R0rschach
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I'm just using the WWE in this.
They have a year round schedule which demands full time from a lot of wrestlers. They don't care what the wrestlers do to keep in shape to keep going as long as they pass their "tests". The wrestlers turn to pain medications, steroids and other drugs because of the brutal schedule, they do this in order to keep wrestling and making money, they are more or less forced into that situation. Not every is going to make the money that HHH and Cena and Steve Austin do. They have to keep going.
The other part of it is the appearance factor. No matter what the naysayers tell you, the WWE has a certain image for its high profile stars. And they are beefed up supermen. In order to keep or attain this image, wrestlers turn to steroids. Doing this year in year out basically is killing the wrestlers from the inside out, with some of them finally dying of complications from it years after they retired from wrestling, which brings up that ridiculous BS about only a certain amount of wrestlers "dying under our watch". Even if that was true, one death is one too many. But the truth is that its a whole lot more than that.
At the WWE in general, to be on top you will have to look your best or be really awesome at rasslin. The guys that look ripped can't rassel but sell more products, the guys that do rassel are adored by the hardcore fans. The fact is one does not have to use roids in order to be a bigshot but then again not all the talent can rassel. Take the hardy boys (atleast one isn't on roids), edge and christian, Cain and HBK, those guys are clean (roids) yet doing well. Taking roids is still a choice. That is if you have any talent.



