Posted on Aug 1, 2015
Why do professional wrestlers seem to die too young?
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Rowdy Roddy Piper is dead at 61 from a heart attack. Dusty Rhodes died less than a month earlier. If these guys are true athletes, if they are...why do they seem to die at young ages? Early 60's is young, but maybe not for wrestlers. What say you?
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I hate to be callous, but "product of their times & careers."
Many of them came about during a "drug charged era" where both steroids and cocaine were prevalent. Although they are athletes, you can only put so many "miles" on a car, and you can only "redline" it so often before the engine is destroyed. Even the great Arnold Schwarzenegger had a heart a attack.
Many of them came about during a "drug charged era" where both steroids and cocaine were prevalent. Although they are athletes, you can only put so many "miles" on a car, and you can only "redline" it so often before the engine is destroyed. Even the great Arnold Schwarzenegger had a heart a attack.
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COL Vincent Stoneking
Agreed.
The were athletes, true, but they were performers first and foremost. And part of the culture of the time was steroids, drugs, and by our standards horrible training practices.
The were athletes, true, but they were performers first and foremost. And part of the culture of the time was steroids, drugs, and by our standards horrible training practices.
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Most have nailed it. HGH, steroids, etc. are very hard on the heart, hence you see a lot of that with wrestlers who start dying in their 40s. That Rowdy made it to 61 tells me he didn't get into it as much as his peers or he's one tough dude. Most of wrestler early deaths are heart attacks.
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61 not that young considering the abuse he put his body throught.
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