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Originally Posted by Inferno
Alot of the wrestler's weights are overexaturated just like their heights to make them appear bigger than they actually are. Sure guys like Scott Steiner are on the juice and Batista and John Cena may have done them since they were bodybuilders before getting into wrestling but you're ignorant if you think every single one of them or most of them are on steriods.
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Although they like to exaggerate their heights and weights, those guys are huge.
I get my hair cut at the same place as Lance Storm and was in there at the same time as him one time. He got up and was standing a couple of feet in front of me and he's built like a brick wall.
In the ring, he was always one of the smaller guys, but in the real world, he's huge. I can't imagine what the big guys like the Undertaker or Batista must look like in day-to-day situations.
Steroids were a bigger problem in the 80s. I remember when Davey Boy Smith and Dynamite Kid left Calgary as kind of scrawny looking cruiserweights and showed up a couple of months later in WWF as muscle-bound heavyweights.
Things calmed down in the 90s after Vince faced criminal charges over steroid use/abuse, but it seems that the pendulum has swung back the other way in the last couple of years. Vince has always loved the big muscleheads, so the easiest way to the top is to become a big musclehead.
Guys who are great in-ring athletes are asked to carry lumbering oafs to decent matches, and when the match looks terrible, it's the good wrestler who gets blamed, while the oaf gets another shot to ruin someone else's career.
Steroids may not be as big a problem now, but these guys are using painkillers and other drugs to just keep going 200+ nights a year. The only time they ever seem to get a rest is if they get injured, and even then, they tend to over-exert themselves so they can get back in the ring sooner than they should.