| Re: Chris Benoit: A Year Later
If I had to list the best wrestlers ever, I'd still have to put him in it, right up near the top. I wouldn't want to, but I would.
The guy himself was clearly deranged. He had the brain of an 85 year old alzheimers victim when he was done, so lord knows how he just got through ordinary day to day living. Let alone everything else.
For that reason, I try and feel a little sorry for the guy (even though he bought the countless concussions etc on himself with unprotected chair shots, I guess I can undestand on some level that he was trying to entertain us).
But my personal belief is that, even with brain that shot, you still recognise the basic difference between right and wrong. The way I look at that is that, if his brain was so addled that he couldn't "understand" what he was doing, then he would have slapped a choke hold on his kid whilst walking down the shopping mall with him as he would not have had any control. The fact that he planned this in advance and did it so privately tells me that he was in control and had an understanding that what he was doing was wrong. So I can't take the brain condition into full guilt for his actions.
I'm also heavily down on the complete f***tards that, at the Hall of Fame, cheered loudly when his name was mentioned. Seriously, these guys should be choked out and see if they wanna cheer the guy doing it!
Lastly, WWE please stop putting at least one or two choke hold finishes into every show now. They've become obsessed with them in the last few months after initially curbing back. I don't know why they have, but it's like they're trying to prove some point and it really is lame. |