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So here’s to the Smashing Machine. Not the myth from 1998. The man from 2009. Still standing. Still breathing. Still here .

I was scrolling through old highlight reels last night—the grainy, low-framerate kind that look like they were filmed through a fogged-up window. And there he was. Mark Kerr. The Smashing Machine. mark kerr 2009

The forums were brutal. “He looks old.” “He’s just here for the paycheck.” “Someone needs to stop him.” So here’s to the Smashing Machine

In 2002, The Smashing Machine documentary showed us the soul behind the biceps: the addiction, the pain, the desperate loneliness of a man built to destroy but not to live. By 2009, that wasn’t a cautionary tale anymore. It was a status report. mark kerr 2009

— J.