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    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?

     

    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?

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    At the same time, his actions that one day seem to go against what all his friends say about him. I think it's a pretty big jump to say that because he was sometimes quiet or seclusive, that he was secretly a psychopath.

    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:

     

    The Chris Benoit before the last 3 days of his life was a lunatic who beat his wife, thought invisible men were following him, tortured a younger wrestler for "disrespecting Shawn Michaels," laughed at a crying referee backstage at a Japanese show and then called him a "gay bitch," and may have been injecting his son with HGH for non-medical reasons, among other things I'm probably forgetting.

    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.

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    Just here in the last day or also at PWO?

     

    From the former:

     

    That might be a moot point if Benoit never requested an examination. I could be wrong on this, but generally it is your responsibility to inform your employer about your injury. I don't know if WWE would be obligated to aggressively pursue the issue.

    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?

     

    And then Michael Benoit would need to explain how Benoit worked, negotiated contracts, etc. for the next three years without showing side effects. How he never lost reality and deliberately injured another wrestler, yet was too damaged not to recognize that killing his wife and child was wrong.

    - 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.

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    Pro Wrestlers are independant contractors.

    Not in WWE, where the contracts are pretty much illegal and they're actually employees.

     

    If a wrestler was to tell a promoter that he was ok and there is nothing wrong with him, there is really nothing a promoter can do to try and force that wrestler to go see a doctor. Except maybe not book that wrestler until he does go see a doctor...but of course that means if the promoter is suspect to a wrestler that might actually have a injury that the wrestler is trying to hide.

     

    For example:

     

    Promoter: Hey Wrestler A, that was a pretty nasty chair shot you took last night. How are you feeling?

     

    Wrestler A: Oh I'm fine. No worries.

     

    Promoter: Ok, I just wanted to check with you. Stay safe tonight.

    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.

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    That might be a moot point if Benoit never requested an examination. I could be wrong on this, but generally it is your responsibility to inform your employer about your injury. I don't know if WWE would be obligated to aggressively pursue the issue.

     

    Beyond that, a lawyer would then need to prove that the concussion led to Benoit's actions. That would be very difficult to prove in a court of law.

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

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    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.

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    Someone at the F4W boards dug this up from a McGuinness interview last year.

     

    Barbie asked, who has the hardest head, you’ve ever head butted? Nigel says he doesn’t know and that they all feel the same, but the ring post in Liverpool was quite an experience. OIB asks how he kept standing after that? Nigel just said the adrenaline and the crowd kept him going. He said after that he had to take a lot of time off, due to post concussion syndrome.

    Yet this week, in the letter to WO.com, he said:

     

    I did not willingly concuss myself last year in a match with Bryan Danielson. The headshots to which you are referring, while gruesome indeed, caused no concussion.

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    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?
    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.

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