Wrestlers family found dead

[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.

[Catty1]

One more set of excerpts from CBC online:
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Officials said:

* Benoit, 40, killed his 43-year-old wife, Nancy, on Friday night. Her body was found wrapped in a towel in the home office. Her wrists and ankles were bound and a Bible had been placed near her body. The cause of death was ruled as asphyxiation.
* An autopsy suggested that the son, Daniel, was killed on Saturday morning. He was found in his bed, also with a Bible beside his body. His cause of death was also asphyxiation.
* Later Saturday or early Sunday, Benoit hanged himself in the basement weight room, using the cord from his pulley weight set. He did not leave a suicide note.

Meanwhile, court documents have surfaced that show that Benoit's wife requested a restraining order against her husband in 2003, accusing him of threatening her and breaking furniture in their home. She later dropped the request.

Nancy Benoit also filed for divorce that year, saying her three-year marriage was irrevocably broken and marked by "cruel treatment." She later withdrew the complaint.

[sparks19]

What a heart breaking story.

I do not in anyway excuse what he did. It's horrible. But the whole situation is so saddening.

With so many cases of death linked to steroid use (not nessecarily this one but in the past) I just find it hard to believe that the WWE is doing any kind of extensive or even reliable testing for these drugs.

There are many characterisitics to look for in steroid users.... not only emotionally but many physical characteristics are very apparent in those that are using roids and those that aren't. many in the WWE possess these physical characteristics.