Posted By James Walsh on 10/03/25


Chris Benoit, who killed himself after murdering his wife Nancy and their seven-year-old son Daniel, was brought up during former WWE star Jimmy Wang Yang’s interview with Cheap Heat Productions. Here is what Yang had to say about Benoit…

“Usually I say no comment to this person, you know, like I don’t care anything about his wrestling ability now. Like, what he did disqualifies him to me as a wrestler.”

“Vince [McMahon] announced what happened. He said he found Chris dead along with his wife and his kid. I looked directly at Brian Kendrick and said, ‘Yep, he finally did it, huh?’ Like, he finally snapped and did that horrible act. And Brian—we both thought the same thing from our previous experience with him. But after that I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to think that.’ He did have this mansion in Atlanta—maybe somebody robbed him and killed him and his family. It was crazy mixed emotions at that time.”

“Then the next day they say, ‘Hey, we’re going to do a tribute show to Chris.’ My gut felt weird. I’m like, I don’t know if I want to do a tribute match to Chris Benoit. I need to see more facts about what happened. During the day, things started to leak out, and I no-showed SmackDown because I didn’t want to be part of anything associated with what happened. If I got that feeling, I wasn’t going. I just didn’t feel comfortable. I had a bad feeling about what happened. I no-showed SmackDown and kind of got in trouble, but then it got cleared after everything came out. I just didn’t want to be part of it. So, personally, I don’t give a sh*t what wrestling match he did or all this other stuff. I don’t care. The last thing he did—that’s what sticks with me.”