Why Do So Many Professional Wrestlers Die Young? - Part 1 with James Willems
30 Morbid Minutes
30 Morbid Minutes
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🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:29.7 | This podcast covers mature, intense, morbid, and sometimes just scary stuff. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:36.6 | Sometimes the k-fabe of novelty casket matches can feel |
| 0:41.1 | a little too real. We're investigating mortality and professional wrestling in 30 morbid minutes. |
| 1:01.6 | This is the podcast where we explore topics, people, places, and history of a morbid, macab, dark, and downright grisly nature. |
| 1:02.6 | I'm Elise Willems. |
| 1:04.0 | And I'm Jessica Vasami. If you are a fan of professional wrestling, maybe you've heard or visited wrestlerdeaths.com. |
| 1:10.1 | The name's pretty self-explanatory. It's a website |
| 1:12.9 | that tracks the deaths of professional wrestlers. Why does this need to exist? We're going to find out. |
| 1:18.9 | We are going to find out. The site's regularly updated to document new deaths. As of now, |
| 1:24.3 | its list of deceased wrestlers tops 2,000, and almost 500 of those wrestlers died before the age of 50. |
| 1:31.1 | If you're not in the pro wrestling fandom like myself or you're unaware of the nuances of the sport, |
| 1:36.0 | you may be wondering why such a site exists or if it's a morbid joke. |
| 1:41.7 | In actuality, its purpose is to document a harsh reality, that an alarming number |
| 1:46.0 | of professional wrestlers have died prematurely at very young ages. Yeah, the death rate of wrestlers |
| 1:51.3 | at dramatically high compared to all other professional sports. Like, it's not even close. And it's |
| 1:56.9 | even higher when compared to the general population. In 2014, a group of researchers from East Michigan University found that in people aged 50 to 55, |
| 2:05.8 | the actuarial rate of death was just over 5%. |
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