THQ ordered to remove Chris Benoit from Smackdown vs. Raw 2008

[Melkane]

-- The latest WWE video game was almost complete when it was ordered to extract Chris Benoit from it. There were a lot of problems in this because they can't just so easily delete him from the game, especially considering that game so far in the process. Nonetheless, the feeling was that it would be a p.r. disaster if they released the game with Benoit as one of the star characters. The video game's team pretty much had no choice but to remove Benoit from the game.

Source: -- Rajah.com -- More Backstage WWE News, Benoit's Video Game Status, Signs Confiscated



Hopefully they leave his signature moves in the game so we can at least create CAWs of him. It's awful what the guy did the last days of his life but it doesn't change his influence in wrestling over 20 years of career. I don't think it's right to completely act like he doesn't exist and the media has already made WWE so paranoid they blur out his name and image....

Melkane Reviewed by Melkane on 07-21-2007. THQ ordered to remove Chris Benoit from Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 -- The latest WWE video game was almost complete when it was ordered to extract Chris Benoit from it. There were a lot of problems in this because they can't just so easily delete him from the game, especially considering that game so far in the process. Nonetheless, the feeling was that it would be a p.r. disaster if they released the game with Benoit as one of the star characters. The video game's team pretty much had no choice but to remove Benoit from the game. Source: -- Rajah.com -- Rating: 5

[shaan04]

yea man i been saying that since day number one. When they took every thing off the wwe home page about him.

[Weedhound]

Funny how slaughtering a bunch of innocent people has those kind of consequences.

[Melkane]

I just don't understand the logic behind this.

I mean seriously if the last minutes, days of someones life they have a mental breakdown, go crazy and do bad things that suddenly everything the rest of their life that they accomplished..all the good they did should be forgotten or nulled?

As far as I'm concerned, the crazy psycho that murdered the Benoit family is not the same man mentally that we wrestling fans knew and admired. A Benoit without a mental breakdown most likely would have never commited such horrid acts. None of us were there that weekend, none of us knows exactly what happened. Therefore instead of erasing Benoit from history we should remember him for the good things he did.

[Weedhound]

Atually....if that is what had happened I would be more sympathetic. The fact is the man took drugs, cheated at his work and did all sorts of other thing morally shitty......killing his family was the last. It's like saying Charlie Manson is a great guy.....sometimes. It just doesn't cut it imo..... a littbit of good does not cancel out that kind of bad.

[Melkane]

The majority of wrestlers do some amount of steroids, Benoit had only a medicinal amount of testosterone in his system along with some pain killers. Pain killers are also highly common among Pro Wrestlers as well due to having to work while injured a lot.

Cheated at work? Never heard anything in that regard, the man prided himself in his work with wrestling it was his life. I've only heard on how hard he worked all the time throughout his career to be one of the best. The only bad thing I heard of him doing was reports of him and his wife having marriage trouble/getting into fights over the years.

[D.Boone]

i used to be a benoit fan and im gonna have to agree with weedhound on this all the respect i ever had for benoit is completely gone. from what ive read benoit has been a lil off in the head for quite some time hes been abusing these performance enhancing drugs for a long time and other drugs like xanax and hyrdocodone his wife tried to divorce him in 2002 for abusive treatment but for some reason she dropped the case? sounds kinda like she was scared for her life then 2. benoit was a great wrestler but thats just his in the ring persona because all this time he really was a bad guy.

[Weedhound]

Taking STEROIDS forbidden in his sport (or any sport) makes him a cheater. Period. I would imagine at some point someone asked him if he took steroids and I'm guessing he said no.....wow.....that would make him a liar. His wife (and apparently the children as well) had xanax found in their systems at autopsy.....the theory is that he drugged them before he killed them. Sorry but that doesn't sound like a spur of the moment thing to me. And now you're mentioning domestic violence which I didn't even know about.


Everyone remembers what they want about people. In my view "because everyone else does it" is one of the poorest excuses ever. I'm sure that you and I both will remember him in our own way and the entire thing is extremely tragic. I think if he had avoided the steroids alot of his problems would not have occurred. Therefore....in my view.....he chose his own path and hurt many innocent people along the way. His family aside.....how many honest wrestlers did he fight and win against while on steroids? Why should they lose to someone who cheats?

I'm sorry....but I just don't see it the same way as you.

[jaGerbom]

it was bound to happen. imo WWE is just a place for all rednecks to enjoy some bullshit then go home and kill their families.

no offense to anyone.





i fucking hate wwe.


EDIT: I dont see how taking steroids gives anyone in wwe an advantage...i mean....all the fights are pre determined and planned out. They're pretty much actors. emirite?

[D.Boone]

it was bound to happen. imo WWE is just a place for all rednecks to enjoy some bullshit then go home and kill their families.

thats gotta be the worse stereotype for a wrestling fan ive ever seen infact most fans of pro wrestling probably wouldnt be what you consider redneck. wrestling fans come from everywhere they are diverse and they arent all a bunch of idiots who think its real most of them know its all just for entertainment but thats the fun in it you know its all just a show but you still go cause its fun and a good time.