Former WCW valet AnnMarie "Midnight" Crooks speaks about Chris Benoit
Chris Benoit Is A Child Murdering Drug Addicted Roid Freak
By Alex Marvez
Email: Al...@wrestlingobserver.com
Performing as a valet under the name Midnight, AnnMarie Crooks worked for
one year in World Championship Wrestling at the same time as Chris Benoit.
Now a real-estate agent and owner of a "mid-century furnishing and
accessories store" in the Fort Lauderdale, Fla. area, Crooks recently sent
me an email with her thoughts on the Benoit murder-suicide. Here are her
thoughts:
"Professional wrestling does not control my life, so I can say what I want
unlike others who fear of losing their jobs.
"I knew Chris for about a year and this is not in the man's character at
all. Most wrestlers I knew were cocky, womanizing, etc. He was a true
worker. He was low-key, soft-spoken and just a nice guy."
"All this media speculation about 'roid rage is crap. How about just plain
old 'Fed up with WWE' rage? I am not saying he wasn't using steroids. I don'
t know and frankly don't care. It is insignificant, in my opinion, to what
caused Chris to do what he did.
"The media is always so quick to start drawing conclusions before the whole
story is known. They don't know how these wrestlers live for this job, how
so many can't leave because they don't know how to live outside of the
public's eye or can't ever move on because they don't have any other skills.
How these promoters own them, manipulate them and control their destinies
through storylines that sometimes involve their personal lives off-stage!
"Why do you think old wrestlers like Ric Flair won't just retire and accept
his age and limitations? It's not for the money! He has more than enough, a
successful gym, and other business enterprises. It's part of the wrestler
mentality. I know of what I speak.
"Who knows what was going on behind the scenes with WWE and Chris? I know
how quickly [promotions] can change your life, income and destroy dreams. I
also know of several other ex-wrestlers who are hooked on drugs, doing
anything to make ends meet and just plain unhappy. They couldn't accept the
end of that lifestyle and career. I can't help but wonder what actions
and/or conversations within WWE involving Chris caused this?
"I consider myself lucky for being released long before I sunk to the levels
necessary to play the game and hang on to your contract. I thank God and my
family for the strength to move on and to have the ambition to find new
doorways of opportunities and new business ventures.
"When lesser known wrestlers pass away, we never hear about it; but now it's
just too much. Eddie Guerrero was the beginning of the doors to the lies and
secret of this business opening. And now we must add Chris Benoit's name to
what I am sure will be an ever-growing list of wrestlers who die before
their time. I am disgusted that yet another wrestler and human being was so
overwhelmed with life and issues that he felt he couldn't control, that he
felt this was the only way to a solution.
"I am deeply saddened by this tragedy. WWE's claim that he just tested clean
on his last test . All I can say to that is spare me your media-ready
statements.
"I can't speak for WWE's drug-testing policies. But I know when I was in
WCW, they passed who the hell they wanted to pass and failed who they want
to fail. It's all politics, just like the sport itself.
"I think there is much more behind this story that led him to snap. And from
my brief and disgusting stint in the professional wrestling biz, I am sure
Vince McMahon knows what caused this to happen. I hope he will find it in
his heart to look past the money he makes off these wrestlers and do the
right thing. He was so quick to air a special memorial show to Chris - let's
see how quick he is in changing protocol and telling the FACTS and the
TRUTH, because its only then will things begin to change.
"Lies beget lies; the truth can change things! This whole thing stinks of a
cover-up of the entire truth - to save WWE being connected with this in any
way. But it's like the postal worker who comes back with the loaded gun and
kills everyone in the building . Incredible frustration and stress from a
job spiraling out of control.
"Every action has a reaction, and though WWE is not to blame for the
decisions Chris made, if they were catalysts - stand up and state so!"
-30-
CrossfaceWalls
Roid Freak" <chrisbenoitsu...@aol.com> wrote:
> Former WCW valet AnnMarie "Midnight" Crooks speaks about Chris Benoit
>
> By Alex Marvez
>
While her thoughts on the wrestler mentality and not hanging it up are
true, she's totally wrong about Flair having the money to retire.
The Blue Perkie
He used to own the WWE, I'm sure he has money.
Heywood Jablowmi
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Actually I believe his divorce was kind of costly... That and a
combination of poor
financial planning on his part has left him pretty much broke...
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> Former WCW valet AnnMarie "Midnight" Crooks speaks about Chris Benoit
A last name like "Crooks" just radiates credibility.
Benjamin Pavsner
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Greg Grant of 333
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Yeah, also... I hate to say this, because it makes me sound like a dick, but
Midnight's contribution to wrestling is so little that for her to speak out
on wrestling and Benoit is kinda like getting the guy who was designated to
be Dennis Rodman's babysitter on the bench to speak about Michael Jordan's
legacy in Chicago Bulls. Granted, they worked together but...
Then again, I understand why most wrestlers are afraid to speak out.
The only one who was fearless was Konnan in his interviews. Suicidally
honest about the business.