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Date of Birth

21 May 1967, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Date of Death

25 June 2007, Fayetteville, Georgia, USA (suicide)

Birth Name

Christopher Michael Benoit

Nickname

The Canadian Crippler
The Rabid Wolverine
The Pegasus Kid
Wild Pegasus
Toothless Aggression

Height

5' 10¾" (1.80 m)

Mini Biography

Benoit has trained in Stu Hart's "Dungeon". He has wrestled in such places as Canada, the U.S., Japan, Mexico and Germany. Benoit has held the WCW Tag Team title and Television title (his TV title reign was never acknowledged on TV) At his level of experience and natural skill Benoit should be the World Champ and in main events throughout the country. His hometown is in Edmonton, Alberta but he's usually wresting in the States. Benoit was without a doubt one of Canada's finest wrestlers.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

Spouse

Nancy Daus-Sullivan	(23 November 2000 - 22 June 2007) (her death) 1 child
Martina Benoit	(? - ?) (divorced) 2 children

Trade Mark

Wrestling finisher move "The Swandive Headbutt".

Trademark move: Multiple German Suplexes (a chain of 3 or more German suplexes)

Finishing move: Sharpshooter

A missing upper tooth gave him the infamous nickname "Toothless Aggression," a parody of the famous WWE line "Ruthless Aggression."

Trademark move (as Pegasus Kid and Wild Pegasus): Top Rope Gutwrench Suplex

Trademark move (as Pegasus Kid and Wild Pegasus): Top Rope Diving Leg Drop

Trademark move: Dragon Suplex

Trademark move: Gutwrench Suplex

Trademark move: High Lift Belly-to-Back Suplex

Trademark move: Lariat

Trademark move: High Speed Powerbomb

Finishing move (as Pegasus Kid and Wild Pegasus): Second Rope Tombstone Piledriver

Finishing move: Crippler Crossface (Crossface hold)

Finishing move: Sharpshooter

Finishing move: Diving Headbutt

Trademark move: Rolling German Suplexes

Trademark move: Snap Suplex

Trademark move: Backhand Chop

Trademark move: Three Amigos (Combination of three vertical suplexes)

Trivia

Nancy had their first child together on Febuary 25, 2000, a son named Daniel Christopher Benoit.

Held WCW TV Title a couple of times, WCW Tag Title a few times and recently won the US Heavyweight Title

Professional wrestler.

Because of how often he defended his WWF Intercontinental Title, Chris Benoit has been called the "fightingest" Interconinental Champion in WWF history.

Wrestled in Japan under a mask as The Pegasus Kid. After losing to Jushin "Thunder" Liger in a match, he unmasked himself as part of the stipulation. Shortly afterwards, he called himself Wild Pegasus.

Former member of the WCW Revolution.

Former member of WWF team "The Radicalz".

Underwent major neck surgery in July 2001 after a wrestling match with "X-Pac" where he suffered a botched "X-Factor."

Had a son David from a previous relationship, and a daughter Megan from his ex-wife.

Idolized the Dynamite Kid, Tommy Billington growing up.

When he began wrestling, he wrestled as "Dynamite" Chris Benoit, as a tribute to the Kid. He also began using the Diving Headbutt, one of the Kid's trademark moves.

Chris Benoit held the WCW World title for less than a day. Because he left, with three others, he was forced to forfeit the title.

Since then, Benoit has feuded with A-Train, Eddie Guerrero, and A-Train again. He is now on the brink of a big feud with Brock Lesnar, the current WWE Champion, and made him tap out to the Crippler Crossface at Survivor Series 2003, and again on a preceeding SmackDown.

He joined the WWF in January 2000, as a member of the Radicalz with Eddie Guerrero, Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko. He became the Intercontinental Champion at WrestleMania 2000.

He 'won' the WWF Title on two occasions, once at Fully Loaded and once at Unforgiven 2000. However, both times the decision was over-ruled, and he is still yet to win the WWF/E title officially.

In June 2001, he suffered a severe neck injury that kept him out for exactly a year. He returned on a Raw in his hometown of Edmonton, and joined forces with Eddie Guerrero and Ric Flair.

Eddie and Benoit went to SmackDown in late 2002, where Benoit stayed ever since. He won the Tag Titles with Kurt Angle at No Mercy 2002, and wrestled in a MOTY contender against Angle at Royal Rumble 2003 for the WWE Title.

The second man to enter #1 and win the Royal Rumble (Shawn Michaels was the first), but now holds the record for being in a Rumble match the longest (over 61 minutes, former record holder was Ric Flair with almost one hour, while Shawn Michaels Rumble win was 48:37)

2004 WWE Royal Rumble Winner

Was defeated in the finals of the tournament to crown the first WCW Cruiserweight Champion

Trained by Stu Hart. Chris Benoit would work all week, then drive 185 miles south, from his Edmonton home, to Calgary, to the Hart House. After 6 months of the grueling training, Benoit made his debut for Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling.

Notable Title Wins Include: Stampede International tag team titles (4); Stampede British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight title (4); WWF/UWA World Light- Heavyweight title; Super J Cup Tournament winner; ECW World tag team titles; WCW TV title (3); WCW World tag team titles (3); WCW US title (2); WCW World Heavyweight title; WWF Intercontinental title (4); WWE Tag Team title; WWE World Heavywieght title; WWE World Tag Team titles

Became known as the Canadian Crippler after breaking the neck of extreme wrestler Terry Brunk a.k.a Sabu while wrestling for ECW.

His last name is pronounced French style as "ben-wah".

Played football in high school as defensive end.

Lost a tooth when he was pretending to wrestle with his dog as a kid. The dogs face hit him on the jaw, which knocked the tooth out. He never had a tooth inserted, because he though he would lose it again, when he started his wrestling-career.

In the WCW, he was a member of the last Four Horsemen along with Dean Malenko, Ric Flair and Steve McMichael.

Entrance music was 'Whatever' by Our Lady Peace.

Benoit feuded with Kevin Sullivan, resulting in many falls count anywhere matches.

Former WCW Tag Team Champion.

Former WCW Television Champion.

In the summer of 1995, Benoit received a WWE try out match against Owen Hart in Youngstown, OH, but was not offered a contract.

He made sports entertainment history at the 2005 SummerSlam, when he defeated Orlando Jordan for the US Championship in just 25.5 seconds - the fastest US Championship victory in the celebrated 20 year history of the prestigious title.

Won United States Champion-belt from Mr.Kennedy via Crippler Crossface in his Smackdown re-debut 2006.

Grew up in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, Edmonton's suburb.

Was born in Montreal, Quebec before moving with family to Western Canada.

Considered for the part of Wolverine in "X-Men" (2000), pitted against Sabertooth, played by wrestler Tyler Mane.

A clip of Bret Hart applying his Sharpshooter finishing hold on Benoit appears in the opening credit sequence of every episode of Malcolm in the Middle.

Personal Quotes

"I am the greatest technical wrestler in the history of the WWF!"

"Prove me wrong!"

Salary

"WCW Monday Nitro" (1995)

$550,000 (a year)

Where Are They Now

(September 2002) He is back wrestling in WWF (E). Just lost the IC title and is now wrestling on Smackdown.

(January 2004) Is still wrestling on WWE SmackDown!, being one of the top superstars today.

(January 2004) Has been entered into the 2004 Royal Rumble match, although SmackDown GM Paul Heyman has forced him to enter at the dreaded number 1. Nevertheless, he is a favourite to win the match.

(January 2004) Will be going on to be in the Main Event at WrestleMania XX after winning the 2004 Royal Rumble

(January 2004) Won Royal Rumble, will face Triple H for the World Championship at Wrestlemania 20.

(January 2004) Has just left Smackdown. He is now wrestling on Raw!

(March 2004) Won the World Heavyweight Championship in the Main Event of WrestleMania XX (a Triple Threat Match) when he forced HHH to submit to the Crippler Crossface.

(April 2004) Defeated Triple H and Shawn Michaels in an Final Encounter Triple threat match for the World Heavyweight Title at the RAW pay per view Backlash in his home city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

(May 2004) Still Heavyweight Champion. Will face Kane at Bad Blood for the Heavyweight Championship.

(June 2004) Defeated Kane to retain the World Heavyweight Championship. In another match, he and Edge failed their attempt to win back the World Tag Team Championship against La Resistance when they were disqualified

(July 2004) Defeated Triple H at Vengeance 2004 (with help from Eugene) to retain the World Heavyweight Championship and defeated Triple H once again in a 60- Minute Iron Man Match on RAW (7/26/2004) with the help of Eugene once again.

(July 2004) Defeated Triple H in a 1 hour "Iron Man" match (with the help of Eugene).

(August 2004) Will defend his championship against another Evolution member Randy Orton at Summerslam 2004 August 15th in his home country at The Air Centre in Toronto.

(August 2004) Lost the World Heavyweight Champsionship to Randy Orton at Summerslam 2004 when Orton hit Benoit with the RKO.

(June 2005) Drafted to SmackDown! as the first draft pick of the 2005 WWE Draft.

(August 2005) Is scheduled to face Orlando Jordan at Summerslam for the US title.

(August 2005) Defeated Orlando Jordan at Summerslam in 25 1/2 seconds to win the US title.

(September 2005) Will defend his U.S. Title against Orlando Jordan on the first episode of Friday Night Smackdown.

(December 2006) Beat Chavo Guerrerro to retain his United States Championship at Armageddon.

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