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Chris Benoit is often considered one of the most technically gifted wrestlers in the history of professional wrestling, but his name is completely erased from WWE after he committed the murders of his family, followed by suicide in 2007. It has been nearly 2 decades since Benoit passed away, but he is still not remembered by WWE.
Chris Benoit was having an excellent push since 2004 as he became the second ever wrestler in WWE history to enter the Royal Rumble match as the entry number 1 and win it. He also went on to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XX. Even after dropping the Championship at SummerSlam of the same year, WWE continued its upper mid card push.
Former WWE star remembered the demise of Chris Benoit
But in 2007, he committed the hideous crime that completely erased his name from the wrestling world. The majority of the wrestlers still hesitate to talk about him. One such wrestler had been Jimmy Wang Yang, who was active in WWE back then recently talked about the demise of Chris Benoit. Speaking on the “Cheap Heat Productions” podcast recently, he said the following;
“Usually, I say no comment to this person, you know, like I don’t care anything about his wrestling ability now. Like, what he did disqualifies him to me as a wrestler.”
Chris Benoit passed away in 2007
“Vince announced what happened. He said he found Chris dead along with his wife and his kid. I looked directly at Brian Kendrick and said, ‘Yep, he finally did it, huh?’ Like, he finally snapped and did that horrible act. And Brian—we both thought the same thing from our previous experience with him. But after that I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to think that.’ He did have this mansion in Atlanta—maybe somebody robbed him and killed him and his family. It was crazy mixed emotions at that time.”
“Then the next day they say, ‘Hey, we’re going to do a tribute show to Chris.’ My gut felt weird. I’m like, I don’t know if I want to do a tribute match to Chris Benoit. I need to see more facts about what happened. During the day, things started to leak out, and I no-showed SmackDown because I didn’t want to be part of anything associated with what happened. If I got that feeling, I wasn’t going.”
He has been completely erased from WWE
“I just didn’t feel comfortable. I had a bad feeling about what happened. I no-showed SmackDown and kind of got in trouble, but then it got cleared after everything came out. I just didn’t want to be part of it. So, personally, I don’t give a sh*t what wrestling match he did or all this other stuff. I don’t care. The last thing he did—that’s what sticks with me.”
Chris Benoit had a great relationship with a lot of WWE stars, but it is completely illegal to use his name in the promotion. They have totally erased the history of the Royal Rumble match of 2004 and also the main event of WrestleMania XX. It is highly unlikely that he will ever be remembered by WWE again in the future.
