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Part Six: Vince McMahon, History's Greatest Monster

Behind the Bastards

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The Highest Law of the Land Protecting Profits

In 1996, they suspend their random drug tests. Vince McMahon can't even answer whether or not wrestlers were ever penalized for positive tests. Ravishing Rick Roode died in 1999 of heart failure at age 40. Michael Heggstrand, Road Hawk, made it to 56 and died of a heart attack in 2003. In November of 2005, Eddie Guerrero died of heart failure aged 38. All of these men are confirmed have been users of anabolic steroids during their wrestling careers.

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