3-time WWE champion says drug addiction cut his wrestling career short by a decade

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He debuted alongside Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, and Dean Malenko as part of a new faction, The Radicalz. During his tenure, Saturn won the European title once and also captured the Hardcore championship twice. However, he was released in 2002.

The veteran then had a run in TNA before competing on independents. His last match came in 2013, and he hasn’t competed since. Recently, during an appearance on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet, Perry Saturn talked about his wrestling journey. He was asked if he had any regrets from his career. He admitted that he could’ve competed longer, if not for his drug addiction.

“Yeah, my career ended maybe a decade too soon because I couldn’t get off the drugs. Somewhere when we went to WWE, I rubbed somebody the wrong way too, because that’s why I did bullsh*t things. I got the reputation of roughing up the enhancement guys,” he said.

Saturn talked about how Gerald Briscoe would feed the talent that he is old school and encouraged them to make him work.

“What nobody hears is before every match, Jerry Briscoe would grab the guy and tell him, ‘Hey, Perry’s really old school. You got to go out there and make him work for it. No sell some of his stuff.’ They know I’m going to go berserk. I’d come through the back, and they’d be laughing their a**es off,” he added.

Perry Saturn revealed he was homeless after WWE release

During the conversation on INSIGHT, Perry Saturn talked about his drug issues in detail.

He said it was hard for him to get off the pills and that he had become an addict. Saturn mentioned that this addiction led him to a downward spiral after his WWE release.

Saturn said that mere eight months after wrestling on TV, he found himself homeless and lost everything. The former WCW tag team champion said that he has no excuses and took complete responsibility for what happened.