Impossible expectations of professional wrestlers?

Kurt Angle nearly kills himself downing painkillers to perform at top levels each show. Demands from competing shows over the years require more extreme, health risking stunts. A road schedule that requires 300 traveling days each year.

We hear about drug overdoses (Crash Holly), heart failures (Eddie, Mr. Perfect, Andre the Giant) and stunts gone wrong (Owen Hart) resulting in deaths.

Are these businesses expecting too much of their talent? What must be changed to stop these peak performers from dying and causing permanent physical damage at such early ages? Or, simply put, is this their chosen profession and do they deserve to go through this in return for the superstardom and giant paychecks?

Impossible expectations of professional wrestlers?ballet

no the only thing that i see as a problem is their travel scheldule.

they travel way too much and gotta travel every day to someplace all the way on the otherside of the world.

if they lightened their scheldules then superstars wouldn't have to always be tired and beat up so they wouldnt have to take steriods and painkillers.

even though they barely even use their strengths in inflecting "pain" on each other

Impossible expectations of professional wrestlers?globe theater opera theater

I am not trying to be rude, but when you are writing questions, can you possibly just ask the question and not write a book.
It's arguably one of the most stressful jobs out there. Tons of injuries, long periods of time without their families, being surrounded by drugs and more, having to keep your body in top shape or possibly lose your job, and the pure fact that most wrestlers never make it farther than wrestling for low pay in a high school gym. And not only that, but despite it being more physically demanding than most sports, it is much less respected because it is "fake." Definately a hard job for anyone.

Some people suggest WWE should have an off-season for them to rest, but that would be a huge hit to the company and the wrestlers financially, and many casual fans would leave and take their business elsewhere or just not watch at all. If we cut house shows, then wrestlers will lose a lot of money, as that is where they earn most of it.

WWE needs to shave a few house shows and cut 1 or 2 PPV's for one thing. Give their wrestlers a good week or so where they can rest. As for the wrestlers, they need to know their limits and know when they have to take a break, and the business should also keep an eye on their talent as well. Steroid use, of course, should be stopped, as evidenced by Eddie Guerrero and Dynamite Kid, and they should also watch our for other forms of drug abuse. A problem in the business is that wrestlers are paid by appearance, so if they don't wrestle and thus, get hurt and physically exert themselves in the process, they won't get any money, which is still only a meager amount. That will not be so easy to fix. Also, perhaps the fans should stop expecting so much of the talent too.

There's no real way to fix the wrestling industry. But steps can be taken to improve it.