Another example of a nutty professor from a US university! Maybe this professor should have tried professional wrestling himself! 😊
Had Hulk Hogan and his colleagues succeeded to establish a labor union for their profession, then professional wrestling most likely would not have become a very successful business.
Second, nobody is forced to become a professional wrestler. It is an individual choice! Any professional wrestler is also free to leave his profession at any time.
"... Despite the staged nature of its combat, professional wrestling is a notoriously dangerous career. Studies rank it among the riskiest professions. Wikipedia even maintains a comprehensive list of premature wrestler deaths.
The reasons for professional wrestling’s dangers are largely tied up in the industry’s working conditions. And part of Hogan’s legacy may be his complicity in those conditions. In 1986, he allegedly played a key role in undercutting a unionization effort – arguably the closest pro wrestling has come to unionizing. ..."
The nutty professor Brian Jansen, Assistant Professor, Department of English & Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine.
His preferred pronouns: "(he/him/his)"
