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Pro Wrestler’s Brain Damage Could Have Led Him To Murder
September 06, 2007 at 4:06 PM
Celebrity Health News
The analysis by doctors affiliated with the Sports Legacy Institute suggests that the brain damage could have risen from concussions caused over years in the boxing ring. This could have definitely led to the killings at Benoit’s suburban Atlanta home, they say.
Another hypothesis doing the rounds, is the use of steroids, especially since anabolic steroids were found in Benoit’s home. Tests conducted by authorities had showed Benoit to be having 10 times the normal level of testosterone in his system before he died.
The Sports Legacy Institute which researches the long-term effects of concussions, was able to release the recent findings using samples of Benoit's brain tissue provided by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The Massachusetts-based institute's president is former pro wrestler Christopher Nowinski. He had quit the ring after a kick to the head. Nowinski still has ties with World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., which runs the league he and Benoit were in.The WWE company has maintained that steroid use did not cause Benoit to snap.
Yet says Dr. Robert Cantu, a member of the Sports Legacy Institute and who also is chief of neurosurgery service at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts: “Despite the results of the institute's tests, there was no way to know if Benoit's concussions contributed to the murder-suicide.
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