Superstar Billy Graham, who is respected as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of his times, has confessed being on the steroids for 25 years. Graham remarked that steroids not made him sterile but also weakened his body to a considered extent suggesting the need to undergo six hip replacements.

Supporters of Linda McMahon, who is running for the US Senate against three of her fellow Republicans to stand against Sen. Christopher J. Dodd in 2010, dismissed remarks of Graham as that of a disgruntled wrestler with no credibility.

From Blogs.courant.com:

On steroids:

“I started taking steroids in 1966. I was one of the pioneers.”

After Graham’s first hip replacement in 1987, he went right back to wrestling in a sport that, even if the outcomes are pre-determined, can be physically violent. Why would he take that risk?

“I was so full of steroids that I could not think rationally,” Graham responded. “You do, in fact, feel like the Bionic Man. I was taking a huge amount of steroids.”

How much?

“Easily 100 times the recommended daily dose.”

McDevitt said that Graham was taking steroids for many years before ever meeting the McMahons and that he took actions that only hurt himself.

“There’s not many hip replacement surgeons who would tell you it’s a good idea to go back and wrestle,” McDevitt said. “I understand Billy. He doesn’t have credibility.”

On wrestling champion Bob Backlund, who defeated Graham for the title:

“He did not know how to cut himself with a razor blade,” Graham said. “It was so disgusting when I had to cut Bob Backlund’s head.”

Jerry McDevitt, an attorney for the WWE, said that Vince McMahon had helped Graham on many occasions so that he can earn a living when actually he did not deserved to be on the payroll of the WWE.