There's nothing like veteran advice in the pro wrestling business.
Mark Henry offered some of his own during his recent appearance on Busted Open Radio.
While on the show this week, "The World's Strongest Man" explained why wrestlers need to make a point to try and negotiate health benefits into their contracts from whichever promoter they are working for at a given time.
Featured below is an excerpt from the interview where he touches on this topic with his thoughts.
“I’m permanently damaged. I sit here today a broken human being from being a pro wrestler. I’m not crying, I’m not having a pity party. I know what wrestling did to my body.
“There’s no NFL-CTE lawsuit that I’m gonna put towards wrestling. Even though if I had brain damage, the way that pro wrestling is designed you would’ve had to look out for yourself and not rely on them, the business, the corporation that you work for to look out for you.
“That’s why you say, ‘Look, I need full insurance to do this.’ Negotiate it in your contract. It’s about what you negotiate and all wrestlers say, ‘You need a union, you need this.’ No, you need to have some balls.”
Check out more from the interview below, or at YouTube.com. H/T to SEScoops.com for transcribing the above quotes.
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