by Jerry
When I was young, I was a huge Pro Wrestling fan. Not the "real" kind, the "Sports Entertainment" World Wresting Entertainment kind. Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, Iron Sheik, Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff. You name them, and no doubt I was a fan. By High School, I outgrew it and never looked back. Until there was a rumor that Hulk Hogan would turn bad. So I was curious.
I was hooked again. This time to a new breed of wrestlers. Dean Malenko, Rey Mysterio, Kevin Nash and the Canadian Crippler Chris Benoit were my favorites. After a while, I got bored again and stopped watching.
I only tune in now when I hear about the latest wrestling tragedy. Usually it's the wrestler doing something stupid to off themselves. Natural selection & Darwinism at it's finest.
It makes this latest tragedy all the more shocking.
I never thought one of the wrestlers that I liked and respected could be a cold blooded murderer. Burn in hell Chris Benoit.
"I'm baffled about why anybody would kill a 7-year-old," District Attorney Scott Ballard said. "I don't think we'll ever be able wrap our head around that."
That quote says it all.
Chris Benoit strangled his wife, smothered his 7 year old son, then hung himself.
He is a murderer and a coward.
He may have very well put the final nail in the coffin of "Professional Wrestling". He did for me. I can't even look at it anymore without thinking of his poor son...
Thats all.. I can't write anymore..
R.I.P. Steven Malcolm Anderson
Minion
of the Week
I'm sorry to hear this guy did this. It seems that he had serious issues - mental is my guess. Just really, really sad ...
That combination of drugs will mess anyone up. It's a tragedy, and the organization and its founder are partially to blame. Of course, the individual is ultimately to blame. No one forced these men (and women) into professional wrestling.
Deaths since 1985.
I'm not trying to absolve steroid using wrestlers and Vince McMahon of any wrong doing, I just can't get past the fact that someone could kill their own young child.
Chris Benoit is solely responsible for this tragedy.
He said the same thing about the murdered pregnant woman in Ohio.
He's a national treasure.
TtS: I'm not saying the drugs he was taking had no effect. No one knows what he was on. According to the WWE he tested Steroid-free back in April. However, they found Steroids in the house. He may have been injecting his kid, which is even more disturbing. Daniel Benoit had a condition or something that made him dwarfish or something. So Chris had been injecting him with HGH. The whole situation is sad and disgusting. It's hard to put it into words. I guess we'll wait a month to find out the toxicology results.
Good for you Rhianna. You do realize that there are many people who fail to take responsibility for their actions in their own minds (it's actually quite common, you know) and many others who simply don't even understand the world around them and their reactions to it, or what is the "right" reaction, don't you?
To the subject at hand: time served - forever.
If I got to rewrite the DSM, somewhere in the first two examples of psychotic would be a parent killing their child. Being a "responsible adult" and "cold-blooded murder" really don't enter into it.
Anyway, this is pretty intriguing.
My brain is on weekend already, so DSM is what? I'm sorry, I'm getting a migraine and it's just not going to the information. Obviously a responsible adult would NOT be a cold-blooded murderer, especially of a child so that's a bit of an oxymoron imo.
The diagnostic manual for psychiatry. It always comes with a number after it to denote what new stuff they've discovered and what old stuff they discovered was wrong.