Seriously... he is more than just a guy that murdered his family. Why is that is all that people are going to say about him?
Austin - Wife beater
HBK - coke snorter
Bret - cheated w/ Sunny
Eddie - Druggie
And do we refer to Austin as... oh look the Wife beater is advancing. Or Eddie as the druggie that is moving on. Bret as the womanizer? HBK as another druggie? No we give them respect. Yeah what Benoit did was horrible... but good fucking grief it doesn't erase the 40+ other years of his life. It doesn't erase the 20+ years of his career in the ring where he was one of the most celebrated wrestlers inside of it. He was one of the absolute best inside of that ring. And yet people wanna take the WWE route and act like... oh this guy Benoit... he never accomplished anything he never did anything but murder his wife. That's all he is. He gave his fucking life for the business. l those concussions, severe concussions, undiagnosed concussions, not to mention WCW wasn't the safest work environment. Case and point... Sid had an obvious broken leg, seriously broken. Both tibia and fibula snapped, he was holding his leg up and the bottom half of his leg was freakin just dangling to the side and he had to lay there in the ring, take stomps from Steiner, and then wait and wait and wait until Ric Flair came out with the special guest which wound up being Animal. Yeah they were late. So the guy breaks his leg and has to lay in the ring for about 5 minutes before receiving any kind of medical attention. Does that sound like a safe work environment? Goldberg lost a ton of blood cause they wanted him to break the glass off a limo with his bare hands/arm and that glass cut him bad. Very badly.
Point is... Benoit is a lot more than just a guy that murdered his family. I doubt everyone will come around to accepting that... but hopefully over time more and more people can see that he was actually an incredible in ring performer and will STOP just saying... oh there is the guy that murdered his family.
