[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I would argue that because of its own mainstream status, when an actor blows his brains out or overdoses or drives wrecklessly into a pole at 200 mph, the very nature is to an extent over mourn, rehabilitate the celebrity in death, and ignore the causes, that's the hollywood hype machine.

With Wrestlers its a press condemnation of the industry because its a freak show and a circus.

Last year there were 20 wrestler deaths. Out of that one I could see was an in ring caused death, Roddy Piper's death was pretty much 60 years old when he passed, but he also wrestled in a type of environment that doesn't exist anymore. Dusty Rhodes as well, but he was never a picture of healthy living. Bockwinkle and Gagne were old men. You had a wrestler die after brain surgery for removal of a tumor.

This year, you've had three major deaths.

Axl Rotten who was no surprise, he was pretty much a junkie. You had Balls Mahoney who was pretty much a junkie as well, and he also wrestled a style that was conductive to serious injury.

And you had Chyna, but her death was caused by a drug addiction that went far beyond wrestling, she was reached out to and refused to take the help and she's dead. Its sad but it should be a cautionary tail of addiction more then an indictment of the industry that she was in or the company that she was in 16 years ago.

Jeez, all these people died largely from complications of substance abuse, and you think they are all just junkies and it's not related to the industry they work in.