D-Von Dudley has revealed he used performance enhancing drugs for three years during his TNA run, that he failed a TNA drug test with no disciplinary consequences, and that his sons entering the wrestling business was what ultimately made him stop.
D-Von said he began using PEDs for two reasons: a doctor prescribed testosterone treatment after blood work showed low levels, and the recovery benefits were too significant to ignore while working a schedule that put him on the road 300 days a year.
"There are certain steroids that would help you to recover quicker and faster. When you're putting your bodies and careers on the line four to five days a week, the hurt and pain that came through our body, and a lot of times the steroids pretty much subdued that pain. It stopped it. It made you heal quicker."
At his heaviest, D-Von reached nearly 300 pounds. "When it got to the point where I couldn't breathe anymore because I was carrying all that weight trying to move around, that was when ...
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