Chris Benoit Dead - Toxicology results released

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

What songs will make you think of Chris Benoit?

Anything by Slayer.

You guys are seriously fucking killing me tonight.

 

Edit: Poor choice of words, self!

[Matt Young 0]

I haven't posted here in years, but Chris Benoit was pretty close to god-level in my eyes. I woke up to find out that he was gone... with all the speculation now, I don't have any idea how to react anymore.

 

I really, really, really hope the rumors aren't true.

 

Rest in peace, Chris.

Rest in peace, Nancy.

Rest in peace, Daniel.

 

Maybe you should change your name to something that doesn't have the word "guy" in it, now that you're a transsexual, cuz.

 

http://www.myspace.com/zoef

 

[bobobrazil1984 0]

between the spitting out blood stories and the fact that there no gunshots or stab wounds, I wonder if poison somehow entered into this.

[Guest Macaroni]

I'm beginning to think they should cancel the Smackdown and ECW tapings tomorrow night, and not show anything at all this week. Let the investigation run its course, give all the wrestlers a period to recoup and cope with what's happened, and restart again on Monday. If Benoit is ruled to be the one responsible for his wife and son's deaths, I don't think it would be too difficult for the WWE to explain tonight's tribute, seeing how they didn't know much at the time, and had to scramble to put something together.

 

As to how much people on the inside actually were aware of, that's something I'm actually morbidly curious about...

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

Possible "reasoning" behind the circumstances? You've got to figure Benoit suffered a ton of concussions over his career. Couple that w/ years of steroid and painkillers.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2905142

A former Pittsburgh Steelers lineman who died three years ago after leading police on a high-speed chase had signs of a brain condition causing dementia and depression found in three other ex-NFL players, The New York Times reported Friday.

 

Justin Strzelczyk was killed when he collided with a tractor-trailer on the New York State Thruway in upstate New York after leading police on a 40-mile high-speed chase. Before his death he said he was hearing voices from "the evil ones" and suffering from depression.

 

Dr. Bennet Omalu, a neuropathologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, told the Times a recent study of Strzelczyk's brain tissue showed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a finding two other doctors confirmed. Omalu believes the conditon was caused by multiple trauma sustained on the football field.

 

The condition, which can only be diagnosed in dead patients or by an invasive biopsy, is characterized by tangles of nerve fibers in the brain's cortex. The symptoms can include memory loss, depression and dementia similar to Alzheimer's disease and is typically found in elderly people in their 80s and in boxers suffering from dementia.

 

"This is extremely abnormal in a 36-year-old," Dr. Ronald Hamilton of the University of Pittsburgh, who confirmed Omalu's findings, told the Times. "If I didn't know anything about this case and I looked at the slides, I would have asked, 'Was this patient a boxer?'"

 

According to Omalu, an autopsy of Andre Waters, who shot himself to death last November at age 44, showed his brain tissue resembled that of an 85-year-old man and shared characteristics of early stage Alzheimer's. Omalu said he found similar conditions in the brains of former Steelers Mike Webster, a Hall-of-Fame center who suffered from dementia before his death from heart failure in 2002, and Terry Long, who committed suicide by drinking antifreeze last June.

 

Also, former New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson has said he suffers from depression and memory loss after enduring multiple concussions as a player.

 

According to the Times, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said that the league had no comment on Omalu's findings in the Strzelczyk case, while NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw did not respond to telephone messages seeking comment.

 

Strzelczyk, a 6-foot-6, 300-pound offensive lineman with the Steelers between 1990 and 1998, was experiencing an apparent breakdown the morning of Sept. 30, 2004, when he led police on a 40-mile chase down the New York State Thruway in his pickup truck after being involved in a minor traffic mishap near Syracuse.

 

According to media accounts of the incident, he drove 15 miles on three tires and a rim after one of his tires was punctured by metal spikes thrown onto the road to stop him and was "flipping off" troopers, throwing a beer bottle at one. The incident ended near Herkimer, when Strzelczyk swerved into the westbound lanes of the Thruway to avoid a truck that had pulled across the highway to stop him and collided head-on into a tanker truck.

 

Earlier this year, Dr. Julian Bailes, the chairman of the department of neurosurgery at West Virginia University and the Steelers' team neurosurgeon during Strzelczyk's career, suggested to Omalu that Strzelczyk's brain tissue might have been preserved from his autopsy, the Times reported. Bailes, is also the medical director of the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes at the University of North Carolina and has co-authored several papers citing links between concussions and later emotional and cognitive problems.

 

Mary Strzelczyk, the late player's mother, granted Omalu permission to study the brain tissue for signs of CTE, saying she wanted to better understand what led her son to his death. On Wednesday, as she looked at images of her son's brain damage on a computer screen, she told the Times they would be "a piece of the puzzle."

 

"I'm interested for me and for other mothers," she told the Times. "If some good can come of this, that's it. Maybe some young football player out there will see this and be saved the trouble."

 

Omalu told the newspaper he is confident the damage was caused by concussions Strzelczyk might not have reported, because players did not know the symptoms of a concussion or would not report them for fear of appearing weak.

 

"Could there be another cause? Not to my knowledge," Bailes told the Times. He also said that bipolar disorder, which Strzelczyk appeared to be exhibiting in the months before his death, would not have been caused by CTE but could have been made worse by it.

 

Omalu and Bailes told the newspaper the diagnosis stands out because the condition manifested itself when Strzelczyk was in his mid-30s. Long and Waters were in their 40s when they committed suicide, while Webster was 50 and had suffered from numerous physical ailments and chronic pain in addition to dementia.

[humongous2002 0]

WTF? Here I thought that the Benoit family died because of carbon monoxide or a car accident but now I'm finding out that Christ might've killed his wife and kid. He was a great wrestler but this piece of news truly changes my opinion and respect of him as a human being.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Maybe you should change your name to something that doesn't have the word "guy" in it, now that you're a transsexual, cuz.

 

http://www.myspace.com/zoef

 

"Is this love, that I'm feeling?"

[AntiLeaf33 0]

The kid is the sticking point in all of this mess for me.

 

I can buy a seemingly good guy killing his wife if she was fucking around on him...but why the kid? I can't see why he would murder his child if he had a issue with his wife.

 

Hopefully in the coming days we can get some answers and get to the bottom of what the fuck happened.

[MFer 0]

I had Chris Benoit as #1 on my MySpace Top 8 but if he really killed his wife Nancy and his young son, I'll most likely have to move him down a couple of spots

Cute.

 

The only reason I said I would leave the group IF Benoit did it was because it wouldn't look good to be a member of a group that's made in tribute to a murderer. It doesn't change my opinion of him as a wrestler.

 

On another note, "the instruments of death" sound awfully disturbing.

[goldengreek 0]

WOW ...JUST WOW!! THE WRESTLING BUSINESS IS CURSED !!

I HONESTLY LOST 2 OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE WRESTLERS IN BENOIT AND GURERRO

 

RIP CHRIS

 

SO FUCKING SAD

Eddie would be proud that your fandom of him falls a hair short of properly spelling his name.

BLOW ME CUNT

[LaParkaMarka 0]

What songs will make you think of Chris Benoit?

Anything by Slayer.

You guys are seriously fucking killing me tonight.

 

Edit: Poor choice of words, self!

 

I love this thread.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0]

So should the WWE rename Vengeance to something else?

[Gary Floyd 0]

WOW ...JUST WOW!! THE WRESTLING BUSINESS IS CURSED !!

I HONESTLY LOST 2 OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE WRESTLERS IN BENOIT AND GURERRO

 

RIP CHRIS

 

SO FUCKING SAD

Eddie would be proud that your fandom of him falls a hair short of properly spelling his name.

BLOW ME CUNT

I love TSM right now.

[Mik 0]

This is the best TSM thread in years.

[slimm44 0]

I'm beginning to think they should cancel the Smackdown and ECW tapings tomorrow night, and not show anything at all this week. Let the investigation run its course, give all the wrestlers a period to recoup and cope with what's happened, and restart again on Monday. If Benoit is ruled to be the one responsible for his wife and son's deaths, I don't think it would be too difficult for the WWE to explain tonight's tribute, seeing how they didn't know much at the time, and had to scramble to put something together.

 

As to how much people on the inside actually were aware of, that's something I'm actually morbidly curious about...

 

Whether he did murder them, or it was an accident. Benoit still deserves a tribute. He may have become unstable, and yes the WWE should make a statement disclaiming what Benoit did was wrong, but he was a friend to everyone backstage, and what happened was not the real Chris Benoit everyone knew on the road.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

WTF? Here I thought that the Benoit family died because of carbon monoxide or a car accident but now I'm finding out that Christ might've killed his wife and kid. He was a great wrestler but this piece of news truly changes my opinion and respect of him as a human being.

 

 

Awesome Smark slip.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

WOW ...JUST WOW!! THE WRESTLING BUSINESS IS CURSED !!

I HONESTLY LOST 2 OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE WRESTLERS IN BENOIT AND GURERRO

 

RIP CHRIS

 

SO FUCKING SAD

Eddie would be proud that your fandom of him falls a hair short of properly spelling his name.

BLOW ME CUNT

Edy Gurerro would be mortified at such crass language.

[bobobrazil1984 0]

so now there's a real possibility Chris Benoit could be a murderer. Wow.

[slimm44 0]

So should the WWE rename Vengeance to something else?

 

Oh god, the jokes will come pouring in now.

[Gary Floyd 0]

So should the WWE rename Vengeance to something else?

The Big Payback? Retribution? The Magic Hour?

[Annabelle 0]

i can tolerate the murder of a spouse, but your own child? oh, chris.

 

 

[bob_barron 0]

but now I'm finding out that Christ might've killed his wife and kid. He was a great wrestler but this piece of news truly changes my opinion and respect of him as a human being.

 

He wasn't that good a wrestler

 

[muzz 0]

Some people were funny, some are just trying too hard now.

 

 

[Slayer 0]

Sources in the Fayette County Police Department are now working under the theory that Chris Benoit killed Nancy on Saturday, son Daniel on Sunday, and then killed himself earlier today.

and on the fourth day, he rested

[uhftv 0]

this all just makes me sick to my stomach

[MixxMaster 0]

On another note, "the instruments of death" sound awfully disturbing.

Sounds like the next WWE Films movie

[slimm44 0]

Times like these, I wonder what we did before the internet.

[Guest George's Box]

but now I'm finding out that Christ might've killed his wife and kid. He was a great wrestler but this piece of news truly changes my opinion and respect of him as a human being.

 

He wasn't that good a wrestler

THIS IS THE MOST OFFENSIVE THING ANYONE HAS SAID YET!

[Dandy 0]

WOW ...JUST WOW!! THE WRESTLING BUSINESS IS CURSED !!

I HONESTLY LOST 2 OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE WRESTLERS IN BENOIT AND GURERRO

 

RIP CHRIS

 

SO FUCKING SAD

Eddie would be proud that your fandom of him falls a hair short of properly spelling his name.

BLOW ME CUNT

 

 

YOU CONTINUE TO IMPRESS WITH YOUR MATURITY!!!!!

[Ted the Poster 0]

Sources in the Fayette County Police Department are now working under the theory that Chris Benoit killed Nancy on Saturday, son Daniel on Sunday, and then killed himself earlier today.

and on the fourth day, he rested

Oh, you motherfucker.