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Negligent from a legal standpoint. If I am injured at work, it is my responsibility to inform my supervisor. That's not my opinion, it's legalese. WWE was aware he was injured. He was knocked unconcious and then unable to stand when he came to. Benoit was not competent to make decisions at the moment and should've been checked out. From here, we don't know whether or not the WWE doctor looked at him so it gets muddier. Was he advised that he didn't need to go to an ER, etc?

He WAS a psychopath for a long time, his friends are just covering it up or blind to it because they're in the wrestling business and see his actions as normal. As I said before: Besides what's come out already, I have heard some profoundly fucked up stuff more recently that I'm not at liberty to discuss but will be in at least one of the books about Benoit. I'm not sure he would've killed his son with his pro wrestling finishing hold without a discolored demented old man brain, though.

Just here in the last day or also at PWO? From the former: Already discussed. How is it NOT negligent? He was knocked out and then unable to stand for several minutes when he came to. Common sense would dictate that the WWE doctor examine him. If he did, then, well, he should expect to be sued, too. If he didn't, then why not? - It's not Michael Benoit's job, it's Cary Ichter's. - It's been explained that the specific damage would severely mess with Benoit's reaction to stress. - We don't even know what the lawsuit will specifically entail. Perhaps there's a better case in just suing over Chris's death and not Daniel's. Maybe it won't be wrongful death and will be something else easier to prove based on Chris's brain being visably damaged.

"reasoned points" lol

There's a difference between "blameless" and "wouldn't have killed his family and himself when he did for whatever reasons that he had if he wasn't suffering from dementia." He had it in him to kill people, the dementia made it come to the surface more easily.

Not in WWE, where the contracts are pretty much illegal and they're actually employees. He was knocked unconscious by a member of management during the course of "regular" work and wasn't checked for a concussion. Also, to expand on what HTQ said about the brain exam findings: In November, the WON had a note from Dr. Julian Bailes, explaining how McMahon and Meltzer misunderstood the findings. The deterioration was similar to that of an 85 year-old man with Alzheimer's, but that Benoit didn't necessarily have Alzheimer's symptoms. He had damage that would make normal stress set off violent reactions.

It's still negligent not to check.

I'm pretty sure that the onus is not on the dude who suffered a BRAIN INJURY to request the examination.

Benoit was legitimately knocked unconscious by an HHH chairshot (as was Jack Doan) at the 12/6/04 Raw in Charlotte and then couldn't stand up on his own for several minutes after regaining consciousness. In spite of this, WWE claims they have no records of Benoit suffering a concussion while working for them, which means he either wasn't checked after regaining consciousness or he was and it was ignored.

Then come off even more gay trying to prove their straightness. That too.

Goldust turns face because he says he's not a "queer." Chuck & Billy turn face because they're actually straight and only pretending to be gay for publicity.

USA HD, which seems to only be on DirecTV.

Did Jim Powers ever come out to "Crank It Up" after Roma turned?

Does PWT have the Online stuff or just the VOD? I have the VOD service w/ my cable but no online sub.

If someone could convert the Brody match (and other 24/7 online exclusive stuff like the uncut July '93 HBK-Jannetty) to DVD, that would be awesome.

Plenty of shows ran longer. Wrestling at the Chase ran 24 years.

I'm pretty sure that Wikipedia is completely wrong about Maxx Muscle being Jeff Warner.

Then where did the great quality footage of the Flair match come from?

Someone at the F4W boards dug this up from a McGuinness interview last year. Yet this week, in the letter to WO.com, he said:

He had a fresh head injury, why should he be making important decisions?

Bryan Danielson is the franchise of ROH, if he didn't want to wrestle with a concussion, he didn't have too. Nigel had a concussion, and guess what? He didn't wrestle. It's not exploitation, if a guy willingly goes out there and performs, knowing that he scrambled his brains the night before. I know it's considered "cliche' around these parts, but I'm really part of the "Nobody is holding a gun to these guys head, and making them perform" crowd. I might be in the minority, so be it. So to answer your question. No, it's not worth pointing it out every chance you get, we already know. It's not a matter of Danielson wanting to wrestle, it's a matter of Sapolsky & Silkin letting him wrestle.

So it's not worth pointing out that in spite of popular opinion, ROH, like WWE, is run by terrible people who exploit idiotic, brain-damaged wrestlers?

"Waaaah, he's saying bad things about ROH!"

http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/h...t.asp?aID=21704 Romero (squashing someone) and Danielson were back tonight. R-O-H! R-O-H! Fuck those guys.

no no no no no no no no He is right about the deal with the cops and the neighbor and absolutely nothing else.