The Chris Benoit murder/suicide tragedy occurred over the weekend of June 22-25 2007. Chris Jericho decided to sit down with Dave Meltzer recently to discuss Benoit’s career.
The topic of the podcast, for the most part, had little do with the Benoit murder/suicide. Rather Jericho and Meltzer discussed Benoit’s career.
This week on #TIJ:
Wed- The Childhood Of Jericho…Growing Up Maaan w @holowatuk!
Fri- Benoit- 10 Years Later w @davemeltzerWON— Talk Is Jericho (@TalkIsJericho) July 18, 2017
Chris Jericho and Dave Meltzer on Chris Benoit Highlights
Chris Jericho On Not Being Able to Talk About Benoit
“I’ve been wanting to do something like this for awhile, and it was just the 10 year anniversary of Chris Benoit’s death. It’s interesting Dave, obviously because of the horrific circumstances at the end of his life, his career up to that weekend has basically been buried. No one really takes about it.”
“You don’t want to ever demean or diminish those events, but i want to talk about Chris’s career. The reason for that is a couple of years ago they did another Jericho DVD, it’s the 3rd one they’ve done, and once again you choose the matches. I can’t choose those Benoit matches, nor do I think I’d want to. That’s like half-a-dozen to a dozen of my favourite matches that I ever had. For a lot of people, for all of Chris’ work, it almost feels dirty to watch them if you even can watch them”
Meltzer on Not Being Able to Talk About Benoit:
“It’s so hard to talk about it. You would feel guilty if you really talked about… because he was an incredible wrestler obviously. You know that better than almost anyone. But you feel guilty about saying ‘well, he’s a great wrestler” then it’s almost like you’re praising a murderer type of a thing.”
Jericho and Meltzer went through Benoit’s career over the course of the 2-hour show.
You can check out the full episode here:Â https://player.fm/series/talk-is-jericho/benoit-10-years-later