Eddie’s first successful title reign ended after he revealed he couldn’t take the pressure of being champion anymore, and dropped the title to JBL. Batista looked like he was going to drop the title so he can undergo back surgery and the possibility was that Eddie was going to end up with the World Heavyweight Title, starting his 2nd term as champion. ҂ Next week’s Smackdown! main event was supposed to have a three way match for the WWE title, involving Randy Orton, WWE champion Batista and Eddie Guerrero but with today’s tragic news, it is obvious that the plan will change and most probably it will effect both RAW and Smackdown! tapings. Eddie is survived by his wife Vickie and his three daughters. After cleaning up himself from the ‘demons’, Guerrero was welcomed back in WWE in April of 2002 and has been on a roll ever since. In late 2001 he was arrested for drunk driving and WWE released him from his contract a few days later. One of the most popular – and hated – wrestling Superstars to ever step foot inside the squared circle, Guerrero – 38 years old – developed an addiction to pain medication a couple of years ago after a car accident that nearly ended his life in 1997. WWE.COM broke the story earlier today that former WWE champion Eddie Guerrero was found dead in his hotel room in Minneapolis, MN., this morning. ҂ Today the wrestling world was shocked by the death of Eddie Guerrero. All information was accurate at time of the date stamps below. I want him in the Hall of Fame.The timeline of events below are taken from the archives of and Wrestling-Online Newsletter. “I would like the WWE to remember him, at least for the good times. It’s just terrible,” David said of his father’s ruined legacy. “I asked him to retire, too.”Īfter the details emerged from the murder-suicide, WWE distanced itself from Chris Benoit and has rarely, if ever, referenced him since. “I wish he took it, or just retired,” David said. “That took a toll on him, man, when Eddie passed away? That man was his best friend.”Ĭhris was considering retirement in 2006 while he was off recovering from injuries and was offered a backstage producing role with WWE. David believes Guerrero’s death impacted his father greatly.
I’ve never spoken about it.”Įddie Guerrero, with whom Chris Benoit was extremely close, died of heart failure on Nov. I got to say ‘I love you’ one last time to him,” David said through tears. “We were just laughing and getting ready to make plans for the summer.
He said the last time he spoke to his dad was on Father’s Day 2007, when they talked for two hours. It took David seven months before he was able to move on. That was a hard day, that was a super hard day.” “I think the day it really hit me was his funeral. “I didn’t believe it for days, bro,” David said. He initially didn’t believe it and said he punched a cop when he found out. All the chair shots he took, not protecting himself.”ĭavid, now 27, says he was 14 or 15 at the time of the murder-suicide, living in Edmonton with his mom. Chris, who was 40, “had the brain of an 88-year-old with Alzheimer’s,” David said. I don’t think it was him.”Ĭhris killed his second wife, Nancy, and 7-year-old son, Daniel, before hanging himself on June 24, 2007, in Georgia. It just made my life a little easier, didn’t have to think about it. That’s what, at the beginning, gave me some closure. “He would never do that, I know he wouldn’t. It definitely wasn’t,” David Benoit told Chris Van Vliet in a sit-down, on-camera interview. Lacey Evans says she'd love to face Charlotte Flair, Ronda Rouseyĭavid Benoit, the son of former WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, recently opened up for the first time about the murder-suicide his father committed in 2007, and David is convinced Chris wasn’t himself.
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