Professional Wrestling (WWE, TNA, CZW, etc)

[Adiens]

I was wondering if there any other people on this board who are fans of pro wrestling?

[Sobek]

im not particularly, though sometimes i watch it to get cheap laughs thier imprecision. and my favourite thing is the soapy like stories that come with it, good laughs there

[Adiens]

Yea, it is good for a chuckle. It used to be far more interesting, and would have you on the edge of your seat. Unfortunately the WWE is mostly cheesy now ^_^'

But TNA is pretty good

[Adiens]

For those of you who don't know, the wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife and seven year-old son then himself a little bit less than a month ago. This came out of completely nowhere. He was scheduled to win the title at a Sunday night pay preview, however he called in Saturday night saying there was a family emergency. He killed his wife on Saturday night, his son on Sunday morning, and himself on Monday afternoon.

He sent various "disturbing" text messages to fellow wrestler, and close friend Chavo Guerrero. The text messages consisted of the location of the guard dogs, his current address, and informing Chavo that the doors were unlocked. Nothing more. All messages came from both Chris and Nancy's (his wife) phones.

Chavo had the police do a welfare check on Benoit and his family. It was visible that Nancy's hands and feet were bond at a point and that she had been strangled. Daniel (Benoit's son) was given a drug that would make one extremely calm and unalarmed to any dangers. Benoit strangled his son with a wrestling choke hold. Benoit hung himself with no note, however, there were bibles placed beside all the bodies (a sign of remorse).

Benoit was not on any drugs at the time these events took place, however, a few weeks prior to these incidents Benoit was pushed to take steroids (as most wrestlers are). He took 10 months worth of steroids in a period of two weeks, and some how was able to pass the so called "strict drug testing" that WWE administers.

So he was not on steroids at the time of the murders/suicide, but because he had taken so much steroids prior to this it screwed up his testosterone levels. Essentially making him insane with rage from the high amounts of testosterone. Whenever he felt a slightly evaluated emotion it would cause him to black out, which would explain on how he was able to calm down even to place bibles.

Yea...so that's it. *sigh*

At first my theory was that he accidentally killed his wife during a game of Erotic Asphyxiation (because his wife was into that sort of thing), freaked out and killed his son out distress of not wanting his son knowing how he died.

Mystery solved. Hooray :\

14 wrestlers have died this year under the age of 60. That's horrible!

[[Haley]]

I liked wrestling from 2000-2004. Basically when Team Extreme, E & C, The Dudley Boys, DX, etc. were around. Those were my favorite WWF/WWE years, ya know before it got cheesy and soapy just as previously stated. I kind want to get into TNA since it's more hardcore (I know it's not terribly hardcore, but I know what I mean) than Raw is now, but I just can't seem to keep my attention on the channel long enough to figure out a new wrestler or an exciting match.

Whoa! So that's the ending to the Chirs Benoit saga?? ....Well, it makes sense. But it is very terrible.

[Adiens]

Yes, I miss wrestling for it's glory days. I keep watching in hopes that it might return to that. There is talks that WWE/WWF will if they become too afraid of the competition that would be caused by TNA, which is moving to a two hour time slot on Thursday night SOON.

Not to mention there are some new wrestlers that are really worth while like Christopher Daniels (TNA), Samoa Joe (TNA), Abyss (TNA), CM Punk (WWE), Kevin Thorn (WWE), Eric Young (TNA), and a few others...

Yea, I was completely bummed about Benoit, but I am kind of glad that he wasn't just "some psycho" that some people were believing he was.

Within the last few years about 20 WWF/WWE wrestlers (and former wrestlers) have died under the age 50. That's pretty bad.

[[Haley]]

Yay! I hope they return to the the good old days! ....Perhaps I should give TNA another shot...I think I've heard of Abyss and CM Punk.

No, he's most definitely not 'some psycho' and I hope everyone will learn that soon. I feel sorry for him in the sense that he shouldn't have been forced/pushed to take steroids, but he should've known better. Still though, all the blame shouldn't be shifted onto him.

20 wrestlers?! Gosh, that's just not right. That just shouldn't happen.