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Post by Pounder on Feb 21, 2010 16:01:27 GMT -5
If someone wants to take drugs I'm not feeling bad about it.
Sure, give help to the poor disadvantaged kids who grow up into an environment of drugs who get addicted and due to lack of prosperity and opportunity struggle to get out of it.
Some guy who gets paid $400,000 a year wants to get coked up?
I'm not about to begin caring.
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Post by jobsquad on Feb 21, 2010 16:08:38 GMT -5
Some guy who gets paid $400,000 a year wants to get coked up? I'm not about to begin caring. That's the thing. Most of these guys were heavy users of other drugs that were extremely dangerous. They also happened to use steroids. I know I ignored your meaning of the post. However people that claim people like Davey Boy Smith died from just steroids are not privy to the fact that he used a tremendous amount of recreational drugs.
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Post by wwefan78 on Feb 21, 2010 18:48:52 GMT -5
For every dead wrestler with steroiduse in their history there are just as many who are still here today. Nash, Hogan, Warrior, Honky Tonk Man, Scott Steiner among others have all basicly admitted to taking steroids. While none of them are exactly the epitome of health, that's mostly due to the wear and tear wrestling causes the body. Being that wrestling is not a competitive sport the edge you get from steroids is very small and purely cosmethical. You still have to have charisma, be able to work a match, have micskills and get people to care about your character in order to make it to the top and stay there. "The look" is just a part of the package.
Warrior (who is a nutcase for most of the time) had a few good points during the whole roid-rage debate following the Benoit-thing. As I recall Warrior attributed all these wrestlers dying due to most of them being "rotten from the inside" living a unhealthy lifestyle in general in addition to abusing steroids. If you look at wrestlers who are still here and admitted taking them, I bet most of them lived or are trying to live a fairly healthy lifestyle without excessive use of recreational drugs.
It's funny how people at one point were coming down hard on WWE superstars looking like roided freaks. Then when everyone seemingly went off the gas, people started complaining about wrestlers looking soft and shrinking. I understand you want them to look in shape, but let's face it that "superman look" is almost impossible to get without freakish natural genes and a lot of work in the gym, which most wrestlers don't have the time for - sans some resorting to steroids in the past. Personally I could care less how wrestlers achieve and maintain their physiques as long as they entertain me. It's their body and their decision. Obviously for WWE is all about public image so I understand their policy on the subject.
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Post by Christian Troy MD on Feb 21, 2010 19:51:08 GMT -5
My opinion: Its your body and you should be allowed to do what you want with it. If wrestlers want to be idiots and take drugs just to look stronger then let them do it. This right here. Best explanation.
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Post by AriadosMan on Feb 21, 2010 20:05:02 GMT -5
Because if WWE doesn't at least make an effort to look like it has concern about their lives, they will get shut down or made illegal. IWA-MS got wrestling banned in some areas for its excessive brutality. This isn't the kind of publicity wrestling needs.
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Post by jfpierce on Feb 21, 2010 20:27:50 GMT -5
My opinion: Its your body and you should be allowed to do what you want with it. If wrestlers want to be idiots and take drugs just to look stronger then let them do it. This right here. Best explanation. The problem with that is that you would be punishing everyone who doesn't take steroids as they would lose spots to those who do, especially in McMahon-land.
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