I watched it last night and it was rough, especially the Eddie stuff. I feel like they could've done a whole episode just on Eddie but I get how important his death was to Benoits story. Viki had me crying.

Also for the non wrestling fans who watched it, this was the perfect time (and why the story is just now being told by those closest to it) because Jericho, Malenko, Chavo, Viki, and Jim Ross have pretty much been employed by WWE until the past year or 2, and theres ZERO chance WWE would've allowed them to do the interviews while employed. I'm kinda shocked they were able to use WWE footage to be honest.

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Posted by teke184

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Member since Jan 2007

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Posted on 3/25/20 at 10:28 am to BCLA

I think they have had a working agreement to get footage for various matches throughout the series. This just happened to be a case where this is footage that the WWE pretends never happened.

I’m watching the Moolah one and there is a ton of WWF clips such as the infamous Spider Lady match with Wendy Richter which was effectively the dress rehearsal for Montreal.

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Posted by Brosef Stalin

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Posted on 3/25/20 at 4:20 pm to BCLA

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I'm kinda shocked they were able to use WWE footage to be honest.

It wasn't a lot. Probably fell under fair use since it was for a documentary.

I followed this story pretty close when it happened so there's wasn't much new for me but it was neat to see the crime scene photos. I had never heard about Chris beating Nancy, or that William Regal lived in the same town and knew about it. Didn't know WWE had shunned David Benoit but I've seen pics of him backstage at WWE events so it can't be that bad.

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