10 Terrifying Transformations Caused By Wrestling
3. Raven
Even at his career peak, Raven was the first to admit that he'd lived a thousand lives within the single one he'd had as a successful professional wrestler. And not just because he worked his way through several different gimmicks before landing on the one that finally stuck.
It was during dominant runs in ECW and WCW that he took breaks to attempt to kick his drug and alcohol problems, and though he didn't crack them then nor in the years that followed, he did at least manage to keep working long past the demise of those promotions and his runs in WWE and TNA.
Age caught up with him in a hurry, but he remains on the peripheries of the industry to this day, appearing in the crowd at an AEW show shortly before the pandemic for a tease of something that might have been dropped as result of the world going to sh*t. Now at least wearing the weathering well, there might still be a role for a unique talent once thought mostly lost to the pro wrestling abyss.