Chris Benoit Part One | DARK SIDE OF THE RING

[1987_Lakers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkUs...ture=emb_title

[scuzzy]

VICE with their low budget version of ESPN's OJ: Made in America


look at all these broke ex wrestlers and family friends coming out to spit on his grave and stir up controversy

[BurningHammer]

Chris Benoit has always been one of my favorite pro wrestlers ever even after the murder-suicide. Of course it shook me as bad as other hardcore pro wrestling fans. However, I believe the case is more complex that many think and still separate his heinous crime from his career works.

[bobopenguin]

his in ring skill/performace/pass to wrestling is undoubtly goat, i teared out when he and eddie hugged when both of them won the championship. BUT what he did to his family is unforgivable. i cannot cheer for that man anymore.

[John Connor]

his in ring skill/performace/pass to wrestling is undoubtly goat, i teared out when he and eddie hugged when both of them won the championship. BUT what he did to his family is unforgivable. i cannot cheer for that man anymore.

Mental illness is something that our species has yet to fully embrace and even begin to understand.

After the double-murder suicide, former wrestler Christopher Nowinski contacted Michael Benoit, father of Chris Benoit, suggesting that years of trauma to his son's brain may have led to his actions. Tests were conducted on Benoit's brain by Julian Bailes, the head of neurosurgery at West Virginia University, and results showed that "Benoit's brain was so severely damaged it resembled the brain of an 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient."[127] He was reported to have had an advanced form of dementia, similar to the brains of four retired NFL players who had suffered multiple concussions, sank into depression, and harmed themselves or others. Bailes and his colleagues concluded that repeated concussions can lead to dementia, which can contribute to severe behavioural problems.[127] Benoit's father suggests that brain damage may have been the leading cause of the crime.[128]

So, I say that to say... it's very likely that he wasn't in his right mind. It wasn't just like he woke up one day and willfully decided to completely lose his shit.

Look at Antonio Brown... you think that's just him randomly deciding to start acting out to the point that his career is over? Another clear case of CTE... just like Benoit.

But that's a very uncomfortable idea for people because then it lends heavy credence to the idea that we aren't in control of our decision making at all, at least not like we think we are, and that we don't have free will. People get very upset about that subject and tend to get extremely emotional when discussing it to the point that the discussions themselves are practically impossible to have in an honest manner. It's extremely emotionally inflammatory.

All that being said, there's no way that Chris Benoit, when he killed himself, was the same person from 20-30 years prior and that he was just a ticking timebomb all along. That's not what happened. He suffered years and years of head trauma and it irrevocably altered his consciousness.

Also, it doesn't make what he did OK, but it should give you some framework here and should allow you to move past the idea that he was a villain.

[Stanley Kobrick]

[Charlie Sheen]

[BurningHammer]

>not available in Canada

[RoseCity07]

Really good stuff.

[DoctorP]

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[DoctorP]

oops just saw this thread. this doc was well done

[DoctorP]

i think Benoit should go to the hall of fame. he obviously became mentally retarded due to the brain disease, similar to Aaron Hernandez.

[BurningHammer]

i think Benoit should go to the hall of fame.

Maybe the next century or two, when his double murder-suicide may be ignored.

[DoctorP]

Maybe the next century or two, when his double murder-suicide may be ignored.

i give it 20 years tops. wrestling may not even be around in 2 centuries.