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[Vinzer Deling]

Jake Robert is a fucking mess, I don't know about you but I dont consider that living.

From the drugs or from getting sprayed in the face with Arrogance™?

 

[APF]

Health complications from steroid use/abuse are a lot more complicated and a lot less dramatic than most of the posts in this thread suggest.

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

I'm still amazed that there are people out there that assume that just because match endings are scripted, that must mean entire matches are scripted. You're telling me that main eventers that wrestle +20 minute matches 5 times a week are scripting entire matches and choreographing everything they do? Someone in that ring is calling the shots and trying to make the match entertaining, competitive and unpredictable to everyone watching, and no one was better than Eddie Guerrero. All it takes is for someone to sit down for an hour with one of Hulk Hogan's best matches and one of Eddie Guerrero's best matches to understand exactly why Eddie was so, so good and so respected by everyone.

It's amazing how much ignorance there is towards wrestling, while wrestlers and fans are the ones told they're dumb.

 

[bumpkin]

R.I.P. Latino Heat. You'll be missed.

 

[the_geche]

That special on MSNBC is about to come on...

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Rita Cosby's manvoice makes me cringe.

 

[Master]

Good, now people can quit going on about how it was steroids, as if that's the only reason a wrestler ever dies.

It was steroids. You think that kind of size is good for the heart.

Can somebody explaing to me why there are confused individuals on this message board DEFENDING steroids and steroid users?

GAF Special Report: Heroin isn't bad for you, necessarily. More at 11.

 

[bjork]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Classy.

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

People don't drink and pop painkillers, stop for 4 years, and then just drop dead brushing their teeth. This is most likely the fault of steroids, and anyone believing wwe.com's vague report to tell the whole truth is just as gullible as they want you to be.

I don't know how anyone can doubt it... Eddie grew huge in the WWE. He was just a skinny guy with a mullet in ECW and WCW.

 

[APF]

There's a lot of "Reefer Madness" -type hysteria (and an equally hyperbolic backlash) involved in the discussion of Anabolics, which is why you rarely get good info pro- or con- regarding the effects of their use.

As an anecdotal note regarding whether someone can just have a heart attack brushing their teeth and die, I had a friend w/no history of drug/etc use, or family history of heart problems, spontaneously have a stroke at 29. Again an anecdotal note, but if it can happen to a relatively normal/healthy young guy it can definitely happen to someone riding their body hard.

 

[MC Safety]

There's a lot of "Reefer Madness" -type hysteria (and an equally hyperbolic backlash) involved in the discussion of Anabolics, which is why you rarely get good info pro- or con- regarding the effects of their use.

As an anecdotal note regarding whether someone can just have a heart attack brushing their teeth and die, I had a friend w/no history of drug/etc use, or family history of heart problems, spontaneously have a stroke at 29. Again an anecdotal note, but if it can happen to a relatively normal/healthy young guy it can definitely happen to someone riding their body hard.

There are proven medical benefits to steroid use, this is true. But that's when prescriptions are written by doctors, dosages closely monitored, and the patient watched for ill effects.

None of these guys are taking approved dosages. They're all doing it for extended periods of time and at greater intervals than is safe. Because the abuse is pronounced and any sort of safety restrictions wholly removed, the effects are more obvious ...

There is no lasting good from overdosing steroids. Period.