![]() They backed off like I didn’t even exist.” ![]() However, once his father became a real-world scandal, no one from the company reached out to him. David Benoit says that he still considers his father his hero, that the man who committed the heinous acts was not the same Dad he’d known.ĭavid was a regular at WWE shows with his father and was present for Benoit’s huge World Championship win at WrestleMania XX. One of the saddest new perspectives the documentary gives us is not only was it a horrible tragedy for those who died, but life was really hard for those left behind. Randazzo argues, “In practice, it would seem this original version of the program had large loopholes in it, and large blind spots that allowed wrestlers to use drugs at a really large scale without tripping the test.” And the doc shows texts that Nancy sent to Chris Benoit about his steroid abuse, with one text reading: “we both know the wellness program is a joke.” The Wellness Program Was Full of Loopholesĭespite Ring of Hell author Matthew Randazzo noting in the documentary that Benoit has 10 times the amount of testosterone in his body as normal, and that it was quote “irrefutable” that Benoit was on steroids, despite the WWE Wellness Policy program being introduced in February 2006, to test their talent for recreational drugs, other medication, and steroids. Nancy’s sister Sandra adds that in 2007, the year of the tragedy, Nancy wanted Benoit to leave the industry, saying “He was so grief-stricken on a monumental level that thought staying in the company and the business was eventually going to harm his well-being.”
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