“I would like the WWE to remember him, at least for the good times. It’s just terrible,” David said of his father’s ruined legacy. “I asked him to retire, too.”Īfter the details emerged from the murder-suicide, WWE distanced itself from Chris Benoit and has rarely, if ever, referenced him since. “I wish he took it, or just retired,” David said. “That took a toll on him, man, when Eddie passed away? That man was his best friend.”Ĭhris was considering retirement in 2006 while he was off recovering from injuries and was offered a backstage producing role with WWE. David believes Guerrero’s death impacted his father greatly. Specifically, they’ve told Vickie to stay home. Shifting gears to the other major wrestling company, it seems Vickie Guerrero is done with AEW. I’ve never spoken about it.”Įddie Guerrero, with whom Chris Benoit was extremely close, died of heart failure on Nov. Reigns did, of course, take Undertaker out at a later WrestleMania, giving the Dead Man his second loss on the Grandest Stage of them All. I got to say ‘I love you’ one last time to him,” David said through tears. “We were just laughing and getting ready to make plans for the summer. He said the last time he spoke to his dad was on Father’s Day 2007, when they talked for two hours. It took David seven months before he was able to move on. That was a hard day, that was a super hard day.” “I think the day it really hit me was his funeral. “I didn’t believe it for days, bro,” David said. He initially didn’t believe it and said he punched a cop when he found out. All the chair shots he took, not protecting himself.”ĭavid, now 27, says he was 14 or 15 at the time of the murder-suicide, living in Edmonton with his mom. Chris, who was 40, “had the brain of an 88-year-old with Alzheimer’s,” David said. I don’t think it was him.”Ĭhris killed his second wife, Nancy, and 7-year-old son, Daniel, before hanging himself on June 24, 2007, in Georgia. It just made my life a little easier, didn’t have to think about it. That’s what, at the beginning, gave me some closure. “He would never do that, I know he wouldn’t. It definitely wasn’t,” David Benoit told Chris Van Vliet in a sit-down, on-camera interview. WWE star shows stitches from cancer surgery: 'Lookin' like Frankenstein'ĭavid Benoit, the son of former WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, recently opened up for the first time about the murder-suicide his father committed in 2007, and David is convinced Chris wasn’t himself. WWE legend opens up about son being out of his 'shadow' for WrestleMania match WWE CEO opens up about Vince McMahon controversy before WrestleMania Samantha Irvin's unlikely path from 'America's Got Talent' to the dazzling voice inside WWE ring
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