Bret Hart did a great job in this interview, I can't imagine knowing someone for that many years both professionally and personally, never seeing a hint of what was to come and having to go publicly and talk about it but he did it and with such composure and CLASS!
I love Bret, the way he's trying to steer clear of what the man is trying to do the man is trying to get him to say steroids was the problem cannot one pinpointed on steroid I was just looking at a documentary from Stampede wrestling to WWE and they said steroids had absolutely nothing to do with what they saying my husband did
The Benoit story was such a tragedy. Altho considering he had brain damage that was compared to that of an 85 year old Alzheimer's patient, I think its safe to say that he wasn't in complete control of what he was doing. He was also 1 of a few wrestlers that would take a chair shot to the back of the head. I hope that 1 day he will be remembered for his talent and inducted into the HoF, but I just don't see it happening. Owen Hart deserves a place in that HoF too.
Benoit will never, EVER be in the Hall of Fame and he never, ever should. Nancy (aka Woman), however, SHOULD be inducted. Because she was such a trailblazer for women in the world of wrestling. The character she played was utterly iconic and unlike anything that had come before.
Also, just because he had brain damage doesn't excuse the fact that he MURDERED HIS WIFE AND KID. Nobody put a gun to his head and made him do that. He made the conscious decision to do what he did and all the evidence indicates that he was completely lucid when he did. And he had a prior history of savagely beating up his wife and kids too. WWE has no business celebrating that guy.
I think that there will be a time when most people will understand and appreciate the many factors that led to this tragedy and will realize that Benoit was not a monster, but rather a man who was suffering in silence due to factors that no one was aware of at the time. But he still did what he did and I don't think he will ever be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a result. You can respect the man, but you must also respect the innocent victims as well who didn't deserve what happened to them.
IMO he was blacked out from a mixture of xanax and alcohol when he killed his wife. Xanax will cause blackouts i myself have lost 14 hours on the stuff and that was just Xanax alone you mix alcohol and roids in there it can be a bad combination. I think he blackout out and killed his wife realized what he did and knew he was going to kill himself and didn't want to leave Daniel for his family to deal with so he killed him then it took him a little while to get the courage to kill himself.
No....he didn't. He abused Nancy prior. Murdered her, (rang chavo) then Murdered his son the next day, placed bibles by them, then text some wrestlers then killed himself. He didn't blackout. He knew what he was doing. It was premeditated
And? I don't see many 80yo killing children and murdering their wives. This is literally no excuse. He rang Co workers. And then text them "hinting" to be found. That's not the brain of a brain dead elderly man. That's someone who knew wtf he was doing.
And I’m going to tell a story right now that is 100% true in 2003 when my mother died I had just literally died they met Chris Benoit and his wife Nancy and they were such really nice people and when we went to my mothers funeral there was a big old bouquet of flowers right there and it was from Chris Benoit and his wife I will never forget how kind and generous that was
Over use of anything is not good legal or illegal is never good but ive been great friends with a disabled soldier I met in a psychiatric hospital I was in after my discharge from hospital after my accident I died 3 times after coma for 7 months ICU 11 months rehab 9 months and endless perminete injuries after staying in touch with this guy after our stay years later I learned he has been a regular user of heroin he is shattered from head to toe like me and we both can't get out of bed without pain control unfortunately opiates are the only thing tried that had any positive affect his doctor cold turkey cut his meds in half because he said government wouldn't allow him to prescribe that amount he was on ( bull shit cuz I'm on more than he was and never had a problem or was told government was cutting my dose) after they cut his he was crippled not to mention the severe withdrawal they caused him by cold turkying him he ended up back in his wheelchair perminetley had to resign from his job which was a federal government position and after his military benefits got screwed over he tried to kill himself after he got out of a forced rehab stay he was in the same shape so he took it upon himself to get better his new pain med doses were not enough so he started to buy off the streets to be able to buy the dosage the doc took away that was working. Ended up costing too much $30 a pill needed 80 pills to match his old working dosage was told to try heroin for a lot cheaper so he did he has it figured out too the exact milligram what he needs to survive and uses a combination of both drugs to get back where he was and 12 years later he's still doing it got his job back actually was promoted now a vice president in his federal government company he's hasn't touched his wheelchair for 9 years he's now driving married 4 kids bought a new house and is president of basketball operations for troubled youths in Philadelphia, Baltimore and D.C area basketball league. So heroin has done him pretty damn good after years of the legal way that was working was taken away from him and instead of giving up and collecting disability did what he had to do and has now made something pretty big of himself. And not to mention starting in 2020 he has a new position doing what he currently does except this one works out of the Pentagon
They all want to blame it on Steroids, I believe the problem was a physiological problem, that he had been dealing with for several years and unfortunately didn't receive any help that he desperately needed, it's sad and shouldn't have ever happened
Do you have anything else from this episode? I believe it was during this show where a local Atlanta reporter came on and said that she was told Chris did it as soon as she arrived on the scene. Thanks.
Depression will make you do harmfull things when someone text message a friend saying that the dogs are in the enclosed pool area. Garage side door is open. That is a Waring sign so in Benoit 's case .....that was a waring sign that he was suffering from depression it can all so make you snap and cause you to take your own life as well that's how bad this illiness is
I wonder if that is comparable to any other sport. all the guys who played in the NFL that people never even hear about might be on team for a year or years have died by overdose or murdered. wrestling has never gotten a lot of respect I would say a lot of death in other sports are tidied up or not considered newsworthy. boxers don't die old timers death for the most part anyway figure in drugs roids or violence with the corruption that was pro boxing and probably still is I'm sure a lot of guys got by on roids, it is alarming in wrestling but I believe media is quicker to give wrestling the black eye devote more time when something happens over other fields.
Do you see many brain damaged people murdering their families? And if so, show us the proof? Or people refer to his brain being that of an 85yo man, show me old men killing children and then their wives? Regardless of what's going on you have a fucking choice. Stop making excuses for a fucking bastard who tied up and murdered his wife. He almost broke her back by placing his knee on it while choking her with something. Then killing his son. Get a grip u loser.
Rip to the Benoit family Canadian Crippler rabid wolverine my favorite wrestler growing up gone but never forgotten he should be in the hall of fame in my opinion won the royal rumble and WWE championship at WrestleMania 20 amazing talent in the ring cte steroids and losing Eddie Guerrero he's best friend is what i think made him snap💔🥺🥲🙏🕊️😇💪 I respect u Chris Miss you
Bret was doing these shows because he had literally known Chris for nearly 30 years by that point and his family trained him. Christ got his start in Stampede Wrestling up in Calgary, of course the media was going to want to talk to him. Bret was only about 3 years out from his severe stroke here and still obviously feeling the affects of it, as the left side of his face is still clearly affected as he does most of his talking out of the right side of his mouth.
I love how Bret got the tribute to Sherri and Bam Bam in there. He never lets an opportunity to pay tribute to Owen slip by either.
Crazy how right Bret was, it was less about steroids that scarred his mental state but it was more concussion and brain damage related
Bret is always right. But people dont like facts and just say that hes bitter.
man, bret would have suffered a heart-attack every time he had to correct those dumb reporters... he knew chris for 30 years, not 20 by that time.
Bret Hart did a great job in this interview, I can't imagine knowing someone for that many years both professionally and personally, never seeing a hint of what was to come and having to go publicly and talk about it but he did it and with such composure and CLASS!
You can tell that Bret Hart does not see Chris Benoit as a murderer.
Dustin Nunn : Neither do I nor will I ever
Bret Hart sees things on a deeper level than merely guilty-not-guilty. He comes off great in this interview.
He wasn't Chris Benoit anymore. All that was left was the Crippler
I agree.. neither do i
@@glorymosbyfloyd3878 he will always be a murderer
I love Bret, the way he's trying to steer clear of what the man is trying to do the man is trying to get him to say steroids was the problem cannot one pinpointed on steroid I was just looking at a documentary from Stampede wrestling to WWE and they said steroids had absolutely nothing to do with what they saying my husband did
The Benoit story was such a tragedy. Altho considering he had brain damage that was compared to that of an 85 year old Alzheimer's patient, I think its safe to say that he wasn't in complete control of what he was doing. He was also 1 of a few wrestlers that would take a chair shot to the back of the head. I hope that 1 day he will be remembered for his talent and inducted into the HoF, but I just don't see it happening. Owen Hart deserves a place in that HoF too.
Exactly
Benoit will never, EVER be in the Hall of Fame and he never, ever should.
Nancy (aka Woman), however, SHOULD be inducted. Because she was such a trailblazer for women in the world of wrestling. The character she played was utterly iconic and unlike anything that had come before.
Amen I agree
Also, just because he had brain damage doesn't excuse the fact that he MURDERED HIS WIFE AND KID. Nobody put a gun to his head and made him do that. He made the conscious decision to do what he did and all the evidence indicates that he was completely lucid when he did. And he had a prior history of savagely beating up his wife and kids too. WWE has no business celebrating that guy.
I think that there will be a time when most people will understand and appreciate the many factors that led to this tragedy and will realize that Benoit was not a monster, but rather a man who was suffering in silence due to factors that no one was aware of at the time. But he still did what he did and I don't think he will ever be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a result. You can respect the man, but you must also respect the innocent victims as well who didn't deserve what happened to them.
Christ the news tries to glamour everything up.
Redfield 100% for white folk. imagine if the person who did this was a minority. the press would’ve been so damn ugly
@francis gibson you seem triggered pal
This is so depressing hearing about this.
IMO he was blacked out from a mixture of xanax and alcohol when he killed his wife. Xanax will cause blackouts i myself have lost 14 hours on the stuff and that was just Xanax alone you mix alcohol and roids in there it can be a bad combination. I think he blackout out and killed his wife realized what he did and knew he was going to kill himself and didn't want to leave Daniel for his family to deal with so he killed him then it took him a little while to get the courage to kill himself.
francis gibson Favorite wrestler growing up just sucks man. Not making excuses just wish i knew what happened.
Damn that's crazy bro. This is why I don't do drug pills I only smoke weed lol. RIP to Chris and his family tho
Benoit wasn’t on Alcohol
@@marcusmiddltn_ I think they found wine & beer in the house.
No....he didn't. He abused Nancy prior. Murdered her, (rang chavo) then Murdered his son the next day, placed bibles by them, then text some wrestlers then killed himself. He didn't blackout. He knew what he was doing. It was premeditated
No, but research on his brain by the Sports Legacy Institute found that he had the equivelant of an 80 year old dementia patient's brain.
And? I don't see many 80yo killing children and murdering their wives. This is literally no excuse. He rang Co workers. And then text them "hinting" to be found. That's not the brain of a brain dead elderly man. That's someone who knew wtf he was doing.
And I’m going to tell a story right now that is 100% true in 2003 when my mother died I had just literally died they met Chris Benoit and his wife Nancy and they were such really nice people and when we went to my mothers funeral there was a big old bouquet of flowers right there and it was from Chris Benoit and his wife I will never forget how kind and generous that was
Why Benoit was so good is he actually used a lot of throws and suplexes which is what more wrestlers should do since it’s fundamental to “wrestling.”
He was the greatest technical wrestler of all time for a reason.
No one will ever know what happened but that is what i've thought from the beginning. Being on auto pilot can be a dangerous thing.
My child hood hero/role model/idol bret the hitman hart. Showing respect to his disgraced country men/friend. 👏
Show me one person who got well from illegal or overprescribed drugs and I'll start doing them.
Over use of anything is not good legal or illegal is never good but ive been great friends with a disabled soldier I met in a psychiatric hospital I was in after my discharge from hospital after my accident I died 3 times after coma for 7 months ICU 11 months rehab 9 months and endless perminete injuries after staying in touch with this guy after our stay years later I learned he has been a regular user of heroin he is shattered from head to toe like me and we both can't get out of bed without pain control unfortunately opiates are the only thing tried that had any positive affect his doctor cold turkey cut his meds in half because he said government wouldn't allow him to prescribe that amount he was on ( bull shit cuz I'm on more than he was and never had a problem or was told government was cutting my dose) after they cut his he was crippled not to mention the severe withdrawal they caused him by cold turkying him he ended up back in his wheelchair perminetley had to resign from his job which was a federal government position and after his military benefits got screwed over he tried to kill himself after he got out of a forced rehab stay he was in the same shape so he took it upon himself to get better his new pain med doses were not enough so he started to buy off the streets to be able to buy the dosage the doc took away that was working. Ended up costing too much $30 a pill needed 80 pills to match his old working dosage was told to try heroin for a lot cheaper so he did he has it figured out too the exact milligram what he needs to survive and uses a combination of both drugs to get back where he was and 12 years later he's still doing it got his job back actually was promoted now a vice president in his federal government company he's hasn't touched his wheelchair for 9 years he's now driving married 4 kids bought a new house and is president of basketball operations for troubled youths in Philadelphia, Baltimore and D.C area basketball league. So heroin has done him pretty damn good after years of the legal way that was working was taken away from him and instead of giving up and collecting disability did what he had to do and has now made something pretty big of himself. And not to mention starting in 2020 he has a new position doing what he currently does except this one works out of the Pentagon
@@Turnheadcough dont try and promote drug use
Type "Lance Armstrong Cancer bed"
That man who looks like a corpse went on to win the ultimate endurance race in sports.
@@irieite9666and hes disgraced now because of drug use to win.. and stripped of medals I believe
They all want to blame it on Steroids, I believe the problem was a physiological problem, that he had been dealing with for several years and unfortunately didn't receive any help that he desperately needed, it's sad and shouldn't have ever happened
Such as what?...
Steroids are not. Xanax and Benzos are.
Do you have anything else from this episode? I believe it was during this show where a local Atlanta reporter came on and said that she was told Chris did it as soon as she arrived on the scene. Thanks.
12 years later.
The media narrative was always about steroids. Never about a mental condition.
damn wow bret hart look good at 50; if you look at kurt angle at 50 at the present time 😔😣🤦♂️
bret handled this with grace, navigated the rude interviewer very nicely.
Love how Brett just railroads this snarky interviewer. Great baby face
Bret is awesome
At times now a days I don't like the media
Hitman's answers are rather insufficient.
Bret doesn't want to admit how Benoit met his wife.
how did he meet her?
@@norahj.9970 Likely WCW. They both worked there at the same time.
Bret was still in the WWF at the time.
@@norahj.9970she cheated on her then husband with Chris and then left him to be with Chris. This was in wcw
Isnt it True at ALL And I mean ALL Crime Scenes police take DNA And Finger Print samples how come they didn't for this
Yes.
Depression will make you do harmfull things when someone text message a friend saying that the dogs are in the enclosed pool area. Garage side door is open. That is a Waring sign so in Benoit 's case .....that was a waring sign that he was suffering from depression it can all so make you snap and cause you to take your own life as well that's how bad this illiness is
American news is ghoulish. The sound track in the background the excited way the host reads the teleprompter. Horrible.
Mmmmmm. I loooooooove me some Bret Hart😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
The only guy that really knows what happened is KS and he will take it to his grave
Can you say Kevin Sullivan?
That's the guy I believe who done it
I wonder if that is comparable to any other sport. all the guys who played in the NFL that people never even hear about might be on team for a year or years have died by overdose or murdered. wrestling has never gotten a lot of respect I would say a lot of death in other sports are tidied up or not considered newsworthy. boxers don't die old timers death for the most part anyway figure in drugs roids or violence with the corruption that was pro boxing and probably still is I'm sure a lot of guys got by on roids, it is alarming in wrestling but I believe media is quicker to give wrestling the black eye devote more time when something happens over other fields.
+Bullet-Sky O'Connor Get over the steroids kick it aint that he had brain damage of an 85 year old person so yeah.
Do you see many brain damaged people murdering their families? And if so, show us the proof? Or people refer to his brain being that of an 85yo man, show me old men killing children and then their wives? Regardless of what's going on you have a fucking choice. Stop making excuses for a fucking bastard who tied up and murdered his wife. He almost broke her back by placing his knee on it while choking her with something. Then killing his son. Get a grip u loser.
Probably
Lies all lies
I know why he did it now.
Rip to the Benoit family Canadian Crippler rabid wolverine my favorite wrestler growing up gone but never forgotten he should be in the hall of fame in my opinion won the royal rumble and WWE championship at WrestleMania 20 amazing talent in the ring cte steroids and losing Eddie Guerrero he's best friend is what i think made him snap💔🥺🥲🙏🕊️😇💪 I respect u Chris Miss you
That's not true he shot himself wow
But he killed his wife on a Friday night and his son wasn't killed until much later, like Saturday evening when Benoit killed him with the Crossface.
stfu! you werent their so you cant say shit. stop being a sheep and believing all the bs you hear ffs
he had a special needs child
Not confirmed. I think he had dwarfism or degenerative growth syndrome. He didn't look like a special needs
Bret was craving being on television badly going on all these shows to talk Benoit killing his family
🤡
Bret was doing these shows because he had literally known Chris for nearly 30 years by that point and his family trained him. Christ got his start in Stampede Wrestling up in Calgary, of course the media was going to want to talk to him. Bret was only about 3 years out from his severe stroke here and still obviously feeling the affects of it, as the left side of his face is still clearly affected as he does most of his talking out of the right side of his mouth.
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