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Wrestling's notorious bad boy now lives quiet life after health scares – and hurricanes
muscular 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.