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Nov 2020
30m 41s

Chris Benoit

CROWD NETWORK
About this episode

WARNING: this episode contains references to murder and suicide.


In professional wrestling, you don’t know where fantasy ends and reality starts. But Chris Benoit was a method actor. He liked realness. And after years of drugs and injuries, that had deadly consequences.


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