Wrestling's notorious bad boy now lives quiet life after health scares – and hurricanes
dailystar.co.ukmuscular physique which, as Aussie chat show host Clive James once famously described Arnold Schwarzenegger, best resembles "a condom stuffed with walnuts".Meet Adrian Street – aka The Merchant of Menace – who was once the wrestling world's most notorious bad boy and is now mowing his lawn into submission and putting unruly weeds in a headlock.Now 81, but still impossibly buff for his age, he explained how injury, cancer and hurricanes all contributed to him bidding farewell to his physically-punishing lifestyle in the States for some well deserved down-time back home in the UK."I knew that one day I'd have had enough, and I dreaded it like death itself," said the grandad and dad-of-three."Then, one day, I was driving 400 miles across country to a show and watching the white lines in the middle of the road whizz past.
I just realised, 'That's it, no more'."After more than 50 years and about 15,000 bouts I was done."I retired undefeated in 2010 after having just won the NWA Alabama heavyweight title at 70.
So I'd bowed out under my own terms, which is how I do everything."And by that point he'd already suffered numerous potentially career-ending scrapes, such as a torn Achilles' tendon - not to mention a life-threatening illness."I was diagnosed with cancer in 2001 after I kept coughing up blood," he added from his home in Cwmbran, South Wales - roughly 16 miles from where he grew up in the small Valleys town of Brynmawr."The doctor said 'I'm going to give it to you straight - you're not going to make it through his one.
You better go home and put your affairs in order'."I just told him I wasn't going anywhere because there were still people in the world I'd not p****d off yet.
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