Remembering The Sad News of Wrestler Chris Benoit

By Gail Nobles
6/25/2007


It was June 25, 2007 when my father called me from his job around 7:54 pm. He asked me to record the wrestling for him. I really didn’t feel like it because I don’t watch it anymore. Wrestling is not as good as it was to me back in the days of “The American Dream Dusty Rhodes“. I was trying to find a full tape so that I could record the commercials. Just before the tape stopped rewinding, I saw a still picture of wrestler Chris Benoit. The show was in memory of him, and it was WWE that aired a three hour tribute to him.


When WWE first came on, I saw Vince McMahon in the ring holding a microphone, and there was no audience. He told the news on television that there were some dead bodies found. It was the wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and his son Daniel. I thought, “The show is no fake tonight.” This was very sad news to me, and I did not know the man and his family. Chris Benoit and his family were found dead in their home. Police are investigating. You can find out more at www.wwe.com.


Still in shock, I called my father to give him the sad news. He was very disappointed. I called my brother because he likes wrestling too. He thought it might be fake. I told him that I didn’t think that they would fake about a wrestler dying on television like that. I read the Google news to him on the internet, and we both knew then for sure that the wrestling was no show that time. It was and is still a very terrible tragedy.