Mushnick: Benoit Tragedy Wakes Up Media, Joanie Laurer Blasts Vince McMahon
Submitted by Errol Leigh Farrell on Friday, June 29, 2007 at 8:18 PM EST







• Benoit Tragedy Wakes Up Media
  
  (Credit: nypost.com)
  
  By Phil Mushnick
  
  June 29, 2007 -- LOOK what it has taken for the news media to finally begin to report that Vince McMahon has been operating a death mill the past 25 years.
  
  Look what it took for the news media to finally learn and report that McMahon produces a TV show that regularly features physically fit and soon-to-be dead young men.
  
  It didn't take one death, or even 20, for the media to finally wake up. Hell, pro wrestlers have been steadily dying young since the early 1980s, when McMahon began to rule the industry.
  
  And it didn't take Monday's suicide of a McMahon-made star, Chris Benoit. It took three deaths in one weekend in one home; it took Benoit's murder of his son and wife for modern pro wrestling to finally be stamped with a skull-and-crossbones caution label.
  
  Hell, Brian Pillman died at 35; Louie Spiccoli was 27; Chris Candido was 33. For all the drugs Eddie Guerrero relied on to become one of McMahon's champs, it was miraculous he made it to 38.
  
  "Ravishing" Rick Rude was 41; "The British Bulldog," Davey Boy Smith, was 39. Curt Henning, "Mr. Perfect," died at 44. "Road Warrior Hawk" made it to 45, which can be like 85 in pro-wrestling years.
  
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• Joanie Laurer Blasts Vince McMahon, WWE In Chris Benoit Murder-Suicide
  
  (Credit: AOL.com)
  
  Whether steroids, the WWE or its owner Vince McMahon deserve any blame for the murder-suicide involving pro wrestler Chris Benoit will be a subject of great debate in the coming weeks.
  
  Count the former pro wrestler Joanie Laurer, better known as Chyna, among those who think McMahon and the culture of pro wrestling deserve a great deal of blame.
  
  In an interview on Jim Rome's radio show, Laurer said there's a lot of blame to go around, and McMahon deserves a lot of it.
  
  She said that she thinks steroids, depression, and mental stress were probably the main factors in Benoit doing what he did. She also blasted WWE and Vince McMahon, saying that McMahon tends to wash his hands of any tragedy that happens in WWE and that she has no respect for Vince McMahon.
  
  Laurer also said the WWE hid Benoit's problems and described her own negative experiences in wrestling. Dozens of ex-wrestlers despise McMahon, and we will no doubt hear from many of them after this tragedy.
  
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