Stuff To Do SuperCut (and endemic to the blog): Wrestling's "Lord Valdemort"...

VICE, in opening up this season's "Dark Side of the Ring", had a two-part special this last week or so on probably the single most tragic thing ever to happen as far as professional wrestling goes -- the double-murder/suicide of the Benoits.

And VICE spared nothing of it.  It called on his son and many of his compatriots to do it.  Sandra Toffolini, Nancy's sister, was also in it - the second time she's talked of the incident.  The first was on Chris Jericho's podcast a year or two earlier.

I've been a pro wrestling fan 40 years.  It actually kinda helps me see the machinations in those sports we see and have presented as "real".

This was too real.

Before I begin:

• Kudos to Chris Jericho, who before the show even starts tells anyone who wants to give shit and state this glorifies Chris' monstrous actions to leave and not watch or listen.
• I will say this verifiably, since I know there are actually professional wrestling fans who actually believe otherwise:  Chris Benoit killed his wife, his youngest son, and then himself.  Yes, there are people who believe that a mass coverup involving the wife's previous husband (also in the business) was involved.

I've had it said to me by friends that, though his hands committed the acts, he was as much a victim as the other two.

One of Benoit's finishing or "signature" moves was a top-rope diving headbutt.  Now imagine doing that headbutt off a 12-foot aerial jump from the top of a steel structure.


The doctors in this special report no less than massive CTE.

But you really need to see this to see the extent of just why things happened as they did.

There are three videos, and I'll embed them all if VICE will allow it to stay here.