Posted on June 26th, 2007 at 8:08 am by Editor
The Calgary Sun has a story in today’s edition quoting members of the Hart family on the death of Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and his son Daniel. Bret Hart was quoted as saying, “I don’t know the details, and I’m not sure I even want to know.” Hart continues “He was like a family member to me, and everyone in my family is taking it real hard. It’s almost like reliving the whole Owen (Hart) death over again.”
At a young age, Benoit, an Edmonton native, became a standout among many wrestling prospects who trained in the famed “dungeon” basement of the Hart family home in Calgary. “Chris was always one of the good guys – a straight guy and a hard-working guy,” Hart said. “When you list off all the qualities of someone like Benoit, he had a lot of integrity and was a good, family man. “He was really respected and really loved by everybody.”
And he’s been an outstanding mentor to the next generation of Hart family wrestlers, said Ross and Bret’s sister, Diana. That’s especially true of the last six months in Atlanta, where Harry Smith (son of the late Davey Boy Smith), Nattie Neidhart (daughter of Jim Neidhart), T.J. Wilson (Nattie Neidhart’s fiance) and Ted Hart (Ross’s nephew) had been training close to Benoit. “My son Harry and the others have all been talking about all the great plans that were to come with Chris mentoring them,” said an emotionally shaken Diana. “And they were all hoping of Bret coming back to have a Hart Foundation wrestling reunion.”
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