A news article today claims that Wrestlemania VII from 1991 has had a 25% mortality rate since it happened, and as such, this makes wrestling the most dangerous sport on Earth. This is pure poppycock! I know of a sports competition that was way more pernicious than that Wrestlemania show, and that’s the Olympic Games!
Okay, check this out: The first modern Olympics, known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was held in 1896, and 100% of them are dead now! You think wrestling is dangerous and deadly? That’s like a life-insurance policy compared with the Olympics, man! Okay, granted it’s a lot less dangerous than it used to be, with hardly anyone dead from the most recent ones: yet! But they all died after the ones from 1896, and by the attached journalist’s own standards, that makes this sports competition the most dangerous ever! I mean, right?
Wrestling is child’s play compared with the old-style Olympics! The actuarial tables prove it!
Here’s the article where the guy unfairly smears wrestling as being dangerous (when everyone knows it’s fake!):
