Professional wrestling thread

My guess is because pro wrestlers were using steroids and HGH, but were combining them with insane amounts of alcohol and pain killers (especially somas), becoming addicted to both. If a doctor prescribed two somas a day (just as an example), many wrestlers were taking 500 a day.

 

And lifestyle -- a lot less downtime, unless you suffer a major injury, in which case you're apt to ramp up the roids to speed the healing process. Plus they're more likely to work hurt because for all but the biggest stars like Cena and HHH, their downside guarantee isn't enough to coast on for long.

 

Personally, I thought that gimmick was great!

 

But how would they still Umanga away ...

Oh wait, they're supposedly two different people.

 

Harley, Meat, anybody who follows wrestling closely knows that. Kind of like the old saying, "It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end." For wrestlers it's not the steroids and HGH that kill you, it's the 200 painkillers, two bottles of jagermeister and three lines of coke you snort a day because of the lifestyle that kills you.
But to the casual fan, all of the post-Benoit stories basically said "Steroids!" and left it at that. If it was, then hundreds of baseball players should be getting fitted for caskets about now, right?

 

Baseball won't take steroids seriously until one of their players does drop dead. Even still, if it's a so-so utility infielder, they probably wouldn't care.

On a lighter note, the "Santa's Little Helper Match" is very ummm....revealing.

 

Not a bad first match...

Also, I haven't watched a Raw in about 8 months... Vince looks like shit. Is that him playing the 'I got beat up at the end of last week's 15th anniversary' angle or is he just getting really old?

 

Both.

 

I guessed as much, but I figured I would ask.

EDIT: It also seems during this part they are stalling for time.. I wonder who backed out of their match tonight.

 

Bad weather in the Northeast.

 

But when Vince sees the ratings drop back to normal this week, he won't take the blame. They are coming off one of their best PPVs of the year and there has been little mention of what happened last night. Instead, we get more of the same: Trips showing his "dominance."

 

Poor camera work when Kelly Kelly was in the ring ... needed more low angle shots.