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Message: [QUOTE="Symphony Steve, post: 1777424, member: 911"] There's a reason why so many wrestlers died young. It wasn't just steroids, although 'roids were part of it. Painkillers was another key component, and virtually all wrestlers had to take them (if you didn't wrestle, you didn't get paid). But the third element of the toxic mix, and the one that led to what Benoit did, is severe head trauma. Whether it was chair shots, wanton use of the head (Jimmy Snuka is an example of that), or just typical collisions in the ring during a long career, it's hard for wrestlers to avoid them. And, yes, it messed up many of their brains. [/QUOTE]