Because it does. Respect and female admiration.
I was watching a documentary on Scott Hall and he was talking about what made him try steroids. He said he was seeing these huge muscular guys getting amazing amounts of attention from all these good looking women like when they’d walk through the mall and he said: “I want that”!
It worked for Scott Hall. He was 6′ 5″ and 285 with a low bodyfat percentage. He looked like a Greek god.
Hall had become a pro wrestler, where the female fans love to see guys with muscular physiques and in the 90s, he made a dramatic change in his look.
It was the right change for him. He ha started working for Vince McMahon and was going by the ring name of Razor Ramon, a character loosely based on the character Al Pacino played in Scarface.
The jet-black hair, the stubble, the whole new image worked for him and it worked incredibly well. Hall had broken through to the big time.
As Razor Ramon he became a huge star, but bigger stardom awaited, in Ted Turner’s wrestling organization: WCW.
Hall went to Turner’s company in 1995 and he signed a “favored nations” contract. It means, that if the company signs another wrestler who they pay more than you, then they have to increase your salary until your salary is just as much as that of the other guy.
Essentially, that type of contract means that that company can’t pay anyone else more than you.
How much of his stardom was wrapped up in looking so muscular? A lot of it!
Steroids do work. They do get guys tremendous amounts of female attention. They do make you stronger. They make you heal faster from injuries.
That’s why anabolic steroids were invented: to help soldiers in WWII heal faster from major injuries. Unfortunately they’ve also resulted in a lot of premature deaths – mostly heart-related.