Lorsque Chris Jericho a dédié son match à Wrestle Kingdom contre Kenny Omega à Chris Benoit (et à Eddie Guerrero) sur Instagram, vous pouvez deviner que les réactions ont été nombreuses… et souvent négatives.
Rappelons-nous que Benoit a tué sa femme et son fils avant de se suicider en 2007, ce qui motiva par la suite la WWE à ne plus parler de ce lutteur.
Jericho a tenu à répondre aux critiques par le biais d’une vidéo. Il sait fort bien que Benoit a très mal agi et affirme y penser à chaque jour, demandant ainsi aux fans de ne pas lui dire quoi faire.
“I get a couple smart ass remarks here for an Instagram post that I put up of this great fan art that somebody drew of me, with kind of the spirits of Eddie and Benoit behind me, and I said I dedicate the match to those guys,” Jericho said. “Yeah, I know what Chris did, I think about it every single day. I was involved more than any one of you are so trust me. I understand the horrible, horrible events that took place. I’ll never forgive it, I’ll never understand it but I have my reasons for doing what I’m doing. So don’t anybody tell me, don’t anybody make smart ass remarks about what I say and what I do. Nobody tells me what to do. I have my reasons and I think about the loss of Nancy Benoit and Daniel Benoit every single f–king day. So that’s enough of that, I’ll never talk about it again.”