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04-27-2016, 12:45 AM
Chyna's brain could shed light on detrimental effects of pro wrestling
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Professional wrestling is fake, scripted entertainment — but the physical toll it takes on its athletic performers is all too real.*
Joan Laurer, a wrestling superstar k**wn as Chyna (http://mashable.com/2016/04/21/chyna-dead-joan-laurer/) in the 1990s, is the latest former wrestler to die at a startlingly young age (http://mashable.com/2016/04/21/chyan-pro-wrestling-young-deaths/#Il3YaeldLPqy?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=). She passed away last week at age 47; her cause of death has **t yet been determined.*
SEE ALSO: Viva Shaun Livingston: Why Steph Curry's replacement is beloved by basketball fans (http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/shaun-livingston-steph-curry-starting-warriors/)
Laurer is one of many luminaries from pro wrestling's heyday to die young recently (http://mashable.com/2016/04/21/chyan-pro-wrestling-young-deaths/). The question is why. ** one has found an answer yet. But Laurer may yield clues posthumously — her manager wants to donate the dead wrestler's brain to the same doctor whose cutting-edge research unlocked a universe of k**wledge about brain damage among NFL players (http://mashable.com/2016/03/14/nfl-admits-cte-link/).* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/chyna-brain-science/)
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Professional wrestling is fake, scripted entertainment — but the physical toll it takes on its athletic performers is all too real.*
Joan Laurer, a wrestling superstar k**wn as Chyna (http://mashable.com/2016/04/21/chyna-dead-joan-laurer/) in the 1990s, is the latest former wrestler to die at a startlingly young age (http://mashable.com/2016/04/21/chyan-pro-wrestling-young-deaths/#Il3YaeldLPqy?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=). She passed away last week at age 47; her cause of death has **t yet been determined.*
SEE ALSO: Viva Shaun Livingston: Why Steph Curry's replacement is beloved by basketball fans (http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/shaun-livingston-steph-curry-starting-warriors/)
Laurer is one of many luminaries from pro wrestling's heyday to die young recently (http://mashable.com/2016/04/21/chyan-pro-wrestling-young-deaths/). The question is why. ** one has found an answer yet. But Laurer may yield clues posthumously — her manager wants to donate the dead wrestler's brain to the same doctor whose cutting-edge research unlocked a universe of k**wledge about brain damage among NFL players (http://mashable.com/2016/03/14/nfl-admits-cte-link/).* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/chyna-brain-science/)
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