Book on the Benoit Incident in the works...
 

ECW Press Announces CHRIS AND NANCY by Irvin Muchnick, Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide, for 2008 Publication

July 16, 2007 - ECW Press announced today that it has signed author Irvin Muchnick to write a book about the sensational case of wrestler Chris Benoit.

The book, entitled CHRIS AND NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling's Cocktail of Death, will be published in 2008.

Muchnick is author of the hot-selling ECW Press book, WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal (site: http://wrestlingbabylon.com; blog: http://muchnick.net/babylon, and has appeared extensively in media coverage of the Benoit case. The appendix of WRESTLING BABYLON documents the premature deaths of nearly 100 wrestlers over the last generation from drugs and related aspects of the pro wrestling lifestyle. That information has been cited both by commentators and by a member of Congress urging investigation of the billion-dollar pro wrestling industry.

Michael Holmes, senior editor of ECW Press, said: „We are delighted to be publishing what certainly will be the most authoritative and best-written full-length account of the Benoit tragedy and its implications. Irv Muchnick's WRESTLING BABYLON is both one of the most important and one of the most commercially successful books in our company's history. We expect CHRIS AND NANCY to break more new ground.‰

ECW Press (site: http://ecwpress.com) was recently recognized by Publishers Weekly as one of North America's fastest growing and most diversified independent publishers.

Information about and updates on CHRIS AND NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling's Cocktail of Death can be followed at http://benoitbook.com.

We all know there is gonna be a bad made for TV movie about this whole thing in the near future too.

A tad soon to start blatantly publicizing with such carefree zeal, eh?

(The tone is what throws me more than anything.)

Not suprised

most likely on lifetime.

Can we at least wait until the bodies are cold in the ground first before we start exploiting their memory for cash? :mad:

Probably a "Ripped from the Headlines" Law & Order episode also.

...wait... ECW press? WTF is that?

I read the title to this thread wrong, and thought you were asking us to create fantasy bookings for the benoit tragidy. I'm dissapointed now.

ECW press is a publisher that does lots of wrestlings and sports biographies. They brought us Wrestlecrap, The Death of WCW, Chris Jericho's book about spandex or whatever, and a handful of others. They are reconizable because every cover has 4 pictures on them.

Naw. In a lifetime movie, Nancy would have bought a shogun, saved Daniel in the nick of time, and made Chris tap to his own finishing move.

Also, Benoit would have raped her in the WWE's ring live during the draft, and the entire audience (All male, obviously) would have cheered it on.

...and WWE is ok with them calling themselves ECW?

No, there would have been some metrosexual weenies in the crowd who tried to help, only to be beaten into the ground by drunken shirtless hillbillies.

And then raped, Brokeback_Style.

It's funnier that way.

It's been 3 weeks, they're pretty fucking cold.

Yeah, but I think in this day and age, fewer people will get it.

And yet somehow nobody cares.

"True story?"

:rofl:

This is the TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUE Story of when the Miz "Hung out" with the Benoit family.

HOO-RAH!

Starring... STUNT GRANNY.

^

Does she wink after getting strangled? :shifty:

I'm going to hell.

Dude didn't you know, were all going to hell!! (grins)

In a handbasket!

Don't make me come over there and stab you with a stick Shadow!!

At least that'll get your fat ass off the god damn couch.

Fuck you and the Plane you flew in on!!

If there was a TV movie, I'd cast Shannon Doherty as Woman.

Mel Gibson can be Chris Benoit

you no good motherfucking piece of shit!@

I'd cast Gerard Butler as Benoit

THIS...IS...CRIPPLAAA!!!! (kick)

And Michael J Fox as Daniel.

TOO SOON!

Oh wait.

Nancy: This is madness.

Benoit: This...Is...GEORGIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *crippler Crossface*

And John Matuszak as Daniel.

Daniel: HEY YOU GUUUUUYYYYYSS!!!