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Mixing alcohol + steroids + severe CTE was a recipe for disaster.
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What do you think about Chris benoit?
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Mixing alcohol + steroids + severe CTE was a recipe for disaster.
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People have said he was a weird guy with anti social tendencies, who knows. Maybe he tortured animals as a child and used working out and chopping people as an exorcise of aggression and it ultimately spilled over one fateful weekend.
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I think the steroids/concussions were incidental to his insanity. Honestly, I think he was in love with Eddie, and caught a significant case of survivor's guilt. I mean the murders/suicide stretched out over 3 days, with him acting (imo) very deliberately(making calls to people, lying, canceling appearances, etc).
It just feels like a cop-out to victimize Benoit himself, and attribute his malice to steroids/concussions, when he was seemingly acting with intent through the entire event.
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Great wrestler, horrible human in the end.
It's weird, because everyone always says that he was the nicest guy backstage, and loved his family. The day after on RAW, they did a tribute show for him, and all everyone said was how great he was. Then the news came out, and it felt like some bizzaro world because it came out of no where.
It's weird, because everyone always says that he was the nicest guy backstage, and loved his family. The day after on RAW, they did a tribute show for him, and all everyone said was how great he was. Then the news came out, and it felt like some bizzaro world because it came out of no where.
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I was young when he was around so I never really liked him, I thought he was boring, and was more into all the trashy antics that would go on more than a good wrestling match lol not gonna lie.
What he did was shit, and I don't care what could have caused him to do what he did, the fact is is that he did it. That's all that matters to me. I feel like when people try to say concussions and steroid usage, etc, contributed it takes away some of his accountability. Maybe that's just me though.
Around the time this happened I knew a girl who suffered the same fate. Her father was ill, he killed her, then killed his wife, and killed himself afterwards. Maybe having something so similar happen close to me makes me that much more pissy about it all, idk. But people like that are scum.
Eh, seemingly good people can do bad things. Really nothing new. Like the guys that everyone finds to be enjoyable company, kind, charismatic, and funny, are the same guys that can go home and beat their spouse. Shit like that never surprises me.
What he did was shit, and I don't care what could have caused him to do what he did, the fact is is that he did it. That's all that matters to me. I feel like when people try to say concussions and steroid usage, etc, contributed it takes away some of his accountability. Maybe that's just me though.
Around the time this happened I knew a girl who suffered the same fate. Her father was ill, he killed her, then killed his wife, and killed himself afterwards. Maybe having something so similar happen close to me makes me that much more pissy about it all, idk. But people like that are scum.
Eh, seemingly good people can do bad things. Really nothing new. Like the guys that everyone finds to be enjoyable company, kind, charismatic, and funny, are the same guys that can go home and beat their spouse. Shit like that never surprises me.
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Only thing I remember about Chris Benoit is wrestle mania 20 when he and eddie both had their championship matches on the same night and eddie came out to celebrate with chris after he won his main event match and first heaveyweight championship. That was a cool moment. Who cares about his life/problems outside of wwe productions.
If you told me in 1999 that chris and eddie would walk out of WM20 as heavyweight champions I would have bet my 401k and lost it.
If you told me in 1999 that chris and eddie would walk out of WM20 as heavyweight champions I would have bet my 401k and lost it.
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I remember reading they did tests after he died and his brain was in the state of a 85 year old Alzheimer's patient. Plus I think they said about advanced dementia. As a wrestler I liked him a lot, what he lacked in charisma he made up for in the ring. He had a very raw and violent style and a real intensity to his matches. Just a horrible situation at the end and a real tragedy because sadly that will be the lasting memory most people have of him.
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He was the only vanilla midget ever that made me suspend disbelief. Probably the best wrestler I personally ever seen. Always intense, always on point, never had a dull moment. His match with Angle at the Rumble 2003 is probably the best I´ve seen.
Such a shame he was framed by Kevin Sullivan.
Such a shame he was framed by Kevin Sullivan.
