Dr. Ding Weighs In
Just a closing thought for today.
Dr. Ding has recently learned that anabolic steroid use is increasingly common amongst many professional wrestlers.
My question to you, gentle reader: Why on earth would wrestlers who wrestle under the aegis of the WWE, with the “E” standing for entertainment, need to use steroids?
When I was a kid, we called it “wrasslin” and we liked our wrasslers to be large-but-slightly-pudgy, with fairly average levels of muscle definition. We knew that the folding chairs bashed over the heads of rival wrasslers were designed to fall apart on impact, and we liked the whole cheesy, oft-mulleted, even cartoonish spectacle of these pointedly farcical and flop-sweated “matches,” which pitted Sgt. Slaughter against The Honky Tonk Man for chrissakes. In powder-blue tights! With glitter racing stripes on them, people! It was like watching the 1982 Atlanta Braves go shirtless in a disco; lots of preening, some spitting and belching, man-boobs a-flyin’. Marvelously inane.
Bu what the hell is going on here?
When did wrasslers turn into roided-out, humorless, overdeveloped psuedo-demons with malignantly narcissistic delusions of actual athleticism?
WWE.
WTF?
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I hope that picture is Photoshopped somehow.
Leslie