Professional wrestling has been a popular entertainment that has existed since the 1920stime-consumingwhen it was viewed as a legitimate sport. However, it comes with a negative aspect. A Latino professional wrestler started to gain popularity in a small underground wrestling promotion and transitioned to the big league, where he would fight several well-known and talented athletes in 1990s. In 2004, he had the opportunity to battle in the world’s largest organization for professional wrestling and won the world championship for the first time in his career. He was viewed as one of the most beloved and greatest wrestlers of all time, thanks to his charismatic personality and in-ring skills. Not long after he won the championship, he died due…show more content… Curt Henning, who was known as “Mr. Perfect”, died in 2003 at the age of forty-four due to acute cocaine intoxication. Ultimate Warrior (born James Hellwig) and Rowdy Roddy Piper, two very popular wrestlers back in the nineties, both died due to heart attacks last year at the ages of fifty-four and sixty-one, respectively. The most recent death was the iconic female wrestler, Chyna, due to steroid abuse and drug addiction. She was forty-six years old.According to BBC News, researchers at the University of Eastern Michigan who studied a group of 557 former wrestlers, discovered that of the sixty-two professional wrestlers from the group who died between 1985 and 2011, forty-nine wrestlers died before reaching the age of fifty, with cardiovascular disease as the most common cause of death. Additionally, twenty-four of the forty-nine wrestlers died before the age of forty and two died before the age of…show more content… “Some past performers were part of a generation who made unhealthy and poor personal lifestyle choices,” (WWE spokesman 2015). The majority of wrestler deaths are those from the generation before the 2000s where drugs, alcohol, and cigars are really popular. Several athletes including Rowdy Roddy Piper admitted taking steroids and cocaine. “You assume these guys are dropping dead because of what goes on in the ring, but it’s not true. Most of that is staged, occasionally someone gets hurt in the ring…The real reason they die young is because a lot of them are drug addicts, a lot of them are taking cocaine, they bulk up using steroids and it puts a big strain on the heart. They are always under the stress of this performance. They don’t have a natural life; they are always hyped up and they are always trying to calm down,” (Dr. Marc Siegel of Fox News Medical A-Team 2016). Most of what everyone viewed in professional wrestling is staged with some harmful incidents or injuries occurring occasionally. Wrestlers are constantly under stress and don’t have a normal life so most likely they took drugs to ease down or make performing easy to
