And what makes it worse is that you had to question for the better part of the day whether this was just another cheap storyline.
WWE wrestler Chris Benoit was found dead yesterday in his Atlanta home along with his wife Nancy and son Daniel. First reports claim that there may have been a homicide involved. Questions still need to be answered.
My hope is that Benoit didn't do anything to his family - wrestlers in the business know of Benoit's love for his family. If this all turns out to be something Benoit did or even planned, it will break many hearts and stir plenty of anger.
A three-hour retrospective on Benoit's career was aired last night, in place of the McMahon "memorial service" that was scheduled. How ironic that a storyline death has been replaced with a real-life set of deaths.
How the WWE is going to recover from this, I am not sure. They were already taking some serious heat from fans and critics alike over the McMahon storyline I referred to here last week. This male soap-opera (which is all it's turning out to be) is getting a tad too gruesome for my taste these days.
If it's worst-case scenario... then it's truly senseless what transpired in suburban Atlanta. Utterly senseless.
No more can be said.
