What Happened That Sinse the 90s Bodybuilding Got Less Popular in the Spotlight and Wwf Changed?

Question by Psycho Sid Vicious: what happened that sinse the 90s bodybuilding got less popular in the spotlight and wwf changed?
I mean society wise maybe?

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Answer by The Dragon
The steroids scandal. Not just in the WWF, but in bodybuilding, pro football, pro baseball, the Olympics, jeez everywhere, even in high school sports. It got to the point that all pro wrestlers were looked at as steroid monsters, and anytime anybody broke a record in any pro sports the first thing most people thought was “he used steroids to do it”. In the bodybuilding world they tried to sell the competitions as “natural bodybuilding” to try to deflect the steroids accusations, constantly harping on the “drug testing” they do to make sure all entrants were “drug-free”.

Society as a whole looks down on athletes who cheat, and to most people, using steroids is cheating. For example, Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron never used steroids to hit a million home runs, so Mark McGuire and Barry Bonds shouldn’t be celebrated for doing the same after they were found “dirty”. Because of the visual effects of steroids on the human body it’s hard to convince the average person that bodybuilders and pro wrestlers DON’T use them.

Pro wrestling has toned down the steroids abuse (more because of the devastating negative effects to the body than negative publicity, I think) and bodybuilding went back to being the niche “sport” it was before Ah-nold made it famous. Steroid abuse cast a black cloud over both “sports” that’s still hovering over it. I doubt you could convince the average person that bodybuilding is actually a science. Likely their response would be to snort and say, “yeah, deciding whether to use 50cc’s of steroids or 55”.

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