Chris Benoit and family found dead

[gideon]

There are certain professions which make it very easy to adopt a lifestyle and habits which are counter-productive to what most people would call clean or normal living. Professional wrestling is one of these. Spending much of the year living in motel rooms, the emphasis on bullking up, the constant wear and tear on the body, the pain and pain killers, the seductive attractions of the road and people you meet, living in a fantasy world.... it all combines to make it very easy to lose your way. The fact that somebody like Ric Flair can spend over thirty years at the top and still have his health and sanity is amazing. Its too bad about Benoit who was a genuine nice person and a tremendous athlete and performer who gave it his all. If he did take his family out, there is a story there waiting to be told. He is often compared to his idol Tommy Billington the Dynamite Kid. DK had tons of problems associated with steroids and ended up in a physical state that some would prefer death to. Maybe that was in the mind of Chris Benoit. Very tragic espeically for his wife and son.

 

[PosterBoyKelly]

Ric Flair has his sanity?

I dig what you're saying though, some of these guys start out BAD. Look at Jake Roberts. I give Undertaker a lot of credit though, unless there's something I don't know about him. From what people I know who are deeper into it, he's actually really normal.

 

[pixletwin]

Right now I am not kidding nor am I joking here.....

If Chris did in fact kill that kid of his then I hope Chris burns in hell. Come on he was only 7, until the details are released I'll hold off on my "I'll miss you Chris" comment.

Yup. If he killed his wife and kid, the guy deserves to have a stone tied around his neck in the afterlife and sink his soul to hell.

 

[occulum]

still early speculation.
but just read this.

TMZ has learned more about the deaths of WWE wrestling superstar Chris Benoit, his wife and son -- and the information is extremely disturbing. Several Atlanta-based law enforcement sources have told TMZ Benoit may have strangled his wife on Saturday, then smothered his son in his bed a day later. Investigators refuse to officially comment, pending final confirmation by the coroner on the cause and time of the deaths. The source told TMZ that Benoit was texting friends during Sunday's WWE "Vengeance" Pay-Per-View program -- possibly watching the show with his son, who may have been alive at the time. According to sources, Benoit then hanged himself Monday in a weight room inside the family home.

 

[Darth Caedus]

TMZ has learned more about the deaths of WWE wrestling superstar Chris Benoit, his wife and son -- and the information is extremely disturbing. Several Atlanta-based law enforcement sources have told TMZ Benoit may have strangled his wife on Saturday, then smothered his son in his bed a day later. Investigators refuse to officially comment, pending final confirmation by the coroner on the cause and time of the deaths. The source told TMZ that Benoit was texting friends during Sunday's WWE "Vengeance" Pay-Per-View program -- possibly watching the show with his son, who may have been alive at the time. According to sources, Benoit then hanged himself Monday in a weight room inside the family home.

Oh man, that's horrible if it's true. I watched part of the 3 hour tribute to him last night and it's just horrible.

*EDIT* Just found this
https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070626/ap_on_re_us/wrestler_dead;_ylt=AjaSfw7Ex9bpGPqlP2aqDZrMWM0F

 

[pixletwin]

Words cannot describe how angry this makes me. What ever he was as a wrestler, he was the about as inhuman and evil as you can be in life to take the life of a child.

 

[dekadentdave]

I guess the real question is WHY? What would drive a guy who has it all to do something like that? Why kill your wife and son and then yourself?

 

[King Darkness]

This is so aweful.

Just plain aweful, every bit of it.

 

[pixletwin]

I guess the real question is WHY? What would drive a guy who has it all to do something like that? Why kill your wife and son and then yourself?

I would say the answers are either Love (infedlity), Drugs, or Money. That seems to nearly always be the reason people do insane things like this.

 

[dekadentdave]

I guess they are saying it could be "Roid Rage" but have to wait for toxicology tests. I can't believe he would go Hulk on his wife and child. Let it all out in the ring. Can't believe he missed his own event to stay home and take it out on his family.

 

[rabidwolverine21]

i watched that tribute last night and ever body talked about how he was a great father and husband and a great man, and its hard to believe that he would do that.

 

[figuremasterles]

I wasn't a wrestlin' fan until a few years ago, when I worked with MR folks at a local recycling center, and this one guy lived and breathed it. Hard not to get caught up. He didn't have cable, so I taped about 20 tapes full at slp for him over time. Made his millenium. Anyway, got me involved, and I learned who a lot of these guys were.
And, I sorta got a kick out of Benoit, as every time he showed up, something happened. He could kick some.

Now, this. The Eddie Guerrero thing took me by surprise, but I wasn't as big a fan of him, but thought it sad nonetheless.
This, shocked me.
And as this true story comes out, what saddens me about it the most, is the fall of such an iconic hero to so many, and how all this has happened.

I would think that Professional Wrestling will never be the same.
It is sad. I can't say I will miss him after these facts, but I can't imagine what must have been going on, so since I am not God, I will withold judgement. The wife and kid thing, damn. I mean....that is just not an easy thing to cope with. I just don't know how to feel.

Sad.

I hope the industry can recover from this with some modicum of fun again. I bet it will take a while. No more silly "Death of Mr. McMahon" stuff for a while I bet!
Just wrestle for a while. No gimmicks.

Hope this all works out, My mind now, is on my friend. The one with the tapes. I wonder how he feels today....

My thoughts and prayers go out to all affected by this.

 

[Eli26]

Stop bringing up the fact that the kid is 7 or you shouldn't kill children... personally you shouldn't kill PERIOD!

If it's a 98-year-old on the verge of death, it's still just as wrong and the same kind of crime is committed.

Not saying I am against the support and sorrow for the lose of a child. I just think all ages deserve that sort of recognition when they are killed off. It's a life either way you look at it. Just as valuable. And to those who said poor Chris. Yes, they have every right to feel sorry for him. His family is dead because of him and so is his legacy. He brought it upon himself. He had it all, and in one night he had taken it all away. He's gonna suffer an eternity for this, if you believe in the after life and a Heaven and/or Hell.

It's creepy to see this sort of thing happen, but there defintely wasn't something right with the guy to begin with for him to go down that road. I am more-or-so surprised nobody didn't see this or if they did, had he seeked the obvious help that was required in his stability in being amongst the rest of us in society vs. held against his free will either in a padded room or small cubic room with bars... the new spa/health club that Paris currently resided at.

 

[dekadentdave]

A 7 year-old has their whole life ahead of them, a 98 year-old does not.

 

[King Darkness]

I have to admit killing old people just doesnt hit the same as killing kids.

But, yeah, killing one or the other is ****ed up.

 

[pixletwin]

Stop bringing up the fact that the kid is 7 or you shouldn't kill children... personally you shouldn't kill PERIOD!

Thanks for clearing that up. But, you are wrong.

It is far worse for a person to take the life of a child than a 98 year old. When you take the life of a child you have taken something innocent and rob it of a lifetime of potential and experience. Not to mention that it is the ultimate betrayal of trust and responcibilty when it is YOUR OWN CHILD you bufoon. Frankly I found your comment argumentitive and added nothing to the thread. :emperor

 

[DannieDarKo]

Right on Pix!

A child is the most innocent thing in this cruel world.

The F*$K he do to deserve to die? And just not the fact that the kid is seven years old but even his own blood. The same child he helped raise, nuture, laugh with, etc etc.

 

[Eli26]

True, but I could have used a 30-year-old mother, who has 3 kids as an example. They depend on their mother. My point is a murder is a murder. I just feel sometimes we as a society often neglect or ignore other's who may have been loss because of their background. IE; age and sex. From what was decribed in some of the posts, it felt that had I not read the original post pertaining to this thread, I wouldn't have known that a middle aged woman had passed away along with a seven-year-old child. My point is some people focus on this kid because of the whole age factor, but didn't bother to say anything about the mother. I think in respect to the deceased it is nice to acknowledge all who passed away.

I know it seems rather anal, and in a lot of situations if it's a mass killing it's much easier to focus on those aforementioned groups, but in a case like this which saw only 3 deaths, it's not hard to acknowledge the other's. Chris on the other hand, if the reports are true that he did in fact cause the killings doesn't deserve any of our attention. That's just my opinion.

 

[Eli26]

Thanks for clearing that up. But, you are wrong.

It is far worse for a person to take the life of a child than a 98 year old. When you take the life of a child you have taken something innocent and rob it of a lifetime of potential and experience. Not to mention that it is the ultimate betrayal of trust and responcibilty when it is YOUR OWN CHILD you bufoon. Frankly I found your comment argumentitive and added nothing to the thread. :emperor

I think you misunderstood me, and if you read the post above this one it may explain things better. And trust me a child's life is the most innocent so I do agree. But I also think it's only fair to give the other person attention as well.

And please do not call me a buffoon, I never said I felt as though the kid didn't deserve the attention he deserved. You misunderstood me clearly, or as before in past conversations, and other suffer from this, but things don't come out the same way we would like them to come out to.

If it makes me a buffoon to like to think of all who suffer than I guess I am.

 

[DannieDarKo]

Well when someone brings in the "what if" scenarios of course the situation changes and even the opinions stated.

But the point is were talking about this situation, this inhumane act of selfishness. About THIS pric named Chris Benoit and what he did. I do agree with you Eli, murder is murder.