10 Toxic Real-Life Wrestling Relationships
1. Chris & Nancy Benoit
Over a decade has passed sine the heinous final actions of Chris Benoit, but the changed landscape in the wake of his acts still bares the scars of lives senselessly lost.
Their relationship was cursed from its challenging origin. The two were forced by booker and Nancy's husband Kevin Sullivan to spend time together on the road to sell their on-screen romance, with the constant time together manifesting in the form of a real-life affair that mirrored the televised tale.
Remarkably emerging from that wreckage, the pair were married in 2000 just months after the birth of their son Daniel, but they were on rocky ground just three years later when Nancy filed for divorce, referring to their union as 'irrevocably broken' following alleged 'cruel treatment'.
The oft-reported murders of Nancy and Daniel on the devastating June 2007 weekend were rooted in many things, but Nancy's sister Sandra's confirmation that her sibling was 'brutalised' implied that the first death may have been from an argument that spun wildly out of control.
It was a sad indictment of the 'Crippler's inability to juggle his personal life with his self-confessed obsession with professional wrestling. It was perhaps that unnecessary, irrational bond that was the most gruesome of all.