Chris Benoit

[Astrum]

Wow, this is fucking incredible. Really sad shit.

I havent watched wresteling for aboutfive or six years now, but he was pretty big at the time when I did. Hell, I think I have a Chris Benoit action figure lying around in my attic somewhere.

Chris Benoit Murder-Suicide

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

fucking horrible story chris was one of my favorite wrestlers for a while in WWE. I used to watch him when I was 8 or 9 years old

it is unfathomable what he did, and one can't imagine what state of mind he would have to have been in to kill his own child.

 

[~Derek~]

Yeah, I remember seeing him on wrestling when I religiously watched it a few years ago, he was a really good technical wrestler and it may've been the steroids along with other issues to drive him to do this. This is sad and hearing this on the radio yesterday morning shocked me. It's sad.

 

[The Ozzman]

I still watch wrestling. This was tragic, but I want to know what would have caused him to do this. I guess the toxicology report will reveal all.

 

[Death Aflame]

The whole thing seems awfully suspicious to me. The first thing that popped into my head when they said that he killed his wife, child and then himself is that maybe someone else did all this and then framed it on benoit by posing his hanging. Either way it is quite tragic.

 

[lordcatfish]

I got a text about this very early Tuesday morning, and the first thing I thought when I found out his family had died too was that he killed them and then himself. Very tragic event. Still shocks me when I think about it.

 

[Gold]

he really is the rabid wolverine...

 

[skeptik]

I used to be extremely into wrestling between, say, 1996-2001, when ECW closed down. Christ Benoit is easily one of my top five favorite wrestlers of all time, and from all accounts I've ever heard, he was always the nicest guy to talk to. As stupid as it sounds, especially for a wrestler, I have found myself a couple times a day just having this popping into my head and thinking "holy shit," for the fact that Christ Benoit, the Pegasus Kid, the Canadian Crippler, is gone, for the fact that his family is gone, for the fact that he is responsible for all of this, and for the fact that he was capable of doing this. I almost don't want to believe that he did it, and that he was murdered, as it was initially reported before they released more information. It's incredibly unfortunate that his legacy will always be tainted from now on, and we will be shunned by wrestling fans, both the casual fans and the purists as I used to be, for his actions, despite his stellar body of work in the ring. Yet, I still can't help but feel that I'm doing something wrong whenever I say anything positive like I am now about him because of what he did. I hope they are able to find a motive, what set them off. I can't imagine that Benoit would do that without some sort of instigation, he had to be in some unstable state. I don't think it was very premeditated, that he'd planned on doing this for an extended period of time, and I doubt that steroids had anything to do with it.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

I used to be extremely into wrestling between, say, 1996-2001, when ECW closed down. Christ Benoit is easily one of my top five favorite wrestlers of all time, and from all accounts I've ever heard, he was always the nicest guy to talk to. As stupid as it sounds, especially for a wrestler, I have found myself a couple times a day just having this popping into my head and thinking "holy shit," for the fact that Christ Benoit, the Pegasus Kid, the Canadian Crippler, is gone, for the fact that his family is gone, for the fact that he is responsible for all of this, and for the fact that he was capable of doing this. I almost don't want to believe that he did it, and that he was murdered, as it was initially reported before they released more information. It's incredibly unfortunate that his legacy will always be tainted from now on, and we will be shunned by wrestling fans, both the casual fans and the purists as I used to be, for his actions, despite his stellar body of work in the ring. Yet, I still can't help but feel that I'm doing something wrong whenever I say anything positive like I am now about him because of what he did. I hope they are able to find a motive, what set them off. I can't imagine that Benoit would do that without some sort of instigation, he had to be in some unstable state. I don't think it was very premeditated, that he'd planned on doing this for an extended period of time, and I doubt that steroids had anything to do with it.

x2

 

[Skepticism]

roids rage....

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

is just a silly fallacy that does not and has never existed

 

[Scourge of God]

is just a silly fallacy that does not and has never existed

There's a well-established link between long-term anabolic steroid usage and episodic psychosis. There may be no 'roid rage,' but there sure as hell are 'roid induced delusions that can lead to precisely this sort of behavior.

Personally, I would like to see some sort of wrongful death suit filed that fucking bankrupts the WWE, because they've basically been killing wrestlers for two decades by essentially forcing them to use steroids to keep their jobs. I'm sure it's just as true of the other 'federations.' The whole business is rotten to the core: use up the bodies of the talent to amuse the drunk retards who watch this shit.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

There's a well-established link between long-term anabolic steroid usage and episodic psychosis. There may be no 'roid rage,' but there sure as hell are 'roid induced delusions that can lead to precisely this sort of behavior.

you have any proof? I have never heard of any 'roid induced delusions before and I have been around bodybuilding for a while now (and I know 5-10 people who are on the juice).

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

You may have never heard of it, but it is very real. It has yet to be determined whether or not Benoit had any steroids in his system, however.

there have been probably what? 2 3000 bodybuilders that have competed in the last 30 40 years who took significant amount of steroids. Can you name anybody (outside of titus, who is a worthless piece of shit regardless of roids) who has committed any sort of a serious crime like this?

From the abstract of the National Institute of Drug Abuse report on steroid abuse:



http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchReports/Steroids/AnabolicSteroids.html

see above, guys like coleman and cutler have been taking 30-40 thousand dollar a year worth of steroids for maybe the last 17 years and both are generally described as gentle giants.

Benoit committed this crime because he was mentally disturbed, steroids have nothing to do with anything. One can't even fathom what state of mind you have to be in to be willing to kill your own child. Blaming this on steroids is to continue the media's long tradition of blaming horrible crimes on silly scapegoats (sound familiar to media blaming horrible teen crimes on "heavy metal"?? )

 

[Scourge of God]

From the abstract of the National Institute of Drug Abuse report on steroid abuse:

Anabolic steroids can lead to early heart attacks, strokes, liver tumors, kidney failure, and serious psychiatric problems.

http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchReports/Steroids/AnabolicSteroids.html

 

[Scourge of God]

there have been probably what? 2 3000 bodybuilders that have competed in the last 30 40 years who took significant amount of steroids. Can you name anybody (outside of titus, who is a worthless piece of shit regardless of roids) who has committed any sort of a serious crime like this?



see above, guys like coleman and cutler have been taking 30-40 thousand dollar a year worth of steroids for maybe the last 17 years and both are generally described as gentle giants.

Benoit committed this crime because he was mentally disturbed, steroids have nothing to do with anything. One can't even fathom what state of mind you have to be in to be willing to kill your own child. Blaming this on steroids is to continue the media's long tradition of blaming horrible crimes on silly scapegoats (sound familiar to media blaming horrible teen crimes on "heavy metal"?? )

Most junkies use heroin for decades without OD'ing, does that make smack safe? Look, stop deluding yourself. When it comes out, as I suspect, that Benoit's system was full of 'roids and amphetamines, I hope the WWE gets nailed to the wall for it.

 

[AchrisK]

... The whole business is rotten to the core: use up the bodies of the talent to amuse the drunk retards who watch this shit.

...and it's not even a real sport. Yeah, they are athletic and tough and take abuse, but it's a soap opera, not a competition.

 

[OfTheLie]

Vince McMahon and the WWE had several tributes to him planned like they did with Eddie Guerrero, but when he recived word of what Benoit had done, the tributes were cancelled and were taken off the WWE website.

 

[Scourge of God]

Vince McMahon and the WWE had several tributes to him planned like they did with Eddie Guerrero, but when he recived word of what Benoit had done, the tributes were cancelled and were taken off the WWE website.

Instead of doing tributes to dead wrestlers, McMahon should have created a work environment where steroids weren't simply a necessity of the job.

 

[genocide roach]

very upsetting. ive been watching wrestling since i was about 6. so ive been watching benoit for most my life. i dont understand what would make a person do that, and sadly, i dont think we'll ever know.
~gR~