To The Biased Idiots Who Still Think Wrestlers Are On Steroids!

For a long time now people have judged professional wrestling, many without even knowing what they are talking about. If you watch wrestling one time, and do not like it, I can understand. Although much of the time, if you are not connected with the storylines then you really can't enjoy watching, because you don't know what it going on and your a bit lost. People typically think two things when they think pro-wrestling It is fake All of the wrestlers are on steroids The two things I just mentioned are completely false statements. I remember an interview with Brock Lesnar, a former WWE Champion, who said his friend asked him to do a body slam to him. Lesnar had just gotten a regulation-size ring—just like the WWE's—in his house when his friend asked him.   Lesnar delivered the body slam. His friend jumped up in sheer pain and said, "What the hell did you do to this ring? It is so hard!" Lesnar said he didn't do anything to it, because that is what was used all the time in the WWE.   He later claimed his friend had a new respect for what he did. The fact is, they are not using some kind of mat out there that won't hurt at all. The wrestlers learn how to take bumps in the ring, and how to do moves. That is not fake, it is just a matter of knowing what it coming and remembering what you have learned in training.  The matches are predetermined, yes, but it is by no means completely fake. The moves are real, except for punches and things of that nature, which is obvious. Submissions are not really as painful as they are dramatically put over to be, but if you were to actually lock some of them in, they are incredibly painful.  And onto a piledriver to the head, the wrestlers go backwards so that the opponent doesn't hit their head for real. Although, it has been botched in the past many times. There are many moves that I could go into, but it all goes back to the same thing, the wrestlers are taught how to do things. But enough about that, onto what seems to be the only topic people really want to turn to: Steroids.  It seems like since Day One wrestlers were said to have used steroids. Bret Hart said it himself, people used back in the 80s. He said it was hard to find two or three that were clean. And this was true; however, it did not just happen in the WWE. So we cannot blame Vince for everything regarding steroids.  I know they are the big dogs now, but back then they were just about even with other promotions until the huge blow up of Wrestlemania that put them over the top.  Since then, we have seen people continue to bang the ‘steroids are rampant in wrestling’ drum. But while there have been some famous people in the WWE that died from steroid abuse, many others died from using it for sports like football and others. So really, blaming wrestling for ‘roids is completely stupid if you ask me.  The reason I bring this up now is because of what I saw on NBC's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! The show had Spencer and Heidi from MTV's the Hills and also stars former WWE Diva Torrie Wilson.  Spencer and Torrie had a few choice words, and during the argument, Spencer said, “At least I'm not on steroids.” Torrie, who was furious, said she never used them. Spencer asked how could she be that big without them? Bascially implying just because she was a wrestler, she was on 'roids. Torrie asked if he ever heard of a gym, Spencer said yes but I don't work out. I say all of that to make this point: just like the idiotic Spencer, people are thinking that all wrestlers are on the juice.  In all reality, Torrie is not that big. She is a fit woman, but not nearly as big as say, Chyna. Torrie is not big at all. She was a fitness model before the WWE, and she probably worked out constantly.   People do not realize that you can go to a gym and work out to get fit, and even to put on muscle—imagine that? People just lump steroids with pro-wrestlers because of what they heard in the past. While it was true in the past that they used, today it would be very difficult to be on them without being caught. So more wrestlers realize they do not want to ruin their image and thus do not use them. Along with what they have seen with the deaths of former wrestlers. Edge actually said on Off the Record, that he did use at one point. He said it made him feel weird, and he didn't like the feeling. So he stopped using them. This was before the WWE Wellness Policy was really enforced, and early in his career. The WWE has a wellness policy that tests their talent now. They do surprise tests so that the talent will not know they are coming. They do planned ones too, but, the surprise tests are best because they will find out if someone is using or not. What is so good about the WWE is that they release the test results to the public, so if someone screws up, we will know.  Let me ask, has anyone watched football or basketball lately? You see how fit these men are right? Heck, look at LeBron James alone. The guy is just as ripped as any pro-wrestler out there.  But we don't jump to steroid use with him, now do we? Say he was in the WWE, would we then? The fact is that people jump to steroid use with pro-wrestlers, yet do not do it when it comes to sports. They give them the benefit of the doubt, and never jump to thinking they are on something.  The WWE suspends their wrestlers if they test positive for any drug not cleared by the WWE, and by the way, no steroid is. They will even release in the reports what exact drug the talent tested positive for. So you can look up what it is or ask about it. The test results for sports like baseball, football, and basketball are released the same way. Which is a good thing to know.  People are idiots when it comes to this subject, because it seems they cannot forgive pro wrestlers for the past steroid use in the industry. Yet they can forgive people like A-Rod, Manny Ramirez, Shawn Merriman, and others who either admitted or tested positive for steroids or something related to it. Why is that?  You don't have to like wrestling to know this is wrong. And if you are going to be bias towards sports, then you are complete fool. Because more people last year in football (college and pros) tested positive for steroids and/or drugs than the WWE's talent did.  So if you are going to point the finger at the so called "druggies," why not point the finger towards football? I personally love just about every sport out there, except cricket, which I just don't get. Sorry.   That includes football, and when I watch it I do not think all the men I see there are on something. I want to watch it because I love watching it. And thinking about steroids instead of the action on the field is just plain stupid. If they test positive or someone dies from drug use, it saddens me, it really does. But it seems ESPN talks about it for a few days or weeks, then it is something people forget and then they move on if it regards a sport. They may bring it up again if someone else dies, but after the few weeks, it is a dead topic. Yet if a wrestler dies because of steroid usage, then it seems that everyone is on the stuff in the WWE, TNA, ROH, or every other wrestling promotion out there, according to what I have seen. It seems the only people standing up for wrestlers are the wrestling fans. This is understandable, of course.   But when you are not a wrestling fan, and you immediately jump to thinking steroids are something everyone in wrestling is using, you are being irresponsible. And even some people in television like to interject performance enhancers when they interview wrestlers.   There was an interview done with John Cena where he was asked about steroids. He was in the middle of a conversation about it, and the editors of the show cut the tape in a way that basically implied he was using steroids. If it were not for TMZ (of all people), who got the actual tape and showed it on TV, people would think John Cena was using.   So thankfully some people have integrity out there, and actually let people’s words speak for themselves, instead of manipulating interviews to serve an agenda.  The fact is people would rather cut a person off who is trying to clear things up about something like steroids in wrestling, rather than listen to them about it. Say it would have been A-Rod, you think they would have done that to him? I don't think so, because that would have been wrong in their eyes, yet they would do it to a pro wrestler? That is pretty dumb if you ask me.  Have people tested positive in the past for steroids in the WWE or wrestling period? Yes, don't think I am disputing that. But, there have been many people in the sports’ world who have, too. Yet we forgive their sport and the player for the past usage, but we don't with pro wrestling? Again, biased and stupid.