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Life as a WWE superstar can be gruelling, from intense travel schedules to the physicality of the matches.<\/p>\n
For every person who says professional wrestling is fake, there is a wrestler with a laundry list of brutal injuries suffered in the name of entertaining a passionate fanbase.<\/p>\n
Over the past few weeks, several stars \u2013 including retired Hall of Famers and current world champions \u2013 have opened up about their own health battles, from broken backs to shrinking arms.<\/p>\n
Of course, the business is a much safer and health conscious place than it was in the past, with WWE\u2019s concussion protocols in particularly being a welcome development over the past decade.<\/p>\n
Despite all the theatrics in the ring, every wrestler who steps between the ropes is taking a real risk and putting their body on the line.<\/p>\n
The likes of Kurt Angle, Hulk Hogan, Seth Rollins and Jon Moxley have all revealed the gruelling impact of their careers, putting into perspective the amount they have poured into their dream.<\/p>\n
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Kurt Angle, 54, recently admitted he is \u2018barely making it\u2019 Wand needs a fusion after breaking his neck four times in WWE alone, having already suffered the same injury before the 1996 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
\u2018I lost three inches in both arms and they atrophied because my neck was just so messed up,\u2019 he recently told the Joe Rogen Experience, adding that he also has a lack of strength as a knock on effect of his various injuries.<\/p>\n
\u2018I can\u2019t feel my pinky fingers. I have a lot of atrophy in my arms. I don\u2019t have a lot of strength. I can curl for like 20 pound dumbbells. When I do triceps, I can only push the weights about 60 pounds forward,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n
\u2018I have a complete ripple through my chest. It will never come back and I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s gonna happen again, so I\u2019m going to have to have a fusion sooner than later because if I don\u2019t, the damage is gonna get worse and worse and then my arms are gonna end up shrinking to nothing.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Mick Foley has made no secret of the lasting impact his daredevil wrestling career has left on his body, and he\u2019s still struggling to this day with a litany of devastating injuries.<\/p>\n
One match in particularly shorted his career, when he faced The Undertaker inside Hell In A Cell at King of the Ring 1998, and \u2013 as Mankind \u2013 got thrown off the towering structure through a table, and later got chokeslammed through the roof to the ring below.<\/p>\n
\u2018Things did not work out like I\u2019d have hoped,\u2019 he previously told Metro.co.uk<\/strong>. \u2018The cell collapsing when I was chokeslammed still has fallout for me!<\/p>\n \u2018I just paid $425 to remove my bottom flipper \u2013 which are false teeth which were knocked out in that cell \u2013 and I\u2019ll have to pay $15,000 or so to get those teeth fixed.\u2019<\/p>\n He added: \u2018It was definitely the point from which I believed in my own mortality, so everything was different following that cell match.\u2019<\/p>\n Over the summer, Hulk Hogan revealed he had shrunk almost three inches by a decade ago\u00a0due to numerous injuries from his in-ring career, and he noted he has had 25 surgeries over \u2018the last 10 or 12 years\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018It\u2019s kind of weird because I when I went to do Rocky III when my mother was still alive, if she would come to by house, she\u2019d go, \u201cYo T, come over here, the first thing I wanna do is measure you,\u201d\u2018 he recalled on the\u00a0This Past Weekend\u00a0podcast.<\/p>\n \u2018That\u2019s what she did to me before I went to do the Rocky movie [in 1982], I was 335 pounds, I was six foot seven on the nose. Right before my mother died a few years back, she wanted to measure me \u2013 I was six four and a half.\u2019<\/p>\nHulk Hogan<\/h2>\n
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