I’d heard that, too.
But the first thing I thought – and McMahon contested the same point in interviews – was if Benoit’s cerberal function was that bad, then how did he function (apparently normally) leading up to the incident?
Take, for example, the complexities of traveling to several towns each week – remembering which town to be in and when, catching the right planes, renting the cars, finding the hotels, finding the arenas, etc.
A severely deteriorated mind should have some problems accomplishing those tasks alone.
And Chris supposedly exhibited no signs of mental incapacitation in even the hours leading up to this.
People even reported seeing him at the gym signing autographs at the front desk and acting as he always did the afternoon this all went down.