Hello everyone. As always, I would like to thank you for taking the time to check out my latest read.
I won't lie to you folks, I was really on the fence on if I should do this piece. I will make my feelings known once on this.
As a father, I find the man Chris Benoit to be a coward and overall an awful person.
That being said, it would be wrong not to recognize the accomplishments and skill he brought to the world of professional wrestling.
I can also say that Chris Benoit was one of the best technical wrestlers I have ever seen.
While the WWE, is doing everything in their power to wipe Chris Benoit off the map, the fact of the matter is you cant do that.
The man did exist, and he did accomplish great things in the ring.
In this article I am here to discuss just that. I will speak the truth and be unbiased; it would only be fair.
I will not discuss in this article what happened that night he killed himself.
We all know what happened, I will leave it to others to discuss that if they want to.
So with out any further delay I give you the life and career of Chris Benoit.
Chris Benoit was born in 1967 in Montreal Quebec.Growing up as a kid Chris Benoit was a big fan of pro wrestling.
Benoit saw his first match at the age of three and he was hooked. At the age of 12, he started going to his first matches at Stu's Pavilion.
It was their he would watch Stampede wrestling with his dad and grandfather .That is when Benoit got hooked into wrestling.
He would watch the likes of Bret Hart, and Bad News Allen but it was Dynamite kid that wound up being his favorite.
He would go as far as shaving his head if Dynamite did. That is how much respect and loyalty he had to him.
It wasn't long before Benoit would be bitten by the ring bug. With the support from his dad he gave a young Benoit the ok to being a wrestler.
With the weight set his dad got him, Benoit would go on to train hard to get into shape.
It would take Benoit more than hard training to break into the business and he new this.
So in a attempt to get closer to the wrestling business.
He would start of busting down chairs and setting up the ring at the same pavilion he saw his heroes wrestle in.
As fate would have it Benoit and his buddies were horsing around in the ring as they did often after work.
That was when Stu Hart took instant notice to Benoit's athletic abilities.
Stu Hart asked Benoit if he wanted to train as a pro wrestler at the age of 17.As they say the rest is history.
He would go back and forth from school and to training until he graduated high school. During his training he got to work with guys like Mr. Hito, and Owen Hart.
Still small by wrestling standards Benoit had his first match at the age of 18.He tagged with Rick Patterson and won his first bout as a pro wrestler.
He continued to spend time in Stampede, and would wind up winning the Commonwealth mid heavyweight title in 1986. It was Benoit's first taste of gold.
Benoit also would team with Johnny Smith, and they found success in the tag ranks by winning tag gold a few times.
In 1989 Stu would wind up shutting down Stampede wrestling. Benoit not knowing where he would go, was dealt another fate card.
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