Chris Benoit's Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against the WWE

Today the families of former WWE pro wrestler Chris Benoit and his wife Nancy filed a lawsuit against Chris Benoit's former employee, the WWE, for wrongful death charges.

Chris Benoit made the national news last June when Chris, his wife Nancy and his son Daniel were found dead in their home in Fayetteville, Georgia. It was later revealed that Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy, his son Daniel and then hanged himself.

At the time the steroid and HGH abuse in Major League Baseball was another big story in the news. The news decided to also turn Chris Benoit's story into a drug story and carelessly reported on topics that the knew nothing about. A lot of news reporters came to the conclusion that Chris Benoit was on steroids and that the death of his wife and son was a case of roid rage.

Chris Benoit had been using performance enhancing drugs, as many pro wrestlers clearly do, but later the truth came out although not many people reported it because they were happy with their false reports of it being a drug story.

Chris Nowinski, another former WWE wrestler, had to retire from wrestling because of concussions but went on to study concussions and the affects it has on the brain. Chris Nowinski has gone on to be a groundbreaker in the field of sports-related concussion trauma and Chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Chris Nowinski performed tests on Chris Benoit's brain and and the tests revealed that Benoit suffered from acute Chronic traumatic encephalopathy and had brain damage in all four lobes. Nowinski reported that Chris Benoit's brain resembled the brain of an 85 year-old Alzheimer's patient.

It seems that Chris Benoit's real problem wasn't performance enhancing drugs but was actually damage to his brain. Damage that occurred due to Chris Benoit's 22 year pro wrestling career. The families of Chris and Nancy Benoit are arguing that Chris Benoit would not have acted the way he did if it wasn't for his strenuous pro wrestling career.