Turnbuckle Turmoil Discusses Steroids

Turnbuckle Turmoil

Perhaps as early as the 1950s steroids have been part of professional wrestling. When the trend in wrestling was to have larger than life real life action figures as the focus more so than traditional wrestling lots of wrestlers turned to steroids to help them achieve that look. Due to lack of knowledge or simple desire to get bigger at any cost, many wrestlers shortened their very lives due to over use and abuse of steroids. Accusations of steroid distributing nearly ruined Vince McMahon and his company in the 90s. As we learned more and more about the dangers of steroids and once they became illegal the wrestling business was thought to clean up from years of steroid problems. Did it? What are the lasting effects on the business? We'll discuss the steroid problem with a variety of people within the business and see what they have to say.