Chris Benoit and family found dead

It's on at 9 my time.

 

Maybe these type of things had some say in the concussions?

 

So ... Benoit's hero was Dynamite Kid, from whom he not only learned some wrestling moves, but also how to self-medicate for the pain and how to inject one's self with steroids.

Good Lord, Jake the Snake looks like death warmed over.

 

Man, his dad is holding up well through these interviews. He's saying he knew about his son's drug abuse but felt he could do nothing about it. His paranoia and depression were reaching heights but the nail in the coffin was Eddie Guerrero's death.

The elder Benoit turned over the son's diary to CBC. Some of the entries are eerie, saying Eddie speaks to him from the dead.

 

If anyone is interested in watching the documentary ...

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/fighttothedeath/video.html

 

Just FYI, at this point the claim of Benoit getting "a year's worth of steroids every month" has proven about as accurate as Geraldo suggesting that Benoit and his family were murdered by fellow wrestler Kevin Sullivan.

The claim came from a search warrant the DEA used to make another raid on Benoit's doctor's office. And in the warrant, the specific data about the prescribed dosages was attributed to second-hand sources: what the agent says an officer heard from a pharmacist.

To date, coming up on 8 months after that claim found it's way into the warrant, absolutely no steps have been taken to charge the doctor with overprescribing testosterone to Chris Benoit. This despite the fact that they acted immediately to charge him with overprescribing painkillers to two other people. And despite the fact that they're shameless attention whores who called local GA news stations before they raided the doctor's office so that cameras could be there to film it and get them all on TV.

The amount of steroids it's claimed the doctor was prescribing was off-the-charts, and steroids were the hot-button issue of this story. If they had anything to suggest that he was giving Benoit even half that much, they would have acted on it a long time ago.

 

Meanwhile, what in professional wrestling has changed following the deaths of Chris, Nancy and Daniel Benoit?

The answer, of course, is not a damn thing. The machine rolls merrily along, until the next wrestler dies.

 

If Benoit's death doesn't shake anything up, the next one would have to be a member of the McMahon extended family, even then, I'm not so sure I would put money on it.

 

The question is how many of you who are here lamenting the Benoit situation will be watching RAW tonight and feeding scumbag McMahon's machine?

Most, I would guess. Hypocrites.

 

I truly believe that nothing in professional wrestling will change unless the government steps in; monitor steroid shipments, punish the wrestlers who are caught using steroids, real prescription and illeagal drug testing, real neurological testing.

I recently read an interview with Rob Szatkowski (Rob Van Dam) where he said that after an original ECW show in the mid 1990s, he had 30 somas in his hand and thought that he might be overdoing it. Then he looked at Louie Spicolli--who later died--and he was getting ready to take 100 somas. Szatkowski reasoned that 30 somas is less than 100, and he took the drug.

 

Exactly the post I wanted to make to HB's "lament" about how wrestling hasn't changed a damn thing.