http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/6964262?MSNHPHMA
The above link is FoxSport's take on the whole thing.
Compairing Benoit to a carnaval attraction? That's just bad taste in my opinion.
Agreed. I don't follow wrestling, but even as an impartial observer it seems a little too early for the knives to come out. And I agree with the WWE statement above that until some concrete evidence has been released, speculation as to Benoit's state of mind, and the cause of that state, is just speculation. Has it always been this way, or did the media used to have some small amount of respect for death? There'll be plenty of time to call the dead man's grieving friends "carnival attractions" in a week or so.
Beyond that, that piece seems a bit disingenuous to me. The author includes, as evidence of his thesis that wrestling kills guys dead, a man who shot himself after being released from his contract. Given that losing one's career tends to depress a man, I don't think you can rightly blame his death on steroids or on wrestling. Likewise, he mentions Yokozuna's death of a heart attack at 34. That's not at all surprising, considering how massively overweight the guy was. It's not an indictment of wrestling, but the author includes it just to bulk up his list.
I do think the guy has a point, but he also apparently has a bone to pick with wrestling. The fact that he chooses to pick it so soon after Benoit's death just makes him look petty and vindictive.