There has been a story of wrestler Chris Benoit and his wife and kid found dead in their Atlanta home. I got news of this on a NBA site I visit, but don't know if to believe it or not?


I hope it's not real.

It's real.

http://www.wwe.com/

Mars23 said:

Yep, it's real. I'm completely shocked.

Chris will be remembered as a true legend

yep it is real...sucks one of my favs and of the best in the business

http://www.wrestlingobser...?aID=20000

Professional wrestler Chris Benoit was found dead along with his family this afternoon in his Atlanta home, according to published reports.

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution is reporting authorities confirmed that Benoit, 40, his wife, Nancy, and their 7-year-old son were found dead at the home on Quarters and Redwine roads in Fayetteville.

The Montreal-born Benoit, who moved to Edmonton when he was 12 years old, lived in Sherwood Park as recently as May 2000.

World Wrestling Entertainment issued a release over Benoit's death.

"World Wrestling Entertainment is deeply saddened to report that today Chris Benoit and his family were found dead in their home," the statement reads.

"There are no further details at this time, other than the Benoit family residence is currently being investigated by local authorities.

WWE spokeswoman Cheryl Kong in Toronto said Monday night’s “Raw” TV program would serve as a tribute to Benoit and his family.

Benoit was a former world heavyweight champion, Intercontinental champion and held several tag-team titles over his career.

Benoit was scheduled to wrestle at the Vengeance pay-per-view Sunday night in Houston, but was replaced at the last minute because of what announcer Jim Ross called “personal reasons.”
-source: http://www.edmontonsun.co...89665.html

I just heard this. Peace to their souls.

I was watching TV and JUST heard about this!

I'm not a WWE fan, but what an awful month for them! First Sherri Martel dies, now this.

Not a fan at all, but RIP Chris and family.

Benoit was one of favorite wrestlers. He always gave 100 percent for the fans. I'm still in shock about it.

Police: WWE Wrestler Chris Benoit killed wife, son, self

http://www.chron.com/disp...19522.html


As reported by the Houston Chronicle


Say it ain't so.
[Edited 6/25/07 20:42pm]

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Could it have been 'roid rage???

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Knowing what went down, was the WWE premature in celebrating him tonight? Is it right to celebrate a man who could murder a 7 year old child?

Mars23 said:

I believe so, during RAW and before there was really know details as to what happened.

The murder accusations didn't start coming up until about 45 minutes ago?

yeah this is rather shocking, but they arnt saying anything is certain just yet, its all specualtion, it was rather strange raeding that he was going to miss Vengance due to "family problems" but damn this is the last thing i thought would happen!
heres another article
http://www.foxnews.com/st...73,00.html
ive been reading stuff all morning and all this stuff claiming he murbered them has just come out, it will still be a few days before we know what really happened

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I hear ya, the cynic in me has a hard time believing the WWE didn't know the details by air time.I would think a natural progression would be he misses the PPV, the WWE dispatches someone to contact him, can't be reached, cops are called and the WWE is there for the discovery or at least privy to very close info.

I am purely speculating. Like I said, my inner cynic would go for the ratings before news got out of what he did.

I always felt he was one that gave his all everytime he did a show. I haven't seen him in years, but I remember his matches. No matter what, I feel for all the families involved.

if u want the hard hitting info go to
www.wrestlezone.com
they are keeping a very close eye on this, as well as all ur other wrestling info

OMG Are u fucking serious. This is too surreal

well looks like he had it all planned out.....
http://www.wrestlezone.co...=184838969

This is just horrible... only thing i can think of is she was taking the kid and was gonna leave him, which is why he didnt make it to the PPV yesterday. thought they could work it out. I dont want to believe that he killed them and then himself. The way the wrestlers talked tonight about how he loved his kids, thats just so shocking.

yeah but also take in mind a lot of those interviews were from the Beniot DVD so they were a few years old, but even still it is a bizarre thing to happen, lets just hope the police are wrong with their first assesment of the situation..

It's usually desperate people who love their family and can't think of a life without them who do things like this. Sounds crazy, but tha fact he killed them and then took his own life doesn't mean he didn't love them. Probably quite the opposite. People do strange things when they're about to lose all they care about. It's just a very sad day for everyone involved.

I just saw the news, so I missed the Raw tribute I wish I had tuned in

more unfortunate info
http://www.wrestlezone.co...=184841074

kcwm said:

Even more hard to deal with knowing it's murder-suicide.

PurpleJedi said:

im a BIG wrestling fan awa/wwf/wcw/ecw and anything else.
yahoo news said murder-suicide, all three in different rooms.
waaaay too sad, i was like , too bad, so sad.
chavo and edge were very sad and shed their tears

kcwm said:

This is getting more difficult to bear... They think it was a murder-suicide, but that no gun was involved.

I can think of several ways to die, but most other than a gun or some poison that puts you to sleep (which I doubt he used) seem particularly grisly and torturous.

Lord, have mercy.

i looked .. didnt see a thread about this ... and then posted mine ...

then i got locked again ... as usual ..lol

it is sad .... i really do wonder if the steroids thing played a huge part ... etc ...