Same with the drugs. You saw Vince’s roided-up freaks in the 80s and 90s and you knew there would be some sort of price they’d all pay. You knew the “attitude era” was fueled by piles of prescription pills provided by friendly doctors. Obviously all those headshots and dives onto tables and floors would eventually…

You see guys like Sabu, Dreamer, Foley, Sandman and etc. and you can’t help but wonder what the toll will eventually be. Sabu was killing himself for the amusement of a hundred people in some VFW hall and for what? Mick Foley was getting his brains scrambled nightly and for what?

That was my exact reaction. I mean come on, Sabu?

But here’s the thing: pro wrestling itself is and always has been a risky profession. If you remove risk from wrestling it ceases to exist. Old-timers took bumps to the head long before Vince took charge.