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Former WWE Star Ryback has been critical of AEW’s MJF recently, claiming the AEW Champion is on steroids. However, he sees no irony in this having admitted himself to taking the drugs when he young – when he was just a few years younger than MJF.
The former Intercontinental Champion has always been outspoken about a number of topics since leaving WWE. He has engage in a war of words with former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, having some very controversial things to say about his mother and how he would return to the WWE only once the former WWE Champion was dead.
It was in a recent episode of his ‘Conversation With The Big Guy’ podcast that Ryback very candidly detailed how he himself took steroids early on in his career. This comes as no surprise to anyone who has seen The Big Guy, whose impressive physique is a key part of his aesthetic and his character in the WWE.
He revealed that he met bodybuilder and 4-time Mr Olympia, Jay Cutler, as a 19-year old, who convinced him to eventually turn onto taking steroids in a bid to improve his physique and get into bodybuilding – even though his dream was to become a professional wrestler. He was a regular at the Gold’s Gym that a young Ryan Reeves would frequent, and regularly complimented the young man’s physique.
On his podcast, Ryback revealed
>“He used to come into Gold’s Gym, when I worked at the front desk and I was 19 years old. And at that point, I never touched anything. I was just a 235, 240-pound kid. Just full-time in school, working part-time. And he used to tell me, ‘you should be a bodybuilder. Like, you have good genetics.’ And I would tell him I want to be a pro wrestler.”
>“He was actually the one to kind of put it in my head, ‘maybe I should do steroids because I have good genetics. But in my early 20s, I thought that I had to do that to be successful if that makes sense,”
The former Intercontinental Champion has always been outspoken about a number of topics since leaving WWE. He has engage in a war of words with former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, having some very controversial things to say about his mother and how he would return to the WWE only once the former WWE Champion was dead.
It was in a recent episode of his ‘Conversation With The Big Guy’ podcast that Ryback very candidly detailed how he himself took steroids early on in his career. This comes as no surprise to anyone who has seen The Big Guy, whose impressive physique is a key part of his aesthetic and his character in the WWE.
He revealed that he met bodybuilder and 4-time Mr Olympia, Jay Cutler, as a 19-year old, who convinced him to eventually turn onto taking steroids in a bid to improve his physique and get into bodybuilding – even though his dream was to become a professional wrestler. He was a regular at the Gold’s Gym that a young Ryan Reeves would frequent, and regularly complimented the young man’s physique.
On his podcast, Ryback revealed
>“He used to come into Gold’s Gym, when I worked at the front desk and I was 19 years old. And at that point, I never touched anything. I was just a 235, 240-pound kid. Just full-time in school, working part-time. And he used to tell me, ‘you should be a bodybuilder. Like, you have good genetics.’ And I would tell him I want to be a pro wrestler.”
>“He was actually the one to kind of put it in my head, ‘maybe I should do steroids because I have good genetics. But in my early 20s, I thought that I had to do that to be successful if that makes sense,”
