WWE: 10 Drug Scandals Wrestling Didn't Want You To Know About

By Grahame Herbert /

If you walked into any 1980's pro wrestling locker room, there was a pretty good chance you would see some powder knocking about. And when I say powder, I'm not on about protein or muscle building supplements. It is of course not just recreational drugs which have plagued wrestling locker rooms over the decades. More famously, steroids and performance enhancing drugs have also littered the industry. By the time the mid 2000's rolled around, there were scores and scores of wrestlers succumbing to an early death related to recreational and performance enhancing drug use. Enlarged hearts and fatalities in your forties became a very scary reality for a generation who had grew up amid the 80's wrestling boom (which incidentally coincided with the 80's coke boom). This article will detail the most shocking tales of drug scandals in pro wrestling, including the tales of coke fueled hotel rooms and syringe filled dressing rooms. Thankfully the major wrestling company, WWE, has led the way in cleaning up the industry since the mid 2000's death boom. Drug testing and suspensions have become far more strict within the WWE, and the talent are now mostly a clean living bunch who all put in hard gym time to get their muscles. You only have to look at WWF bodies from 2002 and compare them to WWE physiques of 2013 to know that the major league has really cleaned up. Outside of the WWE, there are various crashes still waiting to happen in the smaller promotions. But at least the industry leader has got their priorities right. Here we look back on 10 wrestling drug scandals...