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News of the apparent murder-suicide of well-known and well-liked Wwe wrestler Chris Benoit left me with mixed emotions: sadness and dismay.
Unlike so many men past 60 who would not be caught dead admitting to watching pro wrestling on television in a polite, worldly, sophisticated communal environment, I embraced the admission and stood my ground.
I believe Chris Benoit would have done the same. Benoit's boob tube proximity was never a good interview, never as charismatic as we would have liked, never a loudmouth, never a blowhard, never obnoxious, never foul mouthed but always quiet, real, genuine and tough as nails.
There is no telling how many World Championships Benoit (pronounced Ben-Wah) would have been allowed to win if he was all of the things that other wrestlers like "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, the "Heartbreak Kid" Shaun Michaels or "The Cerebral Assassin" Triple Hhh (Hunter Hurst Helmsley) flaunted.
Do not misunderstand what I am sharing here. I respected Triple H, I loved Ric Flair and Shaun Michaels as competitors and I loved Benoit even more as a pure competitor.
Benoit, Flair and Michales have probably taken more punishment in the ring, won more matches and won more titles than any other competitors. Few competitors and few fans ever figure out that everyone can dish it out in pro wrestling, but the ones who can dish it out And withstand the punishment are finally the champions.
Chris Benoit was born in Montreal, Canada and grew up in the same wrestling society as Stu Hart and his sons, most supreme of which were Bret Hart and Owen Hart. Benoit was the consummate mat wrestler with talent and skills only matched by Flair and Michaels and possibly exceeded by Bret Hart.
Benoit was a previous World Heavyweight Champion, Intercontinental Champion and several time Tag Team Champion. His ring names included "The Canadian Crippler" and "The Rabid Wolverine".
Benoit reminded me a lot of of Eddie Guerrero. Both Owen Hart and Guerrero died prematurely, Owen from a tragic wrestling promotion crisis that should never have happened, and Guerrero from an apparent overdose of designate drugs.
Like Owen Hart and Eddie Guerrero, Benoit was roughly universally liked by his fellow superstars and sports entertainers in the Wwe locker room.
I do not believe that Vince McMahon (Vinny Mac), the World Wrestling Entertainment owner and arguably the most gifted of sports entertainment promoters ever, could in fact tolerate a someone so quiet and respected as Christ Benoit.
That is why it came as such a shock to me that Benoit could have assertedly strangled his 43-year-old wife Nancy, strangled his 7-year-old son Daniel and then committed suicide by hanging himself on the cable of a weight-training motor at his home. I cannot perceive the unspeakable nightmare of his wife or son realizing their circumstance when Benoit apparently lost operate of his life.
Their bodies were found in three isolate rooms of their home off a gravel road about two miles from the Whitewater Country Club near Atlanta. Holy Bibles were left beside Benoit's wife and son.
Benoit had maintained an Atlanta address from the time he wrestled for the defunct World Championship Wrestling. The Fayette County Tax Assessors Office listed the value of the house, situated on more than 8.5 acres, at nearly 0,000. The same house and property in Connecticut, California or Seattle, Washington would probably be valued at + million.
I know the pain of suicide as my sister Loretta committed suicide. She was a victim of Ms (multiple sclerosis) and had apparently lost any hope of living a great life in the advanced stages of her disease. I came to know that people who commit suicide have lost all hope of a great life.
I in fact do not condone killing one's immediate house on the way to committing suicide; murder in this circumstance seems cowardly to me, and if there is one thing I never, ever, belief about Benoit was that he was a coward. I belief him to be just the opposite.
Since this tragic story has unfolded it has taken on a life on its own in the national media, in part because of the unbelievable events that have surfaced since the tragedy. These include:
During a 15-minute match, pro entertainment wrestlers transfer choreographed body slams and punches. Some leap from top ropes onto cement surfaces face the ring.
No matter how choreographed the moves, fantasize lying in the ring and your opponent does an Eddie Guerrero "Frog Splash" on you from 15 feet in the air. Stand on top of a 15-foot stepladder in your front yard, dive off, flatten yourself out so you hit parallel to your lawn. Does it hurt landing? You great believe it. In the more corporal "hard-core" matches, wrestlers are smashed straight through tables, whacked in the head with steel chairs and punctured with barbed wire and tacks. None of these hazardous antics are fake. And you belief pimping was hard. Try being a pro wrestler.
Pro wrestlers have my total respect. They are incredibly well-conditioned, talented athletes who put up with a lot for my viewing enjoyment.
My heart sinks when I see an genuine icon like Ric Flair wrestling at his age and being allowed to get the holy hell stomped out of him for the sake of ever-more violent entertainment. There are no words to reveal my anguish over Chris Benoit. May God have mercy on his soul, and may God take Benoit's wife Nancy and son Daniel into his arms in Heaven.
Perhaps Benoit's father Michael said it best: "It's impossible to come up with a rational explanation for a very irrational act." My condolences go out to Chris Benoit's house and to all of those who knew and loved Chris Benoit as one of the greatest pro wrestling entertainers of our generation.
Copyright © 2007 Ed Bagley
The Apparent Murder-Suicide of Chris Benoit unmistakably Creates More Questions Than Answers