Lil' Kazu Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 I don't think anyone will forget that night. I woke my wife up at 2:00 to tell her Benoit and his family were dead. Then of course we found out the even more horrific truth. I don't think anyone can blame WWE for the tribute show they ran, they like most of the world only knew he'd died. Personally I don't blame them from erasing him from history either, I find it very difficult to watch him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil' Kazu Posted August 14, 2017 Report Share Posted August 14, 2017 Agreed, WWE did what they had to do. I vividly remember seeing it on the news in TV here in Portugal, which was not common for anything wrestling related to pop up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maskedmaniac Posted August 15, 2017 Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 I can't remember exactly what happened on that RAW, but was it all just Benoit matches and an empty arena? Vince wasn't the kind of guy to just cancel a live show because of tragedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 15, 2017 Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 I can't remember exactly what happened on that RAW, but was it all just Benoit matches and an empty arena? Vince wasn't the kind of guy to just cancel a live show because of tragedy. Yeah, they played matches from his DVD that came out around the time he was world champ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maskedmaniac Posted August 15, 2017 Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 They shoulda just done what they did after Eddie died and have live matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil' Kazu Posted August 15, 2017 Report Share Posted August 15, 2017 They had Benoit matches and the guys talking about him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LEGION Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 That's been posted like a billion times already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Vercetti Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 And I probably posted it. Not gonna go through pages to check though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Just learned the other week that fake Taker was his cousin lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Vercetti Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Well I learned something new today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Just learned the other week that fake Taker was his cousin lol. Brian Lee was his cousin? I didn't know that, I just thought they were best friends. I believe Lee was Taker's best man for his wedding to Sara. Caption: Aren't you a little short for an Undertaker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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black_machismo Posted August 23, 2017 Report Share Posted August 23, 2017 I can't remember exactly what happened on that RAW, but was it all just Benoit matches and an empty arena? Vince wasn't the kind of guy to just cancel a live show because of tragedy.Yeah, they played matches from his DVD that came out around the time he was world champ. Still have the copy of the full show. They cancelled the show and did wrestler interviews. I can also remember Vince telling the part that his onscreen character dying. I think i need to find that video in my collection. Edit: Saw my copy of the video. The show was supposed to be a special 3 hour show for the McMahon tribute but became a real tribute to Benoit. I can see one reason why Vince will be very mad at Benoit because not only did he learned the real reason behind what happened. He also wasted a 3 hour special on something they won't get anything out of. On the side note: I am a fan of Benoit but when he died I got sad but did not feel anything unlike when Eddie died (where i cried). Until i saw the news on what really happened. They also showed that in the news here in the Philippines where they don't usually show wrestling related stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM Posted August 23, 2017 Report Share Posted August 23, 2017 I can't remember exactly what happened on that RAW, but was it all just Benoit matches and an empty arena? Vince wasn't the kind of guy to just cancel a live show because of tragedy.Yeah, they played matches from his DVD that came out around the time he was world champ. Still have the copy of the full show. They cancelled the show and did wrestler interviews. I can also remember Vince telling the part that his onscreen character dying. I think i need to find that video in my collection. If I recall he said something like. "Tonight was supposed to be a continuation of a storyline where my character "Mr McMahon" had been killed, however in reality, Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy and Son Daniel are all dead". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
black_machismo Posted August 23, 2017 Report Share Posted August 23, 2017 I can't remember exactly what happened on that RAW, but was it all just Benoit matches and an empty arena? Vince wasn't the kind of guy to just cancel a live show because of tragedy.Yeah, they played matches from his DVD that came out around the time he was world champ. Still have the copy of the full show. They cancelled the show and did wrestler interviews. I can also remember Vince telling the part that his onscreen character dying. I think i need to find that video in my collection. If I recall he said something like. "Tonight was supposed to be a continuation of a storyline where my character "Mr McMahon" had been killed, however in reality, Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy and Son Daniel are all dead". Yup it was something like that. Good thing I have a great quality video of the show downloaded since it will never be put up on the WWE Network. But of course we have youtube but most of those videos uploaded there are either cut into parts, sped up, or cropped. Since I also have the vanilla copy of Vengeance: Night of Champions 2007 PPV. The ECW title match has edited commentary and announcer in the WWE Network to remove the Benoit reference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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classiq. Posted August 30, 2017 Report Share Posted August 30, 2017 On this day in 1992: SummerSlam from Wembley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeM Posted August 30, 2017 Report Share Posted August 30, 2017 On this day in 1992: SummerSlam from Wembley. Largest ever, non-Wrestlemania crowd in WWE. 89,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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