Scanning the current WWE talent roster: Randy Orton has suffered a broken collar bone and a slipped disc in his back. This “fake” perception may be part of the reason why people generally disregard the wellbeing of these larger than life entertainers, despite many dying before reaching old age or ending up permanently damaged from injuries sustained during their careers like Piper. “My right hip has been titanium since December, 1994.”įor somebody who hasn’t stepped in to the ring to derogatorily call wrestling fake or phony is a huge insult. “I broke my right foot five places and my left foot three places,” WWE Hall of Famer Roddy Piper told HBO’s Real Sports in 2003. Despite years of conditioning, you’d be hard pressed to find a WWE Superstar that hasn’t been injured in the ring at some time in their career. The danger is always there, the fear is always there…don’t try this at home…leave the danger to us!” One from the late 90s/early 2000s warns: “…I’ve incurred countless injuries, broken bones, stitches, bumps and bruises. Over the years wrestling’s largest promotion World Wrestling Entertainment has aired video segments during their broadcasts telling fans not try and recreate the stunts they see on TV at home. It is this tough reality that is rarely considered by arm-chair critics hiding behind their inferiority complexes. Oh yeah and it won’t be in your own bed, rather the crunching sheets of a hotel room. So too does the grueling schedule of traveling to a new town nearly every day, having to work out before heading to the arena and not getting to sleep until the early hours. As will the neck-jarring and chaffing from rebounding off metal cable wrapped in rope and a thin layer of foam.
Yes the ring has some slight give to it and the trained athletes spread their arms and flatten themselves to widen the surface area of the impact, but taking such bumps night after night will eventually take its toll. Live audience members can attest that it’s not CGI. When John Cena picks up his “opponent” in a fireman’s carry and then slams him down to the mat for an “Attitude Adjustment”, his colleague really does fall from 6 feet in the air and land on their back.
Regardless of whether you subscribe to the tired cliché that professional wrestling is just “grown men dancing around in speedos”, or that it’s “fake” and therefore cannot possibly be worth watching, the undeniable fact remains, it bloody hurts!įor the uninitiated or smugly ignorant, although pro wrestling is predetermined and not a legitimate sporting contest, the physicality is most certainly real. Lots of wrestlers have overdosed on dangerous pain pills.
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