RABID: The Chris Benoit Story | Wrestling True Crime Documentary
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- In this episode of Wrestling True Crime, we examine the Chris Benoit tragedy of June 2007.
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Stone Cold worded it absolutely perfectly, "Chris Benoit, the guy I knew? Loved him. Chris Benoit, the wrestler? Loved him. Chris Benoit? The guy who did what he did? Unforgivable.".......
I miss those days
@@ceechubbyhands5908 As do I
@@davidpeters2625 man ole man
Listen here brother, 🤣🤣
If that was the case why can’t wwe just acknowledge the wrestling of him and his accomplishments I heard nothing but amazing things about his wrestling and no I am not trying to excuse him for what he did
Paul Heyman of all people summed it up. “ 3 people died that weekend, only 1 had a choice. If he wanted to die, he didn’t have to take them too.”
Which isn’t exactly true is it? His brain looked like an 85 year old brain with Alzheimer’s. The way people ignore that no one was piloting the plane is fucking crazy. CTE is a fucked up degenerative brain disease and in bad cases like Benoit’s it often ends up in self harm or hurting others. What he did was fucking horrible. What needs to happen is contact sports need to get a hell of a lot safer!! To prevent stuff like this.
He also very selfishly messaged Chavo.
After Eddie literally died in Chavo's arms Chris was going to have him find those 3 bodies.
I can't even.
There's so many ways to seek help, which he had the money for, and there's so many ways to self delete that don't involve hurting others.
@@taybandz9985 Numerous athletes and ex athletes have CTE. Other pro-wrestlers, boxers, MMA fighters, American/Canadian football players, rugby players, etc. We know it from autopsies. Eddie Guerrero, Test, and Chyna had CTE. I guarantee you that Tyson Fury and Mick Foley are walking around right now with severe CTE.
The vast majority don't commit atrocities.
I'm not saying it wasn't a factor, it obviously played a role (probably a huge role), but tbh if you look at the case, you can clearly see how much calculation went into the murders and his suicide at the end.
Chris didn't just flip out on the Friday night. He bound and strangled Nancy, drugged Daniel with Xanax and smothered him to death the next day, then killed himself the day after that.
He had the capacity to express some degree of remorse (laying Bibles by their bodies, killing his son in a 'humane' way, etc) yet at the same time he was Googling shit like flights to the WWE PPV he was supposed to wrestle in and flights outside the US. He was calling/texting Chavo and others while this was happening.
It was first degree murder under the law in Georgia, plain and simple.
@@purplebean8989dude had the worst case of CTE I have ever seen, it was so bad he would have been dead within a year had he not done what he did. He wasn't in the right mind to be seeking help.
@@bencastor9207 Oh BS, he didn't want to get help because he didn't want taken off the steroids.
-A good example is Ali, he noticed his own mood swings, and muscles slightly slowing down and went to the doctor, and was diagnosed with parkinsons. Theres no excuse to not seek help.
Daniel would be 24 years old this year. My heart breaks for him and his mother. They deserved better than what happened in the end.
So sad. Never got to live. :(
Oh dear Lord, he would've been my age, I just didn't put two-in-two together..
Don't really care about the mother, but the baby didn't deserve this
@@yeetnama9094Yeah, Chris' wife was a real piece of work
The mother that was a dirty cheating home wrecker? Her and Benoit deserved it.
Mick Foley told him for years to stop using the Diving Headbutt as a finisher, and to just stick to the Crippler Crossface hold. The amount of damage he took to his brain from that move was astronomical. I remember on a podcast years ago when Mick discussed the incident, he said if Chris had stopped using the move when he was told, this never would have happened. It's sad on all accounts but equally a warning to not ignore advice about safety in the ring and to not use dangerous moves.
If Mick Foley of ALLLL people is telling you a move is dangerous you should probably listen!
Personally think Mick is being too optimistic. CTE or not Benoit's marriage to Nancy was a trainwreck waiting to implode.
I imagine his reputation would be similar to Dynamite Kid's if he and Nancy did divorce and she released a tell all or interview.
Chris took some nasty unprotected chair shots too
Was that Dr. Mick Foley the psychics conclusion? That if this dipshit would have stopped a flying head but when he told him that this would have never happened?
What a dumb thing to say and even dumber thing to repeat.
Google. Dr Kris Sperry. He was Benoits forensics expert who retired in 2015 due to being exposed as a fraud.
15 years later and this is still talked to this day. WWE was never the same after Chris benoit and Eddie Guerrero's deaths
Is it really the anniversary of this tragic?
R.I.P to both
@@shawnmichaels568 No, we wish zero peace to Chris, the man murdered his wife and child, he murdered A CHILD! He deserves zero peace wherever he is.
@@shawnmichaels568 rip to a guy who murdered his son and wife?.... sick
Done g
Pillman's death was sad. Owen's death was shocking. Eddie's death was heartbreaking. This......I still remember feeling insanely sick when I found out the truth. The blackest day in the history of pro wrestling. Benoit's clock started ticking when Eddie died but I never knew he would ever do anything like this.
This comment is so true. The story is so dark and shocking and just heartbreaking
@Tijjy O It was mainly to do with Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) . He got it after years of concussion related injurys to his head in which it can turn people to do irratic behaviour. David has stated that it was shown up in his autopsy. It obviously does not mean by any means right for what he had did but it does explain alot as to what contributed it.
@Tijjy O I think they were a secret gay couple, it was 2005 and they were both religious and married so there would be reason to keep it under wraps. chris cried on eddie guerreros pillow when he died according to Vickie guerrero, That's something people do if they've lost a spouse or lover.
@@JayMartian sadly ive thought the same. On the road 24\7/365. Spending more time together then at home with their wives. The family man staple these two had there is no way they could comee out if they were infact gay. But we will never know. I just hope everyone found happiness on the otherside.
Men can love their best friends without having to be gay.
Losing your best friend is akin to losing a family member.
to me the most disturbing thing about this whole story is the fact that after chris did what he did, he continued to hang around his house until he decided to end himself. I cant imagine how messed up in the head you have to be in the same place where you ended your family, their bodies literally laying there in the next room and not even having the humanity to at least leave.
He probably figured, because of what he'd already done. There was nothing even remotely redeemable he could do from that point on and what would likely happen to him if he went to prison for it. Doubt he would've lived long enough for the death penalty to be carried out. Child killers are targeted & rightfully so!
@@carolinawestern3875 He wouldn't have lived long enough to get the death penalty because his health was fucked anyway. I'm sceptical that, with his money and mitigating factors, he would've been sentenced to death anyway.
In fact, he could possibly have avoided a conviction for murder and instead been convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to X number of years in a psych facility.
What makes it even more grim is that he hung around the entire weekend and that bodies start to decompose fast. Within minutes, actually, but within 24 hours they would've started to stink etc.
He also stayed in the same rooms as the bodies. He did a computer search in the same room Nancy's corpse was found, only a few feet away from her.
I heard that he was actually thinking about going to PPV and wrestling that night also. It's freaking crazy.
The “In Memory” card at the end of this video really touched me in a profound way. Nancy and Daniel, lost to time, having a peek around the veil.
Legit teared up when I read this. Very well said
@@EleanoRa99 thank you.
Chris Jericho said it best: "Chris' fate was sealed the day Eddie died, whether he knew it or not."
"Fate" ? This was totally avoidable.
But it wasnt Eddie dying that pushed him overboard it was the drugs mixed with the deaths over the years
@@tonchigaming7238 Eddie was the last person in his life to guide him
after he died, there was more drug abuse, more breaking of Benoit's sanity, more drama,
the only way this was avoidable, is if Holly stayed with him for multiple days, which was super unlikely.
Literally nothing could've stopped this from happening besides Nancy leaving earlier than she planned
@@GOATsBURN3R It was the combination of Roids, headbutts, and Eddie's death that pushed him
Eddie died November 2005, Benoit died June 2007. There was just over a year where someone could off done something to try and save Benoit. Its not right to blame anyone for what he did but to say that 'after Eddie died it was fate' is bull.
Never knew just how many friends Nancy and Chris lost in such a short time, everyone knows about Eddie, but hearing the rest one after another was staggering.
It's like an avalanche of injuries, substance abuse, pressure, sadness, fear of the future professionally and financially, culminated in this horrible crime.
And WWE knew that Benoit was unwell. They just followed their usual recipe: unwell but functional that works and brings in the crowds, when the cracks become too obvious cut him loose and distance ourselves, when he collapses we act shocked. But not this time.
people also forget stu hart in 2003 he was the guy who trained chris
Seriously felt the same way. And I’m the same person who learned the hard way the main downside to being a wrestling fan.
@@starrsmith3810 can you please elaborate?
@@starrsmith3810 money, money, and money
Well, you weren’t kidding in the podcast. This is the most incredible and ambitious piece of media you’ve made. My respect
He has a podcast??
@@Amaterasu-zl5yh the Cultaholic podcast
@@magercrow Don't they do videos of the podcast as well?
@@Amaterasu-zl5yh the videos are also upload as podcast in Spotify
@@magercrow Thank you
I was just a kid when this happened and I didn't comprehend the weight of it. I remember telling my dad, who had stopped watching wrestling by then, and he just went quiet. I was reacting as a young fan, and he was reacting as a man with a family. Wild day
I didn't want to make a comment until I watched the whole thing, and WOW simply wow. This is one of Adam Pacittis and Cultaholics best ever videos, I don't want to glorify what Chris did, but it's a major event in which professional wrestling changed forever. The tone of the commentary, the in depth analysis of the careers and lives of those involved as well as the editing, is incredible. Hats off to you guys!
Agreed. Very well done and respectful.
It’s unbelievable
Glorify? Sicko
What Professional Wrestling did the NFL have been doing since O J Simpson.
@PaPa Shango clown
15 years later and I'm still horrified by the fact that Chris Benoit murdered his wife and son, then ended his own life. A dark chapter in WWE history that no one should ever forget
Steroid rage
@@louisestevenson5102 only God knows
Beniot is innocent. He was framed and murdered by Kevin Sullivan. Look into it. I don't believe Chris could do it. There were empty beer cans found at the scene of the crime, yet Beniot had no alcohol in his system. Kevin Sullivan is apart of a cult and they are most likely responsible for the death of all three of them.
@@therealjackiechan929 only God knows
@@louisestevenson5102 CTE*
Everytime I see a picture of Daniel all I can do is cry, it breaks my heart to know that a innocent child was the victim of such a horrid crime. Stings that much more knowing it by his father's hands. I'm so sorry Daniel, you really deserved better.
When i look at my 6yr old son Idk how anyone could ever do that.
@@playstupidgameswinstupidpr7065 my son is three and a half, I can't even raise my voice at him.
Him putting Bibles by them showed a certain creepy side to him. That's my opinion, it showed he knew it was wrong and he did nothing to possibly get help. To call anyone to come over and get him or them. I know Sandra and her parents asked about that to.
Damnit Daniel
I surely hate that u had to endure such atrosity by someone whom you should've been protected. I couldn't imagine the horror youngn went through right before being killed by his dad!;. Long live young Dan and moms
I really feel for Nancy and Daniel so much I really do. The fact Chris would search his computer for how to resurrect a young boy really shows he wasn’t evil but rather broken and not himself. Chris with a normal brain would never have done this
First time I've ever watched your channel. It says something for a non wrestling fan to sit and watch a wrestling documentary nonstop for an hour. Great job, keep up the hard work, brother!
Between the advanced CTE and massive drug/alcohol abuse, this guy was a ticking time bomb. While Benoit's final act was horrific, the backstory is downright disturbing in its own right.
now im not defending him but the only issue i have with the case is how quickly the police said it was a double murder suicide
@@UFCFightSimulations his brain was mush from cte mental illness is so fucking horrible but what’s worse is how people view it people with real mental illness are still treated as monsters when really there just sick
@@nathanh6591 so true man and it’s sad
@@UFCFightSimulations because it was fairly obvious that’s what happened maybe?
@@blinkin78 ik but especially back in that day it would’ve take at least a day. plus benoit wasn’t hanging from the weight machine he was slumpt against it
I remember being bummed out on the Sunday when he no-showed the PPV, in tears during the tribute show and being sick to my stomach the day afterwards. Wrestling was never the same after this.
He died when Eddie died wrestling was never the same to me after
@@Ayoooo99-p3m because eddie meant everything to Chris and he couldn't handle losing him...
I thought it was weeks later that they changed the sound triple homicide theory to the totally unsound and nonsensical, and holes filled story they tell today? It was just a day? And some people still have no issue with it. Beyond me
Did you watch the video? Chris wanted Nancy to take full custody of theeir son.
Yeah us who who grew up with wrestling during the 90s and early 2000s it will never be the same.
One of the darkest moments in wrestling I’ve been alive for. It’s still hard to wrap your head around. This was the moment I fell out of love with wrestling and didn’t come back for 5 years.
Also please do more of these documentaries, absolutely top tier work here.
I’d already dropped out of wrestling when this happened, so I found out about it later. Benoit was one of my absolute favourites growing up; I used his crossface when I used to wrestle with kids at school. It was like a shot to the gut that I still feel now. I wanna go watch his matches. I wanna hear his entrance music. I wanna go buy all the tshirts I wanted as a kid, but I just fucking can’t.
I’ll never forget this. I was avidly watching wrestling at the time and Benoit was in my top 5. This shook me to very core. Broke my heart. Me and my buddies at school talked about this for months.
Is he still in your top 5
@@Wayne-m7w Surely not
Words really can’t do justice to this video. This was during a period in which I wasn’t closely following wrestling. My youngest son had just been born in April of 2007 so I was caring for him. The professionalism with which this video was created is second to none. Thank you to each and every person involved with this endeavor. Thank you for all you do!
Strangely enough, this helped get me back into wrestling like I used to do periodically when I was a kid. It'd be like seemingly every summer or so, and the Benoit tragedy happened to be a catalyst for me getting into it that summer. I'm not into it anymore, but I still find the story fascinating
I didn’t understand what was happening all I know is everyone and everything paused for a split second in NC when word spread on channel 5 WRAL NEWS.
Some say it was the roids others say cte, I'm glad the truth has finally come out. Dr. Mullen has realsed the sad truth behind their deaths..... the bow flex. Box Flex's are responsible for 76% of family annihilation's since 1991.
Such a genuine comment. And what a joke for the author to not even acknowledge it lol p*s 🚮🚮🚮🚮
It's insane to think how The Doctor of Benoit actually died on the same exact date that this tragedy took place 15 years later exactly.
Wow! Crazy
Learn Gematria and see through the lies and propaganda
@@randybridges7365 sure thing Dr. Finkelshtein.
@@shannonlandre4442 eat foreskin Sheeple with the Zionist Jews and Jesuit Freemasons
@@mitskimiyawaki7574 God knows the end from the beginning.
This was the best documentary on the Benoit family tragedy, that I've ever seen. Hard to believe that Daniel would've been 22 years old now. Rest in peace Nancy & Daniel. 🙏
@@seanleary7711can you explain what you mean?
His independent autopsy showed that of the brain of an 80 year old dementia sufferer n his brain also was almost mush
The fact that his brain, according to autopsy report, looked like that of a 85-year-old man with severe Alzheimer is very disturbing.
Imagine he retired before going to WWE ECW he would go out at great American bash 2007
He was all roided up to.
@@sammygaudino8906 I heard CTE was quite a cause of...what went down. Chris used diving headbutts more than we could count correctly.
@duyphan4617 yea they use that to cover up the roid rage..I mean boxers and ufc fighters don't get CTE..CTE is bullshit and a excuse for roid rage.
@@duyphan4617eh that's debatable honestly. I know Nancy's sister disputed it. What the doctors said about his brain condition and the side affects he would have, didn't even come close to what Nancy's sister witnessed. There was zero memory loss or anything.
There are honestly no words to really accurately describe the whole situation. Props to Cultaholic for their thoroughness on the worst subject possible.
RIP Daniel and Nancy! So sad a person could do this to their child. I cannot even fathom it.
No can neither could Chris Benoit CTE is an issue we are seeing this across the board now all contact sports football being the worst at least once a year an NFL player does this exact thing.
@@highjenks3d exactly and its horrible he literally wasn’t Chris Benoit anymore he had the brain of a 87 year old Alzheimer’s pantient
@@highjenks3d CTE has been around forever, but only recently has it been studied..you realize over the past century there's probably been thousands or maybe even millions of people with severe CTE who were wrestlers, played Football, competed in combat sports etc?
The Chris Benoit's, and "football player every year" you refer to...I assume you mean Aaron Hernandez, and maybe Junior Seau.. outside of them I can't think of many more similar stories. So these are the VERY tiny minority.
I am sick of hearing "he had CTE" regarding people like Aaron Hernandez or Chris Benoit...it completely absolves them of any wrong doing by taking away thier self agency....it also does a disservice to the countless people who struggle with the effects of CTE everyday, and that DO NOT go and murder people ..they have enough to deal with regarding the stigma, and effects to thier daily standard of living, and this does not help them.
"He had CTE" has quickly turned into a new variation of old "the devil made me do it" or "the voices in my head made me do it" excuses of the past.
I'm certain CTE didn't help people like Hernandez or Benoit, but to acknowledge that as the primary factor is a complete cop-out, and ignores all the other evidence/data available. These men had a whole host of issues, and blaming it on CTE alone is a cop-out.
It's the amount of DRUGS
I wonder how long this Dr. actually spent in jail ? The life insurance on his first wife’s name & his retirement plan in his x wife’s name. Shows that Chris had been planning this for a long time.
They had both been using when their son was made , he was born with some issues low ears & eyes far apart as in fetal alcohol syndrome or something else. They may have been fighting and constantly blaming each other, for how the son turned out handicapped.
This is a sad ending but wrestlers and their partners know that the testosterone steroid s for years ruins you lives , you end up with a mean hollering bulked up man with no sexlife. Not useful for anything except for sport . Like pit bulls they look nice but no one wants one who has l ready tried to grab someone by the neck.
These kind of long-form history videos are what sets Cultaholic apart.
Superb work.
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Coz stone cold said so!
Lmao
@@ir5682😅
This still brings tears to my eyes years later.
Chris the wrestler was amazing.
Chris who did those things to Nancy and Daniel was a monster.
When Eddie died things really went downhill.
My heart still goes out to Nancy and Daniel.
It really seems like this was Chris Benoit's fate all along. He was just such a very bizarre individual and him modeling his entire career after the Dynamite Kid is frighteningly unsettling. Then there's the well documented history of domestic abuse, marital problems, the over the top perfectionist mentality that was probably never curbed in his youth, CTE, steroid use, depression, and history of self flagellation. It really really just seems like this was the endgame destination for Benoit no matter what.
No lie, my mother would see Benoit on Nitro & say something isn't right about him when he was walking 2 the ring. When news broke I'll never 4get her saying Chris did it
@@dominiquejones3805 he even had a really weird and bizarre sense of humor. Chris Jericho talked about how one time he told Benoit a joke that absolutely had him in stitches. Jericho noticed that Benoit wasn't laughing at all. He asked him if he didn't think it was a funny joke to which Benoit replied with a straight face: "Oh, it's a very funny joke. I'm just laughing on the inside."
It's also downright eerie if you know anything about the Dynamite Kid's own history of domestic abuse and bizarre fits of violence.
If his first wife had stayed with him this story could've easily been about Billington decades earlier instead of Benoit.
Gonna be a tough one, but huge praise for Cultaholic for putting it on. 👏
Damn a full hour!
Mates, your hard work never goes unnoticed.
Thanks for all the content.
Chris Benoit was one of my favorite wrestlers. When this happened, I was torn up. It really changed my thoughts on the wrestling industry & I fell out of wrestling because of it.
Man I thought I was the only one. This unfortunately was one of my last memories of me being a real fan. I lost both my favorite wrestlers in Benoit and Guerrero and wrestling just wasn't the same. Guerrero was everything u wanted in a wrestler. Full package
Same here. First Eddie, then Chris. I was done...
Ditto. I don't remember watching anything after this. It was an ugly time with the back to back deaths
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Coz stone cold said so! 😂
I remember when this tradgedy happened. I felt like i got hit by a truck. I spent 3 days locked up in my room, crying, screaming, and banging on the wall. I have never been the same since...
Sad that two innocent people had to die at the hands of someone with severe issues. Also, I like the fact that there was a memoriam to Nancy and Daniel at the end of the video. I haven’t seen other TH-camrs do that after talking about the situation
You don't blame Benoit. You blame WWE for medical neglect and employee abuse. How do people see what WWE still to date does and treats its "superstars" and not hand off accountability where due. Without WWE Chris wouldn't have been concussed into old age dementia.
@@twiztedclown To think that it is WWE's fault and don't a man who have more than 30 years old for first having taken steroids (and a lot of other drugs) and second for having killed his wife and what is worse is his little son, it is ridiculous, same stupid logic that they use against the NFL, The 80 year old brain and incapable of making decisions excuse is dumb, he literally had flight schedules in his browser history (after the murder) and how to break his own neck, while off course their bodies were still in the house
@@twiztedclown Nancy and Chris divorced in 2002 after an incident where Benoit pushed Nancy into a counter. But later reconciled. In Chris and Nancy one of Nancy’s friends said that Nancy told her “if I am murdered, make sure the police know Chris did it” a few weeks before her death so? It wasn’t just a abrupt rage he became paranoid, Benoit was always a questionable man but before 2007 he was just an weird asshole but now we know he is a murderer
Three innocent people*
@@twiztedclown No, I DO blame Benoit. He's not the first person to come out of pro wrestling with severe health issues, but he sure is on a small list of people who decided to murder two innocent people on his way out.
FOH with these excuses. People are responsible for their own actions and decisions. He knew what he was doing.
I lived 15 minutes down the road from Chris and his family when this tragedy happened. This one shook Fayetteville
Was he known around town? What I mean is would he and his family be spotted out and about? Interact with anyone? I am curious to know how he was perceived by people in his town.
@@Space_Ache I'm not sure, I was 15 when it happened. I do know that he hung out with another local wrestler, Paul Orndorff. My brother went to school with his two daughters and my dad ran in to him at a few parties. Paul was always doing coke and trying to fight people according to my dad Lol
@Andrea Naulls appreciate the response. The Benoit story is so fascinating (not in a good way) so having insight from someone local is interesting. A coke addicted wrestler trying to fight people sounds about right lol
@@Space_Ache I agree. Back then, Fayetteville was a quiet little town. Benoit and Holly Harvey and Sandra Ketchum are the only major news breakers that happened in the late 90s to early 2000's. Fayetteville changed a lot over the years
@@Space_Achethey only lived there about a year.
Very good work, guys. This story remains as sad and poignant as the day it broke, and you treated it with respect and compassion.
Chris and Eddie's deaths changed not only wrestling but my life and outlook on it. Gave me a insight on pain, grief and physical pain of the sport. He had some demons and things, I'm sad we never were able to help him. I miss him, as well as Eddie.
Really two guys who participate in a fake sport changed your life. Sounds like the world is better off with out these steroid taking fakes.
@@charlesmoore7032 k dude, lol.
@@charlesmoore7032 the dives and physical toll isn't fake tho
@@charlesmoore7032 just the outcomes and move sequences are scripted
@@justincox119 but they are fake. They’re done intentionally in effort to appear real while receiving little/no damage. A tackle during a football game is real. “Wrestling” on a padded bouncy ass ring mat performing choreographed moves isn’t real sport in any way, shape, or form. It’s much more similar to going to the theatre and watching a play.
It still hits me. Even after many years later, When eddie passed away you can actually see how much he has to suffer through
F' Chris Benoit and what he had to "endure" because it pales in comparison to what Nancy and Daniel had to go through when they got murdered.
I mean losing all those friends Chris and Nancy did in Nine Years, geez, I would be questioning what is the point of life especially if I am not over the Age of Fifty. Every year like one of my friends die and most of them not over the Age of 39.
@@WSK9002
Maybe making a million dollars a year and having a family at home to cope with
Don’t have sympathy for him he doesn’t deserve any don’t have rose tinted glasses for him being as good as he was in the ring
Yes he was amazing in the ring but he clearly wasn’t a good man at all
We all go through hard times doesn’t make us all want to murder our entire families
this is another example how important a friendship is.
Is this the real HBK?
This was a rough watch, but I imagine it must have been even harder to put all of this together. Much respect to the team that worked on this one.
He and Eddie were great entertainers/athletes. I wish his story didn't end this way for himself and family
I'm not even a wrestling fan but I gotta say, your professional-sounding speech and the disturbing details behind this unfair tragedy really pulled me in to listen to the whole documentary.
I was a HUGE fan of wrestling at the time. After Eddie this was gut wrenching. Chris was never the same after Eddie died. The whole thing is sad.
Its like he lost him self after eddie passed away Rip
Why a fan? It's all fake.
I dont believe this. Sure he had contact to some dangerous people. Maybe they killed his wife and kid and after that him too.
Letting it look like as if he did it. Those pictures from him and his family, tell me, that he would never had hurt them in any way.
Something is totally not right here in this case. Maybe it was some third party of very bad actors !!
@@Preceyese-Seyeght He had a very bad case of CTE. A lot of wrestlers & football players are at a high risk for it & there's a lot of football players who have done some pretty heinous stuff like harming others or themselves. I definitely believe it's possible Chris did this. After a long career of chair shots & flying head butts his brain resembled an 80 year old dementia patient's. Its so sad. Another wrestler asked how many concussions he had over the years & Chris said...like probably 20 or more...just this year! & his buddy was horrified as he was having a lot of issues after 2 bad ones. He was shocked the year was barely half over at the time he asked him this & Chris just said idk 20-30 maybe. :(
@@tanyapicou5385 Dont give me that CTE crap. Those pictures do not lie. What is wrong with all of you ??
I had just lost my husband suddenly and the insurance company of my rental wanted to take pictures of the house during his funeral. Well we rescheduled. A couple of weeks later he finally came. It was Nancy’s dad. I’ll never forget him telling me this story.
Wait, her dad was the insurance guy?
Nancy's dad was an insurance agent 🙄
@@RandallBalls [[⁸
Weird
I’m sorry for your loss. Also, poor guy losing his daughter and grandson. 😢
Thanks for covering this Adam, couldn’t have been easy. Horrific all round, I’m 31 now, Eddie was my childhood hero! And Benoit was the most savage wrestler I had saw up to that point, that wrestle mania with them both made my childhood! To loose them both so close was just world shattering at the time enough to the point we’re living through it was enough I’ve never watched anything to do with it since, as I’ve heard enough over the years. Sounded like Nancy really was willing to put up with absolutely anything and everything for Chris to get straight and give them a good life. That poor little boy. May you all rest in peace!
Growing up watching WWF/WWE, its still hard to believe Benoit actually did this. Its also unfortunate that a lot of people sweep David under the rug. He lives with the Benoit tragedy over his head and the distance the business put between themselves and David puts him at an even more difficult place
You don’t even know him 😆
@@Lukenukem8732 So what’s your point! We all choose heroes to follow and become very involved, emotionally and caring about them. You seem heartless.
@@J-ellO 😂 😂 😂 emotional y involved and caring for them? 😂 😆
@@Lukenukem8732 sicko!
Sad. Imagine his other son out here living with this. Knowing that his father killed his step mom and brother. And knowing everyone knows who you are and looking to you
I think it's no wonder the daughter David's sister has since disappeared from public life and distancing herself from it all entirely. I wonder how Martina the former wife, also feels about the situation.
@Daniel Amone yeah I mean what happened to the sister ?
@@sumairshirazi From what David said in an interview, she's trying to stay out of the public eye and trying to become a nurse
@@ConnorRK-nk8rg tbh that's actually good for her considering what Chris did and how it affected them.
@@tommaggi1475 or benoit could kill himself
I’m glad this video was made. I wrote a thesis paper on Chris Benoit and cte. I think it’s criminal that their is so much focus on mental health but a guy who brain was literally damaged beyond repair is treated like he never existed. I’m not saying we should celebrate his career or he get into the hall of fame but I am saying his story needs to be told as a caution to others to get help and take mental health serious.
You're ignoring a big fact that pretty much everyone else that had or has a confirmed case of CTE hasn't committed murder/suicide. It's oversimplification to put it down to CTE when Benoit had a history of drug abuse, depression and by the sounds of it domestic abuse. CTE or not, Benoit was a ticking timebomb and had been for years
Exactly
@@franklingoodwin You're ignoring a big fact that a pile of people have either killed themselves or loved ones. Junior Seau, rip, is the first to come to mind.
@@actualgameplayvideos6610 I was talking more specifically about those that killed others due to CTE. Suicide unfortunately is an epidemic for young males whether they have CTE or not
@@actualgameplayvideos6610 and there's also that guy from the first documental of True Wrestling Crimes, the guy who almost killed his wife, left without doing so and threatened to end his own life?
He was only injured and depression, with CTE probably being a factor
This is easily the best, and most respectful video you've ever done. Thank you for this.
This is the most informative and well-made commentary on this terrible tragedy I have seen to date.
This and the two dark side of the ring episodes.
As a kid when this happened, I had no way of comprehending this on any level other than horrible. As an adult still can't. How a man goes from grilling food at home to killing his wife child and self will never make sense no matter who it is but a wrestling hero definitely makes sense that this still haunts us all. But that's peanuts to that of the family.
@@seanleary7711 how so?
You realise how much of a mark you sound like right? You're saying Chris & Nancy weren't fighting constantly? He didn't have control issues? All of the substance abuse is a lie Too? Get out of the house and get a grasp of reality mate.
@@seanleary7711 explain
I remember watching Benoits head impacts even back then in 90’s WCW and thinking this is gonna go bad one day. They are absolutely brutal hits. The most brutal
I remember I came home from school I was 11, I was playing jak and daxter.
Mum and dad were watching the news and mum comes out and tells me he had died. The next night we watched the tribute episode which hit harder than the initial feels.
And then the next week we heard he wasn't going to be mentioned again.
Insane times
I was 12, I actually first heard about it from my mom too by coincidence
How a father can murder a child, especially their own, is completely unthinkable to me. Chris had to have had drug induced demon's and a ton of them. Very very sad.
Not in his sound mind
CTE my guy
Stop saying cte
@@jasontodd1896 would be incredibly stupid not to mention it. It obviously had a very real effect on Chris, I will never ever condone his actions. But understanding why he changed, why he might have behaved the way he did as the condition worsened is so, so important.
Because history repeats, what Chris did was awful, but there was one shred of good to come out of it all and that was that head injuries started being taken seriously, and things changed for the talent. No more chair shots, no more throwing yourself off or through a hell in the cell. Instead a new era of wrestling where the talent grew more and more protective.
If we do not recognise history and its lessons, then we are doomed to repeat it.
CTE is no joke, it's a debilitating, evil condition. Who strips you of who you are piece by piece, transforming you into an evil monster.
And that's how I see Chris, a man who became a monster because of multiple strikes to the head, that resulted in his brain rotting that changed what he could do.
@@jasontodd1896 CTE
What's really painful is the fact that even if Chris never did what he did, his physical health issues would have claimed him a year or so later anyway. We were going to lose him no matter what. It's just a shame he went out in one of the worst ways possible. The whole situation feels like a Greek Tragedy.
it really does it’s absolutely crazy that such a workhorse and face of wrestling did this
It actually if a full greek tragedy
He took his family where he was about to go anyways
What the fuck. The shame is what happened to his family, not that he was going to die. Jesus christ your love for wrestling is stronger than your sense of humanity. Get help
@@FinalBossWTMN he was dealing with mental issues. It’s sad what happened to all of them.
@@jeffm1083 yeah, that doesn't excuse what he did. And regardless of that, dudes Comment is "what's really painful" and literally doesn't even mention the ACTUAL victims of the event.
Fantastic in depth documentary man, I was a huge fan of the attitude era as a kid and this brought back many memories, the whole situation is a massive tragedy.
Benoit and Eddie's reign was in the Ruthless Aggression era dude..... I mean him and Eddie was active during Attitude Era but they were mid-carders then.
@@coreyhall1150 Yeah same shyt different smell to me lol
@@JackMcLeodJr No those eras are TOTALLY different. One was very edgy and off the cuff. The other had edge but focused more on actual wrestling. Which is fine but I grew up on Austin and Rock so I prefer AE.
@@JackMcLeodJr Eddie was amazing. But Benoit like Bret bored me to tears. It was like "WOULD IT KILL YOU TO SHOW SOME KIND OF EMOTION FUCKER?"
@@coreyhall1150 Fair enough man, appreciate the clarification 👍
I didn’t think there was much else to cover after watching the Dark Side of the Ring documentary, and various other coverage. I was wrong. This was so well done! Learned a lot more.
Still doesn’t change the fact that this was incredibly sad to watch also.
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Coz stone cold said so!
It definitely paints the picture that Benoit was a complex figure even before that fateful weekend. Lockerroom bullying, staying friends with and backing up a registered sex offender, the frequency of which there had to be outside interference from friends with how many times he and Nancy fought-yet a very well respected veteran of the business and someone who was a master of their craft.
It's easy to forget that Adam can actually come across as quite serious at times.
Sorry you wanted your childish Adam you child
@@Greenbeans0987 Don't know how I implied that, but just meant that given how he often is during new videos or streams, you can forget that he can be serious when he needs to be. Relax friend.
It's such a complicated, conflicted feeling to love the sport so much while also recognizing the myriad negative health impacts it can cause. I'm glad Chris Nowinski and others are doing the work to improve things on that front.
Gotta love how the death of Eddie Guerrero is given more focus and emotion than Nancy fleeing the home when Chris broke the furniture and threatened to beat the shit out of her two years prior.
I always wondered why the butcher knife was found under Daniel’s bed despite not being used but this video gave me a theory that maybe Daniel out of fear of the intense arguments between Chris and Nancy, kept it under his bed out of fear of his father but sadly was convinced that Chris was calmed down and was unaware that his mother was dead and Chris gave him sedatives to where Daniel was incapacitated before Chris killed him
Honestly that makes so much sense
That's what I've always thought
I always thought Nancy put it there just in case when he had a episode she had a way to protect herself. Any Mother that's in distress IMMEDIATELY go to their kid's room.
Fuck. That is absolutely horrific 😢
Holy shit that makes sense. Poor kid RIP Daniel
Bravo to everyone at Cultaholic for pulling this together, what an excellent piece on the whole saga 👏🏼
Really interesting documentary, lots of information I didn’t know before. My heart breaks for Daniel and Nancy what happened to them was just devastating
Their hearts broke too. Granted because someone had shot them to death but hey I'm sure your thoughts and prayers mean something now.
@@AT-il2ej I mean I’m an atheist so I doubt they’d mean much. I get you were only trying to be a dick though so good on you
@@AT-il2ej ??? Your point?
I believe that Chris Benoit changed wrestling even though his name was not to be mentioned. But wrestling became PG for a family orientated entertainment. Mr. Benoit was the cause of that change. I’m so sorry for the tragic loss of his child & wife.
So he's the reason it's boring now
This is genuinely one of the most heartbreaking stories in the history of professional wrestling, it’s up their with the Von Erich and Graham family tragedies.
It must be so hard being David, imagine losing your dad,half brother and step mother in any circumstances let alone something like this.
I was 10 years old and a massive Chris Benoit fan when this happened. I wasn't old enough to understand it, and I still don't. Truly one of the saddest things to happen within the wrestling industry. You put it best when you said the thing Benoit loved the most, he was almost the reason for its demise.
You can't deny that Benoit was an amazing wrestler. That moment when he and Eddie hugged after winning their titles still gives me goosebumps. Great job handling a sensitive subject.
Stop giving props to a pos
I used to always make excuses on this topic for Chris, I got older had kids and realized how wrong I was, yes it’s complicated and yes theirs many’s things that contributed but the dude took his own sons life , he uses his bare hands to end his child life…
That kid looked at Chris as the only thing that mattered,the one he’s supposed to trust and feel safe with and Chris decided to kill that poor lil boy and his mom … great wrestler great work ethic in the end though an awful horrible human being ….one word to describe Chris ……. SELFISH
@@Christopher_-jp9ef oh you were in the room? should have stopped it then no? This may be a hard concept for you to understand but alot of people have this ability to separate the performer and the person. This is why, despite the terrible things he did, people can still comment on his wrestling career. No one is excusing what he did, you don't need to attack people who mention anything other then pure hatred. He was a notable and prominent wrestler, people will talk about him in that capacity, learn to deal with it.
@@Christopher_-jp9ef How you criticizing someone of giving Benoit "props" but yet you also giving praise of Benoit's in-ring work. Whatever he did is irrelevant to his talent and therefore should never be overlooked and should continue to be praised further on.
He was a dirty pos end of
I came here after watching the documentary on Tubi - they left out MOST of the story! No mention of his wife filing for divorce the year before, of them constantly separating, fighting over his steroid use or the level of steroids he had in his his system when he died. OR the fact she was on Xanax and Hydrocodone. That's a LOT of information to leave out of the story Tubi. What is so heartbreaking to me is how much Daniel looked like him. I mean, the spitting image of Chris.
I believe in the after life. So even though Eddie passed two and a half years before Benoit I do think he's fully aware of this whole incident.
This is a great piece of work. You included Nancy’s career AND the circumstances which could have lead to such a tragic event. May Nancy and and Daniel have peace upon them ❤
And Chris. Why is everyone leaving his name out when they say RIP. Chris was hurting and wasn't himself. Sure, what happened was horrific but again, he was a sick man.
@@curtisholder2712 because he was a killer who could have sought help but instead killed his child A CHILD. He could have committed suicide if he was suffering why take the life of his 7 year old child.
Could of or did
Just finished watching and I have to say, for all the tragedy involved, this documentary was put to us without bias and was so in-depth. Hats off to you Adam and the rest of Cultaholic for bringing this to us. Well done! 👏🏻
All I can say is rest in peace, Nancy and Daniel.
& LIL' ANGEL WON HIS WING..REST IN PEACE KIDDO..U DIDNT ASK 2 B BORN.🥀.D LORD GOTCHA🌻
And Chris too!
@@Mr.SMiLeY1025 No he's burning in Hell.
Oh look, it's the bigoted derp potato! Taking a break from hating gay people, are we Dusty?
@@MisterSands no he’s not.
This clears up the speculation. Domestic issues, anger issues, alcohol combined. I can see how it happened
This
Since you did the Bret Hart Screwed video, i was hoping you would make a video related to the Benoit tragedy to make 1 video that explains in detail how important Benoit and Nancy were to history but to explain how truely tragic his last act was. Great job guys
That was an hour of rainbow and sunshine, wasn't it?
No matter how often I hear about this tragedy, I always come out the other side just as speechless and saddened
Same. It's still unbelievable to me that it happened in the first place, let alone that it was 15 years ago.
Same here. Still shocks me even after 15 years.
Don’t blame this on someone else what Chris Benoit this was evil it was no one else’s fault but his
May Nancy and David's memory be a blessing. Excellent job on this, guys. 💖
Daniel died David is alive and well and wrestling
@@snaxlsx2443
David out there looking *just* like his dad.. I know it's just genetics but christ, they're legit near identical
Rip chris benoit
@@МагомедМамилов-ч9тNo. We should not, and will not, pay tribute to a murderer.
Daniel was his name.
Traumatic brain injury is a horrible thing and very common in the wrestling world. Probably played a factor into this tragedy.
It's been proven that at the age of 40 that his brain deterioration was comparable to that of an 80 yr old.
It's telling too, that if you paused the video on the journal entry to Eddie, it's clear that he was suffering from very intense paranoia...so much so that he had invented a "they", who had supposedly either snatched Nancy's parents, or killed them... Before they'd, "rushed to Daytona to save them...but were too late.
I'm pretty sure that at least her father was still living.
I think he'd made a comment to Chavo, over the phone that last night, too.
It was a terrible thing. By that time he'd become my favorite wrestler, and I'd followed Nancy's career from her start. And as a father who has buried a Son and Granddaughter...l'l Daniel's death tears my heart in two.
RIP
It's crazy how he abused steroids to the point that his testicles were failing but it was the CTE that destroyed his brain and not roid rage. I didn't know until I watched this that he would have had less than a year to live anyway. If only he would have held on a little longer Nancy and Daniel would still be here and Chris could be celebrated for his incredible career.
I've thought is as well. Personally I think he knew something was off in his head and he knew what the outcome would be. I believe he took his family so they could all go together. Crazy stuff
I was just saying didn’t he have cte
Cte is a scam
@@jasontodd1896 your mother is a scam
@@jasontodd1896 Sources?
Chris Benoit truly is one of the greatest wrestlers I’ve ever seen. Some matches I’ve seen are some of my favorite, too many to list honestly.
But his legacy has been tainted forever because of his horrible actions.
Well done documentary! Best wishes to you. Great storytelling skills!
it took me a few days before i was ready to watch this. very well made, everyone at cultaholic has done an amazing job. thank you for putting this together, there were so many details i wouldnt have known.
I’ve watched almost every documentary I could find about the Beniot tragedy and always heard the same stuff but in this video I actually learned a few new things. So sad even to this day. Job well done!
No
Ugh, Now that I have a 3 year old son and 3 month old son , knowing what he did to his son his so heart wrenching. How could you choke your son? I can never forgive Chris for this man.
Was a huge Benoit fan back in the day. This is so tragic. There are so many rumors out there. But, I think the most common theory people had was he had severe CTE and was addicted to taking steroids which may have led him to roid rage fit. After his good friend Eddie had passed away it pushed to him into severe depression, that devastated his health. Apparently he was taking other drugs and painkillers mixed in with steroids during that time. The fact that one of his finishing moves that required him to jump 10 feet into the air off the top turnbuckle and drive his HEAD into his opponent only lead to worsen his CTE. Those close to Chris said he would never have taken his son's life, he loved him like any father and it was impossible he would ever hurt his son but, the fact they did not say the same thing about his wife Nancy only shows how toxic they felt about their relationship. There are so many other really dark rumors on the web which I will not mention but, I think this is the most logical one. I have mixed feeling about Chris, it's just hard to believe.
Very good for someone who’s seen a lot about Benoit’s final weekend, there were a few things mentioned that I’d never heard before
I still remember the emotions I went through at the time. First disappointment over Benoit not showing up to Vengeance (he was one of my favorite wrestlers and I think he and Punk would've had the match of the night), then sadness over the news of his passing, and then of course abject horror when learning about what really happened.
You know wrestling is fake right. There would've not been a match of their life. They already knew who the winner would be. Emotions? Did you know Benoit? If not, then why would you have emotions because a roid freak died? I feel sorry for the people that this POS killed. Get a life, I think you are an adult. Wrestling is fake most of those guys are steroids taking homosexuals.
You often hear of Eddie's death because he was such a massive star, a dear friend of Benoit's, and how young he was, but I had NO IDEA there was literally a part of an entire generation of talent being snuffed out before their time.
The story of Chris, and his family are very sad. I didn't really know much about Benoit, as he died before I really got into WWE but the story is still sad. It seems like a lot of people, both inside of the business and the fans liked Benoit a lot. I can't imagine how people who liked him must've felt when they found out what he did, and the fact that such a beautiful innocent little boy had to die in this situation was just unimaginable 😕
RIP Chris, Nancy, and Daniel Benoit. Even though he did something monstrous, it still sucks that he died
As someone who was a fan of his, I still don't know what to think of him. What he did was horrible and on the inside when I think of him, I only feel emptiness
@landoakechi9406 I can understand that. As someone who didn't really know him that well, I only see him as a guy who did a horrible thing
What do you mean RIP Chris? You hoping Chris rests in peace after what he did? Are you kidding me?
@@Unknown-individualI think there’s a lot of nuance to that. He was a good guy until he did this. Many ppl in his life didn’t even think he could ever do this but living with CTE while taking drugs can make you a different person. He wasn’t himself
As a kid growing up around every single one of these men… I can’t explain to how much tragedy WWE, WCW and others experienced… the damage is real to the brains of these men along with multiple speeds of heart damage. I’ll never forget the absolute gentle souls that these men really were… after my own cousin took his own life in 2002, his 5 year old son and his fiancée…. A lot of men were changed. I’ll never forget watching the news and then hearing everything unfold. While no one will ever know what each of them unfortunately went through, mentally, emotionally, and physically…. My heart will always ache for what they all endured either by their own hand or from another’s. 💙🕊
Womp womp
@@sudhans-qr5lj yes you sound extremely mature
@@April.Showers. sorry 😔, I was joking
This was a masterpiece! Expertly informative and delicately handled throughout. Be proud of yourself, lads!
Harley Race warned Wrestlers to not use The Diving Headbutt
Even Harley race himself knew the headbutt was a dangerous move to constantly use even bam bam Bigelow stop using it as a finisher
He Shouldn’t be remembered, but he can’t be forgotten. Such a tragedy
Well, this tragedy was the reason that wwe started taking mental health, concussions, etc more seriously. So in a way it probably saved more lives.
Antidepressant drugs are known to do this and everyone ignores this. The pharmaceutical industry is more evil than evil itself and is government. Wake up! 💉
This was such a sad and terrible event. My heart goes out to Nancy and Daniel. I really believe that Chris suffered a lot of tragedy due to his close relationship with all those that you put in your video who had passed.
he did one of the worst thing the human mind can imagine, sometimes you just cannot separate the artist from the man...
“He wasn’t given any time after Eddies death..” sounds normal to me, I know people who didn’t miss a day of work after their family members died, just cause he’s famous doesn’t mean shit
I feel like the paranoid schizophrenic topic never gets brought up anywhere else, it was quite evident he was at that point especially considering his brain test results. It seems like there were many signs leading up, unfortunately just never caught early.
and just lack of awareness on mental illness
The constant domestic reports? Breakups? Her feeling physically at harm on multiple occasions?? They weren't warning signs ??
@@dazzabrah3208 I did say there were signs, I’m basically saying he should have been put in a mental clinic way before this because it was apparent he was in the beginning stages of schizophrenia and the topic doesn’t come up in other documentaries usually.
@TheDropkick I more meant the signs were way there alot earlier than that .. regals wife didn't want him nowhere near the property why ? Prob bc she knew he beat up the Mrs.The domestic reports and breakups were ongoing for years...
She's threatened to leave him. Take away his kid. Again... he's snapped....killed her. Killed the damn innocent boy hours later. Finally killing himself like a true piece of crap coward.
Mental issues are bs yes people have them I also struggle from them 1 in 5 people do but they don't make you do this kind of thing. It's often used as and excuse way to much to justify one's actions ohh he's phyco he's mental he had phscizophenia that's why they killed ....
@@dazzabrah3208 people often turn a blind eye. That's why abuse can happen so violently. It's not until someone is gone they pay attention.
But, I do wonder how quickly the rotting of his brain due to CTE would have started to waste him away into the monster he became 🤔.
The most haunting to me are the last recorded phone calls from Benoit and his son. Benoit sound so defeated and done with all, almost pointing at what happened and his son, I can't hear the call without shedding tears. Really sad.
Time stamp?
this was the turning point in me and my friends liking wrestling. We were in second grade (it was the summer before third grade started) and would constantly talk about it, but when this happened we really never spoke about wrestling, especially since Benoit was our absolute favorite. It felt wrong talking about him and by extension wrestling
It's crazy the amount of things that wrestlers go through on a daily basis being on the road all the time. Physical and Mental problems that can occur and effect their lives forever. Such a tragedy that this happened.
I remember watching it on CNN and it felt like a nightmare. There was stories of Benoit being a psychopath before this happened. I remember Vince banned every wrestler from talking to any media about it and couldn’t even mention his name. It was disgusting how Vince just tried to sweep this under the ground.
That not Vince that Chris dad doing he has all rights to Chris name
I mean can u blame him
@@rockinscarletyes he has rights to his name meaning all future marketing..that doesnt mean they cant mention his name..thats not how the law works..Vince owns the media up to the point where chris died..educate yourself .
@@swampghost72sponsors would withdraw themselves for WWE praising Benoit despite what he achieved in the ring. Anyone in business would have done the same.