- Curt Hennig, 44,
died of acute cocaine intoxication in February 2003, medical records
show. But his father said last year that a lethal combination of
steroids and painkillers contributed to his death.
- "The British Bulldog," Davey Boy Smith, 39,died
in 2002 in Canada of an enlarged heart with evidence of microscopic
scar tissue, possibly from steroid abuse, a coroner said. "Davey paid
the price with steroid cocktails and human-growth hormones," says Bruce
Hart, a veteran trainer who worked with Smith and was his
brother-in-law.
- Richard "Ravishing Rick Rude" Rood,
40, died from an overdose of "mixed medications" in Alpharetta, Ga., in
1999, his autopsy shows. In 1994 he testified that he had used anabolic
steroids to build muscle mass and relieve joint pain.
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