WIN, LOSE, or DRAW
Mar 07, 2019
4 minutes
BY HARRY BURKETT
IT’S HARD TO imagine our wrestling heroes attempting to make an ordinary living like the rest of us. Remember Mickey Rourke struggling as a supermarket employee in The Wrestler? AJ Styles once told me that he delivered water while his wife was going to college for her teaching degree. And, of course, Matt Striker was a history teacher!
We’ve all heard the hard-luck stories of wrestlers who sacrificed everything to make it in the business: Hulk Hogan and Ed Leslie (the future Brutus Beefcake) eating raw potatoes in the back of their van while in Memphis, or Daniel Bryan and Brian Kendrick boiling ramen noodles while attending the Shawn
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