Hulk Hogan gone at 71

I can't tell whether you're just in denial or genuinely daft enough to believe that. I'd happily bet everything I own to win a tenner that he's on roids. You can't look the way he does at 28 without chemical assistance, let alone 48. It's literally impossible.

 

Oh they definitely are. Now I understand they basically have to lie about it.

 

The fact is, it's still rife, even at the top end. CENA may be clean. Only he and possibly his close friends/a few others will know the truth.
But it's inescapable those at the top are given less scrutiny shall we say. In a multi million pounds industry based on shall we say scripts and fandom. After all it is not a true competitive sport. Entertaining I'll grant you that.
You bring quotes and links to the table. But not those detrimental.

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In a way, WWE seems to be protecting their bigger names from drug allegations by occasionally suspending a wrestler lower on the card who isn't of much value to the company. Every now and then we do see a name appear that makes people raise their eyebrows (Evan Bourne, Sin Cara, etc.), but when you have a closer look, these guys aren't that important to the roster.

Obviously the industry is concerned to a degree. Take British Bulldog. Heart attack and died aged 39.something has to be shown as doing something.

BTW true wrestling would not draw an audience.

 

He's absolutely not clean. Anyone with eyes and some knowledge about exercise and human physiology knows the truth. And this isn't one of those "he's probably not clean" type of things, it's an absolute cast iron certainty. It's just not possible.

 

He did indeed get the ten bell salute and a very good tribute. It was good to see so many from his era on the stage. Jimmy Hart looked heartbroken. It was a shame some of the crowd was chatting when Triple H was talking.

 

The death of Brian Pillman.
I was watching a documentary about this last night, and its a sad story about how he and a lot of wrestlers have always had addictions to meds, like painkillers etc.
It was announced live on one of the ppv's in Oct '97, that he'd been found dead in his hotel room that day.
And against everybody's advice, Vince wanted to do a live interview with his grieving wife, live on Raw the following night.
And it was embarrassing as he mostly wanted to ask her about meds and drugs etc!.

 

The story of Ashley Massaro is the worst.

Also Jimmy Snuka murdering someone & how Vince covered it up.

 

Yeah Snuka basically got away with it didn't he, until his own death.
And the shocking Chris Benoit death, where everybody was grieving and giving respectful comments about him, at first!.
Until it was announced that he'd killed his wife and his young son first, before taking his own life.
And then Vince was saying he never wants to talk about him again, and never hear his name mentioned again, etc.