I must say that the True Life: I'm a professional wrestler special on MTV a few weeks back, had to be the best wrestling documentary ever made. It totally highlighted the hardships of indy wrestling, and that even if you do make it to the big time, it doesn't mean the work is over with. To the contrary, it shows that the work just gets harder and harder.
It also showed that wrestlers do not have a good life after their time in the spotlight is over with either. Most cannot retire because they do not have retirement plans. Most wrestlers have to wrestle until they are well into their 60's. Most wrestlers do not save their money while they are on the top of the world, because they have that feeling of invincibility. Like they can never be toppled. And unlike other sports, like football or baseball, wrestling has no plan for after wrestlers retire from the big leagues. Professional wrestling does not take care of their old. They do not have a union, no pension plans. It's a dog eat dog world and this documentary really showed this.
It also showed how hard wrestling school is. You can't just waltz it and immediately become wrestler. Like Les Thatcher said, you are not a wrestler until someone makes you one. You can't count the number of teens and young adults who think wrestling is so easy, that the mat is so springy and that it doesn't take much to make it to the bigtime. I hope those countless numbers watched this special and snapped out of their reality world. Wrestling is hard and just cause you and your little buddies set up a ring in your backyard and practiced jumping off your roof and smashing lightbulbs into your head does not mean your wrestling school material. You might get into the school but only the strong survive. Remember that.
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