Pro Wrestling is Not a Good Career Choice.

[Ben]

Pro wrestlers seem to have an incredibly short lifespan. I just clicked on this from Fox News, and maybe it's a biased sample set, but all but a couple of these people died in their 30's, 40's and 50's. While it looks like about 30% were drug related overdoses / suicides, all the rest seem to have been natural causes, like heart attacks and cancer. Maybe from "supplements" they may have taken to bulk up?

http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/entertainment/2014/10/20/pro-wrestlers-past-tragic-ends-ox-baker/?intcmp=features#slide=1

[SADShooter]

Combining the contact injury/PEDs of pro football absent protective gear, with the traveling lifestyle/recreational drug availability of a rock band, and the athletic demands of a powerlifter and gymnast into one job doesn't sound like a recipe for a spry and ripe old age.

[roo_ster]

Combining the contact injury/PEDs of pro football absent protective gear, with the traveling lifestyle/recreational drug availability of a rock band, and the athletic demands of a powerlifter and gymnast into one job doesn't sound like a recipe for a spry and ripe old age.

This.

And the use of truly prodigious amounts of roids.

[vaskidmark]

Is the bat-sh!t crazy personality a perquisite for pro wrestling or it an artifact of doing so?

I fell asleep before the end of the Local Nooze and woke up a little while later to discover a Pro Wrestling show on the tube.  It was sort of like driving past a horrific accident - I knew I should not rubberneck but just could not turn away.  Those people are seriously mentally ill!

After about 5 minutes of talking at the picture I realized what I was doing and changed the channel to an old Vincent Price sci-fi horror movie.  One that made much more sense.

stay safe.

[brimic]

Roids are bad mmkay.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

The amount of roads doc z prescribed was mind boggling . On the same order as the pain pills jerry lee Lewis's bass player got. When that case went to court the Feds were planning on exhuming him to try to document the abuse. Much to their surprise he was alive. And then there's Keith Richards


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[MechAg94]

Is the bat-sh!t crazy personality a perquisite for pro wrestling or it an artifact of doing so?

I fell asleep before the end of the Local Nooze and woke up a little while later to discover a Pro Wrestling show on the tube.  It was sort of like driving past a horrific accident - I knew I should not rubberneck but just could not turn away.  Those people are seriously mentally ill!

After about 5 minutes of talking at the picture I realized what I was doing and changed the channel to an old Vincent Price sci-fi horror movie.  One that made much more sense.

stay safe.

It is all acting.  Some people like that insanity.  No less real that Reality TV I guess.

[MechAg94]

There was an article I saw yesterday talking about the physiological dangers of dropping weight too fast.  It cited MMA fighters who drop a lot of weight before a weigh in and then try to rehydrate, etc before the fight.  Apparently, it screws you up.  I am not sure if Pro Wrestlers do that, but I can't imagine all those steriods and such works.

[brimic]

It is all acting.  Some people like that insanity.  No less real that Reality TV I guess.

That.
Pro wrestling is a good analogy to politics. There are play actors who take on opposing good snd evil roles for the fans, but tjey ate all good friends when the cametas ate off them and they ate counting their money. Except the unfortunate difference where most politicians don't die of heart attacks BY The time THey are 50

[roo_ster]

There was an article I saw yesterday talking about the physiological dangers of dropping weight too fast.  It cited MMA fighters who drop a lot of weight before a weigh in and then try to rehydrate, etc before the fight.  Apparently, it screws you up.  I am not sure if Pro Wrestlers do that, but I can't imagine all those steriods and such works.

Pro wrestlers do not.  There is no need, no real weight classes, etc.  Pro wrestling was the first scripted "reality teevee."

High school and college wrestlers do drop weight for the weigh in and then try to rehydrate.  I was required to keep my weight between 211 and 219 lbs the season I wresteled, so I could wrestle in either the 220lb weight class (220 or less down to 200 or 198 or something there'bouts) or as a heavyweight (Max 275lbs, min 210 lbs).  Not hard for me, but a real trial for some boys who were still growing and filling out. 

[RocketMan]

Many years ago as a broadcast engineer, I ran a camera for the TV station that televised Portland Wrestling.  Luckily I only had to work a half dozen or so of the 'wrestling' matches.
The best fun was in watching the crowd as they were far more entertaining.  They made The People of Wal-Mart look good.

[RevDisk]

Combining the contact injury/PEDs of pro football absent protective gear, with the traveling lifestyle/recreational drug availability of a rock band, and the athletic demands of a powerlifter and gymnast into one job doesn't sound like a recipe for a spry and ripe old age.

Yep.  Drugs, steroids, injuries, powerlifting, etc are all a tax on the system. There's no regulatory board, players union oversight or any demand whatsoever to keep these folks healthy. Quite the contrary.

[Lee]

It's a hell of a rough lifestyle.  I thought "The Wrestler" was an excellent movie.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mickey+rourke+wrestler&oq=mickeyrourke+wrestler&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.10863j1j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=mickey+rourke+wrestler+trailer&revid=967773527

[lupinus]

And for every one that makes a *expletive deleted*it ton of money (blowing it all or not) there's God knows how many that never make it past high school gyms and usually end up just as if not more broken down.