Why are so many professional wrestlers dead?

[R.sandals]

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?​

 

[jdman13]

Why are so many professional wrestlers dead?

Steroids use kills, plain and simple.

 

[brainlady]

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

 

[Cold]

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.

 

[Cory]

Boxing is a perfect example.

[video=youtube;-3l6diJ2oZ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3l6diJ2oZ4[/video]

 

[Pompal 09.]

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

 

[Naner]

Which head :neutral: :intello: