Stone cold talked about this on his podcast. He said he was simply in awe at how amazing Chris and Kurt were in the ring. He said he was enjoying it as a true fan
Fuck enjoying, he was supposed to be a heel at ring side and he said he was so MEMORIZED by the match that he forgot he was supposed to talk shit on the mic
@@Useryuuihdaeg I know which interview you're referring to and he meant that he didn't know him personally. But they were both really good friends at work.
I'll always believe chris died as the best in-ring performer of his generation. The intensity, emotion and just realism he brought every night he went down that ramp was unmatched.
The sad part is that so many wrestlers talk about how special their chemistry was with Benoit and that they felt that their relationship was unique. I don’t care what anyone says, real WWF fans will never forget the impact Benoit had on the industry.
Angle-Benoit was special. It was intense, it was old school, it was real. When Kurt said that he Chris cared more about getting pops than telling a story, well hell yes, that's the way it should be. There will never be another rivalry like Kurt Angle Vs. Chris Benoit. It's easily one pro wrestling's GOATS. Sadly, because of what Chris did, it's been mostly forgotten. Well, I'll never forget.
I've no fear in praising the man. Never mind Bryan Danielson, if you need proof that height doesn't have to be a deal breaker in wrestling, look at Benoit. He was and is still a WRESTLING hero.
Benoit is and will always be the greatest technical wrestler to ever come out of Canada the man's body of work is hall of fame worthy it makes me sad that he ain't in the hall of fame ....
Chris Benoit is the only wrestler that I would think twice before I step in the ring. This man is very intense to a point that he could seriously hurt another wrestler in the ring. Rest in peace Benoit ,lady and their son 💐💐💐
Perc Angle could talk about wrestling Benoit no problem or hesitation. Ask Perc Angle about the murder, he needed a pause.,. however he definitely spoke on it to his ability without actually dodging the question but had no answer
It’s a hard thing to talk about he’s talking about a really good friend and coworker that committed murder. It’s not something he understands or really has insight to. Chavo is probably the one who knows the most and even he doesn’t have much he can say. Nobody was in the house when it happened so everything is speculation. If you look at Chris’s eyes in his final match in ECW when he stares at CM Punk it’s very telling though. CM Punk is staring dead in Benoit’s eyes intense as hell and Chris is staring right through Punk like he’s not even there.
Kurt was feeling good and had the extra confidence talking while on those Vicodin. When I’d get them for my back I’d always stalk up on some for our football games, as a RB, if I had 4-6 I really wouldn’t feel pain getting tackled and the typical bumps didn’t bother him and felt like I had more energy on defense and would hit harder on those. The next mornings driving to watch film id smoke bowls of green on the way there and remember it half felt like I was in a car wreck feeling rough, but the green made me manage it. Ik those pills were too good to be true to take everyday and still feel effects. It’s crazy to think I was only 16, and my doctor was willing to give me hydro 10mgs by junior year. So many fake friends once they found out you had pain pill scripts. They’re evil.
@@amd1273 yea same I'm on kratom now but kicked the pill habit atleast . And yea withdrawing off kratom sucks but I'll take compared to withdrawing off oxys
I have intense respect for angle. But I have to push back hard on his Benoit take of "we can't blame concussions or steroids". I believe we have to understand the impact CTE and steroids have, which is well understood from broad scientific study. It's up to doctors and scientists to comment on how those things might contribute to a mental health situation, and they've said they can cave profound impact on behavior and brain health.
Alot of people on here like to remember Chris for his last actions and not the great wrestler he was and thats fine but MOST of you forget Jimmy Snuka has been in hof for years never got demoted and he straight up MURDERED his girlfriend! So if were here casting stones you better be ready to hurl some at yourselves and snuka first. Secondly, Carlos calone covered up a murder in hias damn wreslting promotion..hes in hof as well
What they did was horrible too but look at the differences. His innocent son was killed by him. Snuka didn't kill a child neither did the other person you mentioned that's the big difference there. If it was just Nancy that was killed it may have been different being it was still a horrible act but being Daniel was killed is where the huge problems draw attention too and that's why majority hate him. It still hurts me 14 years later because he was my favorite wrestler and still is from his matches and theme song etc but being his boy was killed by him there will be no absolute reason to put him in HOF, no one will applaud a child murder like that
Yes what Chris evidently did was awful but I'll be damned if people ever forget just how goddamn good he was in the ring and how he could keep up with Kurt in his prime when almost nobody else could is a testament to that, I'll always love his in-ring work but sadly it'll also always be overshadowed by that horrific weekend in 2007.
(I'm on an angle and Benoit nostalgia kick at the moment) i just commented on another video saying they had the best chemistry in the ring and then flip to this video and that's the first thing kurt says - maybe biased but I'm curious to know what differing opinions there are? Do any two hold a candle to angle vs benoit?
I agree but I also hope you agree that’s the single reason WWE/WWF writes him off. The man was a wrestling machine before Kurt but his acts were heinous in the end.
@@johnbossert8725 I agree on that. They looked foolish for doing the tribute show just to find out the truth. It's what is best for WWE. I just want to remember the wrestler, not the man.
Killed a baby, his wife, and the most cowardly of all himself. This comment should be banned. There isn't an actual HOF location and even if there was there's no exception to that.
This whole first 8mins of him talking the physiology of wrestling and storytelling and not just work for the pops! Someone should have the whole AEW locker room watch this...
Indeed. It's kinda odd that wrestling is " fake " when you got a wrestler like Benoit missing more than one teeth with a shirt that says TOOTHLESS AGRESSION. The guy is seriously serious in the ring that you got to remind him that wrestling is fake .
@@lesant7659 it was almost like he was KILLING his opponents. STRANGLING their hopeless bodies with his vicious crossface, and BLUDGEONING them with his flying headbutt. A true hero.
@@JBLegitttt dude, when back then in WCW era in the 90,s .kids at school were doing crazy submission moves and I remember a classmate in gym class doing the crossface to a kid and he broke the 7 vertebrae in his neck. We send him nursery room but it was a lot worse than that .they ( the school ) call 911 and they took him to hospital . Later on that day ,we've heard that the kid would be ok . Doctors thought that he got into a car accident. Good old memories. HAHAHA... not for that kid tho'
I guess it's true what they that one person's death can change you change and sometimes in the very wrost cases and I do agree with Harry Race that the flying headbutt should be banned completely
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it till the day I die, Chris Benoit was one of the greatest wrestlers of all time and he always will be. He truly made wrestling an art form, something today’s wrestlers fail miserably at. His matches with angle were phenomenal because Kurt was the same. I would put those two not just in the top 10 but in the top 5 greatest of all time. Over the course of 3 days in June of 2007, Chris murdered his family and then himself. This single act erased everything he did in that ring, 20+ years of hard work overshadowed by a heinous act that ppl rightfully can’t get over and probably never will. No one can know what Chris was thinking, his state of mind when he did what he did. I know that if a man has the mind of an 80 yr old Alzheimer’s patient then he’s capable of literally anything. I’m not excusing what he did but what would any of us do with brain damage like that? Who can know? I just remember being heartbroken and shocked that one of my favorite wrestlers was not only dead and had killed himself but that he brutally murdered his wife and son before did it. Sad day to be a wrestling fan, sad day period. There’s never going to be a wrestler like him again
6:07 Nancy did have a heavy problem with prescription pills, it was in her autopsy. That along with the doctor shopping, was something much deeper Not saying Chris is innocent (though going through that case is a deep rabbit hole), but the many pills played a factor
The first 5 minutes (really this whole 8/9 minutes) of Kurt talking is EXACTLY why I say blood and chairshots don’t make the product any more believable and why I say the current product is TRASH and NOWHERE near what the art of wrestling is about yet fans really sit and act like it is I feel bad for Kurt having to watch the sport he helped build up die by pretentious self entitled dweebs
Well back in the late 90s and early 2000s he’d give Deborah a really hard time. They’d argue and Austin would end up beating her ass and his heavy drinking eventually led to their divorce.
Nancy pushed Benoit's button too many times, Kurt didnt wrong at all. But Chris Benoit committed unforgivable crime no excuse but You cant say Nancy was saint.
Angle basically predicted that the wrestling would turn into a spotfest that it is today.
Kurt Angle body is hurting these days man.
@@violentbryan21 which proves he was a real athlete , no wonder he won an Olympic Gold Medal
@@omaralsaadi1751 WITH A BROKEN FREAKIN NECK !!!! (Kurt angle voice)
@@nat3dgr34tOh, it's True, It's true ~Kurt Angle
Based and Olympic Pilled 😂❤️
@@omaralsaadi1751 🎇🎇☝️🏅☝️🎇🎇
Stone cold talked about this on his podcast. He said he was simply in awe at how amazing Chris and Kurt were in the ring. He said he was enjoying it as a true fan
Fuck enjoying, he was supposed to be a heel at ring side and he said he was so MEMORIZED by the match that he forgot he was supposed to talk shit on the mic
Kurt never had anybody match his style until he wrestled Chris Benoit
He still wasn’t a great wrestler yet tho it was still when Kurt was starting out
Angle speaking on Benoit is always heartbreaking, he loved the guy, but his soul can't countenance the man he knew versus the man that resulted.
Angle didn’t love the guy he’s said in another interview he barely new Chris
@@Useryuuihdaeg I know which interview you're referring to and he meant that he didn't know him personally. But they were both really good friends at work.
Benoit and angle best technical wrestlers. Loved it
“Wrestling has consumed my life, It’s my mistress, my passion." Chris Benoit
I'll always believe chris died as the best in-ring performer of his generation. The intensity, emotion and just realism he brought every night he went down that ramp was unmatched.
Kevin Sullivan was at the Benoit house that night
@@user-cq5nl2gb8t R.I.P Nancy and Daniel Chris Benoit did it point blank period
@@user-cq5nl2gb8tPlease don't use Sullivan to shield Benoit from what he did.
@@123dan165you don’t know what Benoit did
That Royal Rumble 2003 match between the two was bananas, particularly considering that they followed an abomination of a HHH-Steiner match...
The Benoit and Angle match at the Royal Rumble 2003 was my favorite match on that show.
The sad part is that so many wrestlers talk about how special their chemistry was with Benoit and that they felt that their relationship was unique. I don’t care what anyone says, real WWF fans will never forget the impact Benoit had on the industry.
Angle absolutely had better chemistry with Benoit than anyone else. Their chain wrestling exchanges are still the best I’ve ever seen to this day.
Angle-Benoit was special. It was intense, it was old school, it was real. When Kurt said that he Chris cared more about getting pops than telling a story, well hell yes, that's the way it should be. There will never be another rivalry like Kurt Angle Vs. Chris Benoit. It's easily one pro wrestling's GOATS. Sadly, because of what Chris did, it's been mostly forgotten. Well, I'll never forget.
Benoit's biggest impact on the industry will always be his double murder suicide.
@@jaylucien669 Angle had a great run with both Benoit and Guerrero.
I've no fear in praising the man.
Never mind Bryan Danielson, if you need proof that height doesn't have to be a deal breaker in wrestling, look at Benoit.
He was and is still a WRESTLING hero.
Crazy how Angke understood the buisness and the art form so fast, coming from his background.
You can tell Angle is high as hell in this video.
Reason why they call benoit the Rabid Wolverine! one of my favorite matches was angle vs benoit at the royal rumble 2003.
Im 37 seconds into the cage match... And its the best god damm match ive ever witnessed
Benoit is and will always be the greatest technical wrestler to ever come out of Canada the man's body of work is hall of fame worthy it makes me sad that he ain't in the hall of fame ....
Benoit was still legitimately not as good as Bret Hart and also likely Dynamite Kid.
Perc angle at his peak
I was just about to type something like that. This man was high asf in this interview 😂😂😂
@@DannyBoy426 totally. His deep pitch voice is a dead give away. He’s probably on over 100mg of percs here. #percangle
@@DannyBoy426 very judgmental
small pupils vacant expression
@@a.j.hellraiser8993 Kurt’s very open and honest about his pain killer addiction. He’s in a better place now
Chris Benoit is the only wrestler that I would think twice before I step in the ring. This man is very intense to a point that he could seriously hurt another wrestler in the ring.
Rest in peace Benoit ,lady and their son 💐💐💐
He was the safest in the ring. He looked vicious, but he was very light. Everyone says that.
Perc Angle could talk about wrestling Benoit no problem or hesitation. Ask Perc Angle about the murder, he needed a pause.,. however he definitely spoke on it to his ability without actually dodging the question but had no answer
It’s a hard thing to talk about he’s talking about a really good friend and coworker that committed murder. It’s not something he understands or really has insight to. Chavo is probably the one who knows the most and even he doesn’t have much he can say. Nobody was in the house when it happened so everything is speculation. If you look at Chris’s eyes in his final match in ECW when he stares at CM Punk it’s very telling though. CM Punk is staring dead in Benoit’s eyes intense as hell and Chris is staring right through Punk like he’s not even there.
Their matches were incredible
AEW wrestlers need to listen to Angle
Kurt was feeling good and had the extra confidence talking while on those Vicodin. When I’d get them for my back I’d always stalk up on some for our football games, as a RB, if I had 4-6 I really wouldn’t feel pain getting tackled and the typical bumps didn’t bother him and felt like I had more energy on defense and would hit harder on those. The next mornings driving to watch film id smoke bowls of green on the way there and remember it half felt like I was in a car wreck feeling rough, but the green made me manage it. Ik those pills were too good to be true to take everyday and still feel effects. It’s crazy to think I was only 16, and my doctor was willing to give me hydro 10mgs by junior year. So many fake friends once they found out you had pain pill scripts. They’re evil.
They are, kratom helped me kick that habit. Kratom is addictive too but not as bad as pills
@@amd1273 yea same I'm on kratom now but kicked the pill habit atleast . And yea withdrawing off kratom sucks but I'll take compared to withdrawing off oxys
Whenever I see angle. I immediately think of the moonsault off the cage in his match with Benoit!
2 of my all time favs benoit and angle!
4:30 this man literally saw into the businesses future
Why does it look like Kurt is wearing a bald cap?
His hair grows back in certain spots that he had to shave it off at some point
What a powerful interview
Kurt Angle looking a little like Tito Ortiz here
Looking a LOT like Tito here.
The beauti of it all is that it doesn't have to make sense! Art imitates life, and life doesn't make a shit lick of sense!
Kurt angle the goat 🐐
Agreed superman punch reigns is destroying wrasslin
It's damn true
classic lol
no disrespect to kurt but the way he gave interviews back then compared to now are completely different..
Yeah he has lost a step
This isn’t Kurt angle. This is PERC angle. Big difference interviewing the two of them.
@@markboyer2054 Don't
This 64 perc a day kurt
@@xxcojo6xx wow that many?
Can't ignore the CTE
I have intense respect for angle. But I have to push back hard on his Benoit take of "we can't blame concussions or steroids". I believe we have to understand the impact CTE and steroids have, which is well understood from broad scientific study. It's up to doctors and scientists to comment on how those things might contribute to a mental health situation, and they've said they can cave profound impact on behavior and brain health.
"I don't want pro wrestling to be a bunch of spotfests." Welcome to the world of AEW!
Perk angle at his peak
Has that opiate induced relaxed vocal cords
He’s definitely high in this interview lmao perk angle
He's high as fuck right here... right? PERC ANGLE....
definetly
Alot of people on here like to remember Chris for his last actions and not the great wrestler he was and thats fine but MOST of you forget Jimmy Snuka has been in hof for years never got demoted and he straight up MURDERED his girlfriend! So if were here casting stones you better be ready to hurl some at yourselves and snuka first. Secondly, Carlos calone covered up a murder in hias damn wreslting promotion..hes in hof as well
What they did was horrible too but look at the differences. His innocent son was killed by him. Snuka didn't kill a child neither did the other person you mentioned that's the big difference there. If it was just Nancy that was killed it may have been different being it was still a horrible act but being Daniel was killed is where the huge problems draw attention too and that's why majority hate him. It still hurts me 14 years later because he was my favorite wrestler and still is from his matches and theme song etc but being his boy was killed by him there will be no absolute reason to put him in HOF, no one will applaud a child murder like that
Jimmy snuka wasnt found guilty
@@baseupp12 actually wasn't he found incompetent to stand trial
Should we name every pos ever? Snuka, Benoit, and many others are pos. How good of wrestlers they are Is irrelevant. They murdered women and children.
Carlos colon, no calone.
Yes what Chris evidently did was awful but I'll be damned if people ever forget just how goddamn good he was in the ring and how he could keep up with Kurt in his prime when almost nobody else could is a testament to that, I'll always love his in-ring work but sadly it'll also always be overshadowed by that horrific weekend in 2007.
Dream Match that can never happen: Misawa vs Angle
(I'm on an angle and Benoit nostalgia kick at the moment) i just commented on another video saying they had the best chemistry in the ring and then flip to this video and that's the first thing kurt says - maybe biased but I'm curious to know what differing opinions there are? Do any two hold a candle to angle vs benoit?
The Crippler was fantastic in the ring. He should be a Hall of Famer for his body of work, not the tragedy attached to his name.
I agree but I also hope you agree that’s the single reason WWE/WWF writes him off. The man was a wrestling machine before Kurt but his acts were heinous in the end.
@@johnbossert8725 I agree on that. They looked foolish for doing the tribute show just to find out the truth. It's what is best for WWE. I just want to remember the wrestler, not the man.
Killed a baby, his wife, and the most cowardly of all himself. This comment should be banned. There isn't an actual HOF location and even if there was there's no exception to that.
@@trickyricky1058 they didn't know yet wtf happened.
@@trickyricky1058 damm right, it World Wrestling NOT World Man Federation
What year was this?
The shoot interview? It was released in 2008 so maybe recorded late 2007 early 2008
😂AEW is what Kurt didn’t want wrestling to become
I wish fans and promoters would Listen to Kurt from 2:30-5:00. Someone is gonna get killed doing one of these crazy spots.
This whole first 8mins of him talking the physiology of wrestling and storytelling and not just work for the pops!
Someone should have the whole AEW locker room watch this...
Chris Benoit was a deadly wrestler, almost looked like he could kill someone in that ring 💍
Yeah, he treated his opponents like he treated his family
Ouch..
Indeed. It's kinda odd that wrestling is " fake " when you got a wrestler like Benoit missing more than one teeth with a shirt that says TOOTHLESS AGRESSION. The guy is seriously serious in the ring that you got to remind him that wrestling is fake .
@@lesant7659 it was almost like he was KILLING his opponents. STRANGLING their hopeless bodies with his vicious crossface, and BLUDGEONING them with his flying headbutt. A true hero.
@@JBLegitttt dude, when back then in WCW era in the 90,s .kids at school were doing crazy submission moves and I remember a classmate in gym class doing the crossface to a kid and he broke the 7 vertebrae in his neck. We send him nursery room but it was a lot worse than that .they ( the school ) call 911 and they took him to hospital . Later on that day ,we've heard that the kid would be ok . Doctors thought that he got into a car accident. Good old memories. HAHAHA... not for that kid tho'
So high on vics or percs or even oc’z
Kurt cant admit it, but i think he'd agree... move for move in that ring... Angles equal was indeed chris benoit..
You can blame Owen's death on wwe.
I guess it's true what they that one person's death can change you change and sometimes in the very wrost cases and I do agree with Harry Race that the flying headbutt should be banned completely
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it till the day I die, Chris Benoit was one of the greatest wrestlers of all time and he always will be. He truly made wrestling an art form, something today’s wrestlers fail miserably at. His matches with angle were phenomenal because Kurt was the same. I would put those two not just in the top 10 but in the top 5 greatest of all time. Over the course of 3 days in June of 2007, Chris murdered his family and then himself. This single act erased everything he did in that ring, 20+ years of hard work overshadowed by a heinous act that ppl rightfully can’t get over and probably never will. No one can know what Chris was thinking, his state of mind when he did what he did. I know that if a man has the mind of an 80 yr old Alzheimer’s patient then he’s capable of literally anything. I’m not excusing what he did but what would any of us do with brain damage like that? Who can know? I just remember being heartbroken and shocked that one of my favorite wrestlers was not only dead and had killed himself but that he brutally murdered his wife and son before did it. Sad day to be a wrestling fan, sad day period. There’s never going to be a wrestler like him again
Benoit was the best, such a sad story.
6:07 Nancy did have a heavy problem with prescription pills, it was in her autopsy. That along with the doctor shopping, was something much deeper
Not saying Chris is innocent (though going through that case is a deep rabbit hole), but the many pills played a factor
“I don’t want everything to turn into a spot fest” - 2023 wrestling = spot fest
Hes high
Benoit is innocent and Chris and Kurt had great matches I’ll never forget it ❤
No da hell he ain't hope dat fool rot in hell 4 it
Pro Wrestling is already long, lost.....
Kurt is stoned off his ass 😂. Glad to see he’s doing better now
Was he on the percs here?
He was high ass hell right here 😹
Perc angle 😂
I love Kurt Angle but this is Perk Angle, thank God he quit the shit
Well unfortunately kurt that's exactly what it became
The first 5 minutes (really this whole 8/9 minutes) of Kurt talking is EXACTLY why I say blood and chairshots don’t make the product any more believable and why I say the current product is TRASH and NOWHERE near what the art of wrestling is about yet fans really sit and act like it is I feel bad for Kurt having to watch the sport he helped build up die by pretentious self entitled dweebs
Even here, Kurt's nose is smaller
HMMMM
Austin beats women.. He's a coward..
Well back in the late 90s and early 2000s he’d give Deborah a really hard time. They’d argue and Austin would end up beating her ass and his heavy drinking eventually led to their divorce.
Is Kurt out of his fucking mind? To even seemingly appear to justify Chris Benoits murder of his family is beyond absurd
Perc Angle was a different time
Nancy pushed Benoit's button too many times, Kurt didnt wrong at all.
But Chris Benoit committed unforgivable crime no excuse but You cant say Nancy was saint.
Chris Benoit was gay for Eddie Guerrero
I think he loved Eddie platonically, but was super reliant on him to keep himself stable and grounded
They were in love so what no bodys buisness
Imagine if every wrestler was judge for their personal life?