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Originally Posted by admars
I thought one of the big differences between this and WWE was the size of the guys. Do they have "proper" jobs as well, as it didn't look like they put in the hours at the gym that the WWE guys did, or take performance enhancing substances that may be used elsewhere?
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There are quite a few big guys in the UK wrestling scene but the problem is when they get 'good' the scouts from America, Mexico, Japan etc come calling. The money and opportunities they offer are hard to turn down.
A lot of the guys have 'real' jobs but some do make a living from it as long as they're prepared to travel a lot and work 4 or 5 different shows a week. On a lesser scale during the summer I refereed a show in the afternoons at a holiday camp then ring announced at various venues in the evenings for just over 2 weeks flat.
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Originally Posted by admars
The film The Wrestler is very good, and shows the problem of using steroids, then getting injured, so needing to take painkillers to be able to work etc, and there have been many sad stories of wrestlers over the years.
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Being Hollywood it there were a lot of exaggerations but the drug use and breakdown in relationships he went through are fairly common at higher levels.