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to train at Gold's Gym

because we had

something special here.

What would you say

to people that say,

"the dream's over, man.

You're 50 years old. "

What would you say

to those people?

They're the ones

that are short-sighted.

Now in six months I

could still be in the van,

but if I can

outlift everybody,

I can outsquat them, outbench

them, out-dead-lift them,

Who's the king?

Guys like you and me

Can fulfill our dreams.

We can train.

Game ain't over.

The sun is shining.

And it ain't over.

CHRIS:
Is that gonna

be me in 20 years?

I did everything

my heroes said-

I trained,

I said my prayers,

I had my vitamins.

Where did I go wrong?

- Hey, good morning.

- Good morning.

How are you?

I always make the cookie bars

'cause cookie bars are important.

What teams did you

make these for?

I made them for Arlington

football teams

first time ever

they won a ball game.

They used to call them

"Rosie's cookie bars"

and they really believe that

they help them win all the games.

Wouldn't that be like

performance enhancement?

It's not an enhancement.

It's a little bit of sugar,

which can get you going,

carbs.

But it's all natural

ingredients.

There's no steroids

in here.

Eating your mom's cooking is sort

of comforting, don't you think?

Sure.

Things change,

but the cookie bars remain,

that's for sure.

CHRIS:

My mom likes to think

that the world is as pure

as her cookie bars.

But life isn't always

like that.

And a lot of things we grew up

believing ended up not being true.

First I found out there's

no such thing as Santa Claus

or the easter bunny.

That kind of sucks.

Then I saw

this news report.

REPORTER:
The Iron Sheik

had been arrested recently

along with wrestler

Hacksaw Jim Duggan

while driving along

the Garden State Parkway.

The Iron Sheik was charged with

possession of cocaine and marijuana.

What has interested most

wrestling fans in this case

is that the Iron Sheik and Hacksaw

are known to be adversaries.

So why were they

traveling together?

CHRIS:
Yeah, I thought

these guys hated each other.

COMMENTATOR:
Wham! Right on

the back of the Iron Sheik!

CHRIS:
Was their feud all made up?

Was wrestling fake?

Who's left

to believe in anymore?

Well, at least

I still had my heroes.

Those guys would never

let me down.

I need a hero...

REPORTER:
Today Hogan

admits the famous physique

was the result

of 12 years of steroids.

CHRIS:
Truth is, all my heroes

had a dirty little secret.

Hollywood actor Sylvester

Stallone has been charged

with importing

bodybuilding drugs

when he visited Australia

last month.

- MAN:
Did you take steroids?

- I take them.

I took them, yeah,

up until the competition.

CHRIS:
I was always

against steroids

and when I found out that

all my heroes used them

I'd like to say it didn't

bother me, but it really did.

I can't imagine

how my mom would feel

if she found out

that both of my brothers

are on steroids

right now.

My older brother

started using steroids

when he went to play

Division I football

at the University

of Cincinnati.

When I got to Cincinnati the

practices were so grueling,

much more than

what I expected.

Coaches would say, "you gotta

get bigger, stronger, faster. "

- CHRIS:
Was it intimidating?

- Oh, man,

A lot different than I

thought it was gonna be.

SHELDON BELL:
He called me from Cincinnati

and asked me for money for steroids.

I said, "what do you need that for?"

he says, "I can't compete here. "

So I'm like, "I don't know what

that is. It sounds like drugs. "

He goes, "it is drugs. " I said, "I'm

not gonna send you money for drugs.

If you want drugs

go get a job. "

I remember at one point I

think you maybe came home

for a break

or you did something

and you told me, "hey,

come here, help me out. "

And you pulled down your pants and you're

like, "you have to inject this in me. "

And I hated it 'cause I was

totally against steroids.

And you were like, "come on,

just do it. You have to do it. "

You gotta help your big brother out,

man. So it was no decision at all.

Everybody else that was

doing well was on 'em.

CHRIS:
Shortly after

getting on the juice

Mad Dog quit college to

pursue an even bigger dream.

COMMENTATOR:

Oh, look at that now!

Here we go!

Mike Bell!

CHRIS:

I couldn't believe it.

That was my big brother

wrestling on T.V.

COMMENTATOR:
Right

hand by Bell. Oh, man!

CHRIS:
Mad Dog wanted

to be a superstar,

But he was what they call

a "jobber. "

That's the guy they pay

to get beat up

to make the other guys look

good. He didn't care, though.

He was gonna get himself a contract

and headline "Wrestlemania. "

COMMENTATOR:
Why did you

even come in the ring?

You should have

gone home, dummy.

CHRIS:
But he never

got the contract

And eventually

the W.W.E. stopped calling.

Why did you think

you didn't make it?

Probably mostly

my own fault.

I went from being a guy

who used steroids

to a guy who used

steroids and pot.

And I still needed

to escape reality

so I started taking ecstasy,

cocaine, acid, painkillers.

COMMENTATOR:
Mike Bell is where

he does not need to be now.

He's in the wrong corner

and he's paying the price.

CHRIS:

Mad Dog always told me

that he'd rather be dead

than average.

And when he thought

his dream was over

he couldn't cope

with the failure.

MIKE:
So I had a

bottle of liquid lead,

a bottle of NyQuil and four

boxes of sleeping pills.

I went down

to the river

down by

the railroad tracks,

parked my car,

took everything.

ROSEMARY:
And he tried

to walk into the-

He tried to walk

into the Hudson river.

CHRIS:
So did you take

all the sleeping pills?

- Everything.

- And the lead additive?

There's no way I should be

alive right now. There's no way.

CHRIS:

It's 10 years later

and despite everything

that happened

Mad Dog is still trying

to get that contract,

Trying to keep

the dream alive.

'Cause I've been

all over the world

from Singapore to Louisville,

and it doesn't matter-

You line 'em up,

I'll knock 'em down.

I can see why

you never made it.

CHRIS:
Mad Dog used to wrestle

in front of a television audience

of 10 million people

every week,

but tonight he's wrestling

at the Portuguese Men's Center

In front of 200 people

for about 50 bucks.

CHRIS:
And instead of

wrestling Bret the Hitman Hart

He's facing Midgeto

And he's getting

his ass kicked.

Come on, man,

come on.

CHRIS:
My baby brother Smelly

was always trying to keep up

and despite everything

that happened to Mad Dog

he followed in his

footsteps anyway,

becoming a pro wrestler

and using steroids.

The reason I decided

to use steroids was simple.

I just needed

to get bigger.

That was

pretty much it.

CHRIS:
But unlike when Mad

Dog started using steroids,

Smelly had a wife

to consider.

When you got married

did you ever think

that your husband would be

injecting himself with something?

No, that didn't even enter

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