10 Major WWE superstars who failed in real life
Jeff HardySuccess within the squared circle by no means begets success in reality - a lesson many unsuspecting wrestlers have had tolearn the hard way over the years. Fame and wealth in the WWE, it would seem, are fickle commodities that are as easily accumulated as they are lost. Especially in the context of the life of a typical pro-wrestler pre-dating the WWE wellness policy, the tendency to gravitate towards drugs and alcohol was worryinglywide-spread.Also read: WWE Smackdown Results: March 17, 2016Many wrestlers in the 80s and 90s turned to drugs and the like purely for the want of an escape route from the grueling schedule that pro-wrestling entailed back in the day. The wear and tear that accompanied the incessant travelling told on the body heavily, leaving many wrestlers no choice but to seek alternative means of relief in order to hang with the breathless schedule. What they did not expect however, was how their lives would undergo gradual, or in some cases abrupt and violent meltdown because of the same.Despite most wrestlers in the employ of the WWE steering clear of the same indiscretions nowadays, the list of otherwise successful wrestlers whose lives fell apart outside of the ring is still considerable to say the least. This article takes a look at 10 such wrestlers whose success as a persona in the WWE did not quite translate into their personal lives.
#1 Jeff Hardy
Surely one of the notable “what if” wrestlers that hardly did justice to their potential, Jeff Hardy’s life has been on a downward spiral ever since his release from the WWE. Throughout an inconsistent and woe-ridden tenure that followed in TNA, Hardy would often show up for matches in no condition to perform.
Having already evoked the ire of the law with drug related misdemeanors in 2009, things came to a head and the disgusted public eye during the Victory Road event two years later. What was supposed to be a much anticipated main event against Sting for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, was reduced to a squash match that saw an intoxicated Hardy forcibly pinned for the 3 count.
Ostensibly not over his drug problems yet, it truly inspires regret amongst fans that a wrestler who was once viewed as the golden boy of the WWE has been reduced to an unconvincing musician that shuffles through his motions at independent promotions today.