Steroid use in Professional Wrestling

**redoneja** · 03-28-2005, 03:58 PM

This subject has been one that I have been wanting to discuss for awhile now. With all the congressional hearings about steroid use, this has become a hot topic. I believe that some people turn a blind eye to it in pro wrestling. Obviously, some of these guys are so lean and muscular that its almost impossible to believe they aren't using steroids(ahem-Chris Masters). However, unlike baseball and other sports, using steroids in pro wrestling doesn't boost abilities, its just for asthetic purposes(otherwise Ultimate Warrior would be the greatest wrestler of all time). All joking aside this is a serious issue. Over the last few years there have been a number of suspicious deaths that point to steroid use. Do you believe that steroid use is OK in wrestling because it does not equate to wrestling ability? Should steroid regulations be enforced by a government or athletic agency? Or does it just not matter at all because wrestling isn't considered a pure sport?

03-28-2005, 03:58 PM	#1
redoneja Posts: 5,629	Steroid use in Professional Wrestling This subject has been one that I have been wanting to discuss for awhile now. With all the congressional hearings about steroid use, this has become a hot topic. I believe that some people turn a blind eye to it in pro wrestling. Obviously, some of these guys are so lean and muscular that its almost impossible to believe they aren't using steroids(ahem-Chris Masters). However, unlike baseball and other sports, using steroids in pro wrestling doesn't boost abilities, its just for asthetic purposes(otherwise Ultimate Warrior would be the greatest wrestler of all time). All joking aside this is a serious issue. Over the last few years there have been a number of suspicious deaths that point to steroid use. Do you believe that steroid use is OK in wrestling because it does not equate to wrestling ability? Should steroid regulations be enforced by a government or athletic agency? Or does it just not matter at all because wrestling isn't considered a pure sport?