10 Best Possible Last Words Of Vince McMahon
7. "It's All About Bodies"
Andy why not, eh?
Why not only want to trade in guys and girls that result in airport punters simultaneously dropping their bags and jaws at the mere sight of biceps bigger than their heads. Why not present superhumans as your Superstars instead of mere mortals matching up against your "Immortal" Champion? Why not make biceps the priority over brutality for a product based as much around aesthetics as athleticism?
Well, because loads of it was f*cking illegal and a load of people got themselves hooked, pal!
Little was supposedly known (or cared about) as relates to the danger and damages of steroid abuse when it became prevalent in the 1980s, but no trial nor intermittent testing policy could do away with it a decade later. The 2007 Benoit Family tragedy wasn't entirely a steroid story, but the sheer amount 'The Rabid Wolverine' imbibed as a main roster regular and insecure-short-man-made-good formed part of the complex character that ultimately unraveled after a life on the road.
A generation of fans - much to their regret anecdotally - were raised on wrestlers looking a certain way, and McMahon profited on those expectations for generations. The world where he admits it outright is not one he can live in for much longer.