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DieOff
06-27-2007, 05:42 PM
CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 featured a segment called "Wrestler Dead: A Deadly Game?" on Chris Benoit and the "dark side" of professional wrestling. Brian "Grandmaster Sexay" Lawler was speaking on the show, saying that the whole wrestling world is really close knit and everyone is effected by this incident. Cooper said that despite the dark side of the business, it is a very lucrative one with WWE bringing in over $400 million in revenues for 2006 and over 20 million people every week watching wrestling around the world.

The Benoit story is also the #1 story on CNN.com right now. It shows neighbors speaking on how they never really saw Chris out and about in the neighborhood, although that can be expected since the WWE travel schedule can have him on the road around 300 days a year.

mg_productions
06-28-2007, 04:43 AM
We're going to be hearing a whole hell of a lot about the 'dark' side of wrestling and how 'evil' it is and it's all about the money.

Bottom line is,this is a terrible tragedy.It's not the occupation.I was talking to a friend about how the road schedule is brutal and something should be done to reform the amount of road time and family time these wrestlers put themselves and families,not to mention the drugs involved,but bottom line,the Benoit thing has never happened before.You can't really blame this on the 'dark' side of wrestling.