Any discussion involving Chris Benoit is always a difficult one, but for the purposes of this article were only going to discuss his neck injury. Many deem the four-team Tables, Ladders and Chairs match from May of 2001 as the night his neck was broken. However in his 2004 DVD, Hard Knocks, he suggests that the injury was the result of an accumulation of injuries. Admittedly he took a huge bump in said TLC match, crashing through a table on the outside of the ring when attempting a diving head-butt. But then less than three weeks later he hit the same move from the top of a 15-foot high steel cage. 13 days later he landed hard from a super back body drop to Chris Jericho, such that he had taken three massive neck bumps in just 31 days. Thus its of little surprise that he was soon forced to undergo spinal fusion surgery, which ultimately kept him out of action for just shy of 12 months.
