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Originally Posted by Caged Great
It makes a lot of sense. Regular athletes typically have shorter life spans for what they go through, add roids and all the other miscellaneous drugs and it's not a shock that most of them die in their 40's and 50's.
Sad really.
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Wrestlers also take way more damage than regular athletes. If a wrestler wants to get paid, they have to show up, any downtime for healing comes out of their own pocket, which is why they are all on pain killers and working injured.
People get caught up in the fake part of it, and generally don't respect how physically taxing it is. I remember Brock Lesnar talking about how he has a WWE ring set up in his personal gym, people would always say "Body slam me Brock, it'll be fun", Brock would oblige and no one ever asked for a second, because being lifted into the air by a human gorilla and being thrown onto a thin sheet of padding, plywood and steel trusses hurts like hell, no matter how you do it.