Former WWE star Jimmy Wang Yang recently spoke with Cheap Heat Productions and addressed the dark legacy of Chris Benoit, who tragically murdered his wife Nancy and their young son Daniel before taking his own life. Yang did not hold back when sharing his perspective on the matter.

“Usually I say no comment to this person, you know, like I don’t care anything about his wrestling ability now. Like, what he did disqualifies him to me as a wrestler.”

Recalling the day the news broke, Yang described how Vince McMahon informed the roster about the situation. “Vince announced what happened. He said he found Chris dead along with his wife and his kid. I looked directly at Brian Kendrick and said, ‘Yep, he finally did it, huh?’ Like, he finally snapped and did that horrible act. And Brian, we both thought the same thing from our previous experience with him. But after that I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to think that.’ He did have this mansion in Atlanta, maybe somebody robbed him and killed him and his family. It was crazy mixed emotions at that time.”

Yang also revealed his discomfort with WWE’s immediate response. “Then the next day they say, ‘Hey, we’re going to do a tribute show to Chris.’ My gut felt weird. I’m like, I don’t know if I want to do a tribute match to Chris Benoit. I need to see more facts about what happened. During the day, things started to leak out, and I no-showed SmackDown because I didn’t want to be part of anything associated with what happened. If I got that feeling, I wasn’t going. I just didn’t feel comfortable. I had a bad feeling about what happened. I no-showed SmackDown and kind of got in trouble, but then it got cleared after everything came out. I just didn’t want to be part of it. So, personally, I don’t give a sh*t what wrestling match he did or all this other stuff. I don’t care. The last thing he did, that’s what sticks with me.”