I have been a wrestling fan for most of my life, part of the reason I took a job in the sports memorabilia business. I am the wrestling memorabilia expert here at Empire and with enough nagging the bosses have given me free reign to write a wrestling column once a week. As far as bosses go they are good guys.

Now to the wrestling, the burning question is wrestling dying?

It had been on top for so long has the latest scandal ended the sports time on top. The answer is no, and there are two reasons.

One this has happened before in wrestling. Years ago there was a backlash in regards to steroids and what happened was the smaller and more agile (as well as the naturally big) guys were pushed to the forefront, guys like Brett Hart, Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, and Yokuzuna became headliners.  The same thing will happen today, guys like John Cena, who no question is a star already, Jeff Hardy, Rey Mysterio and the Great Kali will be the headliners.  We will see a shift in body type for a year or so.  Even Triple H looks smaller.

The second reason is does anyone who watches wrestling really care if the sport is littered with steroids, did anyone think it wasn’t. We all know that some of the wrestlers take muscle enhancers and have for years. What we didn’t know was how bad it has been for many years. I read an article recently and a retired wrestler mentioned that over 40 or so wrestlers he had fought in the ring have died before they were 50. That is crazy, really crazy.  Although many don’t care about it, wrestling needs to do something to clean it up the owners, promoter and wresters themselves have to clean it up or there will be more Chris Benoit/Eddie Guerrero incidents. I am not sure how much more the sport can take.

For now it is safe but for how long can I take it. There needs to be honesty and some ownership to the problem.

Thanks for reading see you in-between the ropes.

Next week: WWE vs. TNA, what do I think.