10 Terrifying Transformations Caused By Wrestling
2. Jake Roberts/Scott Hall
Paired together for this list because of what almost happened to both had it not been for real life miracle worker and saviour Diamond Dallas Page, Scott Hall and Jake Roberts were the go-to examples for wrestlers that stood less than zero chance of making it into their twilight years.
Wrecked by the drug and alcohol problems that had consumed their lives during the highs and lows of a collected six decades in the industry, they were both written off as tribute show inevitabilities as the 2010s arrived.
Page's intervention brought both men back from the bring in genuinely remarkable fashion. Taking control of Jake Roberts' diet when he first arrived, the former WCW Champion got 'The Snake's weight down before working on fixing a brain addled by horrendous childhood trauma and an adulthood that remained defined by it.
Hall got the same-but-different treatment too. He was unfit to stand and walk when DDP took him in, but recovered enough to rejoin his Kliq pals for a Hall Of Fame induction and countless legends' spots in the years post-Page.