Why are so many professional wrestlers dead?

[SneakySnake]

Why are there so many professional wrestlers who are dead?

And why so many of them at a young age?

Strokes, heart attacks, suicides and murder-suicides, drug overdoses, and so forth.

How come athletes of other sports like football, hockey, baseball, and whatnot get to live ripe old ages; while wrestling athletes die young usually from unnatural causes?​

 

[BEER]

Why are so many professional wrestlers dead?

Steroids use kills, plain and simple.

 

[meist]

Steroids use kills, plain and simple.

Agree. Plus add in painkillers, alcohol, coke, and misc. drugs. And, you have a recipe for a short lifespan.

 

[meist]

How come athletes of other sports like football, hockey, baseball, and whatnot get to live ripe old ages;

Not entirely true. You pay the price for becoming an athlete -- long-term damage.
From brain damage (concussions), chronic pain (bone, muscle, etc.), bad joints, bad hips, leg & knee problems, back problems, parkinsons, etc., etc.

 

[Doggie]

Not entirely true. You pay the price for becoming an athlete -- long-term damage.
From brain damage (concussions), chronic pain (bone, muscle, etc.), bad joints, bad hips, leg & knee problems, back problems, parkinsons, etc., etc.

Boxing is a perfect example.

 

[Raiden]

Steroids, pain killers, one too many knocks to the head, etc.....

 

[Duracell]

Steroids, pain killers, one too many knocks to the head, etc.....

Which head :neutral: :intello: