here's your news for January 15th 2019 we've got some big news to start off
today as David Benoit the son of former world champion Chris Benoit has spoken
about his father fans will know that in 2007 Chris murdered his wife Nancy and
their other son Daniel before taking his own life
and now David has spoken to Chris Van Vleet about what happened in the
interview David said he found it difficult to comprehend such a heavy
matter and while he at first thought it was a joke he didn't appreciate some of
the manner in which it was covered he said the news was non-stop
it was either about steroids steroids steroids or that Nancy Grace joke it was
terrible man I couldn't even walk around I didn't go to or finish school I was 14
or 15 I didn't finish my finals I finished high school but just not that
year I thought it was a joke when I first found out I was in Edmonton doing
a fundraising thing with my sister my mom got a call from RCMP telling her to
come down to Georgia my mom told me my grandfather Chris's father went down to
Georgia he was in control of it my mom couldn't do it because she had to take
care of me and my sister he was in control of the estate and the lawyers
David Benoit went on to say how he thought it was a cruel joke when he was
told what happened and even punched a cop before the truth set in he said I
punched a cop I punched him right in the chest I thought it was a joke I really
did I just didn't believe it bro I think the day it really hit me was at his
funeral that was a hard day I laid him to rest Chris Benoit's life and death
drew a lot of intrigue and at one point there was even a movie called crossface
in development about the Crippler Schleif German director Lexi Alexander
was brought on for the project and though filming should have started in
2016 David revealed that the film won't be
made saying there was a director everything bro we had to step in because
they wanted to do the tragedy about how it all went down so we said no they
needed our permission she sent us the script and then the end was the whole
murder-suicide was all going to be in it we said no David said that he has no
idea how a director attach the rejected project but after
they get a lawyer involved it got shut down though this film was terminated
David said he isn't opposed to showing his father in a different light saying I
have so many Home Videos and perhaps one day that film will be made in the
interview David said he doesn't consider the man who committed these acts to be
his father commenting on how CTE a neurodegenerative disease caused by
repeated head injuries meant that the former superstar wasn't thinking like
himself David said that wasn't him man he would never do that I know he
wouldn't I think something went terribly wrong the doctor said he had CTE at the
beginning that somewhat gave me closure he had CTE so I don't think that was him
though police ruled the case a double murder-suicide some people still have
conspiracy theories about what happened though David quickly shot down the idea
that Kevin Sullivan was responsible saying the police investigated him he
said conspiracy theories are just a joke Kevin Sullivan didn't do anything you
know we looked into that and never had the police look into him so yeah I
didn't want to believe it I thought someone broke into the house
or some shit and did it but apparently there was a scuffle at the door that's
what I heard according to David it took him over a
half a year to accept what had happened as he told Van Vleet it took me seven
months I was sitting there thinking I thought about it every day
why couldn't have left a note or could he have called me then was deaf and
actions were a hard blow for the wrestling industry as he had deep
connections in the wrestling world that are still being felt today if there is a
silver lining to what happened Benoit's death caused a lot of people to pay more
attention to concussions and CTE though this obviously doesn't make what
happened any easier to accept fans also need to stop believing the
conspiracy that Sullivan was involved as the police investigated him and he was
cleared of being involved now aged 27 David told Chris Van Vleet that he had
stopped watching wrestling until aew came along and though he would watch the
WWE matches of his good friends Natalia and Chris Jericho David said his love
for WWE was gone claiming they weren't producing good
things anymore I saw the quality was going down down
down down that was until a e-w came along and sparked a fire in david to
follow in his father's footsteps and become a pro wrestler david has also
said that he wants to compete as chris benoit jr. and has even been in talks
with the band Our Lady peace to use the song whenever the same theme that his
father used in WWE David said I don't own the rights to his name yet
I have his middle name I can legal use it and they can't come after me yeah I
would wrestle as Chris Benoit jr. I think it would be cool I've got the
tights with the claw obviously he needs to get some reps in the ring and using
his father's name after the tragedy may not go down well with management with
that said David doesn't expect to fill his father's shoes as he said that
people expect him to perform like his dad although admitted those shoes are
impossible to fill David also said he has ring gear made claiming it looks
like my dad's I got one in white one in blue gears ready to go when asked David
said he'd want to use a technical style like his father but when asked about
head butts the Canadians said he wouldn't be doing as many of those his
view of WWE seems to have mellowed in the past few years as David stops by WWE
events when they tour the area and can often be seen backstage at Canadian
shows though there was a time when he was banned during aew all-out weekend
Benoit was a guest of Chris Jericho and snapped a picture with aew president
Tony Khan that quickly went viral David said that this image caused him to be
temporarily banned from WWE until he made a few phone calls he said yep it
blows my mind bro I had to make a few phone calls
I was trying to talk to someone and they never got back to me for a good four to
five months everything's fine now I talked to the lawyer and then I talked
to mark Curran oh I'm welcome everywhere now we're good problem solved
WWE must consider aew pretty serious competition if they're willing to ban
Chris Benoit's son because he was backstage at an aew show and later on
David revealed that he went to another WWE event in an aew sweater and said
everyone thought it was bought by Jericho as a rib it's clear that David
is a huge fan of aew as he didn't watch wrestling until the company came along
and though he has quite a way to go could find himself as part of the roster
with that said the final actions of David's father continue to loom over the
entire wrestling world and though fans shouldn't think of Chris's horrific
deeds when we think of David that is often easier said than done on to some
WWE News and Triple H recently found himself in hot water after a comment he
made about WWE personality page during an interview with several journalists
the game was asked about the chances of retired stars like Paige and edge
returning and made a joke that Paige has children she doesn't know about implying
that the former NXT Women's Champion sleeps around after a traumatic few
years that has seen Paige the victim of private photos being stolen and leaked
many people didn't take the WWE cos dig at the British star is funny
including Paige's boyfriend Ronnie Radke in a tweet read he said that WWE should
be both embarrassed and ashamed for letting Triple H lock the personal
trauma of one of their stars and though Ronnie admitted to being biased on the
matter said that he hated watching Paige cry over what Triple H said ending his
tweet with the question hasn't she been through enough
neither Triple H nor WWE have commented publicly on the matter and we'll have to
see how things go from here or news from WWE's women's division now
as live Morgan didn't lead rusev to the ring this week for his match with Bobby
Lashley but she did make an appearance during the match
Morgan confronted Lana and ringside leading the ravishing Russian to toss a
cup of soda over her alleged former lover on Twitter the former riot squad
members said that Lana had ruined soda for her but now we know the identity of
the woman who had her drink snatched according to reports Indy manager Nikki
Campbell was the victim of grand theft soda as the local competitor Twitter
account confirmed the news thanks to Campbell's boyfriend Austin
Tyler Morris it's a good thing that WWE has a wide array of beverages in their
catering department but as Morgan continues to grow as a personality on TV
we don't think she'll have much time for catering anyway another superstar who
didn't have a great time on Raw this week was our truth as after being broken
by WWE champion Brock Lesnar Truth lost the 24/7 championship to Mojo Rowley
recently though the rapping superstar spoke to Sam Roberts on the knot Sam
wrestling podcast and spoke about an interview he received for a new movie
which nearly saw-blade star Wesley Snipes capturing the title that must be
defended at all times he said Fox got me in to interview for
the new movie Dolomites my name I got a chance to interview Eddie Murphy
Michael Keegan Keach Wesley Snipes and these people man were wanting to come to
the show that night Wesley Snipes was talking about becoming the first actor
to become 24/7 champion he added man Wesley Snipes had his hand on his chin
while I was interviewing him and he was still contemplating on what do I have on
my schedule tonight because I think I'm gonna go to the Staples Center and try
to win this title that would have been great man obviously Snipes his title win
never occurred though there have been plenty of non wrestlers who have held
the gold the list of non wrestler champions includes boston celtics star
and his cat nur DJ marshmallow and even Santa Claus and with mojo Rowley the
latest champion who knows who will hold the gold next
and finally we're ending with some news from WWE's performance center as the WWE
roster has grown by six new stars but only two names out of the list our
crossover athletes Jake Atlas and Mercedes Martinez will officially start
with this newest class of recruits alongside Emily and Zola's from the
Titan Games cooee previously reported on former NFL
player Anthony Francis and college basketball star Zechariah Smith will
also be a part of the class while Cirque de Soleil performer Sydney Bateman
rounds off this first class of 2020 it'll be interesting to see how far
their careers go in WWE but the company must have seen something in them already
for the 6-2 have made it this far