10 Terrifying Transformations Caused By Wrestling
5. Chris Benoit
Chris Benoit's darkest hours were also his last, but the countless studies conducted, documentaries produced and books written about his final heinous acts have touched on how gradual the degradation process was.
Ravaged with injuries from a lifetime working an inhumanly punishing style, the realities of how physically broken down Benoit was could only be staved off with the artificial enhancements that expedited his decline. He was credited for the level of respect he had for wrestling, but it didn't and wouldn't ever show him mutual care.
In the meantime, the industry he gave his body to continued to take his friends away. The loss of Eddie Guerrero specifically was seemingly too massive a grief to truly manage, but countless others passed either side of 'Latino Heat' that rendered Benoit somewhere between permanently bereft and dangerously emotionless at all times.
These enormous, engulfing complex problems must never excuse the nature of his passing, but each element acts as just another devastating brush stroke on a cursed canvas,