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I dunno if that's officially debunked yet, there's still a lot of people arguing both sides of it (and not in a stupid way like the Wikipedia thing).

Could've been a lot of things. Perfectly ordinary office clerks who've never done an athletic thing in their lives sometimes need neck surgeries, too. Slipping & falling in the shower or down a flight of stairs could've easily done it. ...or Benoit could've ROID RAGED and put her in the crossface. Either or.

But lazy folks like me don't want to say "Japanese animation" or "Japanese pro wrestling" when there's short & easy substitutes like "anime" and "puro". I just don't want to pronounce that many syllables when I don't have to. And yes, I'm also one of those guys who says "black" instead of "African-American". I do agree on lucharesu, though. That's one of those terms (like Strong Style) that seems to have a different definition with every different smark that uses it.

Considering Jannetty hasn't had a contract in, uh, decades, could he afford it? I think Jindrak still lives in Atlanta, he's probably the best bet. On the other hand, the Mickie James theory brings up an important point: just because someone doesn't look like they're on the gas doesn't mean they're not on the gas. The "divas" have the same problems with retaining muscle mass and healing injuries that the men do. As long as they're not taking supplements at an East German Female Olympian level, it wouldn't be that obvious. (Didya ever wonder why a lot of the divas look rather, well, mannish?) Also, New Jack did an interview recently where he admitted taking steroids, which somewhat furthers my point. He certainly didn't look like a muscleman. If someone like Viscera, or Spike Dudley, or Stacey Keibler was on the juice, most people would never know.

They're kinda stuck, though. If they keep airing ANY Benoit footage at all, you can bet that Geraldo or O'Reilly or Nancy Grace or some other phaggot would eventually get wind of it, and then air a big "OMG WWE PROFITS FROM ROID-RAGE CHILD MURDERER" expose-type story. And then their stock would take yet another hit and they'd lose more sponsors PTC-style, so forth and so on. So they've really got to edit Benoit out, at least for now. Like you've pointed out, simply not airing the shows isn't a workable solution, as that eliminates not only the past seven years of WWE programming but a whole lot of other stuff too. My guess? Even as we speak, teams of editors are busily going through the entire WWE footage archive, making PR-friendly versions of all their shows in which Benoit has mysteriously been retconned off the face of the planet. They do similar things with Jesse Ventura's commentary and old WWF logos, so that's what the obvious choice here is.

Oh. Whoops. Still sounds like an ass cover, though, "well we can't detect ALL drugs, so why even try?".

Translation: "We're damn sure that Benoit's toxicology will come back with an entire pharmacy inside him, so let's start covering our asses now." They can fake urine tests? Draw blood, then. And "designer steroids" that are truly undetectable are pretty damn rare and very damn expensive.

Hey! Now that's just uncalled for. I'm appalled, offended, and disgusted by the content of this completely erroneous and inaccurate post. ...Snuka didn't always suck, he was pretty good back in the early 80's. But seriously, whorehouse madam and Lethal Weapon opening scene ripoff? Never heard those before, what's the dirt on this sleaze?

If Vince knew about it. Foley claims nobody but himself, Taker, and Funk knew the plan, for fear of getting told not to do it. I've never really bought that as a truly charitable thing. Why have her on TV at all? How is that not Eddiesploitation? Vince is a "billionaire", he could afford to pay her the exact same money to sit at home and raise her kids. It's not like she's drawing any money or adding quality to the show with her ultra-wooden acting anyway.

Okay, I finally get it. Sorry, I thought you were talking about wrestling style, not the gas. Yeah, I kinda wish Benoit had learned from Dynamite Kid's example, rather than just blindly following it.

I know Benoit was insecure about being small, but aside from that, I don't see how being a cruiserweight led to him killing people. His position on the card made no difference in his style, he always worked at an identical 101% pace whether he was jobbing in the first match or winning the world belt.

...what the hell are you talking about? How could weight classes have possibly prevented this?

Everything I've seen said Xanax. Which makes sense, cuz that really is some evil shit. It can cause severe mood swings, like REALLY severe, and is terribly addictive. I've known more than a couple people who ate them literally ten at a time, and devoted half their fucking lives to just finding and buying more.

Fragile X is inherited through the mother's genes, period. Check the science on the subject. The father has nothing to do with it. And it's entirely possible for someone to have one kid with FXS and another one without.

Well... I just get a kick out of people doing foamin-at-da-mouth arguing, but without the political talk show ability to cut each other off in mid-sentence. Yeah, the current events folder is way crazier than anything else on the site. I'm making a Benoit comp video for a friend. I truly have no soul.

Don't ya love the ban-happy policies of many boards? Hell, that's why I first created The Pit, as a safe haven where you could say whatever the fuck you want without fear of the PC Police laying the smacketh down on your candy ass. As for me, hell yes I can still watch Benoit's matches. Part of that is because I;m a bit of a sociopath, and part of that is because I worked in wrestling for five years. I never saw anything quite as bad as the Benoit situation, but I saw enough really fucked-up shit and knew enough people who died that nothing really surprises me anymore. I can watch a Bruiser Brody vs. Invader #1 match with nothing more than a creepy sense of irony, and I'm sure Benoit's matches will affect me pretty much the same way.

Well, nevermind. I guess this is why the medical examiner didn't pay any attention to Nowinski.

Heh. That reminds me of an old Mitchell article where he dissected Raven's Flock gimmick in a very similar manner. It's hilarious how much your average mark is in denial of the homo undertones of two guys in underwear grabbing each other. (I did a stint on the indies as an incompetent pipsqueak Cornette/Hart type manager, and would it surprise you that "FAGGOT" was by far the most common word yelled at me by the rednecks?) Note to indy promoters: someone should team up Kanyon and Maven, and call 'em Gayfabe. Make it so.

According to Bruce Hart, Benoit was a "delusional steroid freak". A friend of mine set up an interview with Bryan Alvarez at his radio station, you can download it here. Nothing earth-shattering, but Alvy does a good rebuttal against the various idiot reporters who have gotten all the facts wrong, and it's nice to hear an interviewer who knows nothing about wrestling but still doesn't assume anything about it either. You know, aside from myself, you're the only person I've seen mention that? Too many ignoramusi assume that steroids are good for nothing but becoming musclebound. And here's the whole shirt on the website that sells it. MAN that's just terribly unsettling. Incredibly morbid coincedence... or maybe Benoit subconciously showing his state of mind?

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I've seen the dad's comments too, on some TV news show's website, can't remember which exactly. Didn't say much, like two sentences, basically just that he couldn't believe what happened and the family might never get over it. Yes, Benoit was wearing a Bruiser Brody t-shirt that day. You can't see the shirt too well in this pic taken in the doctor's office, but I've seen that shirt before, and it's Goodish all right. Creepy creepy ubercreepy. And oh yeah, the "Wikipedia Conspiracy? has been double debunked.

I know, Miss Elizabeth says hi, and if in fact Nancy was on the gas you could easily debate WHICH husband got her on them. But Fragile X is a genetic condition which is passed down through the mother's DNA. As far as I know, steroids have nothing to do with it.

Except that Fragile X Syndrome is a hereditary disorder which is passed down through the mother. Benoit could've been shooting up with radioactive snake urine and it still couldn't have possibly caused that particular disease in his offspring.

You think it's bad there? Go visit some of the less smarky li'l outlaw boards. There are literally people out there who are trying to take the "OJ didn't do it, it was Some Puerto Rican guy!" route instead.