WWE's Latest Benoit Editing Technique, Dateline NBC Working On Wrestling Story

Source: Rajah.com


-- A few readers have pointed out that in the Hall of Fame portion of the WrestleMania DVD (which was released this past Tuesday), Ric Flair's mention of Chris Benoit during his speech was edited out. Flair started running down the names of the 1998 version of the Four Horsemen, and the Benoit mention was replaced by Flair's mention of Steve "Mongo" McMichael. When you hear the speech, it comes off as if Flair said McMichael's name twice, when he really didn't.

-- Dateline NBC is looking to do a story in late June on the professional industry revolving around the one-year anniversary of the Chris Benoit double-murder suicide, reports the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. However, the story is only under consideration, and not definite. What would likely make it definite is if the family of Nancy Benoit would cooperate with the piece. The family has largely kept quiet due to the possibility of legal action.

-- Benoit: Wrestling with the Horror that Destroyed a Family and Crippled a Sport by Steve Johnson, Heath McCoy, Irvin Muchnick, and Greg Oliver, published in November 2007, is now the number one book in the wrestling category at Amazon.ca.

-- Speaking of Chris and Nancy Benoit, it would have been their birthdays yesterday. They both shared the same birthday. Chris would have turned 41 and Nancy would have turned 44.

Damn! Did the WWE looks like fools or what. They edit Flair's speech where he mention Benoit and those idiots replace the benoit part with with the Mongo part, inadvertantly making Ric Sound like a fool on DVD. They sucks. Vince, its about damn time that you go ahead and admit your own fault in this by telling everyone that your Wellness Policy wasnt working.

They shouldn't have edited Benoit's name out for that.

Nancy's birthday is May 21st as well, I did not know that. I knew it was Chris Benoits but not Nancy's as well. Editing Chris Benoit's name out just seems to be going to far, it's just going to make Flair sound stupid. At the rate the WWE are going the next Tagged Classic they relese will have both the WWF signs and Chris Benoit blured out. Fair enough not liking him for what he did I can understand that but they are just trying to erase his name from the history of wrestling, everyone's still going to remember him either for his wrestling career or for his last few hours on this planet.