According to Atlanta’s Fox News, drug agents have raided the office of Doctor Phil Astin. Drug agents apparently obtained the warrant after finding Dr. Astin’s name on the prescription bottles found in the Benoit’s home. This comes on the heels of the news that Benoit stopped by the doctor’s office on Friday “just [...]

The press release below includes the text messages sent by Benoit. Although the WWE doesn’t name who the text messages were sent to, we can probably guess that Chavo Guererro and Dean Malenko were the likely recipients.
There is a more detailed version of the timeline here.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WWE Shares Internal Timeline And Details
Relating To [...]

Did anyone watch this last night? I will admit, I did not.

Thanks to contributor BigDaddyBlue and poster sean for bringing this up. CBS Sportsline posted a list of wrestlers who have died before their time. Italicized text is sean’s.
sean: What events like these always bring up is the negative effect of the wrestling lifestyle. I wanted to cut and paste something BDB put in [...]

Thanks to Poster D-Mac for this info from the The Observer.
Most of the wrestlers and employees were incredibly shaken up and had a very hard time dealing with things. Vince himself made the decision to run Smackdown and ECW tonight without any angles, just straight wrestling matches. The creative team was emotionally and physically wrecked [...]

With the tragedy of the past few days, a distraction is definitely in order. The best place to find comfort is by thinking about the future of wrestling. With that in mind, who is going to be the next break out star in the WWE? Edge, Cena, and now Nitro are the world champions. Guys [...]

Seriously — what the f*ck?
Chris Benoit and Family Found Dead
I’m speechless and sad, to say the least.

Besides the good main event, Vengence can be wrapped up with one word, UMAGAAAAAA! The man has arrived and the fans are begging to cheer him. It wasn’t just tonight. Umaga has impressed me for sometime now and he has something about him that I believe is a true star quality. Tonight, Umaga was turned [...]

Everyone has a moment where they get so annoyed with wrestling that they actually contemplate never watching it again. I am sure a lot of people feel that way about the Mr. McMahon death angle. However, it doesn’t annoy me that much. Most things in wrestling don’t bother me. I get more annoyed at watching [...]

I have been watching wrestling for many years and nothing surprises me anymore. I believe my last and final straw was when Vince ran the God angle last year, but in many ways it happened before that. I have held off my comments on the whole Vince is dead angle for a week now, and [...]