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chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoI understand the appreciation of the…“theatre” of wrestling, but I can’t get past how much it destroys their bodies. I don’t watch football either. I could watch fiction about both.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s fair. Rowdy Roddy Piper did an interview in the late 90s where he talked about how in the 80s Jesse Ventura tried to organize a union, but it failed to materialize. He then said he has no medical coverage, no retirement fund, nothing. When the interviewer asked why he didn’t self fund a retirement fund, Piper said “Look at me. I’m a broken down old man. Do you really think I’m going to make it 65, when they’d allow me to cash out a policy like that? I don’t. I’ll be dead before I reach 65, and not by my own choice with what I’ve done to my body.”
And he was right. He died at age 63.
If you try to watch any wrestling program from the 1980s, every wrestling fan inevitably plays the saddest game ever. It’s called “How many of the people on this show are still alive?” And the answer ALWAYS vastly is outweighed by the ones who have died. There is a scary amount of wrestlers who die before age 40. It surpasses football, basketball, hockey, soccer, baseball, and rugby COMBINED by a very large margin.
So I absolutely get your point. Personally I cannot watch any match with Chris Beniot. Every match he does a flying headbutt. He gets on the top turnbuckle, which means his feet are 6 feet off the ground. His head is around 10 feet off the ground, and then he dives forward, with his face being the first thing that connects with his opponents head, and Beniot actually did that shit legit. He had a concussion every single night of his life for over 15 years.
And people want to say that he was in control of himself when he did those murders. He had the brain consistency of a 93 year old woman with dementia. Thats not me being outlandish. Those are the medical reports. So every time I see him doing the flying headbutt, I think “That right there is 0.02% of what contributed to the murders.” And I can no longer watch his matches.
How Ric Flair is still alive, I’ll never know. He may actually be living proof that the devil not only exists, but also grants deals with the devil.