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Due to terrible weather and flooding here in the U.K I have been left without an internet connection for several days but it won't take much guesswork between you what my page would've been about, Chris Benoit.

For those U.K fans unaware because of a lack of internet connection and a lack of U.K coverage or fans anywhere in the world who haven't yet heard on Monday Chris Benoit was found dead. Unfortunately the tragedy isn't complete there as before Benoit took his own life he took the lives of his wife Nancy (some of you may remember Nancy as Woman in WCW) on Friday and, most upsetting of all, his son Daniel, aged just 7, on Saturday. It is thought that Benoit killed them both under the influence of steroids but at this point that is still unproven. Chris Benoit hung himself on Monday.

If Benoit had died in a car crash or from an overdose I would now be writing a wrestling eulogy telling of one of the greatest in ring performers of all time and a true professional, a man whose bouts with Angle, Bret Hart and Eddie Guerrero will live as all time classics and who holds serious claims to one of the greatest Wrestlemania main events of all time ( with Shawn Michaels and Triple H). However the circumstances make everything Benoit achieved inside the squared circle obsolete. In killing his own wife and child Benoit also, to me at least, killed his wrestling legacy as well.

Some may feel that what has happened away from the ring should have no bearing on how wrestling fans remember Benoit but I cannot share these views. I may be a massive wrestling fan but first and foremost I am a father and I cannot think of a worse crime than to kill your own flesh and blood, no matter what the circumstances.

During the bad weather and not having an internet connection over the last few days, I have watched a lot of old wrestling tapes on many of these where matches featuring Benoit. With each of these matches I found myself only able to watch several minutes of the bout and then forwarding past it, I could no longer bare to watch. Even one of my favorite bouts of all time featuring Benoit against Kurt Angle from the Royal Rumble was unwatchable.

Questions will no doubt be asked of the WWE once again, after all steroids appear to be involved in yet another WWE superstars death, but this time I feel it would be harsh to lay blame at there door. If all we have been told so far turns out to be the truth then Benoit and Benoit alone is the only person responsible, steroids or no steroids. People who excuse his actions and blame steroids would do well to ask themselves this- if some one they didn't know killed a loved one of yours would you except that as an excuse, I very much doubt it.

It's upsetting that so many fond memories are destined to be consigned to the scrapheap but sadly that 's the way it will be for this writer. My heart goes out to the family and friends of the Benoits and lets just hope that for wrestling fans this will be the last tragedy for a long time to hit them, it's just a crying shame Benoit destroyed his legacy on his way.

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