What happened to Benoit?

[The One]

Seriously. How did he change so smoothly from being someone who busted his ass and was never rewarded, to someone who hazes people and is more or less insured WWE job security for life? When he came into WWE, everyone was sure he and Jericho would never make it to the top. I remember people crying bloody murder when he had to put The Rock over. Hell I was kind of upset too, but he did it and then had his matches with Angle before kind of falling back down into "Midcard Hell"...then he had his neck injury, and came back and suddenly WWE was all over his cock. He had one of the most impressive years ever as far as being promoted as a big name guy, then he won the Rumble from Number 1, then he wins the World Heavyweight Title by making Triple H tap out cleanly at WrestleMania XX. How did he do that?

And then it starts to become revealed that he is involved with a lot of SmackDown’s attitude/hazing problem. Usually when there is a talk about people getting hazed it is from Orton, JBL, Taker or...Benoit??? He was one of the most well know “nice guys” in the back, and now it seems like he has gone all ubber-bitch backstage. And while we are on the topic of Benoit, I am not saying his ring work is going down a lot, but once and again I do think he half asses it in the ring.

What do you think happened? How does someone go from pouring his heart into everything he does in the ring and always being respectable to half assing it and being a, well, a dick?