Several channels announced the episode was being withheld for legal reasons. However, when the facts of Benoit's death came to light, WWE pulled this episode from international markets which aired Raw on a tape delay basis. Several wrestlers paid tribute in the form of real interviews about him, and Vince McMahon broke character to address the viewers about what had happened. The show was hastily canceled, the audience denied entrance to the arena, and became a three-hour tribute to Benoit, airing highlights from the WWE DVD 'Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story', and a selection of Benoit's most famous matches. McMahon' tribute was cancelled on the day it was due to air after the real life death of Chris Benoit and his family. McMahon was presumably murdered by a bomb planted within his limousine. Two weeks earlier, the show had broadcast an angle in which Mr. On June 25, 2007, Raw was scheduled in Corpus Christi, Texas to be a three-hour special memorial show for the storyline death of the Mr. Later that month, on October 23, Raw aired its 700th episode, according to the WWE making it the longest running weekly entertainment show, without a hiatus, in television history, though this claim is false. The episode also featured talent from the SmackDown! and ECW brands. That October, Raw held a three-hour season premiere called the " Raw Family Reunion", where the Raw brand debuted a new logo and theme song, Papa Roach's ". That Tuesday, Beware of Dog, returned to North Charleston, South Carolina to finish out three matches that were not shown because of the lost power feed. Another similar moment happened back on in Florence, South Carolina for WWF In Your House 8: Beware of Dog, when a major thunderstorm hit the Florence Civic Center causing major chaos for the PPV. Power in the presentation was later restored. Spotlights were the only lights running in the house, thus the opening match (between Lita and Candice Michelle) was contested in the dark. During the Septemepisode of Raw in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the opening of Raw suffered a blackout.