time.
Who did Orton beat that evening at SummerSlam in Toronto on
August 15, 2004? None other than Chris Benoit. It was a good
match that was competitive in a face vs. face style that Orton
won clean with a RKO in the center of the ring.
As you might expect, WWE completely ignores the fact that Orton
beat Benoit. They will mention that Orton is the youngest World
Champion from time to time, but they can’t say who he beat
and probably never will.
3. Unable To Search For Him On WWE Network
Chris Benoit
When WWE Network launched in February, there were all kinds of
questions about what they would do with Benoit. Could you watch
his matches or would they edit him out? They ended up leaving
him in there although they aren’t going to go out of their
way to promote him. Searching for him is another story.
If you type in his name in a search on WWE Network, nothing
comes up even though there are hundreds of matches on there with
him. Benoit is on dozens of events on there from his career in
ECW, WCW and WWE ranging from the early 1990s until his death in
2007 yet if you try to find his matches, WWE’s search will
not help you.
It’s certainly understandable why WWE did that. They
don’t want to promote Benoit in any way, so they are going
to do what they can do block his name from searches. Nobody
blames them for it. It’s the right move.
2. He Won The 2004 Royal Rumble
WWE.com
WWE.com
When WWE tells the story of the Royal Rumble match every year,
they always leave out Chris Benoit’s tremendous
performance in 2004.
Benoit started the match at #1 with Randy Orton at #2 and he
lasted over an hour on his way to winning the match by last
eliminating Big Show with an impressive headlock where he
dragged Show over the top rope for the win. Benoit using all of
his strength to get rid of Show was a fantastic visual. He
literally pulled him out of the ring using all of his strength
and the crowd went wild for him.
It was a match dominated by Benoit. He was in there the longest
for 61:30 with only Rey Mysterio’s performance in 2006
topping it when Rey went 62:12 as the number two man when he
won. Benoit also had the most eliminations with six.
The 2004 Rumble was a match booked with the idea of putting over
Benoit huge from start to finish in order to build him us as a
bigger star. It worked.
1. He Won The World Title In The WrestleMania 20 Main Event
WWE.com
WWE.com
The tagline for WrestleMania 20 was “Where it all
begins…again.” It was WWE’s way of saying they
were back in New York City where the first WrestleMania took
place and it was their way of being nostalgic about the big
even.
In the main event, Triple H was the dominant heel World
Heavyweight Champion that was set to defend the title in a
triple threat match against his long time rival Shawn Michaels
and Chris Benoit, who had won the Royal Rumble. It was the first
time in WrestleMania history that a triple threat match
headlined a WrestleMania.
They had a phenomenal match. It’s one of the best main
events in WrestleMania history with a lot of drama and a hot
ending as Benoit made Triple H tap out in the center of the
ring. Madison Square Garden erupted in cheers when Benoit held
up the WWE World Title for the first time in WWE. It was a
storybook ending for a guy that had been in the business for 18
years and worked hard to get where he was.
Post match, Eddie Guerrero showed up for a post match hug since
he was one of Benoit’s best friends and also the WWE
Champion at the time. As confetti filled the ring, the two men
embraced in what was a very memorable ending. Benoit’s
wife and son were also there too, which is too sad to even think
about today.
If you go to WWE.com you won’t see photos of this. Their
gallery ends with the Undertaker’s match against Kane. It
is on WWE Network unedited, but it’s not like WWE is ever
going to promote the main event or even mention it.
There are a lot of things about Benoit that WWE wants you to
forget and with good reason, but nothing is more forgettable
than his WrestleMania main event victory.
Have your say guys we are here for you to talk about and to have
your own say . Let's see what the rest of you think about this
and if you have anything to add please do
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Re: 10 Things WWE Want You To Forget About Chris Benoit . GET IN
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By: RosalindeDreams Date: August 10, 2015, 9:25 am
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I like that they don't even really touch on him in the
encyclopedia even... I mean. I feel bad for him, he must have
been pretty messed up but it amuses me they had him in the
encyclopedia but not Chyna and now it's the total reverse....
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Re: 10 Things WWE Want You To Forget About Chris Benoit . GET IN
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By: tnafanforum Date: August 10, 2015, 12:04 pm
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But he was part of some great match that WM 20 was one of the
best
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By: tnagirl Date: August 11, 2015, 10:49 am
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Shocking but WWe have gotto keep it out of the head lines
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By: tnafan Date: August 16, 2015, 2:51 pm
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He was.one.of.the best in the world at that time
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By: tnafan Date: September 13, 2015, 5:08 pm
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Why did they give him a 3 hour show after they new what he did
tbh
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Re: 10 Things WWE Want You To Forget About Chris Benoit . GET IN
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By: tnafanforum Date: September 15, 2015, 11:37 am
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One of the best times in WWE was when He Won The World Title In
The WrestleMania 20 Main Event .
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