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Wrestler Benoit and family found dead

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. - WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife and son were found dead Monday and police said they were investigating the deaths as a homicide.

Lt. Tommy Pope of the Fayette County Sheriff's Department said the three were found at their home about 2:30 p.m., but refused to release details.
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WTF happened here? I don't watch wrestling, but the nature of this crime is disturbing.
 
OMG, no way..

I was a wrestling fan growing up all through the 80's and 90's, until about 5-6 years ago. I always loved Chris "toothless agression" Benoit (aka The Crippler). He was great in WCW, and made a big name for himself in WWE when they bought out WCW. This is awful news. He was a great character.
 
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I remember him from when i watched wrestling in middle school.

There are so many f***** stories about proffessional wrestlers, it must be a really screwed up industry.
 
According to varying reports I pieced together this: Yesterday he didn't attend the pay per view event and had to fly home for "personal reasons" which were never disclosed. WWE had been trying to contact him at his home for several hours but were unable to get in contact with him so they reported it to the police for them to do a welfare checkup on him and his family. When the police arrived they found Him, his wife and their 7 year old son all dead. He was in his weight room, his wife in her office and their son in his upstairs bedroom. The police aren't looking for suspects and suspect a murder-suicide where either Benoit or his wife murdered the others and then committed suicide. The police reported that they had found the "instruments of death" on the scene but would not disclose what they actually were. An autopsy is expected at 10:00 am tomorrow morning and results probably won't be released immediately.

According to most accounts from numerous people who met him, Benoit was an extremely nice and peaceful man who loved his family and was the last person to resort to violence in any situation which makes me doubt he had any responsibility in the crime. My initial assumptions concerning the death was that it was some sort of accidental death due to poisoning of some kind but apparently the police are investigating it as a "Murder-Suicide".

:(
 
nails3jesus0 said:
I remember him from when i watched wrestling in middle school.

There are so many f***** stories about proffessional wrestlers, it must be a really screwed up industry.
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I've read parts of Mick Foley's autobiography (he's actually a pretty good writer and seems like a pretty decent guy) and it really is just crazy.
 
Sadly the rumor mill is in over dirive on this. I've heard everything from "He went into roid rage and killed them" to "his wife went nuts and killed their son and then he lost it and killed her." I really wish people would wait until an official report comes out.
 
Redtail said:
Sadly the rumor mill is in over dirive on this. I've heard everything from "He went into roid rage and killed them" to "his wife went nuts and killed their son and then he lost it and killed her." I really wish people would wait until an official report comes out.
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I heard it was the 7 year old son who killed them!!! :eek:
 
Roid rage or perhaps just plain old mental illness. It looks like Benoit is the killer.
Investigators believe Benoit, (pronounced ben-WAH) killed his wife and son over the weekend and then himself sometime Monday. The bodies were found Monday afternoon in three different rooms of the house on Green Meadow Lane, in a subdivision off a gravel road about two miles from the Whitewater Country Club.
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World Wrestling Entertainment said on its Web site that it asked authorities to check on Benoit and his family after being alerted by friends who received "several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning."
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Very sad, and another suspicious hint (not proven) about how dangerous steroids are.
 
Tricky said:
Roid rage or perhaps just plain old mental illness.
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It is worth pointing out that he suffered a major neck injury in 2001. He came back from it, but who knows if that had an effect on him in other ways, especially if he had to take other potent medications (oxycodone for example).

But I suppose it's all just speculation at this point. It could be anything from 'roid rage to a guy who had family problems and for whatever reason, just snapped. It's a tragedy, either way. He seemed like a decent guy, at least in everything I'd read about him, and he was definitely a great wrestler.
 
Tricky said:
Roid rage or perhaps just plain old mental illness.
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A year or so ago, the WWE brought in a "Wellness policy". Part of the policy involved random drug tests (for steroids as well as certain painkillers). Immediately after they brought in the policy, you started to notice certain wrestlers (who had been noted for their physique) all of a sudden appeared... smaller.

If he was using steroids, it will be interesting to see if there is any fallout with the wellness policy.
 
Just a sore point. Calling someone who was in the WWF or similar staged wrestling matches a "great wrestler" is a bit of an insult to all real wrestlers (yes, I know, many cross over). It is a bit like saying someone who plays air guitar is a "great guitarist".
 
Tricky said:
Just a sore point. Calling someone who was in the WWF or similar staged wrestling matches a "great wrestler" is a bit of an insult to all real wrestlers (yes, I know, many cross over). It is a bit like saying someone who plays air guitar is a "great guitarist".
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I always found the popular video game "Guitar Hero" to be fascinating. Take two colossal wastes of time: video games and burnout hard rock culture, meld them together, and hold it up as a shining beacon to society: Guitar Hero!
 
Tricky said:
Just a sore point. Calling someone who was in the WWF or similar staged wrestling matches a "great wrestler" is a bit of an insult to all real wrestlers (yes, I know, many cross over). It is a bit like saying someone who plays air guitar is a "great guitarist".
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I disagree Tricky.

Professional wrestling is entertaining for millions of people and calling an individual who excels at entertaining people "great" seems reasonable to me. Professional wrestling is a cheesy melodrama, but it is a melodrama that most of us are entertained by at least on occasion and some of us enjoy a great deal. (Most doesn't include my wife, who is completely disgusted by it).

Perhaps your point was that the term "great professional wrestler" or "great performance art wrestler" would be OK but "great wrestler" isn't because the term implies that professional wrestling is a competition sport. I disagree with you there also. The term "great wrestler" used in context isn't ambiguous and doesn't mislead the vast majority of people. For the few that are mislead, I say fine, let them have their illusions.
 
There's no such thing as "Roid rage". Some studies show that Anabolic steroids can increase anger in a small number of patients however the affects are generally too small to be measured and usually don't even show up in most samples. The idea that somehow Steroid users have a tendency to go into "rages" is nothing more than an urban legend that medical professionals don't take seriously. Most of the larger professional wrestlers take Anabolic Steroids and aren't violent. If Benoit did indeed use steroids then he has been using for at least a decade and has shown no previous signs of violence.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12938869

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=8855834

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12062320

Anabolic steroidWP
 
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