Quote: (01-16-2017 02:57 PM)brick tamland Wrote:
I'll admit I used to watch a bit of this. I got a wake up call after finding out about the company's response to incidents like owen hart's fall to death in front of a live audience, and of course when they simply ghosted when Chris Benoit literally went crazy from years of Brain trauma sustained in their rings.
As an aside, there's several legitimate websites reporting on the deaths of current or past wrestlers. Almost all of them are dying prematurely and painfully. WWE is never held accountable for this.
Owen's death was unfortunate, and WWF/E did end up paying $18 million in a court settlement to the Hart family.
Benoit's death I think is on him more than WWE. Not only did he kill himself, but he took two others with him. At most they could have stopped him from doing certain wrestling moves (diving headbutt), but Benoit had a lot of personal issues regardless, within his own introverted mind shutting out a healthy social life in his teenage years to focus on working out. He was on his 3rd marriage in 2000 by the age of 33 with a woman with her own issues - a known reputation for kinky BDSM, who had filed for divorce from him after 3 years (later withdrawn).
There's even a theory he killed her during sex, as Xanax, as well as codeine & morphine-related drugs were found in her body with no signs of restraint. She died in their bedroom, limbs bound, of asphyxiation, with bruises on her back and stomach and a pull cord around her neck - of course, he may have intentionally set this all up to kill her. I think it may have been unintentionally, possibly some role-play sex gone wrong, but who knows.