Some of the online wrestling fans are making a concerted effort to grab the "worst fanboy" title and keep it for a good long while. Check out these excerpts:
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Originally Posted by Michael Bauer @ 411wrestling
Let me be point blank here. If you are the WWE or any fan who says they now have no respect for what Chris Benoit did for the last 22 years, but have respect for Eddie Guerrero, RVD, among others… you might say that I am calling you out as a hypocrite. You are going to tell me you have no respect for a man who gave everything to the business for 22 years with no issues EVER except for now, but yet you respect those who should have never been employed in such a public view. You tell me you have no respect for Benoit, but you respect Rob Van Damn and Sabu, who were arrested for having drugs on them and were allowed to keep their jobs. Some role models those two are. You have no respect for Benoit, but you love what MVP has done lately, forgetting that the man was in jail for a ten year sentence for kidnapping and burglary. Oh, let me not to forget to mention that bodysuit is to cover a certain Malcolm X tattoo he has. You can have no respect for Benoit, but you can respect Eddie Guerrero, Brian Pillman, and every other wrestler who died because they were drug addicts and alcoholics, whether they died directly to it or from the lingering effects that led to heart attacks. Chris Benoit until this past weekend was a gentleman outside the ring, he wasn't an asshole like Randy Orton or Kurt Angle, two men who could NEVER hold a job anywhere because of how many sexual harassments suits would be thrown in their faces. So to tell me you can't respect what he did anymore because of this one incident outside the ring, but you can respect all the men listed above with no questions asked, you are nothing but a hypocrite in my eyes.
For all of these people I listed above, including Chris Benoit, I respect what they do in the ring and I thank them for putting on a show for us and risking their lives. As for everything else, I personally don't care what they do outside of the show they provide us with. I don't care how big or small the infraction outside the ring, I only care about what happens on my television and in the squared circle. Chris Benoit, I still respect you and I will never stop respecting you because of what happened.
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As a note, Rob van Dam and Sabu are habitual pot users, Eddie Guerrero was a recovered drug addict, Randy Orton is known as an arrogant douchebag and Kurt Angle has problems with steroids. Apparently these are all equatable with murdering your wife and child with your bare hands. Oops, it wasn't murder, it was an "incident".
Then there's this guy, whose article has the byline of "Who are we to judge? A tribute to the man I called my hero"(!):
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Originally Posted by Armando Rodriguez @ 411wrestling
To me, Chris Benoit deserves to be in the WWE Hall of Fame. Chris Benoit deserves the tributes he is getting. Because that man meant a lot to a lot of people. One mistake, as big as it is, should not overshadow your entire life. When it's my time to die, I only wish for people to remember me for all I did on my life, not the mistakes I made, but all of my life. I know must of us do. So let's do the same, shall we?
So in spite of all that has happened, I am not afraid to say this: Chris Benoit, you where my hero and I shall remember you for every good match, for every chop, for every flying headbutt, for every crippler crossface and more importantly, for every tear I dropped at the end of that Wrestlemania. Because for those lasting minutes, wrestling was real.
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But the prize has to go to this guy:
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Originally Posted by Lunatic on some other board
I dont think it's denial as much as what I'm gonna personally choose to believe, but I do not think that Chris did it.
If anyone asks me personally Im gonna say I think it was set up to look like a murder-suicide, and people are gonna think I'm just crazy or a conspiracy theorist but I cant say I really care, it's what I strongly believe at this time (will it change if other details come to light? maybe.)
I dont see why Chris Benoit would do anything like this, especially the Chris Benoit all these people described etc... dont see it.
Yes, sounds insane on my part but it's not like it's impossible and has never happened (or did not happen).
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Yikes.