At 6-foot-6 and 400 pounds, George Gray never had a problem taking care of himself in the pro wrestling ring.

But even a performer who terrorized opponents as the One Man Gang can admit he needs some help from others after the torrential rainfall that flooded Baton Rouge.

Gray and his family had the interior of their house in nearby Central City, La. destroyed last month when the Comite River overflowed into their property. To make matters worse, Gray was among the estimated 125,000 homeowners affected who hadn’t purchased insurance to cover the damage because he wasn’t living in a designated flood zone.

“This caught us by surprise because our place had never actually flooded in the 20 years we’ve owned the house,” Gray told SportingNews.com during a Wednesday telephone interview. “When you look curbside now, it’s like a disaster zone. There’s a giant mountain of our stuff in front of one side of the house and a giant mountain on the other with things like a refrigerator, washing machine and dryer that got ruined from basically sitting in three feet of water.

“Basically, everything is gone. All of my wrestling memorabilia was washed away, things like old-school posters and my boots that we didn’t store in the attic because we didn’t think it was ever going to flood.”

Gray is now relegated to temporarily living in a Quality Inn with his wife and their eight rescue cats. They hope to soon move into a friend’s trailer until their house can be repaired.

The problem now is finding a way to pay for such work. Gray was recently given an estimated bill of $70,000 to $75,000 just to make his dwelling inhabitable.

That prospective cost has placed the 56-year-old Gray in a rough financial predicament. His wrestling days long behind, Gray has a chronic back issue that forced him to quit his post-grappling job as a Louisiana penitentiary guard several years ago. Gray, who suffered a heart attack in 2000, also is one of 53 pro wrestlers who have filed a class-action lawsuit against WWE claiming the company didn’t offer adequate protection against head trauma in scripted matches that has led to long-term neurological damage.

“There’s no way to live in it,” Gray said of his abode. “We have electricity but basically nothing else. All the flooring is gone and the wood is stripped. The whole house is gutted.”