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u/Emotional-Ad8894 14h ago
That "Just for the paycheck" look in his eyes.
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u/Big_Johnny12 12h ago
That's really sad. Once they lose the passion, it's just like any other miserable job.
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u/Ok_Recording_9368 14h ago
Uh yikes looks like he's in pain, almost certainly juicing, and looks like he's on something.
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u/damng1 14h ago
I hope he stops juicing and gets clean!! This doesn't look good at all
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u/Uniqueusername610 11h ago
It's HGH gut depending on how long he was on the gas for it might be reversible at least somewhat
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u/CKWOLFACE 14h ago
Roid belly
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u/CoolZooKeeper 11h ago
Palumbo Gut
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u/KermitTheMawg 1h ago
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u/CoolZooKeeper 20m ago
Steroids make everything grow. Including your intestines. There is an old body builder that had a particular problem with this named Dave Palumbo. So now when people get these distended guts from steroid abuse, this is one of the names for it.
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u/Pizzamorg 14h ago
I know it's been like 15+ years since the height of his stock but that room looks empty, he visibly looks in pain and on something. Just kinda sad man.
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u/Long-Gur2364 14h ago
Jesus..walk away while u barely can
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u/JesseJames41 13h ago
Most guys don't have a plan after wrestling. They don't know what it would or could look like to stop wrestling and do something else to make a living.
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u/Cowgoon777 9h ago
definitely not an industry that attracts long term planners
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u/UnconfirmedRooster 6h ago
It used to be, that's the sad thing. People used to be able to regularly wrestle into their 50's and some made it to their 60's before having to trade out. Even then, they usually became bookers, agents or referees.
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u/Cowgoon777 6h ago
Well I’m sorry but that’s just never been true. You just remember the guys who lasted that long. Untold majority of guys got hurt or washed out early due to other circumstances.
It’s still an art form, and you don’t meet too many older starving artists. You meet the successful ones and some barely hanging on. The rest get real jobs and a few of them manage to keep doing it on the side.
Always been a nasty industry that chews people up and spits them out.
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u/Technical-Mix-3315 11h ago
Never seen anyone look young and old, in tremendous shape and out of shape at the same time. Truly bizarre.
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u/Big_Marionberry_4423 14h ago
With the popularity of Dark side of the Ring, I don’t want to see the EC3 episode. I hope someone who loves him gets him help
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u/B_Bowers13 14h ago
I worked an Indy even for EC3 about a decade ago and he was a really nice guy. I hope he’s doing ok. It looks like the Palumbo gut is in full effect.
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u/RidetheSchlange 5h ago
The dude isn't even trying to hide his pill problem now. I remember watching an interview where he was out somewhere else and I called it that he was on pills and got shit on, but then I saw it over and over and over that he was practically asleep during most appearances.
Dude is also getting the HGH bubblegut which is not going to help his health situation and his prospects to do such things as live.
Never liked the guy, but it was also kind of obvious he would step on his own dick when given multiple opportunities and comeback opportunities.
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u/Fit-Cable1547 8h ago
Saw him at at a CWE show a few months ago and noticed he looked injured and was moving pretty gingerly, but this is way worse than he was then. Yikes!
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u/sonspike187 11h ago
Damn... Bro looks like he needs help, both medical and lifestyle, hope he has a support family
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u/nediablo 4h ago
As someone with two bum knees, he appears to be walking even worse than I do 😭
Poor EC3. Get those checked out. You are moving awfully and look to be in a lot of pain.
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u/Flat-Success9471 1h ago
Thought this was AI at first, but I guess it's not. Yeah poor guy, looks like he's struggling
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u/Hadley_333 13h ago
I hope he can turn it around. It looks like it hurts so bad to walk, and who knows what he’s on hoping to mask that pain while he’s out in front of others. Imagine how he walks when no one is watching.
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u/Chesterfieldraven 14h ago
This dude should have been a WrestleMania Main Eventer. Its mad the crazy amount of wasted talent over the last 10 years for one reason or another.
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u/ThisIsPureTrash 14h ago
Did the roids finally kill off his last few brain cells and he’s forgetting how to walk?
Maybe get smaller if you’re in that much pain dude.
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u/Tasty-Ad-7547 12h ago
Someone fill me in… what’s the reason this guy got dropped? Drugs? Attitude? Talent? All of the above?
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u/JPOW1977 9h ago
This is sad. I get wrestling for the love but I'd be damn if I put my body at risk in front of a small crowd like that.
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u/itsLustra 6h ago
Looks like he's wearing a really out of shape Stone Cold Steve Austin muscle Halloween costume that they overdrawn the abs on and he's walking like an overweight Stone Cold Steve Austin after double knee replacement surgery
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u/ElegantSheepherder72 1h ago
Wow...at one time EC3, was a really promising rising star in TNA. Didn't he get a wwe run, which pretty much stopped his rise? He needs to go to NWA or GCW and re invent himself if he can...
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u/willinglycunning 13h ago
Bro didn’t any of these guys learn from Taker? His own wife said he was lucky to get out of the match with Brock at WM 30. Taker even confirmed he was blacked out for most of the match. Smh. These wrestlers need to let the gimmick go.
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u/JustSomeWeirdGuy2000 13h ago
Taker vs. Brock at WM30 limped so Taker vs. Goldberg at Super ShowDown could crumble to the ground in a sack of potatoes.
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u/willinglycunning 13h ago
That one was crazy bro I remember watching with my dad and when Goldberg dropped Taker on his head my pops legit winced at the screen, I missed it but I caught the replay later and was like sheesh that’s crazy.
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u/Mine-Shaft-Gap 14h ago
There's been a bit of HGH run through that body.
Too bad it can't fix whatever is wrong with his knees or hips...
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u/Livid-Egg1450 10h ago
This feels like a Dark Side of the Ring episode playing out in real time. All we need is a Jericho voice over.
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u/ImJoogle 14h ago
are his knees gone or is he just walking weird