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Originally Posted by KingOfFelt
Thing is Benoit was a bad bad dude and probably deserves for his career to be forgotten forever; however, that obviously isn't possible for a long long time. WWE is still a publicly traded company and while it might seem pretty dumb and pointless to remove him from their history books/programming it makes sense for a couple reasons:
1) The younger generation is less likely to become familiar with him. And to a degree keeping him off TV screens does allow people to forget about him.
2) They don't want to look like they are still profiting off a murderer.
Oh no, I totally agree with all of the above, but you know, probably like five years along the line, the new watchers might ponder a few things. Like, who won the WHC match at WM XX, or who won the Royal Rumble 2004, or, who did Randy Orton beat for the World title at Summerslam 2004?
Its perfectly reasonable to omit the tv matches, and the PPV matches from DVDs, 24/7, and promos, but, you know, its so to walk around the edges for so long, though the WWE have done all they could for 4.5 years, and its working for the main public.
Though you have people, like us, who talks about wrestling history and all of that and we, sometimes, somehow, manage to talk about Benoit and everything great that he did before the tragedy.