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Hate-crime trial has a weird twist thread... Just found out? Were you drunk? Damn dude, I had no idea that you were that way. No harsh feelings though. I still think you are cool.

On this date in history: In 1998, the Phillies lost a late 8-5 lead over the Yankees to fall 9-8, on Tino Martinez's three-run homer run in the ninth and Ricky Ledee's RBI single in the 11th. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

That is a pic of Chris Benoit.

Horny humans thread... wife/husband? Does that mean you married a tranny?

No doubt. Just the same as you have to be a bit off to be a Rock Star. Anytime you are on the road more so than at home with your family... You have to be a bit different. They [the wrestlers] know this. At the same time though, they can get out anytime they want--barring they are let out of their contract early... If not, they just have to wait until the end of their contract which is generally not long to begin with.

Not all true. I think of guys like Bob Backlund, Terry Funk, Mick Foley, Sandman, Tommy Dreamer just to name a few off the top of my head. They don't all try and turn into beefcakes. Most of the great actual wrestlers did not beef up like wrestlers as a whole are trying to be sterotyped as. There are a lot of wrestlers whom bulk up in an exagerated manner to play the intimidation role. The dude is built like a house... he must be tough right? That is the angle that some wrestlers take. However, if you do notice the majority of wresters are not all jacked up.

http://www.prowrestlingfans.com/index.php?id=viewArticle&articleID=12210 This is a pretty cool comment from Booker.. -- WWE superstar King Booker sat down with KHOU out of Houston, Texas today to talk about the Benoit tragedy. Below are some of the highlights. Booker said that he knew Benoit personally and as most people in the business that knew Benoit have said, commented that he had never seen a bad side of Benoit. He noted that he knew Benoit's wife Nancy and all of his children. He characterized what has happened as completely "out of the norm and unexplainable." Booker noted that he wrestled Benoit in 75-100 matches and just recently talked to him for about thirty minutes about the wrestling business. "We're all tired at certain points, we work a lot of hours, but I never saw this side of Chris. I've never seen Chris mad. I've never seen Chris angry. He was always the guy with a lot of positive energy, always pushing the guys." He went on to tell a story of a student that came to his wrestling school in Houston, Texas to be trained. Booker said that the student arrived from Illinois, with no way to go back? and had $800 in his pocket. He revealed that the student carried around a photo of Benoit and Eddie Guerrero with him, as he was inspired by them to pursue a career in professional wrestling. "That was just the type of person he was, always encouraging people. He didn't even know this guy, but that's the type of person he was." Booker commented. When roid rage was brought up in the interview, Booker commented, "The media is going to put a spin on it, you know. We know that. WWE knows that. Did the guy last week who murders his wife and kid last week have any form of roid rage? He was a cop. This happens in any form of life. I feel like the human life is a delicate piece of equipment and everyone has their breaking point. We don't know what his breaking point was. You don't know what my point is, I don't know what your point is. We're all human. I just think it was a huge malfunction and whatever it was, we may never know. It's not for us to know. It's out of our hands and with God now." Booker said that the wrestling industry is a huge family and he?s cried and wanted to pull his hair out over the tragedy. He revealed that he loved Chris and said that he is mad to see him "go out like this. I'm pissed at him in certain ways. I wish I could just hold him for a second, but it's out of our hands. I'll be there at the funeral and tell him goodbye and hopefully see him on the other side. Hopefully, I'll find out what happened one day."

http://www.prowrestlingfans.com/index.php?id=viewArticle&articleID=12223 Road Warrior Animal appeared on Scarborough Country on MSNBC. He discussed that his brother John Laurinaitis, who is second in command for Talent Relations under Stephanie McMahon, was one of the people that received text messages from Chris Benoit before he committed suicide.

http://www.pwheadlines.com/WWE_News/WWE_Pulls_All_Benoit_Merchandise_Off_WWE_Shop_Zone.shtml PWHeadlines >> WWE News >> WWE Removing All References Of Benoit Off Web Site Reported By Shawn Moniz on Jun 26, 2007 - 10:20:10 AM In light of the recent developments that Benoit reportedly killed his wife and son, then committed suicide, WWE.com has yanked all merchandise pertaining to Benoit off of its website. All searches pertaining to Benoit on WWE Shopzone's website are now returning "discontinued". Benoit's name has also been removed from the description of the Wrestlemania XX DVD. It now reads "Triple H defends his World Heavyweight Championship against Shawn Michaels." Updated 11:35am WWE.com is now removing all references of Benoit and replacing them with traditional wrestler articles. The current top story at this time, is a WWE.com confirmation that this was indeed a double murder suicide.

District Attorney states that that Daniel Benoit was perhaps killed with a 'chokehold'. :mad:

This is crazy... As the day progresses.. it just gets crazier and crazier. To the point where I am left speechless.. I don't know.. this is unreal.

Actually knowing? I am not so sure that they did. Having an idea that wasn't confirmed yet? (like we all had here on ES) I think that is more likely. Obviously, I know as much as you do but, I am leaning more towards the latter rather than the former. But yeah.. if they did in fact know and carried out the show.. I would hope for it to end.

Not to mention placing the bibles on the side of his wife and son.

Yeah. One passed because of a weak heart. The other killed himself because he is a piece of **** who we all thought had a 'good heart' if you know what I mean. 7 years old?! No excuses.. there is no excuse in this world for a 7 year old to have to be killed by his crazy **** father!:mad:

Yeah, that was real. Not scripted. Two best friends celebrating a huge mark in their careers.

That actually is a very good analogy. I am still in shock over this.

Benoit and Eddie Guerrerro were big time friends first meeting in Mexico in 1987. Chavo is Eddies nephew.

The dude said that her feet were bound together and perhaps even her wrist. I am thinking that her wrist has something bound to it but' date=' not connecting to the other wrist. Possible. Not nessarily much informed message but, it could have been soemthing along the lines of apologizing and such which worried the co-worker.

--the bible was positioned beside the bodies. Mother and son.. not Chris. --Chris was found in the basement in a weight room. Son was in upstairs bedroom. Wife in family room also upstairs --chris killed himself with the cord from the weights. (my guess is similar to the cords on a machine like a pull down bar) __ Wife was killed Friday. Son was killed saturday. Chris was killed later on saturday. --Steroids was found but, won't know if he was on them until a couple weeks when the toxology reports come out.

--there was a bible placed next to each victim --the wife was bound by her feet and wrists. Blood under her head Wrapped in a towel with clothes on

---At 2.30 yesterday afetrnoon.. Benoit's employer called for a check in. They were concerned. They found all three bodies during that search, --It IS a double homicide/suicide. Evidence leads to believe that possible Friday that chris strangled his wife. And saturday he killed his son and sunday (not monday) he killed himself. --No suicide note. --The son was in his bed, laying dead. Asphyixiation is the known cause for the son and wife --Benoit had a lot of legal prescriptions in house. Included WERE steroids. -- The text message was true that he sent to a co-worker. Details of that will probably come to light later --No clear evidence of the wife fighting for her life.

Yes. There is truth (seems plausible.. gotta see what the authorities say) to Benoit text messaging a/some wrestler(s) during the PPV Sunday. If that turns out to be true, then he was doing that AFTER his wife was killed.

Nah. They ended the 2 o'clock news hour with that. Began the 3 o'clock hour with Benoit (just touched base on the latest--waiting on the authorities to step up to the podium) and now talking about the flooding in Oklahoma.

OMG!! Paris Hilton is free!! YES!! Who gives a ****, CNN.