DDP talks steroids with Dan Patrick
DDP talks steroids with Dan Patrick...
Diamond Dallas Page appeared on The Dan Patrick Show on ESPN Radio today to discuss the recent Sports Illustrated article linking several pro-wrestlers to steroids and HGH. The highlights are below.
- Page said steroids are now a prevalent part of society.
- He said he first learned about them in the Florida bar scene before he got into wrestling.
- The issue of wrestlers dying in their 40s came up. Page said that wrestlers have to take so many bumps every night and that they have to be on the road 250 days a year, where as a football player has so much time to recover from injuries.
- He said that he has done steroids in the past but doesn't anymore.
- He said that wrestling promoters don't pressure wrestlers to take steroids, but the pressure always exists to improve and do better, just like in baseball.
- He said he was never told to take steroids by anyone in WCW or WWE.
- He said that Vince McMahon tests his guys for steroids and that he was lucky not to get caught since he was on and off them (he being Page).
- When asked if he would have been just as successful without steroids, Page said that his career took off when he got lighter and closer to his natural body type. He did say that some guys get pushed because they look like freaks, and he seemed to blame the fans for that.
- He then turned around and said that fans want characters they can care about, not guys who are just big, using Rey Mysterio as an example (nobody pointed out that Mysterio was mentioned in the Sports Illustrated article).
- When asked about the differences between WWE and WCW, Page said that WWE wants characters.
- When asked if Vince McMahon himself did steroids, Page said he wouldn't go there because it's not his place to judge anyone else.
- After Page left, Dan Patrick asked when's the last time anybody heard of a wrestler failing a WWE drug test. He said he can't imagine Vince McMahon asking wrestlers for urine samples.
-411mania.com