8 YEARS SINCE BENOIT KILLED WIFE, SON, SELF!
Chris Benoit After Murders, Before Suicide
San Francisco, CA– Writing for me is not difficult. But when the murder of a 10-year old boy and his mother occurs, and his father, world renowned professional wrestler Chis Benoit is the perpetrator, the story takes on added emotion that you wouldn’t expect from this former San Francisco Policeman. The murder of Nancy and Daniel Benoit was the most horrific incident to ever evolve from the seedy world that is professional wrestling. This story begins in Canada where Benoit was both born and learned to wrestle.
LEARNED WRESTLING FROM SADIST STU HART
On weekends, a teenage Benoit would take a two hour plus bus ride to train and “learn” professional wrestling from one of the industry’s great teachers Stu Hart. The father of wrestling superstars Brett “The Hitman” Hart and the late Owen Hart, the wrestler who plummeted to death when a cable he was descending on from the rafters of an arena to the ring, snapped and Owen fell a couple hundred feet before hitting a ring turnbuckle and dying instantly.
STU HART’S BASEMENT WAS “THE DUNGEON”
Many guys would look to the now deceased Stu Hart as both a mentor and teacher. But unlike the choreographed wrestling we see on TV and at “house” shows (live events), old man Hart was a bit of a sadist who would punish his pupils to the point where a lot more left and never returned after one session in “The Dungeon” with Stu.
EVENTUAL WWE CHAMP STARTED WITH STAMPEDE WRESTLING
Benoit, was not one of them. Ever since he was in his early teens, all Chris wanted to do was to become a professional wrestler. Small compared to most, before he started using steroids, Chris was 5’9 and 180 lbs. Chris began wrestling for Stu Hart’s “Stampede Wrestling” promotion all round Canada. Although a good worker and wrestler, again before steroids, Benoit couldn’t make the big leagues as he was too small.
BENOIT WAS “PIMPED OFF” IN JAPAN
After a humiliating stint in Japan, Chris in his early 20’s was doing slave like chores for the wrestling veterans. Stuff like washing their clothes, bringing them food, laundry, etc. Although Benoit would say the experience helped make him a man, truth be told nobody deserves the treatment that Japanese wrestlers would force upon North American rookies who went to Japan to hone their act.
DRUGS IN WRESTLING? REALLY?
Although the use of steroids in professional wrestling primarily began in the 1970s with Billy “Superstar” Graham, Earl Maynard, a former Mr. Universe, and Ken Patera, a United States Olympic power lifter, steroids have been around since the 50s. Some of you might remember the 1964 or 1968 Olympics, when Russian women looked so big and strong from the use of steroids that they took on male-like appearances. The running joke in Mexico City in 1968 was that some of the Russian woman had a five o’clock shadow, which we men know as a need to shave our face.
BENOIT HAD SEVERAL “DRUG COCKTAILS”
Reportedly, Ecstasy was Benoit’s drug of choice to get high on. While people were able to confirm this, they also stated that Nancy Benoit, a former wrestling valet dubbed “Woman,” had issues with booze and prescription pills as well.
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME
Chris’ favorite energy drink was a combination of Goody’s Headache Powder, Red Bull energy drink and “Yellow Jackets,” an Ephedra based diet drug that was banned by the Food & Drug Administration.
CRIME SCENE WAS PURE HORROR
According to author Irv Muchnick who penned the book, “Chris & Nancy,” Benoit was able to get Yellow Jacket “knock offs” that when combined with the aforementioned, Chris said made him feel like “Superman.”
LIFE BEGAN TO CRUMBLE WHEN EDDIE GUERRERO DIED!
Eddie Guerrero
In November 2005, Eddie Guerrero, a second generation wrestler of Mexican descent was found on the floor of his Minneapolis hotel room by his brother-like nephew Chavo Guerrero. The cause of death for the 38-year old WWE superstar was determined to be a massive heart attack. While the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) tried to pin the blame on Eddie’s history of boozing and using illegal drugs, Steroids and HGH (Human Growth Hormone) were likely to have played a far more significant role in Eddie’s death than Colombian Dust.
BENOIT & EDDIE NEEDED STEROIDS TO MAKE IT
Like Benoit, sans steroids and the like, Eddie was just too small to make it in Vince McMahon’s WWE. Speaking of Vince, who never denied using steroids himself, preferred the huge physique over the wrestlers of prior generations, most of whom looked more like your uncle Ray, guys with non-chiseled bodies.
HOGAN PROVED STEROIDS & CHEATING PAY OFF!
But the skyrocketing popularity of another steroid user, Hulk Hogan, convinced McMahon that big was better and thus he took the entire wrestling industry in that direction.
EDDIE DEAD, CHAVO CALLS BENOIT BEFORE 911
Benoit and Eddie Guerrero were best friends. When Chavo called him and told him Eddie was dead, Benoit rushed to the room and began a tradition that was started by the late Bruiser Brody, this when David Von Erich overdosed and died in Japan as a result of sleeping pills. What he and Chavo did was flush down the toilet Eddie’s huge stash of Stanazol (real name Winstrol) which is an anabolic steroid that he had obtained for an upcoming tour of Europe. An autopsy revealed Eddie had a number of enlarged internal organs, including his heart, which was a direct result of steroid and Human Growth Hormone use.
DEADLY WEEKEND LAST FOR BENOIT FAMILY
Vince McMahon circa 53 Years Old!
Often thought of as withdrawn, moody, and to some unsocial, Benoit sunk into an incredible state of depression after Eddie’s death, something he would suffer from until the weekend of June 23-24, 2007.
SATURDAY PART 2 OF BENOIT MURDER/SUICIDE
We will go into the amount of Chris’s steroids use, how the WWE covered it up after he tested positive for Steroids twice, and how the Vince McMahon run corporation honored Benoit, this after knowing Chris was a double-murderer that had just killed himself.
Pedro Fernandez
Note: Mr. Fernandez is an award-winning writer, TV commentator, radio talk show host, former San Francisco Policeman and four-time Golden Gloves champion, who also pens feature stories for the R & B band Tower of Power. Comments regarding this submission can be left below.
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