That's b.s.! The tribute was for the wrassler/entertainer Chris Benoit, not the private individual.

I strongly disagree with an "apology".

Not all the facts were in last night before the show went on the air, and I think it should just be left as it was......no further mention.

I agree with the previous comments - despite what happened Benoit was a hero for many fans for many, many years and the fans deserve to have their closure. No apology is needed.

I agree. It was a tragic event for sure. Give a tribute for the performer he was, his actions in the ring, not outside it. Guess they're trying to retcon everything he did now by basically distancing themselves from him.

So, now he's no longer marketable, they have no use for Benoit anymore. Still, tragic. God have mercy on his soul.

Burn in Hell Douche Bag!

I don't think that he should have to apologize. Maybe, he should just explain to the audience that the tribute was done before knowing how he died. That's all. I would not go into it more than that.

An apology is unfortunately necessary because those who don't even know anything about wrestling other than it is scripted are going to complain and say the WWE knew that benoit had done something, they are glorifying a murderer/monster, etc. WWE is going to get all the hate because it is always going to be Vince McMahon's fault when a wrestler dies or does something as awful as what happened with Benoit. The wrestlers are never to blame apparently.

I agree with Viktor!!! Wrestlers have two lives, and personalities! We never knew Chris Benoit personally, we only knew his in ring persona. And that's what was celebrated last night. I have deep sorrow about the whole situation. But I choose to remember Benoit inside the ring. And I pray forgiveness on the soul of the person we didn't know outside the ring.

Murdering 2 ppl kinda cancels out all the good he's done in or out of the ring. It's like inducting OJ into the Hall of Fame. He's a disgrace to the sport and doesnt deserve a tribute. The tribute, in hindsight, was a terrible mistake and it's appropriate that McMahon apologize.

THE SHOW IS ON AT 10 PM EDT TONIGHT ON SCI-FI CHANNEL

This apology is pointless. We still lost a great wrestler and one of the best ever. His career was celebrated and should've been, no matter the circumstances. They can move on from here, but why just erase Benoit from history?

just stupid the way the rest of the world has to react.

Benoit the personal "man" and I use that term as loosely as I can turned out to be a real you know what and that is being as nice as I can be under the circumstance. The tribue was, like Viktor mentioned, was for the wrestler who was great. Don't get the two confused. Vince McMahon is not to blame for this. Even if he was, which is wasn't, how the heck can even he watch ALL the wrestlers 24/7? Point is he can't. If he knew, I bet you everything he would have done everything in his power to stop it somehow someway to A) make sure this tragedy never happened and B) so, like it is right now, the company would not go through another steroid thing in the media. So in other words, burn forever Benoit the private person (I will not call him a man for killing an innocent woman and child) but live forever Benoit the wrestler and if there is 9 level of hell, Benoit is digging the 10th level as we speak all by his lonesome. Rest in peace Nancy and Daniel. Godspeed in your new journey.

its tuff to make a coment 1 side of me hates him for wat he did to his family an 1 side of me is a fan of the wrestler chris benoit its tuff to say the only thing i can say is why

I don't understand how people could be so overly-sensitive. WWE tries to do something good by giving a tribute to Chris Benoit, and though they had heard the rumours that he had murdered his wife and child himself, there was still a strong likelihood that he was himself murdered. In fact, as far as I understand, they still have not ruled out him being murdered. But the WWE hastily put together a tribute, and it then it would've been even harder to change in right before the show. In fact, if it wasn't a tribute to Benoit the wrestler, I don't know how they could've spent 3 hours. One thing that I uncertain about though: Obviously we never knew Chris Benoit, and though he was apparently the murderer of his child and wife, why would he do such a thing? It goes not only beyond the nature of most human beings, but all the wrestlers had something pretty good to say about Benoit. I also don't understand why he would've missed a PPV, if wrestling really was his life, like everyone said. And how could he be in a rage, yet place bibles by the beds of his wife and child? If he was in a rage, why did he kill his wife, then kill his child quite a while later? If something was so wrong with Chris mentally, wouldn't the WWE, and its superstars, who knew him quite well, have picked up on it? It just doesn't add up, I'm sorry. I know people can sometimes live double-lives, but the way they described him being all about respect, even to the point of telling the story of when he forced a guy to do squats after he disrespected Shawn Michaels, that just doesn't point to a guy who would murder people like he did. And he couldn't have been on steroids, or was likely not on steroids, because WWE had administered a drug test on April 10, 2007. There's more to this story. I still have a lot of unanswered questions.

I agree with the majority, an apology should not be needed. Benoit was a great wrestler. Despite how awful what he did was, his career will always be a big part of the WWE legacy. From reports I have been readin regarding Benoit, he was suffering from undiagnosed insanity. It does not change how horrible what he did was, but it should be used as an awareness for people to watch those close to us to keep them from going off the deep end like he did and get them the help they desperately need.

Regardless of anything good or impressive he's done in his life he is now and forever a pathetic woman and child killer. He deserves no respect or admiration from anyone. He's a coward.

McMahon shouldn't have to apologize, but should explain that they didn't know the details before they presented the tribute.

Sorry, but there's a real lack of perspective here. What Benoit appears to have done (and I doubt the police and DA would have gone public with it unless they were certain) totally cancels out anything he may have achieved professionally.

The man murdered his wife and seven year-old son. One more time: MURDERED HIS WIFE AND SON. A twenty-year career of great matches just does NOT matter compared to that. If anyone thinks being a good performer comes close to being important in the light of that fact, then you need to rethink your priorities.

come on people. cut vince some slack!

Benoit will burn in hell for his actions to two individuals, if, after ALL of the facts are in, we know his mindset, and why he did this. The fact is, we don't know all of the facts. His judgement has already taken place in the minds of many. Who knows what demons lead him to this. That does not excuse him, but it also does not erase all of the memories that people had from his performances. He was an incredible athlete. That is a fact. He, apparently, was a a tormented monster outside his job, or became one. They are not the same thing.

I agree, that had the WWE known all of the facts before they aired their special, it would have been unforgiveable. They didn't have the facts. Remember, it was WWE, who went to the authorities to find out what had happened. They chose to remember a fallen brother. They did not know how far fell or how far he had fallen. In Canada, the replay on Tuesday, did not air. I agree with that decision.

Benoit, will, now, be forever, remembered as a monster who killed his family. We don't know why. Let's get off of our high horses and remember that we did not walk in his shoes. That will never excuse the horrible, demonic thing that he did, but, it does not mean that everything he did was the result of the demonic urge or pain or thoughts that compelled him to do this unspeakable act.

To Nancy and Daniel, God bless you and erase your horrific thoughts in those final moments. To Chris Benoit, a life in purgatory for your final actions, but also a lamentetation, that life, and the thoughts that took you to that place where your unforgiveable actions, in a few moments destroyed not only your reputation, but more importantly, the precious gift of life itself.

Idiots! Guess what; even in fantasy land murder is the taking of a human life. To idiolize a murderer is an absolute reflection of the moronic ideals and indescretions of the "fans" of Benoit. May he be judged and sentenced to the eternity that he deserves for this awful act.

I want to know why Nancy has not received a tribute on WWE TV or on wwe.com. While she was not in WWE, she was a huge personality in both ECW and WCW as "Woman". It's a shame that her contributions are being lost in all this.

I agree that he deserved the wrestling tribute last night, especially because it was before the details came out. Had RAW been tonight and the details came out all day today, that would have been a different story.

I think an apology is a little harsh but some sort of explanation is needed for business manners. If it was up to me thigns could just keep moving on without them addressing this at all because i know that they aired it before finding out the circumstances, but as always, there are some people that will bitch and whin and moan about EVERYTHING and unless the WWEwants to make itself look bad, its probably a good idea to publically adress the situation.

Thats Bull the steroids could have all been through a perscription they dont even have the toxicolgy report to know if it was ROID RAGE

Yeah, I don't believe in insanity. I mean, I do, if only to the point where I think that people who are insane are people who reason differently from normal people. But no one does something without cause. If insanity means hallucinations, I might be able to understand. If he was just a sociopath murderer who loved killed, that would be another motivation. If for some reason he thought, through twisted logic that he was sending his wife and child to heaven, I would understand.

There is some kind of motivation to this, and I want to know what Chris Benoit was thinking on his last day on Earth.

And then, as I pointed out above, if he was so "insane," how did NOBODY notice it?

Well, it worked. I have no interest in the WWE, yet here I am talking about it with my husband, who also has no interest in the WWE.

Have a tribute for his family, not for him.

Vince did the right thing with the lack of information about the Benoit death. But now that he does, Vince should rework every WWE offering to exclude Benoit.

This whole situation is very tragic. Chris Benoit the wrestler was one of the best in the "sport", and the tribute show was remembering that. Outside of the ring, Chris Benoit was obviously a very troubled person, and none of us can really ever understand the circumstances that led up to the events. I feel deep sorrow that he killed his wife and son, and yes, that is a horrible and unexcusable thing to do. Still, I believe that Chris Benoit is God's child and it is my hope that Benoit's troubled soul is at peace in Heaven with God.

As for the apology, I don't believe it is necessary.

Geez-o-Pete!

If we're going to be giving tributes to murdering athletes (but not their private identities, No, siree!) will someone tell me when the tribute to O.J. Hall of Fame Football career will be airing?

Benoit was a sick, deranged murdering psychopath and is no more deserving of a "Tribute Show" than Hitler, Hussein, Lizzie Borden...

I agree, last nights show was great closure. We saw the greatest of Benoit in the ring. I don't wanna hear an apology because its not necessary. Benoit was one of the best wresters of all time and we be remembered in that way.

I dont think anyone here is idolizing the murderer Benoit, if indeed he was the murderer, and apparently he was. All anyone is saying is that they respected him for his wrestling skill, and storyline persona, and stick-to-it-iveness for staying in the business for so long and giving them some good memories.

But I think everyone still condemns the man himself. So dont think we aren't.

And also, the WWE was really mourning the loss of a wrestler, not the loss of a man. Though some people had fond memories, that was what it was mainly about.

I think that what the WWE should be apologizing for is the position they put themselves in by pursuing the tasteless and stupid storyline of the "presumed" demise ("murder") of their Chairman (or, as VKM said last night, the character of the Chairman Vincent K. McMahon)over the past couple of weeks, a storyline that trampled on a number of time honored traditions within the wrestling business in paying respect to wrestlers that have passed (including the very recent passing of Sherrie Martel). Lets also not forget this was the same company that took a severe beating from both fans and critics by continuing with a show immediately following the accidental death of Owen Hart who fell from the rafters in front of a packed arena.

With only the most basic information available to them on Monday afternoon, the WWE found themselves with a true tragedy on their hands and rushed, in my opinion, to restore some of their image and respect (as much as this sort of entertainment can command) as a wrestling institution by honoring a person, who at least to time of the airing of the last episode of Raw, was an "icon" in the business and one of the few performers that actually could be considered a "superstar".

There are a lot of opinions above, and many more to come, I'm sure. Personally, I just don't know what or how to feel. I know that I don't want to believe that Chris Benoit was responsible. I want to believe there is more to the story (even if we never know the truth). This isn't CSI, this is real, and somethings are and, unfortunately, remain a mystery.

For now, I'm just sad. I'm sad for the loss of all three victims. I say three victims because I do hope and pray in the end that is what this is, not a murder a suicide. If I'm wrong I'll deal with those new emotions later.

Either way, today was just a little different then yesterday. Today, the world is simple a little off. Today, the world just doesn't feel right.

Shannon, What you stated is exactly the things wwe should say..and it is how a lot of people feel

i doubt that he would murdered his son and wife

All the reports indicate that the WWE DID KNOW information about their deaths prior to airing the "tribute" and they were told by the authorities to keep quiet. For that reason alone McMahon owes his viewers an apology. For those who sat through three hours last night and cried right along with the WWE family about such a "sad" event, we feel that our sympathy has been wasted on Benoit. How horrific that a man could murder his own family. Our prayers are for the souls of his wife and son...

As far as a tribute to the "legendary entertainer" that Benoit was...he CHOSE a life in entertainment...he CHOSE to use his real name in the ring...there is no separation between the man and the wrestler...they are one in the same...Once he became a "hero" to hundreds of thousands of kids around the world the man and the wreslter are no longer able to be individual from one antoher...If Michael Jordan had murdered his family in such a manner as this, we would not all be in such a rush to put together a "greatest moments" highlight reel...Benoit was an athlete and he should be held in the same regard as any other professional athlete regardless of the event or the arena in which he takes part...Now it looks like he is a murderer too and should be held in the same regard as any other murderer would be held...

How can anyone even talk about what great "closure" last night was? What is wrong with you people? This is a man who MURDERED his wife and SEVEN YEAR OLD SON!!! I don't give a crap how entertaining he was, he is nothing but a murdering scum-bag! And to even try to justify why he killed them is disgusting on your part too!! Get a backbone and stop making excuses for a psycho killer!

The Man killed his wife and son.He may have been a great wrestler but what will he be rememebered for. His wife and son did not deserved that. There is no excuse for taking a human life. He will answer to a higher power.Mr.McMahon you can apologize all you want but its to late for his wife and son.

Let me start with this Nothing...Makes... Sense!!!....It's like a Square peg and a round hole, no matter how much you push on the square peg, it will NOT Fit...I have been a Devoted Chris Benoit Fan for 16+ Years,and Nothing that has been said or supposedly 'Discovered' at the crime scene makes any kind of sense at all.... True, there was the issue of the attempted Divorce back in 2003, but apparently Nancy & Chris kissed and made up, and everything was fine. I am almost 100% convinced that Benoit is among the other innocent party's here, and that Nancy and Daniel, as well as Chris himself, were killed. For what reason?. We may never know, but Chris has expressed how much he adores family, and even a little spat would not lead to Benoit going on a rage and killing his wife and his son. You can argue all you want, but there are more than just two victims here.

All the reports indicate that the WWE DID KNOW information about their deaths prior to airing the "tribute" and they were told by the authorities to keep quiet. For that reason alone McMahon owes his viewers an apology. For those who sat through three hours last night and cried right along with the WWE family about such a "sad" event, we feel that our sympathy has been wasted on Benoit. How horrific that a man could murder his own family. Our prayers are for the souls of his wife and son...

As far as a tribute to the "legendary entertainer" that Benoit was...he CHOSE a life in entertainment...he CHOSE to use his real name in the ring...there is no separation between the man and the wrestler...they are one in the same...Once he became a "hero" to hundreds of thousands of kids around the world, the man and the wreslter are no longer able to be individual from one antoher...If Michael Jordan had murdered his family in such a manner as this, we would not all be in such a rush to put together a "greatest moments" highlight reel...Benoit was an athlete and he should be held in the same regard as any other professional athlete regardless of the event or the arena in which he takes part...Now it looks like he is a murderer too and should be held in the same regard as any other murderer would be held...

I think they should be apologizing. It is one thing that he killed his wife. But his own 7 year old son. That is too much. What on this god given earth would make you kill your own child.

I think the tribute was tastefully done. MacMahon had every eight to do the tribute.

Even if in this case Chris Benoit was the murderer of his wife and child, he still couldve and probably was a victim. I'd hate to go through the things that he went through that influenced him to such a point that it drove him to such corruption of the soul. Or I'd hate to have to live with a clinical illness, either way. Both ways, although the murder was at his hands, it probably was quite his fault. If he is not quite ill, he had free choice but must've been influenced by either some kind of hardships or abuse or something. If he is clinically ill, then of course, it might not have been his fault at all, depending on the severity of the case. It would be the result of undiagnosis.

Apology not required. Tribute was Honest and deserved, it was for what he did IN the ring. his wife SHOULD have been included in the tribute.
Does what happened erase what he did inside the ring? IF he killed them, maybe a little, but no more so than an overdose/suicide erases what a musician or actor did on stage/screen but how many of them are still glorified as "gods"???

The tribute for what Benoit was for 25+years...not what happened over the weekend. Benoit is a legend in the Wrestling world. Crippler Crossface RIP. He's with Eddie now.

I find it difficult to celebrate a man who could strangle his wife, suffocate his 7 year old child, and commit suicide. I find the whole incident disturbing. Here is someone I use to admire. Yet he commit a very cruel act.

I think every WWE fan knew something was very wrong when Raw started with the voice of Vince McMahon. The last thing that crossed my mind when Vince mentioned that Benoit and his family were found dead was that Chris was the murderer. It felt like he went home for "personal reasons" because he knew that somebody was after his family.

As a married man and father, I find it impossible to imagine what would lead a man to call off work and fly across the country to kill his family. It reads like he felt that he had to do it - very deliberate (as the WWE mentioned).

What was going through his head on that plane? What event could be so terrible to make a grown man smother his 7-year-old son? Could it have been he thought his son shouldn't have to live with the knowledge that his father killed his mother? Did he not want a witness?

This is so terrible. I agree with the investigator's statement that the details around this are very bizarre.

FUCK HIM....he killed his Family, His son.
HIS SON!!!!!This is the Real World..not WWE!
as far as Im concerned Chris Benoit is a piece of shit!!!This happened over three days. thats not Blind Rage!!!! Again fuck him!!!!!

First:
We have no clue what happened that Chris did what he did.

Second:
One bad act (even this one) does not cancel out all the good a man does in his life. (Do not mistake this as me condoning the actions, far from it.)
Third:
Chris isn't the murdering bastard that some people are portraying him to be. If he were, he'd still be alive right now. This is a man who did what he did for a reason to his wife and child. (What reason that is, we may never know.) But it's obvious from his own suicide that he felt guilty and remorseful for it. So much so that he felt the only way for justice to be served was the taking of his own life.

Chris was an intelligent and resourceful individual. If he wanted to be a brutal murderer/serial killer, he could have easily done so and gotten away with it several times over and may never have been caught.

These were the acts of a disturbed and troubled individual. He's not OJ Simpson. If he were, he would have killed his family and been on Vengeance to create an alibi for himself.

Did he abuse his wife before this incident? It's possible he did and we may find that out soon enough. If we find that he was a wife beater and even a child beater, I will condemn Chris Benoit. But if all the facts come out and we find that Chris is who we thought... A loving, decent man who ended 3 lives because of something terribly tragic in his mind, then he should be remembered for the great man that he was and NOT the tragedy that followed.

It's almost unanimous from the comments I've read. I feel Vince doesn't need to apologize for the tribute to Benoit. The WWE didn't have knowledge of what really happened. They did what they thought was right. I mean they celebrated the mans career. and it was a damn good one. I would've done the same because the man gave 120 percent everytime he stepped in the ring. So Benoit deserved that much. On a personal level I think Benoit should burn in hell for killing two innocent people. One of them being a seven year old. Drugs or no drugs, he killed his own wife and son. I don't respect any one that kills a child. May God have mercy on your soul Benoit.

I agree with kingofkingsx14 I also hate benoit for what he did, but as a wrestler I loved him, also for him to kill his child something had to happen that made him loose his mind, because no one in there right mind could ever kill there own child or any child ever for that matter and then lay a Bible by them he had to have lost his mind for somereason. I don't know it's just a bad time for wrestlers and wrestlesing fans all orver the word, I am going to love Chis Benoit the wrestler always and try to forgive Chis Benoit the person. I think we all should all try and do the same that is what God would want us to do.

I think everyone just needs to leave the wwe alone.Vince felt it was needed to have a tribute to one of the best of all time. Benoit was a great wrestler and he deserved a tribute even if for some reason he did its really no ones bussiness but for the family and friends of the benoit family and even the wwe.But it is no one elses bussiness but theirs. So just leave that alone and just let them greive. If it was your family u would want some privacy so stop being animals and LEAVE IT ALONE. I will always respect Benoit the wrestler and no vince should not apologize. Thank u Benoit for all the great moments.

I find it difficult to celebrate a man who could strangle his wife, suffocate his 7 year old child, and commit suicide. I find the whole incident disturbing. Here is someone I use to admire. Yet he commit a very cruel act.

FUCK HIM....he killed his Family, His son.
HIS SON!!!!!This is the Real World..not WWE!
as far as Im concerned Chris Benoit is a piece of shit!!!This happened over three days. thats not Blind Rage!!!! Again fuck him!!!!!

First:
We have no clue what happened that Chris did what he did.

Second:
One bad act (even this one) does not cancel out all the good a man does in his life. (Do not mistake this as me condoning the actions, far from it.)
Third:
Chris isn't the murdering bastard that some people are portraying him to be. If he were, he'd still be alive right now. This is a man who did what he did for a reason to his wife and child. (What reason that is, we may never know.) But it's obvious from his own suicide that he felt guilty and remorseful for it. So much so that he felt the only way for justice to be served was the taking of his own life.

Chris was an intelligent and resourceful individual. If he wanted to be a brutal murderer/serial killer, he could have easily done so and gotten away with it several times over and may never have been caught.

These were the acts of a disturbed and troubled individual. He's not OJ Simpson. If he were, he would have killed his family and been on Vengeance to create an alibi for himself.

Did he abuse his wife before this incident? It's possible he did and we may find that out soon enough. If we find that he was a wife beater and even a child beater, I will condemn Chris Benoit. But if all the facts come out and we find that Chris is who we thought... A loving, decent man who ended 3 lives because of something terribly tragic in his mind, then he should be remembered for the great man that he was and NOT the tragedy that followed.

But there is separation between the man and the wrestler!

He should be held accountable, and would be if he was still alive, obviously, and probably will be held accountable in death, but what the WWE was mourning was that his wrestling career was over. They were mourning that the wrestler, the entertainer, the man they knew as their friend, was gone. They were not mourning the murderer.

Look at this example:
You've done quite a few good things in your life. Your a good samaritan, you contribute to everything you are a part of, and you always put in 120%. But lets say you are in the process of doing something bad, or just did something bad, and you are hit with a stroke, and die. Would you want to be remembered for that single sin, or a multitude of good you caused? Obviously, you cant--and I cant either--imagine what it would be like to feel driven to murder, and we've never done anything that severe, but you get the point, dont you? Is a single bad deed, no matter how bad, bad enough to condemn a man?

I can't say that Chris didn't do a very horrific thing but something had to happen inside him to cause him to do this. I have watched him for years and if you watched the replay of the Wrestlemania XX where he won the belt then you saw him celebrate in the ring with his family. We need to wonder what could have happened to make him snap and do what he did to his family and himself

Benoit is not with Eddie. Benoit is with Lucifer.

Vince is between a rock and a hard place. I think he did what he thought was proper given the information he had, but we are ALL speculating as to what information he did have.

Regardless, it does not matter if Benoit had a 22 or so steller career. He wiped that out when he wiped out his wife and son.

Nothing more, nothing less. Eddie probably 3 amigo'd him straight to Lucifer.

Do not think of Benoit. Think of Nancy and Daniel for THAT is the loss here, not the loss of a murderer.

The tribute for what Benoit was for 25+years...not what happened over the weekend. Benoit is a legend in the Wrestling world. Crippler Crossface RIP. He's with Eddie now.

The apology is all about spin control and nothing more now that the WWE has to answer to stockholders.

As for the man who issues the apology, take it with a grain of salt.

After all, we are talking about someone who over the past two weeks was having memorials and tributes done to himself, much in the same way the tributes were done to the memory of Owen and Eddie when they died.

As for Benoit, I do not care why he did what he did. The answer is never going to truly satisfy us.

A 7 year old baby is still dead, smothered by someone assigned by God to protect and cherish him.

His mother will still be dead, strangled to death by her husband and partner.

I agree with a previous post where my wish is that Benoit is in the 9th circle of Hell, and digging a 10th to prepare for the eventual arrivals of other child killers like Susan Smith and Andrea Yates.

Even if it ends up being a mix of prescription pills and steroids, all it will do is allow some pundits to jump on their moral high horses to discuss the whole "steroid" issue.

No matter how you look at it, it just plain sucks.

The man is a cold blooded killer! Anyone who is dumb enough to suggest his legacy in the ring was/is more important the lives of 2 people is mental midget.

End of story.

I can't say that Chris didn't do a very horrific thing but something had to happen inside him to cause him to do this. I have watched him for years and if you watched the replay of the Wrestlemania XX where he won the belt then you saw him celebrate in the ring with his family. We need to wonder what could have happened to make him snap and do what he did to his family and himself

The apology is all about spin control and nothing more now that the WWE has to answer to stockholders.

As for the man who issues the apology, take it with a grain of salt.

After all, we are talking about someone who over the past two weeks was having memorials and tributes done to himself, much in the same way the tributes were done to the memory of Owen and Eddie when they died.

As for Benoit, I do not care why he did what he did. The answer is never going to truly satisfy us.

A 7 year old baby is still dead, smothered by someone assigned by God to protect and cherish him.

His mother will still be dead, strangled to death by her husband and partner.

I agree with a previous post where my wish is that Benoit is in the 9th circle of Hell, and digging a 10th to prepare for the eventual arrivals of other child killers like Susan Smith and Andrea Yates.

Even if it ends up being a mix of prescription pills and steroids, all it will do is allow some pundits to jump on their moral high horses to discuss the whole "steroid" issue.

No matter how you look at it, it just plain sucks.

You people make me sick! Despite the circumstances of his death, nothing changes all of the good things that he did while he was alive. He was obviously in a hopelessly depressed state of mind to decide that murder of his family and suicide was the answer.

Who the hell are any of you to judge anyone else's actions anyway, feeding on the gossip for dinner!

Fuck all of you fucking pathetic people! Judgement is far worse when it comes to the Pearly Gates, than what happened here.

Good luck getting in.......

The apology is all about spin control and nothing more now that the WWE has to answer to stockholders.

As for the man who issues the apology, take it with a grain of salt.

After all, we are talking about someone who over the past two weeks was having memorials and tributes done to himself, much in the same way the tributes were done to the memory of Owen and Eddie when they died.

As for Benoit, I do not care why he did what he did. The answer is never going to truly satisfy us.

A 7 year old baby is still dead, smothered by someone assigned by God to protect and cherish him.

His mother will still be dead, strangled to death by her husband and partner.

I agree with a previous post where my wish is that Benoit is in the 9th circle of Hell, and digging a 10th to prepare for the eventual arrivals of other child killers like Susan Smith and Andrea Yates.

Even if it ends up being a mix of prescription pills and steroids, all it will do is allow some pundits to jump on their moral high horses to discuss the whole "steroid" issue.

No matter how you look at it, it just plain sucks.

Nikki Thank you Could not have said it better!!!

IF HE WOULD HAVE JUST KILLED HIMSELF IT WOULDNT BE A BIG DEAL TO HAVE A TRIBUTE, BUT HE KILLED HIS WIFE AND 7 YEAR OLD SON. HE DOESNT DESERVE A TRIBUTE. TRIBUTING HIM IS SAYING MURDER IS OK. HE IS A SICK PERSON AND HE IS GOING TO END UP IN HELL FOR WHAT HE DID. I HAVE BEEN AROUND SOMEONE WHO KILLED HIMSELF AND IT WAS A SELFISH ACT, BUT HE DIDNT TAKE ANYONE WITH HIM. BENOIT IS NOT GOD AND HE SHOULDNT BE CELEBRATED FOR TAKING SOMEONE ELSE'S LIVES IN HIS HANDS.

Chris Benoit most certainly deserved the tribute, and an apology by Vince is a slap in the face. Pro wrestling cannot be an easy life by any means, and those guys are pushed to the limit every day. People look at them like they're super heroes, and when they fail it's like everybody forgets that they're human and have problems just like everybody else. I feel really bad about his family, and it's so sad that it happened. But until anybody reading this can get back to me and tell me they would NEVER do this, and they would NEVER snap and they would NEVER have a situation that went way beyond their control, none of us have a right to judge. Chris Benoit knows what he did and why. The rest people - is between him and God.

McMahon is "dumb like a fox." ANY broadcaster reacting to a death like this is SAVVY. Let's make a tribute. Let's make money on this. ching ching ching.

McMahon HAD to have been advised... ESPECIALLY as many muder/suicides we've seen in the news in these kind of cirumstances to AT LEAST CONSIDER that the man wasn't a murder VICTIM but the actual PERPETRATOR.

McMahon acted in arrogance expecting we the viewers would either forgive him, or not care.

USA (owned by NBC) went along with it as well.

Perhaps we should all shut off NBC/USA/BRAVO/SCIFI/SLEUTH until the entire coorporation apologizes for "whooopsing all the way to the bank." :(

- MAD in studio city, CA

Nikki Thank you Could not have said it better!!!

What could possibly cause a sane person to kill a defensless little 7 year old. So what if he had problems... who gives a rats ass? That little boy deserved to live a long healthy life. I'm sorry if that offends anyone but I hope that man has to spend eternity reliving that action, in a sane, and straight state of mind!!!!!!!! It just makes me wonder if I should continue to allow my young boys to watch these wrestlers..... How do you explain to a child that their hero is a killer????It just plain takes from the whole sport.

I think Mr.McMahon should of waited to see the true facts of the case before he cancelled Raw. We all should pray for the family of the Benoit's,and the family within the WWE. Someone said that the wrestlers have two lives one in the ring and one outside the ring. This is so true the wrestlers I personally know are good hearted people and will do anything to help whenever they can. I had the honor to be with some of the guys back stage they are GREAT people please don't judge all of them by one person who went off the deep end. I got the name Momma Dukes from one of wrestlers. That's how I found out about this tragedy he called me because he was hurting. So please don't judge all of all them by one bad apple in the bunch.

I don't feel there is any need for an apology
from WWE. They were doing what they had done for other fallen stars -- a tribute to the in-ring
performer. This was done before all of the facts were in on the specifics of the deaths.
They need to say this and move along.

Ladies and gentlemen, lets not lose focus on the fact that a woman and child were senselessly
MURDERED.

If Benoit was the man of carachter, class
and