>dudes working themselves into a shoot and bawling on camera over him >Regal's just like "this whole thing sucks but we don't know what really happened so I'm not gonna deify him"
Most likely, he's a known abuser of drugs and alcohol. He was actually fired from WCW because he got so drunk on a plane that he pee'd on a stewardess.
>He just did an interview that gives some insight here. According to Regal, he was ready to do a heartfelt tribute, but as he was walking in to do this, JBL was walking out. According to Regal, as they were chatting for a moment, JBL said something like “you think he had anything to do with it?” Regal said that was the first moment he started to entertain what actually happened, and 30 seconds later he filmed this as all kinds of shit was suddenly spinning in his head.
>I just came here after seeing that interview. Everyone should go check it out. This tribute is him reeling from the shock, and it was JBL who walked into him on his way out of this room, who planted the seed in his head that Chris might have done it. Here, Regal is a wreck, confused and spaced out from the day he's having and being blindsided by what JBL had suggested just seconds before shooting this. He didn't 'know' anything at all.
>Regal’s moral compass was on full display here. He may have loved Benoit and respected the hell out of him, but he didn’t feel comfortable enough to shower him in praise. This really shows the depth of Regal’s actual character as a human being. A lot of guy’s just go through the motions (like a lot of us) but Regal stays savvy & observant. He sensed something was horribly wrong
>Regal recently said on his podcast that moments before this happened, as JBL and Regal crossed paths when JBL finished recording his tribute, JBL asked Regal, “You don’t think he had anything to do with it, do you?”. Regal said this question absolutely stunned him and that it hadn’t occurred to him as a possibility until that moment. This tribute is Regal moments after that conversation, trying to sort his thoughts.
>But he did murder his family and then killed himself. That really tips the scale
How? I'm not saying you celebrate the man, but pretending he somehow doesn't exist is idiotic.
If we're going to pretend that stuff that happens outside the ring matters then you need to erase Ric Flair, Hogan, Eddie Guerrero and pretty much everyone that worked before 2015.
They didn't kill their wife and child. Don't know why that's so hard for you to grasp. Do you seriously expect them to mention Chris Benoit on TV or put him in the Hall of Fame? What do you want exactly?
are you moronic?
oj almost never gets talked about and he was fricking acquitted (yes we all know he did it but at least legally) and he's almost never mentioned
only time the nfl willingly brings him up is when talking about runningback records, and thats because he had so many, even then they talk about him for 2 seconds then immediately move on
10 months ago
Anonymous
It's official. Murder is legal in the state of Los Angeles
10 months ago
Anonymous
The only one moronic here is you. They literally showcased OJ Simpson at a super bowl a few years ago. They showed him in archive footage
It's not even a question of morals, it's just that his crime was so ghastly that nobody wants to think about it. I kinda agree that it's bullshit, but I can't blame them for doing that.
Yeah Hitler had a long and successful career as a famous painter before he suddenly killed millions of israelites out of nowhere, truly shocking twist.
>Benoit was undeniably one of the best wrestlers the world has ever seen.
He's after my time, but what's great about him? I grew up with WWF and early WCW and they had larger than life personas. Everything was cheesy, epic, with good and evil clearly defined. They rarely used normal names, but then wrestling later was full of regular sounding dudes like him (Sean Michaels, etc).
>Even during the show, new info dropped every minute
Thats whats crazy, it started out as a standard memorial and then as the info came out live they had no idea if they should still be doing it and it got awkward as frick
Issue was. He didn't kill himself until long after he killed his family.
He was communicating with outside world for long time.
Eventually he kills himself. Then wellness check happens. And slowly information starts to flow out.
In WWE point of view. They talked to him yesterday. He had issues and running late. Byt he was coming to show. Then goes silent. And they don't know what happened.
Man, the whole Benoit Memorial episode was very unsettling
i was a big Chris Benoit fan as a kid but grew out of wrestling. this still shocked the frick out of me. didn't he create some weird system that would strangle himself slowly? i remember they said his brain looked like an 80 year old man with severe dementia
>i remember they said his brain looked like an 80 year old man with severe dementia
didn't he do the flying headbutt alot? that's the sort of thing they say about footballers who go crazy after too many brain injuries.
For me it was Michael Jackson's death on CNN. I was in another state on my way to celebrate graduation with a cruise to the Bahamas. Not even MJ dying could get me down.
I remember thinking it was bullshit meant to prop up Obama’s polling numbers.
It’s pretty crazy that the supposed photos of his death never leaked out anywhere nor were ever shown.
Don't know what you are saying, but he died in 2001
10 months ago
Anonymous
>HE DIED
Ok. If you say so. But he was alive. He had an agreement with Hillary Clinton that the US wouldn't kill him if he left the US alone. Biden was confirmed to be aware of the deal (when he was VP).
10 months ago
Anonymous
No, he wasn't. That's why they killed the Seal Team that "killed" him
I knew it was a fish story when they said they had already dumped the body in the ocean...
I'm fairly convinced he died of his illnesses years earlier.
> After the double-murder suicide, former wrestler Christopher Nowinski contacted Michael Benoit, Chris' father, suggesting that years of trauma to his son's brain may have led to his actions. Tests were conducted on Benoit's brain by Julian Bailes, the head of neurosurgery at West Virginia University, and results showed that "Benoit's brain was so severely damaged it resembled the brain of an 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient."[160] He was reported to have had an advanced form of dementia, similar to the brains of four retired NFL players who had had multiple concussions, sank into depression, and harmed themselves or others. Bailes and his colleagues concluded that repeated concussions can lead to dementia, which can contribute to severe behavioural problems.[160] Benoit's father suggests that brain damage may have been the leading cause.[161]
He was mess. He had nerve damage so bad his arms barely worked.
He was drug fiend. And he was crazy guy other even before everything went down.
Top it off. His hormones were shoot. Everything bad about roids. He was poster boy off. He didn't cycle them. Just cruised on roids around the year. For god knows how long.
At time of his death. His test levels were off the chart.
You had broken down crazy man. Who had bad bad brain injury. Fricked up hormonal system and broken body.
>troony has a breakdown live on chaturbate >crying all the way through the stream >high as frick on drink and drugs >/b/ gets wind of it and starts spamming the stream >starts ranting, screaming and being incoherent >manages to get shit all over the dildo >gets banned
not long after that though he eventually get kicked out of his home after setting it on fire
detransitions and spends his time between being homeless and being in mental hospitals
I saw this live as a 13 year old and laughed throughout the house after it happened. It was amazing to witness. It was probably the first crazy thing I ever saw happen on live TV.
9/11 was a weird one because it arguably took place because of the incompetence of that administration, then they got good will because of it, only to then squander it because of their incompetence. Then they capped it off with an economic meltdown that was as bad or worse than the Great Depression and whose consequences are still being dealt with today. That administration was a complete disaster.
when john cena won because he got hit with a special move and one... two... but then he kicked out and hit his special move and he won wowwwwwww i couldn't believe it and it was a crazy tv moment
when john cena won because he got hit with a special move and one... two... but then he kicked out and hit his special move and he won wowwwwwww i couldn't believe it and it was a crazy tv moment
based chad!!! enjoying things like wrestling (more like israelitesling) is totally CRINGE and GOYSLOPpilled
>all those brutal bumps he had in the ring >remember this one where albert drops him on his head and looked fricked >another in one of the TLC matches on free tv >the dozens of times he used the diving headbutt >attitude era gave no fricks about soft chairshots so you'd hear the smack HARD
And they're still doing that shit today in AEW. Kinda cool but fricked at the same time.
I remember him doing like diving headbutts to like Triple H, Randy Orton, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho, Big Show etc. Couldn’t have been too good to those guys either?
>Benoit and Eddie were my favorite wrestlers
I still remember both of them dying like it was yesterday. The shit that happened with Chris is still surreal to me.
watched 911 coverage on tv in sixth grade science class before we were let out for the day
i can't remember any specific TVisms during the gulf of time since
watching lost and bsg with Cinemaphile around 2008 was nice
I remember watching it at home on the news that morning and my mom was frantically trying to decide whether or not to wake up my dad who was working nights at the time.
Other than that, maybe the janet jackson superbowl thing?
>Chris Benoit is portrayed as an evil man who was aware of his horrible actions and deserves to rot in hell even though he was literally brain damaged and suffering from his friends dying one by one.
Most wrestlers and fighters have CTE. He wasn't unique, he was just one of the first high profile CTE cases, and Dr Omalu said the moronic "80 year olds alzheimers patient" line that people still repeat. Dr. Omalu is a controversial figure and is known to say outlandish things. Benoit was well aware of what he was doing. His wife got a restraining order against him in 2003 >CBS News has obtained a copy of the 2003 restraining order filed by Nancy Benoit against her husband Chris Benoit. In the protective order, Nancy alleges that the wrestler committed "acts of violence" and that she feared for the safety of herself and her son Daniel.
He wasn't even supposed to be home the week he killed his family. He cancelled all his appearances that week and flew 1000 miles home specifically to kill his family. He wasn't just eating dinner one evening and randomly freaked out. He had no reason to be there
Even Test had CTE and he wasn't a particularly hardcore wrestler and didn't have a long career. Everybody who has experienced head trauma will have CTE, it's just a buzzword at this point. It's obviously not the same as hardcore brain damage that impairs you. Nobody yet knows what the actual effects of CTE are. Mick Foley no doubt has turbo CTE but he's basically fine. You think Benoit was any worse than the 1000s of retired boxers who get hit for real thousands of times?
I really doubt he flew home to kill them. Not that I have a clue what happened but it just seems more likely to me he flew home with frustration or anger, something relating to their marital problems he probably convinced himself he wanted to sort out civilly but which was guaranteed to end in violence. It's a tale as old as time, husband is a drug user, drinker and domestic abuser, becomes enraged one night and goes too far, wife dies. I feel that's more likely only because it's far more common than premeditated murder.
>Mick Foley no doubt has turbo CTE but he's basically fine
I saw him at this big motivational speech in a San Diego bar in 2012, he isn't a violent moron, but he's definitely some form of actual moron, he uses the concept of Christmas as a mental security blanket to keep him from degenerating into a violent moron, and is a huge donor to FORBS to ensure the sanctity of Santa is upheld - but he's too damaged to realize it's been a Christmas-themed bath house for decades now. Make no mistake, if Mick snaps, it'll be like a tank encounter in L4D
you should do more research instead of just repeating surface level info and stuff you saw in a lame ass vice documentary that glosses over everything. he wasn't a good guy and their relationship was fricked up for a very long time
I was shitposting in /b/ the day someone shared a link to a fox news livestream of a car chase in LA or somewhere and the driver gets out of his car and blows his brains out. Cut to apoplectic shep smith freaking out because it was all shown live.
the real cherry on top of the chris benoit story is how obvious it is that pro wrestling only unpersoned him to try and avoid dealing with the fact that they give people crippling brain damage
Owen dying at Over the Edge. Sure we didn't see the fall, but Lawler's expression and voice fricked me up.
Also: >Having insomnia one night, just randomly surfing through the channels the next morning >A plane has hit the World Trade Center >Moments later >The second plane hits
I hadn't a clue what was happening.
>Owen dying at Over the Edge.
It was rough hearing Jeff Jarrett talk about it on his podcast a few years ago. How he could feel the broken boards from where Owen hit.
>I remember Colbert getting really solemn as the results came in and addressing his audience like the world was about to end
Well, you have a really shitty memory that produces false memories because Colbert hosted a taped late night show and not a news show on CBS. The election coverage that night was done by Scott Pelley, Gayle King, Charlie Rose etc
Funny that peoples brains trick them i to beleiving shit that doesnt even make sense. Like im sure this anon knows that TLS is taped and that CBS does not put comedians on their election coverage, but he was still convinced the memory is real. Sometimes im glad i have autism.
The night of the election I was tired as hell from the amount of Wendy's I ate. Just assumed Hillary was gonna win. Woke up to notifications of people freaking out, thought Hilary or something got murdered. Finding out Trump won was a genuine mindfrick. Did not think he even had a chance.
That entire show was crazy. It took me forever to get a copy of the full broadcast. Seeing the descent into dispair and madness happen in real time was wild.
i watched the ppv where owen hart died. it was never aired, iirc it was playing some montage type of thing and then all of a sudden it cut to the presenters talking about an incident that happened. they announced owen hart died in the last match and by that point i didnt even care about the match
>Zimmerman trial was a decade ago
I remember having some sort of sinus infection or whatever while that was going on so I got to see everything happening live, shit was so wild.
>2023 >still no Owen Hart fall tape >we are supposed to believe that no wrestling fan was carrying a Snoy, JVC, Panasonic or RCA hand camcorder in the late 90s
They never allow professional equipment into a venue. Camcorders back then were too big to sneak in. Also people tended to live in the moment and didn't feel the need to record every single thing. I miss it.
>Also people tended to live in the moment and didn't feel the need to record every single thing.
There's youtube videos of people recording themselves randomly at 3:00am at a gas station in the 80's but no one in the 90's had one at a WWF show?
DId you miss the first part of my post where they don't allow you to bring in certain shit oh yeah and if they see you with something that breaks the rules, they will take it from you. I was at a RAW and during a commercial break, the guy next to me got his sign taken because he made a Superman logo on it.
The WWE did not the circumstances of Crispin Wah's predicament and they had a live Raw to attend to in like a few hours.
They did the right thing in honoring Crispin Wah when they didn't know shit and were also correct in erasing him from rasslin history. You don't glorify or promote a murderer, CTE or not especially when he killed his entire family.
Vince McMahon is a god-tier heel that rasslin fans get worked to hell and back that they become contrarians.
>also correct in erasing him from rasslin history
nonsense
he's literally part of the history, you can't hide from it.
trying to hide it is cope, a rejection of reality and of rasslin itself.
Honestly I think they knew, were able to suppress the info for a day to do the memorial, then move on when the info got out
Also for what it's worse overall he was troubled but most people said he was a pretty good guy, not an raging alpha lunatic like others. He probably got fricked from drugs and CTE
>On Friday, June 22, 2007, Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy in the bonus room of their house which was being used as an office. According to the police report, her limbs were bound prior to her death, with her arms being restrained with coaxial cables, and her feet being duct-taped together. >A copy of the Bible was left by her body >Daniel was suffocated and killed in his bedroom, and a copy of the Bible was left by his body.
damn fundies
I remember in 1999 everyone was doomsaying about the y2k bug and everyone thought the world was going to end so I stayed up watching tv that night to see if anything happened and nothing did. As a 63 year old man I felt really stupid but everyone was convinced something was going to happen.
I saw 9/11 on the school news, I was late (I was always late).
87 years old and still on Cinemaphile?? My mom was so convinced we were all going to die from Y2K because of Nostradamus but in her words "we can't just stop working, we'll be normal until the end."
To be fair they spent literally 100 billion dollars updating a shitload of computers to avoid it, it was the single largest digital emergency repair ever.
>-ACK >gone for 17 minutes >dead for real for 21 minutes >Cole Miner turned babyface >Kang survived anyway and wrestled in some bingo hall 3 months later
KWAB
I remember that Evolution era of Raw and Smackdown. Triple H, Orton and Batista were the top heels and Cena, Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit were top faces. It felt like another Attitude Era after the wars with WCW were over. ECW was coming back. Playing Smackdown vs Raw on PS3 was fun as frick. Then Eddie died and then that shit with Benoit happened not too long after. I never really watched wrestling after that
Trump got a LOT of popularity in S. Korea and Japan for actually trying to make progress on N. Korea instead of just paying into useless corrupt UN programs and kicking the can down the road.
Nah, it was pretty annoying. Not even a Trump guy. You can only see the image of Trump hat pepe with the caption "cope" so many times a minute to the point that you realize this site is really losing steam. Then again that was around the time that I got permabanned and realized fricking with people gets old.
Speak for yourself brother. Dunking on people who engaged in performative rejection of empathy and rationality for four years and watching them do the same shit they mocked everyone else for while descending deeper and deeper into schizophrenic delusions and cult behavior is premium schadenfreude
I'm obviously not speaking for myself, what you're doing sounds really pathetic and youve put too much thought into something thats a big waste of time relative to whatever usually goes on here.
Was home from school that day, was laughing at all the people jumping out of the building because i didn't know it was real and it reminded me of when that guy in Titanic jumped off and hit the propeller. Oddy, i was only peeled away from the tv when my neighbor stormed in crying telling her to turn the tv off. They ere all just stunned.
I saw it happen live before school and didn't really give a shit. Then spent all day in one class watching the news. When I got home all of my shows were preempted for the news for weeks, which I hated.
Seeing the second plane hit the WTC on Good Morning America was one of the most surreal moments of my life, especially when the buildings eventually collapsed and NYC was covered completely in debris.
It’s sometimes hard to grasp that 9/11 actually happened, I wonder what it’s like for younger generations who weren’t around/don’t remember it happening?
I was 9 when it happened, and I didn’t understand why everybody was so distressed. I think I was too young/autistic to understand what was really happening.
I remember Columbine because it scared the shit out of me since I was going to middle school later that year. Every anniversary of Columbine I always thought there was going to be a copycat.
That Regal interview was chilling
>he was a good wrestler but uhhh lets just uhhh see where this goes first before praising him
JBL told him "do you think he was involved in this"
Based Bradshaw saw that shit from miles away
JBL would've said it regardless but he's lucky that he was right. Otherwise he would literally become POS #1
He is kinda piece of shit n°1.
He's a known hazer
AH LOVE IT MAGGLE
>dudes working themselves into a shoot and bawling on camera over him
>Regal's just like "this whole thing sucks but we don't know what really happened so I'm not gonna deify him"
What did Regal say?
Most underrated wrestler of all time, a real proper lad
well i can tell, that man is yellow
liver failure?
Most likely, he's a known abuser of drugs and alcohol. He was actually fired from WCW because he got so drunk on a plane that he pee'd on a stewardess.
Some YouTube comments on the interview
>He just did an interview that gives some insight here. According to Regal, he was ready to do a heartfelt tribute, but as he was walking in to do this, JBL was walking out. According to Regal, as they were chatting for a moment, JBL said something like “you think he had anything to do with it?” Regal said that was the first moment he started to entertain what actually happened, and 30 seconds later he filmed this as all kinds of shit was suddenly spinning in his head.
>I just came here after seeing that interview. Everyone should go check it out. This tribute is him reeling from the shock, and it was JBL who walked into him on his way out of this room, who planted the seed in his head that Chris might have done it. Here, Regal is a wreck, confused and spaced out from the day he's having and being blindsided by what JBL had suggested just seconds before shooting this. He didn't 'know' anything at all.
>Regal’s moral compass was on full display here. He may have loved Benoit and respected the hell out of him, but he didn’t feel comfortable enough to shower him in praise. This really shows the depth of Regal’s actual character as a human being. A lot of guy’s just go through the motions (like a lot of us) but Regal stays savvy & observant. He sensed something was horribly wrong
>Regal recently said on his podcast that moments before this happened, as JBL and Regal crossed paths when JBL finished recording his tribute, JBL asked Regal, “You don’t think he had anything to do with it, do you?”. Regal said this question absolutely stunned him and that it hadn’t occurred to him as a possibility until that moment. This tribute is Regal moments after that conversation, trying to sort his thoughts.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know what he did, nobody questions it.
Erasing him from existence is bullshit though, especially when you have serial rapists that are still celebrated by Super Fly.
Benoit was undeniably one of the best wrestlers the world has ever seen.
In the ring? Top 5 ever.
But he did murder his family and then killed himself. That really tips the scale
>But he did murder his family and then killed himself. That really tips the scale
How? I'm not saying you celebrate the man, but pretending he somehow doesn't exist is idiotic.
If we're going to pretend that stuff that happens outside the ring matters then you need to erase Ric Flair, Hogan, Eddie Guerrero and pretty much everyone that worked before 2015.
His content is almost in full in the WWE Network, it's not highligted in the timestamps.
The only thing truly edited is the ending of Wrestlemania XX
They didn't kill their wife and child. Don't know why that's so hard for you to grasp. Do you seriously expect them to mention Chris Benoit on TV or put him in the Hall of Fame? What do you want exactly?
If he was black they would have mentioned him. Look at what the football Black folk get away with
are you moronic?
oj almost never gets talked about and he was fricking acquitted (yes we all know he did it but at least legally) and he's almost never mentioned
only time the nfl willingly brings him up is when talking about runningback records, and thats because he had so many, even then they talk about him for 2 seconds then immediately move on
It's official. Murder is legal in the state of Los Angeles
The only one moronic here is you. They literally showcased OJ Simpson at a super bowl a few years ago. They showed him in archive footage
It's not even a question of morals, it's just that his crime was so ghastly that nobody wants to think about it. I kinda agree that it's bullshit, but I can't blame them for doing that.
Yeah I never understood why no one talks about Hitlers paintings, either…
Yeah Hitler had a long and successful career as a famous painter before he suddenly killed millions of israelites out of nowhere, truly shocking twist.
>millions
Those numbers don't add up, Tone
I thought they already did erase Hulk Hogan..
But I watched many of those matches. In contrast, I knew nothing about his family, so that part's not relevant.
>But he did murder his family and then killed himself. That really tips the scale
>That really tips the scale
Depends on if it was done out of malice or as a prank.
>kills family
>its just a prank bro
Only because of brain injuries suffered during his wrestling
He had dementia, dude. He wasn't responsible or his actions.
>Benoit was undeniably one of the best wrestlers the world has ever seen.
He's after my time, but what's great about him? I grew up with WWF and early WCW and they had larger than life personas. Everything was cheesy, epic, with good and evil clearly defined. They rarely used normal names, but then wrestling later was full of regular sounding dudes like him (Sean Michaels, etc).
Very fast and technical style.
It looked brutal
it looked brutal because WWE didn't give a shit about head shots
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8diwh?start=80s
This. Always looked fierce. Probably a better choice for wolverine than Jackman lel
daily reminder Kevin Sullivan killed Benoit and his family
the wikipedia shit still scares me
Was it? I thought nobody knew what exactly happened before RAW that week?
People online kinda knew.
I was in a wrestling message board and that monday was fricking wild.
Even during the show, new info dropped every minute
>I was in a wrestling message board
ahahahahahahahahahaha
My dude, were both in Cinemaphile right now.
Relax
>I was in a wrestling message board
what a fricking homosexual lmao holy shit you've never seen a vegana
nah thats u
Quite the contrary, i fricked my fair share of women, we are not afraid of sex like zoomers.
Please don't derail the thread
I know better then to fall for such obvious tricks in a wrestling thread. /asp/ basically wrote the lexicon of modern banter
/asp/ is only less terrible than the reddit wrestling community.
Full of morons than run lame jokes to the ground
asp was a shitposting powerhouse in its time
pw will forever live in its shadow
>Full of morons than run lame jokes to the ground
Wait. Where are we?
>/asp/ basically wrote the lexicon of modern banter
I thought that was /dbs/
ding dong diddly
>Son, you need to go back to school and learn trolling is an art.
Btfo
do you have any idea where you are
id actually assume guys who had the internet in the early 00s and used wrestling message boards got laid plenty and probably have children now
men and women at that time take what they can get
Now THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is entertainment.
yeah us Cinemaphile Cinemaphile chads are drowning in pussies
Not a Chad. But the user base has changed.
Most of the zoomers have impossible standards for women and are afraid of sex.
If you lower just standard just a bit, have a normal job, shower and demonstrate interest in someone, you could bag a couple of low self steem girls
this homie literally cannot fathom someone enjoying an activity that he himself does not partake in.
not everyone can handle how wild wrestling message boards get imo
I'd say you'd understand when you get older but there's a 41% you won't reach that age
You're a relic dude but posts like these contribute a lot to a thread so keep rocking
Thanks(?)
this guy telling the tale of the time he was on his wrestling message board and it got wild
Oh no. Some guy in Cinemaphile is making fun of me
ahahahahahaha you have anecdotes about times you remember from your wrestling message board ahahahah holy frick
My guy.
You got triggered by a fact about how a community reacted to this horrible crime.
no, i got triggered by you talking about your wrestling message board ahahahahahahaa
>Even during the show, new info dropped every minute
Thats whats crazy, it started out as a standard memorial and then as the info came out live they had no idea if they should still be doing it and it got awkward as frick
I remember reading the Something Awful thread as it played out and half way through they were like "Ohhh frick we're celebrating a murderer.'
Habbenings are always fun, there are things I regret being on Twitter over Cinemaphile for tbh
Issue was. He didn't kill himself until long after he killed his family.
He was communicating with outside world for long time.
Eventually he kills himself. Then wellness check happens. And slowly information starts to flow out.
In WWE point of view. They talked to him yesterday. He had issues and running late. Byt he was coming to show. Then goes silent. And they don't know what happened.
I doubt it crossed their mind what had happened.
i was a big Chris Benoit fan as a kid but grew out of wrestling. this still shocked the frick out of me. didn't he create some weird system that would strangle himself slowly? i remember they said his brain looked like an 80 year old man with severe dementia
>i remember they said his brain looked like an 80 year old man with severe dementia
didn't he do the flying headbutt alot? that's the sort of thing they say about footballers who go crazy after too many brain injuries.
say hello to the Benoit conspiracy theory rabbit hole. shit is weird
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>is that a heckin unofficial theory ?
>ahhhh help me snopes I’m going insane
I remember the exact moment they announced Bin Laden's death on CNN.
Who said first?
John Cena at the End of Extreme Rules, the announcers of the MLB game or Cnn?
Even if it was Cena I couldn't see him.
Bin Laden killed Benoit family?
I remember hearing it from Mega64
Based
I was at work in a TV newsroom that night.
Those are some sweet TVs.
Was that the HD signal?
Those all would have been the HD over-the-air feeds... still in the transitional era, hence the 4:3 file footage and HD pillarboxes.
Very cool
I used to be in MCR, a TD then a field producer...it's crazy how every single master looks the same no matter where on earth they are.
For me it was Michael Jackson's death on CNN. I was in another state on my way to celebrate graduation with a cruise to the Bahamas. Not even MJ dying could get me down.
Wasn't live but I reme,berry when they uploaded Sadam hanging into YouTube I'm 28 now so I must've been pretty young watching it.
Jesus I'm a bit druk lads don't mind me.
they uploaded that shit everywhere.
it even was in the Destructoid homepage with the caption
"Ding Dong, Saddam is dead. Let's just play some videogames"
I remember thinking it was bullshit meant to prop up Obama’s polling numbers.
It’s pretty crazy that the supposed photos of his death never leaked out anywhere nor were ever shown.
kinda makes you wonder if he really died that day
He died in December 2001.
They announced it and never memory holed it later
No he didn't. He was out falconing a decade later.
Don't know what you are saying, but he died in 2001
>HE DIED
Ok. If you say so. But he was alive. He had an agreement with Hillary Clinton that the US wouldn't kill him if he left the US alone. Biden was confirmed to be aware of the deal (when he was VP).
No, he wasn't. That's why they killed the Seal Team that "killed" him
I knew it was a fish story when they said they had already dumped the body in the ocean...
I'm fairly convinced he died of his illnesses years earlier.
The videos released after 9/11 were confirmed fakes
Just how CTE-addled was he by the time he committed the murders? Forgetting things here or there or straight up dementia patient?
C'mon guys
Pic made my month, thanks for this
>92
No
What crossed his mushy CTE brain at that moment
?t=65
I'm going to hell for laughing at this aren't I
Frick. I mean it's a nervous reaction.
But c'mon
I'm sorry anon but its such a fricking absurd and odd way to get killed
like I feel bad for the kid but its so bizzare its funny
>a fricking absurd and odd way to get killed
context? I still don't get what the father was laughing about
why are they laughing? what the frick
> After the double-murder suicide, former wrestler Christopher Nowinski contacted Michael Benoit, Chris' father, suggesting that years of trauma to his son's brain may have led to his actions. Tests were conducted on Benoit's brain by Julian Bailes, the head of neurosurgery at West Virginia University, and results showed that "Benoit's brain was so severely damaged it resembled the brain of an 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient."[160] He was reported to have had an advanced form of dementia, similar to the brains of four retired NFL players who had had multiple concussions, sank into depression, and harmed themselves or others. Bailes and his colleagues concluded that repeated concussions can lead to dementia, which can contribute to severe behavioural problems.[160] Benoit's father suggests that brain damage may have been the leading cause.[161]
He was mess. He had nerve damage so bad his arms barely worked.
He was drug fiend. And he was crazy guy other even before everything went down.
Top it off. His hormones were shoot. Everything bad about roids. He was poster boy off. He didn't cycle them. Just cruised on roids around the year. For god knows how long.
At time of his death. His test levels were off the chart.
You had broken down crazy man. Who had bad bad brain injury. Fricked up hormonal system and broken body.
i went to target and bought the last beniot action figure when that shit happened kek
are they valuable now?
like $30-$50 for ruthless aggression in box on ebay. i guess value went up a bit since they used to be dirt cheap.
I wonder what happenned with all of his merch.
i know wwe had all his shit taken off store shelf. probably sent them all to the garbage dump.
To a landfill? I don't see the company losing money
They do that all the time.
I wonder how valuable are they now
I remember I saw the news on digg and posted “murder/suicide” and got buried. Well, well…
unironically the 9/11 of wrestling, it has never recovered or will ever be the same
They pivoted hard to a PG product and some people thought whole business was over
what a coincidence that a youtuber made a video about this earlier today
Yeah. I was watching that
I still can't believe it...
Ninety Two
Qrd?
>troony has a breakdown live on chaturbate
>crying all the way through the stream
>high as frick on drink and drugs
>/b/ gets wind of it and starts spamming the stream
>starts ranting, screaming and being incoherent
>manages to get shit all over the dildo
>gets banned
Nobody cares about some random e- prostitute
not long after that though he eventually get kicked out of his home after setting it on fire
detransitions and spends his time between being homeless and being in mental hospitals
Well, I'm glad his situation has improved then.
>2015
>/b/
I saw this live as a 13 year old and laughed throughout the house after it happened. It was amazing to witness. It was probably the first crazy thing I ever saw happen on live TV.
>you now remember there was a time where people pretend like George W Bush was a good president and this was considered a major controversy
Dude had a 90% approval rating after 9/11.
He lost most of the good will with the invasion to the middle east
9/11 was a weird one because it arguably took place because of the incompetence of that administration, then they got good will because of it, only to then squander it because of their incompetence. Then they capped it off with an economic meltdown that was as bad or worse than the Great Depression and whose consequences are still being dealt with today. That administration was a complete disaster.
Eddie dying was shocking too.
True. And Benoit was crushed during the 10 bell salute to Eddie.
Eddie's passing broke Chris
pure kino
>crazy tv moments you watched live
when john cena beat the mean wrestler i couldn't believe it wowwwwww
What are you even talking about?
when john cena won because he got hit with a special move and one... two... but then he kicked out and hit his special move and he won wowwwwwww i couldn't believe it and it was a crazy tv moment
based chad!!! enjoying things like wrestling (more like israelitesling) is totally CRINGE and GOYSLOPpilled
geez these wrestling threads are almost as wild as wrestling message boards back in the day
I laughed.
Go0d joke my dude
So your mom brought a date back home tonight, is that what this is?
What are you talking about?
>all those brutal bumps he had in the ring
>remember this one where albert drops him on his head and looked fricked
>another in one of the TLC matches on free tv
>the dozens of times he used the diving headbutt
>attitude era gave no fricks about soft chairshots so you'd hear the smack HARD
And they're still doing that shit today in AEW. Kinda cool but fricked at the same time.
It's a miracle that guys like Mick Foley are alive today.
People in that era took the most unsafe chairshots
oh shit the albert clip was more brutal
I remember him doing like diving headbutts to like Triple H, Randy Orton, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho, Big Show etc. Couldn’t have been too good to those guys either?
>Benoit and Eddie were my favorite wrestlers
I still remember both of them dying like it was yesterday. The shit that happened with Chris is still surreal to me.
Most of the news channels booked any wrestlers that could find and the results were terrible.
Jericho did Larry King and it was so articulate about the case that Vince thanked him for that interview
*tiny dancer plays in the background*
So many kino moments
Trump had more kino moments than the last 12 years of democrat presidents combined and I used to be one
I remember watching PPVs with 420chan on taima
rip 420chan tried to go there a few months ago to see what it was like now and found out it finally went down
watched 911 coverage on tv in sixth grade science class before we were let out for the day
i can't remember any specific TVisms during the gulf of time since
watching lost and bsg with Cinemaphile around 2008 was nice
The green oval days
that's triggering something vague, please elaborate
The green oval was a "stream" i guess, that showed different popular shows with different memes in between.
I remember watching Lost of SNL live with all of the bros
I remember watching it at home on the news that morning and my mom was frantically trying to decide whether or not to wake up my dad who was working nights at the time.
Other than that, maybe the janet jackson superbowl thing?
Kanye doesn't care about black people
he doesn't care about anyone but himself
>Chris Benoit is portrayed as an evil man who was aware of his horrible actions and deserves to rot in hell even though he was literally brain damaged and suffering from his friends dying one by one.
at least there's still someone out there who looks exactly like him
Is he still trying to become a wrestler?
Following the tradition of becoming a vegetable and murdering his family?
he says he is been never does anything and hasnt trained yet
theres got to be some reason or some shit, like WWE paying him not to wrestle so they wont get bad press
but never does*
he was front row on AEW recently though
Most wrestlers and fighters have CTE. He wasn't unique, he was just one of the first high profile CTE cases, and Dr Omalu said the moronic "80 year olds alzheimers patient" line that people still repeat. Dr. Omalu is a controversial figure and is known to say outlandish things. Benoit was well aware of what he was doing. His wife got a restraining order against him in 2003
>CBS News has obtained a copy of the 2003 restraining order filed by Nancy Benoit against her husband Chris Benoit. In the protective order, Nancy alleges that the wrestler committed "acts of violence" and that she feared for the safety of herself and her son Daniel.
He wasn't even supposed to be home the week he killed his family. He cancelled all his appearances that week and flew 1000 miles home specifically to kill his family. He wasn't just eating dinner one evening and randomly freaked out. He had no reason to be there
Even Test had CTE and he wasn't a particularly hardcore wrestler and didn't have a long career. Everybody who has experienced head trauma will have CTE, it's just a buzzword at this point. It's obviously not the same as hardcore brain damage that impairs you. Nobody yet knows what the actual effects of CTE are. Mick Foley no doubt has turbo CTE but he's basically fine. You think Benoit was any worse than the 1000s of retired boxers who get hit for real thousands of times?
I really doubt he flew home to kill them. Not that I have a clue what happened but it just seems more likely to me he flew home with frustration or anger, something relating to their marital problems he probably convinced himself he wanted to sort out civilly but which was guaranteed to end in violence. It's a tale as old as time, husband is a drug user, drinker and domestic abuser, becomes enraged one night and goes too far, wife dies. I feel that's more likely only because it's far more common than premeditated murder.
>Mick Foley no doubt has turbo CTE but he's basically fine
I saw him at this big motivational speech in a San Diego bar in 2012, he isn't a violent moron, but he's definitely some form of actual moron, he uses the concept of Christmas as a mental security blanket to keep him from degenerating into a violent moron, and is a huge donor to FORBS to ensure the sanctity of Santa is upheld - but he's too damaged to realize it's been a Christmas-themed bath house for decades now. Make no mistake, if Mick snaps, it'll be like a tank encounter in L4D
> marry insane christgay steroid monkey
> "stop, what are you doing, honey, n-ACK"
you should do more research instead of just repeating surface level info and stuff you saw in a lame ass vice documentary that glosses over everything. he wasn't a good guy and their relationship was fricked up for a very long time
I was shitposting in /b/ the day someone shared a link to a fox news livestream of a car chase in LA or somewhere and the driver gets out of his car and blows his brains out. Cut to apoplectic shep smith freaking out because it was all shown live.
GET OFF
GET OFF
GET OFF IT!
*dies*
>Got some 'splaining to do
Benoit was framed. Kevin Dunn killed him and his family. Vince knows. Jericho knows. Everyone knows.
Sure buddy
okay but where does Neil DeGrasse Tyson factor into this?
>Neil DeGrasse Tyson
in blackface
And Gay
Marfan sucks doodoo like a penis
Look into who ordered the bowflex. Follow the paper trail.
Chris Benoit did the ultimate home workout
Sorry meant Kevin Sullivan
Kevin Big Sexy Nash needs to stop killing people's wives.
checked
Hornswoggle thinks someone killed him
He is just saying that for attention
the real cherry on top of the chris benoit story is how obvious it is that pro wrestling only unpersoned him to try and avoid dealing with the fact that they give people crippling brain damage
Not only him. The amount of wrestlers that die before 50 it's staggering
Owen dying at Over the Edge. Sure we didn't see the fall, but Lawler's expression and voice fricked me up.
Also:
>Having insomnia one night, just randomly surfing through the channels the next morning
>A plane has hit the World Trade Center
>Moments later
>The second plane hits
I hadn't a clue what was happening.
>Owen dying at Over the Edge.
It was rough hearing Jeff Jarrett talk about it on his podcast a few years ago. How he could feel the broken boards from where Owen hit.
All of this because they were trying to make about the sting entrance.
the night trump won was like a giant internet party
I've never laughed harder in my life than that night, and I'm not even Ameican
That night was fricking wild
I remember Colbert getting really solemn as the results came in and addressing his audience like the world was about to end
>I remember Colbert getting really solemn as the results came in and addressing his audience like the world was about to end
Well, you have a really shitty memory that produces false memories because Colbert hosted a taped late night show and not a news show on CBS. The election coverage that night was done by Scott Pelley, Gayle King, Charlie Rose etc
Funny that peoples brains trick them i to beleiving shit that doesnt even make sense. Like im sure this anon knows that TLS is taped and that CBS does not put comedians on their election coverage, but he was still convinced the memory is real. Sometimes im glad i have autism.
wait. didn't he do the show online or trough showtime or something?
One for the ages.
>Nate Silver getting demoted to Nate Copper, then Nate Sandstone and Nate Garbage as the night wore on
It was a great night indeed.
I laughed like a fricking moron nonstop. Then I heard Hillary was so mad she refused to concede and laughed even harder.
The night of the election I was tired as hell from the amount of Wendy's I ate. Just assumed Hillary was gonna win. Woke up to notifications of people freaking out, thought Hilary or something got murdered. Finding out Trump won was a genuine mindfrick. Did not think he even had a chance.
It's easy to forget that Trump winning 2016 was seriously viewed as apocalyptic to the democrat base and talking heads.
At 3:27 "...this may be the most cataclysmic event the country's ever seen"
Kek didn't South Park have to write a massive cope episode cause they were convinced Hillary was winning?
Never gets old
They still haven't gotten over it.
That entire show was crazy. It took me forever to get a copy of the full broadcast. Seeing the descent into dispair and madness happen in real time was wild.
had the hardest time to not have a shit eating grin at the school the next day
kek they had safe spaces set up all over the campus for the cry babies
Same with my college lel
There was some dude in my class who said Hillary had a 100% chance of winning the day before and didn’t show up to class.
Utoya massacre and Amy Winehouse dying on the same day was a bit of a bummer.
Other than that, probably or watching the Charlie Hebdo shit unfolding
Yeah, I remember.
"This zionist billionaire will fix things!"
Full moron.
it was kinda shocking for the mainstream, but not for regular americans.
that was the whole point.
Hillary was fricking hated in middle america and Trump was seen as some kind of outsider (silly, i know)
Anyone watch the Marty Jannetty episode of Dark Side Of The Ring?
i watched the ppv where owen hart died. it was never aired, iirc it was playing some montage type of thing and then all of a sudden it cut to the presenters talking about an incident that happened. they announced owen hart died in the last match and by that point i didnt even care about the match
Post the giant israelite nose one
>Zimmerman trial was a decade ago
I remember having some sort of sinus infection or whatever while that was going on so I got to see everything happening live, shit was so wild.
>2023
>still no Owen Hart fall tape
>we are supposed to believe that no wrestling fan was carrying a Snoy, JVC, Panasonic or RCA hand camcorder in the late 90s
They never allow professional equipment into a venue. Camcorders back then were too big to sneak in. Also people tended to live in the moment and didn't feel the need to record every single thing. I miss it.
>Also people tended to live in the moment and didn't feel the need to record every single thing.
There's youtube videos of people recording themselves randomly at 3:00am at a gas station in the 80's but no one in the 90's had one at a WWF show?
DId you miss the first part of my post where they don't allow you to bring in certain shit oh yeah and if they see you with something that breaks the rules, they will take it from you. I was at a RAW and during a commercial break, the guy next to me got his sign taken because he made a Superman logo on it.
I was in the crowd
Was the music really needed I bursted into laughter
Kinda stunned that Jhon wasn't shat on for stolen valor since he LARPed as a Muhreen for multiple years.
It's because he was in that terrible movie.
Did you salute?
gotta love Wrestlers playing that type of shit up
Lllamas on the loose in Arizona
Hey OP you too watched Nick Crowley's newest upload
I just found the channel yesterday because he talked about a chilean tragedy
The WWE did not the circumstances of Crispin Wah's predicament and they had a live Raw to attend to in like a few hours.
They did the right thing in honoring Crispin Wah when they didn't know shit and were also correct in erasing him from rasslin history. You don't glorify or promote a murderer, CTE or not especially when he killed his entire family.
Vince McMahon is a god-tier heel that rasslin fans get worked to hell and back that they become contrarians.
>also correct in erasing him from rasslin history
nonsense
he's literally part of the history, you can't hide from it.
trying to hide it is cope, a rejection of reality and of rasslin itself.
Honestly I think they knew, were able to suppress the info for a day to do the memorial, then move on when the info got out
Also for what it's worse overall he was troubled but most people said he was a pretty good guy, not an raging alpha lunatic like others. He probably got fricked from drugs and CTE
bro did you deadass make a video from a buffering clip the frick is wrong with you
>On Friday, June 22, 2007, Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy in the bonus room of their house which was being used as an office. According to the police report, her limbs were bound prior to her death, with her arms being restrained with coaxial cables, and her feet being duct-taped together.
>A copy of the Bible was left by her body
>Daniel was suffocated and killed in his bedroom, and a copy of the Bible was left by his body.
damn fundies
I was watching the night Owen died and they just kept the show going. Even as a kid who still thought wrestling was kinda real it was a trip.
the OJ chase. easily.
also, when Arsenio went off on the gays for trying to interrupt his show.
I remember in 1999 everyone was doomsaying about the y2k bug and everyone thought the world was going to end so I stayed up watching tv that night to see if anything happened and nothing did. As a 63 year old man I felt really stupid but everyone was convinced something was going to happen.
did you just say you're in your 80s?
I saw 9/11 on the school news, I was late (I was always late).
87 years old and still on Cinemaphile?? My mom was so convinced we were all going to die from Y2K because of Nostradamus but in her words "we can't just stop working, we'll be normal until the end."
To be fair they spent literally 100 billion dollars updating a shitload of computers to avoid it, it was the single largest digital emergency repair ever.
I think this guy made a typo and he's 63 right now. That's still old as frick to be browsing a hellhole like this place.
oh no. there is old people in my private internet club
Grandad?
I want to get into wrestling but i can't enjoy the fakeass fights. is there a way i can just watch the arguments, face-offs, trash talking, etc?
I watched Jerry Lawler having a heart attack. It was messed up.
>-ACK
>gone for 17 minutes
>dead for real for 21 minutes
>Cole Miner turned babyface
>Kang survived anyway and wrestled in some bingo hall 3 months later
KWAB
Daniel Bryan is basically a vegan Chris Benoit.
They even recreated the whole Wrestlemania main event with him
Watching Christian Eriksen have a cardiac arrest live on tv and the hour following where we didn't know if we just watched a man die
not as kino as England's lions vs Italy
I still wanna know how that storyline with Vince getting blown up in his limo would've played out
Wow, you guys remember things from 2016? I didn't know they had TVs back then
who still had cable in 2016?
I do
I remember that Evolution era of Raw and Smackdown. Triple H, Orton and Batista were the top heels and Cena, Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit were top faces. It felt like another Attitude Era after the wars with WCW were over. ECW was coming back. Playing Smackdown vs Raw on PS3 was fun as frick. Then Eddie died and then that shit with Benoit happened not too long after. I never really watched wrestling after that
>remembering when the cops magdumped on the wrong car
I remember the threads that came from all of this.
>Can't corner the Dorner
Good times.
didnt they shoot up a couple asian women delivering news papers in a silver pickup when they were looking for a blue car?
It’s wild that this, the Boston Marathon attack, Ed Snowden and the Zimmerman trial were all in the same year.
Trump got a LOT of popularity in S. Korea and Japan for actually trying to make progress on N. Korea instead of just paying into useless corrupt UN programs and kicking the can down the road.
for me it was jackie Cinemaphile
For me it's the guy doing the sound effects
Watching the North Hollywood Shootout was genuinely insane.
When Ukrain was happening and news were interrupted by adds
lol we really are living in a dystopia, a boring one at that
2020 election was a lot of fun, all the butthurt and 2 weeks posting
meh
Nah, it was pretty annoying. Not even a Trump guy. You can only see the image of Trump hat pepe with the caption "cope" so many times a minute to the point that you realize this site is really losing steam. Then again that was around the time that I got permabanned and realized fricking with people gets old.
Speak for yourself brother. Dunking on people who engaged in performative rejection of empathy and rationality for four years and watching them do the same shit they mocked everyone else for while descending deeper and deeper into schizophrenic delusions and cult behavior is premium schadenfreude
I'm obviously not speaking for myself, what you're doing sounds really pathetic and youve put too much thought into something thats a big waste of time relative to whatever usually goes on here.
I can smell your axe wound from here
I remember seeing Bud Dwyer give his farewell speech.
Shit blew my mind.
blew his mind too.
Norm McDonald had a bit about this in his failed pilot on Comedy Central
9.11 at the cafe at work
Germany pulverizing Brazil in football. Not even a fan, but it got big, you don't lose 7:1 everyday
9/11.
Was home from school that day, was laughing at all the people jumping out of the building because i didn't know it was real and it reminded me of when that guy in Titanic jumped off and hit the propeller. Oddy, i was only peeled away from the tv when my neighbor stormed in crying telling her to turn the tv off. They ere all just stunned.
I saw it happen live before school and didn't really give a shit. Then spent all day in one class watching the news. When I got home all of my shows were preempted for the news for weeks, which I hated.
>DO NOT MESS WITH THE NFL
ICP did a kino video about it
what an awful song. Juggalos are fricking trash
Seeing the second plane hit the WTC on Good Morning America was one of the most surreal moments of my life, especially when the buildings eventually collapsed and NYC was covered completely in debris.
It’s sometimes hard to grasp that 9/11 actually happened, I wonder what it’s like for younger generations who weren’t around/don’t remember it happening?
it worked as intended on you
I was 9 when it happened, and I didn’t understand why everybody was so distressed. I think I was too young/autistic to understand what was really happening.
What about Columbine? Any oldgay here?
I remember Columbine because it scared the shit out of me since I was going to middle school later that year. Every anniversary of Columbine I always thought there was going to be a copycat.
i was 7 so unfortunately no
the internet was kinda newish for this sort of info and the amount of myths around the shooting were incredible.
the whole shooting of a cristian girl was pure bullshit
Michael Jackson dying, since he was about to have a massive comeback tour and was very obviously going to have a fatal heart attack onstage