Your Opinions on the Rash of Young Wrestlers Dying

[Azrael]

"Name one....

ONE....

wrestler, besides Yokozuna, who was "massive" or "fat"....

Mr. Traylor had lost upwards of 130 pounds from where he was in 1988-1990...."

So, in other words, he was wrestling for years and working out at upwards of 130 pounds overweight?

I saw the Big Boss Man wrestle any number of times. I'm sorry, but he was downright huge, and while muscle was a great deal of it he carried a considerable amount of upper-body excess weight as well. Y'know, the type that causes heart attacks?

He wrestled that way for years... and his cause of death was, if I'm not mistaken, a massive heart attack.

Yes, there are other possibilities for a massive heart attack, of course. I was an EMT for three years, I saw many of them. But when a young man who wrestled for years with a lot of extra weight suddenly dies of a massive heart attack, even if he did take off a lot of weight -relatively- recently, I don't think the assumption that weight had something to do with it is all that outrageous.

 

[Lazarus]

Has anybody happened to take a gander at the girth on some of these relatively young wrestlers that've been dying? I did once, but stopped when I was afraid the folds of fat were going to suck me in!

Let's see... gross obesity and sudden, brief bouts of extremely strenuous physical activity. Over a period of years, if not decades?

I'm afraid I don't see the mystery, I've been blinded by the super-sized golden arches.

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Flaming? No.

Just simply asking you to back your opinion up with fact.

Perhaps you're not flaming, but you chose to join this discussion, and I am an interested party of this thread as well, and asking for your facts to back up your statement.

This is supposed to be a discussion about our opinions on the rash of young wrestlers dying recently;

You have an opinion; you stated it; now I ask that you back it up, is all.

You see, I WAS a pro wrestler off and on, for the better part of 20 years- since I was 12- and every time someone dies from the "wrestling family", it hurts me; some much more than others.

To see them dying at such a young age, most of them, kills me even more.

So, you would like to discuss this? Fine. Do so.

But I feel it's not discussion to make a bold statement (as I said before, name some who have died from "gross obesity", and some of these young stars with such large "girth", besides Rodney-(Yokozuna)), and not back it up.

Laz

 

[TklDuo-Ann]

Let's keep things civil and on topic, gang. Any further garbage in this thread and it will be locked.

Ann

 

[Cevin]

I'm being lazy and not reading through both pages of this thread. So I'm sure this has been mentioned, but:

The unfortunate reason why all of these wrestlers are dying (in my opinion) is due to drug useage. Kurt Hennig (Mr. Perfect) died due to a drug overdose that caused a cardiac arrest, or heart attack. Same with Ms. Elizabeth. I hate to say it, but I'd be willing to bet thats what caused Ray Traylor's early death as well. Drug usage is an unfornate part of the WWE or other wrestlng factions and is the main cause of all of they're early demise. With a few exceptions like Andre the Giant or Owen Heart.

 

[BigJim]

The unfortunate reason why all of these wrestlers are dying (in my opinion) is due to drug useage. Kurt Hennig (Mr. Perfect) died due to a drug overdose that caused a cardiac arrest, or heart attack. Same with Ms. Elizabeth. I hate to say it, but I'd be willing to bet thats what caused Ray Traylor's early death as well. Drug usage is an unfornate part of the WWE or other wrestlng factions and is the main cause of all of they're early demise. With a few exceptions like Andre the Giant or Owen Heart.

Ray Taylor wasn't a drug user, he was just a fat-knacker. If his heart condition wasn't due to a natural illness or defect it was the 50 pounds of extra he was carrying round his middle that wouldn't have helped.

If he'd been a roid user he'd have looked a hell of a lot more defined than he did, no offence to him.

I think the use of roids, while by no means rare in the business, has been largely overestimated by the public. There are some truly huge and well defined guys who don't take anything stronger than cortizone in their entire career.