Professional wrestling veteran Jeff Farmer, known to fans as nWo Sting, recently spoke with Dr. Chris Featherstone on Sportskeeda’s UnSKripted podcast on a variety of topics such as his relationship with the late great Stampede Wrestling Hall of Famer and Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Famer Chris Benoit.
Jeff Farmer said:
“I had a very good relationship with Chris, and he was always nice to me. I was always nice to him.” “In my opinion, what I think happened to Chris Benoit, and nobody’s really asked me about this that much, but I think he had some CTE from all the bumps he took. He used to do the diving headbutt all the time, and I think there was some possible brain damage from the business.”
Jeff Farmer also spoke about Benoit's reported condition of having a severely damaged brain, which he believes is the cause of what happened between Benoit, his wife and their son.
Jeff Farmer said:
“You see it in football, you see it in all these places, and these guys, they become different.” “They change. Their personality changes. They try to kill themselves. We’ve seen it in sports. That’s my only real explanation for that. Maybe that’s me trying to rationalize, but I think it was some type of brain damage from his career in wrestling. I always got along very well with Chris. He was a good guy to me.”
You can check out Jeff Farmer's full comments in the video below. H/T to WrestlingHeadlines.com for transcribing the above quotes.
