"This is all going to end badly."

Those words were muttered by a shocked Banky Edwards to Holden McNeil in Kevin Smith's humorous movie, "Chasing Amy."

There is nothing funny about what happened in Georgia over the weekend in the Chris Benoit household. But the above quote still holds true.

It has already ended badly for three people, two them seemingly innocent bystanders in one man's sick, twisted grand finale.

And it is going to end badly for the World Wrestling Entertainment company.

Due to the murder of two people, one a seven-year-old child, Benoit's popularity and loyal fan base, and the simple fact that professional wrestling has always been the black sheep of American entertainment, the WWE is about to enter a dark light it will probably never get out of.

Average Americans who are not wrestling fans won't bat an eye when the names Curt Hennig, Brian Pillman and Eddie Guerrero are mentioned. Yet, fans will remember those three as just part of a long list of entertainers who passed away too young, too early.

But wrestling has always been able to move on. A funeral, tribute show and a trust fund later, all low-key events to those who don't follow the action of the ring, and the likes of Hennig and Guerrero become ghosts of the ring.

Not this time.

Not with the bizarre events that transpired over the weekend in Fayetteville. Not with the tragic passing of a young child by his own father's hands. Not with the story being plastered all over every major publication.

No, a huge can of worms has been opened. One that holds the suppressed knowledge of steroids, abuse and the ultimate price to succeed.

Steroids have always been a part of wrestling. People went to court over them, ignored them and died from them. But be honest, how much of the mass public really cared. It's not like it was happening in something widely accepted and loved by Americans like say, baseball.

Where was the special committees and threatened government involvement when Guerrero passed away at the age of 38 due to acute heart failure after a history of drug and alcohol abuse. Or when Davey Boy Smith died at the age of 39 from a heart attack mostly likely caused by anabolic steroid.

Or when....

Forget it, the list can go on for ever.

Those who have an agenda against the WWE and its chairman, Vince McMahon, will now turn out in an endless line to bury the company. It has started already.

In an article on myfoxcolorado.com, Debra Williams, former wife of one of the most popular WWE athletes ever, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, said that abuse and steroid use is out of control in the industry.

"The domestic and drug abuse is out of hand in the WWE and something needs to be done about it," Williams said in the article.

Later in the story, she says, "In the last ten years, 60 wrestlers under age 45 have died... all in the prime of their lives. Big strong men, who somehow die with little or no investigation of the organization that encourages performers to use muscle enhancing drugs."

The WWE is doing its best on the damage control front. It has seemingly been very cooperative and informative during the Benoit investigation. It quickly put up a release proclaiming steroids could not have been a part of the tragedy.

It even took down all on-air and Web site tributes to Benoit as details of the events continued to emerge.

But how long till the whole site itself comes down?