Benoit: 10 Years Later

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2017

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

It's been 10 years since the horrific events of the last few days of Chris Benoit's life & the murder of his family & his own subsequent suicide, which Y2J has discussed in-depth on this very podcast. But today, Y2J is putting those last few days aside, and talking about Chris Benoit, the wrestler, with noted wrestling expert and journalist Dave Meltzer from the Wrestling Observer. Dave not only covered Benoit's career from his early days in Calgary and Japan, but was also friends with him. And for many years (the late 90s & early 2000s), Y2J's career was tightly intertwined with Benoit's. So Y2J & Meltzer breakdown and analyze some of Benoit's matches, and many of the matches Y2J worked with him. It's a controversial discussion that is not meant to glorify Benoit or erase the despicable acts that defined the last days of his life.

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0:00.0	I'm not sure exactly kind of reaction this show is going to get and don't really care.
0:24.3	It's something I've been wanting to do for a long time.
0:26.5	Probably going to be a little bit controversial, but I wanted to talk about Chris Benwaz wrestling career.
0:31.3	It's been 10 years since the horrific events of his family's murder and his subsequent suicide.
0:37.2	One of the most horrific things I've ever heard.
0:39.9	We've talked about it in depth on the show.
0:41.9	We had Nancy's sister Sandra on the show.
0:45.6	We talked about it quite a bit with Chavo Guerrero and Dean Malanco.
0:48.7	But I want to put those horrific last few days of Chris's life aside and focus on his wrestling career.
0:55.6	Let's be honest, there is no doubt in anybody's mind that Chris Benwaz is one of the greatest performers, pure wrestling performers of all time of this century or any other.
1:06.9	It's hard for me because some of my best matches were with Chris Benwaz and they could never be shown, they could never be aired.
1:16.0	I can't watch them, but I still remember that he was one of my best opponents and one of the best wrestlers I've ever actually faced.
1:24.0	Since I can't really ever talk about them or include them in any of the WWE Jericho DVDs, the numerous ones they've released.
1:30.3	Because of those awful events, I wanted to discuss them today.
1:34.3	I mean, let's be honest, like I said, one of the best in the ring, intense, hyper focused on wrestling.
1:38.7	Chris, very smart.
1:41.1	Everything he did looked amazing.
1:43.5	Hard to get to know as a guy initially, but one of the greatest performers that we've ever seen in the wrestling business.
1:48.3	So I wanted to discuss that today.
1:51.1	And so I got Dave Meltzer from the Wrestling Observer.
1:54.0	Everyone knows him. He's been on this show before.
1:55.6	He's been on every wrestling podcast.
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