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RE is a muscled up dude, and while he has shown signs of mental illness, I doubt that anything of circumstance will occur to anyone, even those that chose to ride him into the ground on several occasions. For all his faults, he was a nice guy. The kind that'd give someone the shirt off his back. But you'd have to listen to his thoughts on pro wrestling afterwards.

Neither is the Kobashi part. Kobashi beat Misawa in singles matches in the 1997 and 2000 Champion Carnival Tournaments. You're right about Kawada not being on par with Misawa, but Kobashi was positioned that way in All Japan toward the end of Misawa's run there and in NOAH, before he went down with his knee problems. I had gotten 98 and 03 from a couple of different sources. I'm pretty disappointed to discover that there's inaccurate information on the Internet. Yes, Kobashi was positioned at roughly Misawa's level in 2000 and in NOAH. But in the 90s, Misawa was the clear #1. It is always best to watch footage - and purolove.com is a reliable source for results.

Wow. I've seen her skinny before, but never meth head skinny before.

The Incredible Shrinking Man!

Someone needed some attention.

Done tonight as well.

Is that wrong for a journalist to do?

Hence why it is unprofessional to have blatant favoritism in the work place.

I doubt that he is entirely done, yet. If they only have Taker work one match a year, I suspect he can maintain that schedule for a long time unless his sustained injuries are that severe. Which makes me think - What does the Undertaker's medical records look like? I mean, Mick Foley's major bumps and bruises are documented. What are some of Taker's? * Fucked up shoulder. Rotary cuff injury. * Probably several concussions. * Broken ankle in the Hell in a Cell match. * Hip/sternum problems in early 2000. * Injured his bicep - torn IIRC. * Had his orbital bone broken. * Broken ribs. ...

Would someone mind upping that, please?

Indeed.

Are we Facebook friends? I ask cause I wrote this on my whatever it's called: "The irony behind Austin's neck injury is that he had done the same move to a Japanese wrestler back in '92. Broke his neck too." Wrote that four hours ago. I was asking cause some wrestler got all pissy that I supposedly called it the wrong maneuver and that because he's a worker, he knows more than me. "It's actually a just a reverse piledriver or a thunder driver. And that's coming from a worker."

The move that Owen used to break Austin's neck with - sitout tombstone piledriver - right?

They're gonna drop the ball down into the vent.

For all records, Benoit was an avid wrestling fan as a youth. Avid is putting it lightly too. I mean, Jericho seemed by all respects to be as equally obsessed with pro wrestling as a youth, Benoit just took the way in the door quicker because he had already been experimenting with steroids before he started training at the Dungeon. I haven't heard much "diagnosis" of his past by his parents, though. The word 'quiet' comes to mind.

Agreed on the jdw posts. I grew up reading his ballots and pimping posts too. Awesome stuff as always, John.

But your dad isn't Chris Benoit.

I've never heard about the All Japan thing - elaborate, please.

Okay, but how many of those 954 people are 1) someone as physically powerful as Benoit and 2) is rich and had a lot of rottweilers. Not to be overtly racist here, but Benoit only lived 22 miles away from Atlanta. And I'd be interested in what Benoit's medical records would look like. Surely working for something that the athletic commission watches, a person would need medical clearance to perform. Wrestlers get hurt all the time. They go to the doctors, and need medical clearance to perform afterwards. And I doubt the WWE would allow a wrestler not to prove that they're cleared - they probably have records of that. Paperwork piles up over the years, like from 2000 to 2007 when Benoit broke his neck, was concussed several times *during* a match, hurt his elbow, his shoulder, his knee, etc. It'd be interesting to see exactly how much the WWE actually and undoubtedly knew about Benoit. A man like that would have needed counseling or the every-now-and-then cautionary talk to evaluate his psychological mind frame. Unless Benoit was very successful at hiding his emotions and then over the span of a few days plot and plan the deaths of his family, which had been for all previous records, albeit a few incidents of violence with his wife, to be a very loving father and bread winner. If he managed to pull that off without the WWE, at some level, knowing, then they need to start paying for medical coverage for these guys, because I don't really believe they give a Goddamned about their employees. They have shown that for years. I just don't see a metamorphosis of that magnitude happening because of something recently done to him. I bet, if anything, if the FBI indicted the WWE for "any and all files" that they have, the skeletons would tumble out like a hoarder's living room falling down. I mean, it really boils down to one or two things - 1) the WWE knew about Benoit's mental condition *prior* to the incident or 2) Benoit was an undiagnosed sociopath and all of his friends and coworkers, bosses, agents, and family members never put several symptoms together. And if that were the case, hence the WWE needing medical coverage imposed upon them for their 'employees'.

My first thought was carbon monoxide poisoning as well because it was said that his wife or someone was ill. But that thought was replaced by, "Benoit never misses a show," and "Benoit wouldn't miss a show for his wife no matter how ill she was." Then, I got online and my worst fear was validated almost immediately when I read about how the family had been found. I knew it was Chris from that moment. So in about a half hour I went from thinking they died from poisoning to knowing that Benoit had done it himself. There was no other logical choice to choose.

Yeah, probably.

Hmm. Interesting that the finish for a one-sided interference was a no-contest. Does del Rio get to finally realize his destiny (after saying something along those lines for what, 7-8 months?) come SummerSlam because he has no other purpose interfering if he isn't. Overall, the WWE is pulling a TNA a la Samoa Joe on del Rio, but under slightly different circumstances, which will ultimately lead to the same conclusion.

I actually downplayed the quote by forgetting more than half of it... "There was already suspicion backstage about Benoit's guilt: who the hell is going to be tough enough to break into Chris Benoit's house and kill him?" Ring of Hell I've always read that as an admission of instant knowledge that something was amiss and did not fall under general circumstances. I would. And I did.

I don't understand what you've been trying to get at Jingus. It is not hard to believe that the WWE knew and still went with what they decided to do irregardless of that knowledge. I mean, as someone pointed out, "Who was going to break into Chris Benoit's house?" Then when it was reported of how they died - which I believe that WWE officials knew before the start of Raw - it shouldn't, which it wasn't, hard to connect the dots and know that something awful had happened and that Chris was responsible for it.

's mother is a whore!