Chris Benoit

I wasn't sure what to expect from Chris & Nancy , Irvin Muchnick's new book about the Chris Benoit murder-suicide and everything surrounding it. I have been a fan of Muchnick's wrestling writing (collected in Wrestling Babylon ) for years, but I was unsure of the direction he was takin...

World Wrestling Entertainment star Chris Benoit undoubtedly killed his wife and 7-year-old son before committing suicide in June 2007. Whether the police and WWE properly handled the aftermath isn't so clear-cut. -- read more

Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko take on Chris Jericho and Chavo Guerrero Jr. in a tag match on WCW Saturday Night!

The current plan is for Rey Mysterio is to return from his Wellness Suspension at the Trenton, NJ Smackdown taping on 10/6. Footage of Chris Benoit makes a brief appearance on the Best of Smckdown DVD, during the TLC III segment. This is the first appearance in new material for Benoit in years.

WWE tidbits - McMahon's reaction to Chris Benoit and more!

 CA Chris Benoit vs. Kurt Angle (Royal Rumble 2003) - These two put on an absolute clinic in this match! There was counter after counter and Angle eventually got the win when Benoit tapped to the ankle lock. Steve Austin vs. The Rock (Wrestlemania X-7) ...

TNA's Lisa Marie Varon has posted on blog on her website regarding online reports (I don't know where they were reported but they certainly were not here) connecting her romantically to the late Chris Benoit before the Benoit tragedy.

 TX The Ticketmaster pre-sale code for WWE's return to Denver, Colorado on Friday, August 7th is KROENKE. - The Chris Benoit vs. Fit Finlay match was edited off the WCW Slamboree 1998 pay-per-view shown on WWE Classics on Demand this past week. ...

 UK A fan at Raw in Birmingham sitting front row had his sign confiscated by WWE. It read: "Chris Benoit for Hall of Fame." They missed the person who had a sign opposite the hard camera which read: "Bring Back Kennedy." 12 Rounds with John Cena opened ...

The FOX Sports website has a new list of the most shocking and tragic sports-related deaths. Coming in at number 12 was former WWE champion Chris Benoit. The blurb above his photo reads: "The death of the veteran professional wrestler brought a renewed ...

 CA He has refused because of his distaste for McMahon and the current WWE product. In a card featuring Chris Benoit and Triple H in the main event, he said he would stay for the show if the main event had been Benoit and Kurt Angle. ...

 CA That being said, it would be wrong not to recognize the accomplishments and skill he brought to the world of professional wrestling. I can also say that Chris Benoit was one of the best technical wrestlers I have ever seen . While the WWE, is doing ...

 NY However, there are reasons other than Owen's death that have caused this – one example for the WWE is their new “family friendly” product. The WWE did learn from Owen's death, just like it did from the deaths of Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit. ... Impact Wrestling News

This video features early footage of WWF No Mercy on the N64. In this one it features a Fatal Four way between The Rock, Triple H, Chris Benoit ... www.gamespot.com

WWF Intercontinental Champion Chris Benoit (with Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley, Vince McMahon and Triple H) defeated WWF Champion The Rock in a submission match, when Vince McMahon stopped the match as Benoit has Rock in the Crippler Crossface. ...

A judge sentenced a Carrollton physician to 10 years in prison Tuesday in the case of professional wrestler Chris Benoit.

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By Brad Curran Opening Match, Raw ‘Mania Main Event vs. Smackdown ‘Mania Main Event- WWE Champion John Cena and Triple H vs. World Champion Kurt Angle, Rey Mysterio, and Randy Orton. I always found it funny that they promoted Cena and Michaels vs. .... JBL throws beer in his face and bails, but Chris Benoit (JBL wa...

Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle battled in a 30 Minute Submission match that made this show worth the price. While the main event felt underwhelming considering WWE had just purchased WCW and no WCW stars appeared on the show, the main event in which .... 1. Orton wins the strap and in one last effort to...

Raven, Goldberg, Hogan, Sting, Nash, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, and Randy Savage all were represented with all of their moves and signature taunts. In fact many consider this game superior to the WWF/WWE games that were ... suffered from many of its same gameplay faults th...

By SportsMOG Hogan, along with Kevin Nash, Scott Hall and several others, left the then-WWF in the mid-90s to join their chief rival, Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling. Kurt Angle and Mick Foley are among the notable names to move to Orlando, ... The combination of stress, injury, a troubled marr...

 NJ The show tonight benefits the police benevolent association and the interview is a crazy one, but what would you expect from Piper, including some fun shots at Flair. The Miami Herald has a brief piece up about WWE Superstars on WGN and the upcoming ...

WWE 24/7 is currently airing the go-home show for WrestleMania X-Seven — the March 29, 2001 episode of SmackDown. An eerie tag match featuring Chris Benoit and Test vs. Eddie Guerrero and Kurt Angle was edited out of the WWE 24/7 broadcast. ...

 TX WWE 24/7 is currently airing the go-home show for WrestleMania X-Seven — the March 29, 2001 episode of SmackDown. An eerie tag match featuring Chris Benoit and Test vs. Eddie Guerrero and Kurt Angle was edited out of the WWE 24/7 broadcast. ...

By The Ringmaster When professional wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy and seven-year-old son Daniel, the wrestling community was shocked. Or at least they claimed to be. It turns out that these purveyors of deceit, these muscle-bound charlatans, ... The book does a good job of succinctly summing up...

By Sal Marinello Benoit’s urine contained 207 micrograms per liter of testosterone and the normal level is 150 micrograms or less per liter. So even if Benoit needed testosterone supplementation to provide all of his testosterone, his level was still almost 40% higher than normal.

Late wrestling star Chris Benoit had 10 times the normal level of testosterone in his body when he murdered his wife and son, it was reported.... More

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After two weeks of grim news concerning the Chris Benoit tragedy, it's nice that there's finally some regular pro wrestling news to talk about. Tonight's Total Nonstop Action pay-per-view event, "Victory Road," features a unique main event. TNA world champion Kurt Angle teams up with X D...

Court documents have shown that Chris Benoit\'s doctor also prescribed steroids improperly to four other wrestlers. Valerie Hoff Reports

By Ashtoreth Valecourt There is a cult of the testosterone-poisoned man in current culture. I see his face screwed up into an ugly mask of violent rage reflected on everything from boys' toys and games to movies, video games, body building magazines... and the mock-berserkers of wrestling, phony warriors that lit...

Federal prosecutors plan to seek a superseding indictment against the personal doctor to pro wrestler Chris Benoit. Elaine Reyes Reports

Chris Benoit\'s personal physician is expected to bond out of jail Tuesday evening. Dr. Phil Astin was arrested for improprly prescribing drugs.

Professional wrestler Chris Benoit\'s doctor was scheduled to meet with a high-profile criminal defense attorney Sunday night. Jennifer Leslie Reports

On Friday, for a second time, federal agents raided the office of a doctor who prescribed testosterone to wrestler Chris Benoit. Keith Whitney Reports

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By Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow: A Wikipedia vandal inadvertently set off a nationwide conspiracy craze when he edited the entry for Chris Benoit, a pro wrestler who murdered his family. The anonymous vandal coincidentally edited Benoit's entry to say that Benoit had murdered his family several hours b...

Wikinews has learned through an investigation that anonymous edits on the Wikipedia article Chris Benoit were added about the death of his wife Nancy Benoit 14 hours before police entered the Benoit home to find the former professional World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Canadian wr...

By Lorie Byrd WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt said that to his knowledge, no one at the WWE knew Nancy Benoit was dead before her body was found Monday afternoon. Text messages released by officials show that messages from Chris Benoit's cell phone were being sent to co-workers a few hours after the Wikiped...

Parents of children with disabilities similar to that of Chris Benoit\'s son -- a condition some now say contributed to the recent murder-suicide.

Sometimes, when something horrible happens, people cope with the tragedy by trying to find someone—or something—to blame. Which explains why, in the wake of WWE wrestler Chris Benoit’s gruesome double murder-suicide, everyone’s latching onto the popular notion that steroids made h...

WWE owner Vince McMahon urged people not to assume steroids played a role in the deaths of Chris Benoit and his family. EXCLUSIVE: Mr. McMahon on "Today"

By Elise Thompson This may seem like a moot point in the wake of the horror that is the Benoit murder-suicide. I do not mean to minimize the tragedy by nit-picking. But I cannot believe that in this day and age I am seeing headlines like this one from Fox News:

By Sal Marinello The coverage of the story about Chris Benoit, the professional wrestler who murdered his wife and defenseless child before hanging himself, is troubling in that too many media outlets have treated wrestling as if it were a real sport. ESPN.com - the Worldwide Leader in Sports - has covered...

By TDavid The 40-year-old champion strangled his wife, Nancy Benoit, and suffocated his 7-year-old son Daniel, authorities said, before he hanged himself on a portable weight machine inside his lavish home outside Atlanta … authorities suspect “that [Daniel] had been taking growth hormones...

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Pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife, suffocated his 7yearold son and placed a Bible next to their bodies before hanging himself with a weightmachine pulley, authorities said Tuesday.

By Glen Boyd The names of wrestlers whose deaths are believed to be related to the use of performance enhancing drugs reads almost like a second WWE Hall of Fame. It includes names like Brian Pillman, Curt Hennig, Rick Rude, Road Warrior Hawk, Davey Boy Smith a.k.a. The British Bulldog, Eddie Guerrero, an...

By Jerry Rojas That was until yesterday when I read about WWE wrestler Chris Benoit being found dead along with his wife and son in his suburban Atlanta, Georgia home. He was one of my favorite wrestlers of the last 15 years. A native of Canada, he wasn’t the greatest interview on a microphone but was such a sk...

By Jimmy Bramlett From the looks of things, Benoit strangled his wife Nancy after binding her feet and wrists Friday night in an upstairs family room. He choked his son Daniel in Daniel’s bed late Saturday or early Sunday, then killed himself in the basement weight room sometime Sunday or Monday. Even more bi...

The Fayette County District Attorney said that pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife and asphyxiated his son before hanging himself. 11Alive Report | Gallery | Timeline

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) � Pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife, suffocated his 7-year-old son and placed a Bible next to their bodies before hanging himself with a weight-machine pulley, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators found anabolic steroids in the house and want to kn...