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Check the Miz’s twitter page and you’ll see comments like “on my way to my second home, the airport,” signifying the nonstop world of professional wrestling. Turn on your television and you’ll see TMZ reporting another professional wrestler arrested. What is it this time? Steroids, weed, drunk driving?
Click on your favorite promotion’s website and you’ll see wrestlers going through the embarrassment of having to kiss promoter’s butt or having promoters break their contracts and screwing the wrestler out of a world title and more importantly their legacy. All of this controversy could be greatly reduced if there was a professional wrestling union.
A wrestling union would benefit so many wrestlers in so many ways, yet it may never happen because all the power lies in the promoter’s hands. There’s no way Vince McMahon is going to answer to anyone but the man in the mirror. And why should he? It’s simple, for the benefit of his employees.
The happier they are, the better they’ll perform. Sadly, the only way that wrestling will get a union is if the top stars demand one. But why would they? When you’re at the top you don’t need it.
When asked by Larry King, John Cena said wrestlers didn’t need a union. When asked about that statement, Bret Hart quickly responded “The truth is only an idiot would say wrestlers don’t need a union, because we do! But it is hard not to take that company position and be a company guy when you’re on the team.”
With a union, wrestlers will be able to get health benefits for putting their bodies on the line. Do you know how hard it is to get insurance when you tell the insurance agent you risk serious injury every time you go to work?
The promoters do pay for some things that happen in the ring, but what about getting sick or things that happen outside the ring? What about when you retire?
Look at Bobby Hennan, Konnan, and Steve Williams. All have been fighting for their lives with cancers and diseases. Other wrestlers put on shows just to help raise money to pay for their surgeries. Insert union here.
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