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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Like I said in terms of deaths, and its more pronounced because they don't announce every single tragedy is the movie industry.
How many celebs over dose or die of things that are completely out of the ordinary.
How many stuntmen and production cast members die or are grievously injured making movies.
how many forgotten actors or kids that were ground up and spit out become walking tragedies.
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I get that you're defending wrestling because you're a fan, but I'm a fan too, and this argument doesn't hold up. There are vastly, vastly more people involved in the entertainment industry than there are in the wrestling business, yet the sheer amount of deaths in wrestling blows the number of entertainment deaths out of the water.
Here's a site listing 100 wrestlers who died young -
http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/lists/...ore-their-time (unfortunately it's a clickbait type site) but I counted 80-90 who worked in WWE. They're the top dog in town, the home of wrestlers at the top of their game. Now name 80-90 Hollywood stars who died early in the last 30 years. There aren't that many. Now you can argue that we don't hear about never-was actors or unknown stunt men, but we also don't hear about Joe Schmoe, indy wrestler from Kentucky either.
All that said, it appears to be a generation thing. I do think WWE have upped their game in terms of looking after their wrestlers' wellbeing and I don't expect to be sitting here in 10-20 years reading about the drug overdoses of Kofi Kingston and Cody Rhodes.