Vince McMahon rejects claims that horrific Chris Benoit family murder-suicide in 2007 was due to wrestler's steroid use or CTE

Vince McMahon rejects the thought that Chris Benoit was suffering from 'roid rage' oregon chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) erstwhile helium killed his wife, 7-year-old lad and himself successful a 2007 murder-suicide.

Speaking successful a caller Netflix documentary, the scandalized 79-year-old wrestling promoter was asked astir Benoit, who authorities accidental strangulated his woman Nancy and lad Daniel astatine their Georgia location earlier hanging himself.

Although a precise mentation has remained elusive, 2 compelling theories emerged successful 2009: Benoit was suffering cause and alcohol problems oregon helium was dealing with CTE, a neurodegenerative illness linked to repeated caput trauma.

McMahon, who promoted Benoit successful the WWE, rejected some of these theories successful the caller Netflix documentary, Mr. McMahon.

'There is nary correlation betwixt taking steroids and what happened to Chris Benoit,' the WWE's erstwhile CEO told Netflix. 'Human beings are flawed. Chris went nuts. It happens successful each signifier of beingness and everything, truthful that's the lone happening I tin instrumentality distant from it.'

Steroids were recovered astatine Benoit's location aft the tragedy, but authorities dismissed suggestions that 'roid rage' played a portion successful the murder-suicide.  

McMahon recovered the CTE statement adjacent little compelling.

'This doc came up with this ridiculous connection of 'Okay here's wherefore Chris Benoit did this,' McMahon said. 'There was immoderate benignant of trauma to his caput and things were shown wherever Chris would dive disconnected the enactment and deed idiosyncratic with his head.'

As McMahon claimed successful wrestling vernacular, Benoit did not really endure caput injuries by jumping disconnected the apical rope.

'That's a implicit work,' McMahon said. 'It looks similar there's harm and there's not. We cognize what we're doing, we don't wounded each other.'

And McMahon wasn't the lone insider to disregard CTE arsenic a imaginable culprit.

Steve Austin, the WWE legend, doesn't judge the illness is impacting wrestling.

'I worked for a agelong time,' Austin said successful the Netflix documentary. 'I got dropped connected my caput 1 time, I got concussed. But different than that, I can't retrieve having excessively galore concussions successful the concern of pro wrestling. And my instrumentality connected that has ever been, if you were conscionable wrestling and you got a clump of concussions, you're astir apt doing thing wrong.

'I'm not a CTE guy,' helium said. 'Just don't judge successful it.'

However, successful 2009, researches moving with Benoit's household revealed that his encephalon was truthful severely damaged that it resembled an 85-year-old's.

Also successful 2009, Benoit's doctor, Phil Astin, was sentenced to 10 years successful situation for illegally distributing medicine drugs to patients.

McMahon is presently facing a suit implicit sex-trafficking allegations from a erstwhile employee.

The lawyer of the ex-WWE worker suing Vince McMahon for enactment trafficking has branded him 'delusional' aft helium condemned the upcoming Netflix docuseries connected his vocation and scandals.

Janel Grant, who filed that suit against McMahon earlier this year, has accused the 79-year-old billionaire of intersexual assault, affectional maltreatment and quality trafficking from her clip moving for his wrestling promotion.

Ahead of its premiere, the wrestling tycoon spoke retired against the producers who worked connected the doc, accusing them of misleading viewers with 'editing tricks' which bash not supply an close practice of his career.

As good arsenic Grant's enactment trafficking lawsuit, which was paused successful May astatine the petition of the Justice Department, McMahon has besides faced further allegations of intersexual misconduct and hush-money payments totaling astir $15million, starring to his archetypal WWE exit successful 2022.

A twelvemonth later, McMahon returned to the table arsenic the UFC partnered with WWE to signifier TKO - becoming a combat sports and amusement juggernaut. He took connected the relation of Executive Chairman of the WWE.

However, successful January 2024, McMahon resigned from that relation aft the archetypal reports of an alleged sex-trafficking strategy surfaced.

Netflix announced its docuseries astatine the extremity of August alongside an authoritative poster, penning that it is 'chronicling the emergence and autumn of the WWE's arguable founder'.

The amusement is said to see interviews with 'McMahon earlier his resignation, his family, and immoderate of the astir iconic names successful wrestling history. As good arsenic the journalists who uncovered McMahon's allegations'.

'I don't regret participating successful this Netflix documentary,' McMahon began his statement.

'The producers had an accidental to archer an nonsubjective communicative astir my beingness and the unthinkable concern I built, which were arsenic filled with excitement, drama, fun, and a just magnitude of contention and beingness lessons.

'Unfortunately, based connected an aboriginal partial chopped I've seen, this doc falls abbreviated and takes the predictable way of conflating the 'Mr. McMahon' quality with my existent self, Vince. The rubric and promos unsocial marque that evident.

'A batch has been misinterpreted oregon near retired wholly successful an effort to permission viewers intentionally confused. The producers usage emblematic editing tricks with retired of discourse footage and dated soundbites etc. to distort the viewers' cognition and enactment a deceptive narrative.'

He concluded his connection by saying: 'I anticipation the spectator volition support an unfastened caput and retrieve that determination are 2 sides to each story.'