Tito Santana “The Wrestler”, Drugs and MORE - Video
New York Times got an interview with legendary wrestler Tito Santana. Tito talks about “The Wrestler”, drug dealers, alcohol and lots of partying. Here are a few 
excerpts from the interview.
-He saw “The Wrestler” and found it true to life. Drugs? “We’d get a pay advance every night, and it was such a grueling job a lot of guys turned to drugs. When we flew to a new place, the dealers were waiting for us — pain pills, steroids, pot, cocaine.” Loneliness? “I spent 12 years on the road, visiting and stopping over at my home when I could. Christmas, New Year’s, we wrestled. My wife raised our sons. I’d say 90 percent of wrestlers I knew were married a second time or more. Lots of partying.”
-He reached the top circuit in 1979, averaging $300,000 a year for a decade, although, he said, he never had a written contract. “You couldn’t take a day off. If you did — they could get rid of you.”
-He said Vince McMahon Jr., chairman of what is now called World Wrestling Entertainment, controlled the scripts, deciding “who will win and who will make the millions.” As Tito Santana, he was cast as a good guy, always ranking between the middle and top. Asked why he was given such a good role, Mr. Santana said: “I was a very dependable person. In the 12 years, I missed just twice, once when I asked permission to be with my wife for the delivery of our second baby, and once I was snowed in. They knew I wouldn’t get busted for drugs. I wasn’t involved the way a lot of wrestlers were. I had a good attitude, I was agile, plus, I was Hispanic, and they needed ethnics.”
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