For all of you hating on the Benoit fans, you have to understand what Benoit meant to his fans.
Benoit was not The Rock or Hulk Hogan; he wasn't 6'6". He was only 5'11", he was kind of ugly, and not very charismatic. He was told through out his career that he would fail, because so much of wrestling is trash talking.
Benoit busted his ass for 22 years, and never gave it less than 100%. When I was younger, he gave people like me a hero to believe in. Someone who busted their ass, and overcame adversity to reach the pinnacle of their field. He was a technical master, and that was enough. He wasn't hip, he wasn't cool, he was just the best.
Put John Lennon in the same situation; if he'd pulled a murder suicide, would his music not still be worthy of respect? If Tiger Woods shot his woman, and threw his baby in the river, would he cease to be the most talented golfer ever?
I'm not approving of what Benoit did. I'm hurt, and apalled. At the same time, Benoit was a hero to me, and though he may not have really been the man I thought he was, the fact that he carried himself that way, and I believed in him, and millions of fans believed in him says something.
As of Thursday, Benoit was not a murderer. That's what we're celebrating. Where he was for the first 40 years of his life, not the last 3 days.
As for those of you dissing on wrestling as an occupation, I could give a ****. What does the opinion of a bunch of 13 year old pimpled dickweeds mean to me in any area other than comic books. The fact is, you should love wrestling, since pro-wrestlers are the closest the world has to real super heroes.
If my comments offend you, well...too bad. That's how I feel.
