Wrestlers Who Entertained Then and Now
When you think about it, sports entertainment can be describing all sports. Would you watch a basketball game even though it was putting you to sleep? Would you watch football if the teams weren’t trying to entertain the fans? The main reason some go to hockey games is to see who will get into a fight, and in some cases, the free giveaways. Let’s be real about this for once. Professional wrestling is just doing what guys like T.O., Chad Johnson, Kobe Bryant, and all those hockey fighters are doing—they all are entertaining us.
Kurt Angle competed in the 1996 Olympic Games, and won a gold medal in wrestling. A few years later, he decided to become a sports entertainer himself. He has been very successful in his craft and people still watch him to this day; no matter how much he sucks. Bobby Lashley is a former collegiate and Armed Forces Champion in…that’s right, wrestling!
JBL, Stone Cold, and Cena all play collegiate football before they ventured into this form of sport. And let’s not forget Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a member of the National Champion Miami Hurricanes team that was dominating the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. If you need proof, one of Rock’s teammates was Warren Sapp.
As you can tell, these guys have been training for the ring even before they knew they would be heading that direction. But with triumph comes tragedy, which brings me to…
Though fake, the Deaths are Real
With all that is going on in the sports world, professional wrestling has been brought in the spotlight due in large part to steroid scandals in baseball. Now why would wrestling be sharing the spotlight with “The Great American Pastime?”
It was due in large part to the speculation of Barry Bonds, but the biggest change came when former wrestling star Chris Benoit and his family were found dead in their home in a suburb of Atlanta. Following Benoit’s death, everyone from Larry King to Nancy Grace were coming out in full force to put the WWE in the spotlight. Benoit’s doctor was even arrested for supplying him with steroid supplements. But Benoit wasn’t the only superstar to feel the pinch of the allegations.
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