The tragic case of the Chris Benoit double murder-suicide came under the glare of worldwide television lights last night as part of CNN’s Larry King Live. Led by a panel consisting of current WWE Champion John Cena, former all-everything WWE Bret “The Hitman� Hart and pro wrestling’s first undisputed World Champion, Chris Jericho, WWE Superstars past and present were at a loss to explain why a seemingly mild-mannered, seldom-angered, family-loving man such as Benoit could suddenly snap and kill his wife, child, and finally, himself.

WWE Champion Cena says Benoit was “great guy” 

“He was real quiet. He kept to himself. He had ultimate respect for his workplace. He was a model employee. I have no idea where any of this came from,â€? pondered Cena. “He was a great guy. He was a great guy to be around. And that’s — that’s the, ultimately, the strangest thing about this whole thing. No one saw this coming.â€?

“Everybody who knows Chris or kind of knows him knows him as a very private, silent guy, but, also, as a very caring heart of gold type guy,â€? said Jericho. “A friend of mine once said he’s a man’s man. And he meant that he’s — what he said was what you got. And what you got was a real, like I said, just a caring, heart filled guy. So that’s why it’s such an opposite thing for him to do this . . . If you — if you lined up a thousand guys and said which guy would do this, he would be the last guy that I would guess.â€?

Other guests included former Million Dollar Man – now Christian minister – Ted Dibiase, along with WWE hardcore performer Steve Blackman, who worked with Benoit in Stampede Wrestling in the 80s. To a man, each wrestling-related guest was quick to point out that steroids – in their experience – had never caused any “roid rage� anywhere close-enough to lead to something such as a double-murder/suicide, and further, questioned the media’s convenient labeling of the tragedy due to the muscle-aiding drug.

“My position is more like I just want someone to really prove it and they can narrow it down to that. And if it’s going to be — if you’re going to pin this on steroids, then — then you’ve got to have some(thing) factual, you know, some real facts,â€? said Hart, who appeared via satellite. “I don’t personally believe that this tragedy was a result of steroids. But, I mean, if it is, I want someone to prove that to me and convince me of that, and then I’ll understand it better.â€?

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- Mr. Mal

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