It's very ugly. Yet, promoters turn a blind eye to it, offering the feeble argument that what wrestlers do on their own time is their own business. Promoters have washed their hands of the drug issue. They don't want to have anything to do with truth. The sport, is after all, a con.
Promoters extend that con to real life issues within pro wrestling.
They don't deal in truth. They deal in fabrications and lies. Wrestlers, as Bret Hart so astutely pointed out, are nothing more than circus animals. They're forced to jump through hoops and once they've lived out their usefulness, promoters take them out back behind the barn and put a slug into them. This is a reality that I, as a reporter on the inside covering the sport, have come to understand.