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The World Wrestling Entertainment has undergone so many changes in the past 25 years. The transition has gone from bad to worse to the dismay of Jim Cornette, promoter and authority figure when it comes to wrestling. The deterioration of entertainment wrestling has everything to do with steroids. Contrary to previous reports that chairman of WWE, Vince McMahon did not tolerate the use of banned substances, Cornette reveals that the selection process for wrestlers is largely influenced by drugs.

The demise of Andrew “Test” Martin is a testimony to the pressure that wrestlers have to go through to keep up with the image that McMahon wants WWE to project – bigger, badder, and larger than life. Steroids have become the ingredient to propel them to stardom, albeit short lived because the career in wrestling has a span of 5 years.

From PWTorch:

Cornette views Andrew “Test” Martin as an example of a wrestler being re-hired because he has a certain look and not for any additional talent he could bring to the table. Cornette says Martin probably felt the need to look a certain way, which required use of steroids.

“As far as Test goes, it’s a tragedy that a guy is 33 years old and is gone because he got involved in professional wrestling,” Cornette said recently on the Who’s Slamming Who podcast. “In the old days, everybody was a cowboy and if they did drugs, they did it for recreation because they were making too much money. That’s almost easier to take, to me, than guys feeling like they have to do drugs to keep a job or they have to do drugs because their bodies are so broken down from the style that they get addicted to them.”

Cornette blames McMahon for starting a trend in WWE where wrestlers are forced to take steroids and putting their health at risk to keep their jobs. Sadly the downturn in the popularity of entertainment wrestling is only making situations worse for these guys.

Category: Anabolic Steroids | Tags: Jim Cornette, steroids, wrestling, WWE, “Test” Martin