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Houston, Texas' KHOU interviewed World Wrestling Entertainment's King Booker regarding the Benoit family tragedy today at Booker's wrestling school. Booker said it was something "the wrestling family, the wrestling world" would never suspect would happen and it's the first time something of this nature has happened in the business.
Booker noted that he knew Benoit personally (a feud for the WCW TV title against Benoit put Booker on the map as a singles star) and he never saw that side of Benoit. He said that he knew Benoit's wife and all of his children and what happened was completely "out of the norm and unexplainable."
He noted that he wrestled Benoit 75-100 times and they had spoken just a few weeks ago for about 30 minutes about the wrestling business and never saw that side of him. "We're all tired at certain points, we work a lot of hours, but I never saw this side of Chris. I've never seen Chris mad. I've never seen Chris angry. He was always the guy with a lot of positive energy, always pushing the guys."
Booker told the story of a student that came to his school to be trained, arriving from Illinois with $800 in his pocket with "no way to go back" who carried a photo of Benoit and Eddie Guerrero as he was inspired by them to get into the business. "That was just the type of person he was, always encouraging people. He didn't even know this guy, but that's the type of person he was."
When the idea of "roid rage" was brought up, Booker remarked, "The media is going to put a spin on it, you know. We know that. WWE knows that. Did the guy last week who murders his wife and kid last week have any form of roid rage? He was a cop. This happens in any form of life. I feel like the human life is a delicate piece of equipment and everyone has their breaking point. We don't know what his breaking point was. You don't know what my point is, I don't know what your point is. We're all human. I just think it was a huge malfunction and whatever it was, we may never know. It's not for us to know. It's out of our hands and with God now."
Booker said the wrestling industry is a huge family and he's cried and wanted to pull his hair out over this. He said he loved Chris and he is mad to see him "go out like this. I'm pissed at him in certain ways. I wish I could just hold him for a second, but it's out of our hands. I'll be there at the funeral and tell him goodbye and hopefully see him on the other side. Hopefully, I'll find out what happened one day."
To watch the video interview, go to http://www.khou.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=154648.
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