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10 Wrestlers Who Ruined Their Bodies For The Business - Mick Foley! Edge! Kurt Angle! BOTH Hardys?!

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🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Edge's physical sacrifices even made fellow WWE legend John Cena cry... Simon Miller presents 10 Wrestlers Who Ruined Their Bodies For The Business...


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0:00.0

Wrestling is tough.

0:02.3

I swear we forget about this today as we focus on some nonsense instead, but honestly,

0:06.8

what wrestlers go through is mad, they deserve all the respect.

0:10.3

Even so-called safe performers find their bodies turning on them in later life, and it's

0:14.1

important to note this down.

0:15.4

They gave us a launch and just disappear into the night.

0:18.4

Therefore, I am Simon Watkulture, please do hit that subscribe button, this is 10 wrestlers

0:23.2

who ruined their bodies for the business, and attend the dynamite kid.

0:27.1

A super sad story all around, we may not have wrestling as we know it today, without

0:31.2

the dynamite kid.

0:32.2

That's why so many modern wrestlers cite him as an influence, because he used his speed

0:36.2

and hard hitting nature to wow audiences all over the place.

0:39.2

He did pay a price though, because the only did he have to retire early due to injuries

0:42.8

he'd built up, but he was mostly wheelchair bound before passing away at just 60 years

0:47.2

of age.

0:48.2

This is just a horrible tale.

0:49.9

His fellow grappler has also said he put a tremendous strain on his body due to various

0:53.0

drug use, but it really was the crazy bumps that took him out.

0:56.1

I'm sure Kevin himself would admit he didn't take any unnecessary risks either, but this

1:20.6

does sum up how taxing wrestling is.

1:22.7

Due to his sheer size and years of basketball before getting into the industry, his knees

1:27.1

took an absolute pounding throughout his career, and that resulted in multiple surgeries.

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