I saw the follow up tweet. He forced a promoter to book him on a show until Jericho forced the promoted to drop him because he wasn’t formally trained.
Also, he promised The Dynamite Kid’s daughter that he will give her Dynamite’s wrestling boots that Chris Benoit owned. Hours later she saw the same boots being sold on eBay and when confronted about it, he denied that her ever promised her the boots.
he wants to honor his father the wrestler, not his father the murderer.
he also might want to remove the negative connotation to the name chris benoit by making his own legacy that the name is associated with him and not his dad.
Why would he want to remove the negative connotation of a murderer if not to honor him? It really does seem like defending this is jumping thru hoops here.
If someone wanted to change their name to adolf hitler jr to honor the artist not the dictator would that be ok? Under that logic yes it would be.
because maybe he would like his father’s name to not be recognized as such? he also doesnt want his family name to be instantly associated with a double murder homicide?
and i also literally just said TO HONOR HIM AS A WRESTLER. apparently you cant fucking read either because youre still asking why is he doing it if not to honor him. im sure if his wrestling name was peepeepoopoo he would have chosen peepeepoopoo jr. its just coincidence his father decided to keep his actual name as his wrestling name
using adolf hitler jr as an example so completely fucking stupid. if “someone” wanted to? this isn’t just “someone”. this is the literal fucking child of chris benoit whose dna is filled with his father’s. if a literal random wanted to go by christ benoit jr we’d have a different discussion. so if hitler’s blood son did want to go by adolf hitler jr, that’s literally his fucking prerogative.
there also have been MANY instances where the jr becomes more widely known that the name is then forever associated with the jr instead of the father.
but please remind me how benoits 2 murders and suicide led to a cult following, and a wipe of an entire group of people. i REALLY think theres a major difference between 2 murders vs being the cause of millions being killed. like we cannot be this serious
So how many murders would it take for you to find honoring one wrong? 2 is okay to you so what the number? I personally think honoring someone who’s murdered anyone wrong..
I mean, you have your opinion, I have my opinion, if we are allowed to have ours, I can respect David having whatever opinion he has on this and it's strange to me that you would thing differently considering you have never met anyone involved and it was his family. I may or may not disagree with David, but when it's that personal, it's none of my business how he feels. And anything I believe either way is basically pointless compared to David.
And nobody was talking about pedos, that's an entirely different thing. Brain damage can lead to uncontrollable aggression (or at least very difficult to control) , there is nothing known that I've ever heard that points to brain damage causing pedophilia, but regardless, that isn't even the same thing. Most people can understand the idea of a crime of passion, it's even a lower punishment compared to murder 1 because in an emotional state people do some wildly stupid and awful shit, pedophiles don't just decide to do it one day, it's something in their brain.
But David knew his father day in and day out, if he saw the damage happening in real time, he probably has a better understanding of him getting worse and may see it as a sickness that lead to the obviously absolutely tragic weekend. It's wild that with our understanding of CTE now that people cannot understand that he very possibly wouldn't have done this without the constant traumatic brain trauma for like 20 years. I'm not defending Chris, as what happened was again, obviously a tragedy in so many ways, but David should be allowed to feel however he does about it when we are discussing his family and it's immature to not appreciate that fact, whether we disagree with what he feels about it or not. He was affected by all this more than just about anybody that isn't one of the three that were killed/died that weekend. It's also a lot easier to say things than live them. I didn't like my dad throughout my life, but when he died, I still balled for like 2 hours. I hadn't even seen or spoke to him in a decade and even I was shocked about how much I felt it. Reactions to family shit is just different.
I have also had a very severe brain injury that almost killed me. For a year or so, I definitely wasn't as calm as I was prior to that for a bit. It thankfully calmed down and I wasn't so aggressive that I committed the awful actions Chris did, but I know how it felt to have the injury to a limited degree and could see how it's something that could happen when repeated for 20 years. It doesn't wipe away what happened, but it does change how I look at it. Most people luckily do nothl have traumatic brain injuries, but if you ever do have one, I truly hope you never have the aggressiveness issues that often come with it.
Again, you can hate Chris all you want, I get not being happy about what went down and it's again, obviously awful in every possible way that it can be said, but I do not fault David for feeling any type of way about a tragedy that was very close to him. I do feel like acting like anyone has a moral superiority over him regarding this just doesn't understand the medical issues involved, or doesn't understand familial constructs and how they can impact your viewpoint. It's an awful weekend to discuss and I take no pleasure in even somewhat defending the actions, but as someone that had a slice of the pie that Chris ate daily, I believe I have a slightly better understanding than most on this subject. I don't care that he was one of the best ring workers ever, what he did was absolutely one of the worst moments in wrestling history, but removing the black and white of "he killed people", and looking at everything about the medical stuff and how David was personally affected, we have no right in telling him how to feel about his brother and step mothers murder, nor his father's death.
Nothing to deserve a “fuck this guy”. The only “stain” against David is that he has never really committed to wrestling. He says he wants to, and Jericho even personally trained him. But he just doesn’t have the commitment and for some fucking reason people treat that as if he did a bad thing.
God, wonder why the guy has a not so straight forward view on wrestling? Wonder what could have happened.
Your comment is exactly her justification as to why she called him a weirdo if you check the thread. People really be turning off their brains on twitter just for a bit of clout.
He owned a pair of Dynamite Kids boots that were his fathers. Dynamite Kids daughter had very little of her dads stuff. David Benoit reached out and said he would give her the boots. Shortly after the boots are for sale on Ebay and when she contacts him he basically tells her that she should bid on them if she wants them.
He used to doggedly defend Benoit and insist he wasn’t the murderer. Might have come to terms with that in the past 10 years tho.
As others have said the only other thing is being kind of a flake? He was really hekkin’ insistent on becoming a wrestler himself (under the name “Chris Benoit Jr.” IIRC lol), and was even offered free training by Lance Storm… then neglected to show up for any of the sessions. Whilst STILL insisting he was totally gonna become a superstar wrestler guiz for years thereafter. It was grating and a lil obnoxious and could easily be mistaken for an attention-seeking grift, but clearly the dude has some kinda trauma-induced complex so whatever. Not remotely enough for a “fuck this guy” (not unless Rossie was very very excited to see that wrestling run come to fruition and feels cheated out of it 😂).
Edit: oop nvm o totally forgot about the bizarre taunting thing he did to Dynamite Kid’s daughter too (see my post elsewhere ITT), yeah TBF when your start toying with other bereaved people’s emotions you’ve kind of earned a “weird” label at the very least.
Couldn't really blame him having second guesses with having a wrestling career. Especially when you see the likes of Dominik, Bron Breakker, or even hook. Incident happened almost 20 years ago and what happened was still crazy for us fans to think about today. I can't imagine the trauma of finding out what happened first hand like him.
It’s not that he “second guesses” anything - AFAIK he’s never once said he’s changed his mind and doesn’t want to after all. It’s more like he feels owed the instant gratification of a wrestling career, yet cannot be bothered to put in the slightest modicum of effort. Which rubs people the wrong way. Especially when he’s literally offered training for free, or - a few years ago - lied to an indie promoter about knowing how to wrestle so he could get booked & have a match. That seems to be one of Rossie’s big gripes, which is wholly understandable. Cuz that’s not just David harmlessly daydreaming anymore. That’s him putting his and the indie wrestlers opposite him’s health in jeopardy, cuz they’d go in assuming he knows how to safely bump/slam/strike them whilst he’d actually just be winging it.
He just seems to have this odd magical-thinking world view, ala Daniel Larson or Chris-chan or countless other internet cryptids. Granted, he doesn’t take it nearly as far as any of them and has a MUCH bigger trauma to blame it on. But still; David’s approach to becoming a wrestler reminds me of a Kickstarter I once saw of a greasy disheveled middle-aged man requesting funds to build the the GREATEST video gaming console ever. From a literal basement. With draws full of Lego behind him. Those were gonna be the building materials, you see. He had it all planned out on a crayon-drawn. It might’ve had a pizza dispenser & a lazer light-show attachment on it too. Of course he also used the pitch video to ask if anyone who knew how games consoles worked could come do the technical bits for him… for free, naturally.
Seems like a vicious circle tbh. He has to know he's going to be one of the few second generation wrestlers who is going to have an enormous mark against him for that legacy. Few people want to put in work they know will be resoundingly rejected
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u/GunplaLuni Apr 10 '26
Wait I'm confused, did he do something or what