The alleged murder-suicide involving former WWF champion Chris Benoit, his wife, a former wrestler who went by the name Woman and had been married to wrestler Kevin Sullivan, and their son Daniel, should make wrestling promoters get serious about drug testing. If there's a "sport" in dire need of strict drug testing, it's sports-entertainment, wrestling. I use the qualifier "strict" because my sense is that the drug testing in wrestling is "sports entertainment" drug testing. It's all for show. Eddie Guerrero, Rick Rude, Miss Elizabeth, Curt Hennig, and Bam Bam Bigelow are a few of the casualties of the drug culture prevalent in professional wrestling. Take the deadly overdose totals of professional athletes in the four major sports, and it doesn't even equal overdose deaths in wrestling. When wrestlers merely killed themselves with drugs, some just chalked it up to the grimier side of the business--the road, separation from family, constant physical pain. Now that a wrestler has allegedly murdered his family--and I have to think that drugs were involved--it will be impossible to brush this under the rug. The "babyfaces" in wrestling storylines sometimes play "heels" outside the ring. WWE's Monday night tribute to Benoit aside, murdering your wife and child makes you a heel of the lowest order.

Ironic that the WWE's biggest selling DVD was "The Self Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior" yet Warrior lives a productive, healthy honest life while the real "self destructors" are the dope heads like Benoit, Guerrero, Rude, Miss Elizabeth, Hennig, and Bam Bam Bigelow to name ONLY a few. Amazing how the business of "works" can truly blur reality. The wrestling industry is disgusting and clearly in need to a massive house cleaning.

I wonder if the Ultimate Warrior will comment on this.

To call it "wrestling", is a joke. Just like drug testing in "real" professional sports is a joke.
The victims stretch beyond the user, and in this case his family. It's the highschool and college age atheletes who start using them.
If they were truly serious, all sports would have mandatory unannounced drug testing. If the players refused to be tested they would kicked out of professional sports for good.
I think most records set in professional sports from the late 60's on should be questioned also. How many were the result of hard work and talent, and how many are from the results of drugs?

This story didn't make Drudge today but Paris Hilton's release from jail did. Interesting.

What's more sadly interesting is Paris Hilton was not just a big thing in the American media but it was international news.

Ross,

Actually, as I am typing this (6-26-2007;11PM) Drudge has a story on this wrestler.

Frank

all you heven ass basterds can lay of eddy i dont care if you talk about benoit but thats it

all you heven ass basterds can lay of eddy i dont care if you talk about benoit but thats it

I looked for it, Frank,
I guess I missed it.
Just call me "WMD".

Mafia Killed Benoit!

I am extrememly saddened that this had to happen. Steroid use has never been taken seriously and now three innocent people, or at least two innocent people are dead.

What's happenend is sad. I'm a big fan of the WWE, just like I was a benoit fan and the facts sound so surreal to me that I still find it hard to believe. Anyway, it's no secret the wrestling business has it's twists and turns and premature deaths have sadly enough become a common thing in the world of proffesional wrestling. I've read a theory that Kevin Sullivan is the real man behind the killings but I don't really know if that strokes with the actual events. I don't want to jump to conclusions too soon because I feel that steroids and their well documented 'roid rage' shouldn't automatically be linked to the killings. I also believe the WWE cannot be found directly responsible for his death and eventual steroid use - didn't the medical testing of Benoit on April10the have a negative result when it came down to drug use?

just remember no one know what really happened, only speculation. steroids are being used as a crutch, no one knows what demons he was really living with inside himself.

First of all talking crap about Eddie Guerrero is wrong. Second of all, you losers may not think that wrestling is a true sport but at least they still work hurt..football players sprain their pinkies and they're out for a full season..Ridiculous!! And lastly, Chris Benoit definitely killed his family and then himself and to try to make this some big conspiracy is idiotic!!

Tara:

It's true that Eddie Guerrero was completely sober at the time of his deat and had been for at least a couple of years. However, previous drug use contributed to Guerrero's death. Guerrero's years of drug use damaged his heart to the point that it could not withstand his physical regimen.

Drug use may not have directly caused Guerrero's death, but they did play a part.