If anyone has a good anagram for Colin Cowherd, I'd gladly make it his permanent IJWMFTT nickname. I don't need to say that whatever happened in the Benoit household was heinous. It was, but it does not provide license for talking heads to provide half truths. Colherd just declared that 100 wrestlers have died at an early age. Perhaps if you scoured the history of major federations and the independent circuit, you would get 100 deaths. Ah but Colherd attributed EVERY one of these deaths to steroid use. I will post the list of dead wrestlers, and off the top of my head point to all the ones not steroid related.
Chris Von Erich - 21 <--NSR
Mike Von Erich - 23 <--NSR
Louie Spiccoli - 27
Art Barr - 28
Gino Hernandez - 29
Jay Youngblood - 30
Rick McGraw - 30
Joey Marella - 30 <---NSR
Ed Gatner - 31
Buzz Sawyer - 32
Crash Holly - 32 <---NSR
Kerry Von Erich - 33
D.J. Peterson - 33
Eddie Gilbert - 33 <---NSR
The Renegade - 33
Owen Hart - 33 <---Falling to your death, steroids same thing right?
Chris Candido - 33 <--NSR
Adrian Adonis - 34 <--Car Accident, steroids same thing right?
Gary Albright - 34
Bobby Duncum Jr. - 34 <--NSR
Yokozuna - 34 <--NSR (The guy was near 600 lbs at one point)
Big Dick Dudley - 34
Brian Pillman - 35
Marianna Komlos - 35
Pitbull #2 - 36
The Wall/Malice - 36
Leroy Brown - 38
Mark Curtis - 38 <--NSR
Eddie Guerrero - 38
Davey Boy Smith - 39
Johnny Grunge - 39
Vivian Vachon - 40
Jeep Swenson - 40
Brady Boone - 40
Terry Gordy - 40
Bertha Faye - 40 <---NSR
Billy Joe Travis - 40
Chris Benoit - 40
Larry Cameron - 41
Rick Rude - 41
Randy Anderson - 41 <---Cancer, steroids same thing right?
Bruiser Brody - 42 <---Murdered, steroids same thing right?
Miss Elizabeth - 42
Big Boss Man - 42
Earthquake - 42 <---Cancer, steroids same thing right?
Mike Awesome - 42 <---NSR
Biff Wellington - 42
Ray Candy - 43
Nancy Benoit (Woman) - 43 <---I'll be lenient and call this SR
Dino Bravo - 44 <---Murdered, steroids same thing right?
Curt Hennig - 44
Bam Bam Bigelow - 45 <--NSR
Jerry Blackwell - 45
Junkyard Dog - 45
Hercules - 45
Andre the Giant - 46 <---NSR
Big John Studd - 46
Chris Adams - 46 <--Murdereed, steroids same thing right?
Mike Davis - 46
Hawk - 46
Dick Murdoch - 49
Jumbo Tsuruta - 49
Rocco Rock - 49
Sherri Martel - 49 <---NSR
Moondog Spot - 51
Ken Timbs - 53
Uncle Elmer - 54 <---NSR
Pez Whatley - 54
Eddie Graham - 55
Tarzan Tyler - 55
Haystacks Calhoun- 55 <---NSR
Giant Haystacks - 55 <---NSR
The Spoiler - 56
Kurt Von Hess - 56
Moondog King - 56
Gene Anderson - 58
Dr. Jerry Graham - 58
Bulldog Brown - 58
Tony Parisi - 58
Rufus R. Jones - 60
Ray Stevens - 60
Stan Stasiak - 60
Terry Garvin - 60
Boris Malenko - 61
Little Beaver - 61
Sapphire - 61
Shohei Baba - 61
Dick the Bruiser - 62
Wilbur Snyder - 62
George Cannon - 62
Karl Krupp - 62
Dale Lewis - 62
Gorilla Monsoon - 62
Hiro Matsuda - 62
Bad News Brown - 63
Bulldog Brower - 63
Wahoo McDaniel - 63
The list has 97 names. And some of these folks made it into their 60s. Those names, plus the ones I pointed to leaves us with 54 names max (Remember I just went off the top of my head). I'm not saying that steroids aren't harmful. They are. But it's a tad irresponsible to take an industry, already marginalized, and sensationalize a story that touches on the industry. Cowherd has shown bias against this industry before, even getting personal with its fans, some of whom may also be listeners of his. It's this bias that doesn't make him an authority figure in the Chris Benoit case.
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