Honestly, this is just another example of what the world of professional wrestling that we love so much can do to a man. Or what it does to men. Think about it, he was in WWE for what, 12 years or so give or take? How many days are they on the road, 300? How many bumps do they take per match, 50 pr so? Well that equals out to approximetly 180.000 bumps in his WWE career. Ridiculous. Now I'm sure he was clean for the first years or so, but after a while the wear and tear starts. That's when the pills come into play, after that first tweek. So you take a couple pills after the show, and you wash it down with some beers. Now the pain isn't going away as fast, so you take some more pills. And now look, over there, cocain, want some? Why...yes...yes I do. Now your match is over so you pop some pills, you wash it down with some beers, you do some coke. Problem. You just did a bunch of coke, how will you now fall asleep? Hear you go matt, have some sleeping pills. So now you're asleep and you wake up, but damnit, your neck is still bothering you from the night before, good thing I have 200 vics in my duffle bag. Now you're waking up, popping pills, get to the arena before your match, pop some pills, match over, popping pills, drinking beers, doing coke, sleeping pills, repeat tomorrow.
Read some books, listen to the stories, look at our heroes. X pac, scott hall, shawn michaels, hogan, piper, bret hart, terry funk, benoit, lawrence taylor, guerrero, davey boy, dynamite, crush, test, ric flair, hawk, kurt angle, kurt hennig, sting, jake the snake fucking roberts, and now matt hardy.
Its really sad, but I'm not suprised. This business takes its toll on these men. Their passion for what they do, and the smiles on our faces that are the result of that, are worth every minute they take off of their lives trying to heal themselves so they can do it again for another crowd the next night. A casual fan may see a picture of matt hardy and think "what a horrible, pathetic man who needs to go to rehab and get his life together." What do I see? I see a hero. I see another on of my heroes who put hi s body through so much harm over the years just for our entertainment, that he had no choice but to destroy it, just so he could do it one more night.
I respect matt hardy, and I hope he turns it around like some of the names in my list, and doesn't turn ot like the others. People don't respent pro wrestling because they don't understand it. They think its just a bunch of guys running around fake punching each other. But look in matt hardy's eyes, and you'll see what he's given up for each and every one of us. I don't know how, but we should probably give back to him.
