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Over a three-day period between June 22 and 24, 2007, Chris Benoit, a 40-year-old Canadian professional wrestler employed by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), murdered his wife Nancy and their seven-year-old son, Daniel, before hanging himself at their residence in Fayetteville, Georgia, United States.
Christopher Michael Benoit (/ b ə ˈ n w ɑː / bə-NWAH; May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler.He worked for various pro-wrestling promotions during his 22-year career, but is notorious for murdering his wife and youngest son.
This category lists people who died during a professional wrestling match or event, or post-match from an incident that started in-ring. Pages in category "Professional wrestling deaths" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Journalist and host of CBS News Sunday Morning [25] Margaret Riley: 58 Film and television producer who served as the executive producer of Ratched [26] Melanie Safka: 76 Singer-songwriter. She wrote the lyrics to the Beauty and the Beast theme song, "The First Time I Loved Forever". [27] Ice Train: 56 Professional wrestler [28] January 24 Rod ...
Owen James Hart (May 7, 1965 – May 23, 1999) was a Canadian-American professional wrestler who worked for several promotions including Stampede Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
[2] [3] [4] Experts suggest that a combination of the physical nature of the business, no off-season, and potentially high work load (with some wrestlers fighting more than 100 and even 200 matches per year), along with the drug culture in wrestling during the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s contributes to high mortality rates among wrestlers.
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Navid Afkari Sangari (Persian: نوید افکاری سنگری; 22 July 1993 – 12 September 2020) [2] [3] was an Iranian wrestler who was sentenced to death and executed in Shiraz [4] after having been accused and convicted of murdering a security guard during the 2018 Iranian protests; [5] sources from outside Iran also cited convictions on other charges related to Afkari's participation ...