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Something else that bothers me is he was only a few years older than me. Drugs and steriods aside he was fitter than me. Makes me wonder about life a bit more and maybe I should take it a little more serious.

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I wouldn't worry too much Spug. As I've discussed tonight with a fellow fan, the battering these athletes give their bodies is extreme! Eddie has taken quite a few dodgey looking chair hits to the back of his head in matches lately. These things must take there tole on their bodies and all in the name of entertainment! :(

I watched the press conference earlier and though Eddies alcohol and substance abuse was common knowledge, it didn't sound like it was a factor in his death, he had been clean for 4 year and was proud of that fact. I don't think anything will be known until an autopsy has been carried out.

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i think most likely the cause will b heart faliure

prob due to the fact he bulked up so much in the last few yrs so quick. recently though i do think he was toned down from his earlier months... maybe thta contributed

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that age is too young to die ..

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just watched his last match and that chair shot he took from the newish wrestler looked kinda suspect

like tinks said though when you get men bashing each other around the ring the way they do the damage can add up

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i thought it was all staged and acting ,but now i am not so sure .

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it sis all staged granny but they realy do hit each other with the chairs but they do it so it looks worse than it actualy is

one wrestler called mick foley was once thrown 30 feet to the gloor onto a table which he went through

although they have training on how to break a fall you cant fake been thrown 30 feet througha table , these guys put themselves through a lot of pain for the sake of entertainment

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Big bucks big risks even for these athletes. They have to ask is it really worth it.

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exactly

its like a much more violent coronation st...

all scripted but what happens in the ring is makin the other wrestler look good.

fallin 50 feet from the edge and riskign being paralysed is no fake...

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Yes it is scripted and most of them are really cheesy storylines, which is one of the reasons I watch it, because the storylines are funny and it is supposed to be entertainment after all. :D

The injuries these athletes suffer during their careers have long term affects on their lives and to us it probbly makes us wonder if it's worth it, but to these guys wrestling is in their blood. The passion that these guys have for what they do usually comes down to the fact that generations of their own family have wrestled before them.

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Yes there is entertainment value to it but is the cost worth it?

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welllllll thats to the entertainers risk...

back in the 80's there was a drive to shut it down based on health of the athlete's but nope

thing is back in those days u just had ur standard sted's etc but now u have soo many different muscle makin products most that are illegal that olympic athlete's get away with using em let alone wwe stars...

and with vince bein vince i'm sure there's "necessary" pressure applied to make a wrestler think twice about not using em

HHH has only toned down now after becomin vince's son in law knowin he's contract safe...

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just watching raw now and it started with a tribute to eddie , its repeated later in the week

aww the big show just came down to his match still crying from the tribute i suppose after all theyears they spend on the road together they become just like family to each other

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Not exactly a happy family but a family when they are far from their own. They also know it could have easily been them.

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I don't mind admitting I shed quite a few tears myself last night while watching the tributes to Eddie. The pure hurt and loss in the eyes of his wrestling mates was unbearable, because that's what he was in essence, to us as fans he was a wrestling superstar and an excellent entertainer, but those guys last night had lost a very close friend! He really will be sadly missed!