WWE icon Stone Cold Steve Austin makes controversial CTE statement amid backlash to Vince McMahon

WWE icon Stone Cold Steve Austin has controversially claimed helium does not judge in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). 

CTE is simply a neurodegenerative illness linked to repeated caput trauma that tin origin convulsive temper swings, depression and different cognitive disorders.

It comes arsenic the scandalized erstwhile WWE main Vince McMahon rejected the idea that erstwhile wrestler Chris Benoit was suffering from 'roid rage' oregon CTE erstwhile helium killed his wife, 7-year-old lad and himself successful a 2007 murder-suicide.

Austin, wide considered 1 of the top wrestlers of each time, told a Netflix documentary astir McMahon's vocation that he's 'not a CTE guy'.

He explained: 'I worked for a agelong time, I got dropped connected my caput 1 clip I got concussed there. 

'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…just don't judge successful it.' 

Austin was progressive successful the infamous WrestleMania storyline that ended with Donald Trump shaving McMahon's caput successful the mediate of the ring.

Also speaking successful the Netflix documentary, the scandalized McMahon 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.

'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.'

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.