WWE legend Jake ‘the Snake’ Roberts has opened up on the affect steroids had on him throughout his profession.
Roberts had an illustrious profession within the ring, combating for the largest organisations within the enterprise – AEW, WWF and later WWE.
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However to maintain up with the demand of the job, which generally meant he needed to battle twice a day, Roberts turned to steroids.
He beforehand defined his motivation behind taking the performance-enhancing drug, stating it led to a faster restoration.
Roberts, 69, has now revealed the extent to which steroids affected him.
He mentioned on The Snake Pit podcast: “It [steroids] turns you into an animal, it actually does. You starvation for lifting.
“That is all you need to do is raise.”
Roberts is a former AEW heavyweight champion and he has a number of titles to his title, which led him to be inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame.
He now hosts a podcast alongside former wrestler Diamond Dallas Web page the place the pair replicate on their careers – Roberts additionally revealed an accident within the ring crushed his voice field.
Roberts shared how steroids affected a lot of his colleagues, claiming some took it too far.
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He mentioned: “I went on it for a brief interval, particularly after my neck surgical procedure trigger I wished to heal faster, however within the WWF on the time we had been working so exhausting, seven days per week, twice on Saturday, twice on Sunday.
“You wanted a bit little bit of steroids to assist with the therapeutic course of.
“Now some guys took that and went utterly off the charts with it, however that was their alternative and , so a lot of these guys are gone now and I am positive that had one thing to do with it, whether or not that was Randy [Savage] or The Highway Warriors or Mr. Excellent, proper on down the road, man.”
