Wrestlers family found dead

[Catty1]

Bret Hart had a bad stroke about 3 years ago...he has slowly regained his health, and does a lot of charity work...attending the events, not performing in them!

He was at an event here in Cochrane a couple of years ago, and I went up to him, shook his hand. Very gentle and approachable fellow, and polite. Is he always like that? Who knows? Perhaps his brother's death and his own health scare had given him a different look on things.

Nope...Olympic wrestling, based on the Greek style, is the only real wrestling around anymore, IMO.

This other steroid-driven parody won't leave until the tickets stop selling, and the tvs are switched off during broadcast times.

Too bad.

[sparks19]

Yes Owen Harts death was a tragedy. He was performing a stunt where he was supposed to repel from the ceiling and he fell to his death Very sad indeed. He was apparently a very good man.

British Bulldog also died a few years ago from a heart attack (no doubt roid induced)

and Yes.... WWE wrestling is very fake and scripted..... but it is still very dangerous. Many a wrestler has become paralyzed or had a very close call from a stunt gone wrong.

Greco Roman wrestling is very real though.... but that is not the style they use in the WWE .... it's all high flying stunts now. WWE is like watching a movie or a sitcom.... it's all scripted (the only parts that are improv are the speaking parts) but none the less it does still take a lot of physical effort.

[wombat2u2004]

It's all crazy stuff if ya ask me, including the drugs associated with that sport (would it be classified as SPORT ????) And now this happens....a whole family gone.....I guess like Catty says.....it all will only go away when ticket sales etc etc stop.
Wom

[RICHARD]

Catty knows GR wrestling?

That's 10 points in any book. Got see GR in the '84 Games. That was fun!

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The moves in "pro" rassling are very tough and acrobatic. These guys are athletes..There was a great expose on VM and the biz a few years ago...
That soured me on the spectacle.

The thing that gets me are the "reports" on what happened.
In typical fashion, there were 'roids found, there weren't, it was gunshots or suffocation.

'Roids are too much fun to report on-mental illness?
In my book killing anyone qualifes, drugs or not.

They poor reporting and the supposition muddle the waters.

Either way it's reported, it's too bad.

[Glacier]

Bret Hart had a bad stroke about 3 years ago...he has slowly regained his health, and does a lot of charity work...attending the events, not performing in them!

He was at an event here in Cochrane a couple of years ago, and I went up to him, shook his hand. Very gentle and approachable fellow, and polite. Is he always like that? Who knows? Perhaps his brother's death and his own health scare had given him a different look on things.

In another lifetime I used to train at a gym in Calgary owed by the Hart family. Bret was there quite often. He was always "Bret the Hitman"--friendly and approachable, but always in character! He only let that down around his family. He was still an active wrestling superstar back then.

Owen and I worked out at the same time quite often. He was hysterical! I loved him, not as a wrestler, but as a person! He cracked me up in the gym. I have a couple memories that still make me giggle...one day a teenage boy was in the gym, trying to move as much weight as he could and doing it all wrong. Owen watched him for probably twenty minutes with his head cocked like a curious dog. Finally he went over and asked the kid "just which muscle was he trying to work?", teased him for a few minutes and then showed him how to do it right. That kid is probably still telling people that Owen Hart was his trainer, even if only for a day. Another day when I was unloading a bar, he dragged the big doughhead who had left four hundred pounds on it, back over by his t-shirt and gave him a lecture about showing a little respect for the "lady" and unloading his own weights! BJ's didn't have very many female members! I never unloaded another bar again that wasn't my own.

I miss that gym. It was rundown, full of hardcore body builders, no nice showers or whirlpools, but I've never found another place where i actually wanted to train.

Until 'roids don't mean more money for both wrestlers and bodybuilders, they will always be part of both events.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

My hubby enjoys watching the so-called wrestling, although it seems to me that they are just shouting matches in silly costumes these days. I timed it once and it was a whole 20 minutes before anything other than shouting took place..........

This latest tragedy is horrific....

what do people think about Vince McThing suddenly declaring he isn't dead after all how sick is that man???

[anna_66]

In another lifetime I used to train at a gym in Calgary owed by the Hart family. .

You never cease to amaze me Tamara
Very cool!

[petslover]

I feel like I should defend the wrestling business. I have been around the business for 21 years now. (I am 21) My whole family has worked in it.. Just like any other sport or company, wrestling has their weakness too. Let's not blame the entire sport on what happened with this story.

Don't blame the WWE for what Benoit did. It was not Vince McMahon's fault, It was not WWE's fault that this man killed his family and himself.

I think it is a disgrace for a man to kill his family especially his son. There is NO excuse for that. Benoit was tested for drugs in April. According to WWE, He passed the test. It seemed like Benoit had a huge problem. He has been accused of having rages for a long time now.

Vince McMahon did have an explosion that caused him to "die." but everyone watching it could have figured out it was a script. I don't see anything wrong with that. People die on tv shows all the time, but are they really dead? Of course not.

I just feel like the entire "wrestling business" is getting looked down upon now, but that's not right.

I know most of the wrestlers. Most of them are the nicest, most down to earth people you will ever know.

So please don't judge the entire business on what one person did.

[elizabethann]

Richard,

I loved wrestling back in the old days myself. Who can never forget Andre the Giant?

This whole story is so sad. I just read that the police found needle marks on the boys arm because the parents were giving him growth hormones?

[sparks19]

Richard,

I loved wrestling back in the old days myself. Who can never forget Andre the Giant?

This whole story is so sad. I just read that the police found needle marks on the boys arm because the parents were giving him growth hormones?

Well sometimes hormones are needed for children.... in special cases. i really hope this was one of those cases and they weren't just drugging him.

I remember watching back in the days of Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior. LOL I will never forget that epic match up and watching it with my cousins. LOL Or the Bushwhackers. AH those were the good old days when it was more entertaining. it has really gone downhill since WWE and WCW merged, IMO.

[Catty1]

Except for this article, most have been clear in stating that ABUSE of steroids causes problems. Looks like Chris went off his nut here...I hope they find out what happened...

Excerpts from the article below.

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On Saturday, Benoit called a co-worker to say he had missed a flight and would be late for a wrestling event in Texas, WWE said in a timeline posted Tuesday on its website. The co-worker said Benoit sounded tired and groggy and said "I love you," which the co-worker found "out of context," WWE said.

When a co-worker who usually travels with Benoit called him later from the Houston airport, Benoit told the co-worker his wife, Nancy, was throwing up blood and that his son, Daniel, also was throwing up. Benoit said he thought it was food poisoning, according to WWE...

But early Sunday, two co-workers received a series of text messages from the cell phones of Benoit and his wife. Most stated his home address in Fayetteville, about 32 kilometres south of Atlanta. One message from Benoit's phone said: "The dogs are in the enclosed pool area. Garage side door is open," according to WWE.

The text messages led WWE to ask authorities to check on Benoit and his family.

District Attorney Scott Ballard said the messages appeared to be an attempt by Benoit to get someone to the home to find the bodies after his suicide.

Investigators found anabolic steroids in the house and want to know whether the muscle man nicknamed "The Canadian Crippler" was unhinged by the bodybuilding drugs, which can cause paranoia, depression and explosive outbursts known as "roid rage...

The boy had old needle marks in his arms, Ballard said. He said he had been told the parents considered him undersized and had given him growth hormones.

"The boy was very small, even dwarfed," Ballard said.

Toxicology test results may not be available for weeks or even months, Ballard said. As for whether steroids played a role in the crime, he said: "We don't know yet. That's one of the things we'll be looking at."

Benoit - who was born in Montreal and had homes in Edmonton and Atlanta - received drug deliveries from a Florida business that sold steroids, human growth hormone and testosterone on the Internet, according to the Albany County, N.Y., District Attorney's Office, which is investigating the business, MedXLife.com.

Six people, including two of the pharmacy's owners, have pleaded guilty in the investigation, and 20 more have been arrested, including doctors and pharmacists.

The WWE, based in Stamford, Conn., issued a statement Tuesday saying steroids "were not and could not be related to the cause of death."

"The physical findings announced by authorities indicate deliberation, not rage," the company said, adding that Benoit tested negative April 10, the last time he was tested for drugs.

Steroids have been linked to the deaths of several professional wrestlers in recent years. Eddie Guerrero, one of Benoit's best friends, died in 2005 from heart failure linked to long-term steroid use.

The father of Curt "Mr. Perfect" Hennig blamed steroids and painkillers for Hennig's drug overdose death in 2003. Davey Boy Smith, the "British Bulldog," died in 2002 from heart failure that a coroner said was probably caused by steroids.