The Golden Age Of Wrestling

Wrestling is a sport with a long history and offers many benefits in today’s world. This paper will explore the history of the sport of wrestling as the sport of wrestling has been around since biblical times. There are many facts and myths about wrestling. This paper will take you through the history of wrestling and address the benefits it provides to children and athletes of modern times. Wrestling can change lives, let’s learn how.

Background: Although people have been using steroids over 50 years, it wasn't until we started seeing headlines about athletes using steroids that it started receiving attention.

The origins of wrestling go back to 15,000 years ago Wrestling is one of the oldest sport played. The Greeks feared the true history of the sport would be lost therefore Greco-Roman wrestling was born from that one type of wrestling many forms were elaborated. The first real traces of the development of wrestling date back to the times of the Sumerians which is 5000 years ago. Drawings , as well as many other vestiges, witness the existence of corporations of wrestlers in Ancient Egypt, wrestling rules and refereeing codes. Fights were similar to those of freestyle wrestling, as shown by drawings and inscriptions from that time. The most famous of all wrestlers was Milon of Croton, six times Olympic champion, ten times winner of the

The steroid era as many know now started roughly 2003, but there was a time in which many forget. In

The steroid era has been a big thing the past ten years in major league baseball. A good example from the steroid era would be Yankees third basemen Alex Rodriguez. In August 2013, Alex Rodriguez was suspended from baseball for 211 games for multiple use of steroids. Using steroids never helps you in the end. It only hurts your career during the time you play and hurts you after your career is over. Alex Rodriguez was one of the greatest baseball players of all time until everyone found out he was cheating and using steroids. Using steroids ruined the career of many professionals especially Alex Rodriguez. Steroids possibly ruined his chances to go to the hall of fame after his career is over. There is nothing good that happens when you use

Steroid abuse has become a huge problem in professional sports today. Athletes are now using steroids to gain a competitive edge over their opponents. Also, the athletes are using the steroids to recover quickly from major injuries or surgeries. Many former superstar athletes have been caught taking steroids during the season and offseason.

“The Steroids Era” refers to a period of time in Major League Baseball when a number of players were believed to have used performance enhancing drugs, resulting in increased offensive output throughout the game. During the 1990’s, Major League Baseball experience an increase in

The steroid era, which began in the 1990s, provided some of baseball’s best entertainment. It was filled with home runs and fastballs, but as Joe Solberg and Richard Ringer say in “Performance-Enhancing Drug Use in Baseball: The Impact of Culture," sports fans can only wonder which records achieved during those twenty years were earned fairly, and which ones were achieved through the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) (92). This blemish on the history of baseball makes stats and record keeping complicated. Barry Bonds, an admitted steroid user, broke Hank Arron’s all-time home run record during this time. This raises questions such as, should these record breaking players be allowed to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? Bonds, who was eligible for induction into the elite club for the first time in 2013, did not receive enough votes to get in. Fans are now forced to question if a player used steroids, which negatively hurts baseball’s reputation and integrity. However, since increased measures have been taken to improve drug testing, it is assumed that PED use in baseball has decreased if not gotten rid of. This is a cultural impactor because it changed how the fans feel about the game. Baseball has always had a culture of cheating in some way, whether it’s altering the baseball in some way or corking a bat. Now that the steroid era is over, what

"Other countries caught on, and by the mid-1960's the use was common.  By the early 1970's almost three quarters of the athletes involved in middle-or-short distance running or in field events admitted to using steroids, and most of the weight lifters also used steroids" (Kuhn 191).  Finally in 1976, anabolic steroids were banned but professional weight lifters continued to use them (Kuhn 191).

However the spotlight that steroids find themselves in are in professional sports, mainly Major League Baseball. Steroids have been an on-going issue with Major League Baseball. The MLB has been tainted in one way or another since the game began. However, now the game has been tainted with drugs that are giving some players an advantage over others. These players are also taking risks with drugs because they are constantly trying to attain a drug that does not get detected when they get drug tests. The MLB should outsource their drug testing policies to an independent organization like the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest between players and the MLB. In 1994-95, the MLB suffered a strike that resulted in the cancellation of the post season. Afterwards, fans were deterred from the sport. So in 1998,

I believe wrestling is one of the hardest sports around the world. There are only a few who stick around throughout the season because they are willing to endure the pain. I had difficulties deciding which sport to play, and I chose the one that called out to me the most. I had difficulties throughout the season at first, and then I loved wrestling even more after it ended.

In the days when steroids were only being used by body builders and professional wrestlers, stories about performance enhancing drugs could only be found on the back pages of the newspapers. When former Oakland Raiders All-Pro Lyle Alzado admitted to steroid use in a 1991 Sports Illustrated article the whispers about what professional athletes were using steroids began to get louder. (Puma, 2005) Finally, in 2002, when Caminiti, a former MVP, came clean, two things were clear; athletes in all sports were using these drugs, and that they worked. The fact that steroid use had permeated our national pastime combined with the media explosion of the internet and 24 hour a day sports talk created a perfect storm which created the biggest sports story of the new millennium so far. However, two other facts remained clear, performance enhancing drugs were old news, and athletes in all sports from all over the world had been using them for years.

Professional wrestling has come under extreme scrutiny for not taking action against athletes who are abusing steroids as well as other illicit substances. Numerous pro wrestlers have died untimely deaths due to drug overdoses and suicide. The most infamous case in recent times is that of World Wrestling Entertainment’s Chris Benoit. Benoit abused steroids among other drugs and committed the most heinous of acts to those closest to him. Benoit was found hanging in his home gym and it was discovered that he had also taken the lives of his wife and young son. It is though that a combination of factors led to this tragedy, those being steroid and drug abuse, mental instability and a failing marriage. This case shed light on the professional

The problem with today’s society is that steroids are everywhere and companies are finding ways around the steroid label by producing drugs that contain the same ingredients but are labeled differently. Professional athletes are also becoming big icons for people and many athletes are using steroids to enhance their performance. Athletes are supposed to be role models and by getting involved in these kinds of things people see it as an ok thing to do. Steroids are common everywhere, baseball and football players are constantly finding ways to take these drugs. Pro wrestling

In the article,”The World of Wrestling” by Roland Barthes will argue that because wrestling stages absolute morality and ideal justice, watching it provides spectators with a perfect understanding of the universe. In American culture there’s tv shows, video games, and reality shows that show absolute morality and ideal justice, and a show that shows the audience the same thing is the show called Flash. In the show Flash, the protagonist Barry is given the power of speed, however he wasn’t the only that received powers he was the only one that uses them for good and tries to protect his city from every criminal that tries to do criminal activities. Although it’s about humans with supernatural powers, it shows the ideal justice and morality of the universe.