FourFifty's views on Roids in Wrestling.

[FourFifty]

So I might be the one with the unpopular point of view here, but that has never stopped me from speaking up before.

I’m sick of all the goddamn investigations with ‘roids and other related drugs in the wrestling industry. While there is a high death rate for wrestlers they should know by now what they’re getting into. No one is forcing any pills down their throats. No one is demanding that they take short cuts.
So what if a wrestler used steroids? As long as the drugs are in direct relation to their jobs I don’t see an issue.. Some people might be using it for performance, and Ric Flair admitted to using steroids for aesthetic reasons.
What we need to remember is it’s all a performance. We’re not watching anything that even resembles a legitimized sport. I’m all for taking performance enhancing drugs out of baseball, football, soccer, hockey, boxing, Olympic sports, basketball, UFC, professional hot dog eating, ping pong, x games, professional video gaming , golf, etc. These are all real competitions.

So if there’s going to be this crusade for cleaning up the wrestling industry then let’s expand it. Let’s clean up the entertainment industry! Get the drugs out of music. Get the drugs out of movies. Get the drugs out of television. Get the drugs out of modeling. Hell, get the drugs out of porn.
I don’t think it’s totally fair to segregate one branch of the entertainment business just because there has been some shadows have been cast upon it.

So I guess the long and short of this post is I believe that any government funded group that is investigating performance enhancing drugs in the wrestling industry needs to expand their minds and look into other forms of entertainment. Wrestling isn’t the only demanding form of entertainment. Most physically demanding? I’d say so.

Besides, 10 bucks says that there would be groups cracking down on Hollywood if Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan would have died during the DUIs, or if Owen Wilson would have had a successful suicide attempt. Ah, or if Nicole Richie’s baby turns out to be all sorts of deformed and retarded because of the drugs she takes.


To the first person to mention Chris Benoit- That was a tragedy, however after they took a look at his brain it explained a lot about his state of mind. While the cause is directly the industry’s fault you’d think that the man would have had a cat scan or two. Drugs are not the alpha and omega of the Benoit incident.