Luger Explains How He Cheated Drug Tests, Graziano Showing "Slight Improvement"
Submitted by Michael Bluth on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 12:46 PM EST





-- People.com is reporting that John Graziano, the Marine who was critically injured during Nick Hogan's car crash on August 26th, has shown "small signs of improvement". Graziano's mother Debra told the Tampa Bay 10 News that John is now semiconscious and has opened his eyes, but he still cannot breathe without a machine and has not spoken since the accident.

-- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article up today looking at the drug problem in pro wrestling. The Total Package Lex Luger was interviewed and gave details about his own experience with taking drugs and cheating drug tests. You can read the whole article here. From the article:

"Finding a doctor to prescribe testosterone was easy if you could show your body level of the male hormone was low. Wrestlers often did that by taking a six-week cycle of steroids, enough so that eventually the body would shut down its own natural production."

They'd wait two or three weeks before going to a doctor for blood tests that then showed low testosterone levels. That provided the free pass necessary for more prescriptions.

"You don't have to be a doctor. You just need one to write the scripts."

Luger, whose real name is Lawrence Pfohl, also was fond of an oil-based testosterone cream that can be rubbed into the body.

"It was like the fountain of youth," he said.

Regular drug testing, which the WWE has cited as proof of its hard line against drug and steroid use following the Benoit tragedy, was hardly a deterrent.

Luger cited numerous times he wasn't asked to strip down to his knees — as he was supposedly required — when giving a urine sample. It was then easy to sneak in other samples in place of his own. Or the other times he'd soak his Visine-covered fingers into the sample knowing the chemicals in the eye drops would mask the drugs in his system.

And when all else failed, the 6-foot-6, 270-pounder would intimidate lab techs to witness the wrestlers provide a urine sample. "Just imagine a guy my size giving 'em a glare and saying [something intimidating],' " Luger said. "I was one of the biggest cheaters ever."

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