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Wrestling is full of horrible people. Vince has already been mentioned but there is also Fitz Von Erich who drove three of his sons to suicide. Invader 1 who murdered Bruiser Brody. Grizzly Smith who raped his step daughter which is how Jake Roberts was conceived. Dynamite Kid who was a notorious bully who broke his step daughters legs for insurance money. Buck Zoomhoff who raped his daughter. Benoit who murdered his family. A good chunk of the Dragon Gate roster tortured a monkey for years.
And this is just a few. Wrestling is better in that regard these days, but there is still a lot of abuse going on to the point that it had it's own #metoo movement that almost entirely killed the British scene.
To be fair to Benoit, tests conducted his suicide showed that Benoît's brain was that of a 85 year old dementia patient.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Benoit_double-murder_and_suicide#Possible_motives
He was a piece of shit before that too. Plus you can say similar stuff about other wrestlers too.