John Cena recently appeared on “The Playback Podcast” and during the podcast, the topic of the movie “The Wrestler” staring Mickey Rourke became the main focus of the conversation, which led the conversation to the topic of pro-wrestlers dying young. Cena then added on his thoughts as to why he thinks some pro-wrestlers leave us too soon.
John Cena: “I think it all comes down to personal choice. You look at choices in the entertainment industry, there are great entertainers that we lose too soon all because it comes down to personal choice, so it’s not necessarily the life. There are a lot of guys that did all those dates on the road and they’re fine and there are a lot of guys who lived like there was no tomorrow and guess what? When you do that there’s no tomorrow. Like, that stuff catches up with you plain and simple, so it’s again, not to a profession.”
“What I admire about the WWE nowadays is that even though the way we are set up, as independent contractors, they take care of us as if we are family. They offer financial assistance, onsite healthcare if you get injured. We get injury pay now, they offer secondary education, they offer a second language program. The depth that they go to make sure we are protected is…. they don’t need to do that and they do it anyway. It’s a great testament to how much they care about their current talent and talent of life after the business.”
