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The WWE has all but scrubbed Chris Benoit from the history of WWF & WWE. I can't blame them considering he is a violent murderer, but it is still fun to bring him up from the depths of the WWE abyss once a decade or so.

It's doubly amusing to me because of my friend Jesse. And now it's story time.

What a few people fail to remember is that in their haste to honor Benoit the Monday after his murder/suicide, on Raw Vince and the production staff created a Benoit tribute show. It was basically 3 hours of WWE celebrating the life of a horrible killer. Not really funny in retrospect, but Jesse made it funny by his adamant denial that Benoit was innocent and even after the full story was revealed he changed his opinion to "He was framed." Jesse never said who framed him, just that it was a vast conspiracy.

My friend Double R loved teasing Jesse about his wild conspiracy garbage, and that Monday night Raw Benoit special that WWE aired and then pretended never happened, well Double R recorded it on his DVR. He did so not to spite Jesse, at first, but because he honestly had to work that Monday night as he was on call from his job.

Afew years go by, and Double R needed sone help moving, and as good friends we all volunteered. Double R was switching fron cable to Directv, and so he was going through the DVR, and the old WWE Benoit special was on there. Double R started playing that damn special as loud as he could on his television as we moved his stuff, and Jesse just went on and on about how he was set up and framed, and we just laughed and laughed until we could no longer move anything. We just sat there and mocked our dear stupid friend for hours until he got fed up and left.

That's my favorite Benoit memory, and why I smile when I think of Benoit.
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