Benoit was about 5’9, 215lbs or so. Big for his size, yes. Not freakish, though.
I agree that something else was at work here and steroids didn’t ‘cause’ this kookout. Maybe decades of abuse contributed to a strange mindset or something, I can’t say. Contributing and causing are two different things, though.
I mention the nickname because yesterday I read another wrestler, shocked over the deaths, describing the Benoit we saw on television as similar to Benoit in real life. Shocked? Really? The Benoit I remember on television was brutal, never smiling, jacked-up large (5'9" 215 is freakish for a 40-year-old when none of that is fat), missing a tooth, and went by "Canadian crippler" and "rabid wolverine."
People that never smile have an annoying/worrisome effect on me. If there was ANY non-cartoon-like wrestler who I hoped was nothing like his TV persona, it was Benoit.
Chris Benoit's picture is on the cover of the next issue of People Magazine. The Benoit story is not the main story (the main story deals with Paris Hilton) but his picture is featured in the corner of the cover.
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FOX News has put up a story on Chris Benoit's wife, Nancy "Woman" Benoit, here. {includes comments from Kevin Sullivan}
Professional wrestler Chris Benoit met with his personal physician hours before he allegedly killed his wife and son and then hanged himself in his basement, the doctor said Wednesday.
"He was in my office on Friday to stop by just to see my staff," said Dr. Phil Astin of metro Atlanta. "He certainly didn't show any signs of any distress or rage or anything."
Authorities say Benoit strangled his wife, suffocated his 7-year-old son Daniel and placed a Bible next to their bodies before hanging himself with a weight-machine pulley over the weekend. No motive was offered for the killings, which were spread out over the weekend and discovered Monday.
Astin, who said he was Benoit's longtime friend and physician, said he had prescribed testosterone to Benoit because he suffered from low amounts of the hormone. He said the condition likely originated from previous steroid use. He would not say what, if any, medications he prescribed the day of the meeting.
"I'm still very surprised and shocked, especially with his child Daniel involved," said Benoit. "He worshipped his child."
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Before the killings, the family was struggling with how to care for the child, who suffered from a rare medical condition called Fragile X Syndrome, an inherited form of mental retardation often accompanied by autism, said Jerry McDevitt, an attorney for World Wrestling Entertainment.
"Him and Nancy were clearly struggling about this whole issue, about how to take care of Daniel," said McDevitt.
"I don't know what he confronted when he went back into the house," he said. "No one really knows that. We'll have to see. Clearly this issue of the son was a stressor on both of their relationships for some time."
District Attorney Scott Ballard said the autopsy indicated that there were no bruise marks on his neck, so authorities are now assuming he could have been killed using a choke hold. "It's a process of elimination," he said.
Anabolic steroids were found in Benoit's home, leading officials to wonder whether the drugs may have caused the muscle man nicknamed the "Canadian Crippler" to kill his wife and child and then himself.