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Re: The Wrestling thread
I watched it then switched off... Don't really need to see wrestlers from 1993 celebrating everything that sucked about wrestling. Would been less painful watching Sting try to carry Hogan to a good match in 2010.
Scary thing is though, TNA are silly enough to do that...
If anyone wants a good ECW DVD, buy the Paul Heyman produced one for WWE instead.
Re: The Wrestling thread
WWE right now is reasonably enjoyable. Sure there are a lot of silly things about it that annoy me. But overall the products good and they put on some great matches (however they still put on some duds).
TNA well the in ring product is good most of the time... nothing else is. It's a complete clusterfuck.
Re: The Wrestling thread
Hopefully if she did have it, it was prescribed and she took it responsibly.
I say that, because if that had ANYTHING to do with it.... rack up ANOTHER drug related, specifically pain killer, death from wrestling.
Something is really fucked up about that business. I saw Stone Cold say in an interview once that he felt the problem was that these mid-cards thought it would last forever. Doing Monday nights, PPV's and stuff, and then one day it's just over, and the blew through all their money, they're beat up because they did it 300 days a year for 10-15 years, they need the drugs, they're broke... it all goes downhill. He credited his survival to conservative spending and smart investing, then again he was probably in the Top-3 all time in terms of fame. So that paycheck was alot fatter in his hey day than a Luna's or Test or Chris Benoit, etc.
Re: The Wrestling thread
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I read once that in his heyday Austin was pulling in 7 figures a year... and with the amount of merch he moved he deserved it.
Perscription or not, it wasn't responsibly, because I know the bit about the straw for sure, I'm just not positive that it was Oxycontin, and I remember it wasn't coke.
Re: The Wrestling thread
Hopefully if she did have it, it was prescribed and she took it responsibly.
I say that, because if that had ANYTHING to do with it.... rack up ANOTHER drug related, specifically pain killer, death from wrestling.
Something is really fucked up about that business. I saw Stone Cold say in an interview once that he felt the problem was that these mid-cards thought it would last forever. Doing Monday nights, PPV's and stuff, and then one day it's just over, and the blew through all their money, they're beat up because they did it 300 days a year for 10-15 years, they need the drugs, they're broke... it all goes downhill. He credited his survival to conservative spending and smart investing, then again he was probably in the Top-3 all time in terms of fame. So that paycheck was alot fatter in his hey day than a Luna's or Test or Chris Benoit, etc.
The business pretty much lends itself to late night partying and drug abuse. Add to that the long amount of days on the road and the streneous job of performing at house shows + live events and PPV, and you pretty much have a lot of guys just going by the wayside.
Ric Flair is pretty much still wrestling because he needs the money (he owes money to the IRS and several ex wives) and is still addicted to the lifestyle.
Vince pretty much just uses these guys for all their worth and spits them out. They really need a union in order to just limit the amount of time these guys spend on the road. I'm talking about the mid card guys; the guys at the top they're smart enough to take time off or just go film a crappy movie. It's just less taxing on the body.
