ATLANTA (AP)
-- Everything is planned. The high-flying moves. The outlandish story lines. The crackpot characters.
One thing isn't in the script: the staggering number of pro wrestlers who die young.
One thing isn't in the script: the staggering number of pro wrestlers who die young.
Chris Benoit was the latest, taking his own life at age 40 after killing his wife and son in a grisly case that might be the blackest eye yet for the pseudo-sport already ridiculed as nothing more than comic books come to life, a cult-like outlet for testosterone-raging' young males to cheer on their freakishly bulked-up heroes.
But the tenacious, grim-faced grappler known as the "Canadian Crippler" was hardly alone in heading to an early grave.
The very same weekend Benoit killed his family, the body of old tag-team partner Biff Wellington (real name: Shayne Bower) was found in his bed, dead at 42. A couple of weeks ago, former women's champion "Sensational" Sherri Martel passed away at her mother's home in Alabama. She was 49.
And on it goes.
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