Dark Side of the Ring: Pro Wrestling and Americana
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There's calls for easier schedules, but as they say, the show must go on. You can't cancel a sold out arena if your lead person isn't feeling well, just like you wouldn't cancel a football game if the quarterback is sick.
(I'm not defending some of the treatment of wrestlers by their employers nor am I excusing their issues - I'm just asking do we know where these problems stem from? Seems easy to blame the boss, but is it their fault?)
Both of those have subsided from their late 20th century heights. The Ric Flair types got replaced by a bunch of athletic theater nerds, and painkiller abuse is understood as a thing in society.
>There's calls for easier schedules, but as they say, the show must go on.
It's not like there's a league setting the schedule. Wrestling promotions decide exactly how much they're going to work. WWE is sort of notorious that they work contracted talent balls-to-the-wall, where smaller promotions don't run as many shows in a week and independent wrestlers choose exactly how many bookings they take.