Man I loved Chris benoit’s wrestling as a kid growing up, he was right up there with stone cold for me. Not the most charismatic, but his technical abilities in that ring were second to honestly no one.
This is the Chris Benoit I remember; outside the ring a very down to earth soft spoken man but inside the ring, there was no one more intense. I still have his WWE Hard Knocks DVD. His matches with Kurt Angle were a sight to see, wrestling clinics. Thank you Chris Benoit for the wrestling RIP
His autopsy revealed he had CTE but saying he had the brain of an 80+ year old with Alzheimer’s is a huge exaggeration. He talked better than most retired boxers.
Something is fishy not saying Chris is innocent but who knows . Many conspiracies about his death . From the message he sent chavo, Kevin Sullivan, alcohol at his house but no prof of alcohol on autopsy.
I was at his last televised show, and it was so eerie when I heard what happened just a few days later. I’ve studied this case a ton ever since, and it definitely seems like there’s a piece missing that we don’t know.
@@7letterbrandon439 it’s almost like someone *murdered* him and ran away without being caught. I saw someone say in a different video that they read an article about benoit which mentioned when benoit said “daniel and nancy have a food poisoning”, it was because of a wrestler and his wife giving food to benoit and his family, and the food could’ve been added some sort of medicine and gave it to benoit and that’s why they were sick. some say the killer could’ve been nancy’s ex husband. I’m stuck in between those two theories, they’re more believable than a man killing his own family then himself.
@@grannyiBro… no. He was found hung in his weight room. Autopsy reports were done on his family and himself. Anything “fishy” would have been found in the reports. They would have been able to identify a struggle, DNA testing for fingerprint’s, and multiple other factors. There is no missing link. Chris Benoit had a mental break from his developed CTE, and combined with his abuse of steroids it amplified that mental break, which resulted in him losing control of his mind.
I am currently training to be a professional wrestler as my coach is Mr.Kennedy and I will never forget Benoit’s style the way he viewed Dynamite Kid is how I view him in return.
Stay away from those diving head butts, but absolutely incorporate his style into yours. He was one of the best to ever lace up a pair of boots. It's a damn shame that isn't what he is best known for
2:30 It would have been great to see Undertaker vs Chris Benoit sometime around 2006-07 since both were in their primes respectively and especially The Undertaker was in the best shape of his wrestling career. But Sadly Those two tragic nights of June, 2007 changed everything and till this very day, It hurts me the same it did back in 2007. I feel very bad for Nancy and Daniel cause they were all innocent. Rest in Peace to all of them.
Man a proper Benoit vs Undertaker feud would have been gold, still respect Benoit as a wrestler but not a person I just can’t maybe not so much here but I couldn’t help but feel watching some stuff back around 2007 he started to look more and more disconnected was the word I would use, have to agree with Jericho after watching Dark Side of the Ring I do think Benoit’s fate was sealed after Eddie died, locked himself in his own world until he snapped, we’ll never know 100% but more for those who knew Chris Benoit personally it hopefully gives something to know with the high level of brain damage that he didn’t do what he did for no reason, RIP Nancy and Daniel and may God have mercy on Chris
@@The_RabidWolverine Judging by this interview… is memory is perfectly fine. Also they blamed a big part of his C.T.E on his signature move the diving headbutt… when Kurt Angle confirmed that Chris never actually headbutted his opponent while performing that move.
@@The_RabidWolverine Actually, Benoit used to do the same for chair shots also. He probably suffered many concussions over his career… like almost every wrestler as. But I truly believe that it wasn’t the cause of what actually happened in that house.
Nah you must not be too familiar with Chris. He looks very very tired. I'm not talking physically tired but mentally drained. You can tell from the look in his eyes that he is on the verge of a mental breakdown. Unfortunately his mental breakdown something no one could have ever predicted. I suffer from schizoaffective disorder and when you have severe mental illness you can pick up on other people's body language and physical appearance when something is wrong, if that makes sense. He was also maybe 10 or 11 months removed from losing his best friend/road partner/confidante Eddie Guerrero. He kept a journal in which he wrote letters to Eddie and in hindsight those were warning signs of a complete mental breakdown
The interviewer closes with “a true gentleman, Chris Benoit… it’s been a pleasure talking with you” … and less than 6 months later he’s off himself + family.
@@mikeg2491 yes we do, because we all deserve to know what happened, being in denial and just saying "Benoit bad" and acting aggressive about it isn't helpful, everybody knows the whole Benoit case is badly covered and terribly informed to the public and there's more people to hold responsible that got away with it, i just grow tired with all the morons just pretending to care for his family and then being happy because he is dead and cracking jokes about it, that's hypocrisy at it's finest especially when even related ones to Benoit already moved on, it's like the HBK haters that still live in 1997
You dig around the internet & hear different people talk about different elements of Benoit & wonder if they are even talking about the same person. If I had to make a guess at what happened it'd be that Benoit was bi-polar, had brain damage, got drunk & lost it. I've been sober for 6 years because I drank ONE time once I started lithium for bi-polar disorder & went ballistic for no reason at all. Complete blackout, I remember maybe 3 seconds of what was a 30 minute tantrum of punching holes in walls & police showing up at my house. I'm just lucky I have GREAT friends in my life who understood that, that was NOT ME & held me down until the police left, otherwise I'd have probably been shot. When they talk about it, nothing about the incident seems real. Mental health is still so stigmatized & all sorts of situations like this could be handled in advance if there was more education on the subject & empathy from people around them. I think very few people are born monster, our lives, our choices shape us to become so. I have a handle on mine now & will never, EVER let that become an issue again, but like I said, I just got lucky. Dunno. This is one of those events that'll bother me for the rest of my life I think.
yea all of a sudden right ,he seems pretty fluent for a guy that has the mental function of a 80+ year old dementia patient ,I'm calling bullshit on a lot of things said
I've never seen this interview, but we all know we're here to try and find one or two seconds of "out of character" mood changes that make us try and justify what happened.
Nothing necessarily "out of context" but you can tell from his eyes and physical appearance that he is emotionally drained, especially after losing Eddie
The Outro Graphic has morphed into a different meaning now , with Words like " Prove Me Wrong " " Don't Miss Chris " speak entirely different things now.
I remember WWE SvR 2006 had a story mode and one of the arcs was about Benoit and Undertaker feuding and I remember thinking, this should be on tv not a video game.
He sounds perfectly coherent and intelligible here. He doesn't sound like someone with advanced stage brain disease at all. I think there is definitely some foul play involved surrounding his death.
"foul play" my arse. Steven Regal and his wife who were close to Nancy Benoit give a different account of Chris. Just because we're fans of his lets not be delusional. That man took his family out and then killed himself. Its 2023 and you're judging a killer based on if they "sound perfectly coherent and intelligble."
So, imagine he finds out his wife isn't happy and wants to split. He's stuck between losing his love and his passion for wrestling, which means the world to him. This whole situation might have messed with his head, pushing him towards that extreme decision that tragically affected his and his family's lives. Crazy how things can get so tangled up, right?
Chris look so sad man. He looks robiotic. Unfortunate what happend with With him and his family. Furthermore Chris will always be my favorite wrestler.
I attended WrestleMania 23 and when his match with MVP ended he walked pass me and I remember seeing that same sadness. He just looked really disappointed and I didn't get it at the time.
that so hard to imagine what he did after that, he was great man who has hard life after eddie died and he has some problems with his family so that what he did was just on a whim i think, rip chris, nancy and daniel❤
Everyone pointing out how he doesn’t seem in a bad place dont realize that he was a whole celebrity at this point putting on a face for the cameras has to be like second nature to him just cause he isn’t acting like a psychopath doesn’t mean he wasn’t doing bad mentally once you’re behind closed doors in the privacy of your own home you can really be the real you
He seems burned out. He was overly-dedicated to his craft because it was all he knew when he needed to take time off to unwind and properly grieve. 2007 was a different time tho so ppl shrugged their shoulders and put off mental health until enough ppl died from it.
I think his wife was abusive towards him also, even after he lost his best friend Eddie, i think the guy just reached breaking point and snapped, sad situation
Seeing interviews and videos of him so close to his death really confuses me. I am not a doctor, but there is no way he had a so called "85 year old dementia patient brain". And if you do some research, there are plenty of things that are very VERY suspicious about his and his family death. Again i know nothing but there is definitely something wrong.
@@fitzgerald434yes but like stone cold said he may have done an awfully wrong thing... But the wrestler Chris Benoit was a technician master his wrestling was thee best and I agree the person at the end of his life turned too be a monster but in the ring can't deny he had it all...❤😢 Sad the way it ended tho😢
@@fitzgerald434 no proof he killed anyone pal get your facts right and head outta your backside, we know everything said about him was untrue so that itself has discrepancies in the story, also the deaths were reported a day before anybody found them, autopsy showed beniot suffered damage consistent of strangulation pulling from behind him rather than the story of him hanging himself up with weights
Late Adulthood Integrity vs. Despair (65 years and up) Reflecting on life, the elderly person may experience satisfaction or a sense of failure. VIII. Expressions of Integrity 1. proud, content with self and life 2. still actively thinking about the future 3. healthy interaction with self 4. self approving 5. comfortable giving and sharing with others 6. likes being an example to others 7. accepts aging process gracefully and death as part of life cycle VIII. Expressions of Despair and Distrust 1. despair 2. deep resentment 3. nothing left, uselessness 4. low self esteem 5. anger at self, other, world, society 6. closed to others 7. complaints, irritable 8. anger at aging, feels cheat
@@Aaros_MediaCollectionstop it nothing has ever told us differently…y’all just defend him cause he was a wrestler…if he never wrestled y’all wouldn’t be defending this guy
RIP Chris. Not condoning what he did but I feel so bad for this guy. Brain damage is so complicated to understand. Just know this man wasn't a monster. He was a victim of CTE first. Period. Rip to his family. Sad story all together
I don’t believe what he did has any pattern to his brain damage and CTE, yes brain damage is hard to understand but the combination of the drugs he was taking plus the empty bottles of alcohol found in the house along with marital problems going into that weekend caused his snap I believe, there’s a reason why he didn’t kill his son like right as soon as he killed Nancy and waited hours later, still just tragic
Other tests conducted on Benoit's brain tissue revealed severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and damage to all four lobes of the brain and brain stem. Bailes and his colleagues concluded that repeated concussions can lead to dementia, which can contribute to severe behavioral problems.
@@rob23auger66 I understand that bro😂 but he was operating just fine literally until that weekend like i think it was a heated argument while being intoxicated that lead him to do the things he did, like they all weren’t just watching a movie then he said fuck it imma do this now, something must’ve been said that triggered him to just lose control, not saying I condone it at all but again imo CTE did not play a part in this
@@mikedevito9338 i think its a combination between what you’re saying and also him having brain damage. The point of the brain damage isn’t that he randomly starts killing people, it’s that he would’ve struggled to make proper decisions/control his emotions. If I remember right, the autopsy concluded that it was NOT the result of any drugs in his system at the time of the murder. That was all him, whatever was left of him anyways. He did have therapeutic levels of xanax, and some other shit along with a lot of testosterone, but the final opinion was that it wasn’t any substances that caused the immediate reaction. With that said, obviously years of drug abuse will lead you to that path. Here’s the extract from wikipedia: Benoit was found to have Xanax, hydrocodone, and an elevated level of testosterone, caused by a synthetic form of the hormone, in his system. The chief medical examiner attributed the testosterone level to Benoit possibly being treated for a deficiency caused by previous steroid abuse or testicular insufficiency. There was no indication that anything in Benoit's body contributed to his violent behaviour that led to the murder-suicide, concluding that there was no "roid-rage" involved.[157]
I wonder how that radio host had felt about interviewing Benoit if she had later heard about the tragedy that would eventually shock the world in June of that year.
Looking back on this I still feel bad for Chris because he was a family man and a kind person with mental issues and crying over the death of Eddie,Chris couldn’t hold on to the rope anymore. Rip Chris and his family 💔🕊️
yeah so he tied around his familys neck… he had mental illness but from a psychological standpoint at the end of the day he murdered his family and its a shame you wreslting fans just followe these monsters and thats how more get created just like vince and his sex trafficking ring your people will eat up watever as long as its entertaining
You were never around the guy…he was a quiet guy that never even hung around his fellow wrestlers…and those are the guys you gotta look out for…introverted people are introverted for a reason
@@user-gf7rb6tl3bNot all introverts are violent psychopaths behind closed doors like you're insinuating here. Most of us introverts only just like to keep our circles small and be left alone for the most part.
2:13 you can tell that he actually enjoyed working with Booker and Finlay, but then he was pretty much forced to mention HHH and Shawn Michaels because he knows it might get back to them if he left them out.
This completely disproves the brain of an 80 year old Alzheimer's patient theory. He's talking rationally, normally and his memory is excellent. I was a huge Benoit fan but to me this proves what i believed happened where it was a really bad argument and he snapped. It's sad a couple bad days took the lives of 3 people and completely ruined the integrity of a guy i grew up watching and being a fan of.
Agreed. Yes, he might’ve had CTE, but i dont think it was that severe to the extent where his brain is the same of an 80 year old with alzheimer’s. I always looked up to benoit as my hero, and rolemodel. If u read on his wikipedia, it does mention his CTE also caused a failing marriage with his wife, Nancy. Still can’t believe someone would ever, and i mean, ever, have the heart to kill his own beloved wife and kid. May god bless their soul.
@@grannyi the thing is my grandfather had Alzheimer's and I can tell you if CTE caused him to have it that severely, there's no way he could be talking with logic, sense and recalling things from his past vividly. So I don't buy it was steroids or CTE. Did that play a role in it? Probably so but ultimately he showed signs of clear premeditation. Meaning he would've had to been aware of what he was doing. I do believe it was a really bad argument and he just snapped.
Gotta keep in mind, during radio interviews or blog write ups, the interviewer will give you the questions and topics to be discussed in advance. So that you are well prepared beforehand and have all your material in order, that way you can have a proper “live” conversation.
He comes off as such a nice guy , I don't know if I can believe he did it anymore. Wrestling was never the same because there was an elephant in the room that wwe was forbidden to ever mention
Weird part about the neighbor she called the police saying she found the bodies of Nancy and Daniel and that Chris was in the basement with the door locked. It’s very suspicious.
He was probably doing everything he could to keep it himself together in the interview, but he does seem off. Looking into his eyes.. the lights are on.. but nobody is home
People with memory lapses and brain disease, can get really into particular topics and shoe sharpness, while suffering still. In and out of episodes and such. Not saying Beniot wasn't aware of murdering his family, but trivializing mental illness isn't the way to go about things.
Did anyone ever see the impact he took in that the match against 2 Cold Scorpio in 93’? Can’t remember what ppv it was, but it’s absolutely brutal, no wonder his CTE was the way it was
I KEEP WATCHING THIS INTERVIEW AND ITS SOMETHING ABOUT HIS EYES AND THIS WHOLE VIDEO AND HE RESPONDS SO QUICK IDK JUS WEIRD BUT CHRIS DIDN'T KILL HIS FAMILY MAN
@@philleotardo8038 Well slurred speeches is one of the symptoms of CTE, but the reason I think this interview is very slurred is because if you were to compare Benoit’s interviews in the past, like in Japan, ECW and perhaps WCW, his voice sounded a lot different. Even the interviews he did 2-3 years sounded slurred, I can barely hear him in this interview.
This hurts bad man. He was so genuine. I know foul play was involved. Fuck CTE if he had that shit wrestlers have to remember notes and spots for their matches if he was an 85 year old alzheimers brain he would fumble all his matches its bullshit Chris is innocent! There is so many factors that prove he and his family were murdered. It really pisses me off that people shrug it off.
@@suebeanton1632Cause he was. I am in a group on Facebook titled Chris Beniot was framed. It has all the paperwork, autopsies reports, toxicology reports etc. We know beniot didnt kill his family. There was piss in the toilet without it being flushed there was beer cans in the workout room yet he had no alcohol in his blood, in the crime scene report it says nancy was found downstairs and later it says they found her upstairs. Chris was clean and tested 2 months prior before the incident. You mean to tell me that he shot himself up FULL of steriods to the point where he would literally not be able to move his arms. Knowing he was clean and then hang himself? He wouldn't of had the strength to lift all that weight he did with the amount of shit he had in his body. On the parker voice-mail you clearly hear Daniel moaning in pain in the backround and a man telling him I WILL STRANGLE YOU. As well as something dragging that sounds like a dead body. Chavo said there was voice-mails to Chris and nancy only nancys phone was NEVER FOUND why? Who took it? The Wikipedia hacker that announced their deaths a day before it was announced and just so happened to have an IP address from where?? DING DING STAMFORD CONNECTICUT. HOME OF WWE HEADQUARTERS. I could go on and on. Also the neighbor skipped town and has gone in hiding since the discovery
If only Chris hadn't gone home that faithful week in late June 2007, we may be speaking of him in an entirely different light. Who knows, maybe wrestling would've been a lot different towards the end of the decade the PG Era would’ve never existed.
I read all these comments of oh such a good dude. Oh it was CTE. It was his brain Paul Hayman said it best three people died in that house only one had the choice
In-ring, Chris Benoit was right up there with Bret the Hitman Hart. He upped the intensity by several notches. I don't understand what went wrong. I may never know. I am born on the same day as Chris but not the year of course.
I have had a bunch of head blows. You can easily spin out of control and things snowball if you're not careful and have people and things to help reverse things. I think shit snowballed on Chris and he lost total control of himself and reality.
in the days and weeks leading up to that tragic weekend he could remember spots in matches and his travel schedules and had enough cognitive ability to try and cover his tracks and come up with a alibi. He had enough cognitive ability to show remorse and place bibles beside them. I don't believe that he had a form of Dementia (perhaps early onset at best) the whole roid rage thing confuses me as well as he killed 2 people on 2 different days, 1 in rage is fair enough and could be explained that way but killing 2 people has to show a level of premeditation and awareness of what you are doing.
I remember one night I had a dream of chris benoit vs eddie guerrero at wrestlemania 24. But sadly it's a dream because both weren't with us by that time
@@The_RabidWolverine they were putting on a rope bouncing highflyer pace style match in the citrus bowl. Made me sad when I woke up because they were both gone by 2008 😣
Man I loved Chris benoit’s wrestling as a kid growing up, he was right up there with stone cold for me. Not the most charismatic, but his technical abilities in that ring were second to honestly no one.
Him, shamrock, angle and hart were the 4 greatest at technical wrestling
His tenacity made it for it even tho we knew it was scripted he made it feel real
I completely agree he was definitely top 10 for me
@@XaneVidz no dean milenko ?
@@XaneVidzDon’t forget Eddie
This is the Chris Benoit I remember; outside the ring a very down to earth soft spoken man but inside the ring, there was no one more intense. I still have his WWE Hard Knocks DVD. His matches with Kurt Angle were a sight to see, wrestling clinics.
Thank you Chris Benoit for the wrestling RIP
Especially mania 17 that's a forgotten match very underrated
Humble man. Always loved and looked up to him. RIP.
@@grannyiSaying you always LOVED and looked up to a wrestler you didn't know who went on to murder a women and a child is absolutely pathetic
Ted Bundy was presented as Charming Human as well
Rest in Piss
His autopsy revealed he had CTE but saying he had the brain of an 80+ year old with Alzheimer’s is a huge exaggeration. He talked better than most retired boxers.
Something is fishy not saying Chris is innocent but who knows . Many conspiracies about his death . From the message he sent chavo, Kevin Sullivan, alcohol at his house but no prof of alcohol on autopsy.
I refused to believe this man killed his family.
ever since I was 12 i looked at him and knew something was off...
Exactly! Thank you! They lied! 👍
I mean remembering to talk is cool, but remembering to not kill your whole family is really cool.
Jeeeese 2007 and he seems so sharp here and in a good place :(
so were nancy and his son
I dont know, he looked so sad
@@Yugiohsachsehow???
I mean, he didn't do it so ...
makes you wonder if the case was really solved
This is heartbreaking to watch. He seems like such a nice guy
He was that's what's so heartbreaking about the situation
a nice guy that choked the life out of his child and wife 😂
I was at his last televised show, and it was so eerie when I heard what happened just a few days later. I’ve studied this case a ton ever since, and it definitely seems like there’s a piece missing that we don’t know.
Right. this whole case seems a little fishy for me.
@@grannyiexactly.
@@7letterbrandon439 it’s almost like someone *murdered* him and ran away without being caught. I saw someone say in a different video that they read an article about benoit which mentioned when benoit said “daniel and nancy have a food poisoning”, it was because of a wrestler and his wife giving food to benoit and his family, and the food could’ve been added some sort of medicine and gave it to benoit and that’s why they were sick. some say the killer could’ve been nancy’s ex husband. I’m stuck in between those two theories, they’re more believable than a man killing his own family then himself.
@@grannyiBro… no. He was found hung in his weight room. Autopsy reports were done on his family and himself. Anything “fishy” would have been found in the reports. They would have been able to identify a struggle, DNA testing for fingerprint’s, and multiple other factors. There is no missing link. Chris Benoit had a mental break from his developed CTE, and combined with his abuse of steroids it amplified that mental break, which resulted in him losing control of his mind.
The missing piece was Eddie 😢
I am currently training to be a professional wrestler as my coach is Mr.Kennedy and I will never forget Benoit’s style the way he viewed Dynamite Kid is how I view him in return.
Stay away from those diving head butts, but absolutely incorporate his style into yours. He was one of the best to ever lace up a pair of boots. It's a damn shame that isn't what he is best known for
Say hi to Mr. Kennedy for me
mmMMMISSSSSTTTTERRRRRR...KENNEDY.....KENNEDY.....😂 I always liked seeing his matches & on the mic 🎤 👍
Hey I would like to train with you and Mr Kennedy
@@anthonychavez1994 I’d say go for it man 💪🏾
2:30 It would have been great to see Undertaker vs Chris Benoit sometime around 2006-07 since both were in their primes respectively and especially The Undertaker was in the best shape of his wrestling career. But Sadly Those two tragic nights of June, 2007 changed everything and till this very day, It hurts me the same it did back in 2007. I feel very bad for Nancy and Daniel cause they were all innocent. Rest in Peace to all of them.
Man a proper Benoit vs Undertaker feud would have been gold, still respect Benoit as a wrestler but not a person I just can’t maybe not so much here but I couldn’t help but feel watching some stuff back around 2007 he started to look more and more disconnected was the word I would use, have to agree with Jericho after watching Dark Side of the Ring I do think Benoit’s fate was sealed after Eddie died, locked himself in his own world until he snapped, we’ll never know 100% but more for those who knew Chris Benoit personally it hopefully gives something to know with the high level of brain damage that he didn’t do what he did for no reason, RIP Nancy and Daniel and may God have mercy on Chris
Lovely interview from this young man. I believe he’s going to go on to create a great life and legacy from this point on going forward.
@@aaronlauretani8921 i got something to tell you
@@The_RabidWolverinewhatever
“Brain of an 85 year old Alzheimer’s patient.” but yet can remember everything perfectly… didn’t forget a thing. 🤔
They also said he was forgotful
@@The_RabidWolverine Judging by this interview… is memory is perfectly fine.
Also they blamed a big part of his C.T.E on his signature move the diving headbutt… when Kurt Angle confirmed that Chris never actually headbutted his opponent while performing that move.
@@ChrisRyder1995 he used to protect his head with his hands.. So he probably got concussions from chair shots
@@The_RabidWolverine Actually, Benoit used to do the same for chair shots also. He probably suffered many concussions over his career… like almost every wrestler as. But I truly believe that it wasn’t the cause of what actually happened in that house.
@@The_RabidWolverine There’s so much evidence proving Chris Benoit’s innocence… how anyone can deny it, is honestly bafflingly. 🙈
He seems very coherent here, I thought he’d look worse
He was murdered
@@Warm_and_loveable Kevin Sullivan right lmao.
Nah you must not be too familiar with Chris. He looks very very tired. I'm not talking physically tired but mentally drained. You can tell from the look in his eyes that he is on the verge of a mental breakdown. Unfortunately his mental breakdown something no one could have ever predicted.
I suffer from schizoaffective disorder and when you have severe mental illness you can pick up on other people's body language and physical appearance when something is wrong, if that makes sense.
He was also maybe 10 or 11 months removed from losing his best friend/road partner/confidante Eddie Guerrero. He kept a journal in which he wrote letters to Eddie and in hindsight those were warning signs of a complete mental breakdown
@@Warm_and_loveable he murdered..
@@Warm_and_loveable. He murdered himself
2007 is the year I graduated-
I was like 18-19 years old in 2007, lol-
I'll be 37 in November -
We’re the same age. Do you miss the 90’s?
@@PhantomNites eyes-
What state do you live?-
Im Indiana -
Did you fail a year? You should be like 34-35
@@Jeremy_the_botthat's what I was thinking 😂
@@Jeremy_the_botI was adding the years too lol
The interviewer closes with “a true gentleman, Chris Benoit… it’s been a pleasure talking with you” … and less than 6 months later he’s off himself + family.
I mean he didn't do it so ...
@@Gameboy-Unboxingsshut up. Yes he did
Police didnt wanna do their jobs that day.
@@idjut1080No one wants to do the job of cleaning up a dead wife & child
@@mikeg2491 yes we do, because we all deserve to know what happened, being in denial and just saying "Benoit bad" and acting aggressive about it isn't helpful, everybody knows the whole Benoit case is badly covered and terribly informed to the public and there's more people to hold responsible that got away with it, i just grow tired with all the morons just pretending to care for his family and then being happy because he is dead and cracking jokes about it, that's hypocrisy at it's finest especially when even related ones to Benoit already moved on, it's like the HBK haters that still live in 1997
That glare from him at 0:35 - 0:40 says a lot about him when you've seen a lot of brutality in life like war. The Eyes are a window to the soul
You dig around the internet & hear different people talk about different elements of Benoit & wonder if they are even talking about the same person. If I had to make a guess at what happened it'd be that Benoit was bi-polar, had brain damage, got drunk & lost it. I've been sober for 6 years because I drank ONE time once I started lithium for bi-polar disorder & went ballistic for no reason at all. Complete blackout, I remember maybe 3 seconds of what was a 30 minute tantrum of punching holes in walls & police showing up at my house. I'm just lucky I have GREAT friends in my life who understood that, that was NOT ME & held me down until the police left, otherwise I'd have probably been shot.
When they talk about it, nothing about the incident seems real.
Mental health is still so stigmatized & all sorts of situations like this could be handled in advance if there was more education on the subject & empathy from people around them. I think very few people are born monster, our lives, our choices shape us to become so.
I have a handle on mine now & will never, EVER let that become an issue again, but like I said, I just got lucky.
Dunno. This is one of those events that'll bother me for the rest of my life I think.
I agree with your reasonings. 💯
I feel bad honestly for Chris, it's just sad how a few months later he couldn't contain himself and did something that would destroy his legacy
Yeah...his .....legacy. That's totally the tragedy.
He was murdered
yea all of a sudden right ,he seems pretty fluent for a guy that has the mental function of a 80+ year old dementia patient ,I'm calling bullshit on a lot of things said
@@nascarnut18 Ik it's a tragedy his family was killed at his hands but his legacy was also tarnished
@@Warm_and_loveable he murdered himself
I've never seen this interview, but we all know we're here to try and find one or two seconds of "out of character" mood changes that make us try and justify what happened.
Nothing necessarily "out of context" but you can tell from his eyes and physical appearance that he is emotionally drained, especially after losing Eddie
"Ray-bid Wolverine"
The Outro Graphic has morphed into a different meaning now , with Words like " Prove Me Wrong " " Don't Miss Chris " speak entirely different things now.
I remember WWE SvR 2006 had a story mode and one of the arcs was about Benoit and Undertaker feuding and I remember thinking, this should be on tv not a video game.
@@smoothpoon86 i remember that too and also in svr 2007 the undertaker predicted benoit family tragedy
He sounds perfectly coherent and intelligible here. He doesn't sound like someone with advanced stage brain disease at all. I think there is definitely some foul play involved surrounding his death.
Bingo
"foul play" my arse. Steven Regal and his wife who were close to Nancy Benoit give a different account of Chris. Just because we're fans of his lets not be delusional. That man took his family out and then killed himself. Its 2023 and you're judging a killer based on if they "sound perfectly coherent and intelligble."
I don't know, you'd be surprised how complex brain damage is and how it can manifest itself.
So, imagine he finds out his wife isn't happy and wants to split. He's stuck between losing his love and his passion for wrestling, which means the world to him. This whole situation might have messed with his head, pushing him towards that extreme decision that tragically affected his and his family's lives. Crazy how things can get so tangled up, right?
We have another arm chair doctor in the comments
He seems so normal here.
Pills... Lot of Pills probaly.
Hard to believe it's been 17 years!!!
Chris Benoit would have broken Undertaker's WM streak if he were alive today. Miss him so much.
RIP legend of wrestling. He needed help and he didn't get it... very sad.
Chris look so sad man. He looks robiotic. Unfortunate what happend with With him and his family. Furthermore Chris will always be my favorite wrestler.
I attended WrestleMania 23 and when his match with MVP ended he walked pass me and I remember seeing that same sadness. He just looked really disappointed and I didn't get it at the time.
the eyes never lie chico.
Ur tryna find sht to support how u feel based on what happened but no he literally doesn’t look “so sad”
@@zacharyjackson3104I met Benoit, he had the same dead eyes my crazy BPD ex had.
2:28 looks like benoit really was going to verse taker at mania 24. would've been a great match
that would have been the match of a century 😢❤also benoit vs shawn wm 25,26
he looks very normal to me.calm present nice everything.i still cant believe it.
This brings me tears😢rip
that so hard to imagine what he did after that, he was great man who has hard life after eddie died and he has some problems with his family so that what he did was just on a whim i think, rip chris, nancy and daniel❤
Everyone pointing out how he doesn’t seem in a bad place dont realize that he was a whole celebrity at this point putting on a face for the cameras has to be like second nature to him just cause he isn’t acting like a psychopath doesn’t mean he wasn’t doing bad mentally once you’re behind closed doors in the privacy of your own home you can really be the real you
Just sad to watch anything chris Benoit related
He seems burned out. He was overly-dedicated to his craft because it was all he knew when he needed to take time off to unwind and properly grieve. 2007 was a different time tho so ppl shrugged their shoulders and put off mental health until enough ppl died from it.
I think his wife was abusive towards him also, even after he lost his best friend Eddie, i think the guy just reached breaking point and snapped, sad situation
He did this interview right before he died
rip to everyone that passed that day🙏🏼
Seeing interviews and videos of him so close to his death really confuses me. I am not a doctor, but there is no way he had a so called "85 year old dementia patient brain". And if you do some research, there are plenty of things that are very VERY suspicious about his and his family death. Again i know nothing but there is definitely something wrong.
Everything went through WWE and it was all tainted
What do you think happened?
@@translucentimp i don't know what happened. None of the fans know. We all just know what was told to us.
@@LeMecMoustachu so creepy and sad...
@@LeMecMoustachu the police know he done it
With someone who apparently has "CTE", he can talk and bring up the past a LOT better than me....who doesn't have CTE (as far as I know lol).
Damn Man, He Seemed Like Such A Great Guy 😔
He was a killer, he aint a great guy
@@fitzgerald434yes but like stone cold said he may have done an awfully wrong thing... But the wrestler Chris Benoit was a technician master his wrestling was thee best and I agree the person at the end of his life turned too be a monster but in the ring can't deny he had it all...❤😢 Sad the way it ended tho😢
@@AcTiVeReLoAdZbut still a child and wife killer
@@fitzgerald434Socially he was
@@fitzgerald434 no proof he killed anyone pal get your facts right and head outta your backside, we know everything said about him was untrue so that itself has discrepancies in the story, also the deaths were reported a day before anybody found them, autopsy showed beniot suffered damage consistent of strangulation pulling from behind him rather than the story of him hanging himself up with weights
Seems like just yesterday I was watching him & Eddie Guerrero on smackdown on UPN channel 9. 💔.. I wish they never left
That was a final interview Chris had joined in that year before he murdered his wife, his son, and then himself (he took his own life)😢
Late Adulthood Integrity vs. Despair
(65 years and up) Reflecting on life, the elderly person may experience satisfaction or a
sense of failure.
VIII. Expressions of Integrity
1. proud, content with self and life
2. still actively thinking about the
future
3. healthy interaction with self
4. self approving
5. comfortable giving and sharing with
others
6. likes being an example to others
7. accepts aging process gracefully
and death as part of life cycle
VIII. Expressions of Despair and Distrust
1. despair
2. deep resentment
3. nothing left, uselessness
4. low self esteem
5. anger at self, other, world, society
6. closed to others
7. complaints, irritable
8. anger at aging, feels cheat
I love you Chris Benoit. Yah bless your family and your soul!
Must be trolling or your crazy asl
👎🏻
Happy belated Father’s Day Chris …
@@theneighborhoodvideos4029he’s innocent
@@Aaros_MediaCollectionstop it nothing has ever told us differently…y’all just defend him cause he was a wrestler…if he never wrestled y’all wouldn’t be defending this guy
The best wrestler ever
Not he isn’t he’s not even on the Mt Rushmore he’s in the top 10
Could've been
@@kdizzle901as technical wrestler he is in the mountrushmore alongside Angle and Bret Hart.
As a Súper Star he isnt.
I wonder how the interviewer felt after the tragedy
Wrestlemania is like the last day of the season in premiere league or a champions league final, the biggest, f.a cup comparison is so funny bruh 😂😂
Later that year he'd be gone. . . Along with his family 😢
Lady: what is a crippler Crossface?
Benoit: I’ll show you 😂😂
@@altorres5988 "get on the floor I'll show you"
It is so sad what Depression and a brain Injury can make a person do to others and themselves.
RIP Chris. Not condoning what he did but I feel so bad for this guy. Brain damage is so complicated to understand. Just know this man wasn't a monster. He was a victim of CTE first. Period. Rip to his family. Sad story all together
I don’t believe what he did has any pattern to his brain damage and CTE, yes brain damage is hard to understand but the combination of the drugs he was taking plus the empty bottles of alcohol found in the house along with marital problems going into that weekend caused his snap I believe, there’s a reason why he didn’t kill his son like right as soon as he killed Nancy and waited hours later, still just tragic
@@mikedevito9338 bro they did a study of his brain and it was mush. Alot of it was dead. Definitely do more research.
Other tests conducted on Benoit's brain tissue revealed severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and damage to all four lobes of the brain and brain stem. Bailes and his colleagues concluded that repeated concussions can lead to dementia, which can contribute to severe behavioral problems.
@@rob23auger66 I understand that bro😂 but he was operating just fine literally until that weekend like i think it was a heated argument while being intoxicated that lead him to do the things he did, like they all weren’t just watching a movie then he said fuck it imma do this now, something must’ve been said that triggered him to just lose control, not saying I condone it at all but again imo CTE did not play a part in this
@@mikedevito9338 i think its a combination between what you’re saying and also him having brain damage. The point of the brain damage isn’t that he randomly starts killing people, it’s that he would’ve struggled to make proper decisions/control his emotions. If I remember right, the autopsy concluded that it was NOT the result of any drugs in his system at the time of the murder. That was all him, whatever was left of him anyways. He did have therapeutic levels of xanax, and some other shit along with a lot of testosterone, but the final opinion was that it wasn’t any substances that caused the immediate reaction.
With that said, obviously years of drug abuse will lead you to that path.
Here’s the extract from wikipedia:
Benoit was found to have Xanax, hydrocodone, and an elevated level of testosterone, caused by a synthetic form of the hormone, in his system. The chief medical examiner attributed the testosterone level to Benoit possibly being treated for a deficiency caused by previous steroid abuse or testicular insufficiency. There was no indication that anything in Benoit's body contributed to his violent behaviour that led to the murder-suicide, concluding that there was no "roid-rage" involved.[157]
I wonder how that radio host had felt about interviewing Benoit if she had later heard about the tragedy that would eventually shock the world in June of that year.
I gotta ♥ from Chris Benoit 🤭
Looking back on this I still feel bad for Chris because he was a family man and a kind person with mental issues and crying over the death of Eddie,Chris couldn’t hold on to the rope anymore. Rip Chris and his family 💔🕊️
My dad died. My wife and kids still living
yeah so he tied around his familys neck… he had mental illness but from a psychological standpoint at the end of the day he murdered his family and its a shame you wreslting fans just followe these monsters and thats how more get created just like vince and his sex trafficking ring your people will eat up watever as long as its entertaining
You're saying rest in peace to someone who murdered his wife and son? 😂
your disgusting
@@j04370859 nobody’s perfect bro u act like ur not guilty of any type of sin we are all sinners at the end of time
Chris is a very humble nice person totally out of character for what he did
Ive met people who seem nice but when they get mad or mix with drugs/alcohol things get bad.
Yeah drugs and alcohol definitely played a major role.
You were never around the guy…he was a quiet guy that never even hung around his fellow wrestlers…and those are the guys you gotta look out for…introverted people are introverted for a reason
@@user-gf7rb6tl3bNot all introverts are violent psychopaths behind closed doors like you're insinuating here. Most of us introverts only just like to keep our circles small and be left alone for the most part.
Miss you man🙏🏾 ik the truth we love you Chris and the family
Whats the truth
@@orlandoyero7151 Im not gon lie man go watch those videos surfacing don’t ask me nothing I don’t fckn trust u internet folk!💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Mentally ill
He just comes across as someone who was not mentally affected here. Hard to understand how that terrible tragedy occurred.
Tragic is the perfect word for the whole situation.
He was speaking better than most athletes here
The ending is creepy now
I think his real hieght is 5'7 170cm
absolutely nothing at the end was creepy.
2:13 you can tell that he actually enjoyed working with Booker and Finlay, but then he was pretty much forced to mention HHH and Shawn Michaels because he knows it might get back to them if he left them out.
Very saddening.
Nice to archive this though.
I'm pretty sure he got the name Crippler because of his match with Sabu.
@@aaronservice86 that's actually true tho
This completely disproves the brain of an 80 year old Alzheimer's patient theory. He's talking rationally, normally and his memory is excellent. I was a huge Benoit fan but to me this proves what i believed happened where it was a really bad argument and he snapped. It's sad a couple bad days took the lives of 3 people and completely ruined the integrity of a guy i grew up watching and being a fan of.
Agreed. Yes, he might’ve had CTE, but i dont think it was that severe to the extent where his brain is the same of an 80 year old with alzheimer’s. I always looked up to benoit as my hero, and rolemodel. If u read on his wikipedia, it does mention his CTE also caused a failing marriage with his wife, Nancy. Still can’t believe someone would ever, and i mean, ever, have the heart to kill his own beloved wife and kid. May god bless their soul.
@@grannyi the thing is my grandfather had Alzheimer's and I can tell you if CTE caused him to have it that severely, there's no way he could be talking with logic, sense and recalling things from his past vividly. So I don't buy it was steroids or CTE. Did that play a role in it? Probably so but ultimately he showed signs of clear premeditation. Meaning he would've had to been aware of what he was doing. I do believe it was a really bad argument and he just snapped.
1:52 look at his eyes
Sus
creepy as hell especially right after he calls himself "the crippler" and he applied crippler to his son!
@@thedreadedsyntholbaby763I meant about the unsynchronized blinking, maybe this is a symptom of a neurological problem.
im talking about that too@@elchurrumino
@@elchurruminodamn.... What the fuck was that??
Tragic how Benoit's life story ended.
Gotta keep in mind, during radio interviews or blog write ups, the interviewer will give you the questions and topics to be discussed in advance. So that you are well prepared beforehand and have all your material in order, that way you can have a proper “live” conversation.
He comes off as such a nice guy , I don't know if I can believe he did it anymore. Wrestling was never the same because there was an elephant in the room that wwe was forbidden to ever mention
kevin sullivan got even after chris took his wife, and then his wife took everything kevin owned even his condo
This guy seems like he’s got a bright future ahead of him
Why did Chris neighbor move and had to lawyer up? 🤔
She was the cousin of Kevin Sullivan
Weird part about the neighbor she called the police saying she found the bodies of Nancy and Daniel and that Chris was in the basement with the door locked. It’s very suspicious.
@@CarolynDestructionVery
@@CarolynDestructionnot really
Because she covered up a triple murder
Not to be rude but he doesn’t look all there compared to older interviews, he just doesn’t seem right to me
He pretty much became a husk after Eddie passed... A lost man without his friend to go to.
this is the most cool i've ever seen chris be
He was probably doing everything he could to keep it himself together in the interview, but he does seem off. Looking into his eyes.. the lights are on.. but nobody is home
pretty crazy that he’s so well spoken here considering what happened 3 months later
People with memory lapses and brain disease, can get really into particular topics and shoe sharpness, while suffering still. In and out of episodes and such. Not saying Beniot wasn't aware of murdering his family, but trivializing mental illness isn't the way to go about things.
Did anyone ever see the impact he took in that the match against 2 Cold Scorpio in 93’? Can’t remember what ppv it was, but it’s absolutely brutal, no wonder his CTE was the way it was
Tough to believe that man killed his family. To this day, I’m shocked.
It was ''heavy'' Chris, nobody actually knew what you were ''carrying'' inside you. R.I.P
After all the allegations recently i doubt he killef himself. Vince is a true monster and we all know who's ex was in a secret society.
He had consensual sex with coworkers that hardly translates to fucking killing a guy
I KEEP WATCHING THIS INTERVIEW AND ITS SOMETHING ABOUT HIS EYES AND THIS WHOLE VIDEO AND HE RESPONDS SO QUICK IDK JUS WEIRD BUT CHRIS DIDN'T KILL HIS FAMILY MAN
Damn his voice is so slurred, his CTE diagnosis is very severe, no doubt.
Really? He seems to be perfectly coherent to me. I don’t really notice a slur
@@philleotardo8038
Well slurred speeches is one of the symptoms of CTE, but the reason I think this interview is very slurred is because if you were to compare Benoit’s interviews in the past, like in Japan, ECW and perhaps WCW, his voice sounded a lot different. Even the interviews he did 2-3 years sounded slurred, I can barely hear him in this interview.
@@frankmiranda707 really though? I can hear him perfectly fine.
@@philleotardo8038 he’s fuckin reaching lmaoo, and u did 20 years in the can?
@@philleotardo8038yeah I agree his speech wasn't slurred in this interview at all
He was framed, one of the best wrestlers next to Bret Hart
This hurts bad man. He was so genuine. I know foul play was involved. Fuck CTE if he had that shit wrestlers have to remember notes and spots for their matches if he was an 85 year old alzheimers brain he would fumble all his matches its bullshit Chris is innocent! There is so many factors that prove he and his family were murdered. It really pisses me off that people shrug it off.
people suck that's why
What are the factors? Could u list them?
@@suebeanton1632go look at his brain X-rays mah bois brain had a million holes in it I'm surprised he was still moving all these years😢
He killed his family. It was and will forever be a terrible tragedy, but people need to accept it.
@@suebeanton1632Cause he was. I am in a group on Facebook titled Chris Beniot was framed. It has all the paperwork, autopsies reports, toxicology reports etc. We know beniot didnt kill his family. There was piss in the toilet without it being flushed there was beer cans in the workout room yet he had no alcohol in his blood, in the crime scene report it says nancy was found downstairs and later it says they found her upstairs. Chris was clean and tested 2 months prior before the incident. You mean to tell me that he shot himself up FULL of steriods to the point where he would literally not be able to move his arms. Knowing he was clean and then hang himself? He wouldn't of had the strength to lift all that weight he did with the amount of shit he had in his body. On the parker voice-mail you clearly hear Daniel moaning in pain in the backround and a man telling him I WILL STRANGLE YOU. As well as something dragging that sounds like a dead body. Chavo said there was voice-mails to Chris and nancy only nancys phone was NEVER FOUND why? Who took it? The Wikipedia hacker that announced their deaths a day before it was announced and just so happened to have an IP address from where?? DING DING STAMFORD CONNECTICUT. HOME OF WWE HEADQUARTERS. I could go on and on. Also the neighbor skipped town and has gone in hiding since the discovery
I wish Chris got that taker feud
If only Chris hadn't gone home that faithful week in late June 2007, we may be speaking of him in an entirely different light. Who knows, maybe wrestling would've been a lot different towards the end of the decade the PG Era would’ve never existed.
PG era wouldn’t be existing if benoit was alive. He would be 57 now. Rip.
Man, what pushes a person to do what he did? He seems… fine?
@@Mutantman02 everyone trying to get answer since he died
I read all these comments of oh such a good dude. Oh it was CTE. It was his brain Paul Hayman said it best three people died in that house only one had the choice
0:40 Proof that the FA Cup is the biggest trophy of them all!
2:05
In-ring, Chris Benoit was right up there with Bret the Hitman Hart. He upped the intensity by several notches. I don't understand what went wrong. I may never know. I am born on the same day as Chris but not the year of course.
This was...sweet...💚💚
if only he knew he'd be having that program with the Undertaker just a few months down the line..
How you know WWE was planning that because Undertaker and Chris Benoit are my 2 favorite wrestlers of all time.
I have had a bunch of head blows. You can easily spin out of control and things snowball if you're not careful and have people and things to help reverse things. I think shit snowballed on Chris and he lost total control of himself and reality.
FA Cup, bro was trying his best
Kevin Sullivan finally got “checkmate”. He ordered the hit
Crazy the hit killed them over 3 days
🤣wrestling fans man y’all are as dumb as it gets
Need to check your head
in the days and weeks leading up to that tragic weekend he could remember spots in matches and his travel schedules and had enough cognitive ability to try and cover his tracks and come up with a alibi. He had enough cognitive ability to show remorse and place bibles beside them. I don't believe that he had a form of Dementia (perhaps early onset at best) the whole roid rage thing confuses me as well as he killed 2 people on 2 different days, 1 in rage is fair enough and could be explained that way but killing 2 people has to show a level of premeditation and awareness of what you are doing.
How did he get an 85-year-old brain? He looks normal to me, he was obviously framed
2/10/24
U obviously need help
Who the fuck puts the date in their comments
This don't look like a guy about to kill his family. Look how cool and happy he seems. This is so messed up
People without brain damage judging people with brain damage like they have been brain damaged before, really amusing internet
My grandpa had on stage dementia and couldn’t even pour a bowl of cereal let alone wrestle a 20 minute wrestling match…this excuse is hilarious
@@user-gf7rb6tl3bhaving "the brain of an 80 year old with Alzheimer's" from brain damage isn't gonna be an exact replication to acting like one.
"i never got to have a match with the undertaker"
mission fulfilled
If memory serves me correctly, it said he *allegedly* killed his family. So since it was *allegedly,* For some reason, I sense that he was framed.
Maybe you need to not go on memory
He did do it
I remember one night I had a dream of chris benoit vs eddie guerrero at wrestlemania 24. But sadly it's a dream because both weren't with us by that time
@@macburninman17 damn can you tell me more about your dream?
@@The_RabidWolverine they were putting on a rope bouncing highflyer pace style match in the citrus bowl. Made me sad when I woke up because they were both gone by 2008 😣
His eyes are straight black in this video. The man had a demon
He was a weirdo
He always had evil eyes
reaching
Makes me wonder how different WWE would be if he was still alive today and how much longer would he have wrestled before retiring?
According to Nancy's sister Chris's heart was enlarged he would have died within 10 months
He definitely had CTE but no way he had a brain of a 85 year old Alzheimer’s patient. No way in hell. But he definitely blacked out and lost his mind.