Wrestling In The News, For Bad Reasons, Again

March 19, 2007 on 7:25 pm | In News, Sports/Fitness |

There’s a saddening new report from SportsIllustrated.Com implicating some of my favorite wrestlers in an illegal steroid ring:

In total, there were 11 professional wrestlers listed in the documents that we saw. Some of these wrestlers are working as independents; some are out of the business entirely; others are first-tier stars. Consider Randy Orton, who allegedly received eight prescriptions for six different drugs — stanozolol, nandrolone, anastrozole, Clomiphene citrate, oxandrolone and testosterone — between March 2004 and August 2004. (Through the WWE, Orton declined comment.) Interestingly, according to the documents, Orton’s prescriptions came from the same two doctors whose names appeared on the prescriptions in major league outfielder Gary Matthews Jr.’s file.

Not only Orton, but Edge and Gregory Helms have been implicated. I can only imagine how much pain these people go through, so I can understand the painkillers, but I don’t understand the steroids and hormones. Maybe I’m not understanding something, but I just find it disappointing.