I don't think airing the Benoit tribute show should be on that list of WWE's transgressions. They found out about his death only a few hours by showtime and when it went on the air very few of the details were known.
Based on a few shoots I've heard, the wrestlers were all sent home and most of them were watching the Benoit show from their hotels - and it wasn't until midway through the show that speculation of it being a murder-suicide was starting.
I suppose WWE could've abruptly cut the episode halfway through and pivoted to random classic non-Benoit matches, but the details were still so murky by then I can understand why they didn't. They made up for it the next day by opening ECW with Vince basically saying fuck Chris Benoit and that was that.
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