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WWE cancelled the scheduled three-hour-long live Raw show on June 25 and replaced the broadcast version with a three-hour tribute to Benoit's life and career, featuring his past matches, segments from the Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story DVD, and comments from wrestlers and announcers.
Over a three-day period between June 22 and 24, 2007, Chris Benoit, a 40-year-old Canadian professional wrestler employed by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), murdered his wife Nancy and their seven-year-old son, Daniel, before hanging himself at their residence in Fayetteville, Georgia, United States.
Chris Benoit murdered his wife and son before committing suicide over the weekend of June 22–24, 2007. Once the details of Benoit's actions became apparent, WWE made the decision to remove nearly all mentions of Benoit from their website, future broadcasts, and all publications. [37]
The next match was between Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit for the WWE Championship. Team Angle (Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin) were ejected from ringside before the match. Benoit attempted a diving headbutt on Angle, but Angle avoided the move and attempted an Angle Slam on Benoit, but Benoit countered.
Who at the 2025 Royal Rumble will join the list of people who can say they won one of WWE's biggest events? ... 2004: Chris Benoit. 2005: Batista. 2006: Rey Mysterio. 2007: The Undertaker. 2008 ...
In early 2000, Benoit, Guerrero, Saturn and Malenko headed to the WWF. In January 2000, Malenko, Saturn and Benoit left WCW along with Eddie Guerrero in a dispute with management and formed The Radicalz in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), while Douglas took a hiatus, before returning to WCW in April.
However, due to the real-life death of Chris Benoit, the show opened with McMahon standing in an empty WWE arena, acknowledging that his reported death was only of his character as part of a storyline. [26] This was followed by a tribute to Chris Benoit that filled the three-hour timeslot. [27]
However, due to the events surrounding the death of Chris Benoit, the match is rarely, if ever, mentioned by the WWE. John Powell of Canadian Online Explorer ' s professional wrestling section rated the entire event 4 out of 10 stars, which was a lower rating than he gave to the previous year's event .