- "Fabrication," said Y2J of reports that Benoit was distraught about being demoted to the ECW brand. Jericho said Benoit was on the verge of winning of the ECW title, and would have been a coach/mentor in WWE’s third brand.
- Jericho said Benoit never had a job of outside of the wrestling business.
- Jericho said Benoit’s son is 14 years old and daughter is 10 or 11, and hanging in there.
- Jericho suggested that Benoit had a deep dark mental problem that had been building inside him for years.
- Jericho said Benoit loved his children, and even would fly home just to be with his kids for a few hours.
- Jericho said the WWE drug testing is random and independently done. He said wrestlers have failed the drug test, and suggested they ask Vince McMahon for the names.
* On a side note, Nancy Grace brought up the Wikipedia entry, and a suggestion was made that perhaps Benoit had told someone of his wife’s death.
* A caller asked about a scenario that Benoit himself was murdered, and the panel insisted that the evidence doesn’t support that theory. A guest suggested that until the toxicology reports come in, that perhaps Nancy Benoit killed Daniel since she was a woman’s wrestler.
* Grace said a statuette of Benoit was found near Daniel's body.
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