Will Wwe Ever Mention Chris Benoit Again

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Say the name "Chris Benoit" to a wrestling fan, and you will invoke one of two images, if non both: that of 1 of the greatest professional wrestlers to ever perform in a band, or that of a human being who spent his last days committing a serial of horrendous crimes that would shake the professional wrestling manufacture to its core.

Christopher Michael Benoit (May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) spent his youth idolizing swain Canadian wrestlers such as Bret "The Hitman" Hart and the Dynamite Kid. In 1985, at the age of 18, Benoit made his wrestling debut in Canada'southward Stampede Wrestling and made his fashion all the style down to the tip of North America, wrestling in the Mexican-based Lucha Libre Internacional, AAA, and CMLL.

From there, he traveled to diverse overseas promotions, mainly to defend the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title belt of New Japan Pro-Wrestling as "Pegasus Kid", for a number of years, then made his debut in ECW in 1994. It was in ECW where Benoit became known as "The Crippler": During a friction match with Sabu, Benoit performed a back body drop, merely Sabu landed on his head and broke his cervix. Despite the human activity existence an blow, the "Crippler" nickname stuck with Benoit for the rest of his career.

In 1995, Benoit returned to WCW (he had a curt run there in 1992 and early 1993), and later impressing direction with his in-band work, Ric Flair made Benoit a member of The 4 Horsemen stable. During this catamenia of his career, Benoit feuded with Kevin Sullivan, who likewise booked for WCW at the time. The feud centered Sullivan'southward on-screen valet — his actual wife, Nancy — having an affair with Benoit; to keep the angle steeped in kayfabe, WCW forced Benoit and Nancy to spend fourth dimension together so the illusion would appear real. Chris and Nancy turned the bending into reality by having an affair, and Nancy soon left Sullivan to ally Benoit.

Benoit won fans over with his in-ring work over the next few years, but management refused to button him into the main outcome level until Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara took over booking duties for WCW in 1999, near the peak of the Monday Night Wars. But when Russo and Ferrara were suspended past WCW direction, the higher-ups placed Kevin Sullivan back on the booking squad. Benoit, alongside a number of other wrestlers, saw this development as a hazard to their careers, and thus they delivered an ultimatum to management: "He goes, or nosotros become." Management tried to appease the group by booking Benoit to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Souled Out 2000. But it proved a fruitless attempt: Benoit — along with Eddie Guerrero, Perry Saturn, and Dean Malenko — asked for, and were given, their releases after the result. (WCW stripped Benoit of the championship the side by side 24-hour interval.)

Weeks subsequently, Benoit, Guerrero, Saturn, and Malenko showed up on WWF Raw—they emerged from the live audition to assault several wrestlers. The debuts of Benoit and his beau ship-jumpers, dubbed "The Radicalz", signaled the beginning of the end of WCW; a niggling more than a year afterward The Radicalz debuted in WWE, WCW folded (and was bought by WWE).

Over the adjacent four years, WWE built Benoit upwardly into a main event caliber wrestler. He produced classic matches with the likes of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Kurt Bending, Eddie Guerrero, and Edge. His time in SmackDown'south tag division during 2002 made him part of a trio of teams fans referred to (then and now) every bit the "SmackDown Vi": Benoit, teaming with Angle, faced the team of Border and Rey Mysterio at No Mercy 2002 in what was easily a Match of the Twelvemonth candidate and arguably one of the greatest tag squad matches ever. Those two teams eventually feuded the Guerreros (Eddie and his nephew Chavo), which led to several matches betwixt both the teams themselves and their private members — matches that ultimately made SmackDown a must-sentinel evidence. Around this time, he was named the third person to receive Cauliflower Alley Club's Future Fable Laurels.

In 2004, Benoit had arguably the best year of his career: he won the Royal Rumble by lasting the unabridged match (over an hour later having entered #1), he went on to WrestleMania Twenty to win the World Heavyweight Championship in Madison Square Garden in another Match of the Year candidate past making Triple H tap clean to the Crippler Crossface, and he retained the title the adjacent month at Backlash by making Shawn Michaels tap to the Sharpshooter in Canada (a symbolic apology to the Canadian oversupply for the Montreal Screwjob). Benoit lost the title to Randy Orton at SummerSlam 2004, simply stayed near the main event level for the rest of the year as he feuded with Orton, Border, and Triple H and continued to vie for the Globe Heavyweight Championship.

Later on 2004, WWE shuffled Benoit back down to the midcard, deciding that his skills could better aid push new talent upwardly the card. Benoit won the United States Title several times and feuded with up-and-coming star Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP) for months. In 2007, WWE placed Benoit on the renewed ECW brand—a movement that instantly made him a top contender for that brand'due south championship. At Vengeance: Night of Champions 2007 on June 24, Benoit was scheduled to go upwardly against indy darling CM Punk for the vacant ECW Championship.

Benoit no-showed the event.

And so we institute out why.

The next day, Atlanta police constitute the bodies of Chris, Nancy, and their seven-year-old son Daniel in their home. The constabulary didn't reveal until later on that evening — and a number of fans would not find this out until after WWE had run a Benoit tribute prove in identify of Mon Night Raw — that over the course of the previous weekend, Benoit had strangled his married woman and son, then hanged himself in his abode gym.

At the next night's ECW bear witness, Vince McMahon began the show acknowledging (more-or-less) that WWE had been too hasty regarding paying tribute to Benoit, and that his comments would exist the only fourth dimension Benoit's name was mentioned for the remainder of the night. Years downward the road, information technology became clear that this was the last time WWE would mention Benoit at all.

From that day forwards, controversy about Benoit's life and career erupted. Did the multiple concussions he suffered over the years play a role in his actions? Should fans bring him up when discussing the all-time wrestlers ever, or is it right to even remember him as a great wrestler in low-cal of what he did? Should WWE glorify Benoit'southward abilities and career accomplishments, or should it keep its current form of only recognizing him as a affair of historical record? What should the pro wrestling industry itself do to forbid something like this from happening again — if it could fifty-fifty practise so?

Wrestling historians and critics have pointed to the Benoit murder-suicide as the goad for the company'southward "PG era", which was a noticeable period of WWE heavily sanitizing its programming. That and WWE's decision to refrain from ever mentioning Benoit again except for title reign records (and carefully skirting effectually if someone else gets a callback to a match or scenario with him) remain points of fence and controversy amongst pro wrestling fans. Whether it was right to practice so or non is a subject with equally many different opinions as can be establish, and it seems unlikely that a consensus on Benoit volition always truly exist reached.

While the debate almost how to recollect Chris Benoit continues among wrestling fans and pundits to this twenty-four hours, no one denies the truth: June 25th, 2007 was the darkest day in the history of professional wrestling.

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"The Rabid Troperine":

• Aborted Arc: Only before Benoit's murder-suicide, there was a storyline where Vince McMahon was presumed expressionless after his limousine exploded with him inside of it. The "Vince's limo exploding" storyline was immediately dropped common cold in the aftermath of Benoit's death when Vince McMahon appeared in person on the Raw memorial bear witness for Benoit and his family unit. Then when the truth came out, Vince broke kayfabe in a major style when he appeared out of character on ECW and gave a curt statement apologizing for the earlier tribute. Incidentally, this was the last time Benoit's name would always be mentioned on WWE television receiver.
• The Ace: Fifty-fifty to this twenty-four hours, he is widely considered one of the greatest in-band workers who e'er lived. It simply makes the question of how he should be remembered all the more polarizing.
• Action Dad: Benoit was a father of 3 and was regarded as one of the all-time technical wrestlers of his generation.
• Animate being Motif: One of his most famous Ruby Barons is "The Rabid Wolverine". He as well wrestled as Pegasus Kid.
• Arch-Enemy: Kevin Sullivan, both on-screen and in Real Life. Their never-ending feud in WCW ensured Benoit was never going to motion up the card (Sullivan was caput booker at the time). In fact, it was Sullivan returning to WCW as caput booker that caused Benoit to finally jump ship to the WWF. Oddly, he was still made WCW champion while Sullivan was supposedly holding him back.
• Ascended Extra: Benoit's second WCW run saw him start out in the Cruiserweight Division; eventually, he was made one of the Four Horsemen.
• Big Blood brother Mentor: According to his book Undisputed, Chris Jericho considered Benoit this. Paul London and Bryan Kendrick described him like this and a Stern Instructor in a shoot interview, and named Jamie Noble as another of Benoit's charges. CM Punk likewise seemed to consider him this, judging past his memorial message to him on the tribute testify.
• Broad Strokes: If it were upwardly to the WWE, he wouldn't exist. Simply since he's won so many titles and was such a corking wrestler, they can't disengage the past.
  • In an interview with WWE Magazine in 2009, Vince McMahon stated that he took the O. J. Simpson approach when it comes to mentioning Benoit: information technology'south not okay to promote him, only they tin can't ignore his accomplishments.

    Vince McMahon: It'due south not right to pretend he didn't be. It's one thing to include him as part of a historical perspective, which I believe is OK, and information technology's another thing to promote him, which is not OK. The state of affairs is very similar to that of O. J. Simpson - despite his controversy, O.J. was still a part of the NFL scene. Y'all can't deny that he existed.

  • Many of Benoit's close friends took a similar approach, such equally Chris Jericho and Batista, trying to remember him as the friend he was rather than the person he turned into during his last days. While none of them condoned what he did, it still didn't change that Benoit was their friend for varying periods of fourth dimension, and that they loved him, and because of that, they couldn't deny the part he played in all their lives.
• Cleaved Pedestal: A very sad case of this after how his life ended. Prior to his actions in June 2007, Benoit was universally respected by his peers, fans and critics. To say that his reputation is forever tarnished after that is an understatement.
• The Bully: Benoit was the locker room leader for Raw during the days of the brand extension and one of the leaders of Wrestler'southward Courtroom and if he liked someone he had no problems helping them and getting them over. However if he didn't like you then all the exact opposite would come into play.
  • The Miz, on i of his all-time-worked shoots, talked nearly how he was excommunicated from the WWE Locker room for over six months because he spilled some crumbs all over a ref's bag. ^note The person whose purse he spilled said crumbs was actually Benoit's, who was too the one who actually banished him, starting time just from House testify locker rooms, then from TV locker rooms, then from ALL locker rooms. WWE had Miz alter information technology from Benoit to JBL, for obvious reasons, which withal applied as JBL had likewise hazed him mercilessly. Unfortunately for Miz, the ban was still in place at the fourth dimension of Benoit's death, and since the unofficial rules said that only the person who'd banned you in the first place could invite you back in, no one was very eager to lift it in light of Benoit's decease. Fortunately, The Undertaker personally intervened when he saw Miz changing by himself in the hallway and rescinded the ban, and although he may non have technically had the dominance to do so, Taker is not a homo many people are inclined to argue with.
  • Matt Striker would go on to talk about how he was bullied by Benoit for no other reason than to make an example of him for the others to follow. Benoit had really complimented Striker for his commitment to wrestling as a whole but told him that in front of others he would treat him like trash.
  • ECW Wrestler Nova, who wrestled in WWE as Simon Dean once told a story of how Benoit and JBL pounded on ring announcer Justin Roberts'south hotel door so violently that he prayed Justin was not in there because he was afraid what they would do to him.
• Canon Discontinuity: Every bit office of his united nations-personning in WWE, the company actively remove as many of Benoit'southward accomplishments equally they could, most notably his iconic Royal Rumble 2004 victory.
• Helm Ersatz: His Pegasus kid run inspired Human Entertainment to start putting them in Fire Pro Wrestling.
• Catchphrase: Surprisingly enough, Benoit never had whatsoever; his mic skills weren't exactly stellar, so he allow his in-ring work do the talking.
  • He ran with the line of challenging others to prove him incorrect, though.
  • Earlier on in the original ECW, he was working a sociopathic gimmick, and he would telephone call back things his opponents would say, then calmly state that "he disagreed".
  • In 2004, he began declaring that he was "for existent" (his tights and t-shirts would render it every bit "4-Real").
  • Before that, he was all about "toothless aggression."
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Wasn't a very large man, but could even so German-Suplex even guys equally large as Viscera. ^annotation A Scary Black Man whose mass was in the aforementioned league every bit The Big Bear witness'southward and Yokozuna'due south.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Still hasn't been mentioned on camera to this 24-hour interval, leading to a joke between fans that he never existed. (Chris Benwho?)
• Curse: Some like to signal out that in ane storyline in 1 of the Smackdown Vs. Raw games, Eddie Guerrero was involved in a storyline with The Undertaker that ended in him buried alive. The weekend the game came out... well, Eddie died. A game later, Undertaker said "Your grieving family will have no ane but you to blame when the inevitable occurs." to Benoit. The side by side year, Chris.. well, you know...
• Expressionless Person Conversation: Subsequently Eddie died, Benoit was given a periodical to write to him as a fashion to cope.
• Death of a Thousand Cuts: The number of concussions he received over his career were believed to have contributed to the circumstances leading to him killing his family and taking his ain life.
• Demoted to Actress: Benoit's career following 2004 could essentially exist seen equally this, peculiarly his move to ECW in 2007.
• Dented Atomic number 26: Afterwards a manner; while Benoit's body was however in pretty skillful nick at the time of his death, the multiple concussions and excessive substance corruption his career had brought on him had given him the brain like that of an eighty-five-yr-old Alzheimer'south patient. That'due south Non Hyperbole either, that was actually the exact wording of the official dissection done on his brain. The dissection also found he had an enlarged heart from his excessive substance abuse over the years, and it's said that had he not killed himself he probably would accept been dead within ten months from his heart going out.
• Despair Issue Horizon: It's theorized that Eddie's decease sent Benoit beyond this. Benoit already had it pretty rough prior to Eddie's death, having lost several friends over the years (detailed in Trauma Conga Line below), marriage problems (according to Nancy Benoit'southward sister, he was abusive and Nancy tried to file for divorce because of this), injuries, etc. But when Eddie died, that seemed to be the breaking point. According to his shut friends and his own journals, Benoit was completely unable to movement on from Eddie'due south death, which may have robbed him of his own volition to alive.
• Determinator: Broke his neck during a TLC match taped on 05-21-2001, continued wrestling for over a calendar month until the Rex of The Ring event on 24-06-2001.
  • Unfortunately, it tin be debated that this determination was besides what possessed him to wrestle through concussions, abuse painkillers and steroids, and whatsoever other destructive behaviors that led to that infamous weekend in Atlanta.
• Double Standard: At that place is a small minority of fans who will debate that Benoit's contributions to wrestling outweigh his crimes, and that WWE should acknowledge his talents and legacy. Some have even called for him to exist posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame. Those same people accept called for the likes of Hulk Hogan and Randy Orton to be blackballed from the industry for undeniably disgraceful merely far less heinous behavior, because they don't take his talent and/or passion.
  • On the other mitt, while WWE accept done everything possible to erase Benoit from history, Jimmy Snuka has remained a respected company veteran for decades despite a widespread belief that he killed his so girlfriend (either deliberately or accidentally), because there was never plenty evidence to convict him.
• Downer Ending: To his career and his life. To quote Chris Jericho, Benoit loved wrestling and worked really difficult to achieve his elite condition. But his Murder-Suicide not merely nullified all his accomplishments, only it nearly destroyed the business he loved dearly.
• Due to the Dead: He adapted Eddie Guerrero'due south ¡Three Amigos! suplex combo afterward the latter'due south death.
• Expy: Started every bit one of the Dynamite Kid, fifty-fifty calling himself "Dynamite" Chris Benoit.
• False Nationality: He was briefly billed as being from Georgia rather than Alberta, Canada. This was technically truthful, as Benoit did live in Atlanta at the time, but, as wrestlers are typically billed from their (Kayfabe or Real Life) hometown rather than current residence, the clear implication was that he was American. invoked
  • At most the aforementioned fourth dimension, fellow Canadian Face Chris Jericho was billed from New York, ^annotation Granted, he had been built-in on Long Island while his dad was playing in the NHL. while Canadian Heels were still billed from Canada, suggesting WWE was trying to set up some mildly xenophobic "united states of america-versus-them" subtext.
• Fallen Hero: To some fans in Existent Life. To some wrestlers also. Pre-familicide, Chris Benoit was widely regarded as a "wrestler's wrestler" who did everything right, except cutting promos. After the incident, at best, you can add "protect his caput" to the things he didn't exercise right.
• Finishing Move: Benoit'due south most famous were his diving headbutt and the Crippler Crossface submission hold. (Following Benoit'due south death, the Crippler Crossface has been used by other wrestlers, and in WWE, it'southward referred to simply as The Crossface.)
  • Earlier in his career, he would apply a Dragon Suplex or a high-speed release powerbomb referred to every bit the Wild Bomb.
    • And of course, he would use the Sharpshooter as a Shout-Out to his background.
  • And while it wasn't a finisher, Benoit popularized the usage of multiple German language suplexes in a row (infamously testing Steve Austin's surgically repaired neck with an unthinkable ten Germans in a row in one match).
  • Ditto the diving headbutt off the top rope, which — taking zero away from the tragedy of his decease — can't have been expert to his head when coupled with the steroids and depression over Eddie's passing.
    • Odds are, yous'll never see the diving headbutt used once more past a major wrestling organization afterwards that tragedy. Harley Race has gone on record every bit proverb he wished he'd never invented the move.
    • Santino Marella uses a standing variant, but he barely connects with it.
    • Daniel Bryan uses the diving headbutt as a signature move, though he does it safely and never really connects with his head on the bump.
  • Benoit himself fell victim to the Crossface in a WrestleMania friction match with Kurt Bending. As the two men grappled, Angle eventually defenseless Benoit in the Crossface, and Benoit got him back a few moments later when he caught Angle in the Bending Lock.
• Game-Breaking Injury: Benoit did this quite well, on both ends of the spectrum.
  • Best instance: someone injured his arm with a chair during the first-always Coin in the Bank at WrestleMania 21. He well-nigh won anyway...until Edge hit his injured arm with a chair when he was at the top of the ladder under the briefcase.
  • And, of course, there's the time he and Chris Jericho tore Triple H'south quad. Definitely a Game Breaking Injury.
• Heroic BSoD: According to numerous sources, Benoit did not take Eddie Guerrero's death well, and that information technology contributed to his Sanity Slippage.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero are the 2nd virtually remembered case in pro wrestling, behind Shawn Michaels and Triple H, especially in real life. When Eddie died, Benoit looked like he lost his blood brother. In fact, some friends say he never got over the depression of losing his best friend and may take contributed to losing his own life.
• Hoist past His Own Petard: A lot of the long-term injuries in Benoit's brain and cervix were derived from Benoit'south signature diving headbutt and his penchant for taking and giving German suplexes. In the wake of his death, the WWE began to phase out the German suplex maneuver in the same way it did for the traditional piledriver.
• Humiliating Wager: LLI ignored how Pegasus Child had been unmasked by Jushin Thunder Liger on a New Japan show, admitting merely so they could follow through with their own plans to have Villano Three unmask him.
• Kangaroo Court: Was a member of The Undertaker'due south "Wrestler's Court".
• Keep the Advantage: Later on winning the vacant WCW Globe Championship at the Souled Out 2000 PPV, Benoit forfeited the title and left WCW along with Guerrero, Malenko, and Saturn due to Kevin Sullivan's promotion to head booker beforehand, Benoit due to the "Woman" storyline and the other iii for fear of beingness collateral damage.
• Large Ham: Subversion, and possibly the only wrestler of his popularity and success level who wasn't a large ham, and didn't have a manager during his peak. ^note Benoit had managers throughout his career, just not as a main eventer — with the possible exception of his cursory run with Shane McMahon in 2000 as a challenger to the WWF Title.
• Legacy Character:
  • David Benoit, Chris' elder son and the merely survivor member of his family, wants to be a wrestler and, even more, getting the name of "Chris Benoit Jr." in-ring, co-ordinate to this interview for The Sun and later on taking part in the two-episode about his male parent in Night Side of the Ring, showing how he has reenchanted of wrestling thanks to All Elite Wrestling.
  • Chris himself wanted to be one in his beginnings, getting the first in-ring name of "Dynamite" Chris Benoit in honour to his babyhood idol Dynamite Child.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Chris was never the aforementioned later Eddie Guerrero died. It's generally agreed upon that Eddie's death is a large office of why that weekend in Atlanta happened (with Benoit's own journals confirming it), though how much in comparison to the multitude of injuries, drug abuse, and deaths of other friends of his that also played a office is something we'll never actually know. The Dark Side of the Ring besides showed that another cause could exist the strict calendar he had in WWE these years, where getting a residual (or a retirement as his wife Nancy would wanted) and a proper mourning would avert the tragedy all nosotros know.
• Loophole Abuse: Subsequently winning the Majestic Rumble, Benoit (A member of the SmackDown roster at the time) proceeded to bound to Raw to claiming for the Globe Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania rather than stay on SmackDown & challenge for the WWE title, citing that the Imperial Rumble contract didn't specify that he can't exercise that. Every year later on, this has been part of the official stipulation for the Rumble.
  • He might've done that to avoid challenging best friend Eddie Guerrero, assuasive for a program where both would hold the World Titles following WrestleMania XX.
  • His kayfabe motivation for the switch is strongly believed to be to get abroad from Paul Heyman, then-GM of SmackDown, whom guaranteed that Benoit would never get a championship shot as long as he was on the show and had intentionally put Benoit as the #1 entrant to give him the least chance of winning.
• Manly Tears: He was a sobbing mess during Eddie's tribute show. Close friends such equally Chavo Guerrero, Chris Jericho and Vickie Guerrero have mentioned he was much worse off camera.
• Masked Luchador: A Japanese version where he goes as "The Pegasus Kid" and fighting against other famous masked wrestlers equally Jushin Thunder Liger, El Samurai and Black Tiger in New Nihon Pro-Wrestling.
• Must Have Caffeine
  • Was noted by many people who knew him for his enduring honey of/addiction to java. He also constantly gnawed on coffee straws, co-ordinate to Chris Jericho. He even had his 25.five-second match confronting Orlando Jordan at SummerSlam 2005 play on a split-screen while he prepared a cup of coffee.
  • On an episode of his podcast marking the tenth ceremony of the Benoit tragedy, Jericho remarked that, before going to the ring, Benoit would potable a cup of java, and take aspirin and ephedrine to get himself charged up.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Benoit'due south death, and the circumstances surrounding it, was 1 of the factors that led to the decease of Kayfabe as it had been upwardly to that point. It was also ane of the factors in the "PG Era" starting to really gain momentum in WWE as a mode to distance the company from the tragedy.
• Pater Familicide: One of the almost infamous cases of the 2000s and definitely in pro wrestling's history.
• Pegasus: Wrestled in Japan and Mexico for a time nether the names Wild Pegasus or the Pegasus Kid.
• Power Stable:
  • (in ECW): The Triple Threat
  • (in WCW): The Four Horsemen (office of the mid-90s nWo-era version with Ric Flair, Dean Malenko and Steve McMichael) and the Revolution
  • (in WWE): The Radicals (Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn, Eddie Guerrero)
• Redeeming Replacement: His son David from his kickoff union has expressed a desire to wrestle, possibly even nether the name "Chris Benoit Jr." as a way of redeeming his family unit name in the eyes of the industry. The VICE documentary series Night Side of the Band focused on Benoit while showing the unfair blacklisting David received from the public and the world of wrestling for simply existence Benoit's son. And so we'll run across how that goes. Jim Cornette is of the stance that, while David does deserve a shot and that he's likewise a victim of Chris's actions, the inevitable walking on eggshells that would come with it may be besides much. ^note It too doesn't help that even if David were to become a shot, he looks so much like Chris that people would be reminded of him, even if David chose not to use the Benoit name.
• The Rival: Chris Jericho and Kurt Angle were his biggest opponents.
• Rule of Three: Ane of Benoit's subsequently signature moves was iii German suplexes in a row.
• Run the Gauntlet: When the Radicalz crossed over to the WWE, Benoit took on and defeated Saturn, Guerrero and Malenko 1 afterwards another in a Gauntlet match.
• Sanity Slippage: The tragic consequences of his brain damage is what ultimately defines him, deserved or not, to many people.
• Screw This, I'thou Outta Here!: After he won the Purple Rumble, he jumped from SmackDown to Raw in order to get away from Paul Heyman who had made his life hard. This was before the winner could choose who he would claiming, equally the Brand Extension was in total force, and the only way to announced on another show was via the Typhoon.
• Serious Business: Benoit'south dedication to the wrestling business organisation is unparalleled by only few. Several wrestlers have mentioned that he did five hundred squats before every show, and would do five hundred more every bit punishment when he felt like he messed up or did something wrong in the ring.
• Slasher Grinning: Just watch his entrance video. Quite unnerving, considering what happened...
• Squash Match: In the summertime of 2005, Benoit had a series of these with Orlando Jordan. The first, which lasted 25 seconds, toll Hashemite kingdom of jordan the United States Title; the subsequent rematches lasted 23.4, 22.5, and 49.eight seconds. This led to a pocket-size Running Gag in which Benoit would exam himself on whether he could do something (such every bit brand a cup of coffee or go to the bathroom) faster than he beat Orlando Jordan. The reason this happened is that WWE had Jordan beat Benoit semi-cleanly (he used an exposed turnbuckle bolt, but didn't have whatsoever outside assist). The fan reaction was very, very negative; Jordan hadn't really connected at all, and no one believed that he was anywhere near Benoit's league, so WWE made the decision to requite the fans what they wanted.
• Take This Job and Shove Information technology: The day later he won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, he asked for his release aslope Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn. Legend has it that he fifty-fifty went as far as dumping the championship in the trash (though by that point its prestige had fallen so far that many considered information technology niggling more than than a fancy prop) to show how much he wanted out. WCW was going down the drain by that indicate, a literal hell for anyone who wasn't Hulk Hogan or Kevin Nash. However, what really incited this conclusion from Benoit was the news that Kevin Sullivan was returning as head booker — the remainder, existence his close friends, followed him out of fear of being collateral damage.
• Talking to the Dead: After Eddie Guerrero died, Chris grew and then depressed and disturbed that he started writing direct to Eddie in a diary, manifestly under the delusion that he was actually communicating with him through it.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Despite being rivals, he and Bending were forced to team with each other past SmackDown General Manager Stephanie McMahon during the WWE Tag Team Title tournament in 2002.
• Toothy Outcome: The gap in his front teeth.
• Tournament Arc
  • Wild Pegasus defeated The Not bad Sasuke in the final match of NJPW'due south 1994 "New Super J Cup"
  • In 2002 he and Kurt Angle teamed together to win a tag team tournament.
• Tragic Bromance: He and Eddie Guerrero are very close friends and have died iii years within each other (Eddie in November 2005, Chris in June 2007).
• Trauma Conga Line: Benoit had xx of his friends within the wrestling business die young. Earlier Eddie, there was Brian Pillman (Benoit'southward original tag partner in WCW) and Owen Hart (who had been i of Benoit's friends dating back to his days in the Hart Family Dungeon). Mike "Johnny Grunge" Durham had been a next-door neighbor of Benoit's and had more or less become Benoit'due south best friend afterward Eddie'southward passing. He would also go over to the Benoit abode and break up arguments between Chris and Nancy — and he died in 2006, less than a year earlier The Tragedy.
  • Benoit'south old tag team partner from Stampede Wrestling, Biff Wellington, died on the aforementioned day, simply his expiry was overshadowed, plain, by that of Benoit.
  • It's been mentioned several times, especially on Chris Jericho's podcast, that Benoit broke down when he heard that Large Boss Homo had died (they'd met in WCW), crying to the effect of "I can't stand seeing all my friends die anymore!" (Some other friend of his and Eddie's had also died a few months prior to Bossman in Mexican wrestler Black Cat).
  • This is a reason why the Benoit tragedy however generates and then much controversy to this day. Benoit had numerous personal issues involving his family unit, his mental health, and his physical well-existence, and that was why Eddie's expiry is by and large considered to be his breaking point, since Eddie was The Confidant to Benoit, as said by the human being himself. With Eddie gone, Benoit'due south life spiraled downwards, and thus any of those aforementioned bug could exist blamed for what happened if not all of them. And since fans will never accept conclusive prove as to why, exactly, he did what he did, the contend will continue until either the tragedy fades from memory (unlikely) or the wrestling business concern no longer exists (just as unlikely).
• Trouser Space: Benoit would store Kurt Bending's gold medals within his tights later stealing them from him during their feud in 2001.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: His oldest son David ◊ is the spitting image of him.
• United nations-person: The nature of Chris Benoit's decease has caused WWE itself to essentially erase Benoit from history (except in situations where they cannot avoid having his proper noun come up up, such as event results and championship histories).
  • Title histories don't stop them. In a magazine chronicling every WrestleMania, while every other match lists who wins the match, the entry for WM20 states that Triple H lost the Globe Heavyweight Title in a Triple Threat Friction match.
  • Not only did Montel Vontavious Porter win the United States Championship from Chris Benoit only a month before his passing, but he held on to it long after, all the way until April the next year. This whole time, however, information technology was never said just who Porter won the title from, just that "he won it in a 2/three Autumn Match at Judgement Solar day".
  • Triple H and Shawn Michaels utilize the Crippler Crossface from time to time, and several wrestlers nonetheless occasionally utilize the diving headbutt.
  • WWE has since advertised the main event of WrestleMania twenty as a match featuring Shawn Michaels and Triple H to avert mentioning Benoit anywhere on the cover.
    • In a similar move, when WWE released the initial match listing for the Emptying Chamber anthology DVD, the listing for the third Elimination Chamber match - which Benoit was involved in - only mentioned that Triple H won the match. An updated listing from weeks earlier the DVD's release showed that the match was listed in full (with Benoit's proper name), and UK retailer Silvervision confirmed that the match was included in its entirety, making it the first WWE DVD since Benoit's death to include one of his matches. Several lines from the commentary team that painted Benoit in a positive light were edited out (and since Benoit was a face up for much of his WWE career, all of the comments were technically positive unless one of the commentators was playing a heel), but across that, no substantial edits were made.
  • The Best of SmackDown DVD set has a video summary for the Fatal 4-Fashion TLC match from May 2001. Aside from a very brusk shot at the offset, Chris Benoit was edited out. He was tag team champs with Chris Jericho at the time. And on peak of that, they won the match. The package about makes you believe that Chris Jericho beat out the Dudleys, the Hardys, and Edge and Christian all on his own.
    • As well, when the inaugural Money in the Bank match is highlighted either during WrestleMania season or in July for the Money in the Bank PPV, Benoit is completely absent from the video packages, with some baroque camera angles used to ensure his presence is minimized. If you know what color tights he is wearing, yous might be able to catch a frame or two where his legs are visible.
  • The episode "The Fall of WCW" of the WWE Network serial the Monday Dark Wars did show limited footage of Benoit and have Jim Ross'south commentary call him past name, but he was not mentioned in the actual series.
  • Benoit IS included in the most recent edition of the WWE Encyclopedia, though his entry ends with Randy Orton defeating him for the World Heavyweight Title at Summerslam 2004.
  • Unexpectedly, a more than contempo book past WWE that chronicles its history, not only has a blurb mentioning Benoit, but the blurb explains his death past murder-suicide.
  • His matches are on the WWE Network, most of which are shown in their original unedited forms simply a parental informational warning is shown before a program that features him. The ECW title friction match he no showed earlier his death has been edited to remove whatever commentary mention of him. His tribute evidence is replaced by the internationally aired version of the aforementioned scheduled program showing some World Title matches. Some PPV posters which featured him have new artwork not showing him. That said, trying to plug his name in the search engine yields piffling results, and the matches he's featured in never mention his name in the clarification/match list for the specific show; for instance, his WWE title challenge against Kurt Angle at the 2003 Imperial Rumble is titled along the lines of "Kurt Angle in a WWE Championship friction match" or "10 in a Y stipulation match for Z" with no mention of his name.
  • Fifty-fifty the fans tend to not acknowledge him, although this seems to be done more equally a parody of WWE united nations-personing Benoit than anything else. On some forums, he'll be referred to as 'Crispen Wah' or 'Kris Penwa' so as not to apply his name. Other name replacements include [Redacted], Hardcore Holly and Stevie Richards. This oftentimes leads to ridiculous statements such equally saying that Wrestlemania XX'southward primary effect was a singles match between Shawn Michaels and Triple H which ended in the title being vacated when Hunter started tapping out in the eye of the ring to nothing.
• Worthy Opponent: Kurt Angle and Chris Jericho.
• Wrestling Family: His wife Nancy was a prominent valet in ECW and WCW during The '90s. His eldest son David is also training to be a wrestler during The New '10s.
• Wrestling Psychology: Benoit was hailed as one of the best in the business in this area.

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