Name: Steroids, Drugs and the Glory Days of Wrestling (with Kevin Von Erich)
Uploaded: 2025-07-26T15:30:30.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Steroids, Drugs and the Glory Days of Wrestling (with Kevin Von Erich)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Steroids, Drugs and the Glory Days of Wrestling (with Kevin Von Erich)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-26. Transcript available.

at that time in wrestling were steroids like a popular thing like i remember
when i was in high
school we would people use like test 200 but even growing up like in texas was
it did people even
know that steroids were bad for you or was it just like a medicine that was
like kind of common in
wrestling do you feel like well uh doctors would give it to you i mean uh i
didn't i had trouble
gaining weight when i was like uh well my whole life i've had trouble gaining
weight but uh and
so i took diana ball when i was in high school but i took one a day for like uh
two weeks and then lay off for two weeks and then take it again for two weeks
and lay off for two
weeks and that's that was what kind of that was a little boy pill that's what
that was for little
boys that weren't getting puberty and then back then like i say there weren't
all these rules and all
steroids weren't necessarily a dirty word but it doctors did give them to
people like after surgery
and things like that to improve their appetite and things yeah and it makes a
difference but if
you don't lift weights if you really have a strict regimen then it's just gonna
give you pimples on
your back and make your hair fall out your breath stink and all that stuff you
know yeah it's yeah if
you're not yeah if you're just shooting steroids and then just watching you
know um i dream of genie
or shit like that yeah your life's gonna fall out yeah look like those guys
that uh get the uh injections
to make their muscles look big can you believe if you've seen some of these
guys with these
they don't even work out they go and they get silicone injections for muscles
you know i gotta tell
you theo um muscles are nothing you know it's all you want to know you're in
wrestling uh i would lift
the weights because i wanted to be a better wrestler i want my kick out i would
push my man off i wouldn't
be able to bench you know a lot because that's it's important but i mean it's
to look pretty in the mirror i mean that's just a few shades short of uh yeah
fruity if you ask me
you know oh yeah i mean look at this that's the stuff that's what i'm talking
about what the hell
is that no i mean the guy looks like he's stealing from target
that's really what is that guy doing what is that guy doing yeah yeah that guy
looks like a little um
car and i'm gonna take that joke out that was that's offensive i just wanted to
make you guys laugh
um which uh yeah we used to use them i'm trying to think we and we used to me i
just like we got in
and we were weight lifting pretty heavy and it was fun using them because it
definitely made things
easier you know that was fun and you i felt you felt way more invigorated you
know for sure what kind
what kind did you do we're doing like test 200 and then people would some
people would do dana ball i
never got that we just would go on spring break and get test 200 or some people
worked on farms and
we get test 200 from them you know testosterone or something yeah well some of
that stuff i mean i have
to say that uh some of that stuff the guys guys use you could see uh veterinary
use only on the box
you know i mean equine this and all that oh some of you'd open up and it'd be
like
yeah we took the top off you're like that ain't for us that's what it was it
really yeah i was never
uh into that because you really can kill yourself with it you know it's like it
messes your whole
body up you know and was it popular in the sport when you got into that i'm
just trying to wonder
what the times were like and how men felt like they had to see oh man well and
did and you guys were
because your family was in your family was in good shape overall but some of
the shapes in wrestling
weren't it wasn't as much about the shape you know there was a lot of guys out
there that were just
oh yeah big tough guys well we wanted to put the best show on television we
could do and if that meant
take steroids too we didn't care i mean priority one was our body yeah i mean
was our uh was delivering
that punishment you know we move quick and explode if you ever you've seen our
wrestling was oh man carrie
was so far it's unbelievable watching him well we just that's the thing we
wanted to and that was
the attitude back then if if the guys were wrestling are going to do steroids
well then it's only fair
that we do them too now we didn't don't get me wrong it's like i it's not like
we're really into it
carrie went down to university houston and was still in the discus for coach
tellez down there view of h
and uh the stuff he learned on there was all this like expert stuff about
weight lifting and uh weight
events and all you know they would take a cigarette and puff a cigarette right
before they'd throw
and yeah it's something in the nicotine would kick the muscles in you know kick
your body just a little
it would give them just a little edge just a little more or they drink or they
drink ice cold water
before you have a go max on your bench it helps just a little bit you hear that
coach hester kurt
hester he's a speed and strength coach i'm on i think he coaches the university
of houston now
but um i'm gonna make sure he hears that with wrestling did you have to be as
tough at the wrestling
part as you did at the partying part like there seemed to be this thing when i
when i look back on
like wrestling and a lot of the stories um especially coming up out of like the
70s 80s 90s
where not only did you have to prove yourself in the ring that you were the
toughest guy that you were
able to do the matches but then you had to prove yourself again like at the
drinking table was that
part of the culture as much as oh man it was that was the easy part for us
because neither none of us
really liked to taste the booze you know we uh i mean i i i'll have a drink or
even two but i'm done
i can't drink six of anything you know and uh i'm a lot of people can but i
think that was a big thing
for us we never did get that big stomach i guess a lot of my friends you know
love that beer all my
teammates you know my wrestling colleagues love beer but i i never did get into
it i'm glad i didn't
because it it's taken its toll on a lot of good men yeah did you ever fight
somebody high could people
fight high in the ring did people ever fight high in the ring uh i don't think
so i mean not not on
purpose right you know but i uh i couldn't remember though uh oh golly uh yeah
oh we did before
there was this stuff called ghb and it's this super drug but they sold it in
like athletic stores you
know and sporting good source because it was like a fat burner and so we're
going to this town and carrie
and uh carrie's going there he told us he told us not take too much of it but
by the time we say
you'll probably go to sleep in the car by the time we get there you know your
body's gonna be burning
your fat off you know so we took that crap and golly shoot i don't know how we
got through that night
it was terrible we heard of zombies yeah yeah we were we like like we're just
sitting there dozing
off it's right in match time and and it'd be just one of the brothers trying to
wake you up you know
shut up you know and oh it was terrible terrible that stuff was something yeah
i could just imagine what
that's like at that time you're almost like anything to kind of get an edge
everybody's testing out the
cool stuff or i know where the new thing is i guess that's all that's always
been a part of that
bodybuilding world too i think you know when you're big into bodybuilding a lot
of those things kind of
come along like you know there's different creatines there's different um uppers
there's like these uh
testosterone revigorators or whatever like it comes up sometimes it comes in
like a huge set of balls the
thing the powder or whatever like what the hell is this but yeah there's all
types of um that that
bodybuilding's always been on the edge of the of like so competitive yeah using
us and finding an uh
uh an advantage yeah you know that's when two guys are gonna look at looking at
the mirror
with each other yeah i got better things to do at a certain point i think so
that's what's going to do at a certain point i think it's a good thing to do at
a certain point
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