Vulcan wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:23 pm
I would have to be a bleeding dick head to do that to himself - even for just a job.
He probably got a measly pay for his performances too.
Yes - they didn't get as much money as people would think.
Many were often wrestling 7 nights a week to make a living.
Add in 6 months off here and there for terrible injuries and it wasn't a good job at all.
Even Hulk Hogan with all the $millions he made has almost been left as a cripple
after a dozen or more medical operations.
Last I heard he has one arm almost paralysed.
Also - the steroids that most of them took in the last 40 years
has had tragic consequences - many have died young from heart conditions from it.
About 200 well know wrestlers died young.