JOHN LAYFIELD TALKS ABOUT HIS FRIEND STEVE WILLIAMS ON FACEBOOK
- 12/31/2009 (12:33:16 am)
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John Layfield wrote2 hours ago
I hated to hear the news about my good friend, Dr Death Steve Williams. I really looked up to Steve and had some terrific times with him. He was the consumate pro at everything he did. A true man.
Another great one has left us from the wrestling industry and it is very sad to see how many have died so young. The lifestyle of a professional wrestler is a brutal lifestyle, especially when I broke in. There was no safety net for injuries, if you got hurt you didn't get paid if you didn't work. I can remember breaking ribs and working for the next 3 months straight, because I didn't have the money not to work. I can remember sitting in a locker room scared to take pain pills because of so many addictions and drinking Jack Daniels to numb the pain instead-before the match. This was before I made it to WWE. I wrestled with nearly every injury you can have including a broken back.
However, I also played two college football games on a broken leg. My group of guys like Steve Williams knew only one speed and that was full bore wide open.
Steve's death most likely had nothing to do with the lifestyle, but I have never seen a profession that so many die young. It is unbelievable how many have died before 50.
I am proud of WWE and TNA for drug testing, especially WWE for such a comprehensive test. I can't comment on TNA because I don't know the specifics. I also am proud of WWE for concussion testing, there is no telling what so many unprotected chair shots to my head have done to my brain-but hey, I wasn't too smart to begin with. I figure in my life I have taken over 50,000 "bumps", and I don't think the human body was meant to do that. But I don't regret one bit of it, in fact, I loved it.
Pills are what has killed these guys-again, not what killed Steve, that was cancer. But everyone that has died young has had a pill problem, they just damage the heart after some time. It is not pot or alcohol, it is pills. And pills were everywhere when I started, both football and wrestling-it was the lifestyle and no one knew how bad they were or how addictive. I never got into pills thank goodness, because I could see how addictive they were. The vice I had was alcohol, and fortunately I have been without a drink for some time and my future won't involve drinking either-not to pat myself on the back but to say I had my demons as well.
Life on the road is boring for anyone, and nearly everyone had somet vice they used to pass the time.
Cocaine has its victims but pills are what is killing these guys. And it is from my generation.
Too many of these quack doctors will write a script for anything, these guys have to be accountable as well.
The circle of friends Steve and I had are almost all gone, and I am only 43-how bad is that? Stan Hansen remains, another friend I admire.
I don't like sports entertainment, I like wrestling. But I do like the fact that wrestling has been getting cleaned up, whether out of necessity or any other reason I don't care. The sports entertainment world is something I certainly don't fit in any more, we both changed and both for the better-I hate the sterile corporate atmosphere. But my generation doesn't deserve to hold on anymore, our atmosphere was the problem that cause so many to not lived to see 50.
Another great one has left us from the wrestling industry and it is very sad to see how many have died so young. The lifestyle of a professional wrestler is a brutal lifestyle, especially when I broke in. There was no safety net for injuries, if you got hurt you didn't get paid if you didn't work. I can remember breaking ribs and working for the next 3 months straight, because I didn't have the money not to work. I can remember sitting in a locker room scared to take pain pills because of so many addictions and drinking Jack Daniels to numb the pain instead-before the match. This was before I made it to WWE. I wrestled with nearly every injury you can have including a broken back.
However, I also played two college football games on a broken leg. My group of guys like Steve Williams knew only one speed and that was full bore wide open.
Steve's death most likely had nothing to do with the lifestyle, but I have never seen a profession that so many die young. It is unbelievable how many have died before 50.
I am proud of WWE and TNA for drug testing, especially WWE for such a comprehensive test. I can't comment on TNA because I don't know the specifics. I also am proud of WWE for concussion testing, there is no telling what so many unprotected chair shots to my head have done to my brain-but hey, I wasn't too smart to begin with. I figure in my life I have taken over 50,000 "bumps", and I don't think the human body was meant to do that. But I don't regret one bit of it, in fact, I loved it.
Pills are what has killed these guys-again, not what killed Steve, that was cancer. But everyone that has died young has had a pill problem, they just damage the heart after some time. It is not pot or alcohol, it is pills. And pills were everywhere when I started, both football and wrestling-it was the lifestyle and no one knew how bad they were or how addictive. I never got into pills thank goodness, because I could see how addictive they were. The vice I had was alcohol, and fortunately I have been without a drink for some time and my future won't involve drinking either-not to pat myself on the back but to say I had my demons as well.
Life on the road is boring for anyone, and nearly everyone had somet vice they used to pass the time.
Cocaine has its victims but pills are what is killing these guys. And it is from my generation.
Too many of these quack doctors will write a script for anything, these guys have to be accountable as well.
The circle of friends Steve and I had are almost all gone, and I am only 43-how bad is that? Stan Hansen remains, another friend I admire.
I don't like sports entertainment, I like wrestling. But I do like the fact that wrestling has been getting cleaned up, whether out of necessity or any other reason I don't care. The sports entertainment world is something I certainly don't fit in any more, we both changed and both for the better-I hate the sterile corporate atmosphere. But my generation doesn't deserve to hold on anymore, our atmosphere was the problem that cause so many to not lived to see 50.
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