Serious topic - 'enhanced' wrestlers.

[mysticalhamster]

Ok, here is the deal.

Wrestling is not a 'real' sport, like Baseball, Football, Soccer, etc. It's a fact.

Wrestling is now depending on your view 'Entertainment' or Sports Entertainment'.

That is fine with me. I fully accept that Wrestling is not a sport.

So.

So, if wrestling is not a true competitive sport, why are people treating it as such in terms of Steroids, etc?

There is no real title to win, like the World Series, or Super Bowl.

I think wrestling is being unfairly judged as if it were a legit sport.

It's not, so I think the WWE should not have a wellness program, have all the wrestlers sign a full waver so they will not be held in any way responsible if/why the talent breaks down/dies, etc.

I say let them loose - let the choice to use steroids be upon the talent. If they want to use them, they use them. If not, they won't.

YOU DON'T NEED TO BE A PUMPED UP FREAK TO BE ABLE TO DRAW MONEY/GET OVER.

Like the announcers sometimes say when rivlas fight before the PPV fight - 'oh let them go, let them go at it! don't hold them back!.

This is my opinion, I am curious how the rest of you feel about this.

Should the screws slowly be turned, to the point the wrestlers will look exactly like the crowd, body wise, having a superstar die every couple of years due to 'falling through the cracks' of the wellness program?

Or should anything go?

- CM

[seano]

The one glaring thing missing from your post:

Steroids is a drug.

Drugs are addictive and are usually illegal.

And drugs can KILL.

[wwerules60]

They cause horrible health problems, no one cares about enhancing talent, they care about the great number of deaths.

[destrucity]

devondragon said:

I still do'nt see why an outside source can tell grown men who are putting their lives on the line everyday (a simple slipup can be deadly) that they can't take a substance because it might kill them

If Walmart can make a person that makes minimum wage pee in a cup then I have no problem with the WWE doing it

[tyler632]

It does negatively affect other people though. Those wrestlers who aren't on steriods but have true talent get left off of the WWE payroll because people that are roided out but have no talent are getting the TV time because of how they look.

Look at the cruiserweight division that is full of talented wrestlers and entertainers that don't get TV time because of the huge bodies that Vince would rather push. That then puts pressure on the smaller guys to start steriods because the see their spots going to guys that are on them.

Also, even though wrestling is not a real sport, it is a competition. Wrestlers compete for spots and the money that those higher spots earn. It is not really fair if one wrestler is getting the highest paying spot(usually the champions) in a large part because of their steroid induced look and other wrestlers who are doing the honest work sit at the bottom of the card because they don't have "The look".

Also, it is smart investment wise for a product to not have a bunch of people on drugs in your company. It is bad business if you invest a couple years into getting a wrestler over when he can't last because of his drug addiction.

It also looks really bad for a public company to have people on ILLEGAL drugs as the face of their industry. And if the industry is reflected badly then all workers in that industry suffer.

Also, it is not really an outside source that is making WWE wrestlers not be on drugs. The WWE pays an outside company to run the drug tests because that what it usually done. It isn't very convincing for a company to drug test themselves because it would appear to be too easy to alter the results if they wanted. By hiring an outside source, that gaurantees that the testing is done fairly.

[Deleted]

I'll give you a good reason why they should be tested.

It's fairly obvious that big muscles tend to lead to big pushes. Steroids are harmful to the body, that much is obvious. Many wrestlers will feel pressure to use the substance in order to get their "hoss push". With them taken out of the equation, the pressure is gone.

Well in theory it is at least. In practice the WWE doesn't seem to really care much about the whole thing and are just paying it lip service. We'll continue to see only expendable people fired over it.