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Originally Posted by pylon
Is it really shocking anymore? It seems now every few months we hear about one of these guys going belly up. I stopped watching it after the Owen Hart tragedy myself. It would be intersting to see the actual mortality rate of proffesional wrestlers, I bet it would rank as one of the most dangerous proffesions in the world. Imagine if any other "sport" had a young mortality rate as high as these guys, US congress would be involved. But because it is percieved as a bit of a freak show / fringe culture thing I think it just enables the promotions to stay more or less out of the limelight.
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I don't know about that my friend, yes Steroid abuse in pro wrestling was pretty bad and probably will continue to be fairly bad. However Steroids came to football and baseball a little later and I'm betting that the long term steroid related deaths especially in baseball with make wrestling look like nothing.
Give it 5 to 10 years when the members of the current abuser generation start hitting the ages when these symptoms really come to life.