Former WWE Star Candidly Addresses Chris Benoit Incident

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A former WWE star has given his candid thoughts on Chris Benoit as well as reflecting on the week of the Benoit incident.

In June 2007, Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy, their son Daniel and himself at their home.

Before the details had come out that it was Benoit who was behind the killings, WWE ran a tribute show for him, which put a halt to a planned apparent Vince McMahon death storyline after his limo blew up with him in it the previous week.

Jimmy Wang Yang, real name James Yun, who was on the WWE roster at the time, has given some candid comments on how things played out and his thoughts on the situation and Benoit.

Speaking with Cheap Heat Productions, he said:

“I don’t care anything about his wrestling ability now. What he did disqualifies him, to me, as a wrestler.

“I remember that meeting we had in Corpus Christi, Texas. The week before, Vince got blew up by the limo, so we had the memorial service at Corpus Christi. So they bring us into the arena, and I sit down, and this is kind of a crazy story – I’m looking around and I look behind me, and Bruce Campbell is right behind me, Army of Darkness. I was like, ‘Oh my god! Bruce Campbell! I f**king love you!’ Oh, sorry for cussing too much, but, ‘I love you! I love Army of Darkness, Ash, Evil Dead, all of this stuff! I wanna talk to you right after this!’

“I turn around, and Vince is there, and all of a sudden I hear Vickie Guerrero screech, like, ‘Oh my god, no!’ I’m like, ‘Oh s**t, what the f**k?’ Sorry for cussing again. Then I turn around, and Vince announced what happened, like, ‘They found Chris dead, his wife and his kid.’

“I looked directly to Brian Kendrick, and looked at him, and it was like, ‘Yep, he finally did it huh? He finally snapped and did that horrible act.’ We both thought the same thing from our previous experience with him.

“But, after that, I was like, ‘No, I don’t wanna think that, he did have this mansion in Atlanta, maybe somebody robbed him and killed him and his family.’ It was crazy mixed emotions at that time.

“And then, the next day, they say we’re gonna do a tribute show to Chris the next day. My gut felt weird. I’m like, ‘I don’t know if I wanna do a tribute match to Chris Benoit. I need to see some more facts about what happened and all that kind of stuff.’

“Then, during the day, all that stuff, things started to leak out. And I no-showed SmackDown, because I didn’t want to be part of anything associated with what happened, I said, ‘I’m not going.’ And I didn’t go to SmackDown. I no-showed SmackDown because I just didn’t feel comfortable, I had a bad feeling about what happened.

“I no-showed SmackDown, kinda got in trouble, but then it got cleared after everything came out. I just didn’t wanna be part of it.

“Personally, I don’t give a s**t what wrestling matches he did or all this other stuff. I don’t care. The last thing he did, that sticks with me, so yeah.”

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