8 Responses to Second Generation Diva Getting WWE Tryout, DDP Wrestling and More:

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   scooter

   Date: Dec 20, 2009 at 4:59 AM

   lets hope she can wrestle not too many divas can nowadays

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   Wrestling GOD

   Date: Dec 20, 2009 at 5:38 AM

   The sad thing is Bill Simmons is right

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   maddogmk1

   Date: Dec 20, 2009 at 10:05 AM

   Like the vast majority of people in the USA, I only watch any of the ESPNs if they broadcast a specific event that I am interested in, Therefore, I have no idea who this Bill Simmons is.

   He comes aceoss as your typical clueless hack who just discovered something that is common knowledge to 98% of the population and just cannot wait to tell everybody about it.

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   Raziel

   Date: Dec 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM

   “fixed outcomes”? its been that way for over 70 years, we all know its fake. And you can’t rip the owners or promoters for not having a union, tell the wrestlers to strike.

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5. 

   Valo487

   Date: Dec 20, 2009 at 12:47 PM

   I love how everyone expects the wrestling business to look out for every single wrestler. The guys who make it to the WWE are very well paid, and if they saved their money wisely they could get out and do whatever they wanted, but a lot of them want to live like Elvis and they can’t sustain it over their whole life. And Umaga’s death, while sad, doesn’t sound to me like it had anything to do with the wrestling business. He had a heart attack, that might have roots in his drug use in the past. It’s not the same as someone like Owen Heart. People die from something no matter what. And if they have drug problems then it happens a lot sooner in most cases.

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   joker

   Date: Dec 20, 2009 at 4:32 PM

   i think if you dont at least somewhat agree with what he is saying, you are either incensitive, naive, or just plain dumb. World Wrestling Entertainment, and the wrestling business as a whole, is absolutely terrible.

   While it does gain a profit, and the wrestlers are payed well, they are expected to work at least 275 or more days a year, and that is not even considering the traveling and appearences that they must do.

   Further, it is a business that is all about image. To get to the top( basically, to get to WWE), often times wrestlers who are bigger are much, much more likely to stand out than those who might be under 6’2 or under 220 pounds. How many guys with absolutely jacked physiques, or that were just generally huge, have we seen in WWE over the past few years? You are probably more likely to make it into WWE if you are 6’5, 275 pounds, with a backround in body building and absolutely no experience wrestling than you would if you were to be 5’10 187 pounds, with a backround that includes wrestling in japan( where wrestling is truly respected, unlike here in America, where at best it gains attention by being crash tv each and every week),europe, mexico, or any where else. This puts pressure on these guys to try and look their best, likely encouraging them to take supplements that will help them get bigger, hoping to gain attention from the big fish( or maybe TNA, which is, and will never be better than #2). And do i need to go into the harmful effects these supplements have on a human beings physical and mental state???

   Further, the dynamic of professional wrestling itself is absolutely horrible. If you are in WWE, you are expected to perform 3 or 4 nights a week( sometimes more). and you are expected to wrestle in a ring with a wooden surface, and are sometimes going to being running into steel beams, crashing through tables or glass, or, everybody’s personal favorite, getting hit by steel chairs!!! Basically, pro wrestler’s bodies take an absolute beating, sometimes more so than almost any other athlete in a real sport and certainly more than most entertainers( which is what wrestlers should be considered, as they partake in an athletic venue, but are more concerned with their performance rather their results, at least most of the time). This, as shown with the number of deaths over the last few years, causes many wrestlers to look to drugs and pain medication to ease their pain. This can easily lead to addiction, as they are not able to rest, and continue to take more of a toll on their bodies, causing them to be in more pain, forcing the cycle of pain and drug use to continue, and get worse as time goes on.

   One just needs to look at the number of deaths in the last 15 years to get a real understanding of how rough the wrestling business is, as a whole. just take a look at this list of well known wrestlers that are no longer alive:

   http://www.tvbydemand.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=530&CAT_ID=2&FORUM_ID=49&Forum_Title=WWE&Topic_Title=Wrestler+death+numbers+misleading

   While it would be wrong to blame WWE for these deaths, because it really is not their fault, a person has to just look at the number of wrestlers who were dead before their 40th or 50th birthday that died of suicide, or heart disease, or drug overdose….

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   maddogmk1

   Date: Dec 20, 2009 at 5:28 PM

   I find it really amazing that people are actually acting like all the recent ‘revelations’ about WWE business practices, wrestlers’ workloads, travel schedules, lack of medical insurance, etc, are NEWS !!!!!!

   Exposing the working conditions at WWF/WWE has been going on for decades.

   Some no name ‘journalist’ rehashes decades old stuff, throws in something about rasslers dieing and all of a sudden ‘FANS’ are shocked by it all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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   goober

   Date: Dec 20, 2009 at 6:59 PM

   look, wrestlers choose this career. if every1 knows about all these “truths” and yet still aspire 2 it then who’s @ fault? the business has been around a long time. long enough 4 wrestlers to b aware of what comes with the job. some wrestlers love it but either way they CHOOSE 2 b professional wrestlers. they just as easily choose 2 play football or basketball, whatever. it’s a choice

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