10 Most Bizarre Stories From Former WWE Superstars

5. Chris Benoit Cannot Be Created And Saved In WWE 2K15

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Fresh off the presses and into the middle of the list is the bizarre case of the Create-A-Wrestler mode on WWE's latest video game release WWE 2K15. WWE fans love creating old wrestlers, new wrestlers, fake wrestlers, unsigned wrestlers and especially DEAD wrestlers on video games. They love it so much that many of these characters are now created by the company themselves and are made available as online additions to gameplay.

However, the most controversial of the dead ex-employees in WWE history? Well, he can't be created and saved to databases, everything from his face, to his name to his likeness being actively banned by WWE.

WWE striking Chris Benoit's name from company history is a bold move that will be discussed by wrestling fans ad infinitum. But striking computerized renderings of him from a video game? That's possibly a move that could be considered going too far.

It's bizarre because this is World Wrestling Entertainment a company that, though publicly traded, engages in enough questionable social behavior in a week to make Benoit's lack of game inclusion a head scratcher. As well, this is a company that has employed numerous people with black marks on their police records including Jimmy Snuka who was accused of murder and The Great Khali whose botched training flapjack of Brian Ong directly led to the brain damage that caused his death.

There's a slippery slope when it comes to legality, making WWE's new level of reinforcement when it comes to the Benoit case highly intriguing and certainly bizarre.

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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.