Current Events > Chris Benoit's son David Benoit wants to wrestle as Chris Benoit Jr

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It's worth noting that Benoit's son doesn't believe his dad did it.

He's in denial

Which is understable given their relationship

tbh he can reap whatever shitty benefits he can accrue from his father's name til the end of time for all i care

shitty pro wrestling fans that wanna throw shade about how this dude chooses to make money can kick rocks

ArsGoetia posted...

tbh he can reap whatever shitty benefits he can accrue from his father's name til the end of time for all i care

shitty pro wrestling fans that wanna throw shade about how this dude chooses to make money can kick rocks

I think the reality is there's not a lot of potential for making money out of that name.

Punished_Blinx posted...

I think the reality is there's not a lot of potential for making money out of that name.

i don't even like wrestling
but from CE osmosis ive inferred whatever wrestling network has in recent years started re-airing matches he was in, including him in merchandising, etc.

R_Jackal posted...

As someone who spent several years helping someone who had a TBI, I kinda do blame the industry that glorified blood and taking raw metal chairs shots straight to the head. The thing is we'll never know the actual reason so dancing around it could/couldn't be is moot. The only thing that can be said is the man needed help, and whether it be culture at the time, his brain, or whatever else, he never got it, as several people lost their lives as a result.

Same, I used to work in health care and had a client with TBI, it was uh .... interesting. Explosively interesting.

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what is the reason for airing 2000-2007 programming besides money lol

It's a streaming service that hosts legacy content.

That's not the same situation as someone taking up the name of the guy who killed his wife and kid today.

What is the Chris Benoit merch WWE is selling?

Punished_Blinx posted...

That's not the same situation as someone taking up the name of the guy who killed his wife and kid today.

and by someone, you mean that dude's kid
y'know, the one that lost most of his family there
if anyone deserves to profit off of that dude's name, for any reason (including reruns on a streaming platform), it's his fuckin kid, not the wrestling organization ffs

ArsGoetia posted...

and by someone, you mean that dude's kid
y'know, the one that lost most of his family there
if anyone deserves to profit off of that dude's name, for any reason (including reruns on a streaming platform), it's his fuckin kid, not the wrestling organization ffs

I have no issue with him getting residuals for his father's stuff. I sympathize with him.

But a wrestling organization would have to be remarkably stupid to go for this pitch. It would only attract negative attention. That's just reality and it applies to anyone who is related to a murderer.

Wrestling is trashy as fuck but even that is a bridge too far.

Punished_Blinx posted...

I have no issue with him getting residuals for his father's stuff. I sympathize with him.

But a wrestling organization would have to be remarkably stupid to go for this pitch. It would only attract negative attention. That's just reality and it applies to anyone who is related to a murderer.

and i don't disagree
but apparently wrestling fans are forgiving enough to still watch a murderer's matches
because it's too much of a pain to (bottom lines, if we're being honest) remove "endless parts of 2000-2007 programming"
so

Its more than a 7 year period, they have ECW and WCW on the network too

So it would be a 20 year period.

They'd have to edit almost every show for 20 years... It's not reasonable to demand they do that

Why is that guy going on about WWE and Vince so much? Benoit wrestled for them for barely any length of time compared to his overall career.

Is he gonna go after whoever hired him when he was Pegasus kid?

I don't buy into the idea that CTE is what made him do it. If he was really that brain damaged then how was he able to act so normal to other people and fulfill his professional obligations? A 90 year old with Alzheimer's would be a drooling mess and wouldn't have any idea of what's going on much less be able to navigate an airport, fly to a different state and take part in a pro wrestling match. Chris Benoit had a domestic abuse problem that had been going on for a long time before he killed his family. His wife Nancy filed for divorce years earlier and got a restraining order against him because of his violent behavior towards her. If his years of brain injuries are what causes him to do what he did then why was he only violent to his wife and child, and not to any of his coworkers or even to random people on the street? To all the people who knew him he was a consummate professional right up until the end.

XxAxem_BlackxX posted...

I don't buy into the idea that CTE is what made him do it. If he was really that brain damaged then how was he able to act so normal to other people and fulfill his professional obligations? A 90 year old with Alzheimer's would be a drooling mess and wouldn't have any idea of what's going on much less be able to navigate an airport

Alzheimers and TBI/ABIs are not the same thing. Alzheimers/dementia is used as analogy for CTE due to the damage to the brain, but the symptoms are very different.

ABI/TBIs are usually acute, high-level brain trauma from a singular incident, whereas CTE is a build up of low level brain trauma over a long period of time, and alzheimers is an unnatural build up of proteins

If anything, blame Harley Race for turning a botch into an absurdly dangerous move.

XxAxem_BlackxX posted...

I don't buy into the idea that CTE is what made him do it. If he was really that brain damaged then how was he able to act so normal to other people and fulfill his professional obligations? A 90 year old with Alzheimer's would be a drooling mess and wouldn't have any idea of what's going on much less be able to navigate an airport

Alzheimers and TBI/ABIs are not the same thing. Alzheimers/dementia is used as analogy for CTE due to the damage to the brain, but the symptoms are very different.

ABI/TBIs are usually acute, high-level brain trauma from a singular incident and often bring on extreme emotional reactions to the most minor of inconvenience as a result, whereas CTE is a build up of low level brain trauma over a long period of time, and alzheimers is an unnatural build up of proteins also over a long period of time that don't usually cause bad results until later in life. They're only related in that they effect the brain and have some symptom overlap, but that's common with most medical conditions.

In the end, their symptoms are very similar later in life, but they develop in different ways and have different rates of progression both physically and mentally; an ABI is a light switch and alzheimers/CTE is like a battery draining over time. My ABI client was extremely violent and we had to have panic rooms and alarms in the house.

ABI/TBI patients are more explosive from the acute period onward whereas alzheimers and CTE become explosive from chronic degradation over time.