![]() ![]() Experts suggest that a combination of the physical nature of the business, no off-season, and potentially high work load (with some wrestlers fighting more than 100 and even 200 matches per year), along with the drug culture in wrestling during the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s contributes to high mortality rates among wrestlers. A 2014 report by John Moriarty of the University of Manchester and Benjamin Morris of FiveThirtyEight also found that the mortality rate for professional wrestlers was significantly higher than that of athletes in other sports. ![]() For the purposes of this list, wrestlers listed are those who died before age 65.Īccording to a 2014 study by Eastern Michigan University examining professional wrestlers who were active between 19, mortality rates for professional wrestlers are up to 2.9 times greater than the rate for men in the wider United States population. This article is about notable people associated with professional wrestling who died prematurely. ![]()
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