Chris Benoit Just Might be the 3-Count for Wrestling
by Jayar Jackson
I’m willing to admit it, I was caught up in the male soap opera that is professional wrestling a few years ago in 2000.
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Everyone made fun of it, but when Monday Night Raw came on and you got to hear The Rock so eloquently talk smack and back up the well-written script on the wrestling mat, we snuck to the safe house of other pathetic fans and cheered it on.Doctor Gave Testosterone To Benoit, His Office Raided Last Week by FBI
“No dog, I didn’t see Stone Cold Steve Austin get up from 15 metal chair blows to the forehead and win the match with one flying elbow. I was gone writing my midterm paper.”
While I lost interest in it after a couple of years, the story being played out in real life should be endangering the entire existence of the sport.In the latest real life soap opera involving the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), formerly the WWF (Federation), another immensely popular figure has traumatically died in an apparent double murder-suicide.
Wrestling champion Chris Benoit, 40, was found dead along with his wife, Nancy and 7 year-old son, Daniel inside their lavish Fayetteville, Georiga home.
The deaths were caused by asphyxiation due to strangulation and suffocation before Benoit took his own life by hanging himself with a cord from a home weight machine.
As more facts keep coming out, the horror and disbelief that has stricken millions of wrestling fans will undoubetedly wane.
WAS THIS THE REASON BENOIT SNAPPED?
Often criticized for being obviously fake, the king of wrestling entertainment, WWE, has most recently been fighting charges of rampant steroid use among their most popular figures.
Drug related deaths have taken the lives of several popular wrestlers over the past several years.In 2003, “Mr. Perfect," Curt Hennig was found dead in a Florida hotel room, just before a scheduled wrestling match. The Tampa Coroner and Medical Examiner's offices declared acute cocaine intoxication the official cause of his death.
His father said steroids and painkillers contributed to his death.
Wrestler Eddie Guerrero was found unconscious in 2005 inside a Minnesota hotel room by his nephew, Chavo.An autopsy revealed that Guerrero died as a result of acute heart failure, caused by undiagnosed arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease. He was also linked to steroid use.
So surprisingly, when Sheriff Lt. Tommy Pope discovered “a lot of prescription medication” in the Benoit home, it doesn’t take a toxicology expert to figure out that 2+2 equals illegal steroid use contributed to yet another wrestling tragedy.
Although some medical professionals say proof of a link to extreme rage brought on by steroids, also known as “roid-rage,” is unlikely to surface from toxicology reports, the accounts of numerous ex-wrestlers suggest that there are no other alternatives.
Former professional wrestler Del Wilkes said athletes use steroids to gain strength and size, with the drugs sometimes causing "moments of uncontrollable rage."
Wilkes also said the drugs can also cause "tremendous" depression "when guys are coming off of them after long usage.
As WWE Chairman Vince McMahon continues to strongly denounce all accusations that the killings were connected to steroid use, more damning evidence of the opposite leaks out.
They claim that roid-rage couldn’t have been involved because Benoit tested negative in April. They also point out the two Bibles that were found next to the wrist and ankle bound Nancy Benoit and the murdered son. This apparently shows premeditation, not rage.
Am I the only person that heard the account from people that were very close to the use of steroids when they said it causes uncontrollable rage and then tremendous depression?
It took Benoit all weekend to take the lives of his entire family before realizing what he had done and depressingly taking his own life on the last day.
Are we so wrapped up in the excitement of a red-faced, pissed off, bump covered, over-grown ass man, relentlessly acting like he’s pulling on the arm of a counterpart that we’re going to believe this?
Imagine for a second that the reborn, immensely popular crossover career of singer Justin Timberlake has come about due to an injection or pill that he could take to make his voice smoother, and make his dance moves be likened to that of Michael Jackson.
Would we sit by, applaud and call him a hero if these pills turned him green and made him rip his shirt off as he beat the life out of his girlfriend and any innocent child in the vicinity? Hell no!
So for every time someone calls Chris Benoit a hero and believes the asinine comments from the mouth of Vince McMahon, I’m going to call him an enraged victim and murderer of two.Maybe I’m a grumpy old man caught in a 27 year old body, but where can I find footage of “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns?
Those were the days! That's when beating the hell out of each other only made you live uncomfortably in old age, not keeping you from ever seeing it.