What would have happened? The Taker would have won and would still be 20-0. The WM where he faced a couple jobbers in a handi capped match rarely gets mentioned, if beniot faced him, it wouldnt get mentioned either.
WM =THE SUPER BOWEL OF WWE?
only problem with youre post is that it wasn';t a couple of jobbers. Atrain was upper midcard and tag specialist, and his partner was BigShow. No matter what you think, Big Show can't be classed as a jobber, especially at the time.
OKAY, time to chime in about my feelings regarding benoit:
hiding his work and history in ring fits with wwe's nonconfrontational and appologetic policies of the current publicly traded company that is embracing a child friednly and non controvercial product.
however that might not be the right thing in terms of truth and respect for their past and workers.
Sports are rife with athletes who get involved in these types of situations. Someone talked about how gagne's killing his roommate wasn't as important because it had 1/8th the media coverage and that the rumors of snuka killing his girlfriend in the 80's are also lesser events due to the lack of coverage. But let's look at something that made the benoit case look like average evening news: OJ Simpson.
There has never been a more covered event of a post active athlete committing/being accused of committing a crime then the OJ case. Months before it went to trial, mere days/hours after it broke in the media, everyone had an opinion. I'm not going to get into the details since anyone over 15 knows them, but in the end he was found not guilty in the eyes of tHe law, but a civilian court found him responsible for the death of his ex wife and her new boyfriend/fiancee. Yet even with everything that happened, and all that has gone on since then, the NFL didn't remove him from the HOF, they don't gloss over his on field records and accomplishments. TV stations don't edit out his scenes in the movies he was in when they are aired.
Hell, there have been dozens of NFL's who have been involved in such things and people constantly forgive them and let them off the Hook. Ray Lewis killed someone, Plaxido Domingo shot up a night club, Michael Vick had a dog fighting ring and yet they all continued to play and get lavished with love and attention by fans and the people in control of the NFL.
Personally, I find Michael Vick far more discusting and disturbing then anything Benoit did. At least benoit did have a potential cause beyond his control in what he did, while Vick did it for amusement and money. I find the fact that Vick and Lewis were welcomed back with open arms into the NFL for more worrisome then if WWE would just admit to Benoit's role and history within their world.
I'm not saying there should be a Benoit DVD set praising him without any mention of the events, but if they did something that showcased his major matches, throw in some commentary and interviews detailing the damage his actions caused himself through years of substance abuse and repetitive blows to his head, and donate the proceeds to the family and to research like Chris Nowinski's brain damage group, then I would not refuse or tear them apart for doing so. I can look back at what he did and recognize his value as an entertainer while regretting the effect his work had on him and his family.
I feel that Benoit was likely in a place in his mind, were he saw no out for himself. He must have realized that he years were catching up on him and soon he would have to step back or at least lighten his load of work. And as a competitive guy, as so many of his colleagues stated when it happened before the full news came out, he likely couldn't handle that. He had to know that he wasn't the most marketable of people and wasn't comfortable enough in public outside of the ring to go the Hogan route, and wasn't equipped for a commentating position. So he saw his days in the spotlight coming to an end and wondered what he could do once he had to retire. He potentially thought that he would not be able to cope or survive without his career that he had worked so hard for. And he reached a conclusion where the only thing he could do is end his life. But he might have thought that doing so would be too cruel for his wife and son. Leaving her to cope alone with their child would be too vicious an act, and his son would not be able to understand why his father was gone and that his being dead would be too much of a hardship for them both. So he came to the mistaken conclusion that the best thing to do was to end all their lives to spare each the hardship and pain of the others loss.
There is a known medical/mental condition that causes these types of thoughts. It has been classified and documented to have been the cause of many deaths over the years. It mainly affects men, but has been known to cause woman to murder their own families for similar reasons. Benoit's case fits a lot of the criteria for this situation, which is known as Family Annihilators. Even prior to the events, benoit's friends would speak about how benoit seemed to want to be in control of everything his family did, down to making his son dress in a mini suit/tie all the time and limiting his wife's outside company. So add that to the issues of damage to his brain by 20years in the extremely physical world of professional wrestling, and you can get a decent picture of what might have been going through his head.
That's how I view benoit. A tragic figure who deserves better then to be ignored. He was as much a victim as his wife and son, and we should be honoring his sacrifice instead of hiding him away. If he had only killed himself, everyone would talk about the tragedy and how great he was. if he had killed anyone other then his family, it would be passed off and he would be forgiven. but because it was his wife and son, he's tossed aside and treated like a pariah. it's time to let go and forgive.
athletes, wrestlers or 'real' sports, have done far worse and been forgiven in the past, so why can't benoit?
