Who Killed Mr McMahon?

[snoopy1239]

Is it possible that the person who entered this information misunderstood when the wwe announced that Benoit had a family emergency? Or simply jumped to conclusions.

[Bongo]

Is it possible that the person who entered this information misunderstood when the wwe announced that Benoit had a family emergency? Or simply jumped to conclusions.

I think they just said "due to personal reasons". It's a pretty big leap to make...

[snoopy1239]

Is it possible that the person who entered this information misunderstood when the wwe announced that Benoit had a family emergency? Or simply jumped to conclusions.

I think they just said "due to personal reasons". It's a pretty big leap to make...

I'm pretty sure they used the term 'family emergency' at the sunday pay-per view.

Still, I agree, highly odd.

[Bongo]

However, Chris Benoit was replaced by Johnny Nitro for the ECW Championship match at Vengeance, as Benoit was not there due to personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy.

This is the text that is mentioned, the edit the article talks about just added the bit in bold (and obviously changed the full stop to a comma).

3 1/4 hours after the "personal issues" was first mentioned on wikipedia.

Very odd.

[bolt pp]

Why would the WWE make an announcement wikeipedia, and not on their own site or tv program?

I dont know what protocols they have to follow for such matters, them updating profiles of wrestlers on wikipedia is, i imagine, common practice and this may just be down to an administrative error, someone within the WWE press/administration dep acting impetuously without waiting for appropriate substantiation

Why would they make the statement without any proof

why would they need proof? One of their wrestlers tells them his wifes just died what are they going to say:" we're very sorry for your loss but can you make sure you fax us the death certificate when you get it just in case you're telling porkies so we can update your profile"

The fact that they posted it in this way, prior to police involvement and not having the claim substantiated further proves to me that this was just a procedure error on their part.

Why does their time line not include any mention of this, or Benoit saying his wife is dead

there is no doubt in my mind that there is a multitude of facts omitted from the chronology of their dialogue with Benoit over the weekend.
Imagine if they had a series of conversations with Benoit that were documented and logged but not recorded in which he stated" The WWE has ruined my life, you made me take steroids and its made me a monster, i'm going to kill myself " do you think they'd make that public?

[snoopy1239]

WWE can't have written the wikipedia comment. They didn't know about Nancy's death until the police found the bodies, which was 13 hours after the wikipedia comment was made.

Prior to that, they believed that Nancy simply had food poisoning.

[bolt pp]

WWE can't have written the wikipedia comment. They didn't know about Nancy's death until the police found the bodies, which was 13 hours after the wikipedia comment was made.

Prior to that, they believed that Nancy simply had food poisoning.

how do you know thats what Benoit told them and what they believed and what they KNEW?

Thats their version of events!! The WWE has been known to be a tad disreputable in the past, you dont think theres a slight chance they they may have changed their version of events just a little to minimize their involvment and extent of their knowlege?

 

[snoopy1239]

WWE can't have written the wikipedia comment. They didn't know about Nancy's death until the police found the bodies, which was 13 hours after the wikipedia comment was made.

Prior to that, they believed that Nancy simply had food poisoning.

how do you know thats what Benoit told them and what they believed and what they KNEW?

Thats their version of events!! The WWE has been known to be a tad disreputable in the past, you dont think theres a slight chance they they may have changed their version of events just a little to minimize their involvment and extent of their knowlege?

 

I'd be very surprised if the WWE didn't tell their true version of events with regards to their correspondence with Chris Benoit, especially when this is a murder investigation.

[The Baron]

If the bodies were indeed found after the comment was made then I'd agree it's pretty odd.

However if the times were off by just a couple of hours I can well believe the info was put up there without official proof. I heard the deaths were asphixiation and hanging more than 24 hours before the police said that was the case.

If I heard that way over here then I'm wikipedia would have known something about it.

The only thing that would be odd is if the comment was really posted prior to the discovery of the bodies. It's difficult to see how that could have happened.

[The Baron]

From Wikipedia:

News of Nancy Benoit's death was inexplicably posted on Wikipedia 14 hours before the police discovered the bodies. This was initially reported on Wikinews and later on FOXNews.com. The original posting reads: “Chris Benoit was replaced by Johnny Nitro for the ECW Championship match at Vengeance, as Benoit was not there due to personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy.” The phrase "stemming from the death of his wife Nancy" was added to the English Wikipedia's "Chris Benoit" article at 12:01 a.m. EDT on June 25,[98] whereas the Fayette County police reportedly discovered the bodies of the Benoit family at 2:30 p.m. EDT (14 hours, 29 minutes later). The IP address of the editor was traced to Stamford, Connecticut, which is also the location of WWE headquarters.[99] After news of the early death notice reached mainstream media, the anonymous poster accessed Wikinews to explain his seemingly prescient comments as a "huge coincidence and nothing more".[100]

[snoopy1239]

From Wikipedia:

News of Nancy Benoit's death was inexplicably posted on Wikipedia 14 hours before the police discovered the bodies. This was initially reported on Wikinews and later on FOXNews.com. The original posting reads: “Chris Benoit was replaced by Johnny Nitro for the ECW Championship match at Vengeance, as Benoit was not there due to personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy.” The phrase "stemming from the death of his wife Nancy" was added to the English Wikipedia's "Chris Benoit" article at 12:01 a.m. EDT on June 25,[98] whereas the Fayette County police reportedly discovered the bodies of the Benoit family at 2:30 p.m. EDT (14 hours, 29 minutes later). The IP address of the editor was traced to Stamford, Connecticut, which is also the location of WWE headquarters.[99] After news of the early death notice reached mainstream media, the anonymous poster accessed Wikinews to explain his seemingly prescient comments as a "huge coincidence and nothing more".[100]

I don't understand, why he would he post the comment then?

[snoopy1239]

Does anyone know if the Benoit Raw tribute show the day he was found is available anywhere on the net?

[Acidmouse]

Alot of the clips are on youtube, I bet its on mininova as torrent also.

[snoopy1239]

Alot of the clips are on youtube, I bet its on mininova as torrent also.

I'm not at one with torrents. What exactly are they, is it legal and do they put your hard drive at risk in any way?

[BigTomatoes]

 there is a 4/5 minute daily motion clip on page 7 of this thread , in the clip Benoit is seen hugging his son and wife in the ring , after winning the belt , made the hairs stand up on my body and very nearly brought me to tears.

 i was very deeply saddened with what happened to that young lad , i think if i watched it again i would definitely cry.

 rest in peace young man.