8 Things Non-Wrestling People Don't Believe About Wrestling

6. The Lack Of Healthcare

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Ahead of WrestleMania this year, ostensible comedian and wannabe political commentator John Oliver used the increased focus on WWE as an opportunity to highlight a major issue afflicting the industry. According to Oliver, the company's inability to offer their 'non-employees' any form of basic healthcare, whilst continuing to profit on decades of broken bones and bodies, is "morally subterranean", forming a wider scandal the host hoped would shock his viewers enough into taking action.

But this was no exposé. The issue of Vince McMahon's borderline business practices have been plain to anyone since around, oh, 1995, when Kevin Nash and Scott Hall abandoned ship, lured by the El Dorado of guaranteed contracts down in Atlanta.

Realistically, nobody was going to boycott WrestleMania over this issue; the most attuned, discerning of WWE's viewers are begrudgingly accepting of these issues. Anyone else simply wasn't going to care enough.

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