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Wrestling with Steroids |
| Section: LIFE / SPORTS |
| Author: Bob Cohn |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,521 Words, 8,959 Characters |
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Beware, this is a professional wrestling story. And when professional wrestling stories turn up in newspapers, on television and all over the Internet and provide material for the talk shows -- as they have lately -- something must have gone terribly wrong.
Something did.
Late last month, Chris Benoit, one of the marquee names of the giant World Wrestling Entertainment media conglomerate, strangled his wife and 7-year-old son in their suburban Atlanta home and then committed suicide, hanging himself from a weight machine. It was a big story, a horrific story and, to pro wrestling devotees, a shock of the highest magnitude. What sort of lasting effect this has remains to be seen, but the immediate impact has been huge.
"When it came to the theater of professional wrestling, Chri...
. . .
...t I think guys will find ways around it."
McDevitt said he has reason to believe that even wrestlers on the local level, especially those harboring big dreams, are juicing. "Undoubtedly yes," he said. "Not all of them, but the ones pushing and looking to make a career of it. Probably because they have to. They feel they have to get that look."
Copyright © 2007 The Washington Times, LLC.
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