BENOIT: Wrestling with the Horror That Destroyed a Family and Crippled a Sport, by Steven Johnson, Heath McCoy, Irvin Muchnick, and Greg Oliver, is reviewed in the December issue of the Canadian book publishing trade magazine Quill & Quire. Reviewer Shaun Smith concludes:
“Benoit paints a picture of a sport that has inverted itself. Where wrestling once scrupulously faked violence in public, while secretly working to ensure no one got injured, there now exists little pretense of reality in the public spectacle, as offstage, participants and organizers bend over backward to conceal the damage being done by steroid abuse.”