10 Second Generation Wrestlers That Should Have Known Better
8. Ted Dibiase Jr.
Ted Dibiase Jr unofficially retired from professional wrestling in 2013 after starting up a non-profit organisation for underprivileged children in his own name. From promotional videos shared through WWE.com and other outlets, the organisation appears to be a wonderful outreach programme for children who may have suffered serious illness, experienced a difficult upbringing, or simply require nurturing and support they'd never had access to.
Dibiase himself looks incredibly at home in the environment, and can be considered one of the wrestling industry's real winners if only for escaping it into another success story. It's possibly of some relief, because the business he was born into had dealt out terrific loss.
Ted's Grandma Helen Hild was a pro wrestler who lost her last years to depression thanks to the death of her husband 'Iron' Mike Dibiase, who lost his life to a heart attack in a 1969 match against Haystack Calhoun's 623lb tag team partner Man Mountain Mike.
Ted's famous father, the 'Million Dollar Man' Ted Dibiase subsequently lost both his parents by the time he was 30. He nearly lost his wife and children due to his own self-confessed over-indulgence in excess on the road as a professional wrestler.
Never quite the performer his father was, Dibiase lost his way early into his WWE tenure, trapped in a stable he was the weakest member of. He was fortunate to spot his fresh start of his own accord before his next loss was his full-time job. Dibiase walked away from WWE of his own accord.