POST INTERVIEW: Jeff Marek on the Chris Benoit documentary
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🗓️ 25 March 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, John Pollock speaks with Jeff Marek about the new Dark Side of the Ring documentary covering Chris Benoit.
Marek opens up about his close friendship with Benoit than spanned many years from covering him, working alongside Benoit through his website, the role Marek played when Benoit left WCW and having an insight into the individual that few had.
They go through the documentary, the major takeaways, the impact of Eddy Guerrero’s death, the double murder-suicide from 2007, how he found out about the news and trying to make sense of it thirteen years later.
Jeff Marek is one of the leading hockey analysts in Canada and can be seen on Rogers Sportsnet and on 31 Thoughts: The Podcast
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| 1:03.3 | hockey analysts in the country for Rogers SportsNet can also be heard weekly on 31 |
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| 1:22.0 | I am well, John, as you well know anything for you. And yeah, it's been, it feels like a million years ago, but then watching the Benoit documentary over the weekend, it seemed as it all comes sort of rushing |
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