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Vince McMahon addresses the Chris Benoit murder/suicide in Netflix docuseries

Aaron Rift

The Netflix docuseries about former WWE owner Vince McMahon premiered on Wednesday, September 25th 2024 with comments from Vince that were made prior to his 2022 “hush money” scandal. Chris Benoit, who killed himself after murdering his wife Nancy and their seven-year-old son Daniel, was mentioned by Vince during episode six…

“Chris Benoit was thought of as an excellent in-ring performer. And as far as we knew, a great guy. There is no correlation between taking steroids and what happened to Chris Benoit. Human beings are flawed. Chris went nuts. It happens in every form of life and everything, so that’s the only thing I can take away from it.” (quote courtesy of WrestlePurists.com)

“This doctor came up with this ridiculous statement of ‘Okay here’s why Chris Benoit did this.’ There was some sort of trauma to his head and things were shown where Chris would dive off the rope and hit someone with his head. That’s a complete work. It looks like there’s damage and there’s not. We know what we’re doing, we don’t hurt each other.” (quote courtesy of TJRWrestling.net)