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Vince McMahon addresses the death of Chris Benoit in the Netflix documentary “Mr. McMahon'

Netflix has released its six-part documentary “Mr. McMahon' today where Vince McMahon spoke about the tragedy of Chris Benoit and his family.

The wrestling world went into shock in 2007 when it was revealed that Benoit had killed his wife and son before taking his own life. After an investigation, steroid abuse and CTE were blamed as the primary cause of the incident.

McMahon went into detail on the topic, discussing the role steroids played (or didn't play) in the tragedy.

Chris Benoit was considered an outstanding in-ring performer. And as far as we knew, a great guy.

McMahon then adds:

There is no connection between taking steroids and what happened to Chris Benoit. Humans are flawed. Chris has gone crazy. It happens in every life form and everything, so that’s the only thing I can take from it.”

This doctor came out with this ridiculous statement: “Okay, here's why Chris Benoit did this.” There was some kind of trauma to his head and things were shown where Chris jumped off the rope and hit someone's head . This is a complete work. It looks like there is damage, but there is not. We know what we're doing, we don't hurt each other.

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“Stone Cold” Steve Austin was also interviewed on the CTE segment where he claimed he “doesn't believe in it” and that it played no role in the Benoit tragedy.

I worked for a long time. Once I fell on my head and got a concussion. But other than that, I don't remember suffering too many concussions in the pro wrestling business. And my opinion on that has always been: If you're just wrestling and you get a lot of concussions, you're probably doing something wrong… I'm not a CTE guy. Just don't believe it.

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