I second that. This was the topic that put Something to wrestle on the map and starting the success for Bruce and Conrad and how they got the almost 80K subscribers they have.
The openings used to be kinda cool with all of Bruce's impressions. Now they've ruined it by having Lardass shill for his business. There should be a timestamp printed in the description to skip all that BS.
I feel Bruce is doin’ his best...if any of you were in his shoes there’s no way you’d trash a lucrative job you love so a podcast could be more “edgy” and anti-WWE. The time is an issue but we all knew that would be the case.
Amen. I still always enjoy the podcast. I think people were expecting a 3-4 hr podcast since not only was it the 20th anniversary of when the Radicals jumped to the World Wrestling Federation but we were revisiting the topic from episode 8 that put the show on the map. It was cool that we did with Conrad's notes of Dave Meltzer. Always funny when Conrad uses them cause we all know how full of shit Meltzer is.
Last time they did this he didn't have that job. He's just an apologist. Company man to the last gasp. Notice how he never talks when Vince is drinking water.
i like shane, but after hearing this, and his story about being involved with the click, i think hes a typical wrestler, being hes full of shit. loving to put himself over
I understand Bruce's reasoning for why they didn't debut the Radicalz at the 2000 Rumble. But at the same time, wasn't that the same Rumble match where they replaced a bunch of lower card talent (Kaientai, Mean Street Posse...) at the last minute with people who had to pull double duty (Acolytes, Outlaws, Chyna, Jericho...) to add "star power" to it? The Radicalz could've taken some of those spots.
Yeah 2000 was the rumble that was replaced by the star power of Acolystes, Outlaws, Chyna and Jericho who pulled double duty cause the feeling was that you had to work double duty in order for the rumble to succedd. I think Bruce was hesistant to bring them in the first place cause Chris was the WCW World Heavyweight Champion. I was glad when Chris left given the history of Kevin and him. If he stayed, his reign would have been a joke cause Kevin would have been a vindictive man cause Nancy left him for Chris.
@@josephboza7448 - Sullivan put the belt on the charisma vacuum against the wishes of EVERYBODY in WCW. He had the midget beat Sid Vicious for the belt, a guy who's leather chaps drew more than Benoit, and the murderer repays Sullivan by going to TBS human resources and tries to get Sullivan, Graham and Dillon fired. A piece of shit who had a much higher opinion of himself than anyone did. Glad he is dead, the only tragedy is that he took his wife and child with him.
@@handsolo1209 Sullivan had Benoit "win the belt" with Sids leg under the rope so he could reverse the decision. It was a screw job from the start. I think Benoit is a giant piece of shit but I don't think Sullivan was doing that in Benoits favor. He wanted an out with the boys by telling them that Sid was just in the wrong place and he did want Benoit to win. It was evil, yet genius move.
i listened to the original radicalz episode when it was new,and i may be remembering wrong but im 50 minutes into this episode and its the same exact stuff
Basically..we all miss the show’s original format prior to Brice’s WWE return. I appreciate Bruce & Connie’s decision to keep STW intact, and continuing the same output of a new show per week (for the most part). However, the topics reviewed under the shorter shows since the WWE rehire (60-90 min) are getting shafted time quality wise. And watch along shows were done when Bruce had additional free time during Thanksgiving/Xmas vacation - instead of utilizing the extra time to produce a non-watch episode. Watch alongs tend to not promote a more detailed oriented format and cuts off the open ended Q&A based off Connie’s Meltzer textbook. I BITCH ON YOUR IDEA - BUT DO SO WITH MY SUGGESTION 😁 Cut from weekly to bi-weekly new shows. Utilize additional week/time to produce episodes on par with those pre WWE rehire. And during the year, work in a few bonus shows targeted for off-week release, as opportunity provides.
Another suggestion would be do a "The Best of Something to Wrestle"/Highlight show (From Macho Man onward) which they haven't done since the Houston Flood/Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
How come they arent doing any 2000 shows? It’s the 20 year anniversary but they missed royal rumble 2000 and they announce they’re doing 2005 pay per views
Being Goldberg, Hogan, Sting, DDP, Savage, etc and going to WWF would mean something. Benoit holding that belt would be like Funaki beating Undertaker for the WWF belt. It would mean shit after that.
Well if this episode doesn't prove that Bruce stopped caring about the podcast I don't know what does. It's just short, cold, one word answers. He's annoyed at every question and he's rushing through it. If you don't have time to do the show properly don't do it at all. That's how I see it anyway.
@@danielescalera6638 The Buyrate of WMXX was considered a big disappointment by everybody. The expectations was 1+ million buys. It completely failed that goal.
@@danielescalera6638 So what? Doesn't change the fact that the buyrate was bad which is directly related to Benoit and Guerrero being midcarders who simply never should've been in the Main Event. Again: They both completely bombed, the numbers are out there and they prove it. These are cold hard facts. Why not simply accept how it is? It ain't my fault that the term Vanilla Midget is true and it ain't my fault that those 2 never drew, just as it isn't my fault that Vince or whoever was dumb enough to push them way above their ceiling and thus completely expose their inability to draw.
@Nich Hodge I knew someone wouldn't understand the analogy.... I said what Benoit did would have wiped ANYONE'S legacy. Like even the greatest of all time like Flair, Hogan, etc... their legacy would be wiped as well of they did the horrific thing Benoit did. Get it?
Here's what I don't get............ If Eddie Guerrero was hurt, then why change the finish of the Triple H/Chris Benoit match and have Trips go over instead ? How would Chris Benoit going over have affected anything ? They coulda just had Perry, Chris and Dean sweep DX to earn their spots, and just have Eddie as their "manager" until he was ready to come back. (which BTW, is what they ultimately ended up doing anyway) So, why change the ending to the match, if it wasn't going to affect the story either way ? That makes absolutely no sense to me. Sounds to me this was done simply to placate to either Trips, Vince or both. And if the reason BEHIND it, was to "subvert expectaions" as Bruce claims, then why wasn't that the plan from the START. Having this be Plan B, instead of Plan A makes ZERO SENSE given the reasoning behind it.
@@TheeCoachg It failed because WWE wanted to control the narrative. They saw how WELL it was doing and wanted to reproduce the podcast on their terms. I think the CM Punk episode was the final straw as Conrad and Bruce both said "we are going to talk about Punk, we are going to talk about his court case with WWE". WWE tried to change that and I think that is why it failed
Listening back, I just get tired of Conrad making it sound like WWF buried these guys. Within a month or two all these guys had won championships and headlined shows. The story WWF wanted to tell is that going into the HHH/Benoit match is that they were 1-1 and that everyone got screwed by Triple H and DX, and that the only way to get their jobs back was by turning heel and joining Triple H. That's good heel heat and it obviously worked. Wins and losses matter, but at the end of the day it's not what everyone remembers.
This episode was a giant disappointment considering Conrad has been hyping it for over a month. Really, nothing significant was added to the old episode and the "research" seemed non-existent considering he couldn't even get the timeline of the debut angle straight. How about a follow up question on how the decision was made to have a WCW guy make the current WWF champ tap out on TV (even if the ref didn't see it)? So much for Triple H "burying" everyone. Bruce seems completely uninterested in talking about anyone besides Eddie but clearly there was gigantic plans for Benoit immediately that we won't hear about
@@Super122291 Have YOU watched the original episode? It has 99% of the same content as this. There was zero point revisiting this topic if they weren't going to add anything to it or put in any effort. This was also widely viewed as one of the worst episodes they've ever done so yeah... blow me
I’m not trying to defend Russo cause I can’t stand him but is it possible he knows an informant at the hotel that could recognize four famous wrestlers regardless of the names they checked in under?
What kind of dumbass is gonna shoot down someone they're working with at the moment. That's like when people got mad about Seth Rollins praising WWE. You really think it's a good career move to shit on a soon to be or current employer on a worldwide spectrum like the wrestling business is?
Prichard, full of shit as usual- WWE and Vince McMahon have a history of contract tempering: Lex Luger in 1992 and Sid Vicious in 1991 to name just two. McMahon also tried to get Harley Race to no-show Starrcade 83.
Conrad, You're killing me with all the ads on your podcasts. There's been a massive increase and it's now a chore to even skip them. I don't begrudge you a few dollars but you're already wealthy and these ads are painful to listen to. I've listened to every podcast and put money in your pocket but you're driving me away with the shilling.
I'm getting sick and tired of the Benoit treatment. I'm not condoning what he did, but I guess I view it as an accident or not the real him that did those things. Eddie, Brian, Louie, Rick, Chris Candido and others were all tragically taken from us way too son. In all these cases, there were outside forces that caused them. I don't view the Benoit situation as any different. You can argue steroid use if you want, but the wrestling industry would've pushed him in that direction being on the smaller side and wanting to compete with the giants. You can definitely argue things like CTE and look at other examples like the suicide of Junior Seau and Mike Awesome. Those two things, the pressure to use steroids and the effects and causes of CTE, are what the WWE is really trying to erase from it's history and distance itself from. Chris Benoit is just a victim of that, too. Nobody's ever going to change my mind on this and have fun collecting your Saudi blood money, WWE.
It's a weird situatuon. While I understand WWE's stance on it, I can still view his work as I can separate work from the person. The dude was one of the best in ring performers. Definitely one of the most realistic workers.
I wish someone would mention to Bruce that Benoit was diagnosed with CTE with his brain so decayed that he had no control over his actions. Blaming Benoit for something he had no control over is simply cruel and unfair.
@Mike The Scott Wrong. No one knew of CTE until after he was gone and he certainly didn't know he had CTE because it still cannot be verified until after death to autopsy the brain.
Somebody should give you a reality check. If that was the case, he wouldn't even be able to work in the ring. If his brain was that shot, everybody would've noticed it and done something. It's sad that marks can't accept reality and rather find ridiculous, shit excuses to defend something horrible. Considering the fact that Chris beat up Nancy countless of times before it, it's obvious that he simply was a violent idividual. After all, Nancy wanted to put a restraining order on him in 2002 already. Something made him snap. I rather believe that he simply saw red when Nancy told him that she is filing for divorce (second time) and this time means it. That's a hell of a lot more believable than the retarded "but his brain! CTE!" nonsense marks want to believe because they can't handle or accept the ugly truth.
Mike The Scott LOL that’s like saying if you drive a car and a drunk driver kills you it’s your fault because you didn’t take precautions such as not driving a car. Fuck off out of here with that mentality. And no, he nor they knew the risks of CTE back then. That’s been stated a thousand times and is why WWE no longer allow chair shots to the head (which sucks for viewers because they were classic, but alas it was bad for the workers!)
@@melaniel.4269 You are in desperate need of checking facts and reality as you put it. People suffering with CTE are prone to violent outbursts against themselves or others and eventually they kill others and then themselves or just kill themselves. There's been so many cases of this documented it boggles the mind that anyone could find someone at fault with this horrible brain condition literally eating away their lives. Verne Gagne for instance was a long time wrestler who had CTE that snapped and killed someone he was playing checkers with. He wasn't some violent thug like you are trying to portray Benoit to be. His brain simply deteriorated to the point he snapped and killed someone. Benoit's brain when they studied it was that of a late term Alzheimer's patient in his late 80's and Benoit was nowhere near that old. He had profound CTE damage in his brain. Blaming people who had a serious and literally mind altering medical condition for their actions is unfair. Blame CTE for this.
The Radical Z were so awesome back in the day, coming into the WWF.
Man, this is the best podcast out there. I love all of Conrad Thompson's podcasts, but Bruce is always going to be the best!
Chat me up
Prichard is a proven conman, liar and fraud. He's been exposed and owned by pioneer and hall-of-famer Dave Meltzer.
@@MattSingh1lol, exchange names. Meltzer?? Prichard, been there, done that…still doing it.
Jealousy is a helluva curse.
I like to listen to Bruce and Conrad all the time.
Could listen to conrad and bruce for hours. Such a great podcast
Please do an Andre the Giant Episode for episode 200
0:01 I can't think what gave you that idea..... 😂
So glad they revisited this episode. Thanks guys.
I second that. This was the topic that put Something to wrestle on the map and starting the success for Bruce and Conrad and how they got the almost 80K subscribers they have.
Great job Conrad and Bruce as always!!
Starts at 5:52.
0:00
The openings used to be kinda cool with all of Bruce's impressions. Now they've ruined it by having Lardass shill for his business. There should be a timestamp printed in the description to skip all that BS.
Papa bless 🙌
Youre so lovely
Vince McMahon: "He's so tiny!"
*McMahon then reaches into his office refrigerator*
The older, unstructured, longer episodes are so much better.
I feel Bruce is doin’ his best...if any of you were in his shoes there’s no way you’d trash a lucrative job you love so a podcast could be more “edgy” and anti-WWE. The time is an issue but we all knew that would be the case.
Amen. I still always enjoy the podcast. I think people were expecting a 3-4 hr podcast since not only was it the 20th anniversary of when the Radicals jumped to the World Wrestling Federation but we were revisiting the topic from episode 8 that put the show on the map. It was cool that we did with Conrad's notes of Dave Meltzer. Always funny when Conrad uses them cause we all know how full of shit Meltzer is.
Last time they did this he didn't have that job.
He's just an apologist. Company man to the last gasp. Notice how he never talks when Vince is drinking water.
Shane "I'm overrated but I was good in ECW because that place sucked" Douglas
🤣 that was good!
i like shane, but after hearing this, and his story about being involved with the click, i think hes a typical wrestler, being hes full of shit. loving to put himself over
That was hilarious lol
1:06:13 "Well yeah man, the WCW guys are gonna come in and win everything first night because, well, that's what I wanna see happen."
I understand Bruce's reasoning for why they didn't debut the Radicalz at the 2000 Rumble. But at the same time, wasn't that the same Rumble match where they replaced a bunch of lower card talent (Kaientai, Mean Street Posse...) at the last minute with people who had to pull double duty (Acolytes, Outlaws, Chyna, Jericho...) to add "star power" to it? The Radicalz could've taken some of those spots.
Yeah 2000 was the rumble that was replaced by the star power of Acolystes, Outlaws, Chyna and Jericho who pulled double duty cause the feeling was that you had to work double duty in order for the rumble to succedd. I think Bruce was hesistant to bring them in the first place cause Chris was the WCW World Heavyweight Champion. I was glad when Chris left given the history of Kevin and him. If he stayed, his reign would have been a joke cause Kevin would have been a vindictive man cause Nancy left him for Chris.
@@josephboza7448 - Sullivan put the belt on the charisma vacuum against the wishes of EVERYBODY in WCW. He had the midget beat Sid Vicious for the belt, a guy who's leather chaps drew more than Benoit, and the murderer repays Sullivan by going to TBS human resources and tries to get Sullivan, Graham and Dillon fired. A piece of shit who had a much higher opinion of himself than anyone did. Glad he is dead, the only tragedy is that he took his wife and child with him.
@@handsolo1209 Sullivan had Benoit "win the belt" with Sids leg under the rope so he could reverse the decision. It was a screw job from the start. I think Benoit is a giant piece of shit but I don't think Sullivan was doing that in Benoits favor. He wanted an out with the boys by telling them that Sid was just in the wrong place and he did want Benoit to win. It was evil, yet genius move.
A revisited dusty would be awesome
I gotta say, corny doesn't have 10% of the ads and doesn't sound like a qvc show half the time. His high pitched voice becomes pretty bareable
i listened to the original radicalz episode when it was new,and i may be remembering wrong but im 50 minutes into this episode and its the same exact stuff
Basically..we all miss the show’s original format prior to Brice’s WWE return. I appreciate Bruce & Connie’s decision to keep STW intact, and continuing the same output of a new show per week (for the most part).
However, the topics reviewed under the shorter shows since the WWE rehire (60-90 min) are getting shafted time quality wise. And watch along shows were done when Bruce had additional free time during Thanksgiving/Xmas vacation - instead of utilizing the extra time to produce a non-watch episode. Watch alongs tend to not promote a more detailed oriented format and cuts off the open ended Q&A based off Connie’s Meltzer textbook.
I BITCH ON YOUR IDEA - BUT DO SO WITH MY SUGGESTION 😁
Cut from weekly to bi-weekly new shows. Utilize additional week/time to produce episodes on par with those pre WWE rehire. And during the year, work in a few bonus shows targeted for off-week release, as opportunity provides.
Another suggestion would be do a "The Best of Something to Wrestle"/Highlight show (From Macho Man onward) which they haven't done since the Houston Flood/Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
Well, You know
The Jericho vs.Malenko rivalry in WCW was the shit. Dean-O Machine-O, Mr. Bore US Malenko
Great photo!
Damn that Fight between Tony and Malenko must of been crazy, we need a cage for this Heat!
Conrad looks like Tugboat
rubber band man I called him typhoon Jr last week, same thing
More like the one man gang IMO
That's a compliment. Tugboat is/was one handsome man.
Heath Vance found Conrad burner acct lol
Macho Man great minds think alike my brother
Yo Yo Yo this is K-Dog
Bruce doesn't remember Fully Loaded & Unforgiven 2000? Was he sent home for a few months or what?
If I hear one more damn ad for Steven Singer... I do hate him for hearing his ad like 100 billion times.
Conrad lying that he gives a fuck about these shitty products is a joke too.
Steven Singer has quality products if that makes you feel any better. :)
How come they arent doing any 2000 shows? It’s the 20 year anniversary but they missed royal rumble 2000 and they announce they’re doing 2005 pay per views
Conrad vs Bruce in a steel cage
Justin better reinforce the ring if gonna put Conrad in it
With Dave Meltzer as the special referee. Lol
Double count-out as both men, after running the ropes, cant make it to their feet before the count due to being out of breath!
Need a new Q&A episode please!!
I searched for Benoit on the Wwe network. I could not get anything!
Being WCW champ means less than nothing, unless you're pushing "SIXTEEN-TIME WORLD CHAMPION RIC FLAIR" year after year apparently.
Being Goldberg, Hogan, Sting, DDP, Savage, etc and going to WWF would mean something. Benoit holding that belt would be like Funaki beating Undertaker for the WWF belt. It would mean shit after that.
Hand Solo Jeff Jarrett held that gold belt, and he’s a hall of Famer
Well if this episode doesn't prove that Bruce stopped caring about the podcast I don't know what does. It's just short, cold, one word answers. He's annoyed at every question and he's rushing through it. If you don't have time to do the show properly don't do it at all. That's how I see it anyway.
Saturn was amazing in WCW.
Bruce I’ll make the jump....... but first I need to know........!
😂😂😂😂
Radicalz were the truth
The truth that vanilla midgets don't draw?
@@melaniel.4269 they drew at mania 20
@@danielescalera6638 The Buyrate of WMXX was considered a big disappointment by everybody. The expectations was 1+ million buys. It completely failed that goal.
@@melaniel.4269 I was in attendance and when both won and their embrace at the end had a big pops.
@@danielescalera6638 So what? Doesn't change the fact that the buyrate was bad which is directly related to Benoit and Guerrero being midcarders who simply never should've been in the Main Event. Again: They both completely bombed, the numbers are out there and they prove it. These are cold hard facts.
Why not simply accept how it is? It ain't my fault that the term Vanilla Midget is true and it ain't my fault that those 2 never drew, just as it isn't my fault that Vince or whoever was dumb enough to push them way above their ceiling and thus completely expose their inability to draw.
What Benoit did would wipe Ric Flair from history. People need to comprehend that
@Nich Hodge I knew someone wouldn't understand the analogy.... I said what Benoit did would have wiped ANYONE'S legacy. Like even the greatest of all time like Flair, Hogan, etc... their legacy would be wiped as well of they did the horrific thing Benoit did. Get it?
The roomer back in the day Benoit (size) WCW Championship was less than nothing.. I disagree with that
Here's what I don't get............ If Eddie Guerrero was hurt, then why change the finish of the Triple H/Chris Benoit match and have Trips go over instead ? How would Chris Benoit going over have affected anything ? They coulda just had Perry, Chris and Dean sweep DX to earn their spots, and just have Eddie as their "manager" until he was ready to come back. (which BTW, is what they ultimately ended up doing anyway) So, why change the ending to the match, if it wasn't going to affect the story either way ? That makes absolutely no sense to me. Sounds to me this was done simply to placate to either Trips, Vince or both. And if the reason BEHIND it, was to "subvert expectaions" as Bruce claims, then why wasn't that the plan from the START. Having this be Plan B, instead of Plan A makes ZERO SENSE given the reasoning behind it.
Hey Conrad, why dont you start doing video podcasts instead?
Because he isn't visually appealing.
pmfg11 I think thats why Something Else to Wrestle didnt work. He’s big AND Southern...two things McMahon HATES.
@@TheeCoachg It failed because WWE wanted to control the narrative. They saw how WELL it was doing and wanted to reproduce the podcast on their terms. I think the CM Punk episode was the final straw as Conrad and Bruce both said "we are going to talk about Punk, we are going to talk about his court case with WWE". WWE tried to change that and I think that is why it failed
Listening back, I just get tired of Conrad making it sound like WWF buried these guys. Within a month or two all these guys had won championships and headlined shows. The story WWF wanted to tell is that going into the HHH/Benoit match is that they were 1-1 and that everyone got screwed by Triple H and DX, and that the only way to get their jobs back was by turning heel and joining Triple H. That's good heel heat and it obviously worked. Wins and losses matter, but at the end of the day it's not what everyone remembers.
Make stww great again
Before the show is Conrad wearing a pool tarp cover??? Big & Tall must’ve been out of his size and sent him to a pool supply store.
Best thing bruce said beniot dean were never horsemen. Horsemen drink they dont they like ladies they are married
This comment makes no sense. Were you high when you wrote this bs? I hope so. Always read what you type before posting it.
What ed dead said make sense. Pronouns only once period once no commas made reading hard.
This episode was a giant disappointment considering Conrad has been hyping it for over a month. Really, nothing significant was added to the old episode and the "research" seemed non-existent considering he couldn't even get the timeline of the debut angle straight. How about a follow up question on how the decision was made to have a WCW guy make the current WWF champ tap out on TV (even if the ref didn't see it)? So much for Triple H "burying" everyone. Bruce seems completely uninterested in talking about anyone besides Eddie but clearly there was gigantic plans for Benoit immediately that we won't hear about
Watch the first episode and stop acting childish!!
@@Super122291 Have YOU watched the original episode? It has 99% of the same content as this. There was zero point revisiting this topic if they weren't going to add anything to it or put in any effort. This was also widely viewed as one of the worst episodes they've ever done so yeah... blow me
Conrad U legend
If anyone believes Bruce's konnan k dawg explanation I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you lol
I’m not trying to defend Russo cause I can’t stand him but is it possible he knows an informant at the hotel that could recognize four famous wrestlers regardless of the names they checked in under?
I don’t remember so much advertising in other episodes. This sucks
Please do a 1, 2, 3 kid/x-pac episode
This is done Bruce company man now
Now??? When wasn't he lol
What kind of dumbass is gonna shoot down someone they're working with at the moment. That's like when people got mad about Seth Rollins praising WWE. You really think it's a good career move to shit on a soon to be or current employer on a worldwide spectrum like the wrestling business is?
CM Prichard?
been a company man since day one
1:14:03-As a fan of all these guys, I thought it just made them look weak!
I sooooo disagree with Bruce. This is not a time to “subvert expectations”!
Bruce is lying about the konnan story
That Konan story is such bullshit
Kevin Sullivan!!!
What about him?
@@jediknightgeo he's the Taskmaster, leader of the Dungeon of Doom and elder brother of Evad Sullivan..
Well you know
You take the chicken & you know, add some mayo, you know...
@@mjolden well you know
I hate these adverts in the videos
Prichard, full of shit as usual- WWE and Vince McMahon have a history of contract tempering: Lex Luger in 1992 and Sid Vicious in 1991 to name just two. McMahon also tried to get Harley Race to no-show Starrcade 83.
Conrad, You're killing me with all the ads on your podcasts. There's been a massive increase and it's now a chore to even skip them. I don't begrudge you a few dollars but you're already wealthy and these ads are painful to listen to. I've listened to every podcast and put money in your pocket but you're driving me away with the shilling.
Especially when the adds are 3 min long so u have to stop what your doing to skip them
Mike Matthews put money in my pockets babe
I'm getting sick and tired of the Benoit treatment. I'm not condoning what he did, but I guess I view it as an accident or not the real him that did those things. Eddie, Brian, Louie, Rick, Chris Candido and others were all tragically taken from us way too son. In all these cases, there were outside forces that caused them. I don't view the Benoit situation as any different. You can argue steroid use if you want, but the wrestling industry would've pushed him in that direction being on the smaller side and wanting to compete with the giants. You can definitely argue things like CTE and look at other examples like the suicide of Junior Seau and Mike Awesome. Those two things, the pressure to use steroids and the effects and causes of CTE, are what the WWE is really trying to erase from it's history and distance itself from. Chris Benoit is just a victim of that, too. Nobody's ever going to change my mind on this and have fun collecting your Saudi blood money, WWE.
I'm with WWE. NO EXCUSES!!!
It's a weird situatuon. While I understand WWE's stance on it, I can still view his work as I can separate work from the person.
The dude was one of the best in ring performers. Definitely one of the most realistic workers.
Liar
Jeez you are overweight Conrad
I wish someone would mention to Bruce that Benoit was diagnosed with CTE with his brain so decayed that he had no control over his actions. Blaming Benoit for something he had no control over is simply cruel and unfair.
Keep defending it, Mark.
@Mike The Scott Wrong. No one knew of CTE until after he was gone and he certainly didn't know he had CTE because it still cannot be verified until after death to autopsy the brain.
Somebody should give you a reality check. If that was the case, he wouldn't even be able to work in the ring. If his brain was that shot, everybody would've noticed it and done something.
It's sad that marks can't accept reality and rather find ridiculous, shit excuses to defend something horrible.
Considering the fact that Chris beat up Nancy countless of times before it, it's obvious that he simply was a violent idividual. After all, Nancy wanted to put a restraining order on him in 2002 already.
Something made him snap. I rather believe that he simply saw red when Nancy told him that she is filing for divorce (second time) and this time means it.
That's a hell of a lot more believable than the retarded "but his brain! CTE!" nonsense marks want to believe because they can't handle or accept the ugly truth.
Mike The Scott LOL that’s like saying if you drive a car and a drunk driver kills you it’s your fault because you didn’t take precautions such as not driving a car. Fuck off out of here with that mentality. And no, he nor they knew the risks of CTE back then. That’s been stated a thousand times and is why WWE no longer allow chair shots to the head (which sucks for viewers because they were classic, but alas it was bad for the workers!)
@@melaniel.4269 You are in desperate need of checking facts and reality as you put it. People suffering with CTE are prone to violent outbursts against themselves or others and eventually they kill others and then themselves or just kill themselves. There's been so many cases of this documented it boggles the mind that anyone could find someone at fault with this horrible brain condition literally eating away their lives.
Verne Gagne for instance was a long time wrestler who had CTE that snapped and killed someone he was playing checkers with. He wasn't some violent thug like you are trying to portray Benoit to be. His brain simply deteriorated to the point he snapped and killed someone. Benoit's brain when they studied it was that of a late term Alzheimer's patient in his late 80's and Benoit was nowhere near that old. He had profound CTE damage in his brain.
Blaming people who had a serious and literally mind altering medical condition for their actions is unfair. Blame CTE for this.