Written June 30, 2011
By Ray The Rambler

Hey, welcome to the third edition of my weekly column. Last Saturday, it was the fourth anniversary of the tragedy deaths of the Benoit family. So I will be talking about anything from his debut in wrestling to his death. Pay attention for those of you who didn’t know Benoit that much. So lets begin this column on ‘’ The Rabid Wolverine’’. .

Chris Benoit was born on May 21st, 1967, in Montreal, Canada. He was trained by Stu Hart in the infamous Hart Family Dungeon. He grew up idolizing the Dynamite Kid and based his ring style off of the Dynamite’s. He made his debut in 1995 wrestling in theCanadabased Stampede Wrestling promotion. In real life, he was married to Woman. She was a valet in ECW and WCW. On June 25, 2007, Chris and his family were found deceased in their home.

Wrestling
During his career he had won 32 Championships, promotions including New Japan ProWrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and finished out his career with World Wrestling Entertainment.  Over his successful his career he is a two time World Heavyweight Champion (When World Titles had prestige). In 2004, with WWE, he won the Royal Rumble match, and is one of two superstars to win the match from entry number one; other being Shawn Michaels. Benoit had gained recognition as being one of the most respected, talented and technical Superstar in the WWE. His last WWE appearance was while Benoit was with the ECW brand, run by Paul Heyman. But that’s not what the idea of this was about, it was just a brief gimmick to remind you of Benoit’s wrestling greatness.

Accomplishments:

ECW, WCW, & WWE/WWF Title History:

WWF/WWE

World Heavyweight Championship

3/14/04 WrestleMania XX – beat Triple H and Shawn Micheals

Intercontinental Title

4/2/00 WrestleMania 2000 – beat Chris Jericho & Kurt Angle

5/8/00 Raw – beat Chris Jericho

12/10/00 Armageddon – beat Billy Gunn

7/29/02 Raw – beat Rob Van Dam

U.S. Title

8/21/05 SummerSlam – beatOrlandoJordan

2/19/06 No Way Out – beat Booker T

10/13/06 SmackDown – beat Ken Kennedy

World Tag Team Title

5/21/01 Raw – with Chris Jericho beat Steve Austin & Triple H. This is the match where Triple H tore his quad muscle.

4/19/04 Raw – with Edge beat Ric Flair & Batista

10/19/04 Taboo Tuesday – with Edge beat La Resistance

WWE Tag Team Title

10/20/02 No Mercy – with Kurt Angle beat Edge & Rey Mysterio to win the tournament for the new title

WCW

WCW World Championship

1/16/00 Souled Out – beat Sid to win the vacant title. Benoit left WCW after this match.

U.S.Championship

8/9/99 Thunder – beat David Flair

12/19/99 Starrcade – won title via forfeit

Television Championship

4/30/98 Thunder – beat Booker T

5/2/98 Nitro – beat Booker T

9/13/99 Nitro – beat Rick Steiner

WCW World Tag Team Championship

3/14/99 Uncensored – with Dean Malenko beat Barry Windham & Curt Hennig

6/10/99 Thunder – with Perry Saturn beat Bam Bam Bigelow & Kanyon

ECW Tag Team Titles

2/5/95 – with Dean Malenko beat Sabu & The Tazmaniac

But, sad thing about Benoit is that in my opinion from what I gather from reading on internet wrestling forums to reading articles on websites, most topics related to Benoit is that he is a murderer. When you hear the name Benoit you think murder. But, as you read just above this part of my column, he was a world class prowreslter.

On June 25, 2007, Chris and his family were found deceased in their home. When I found out later that day, I was in shock; a cold shiver went down my spine.  So, I was sad and was curios what happened. So I made sure I tuned in for the following Raw after his death, the whole show was a tribute to Benoit celebrating his colourful and successful career. They didn’t say what happened to him and his family on the show. The following ECW show, Vince McMahon announced that we will never hear the name Benoit on WWE programming again. So it was just a matter of time until we found out what happened, he murdered his family and killed himself.

When I found out what he done, I didn’t quite know what to expect. I didn’t believe or I couldn’t imagine that Chris Benoit would do this. But it was, he did a terrible thing. However, I don’t think it was fair that WWE completely forget his legacy. Benoit still dedicate 20 years of his life to prowrestling. For the last 4 years now, not once have we heard the name ‘’Chris Benoit’’ which is unfair in my opinion. Are we suppose to forget about epic moments like him winning the Royal Rumble in 2004 and lasting 62 minutes? The answer should be no, but WWE think not.