The veteran commentator, promoter and booker for TNA, Jim Cornette, recently aired his sentiments over the worsening condition of wrestling by disclosing that more and more wrestlers are being forced into drugs. The remark is seen by many as a dent to image of Vince McMahon and past reports that the WWE owner doesn't encourage the use of steroids.
It was also revealed by Cornette that McMahon is keen to promote larger-than-life stars in WWE and the wrestlers are often left with no choice but to embrace steroids for keeping a high-profile job in the wrestling business.
From Pwtorch.com:
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 says the combination of hardcore wrestling and fewer jobs in wrestling have made it difficult for wrestlers to stay away from an addictive lifestyle. Moves don't mean as much, so wrestlers have to use weapons that lead to pain pill addiction. Fewer jobs are available with only one major player, so wrestlers have to look a certain way to get major-league work.
There just don't seem to be a coming back for the wrestlers, especially when they have shorter life-spans in the business and in life.
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