I added another url to the Wrestling Links sidebar for the Wrestler's Rescue charity. I've known about it for awhile, but I never got around to adding the link until today, with Capt. Lou's tragic passing. This charity was founded by Dawn Marie and it aims to help retired wrestlers pay medical expenses that they can't afford. As you know, there's no union in wrestling, and promoters never offered health benefits in the past. I'm not sure if this is the case today with the WWE or TNA, but somehow, I highly doubt it.
Wrestling takes an immense physical toll on the body due to the years of taking repeated bumps for 300+ days out of a year, traveling and working hurt, letting medical problems go unattended for months and sometimes years mainly because of the relatively paltry sums that these wrestlers were paid in comparison to the gates taken. If you like watching wrestling, then please at least raise awareness to other wrestling fans about this charity even if you can't afford to give at the moment. It's a very worthy cause, and you can even come out with a good bit of swag as industry personalities like Jim Ross and Mick Foley donate stuff for bid.
Kudos to Dawn Marie for starting this up and to everyone involved. Wrestlers often have a shitty lot in life after they retire, and be it self-inflicted or not, well, mostly everyone deserves a bit of sympathy.
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