"The WWE say they are drug testing, but if they are then it's not good enough. Because these guys have to stop dying." - so says Professional Wrestling super star Hulk Hogan as he lashes out at the industry that has made him famous.  "I thank God I'm still alive."

Hulk Hogan spoke of the controversies surrounding steroid use in professional wrestling and specifically the WWE.  Attention has been drawn to this issue by the murder suicide of wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife and small child early last month.

The Hulkster tells the Sun newspaper: "I'm not trying to repent but I am being honest about my failings. I want youngsters to be educated.

The Hulkster added: "I remember up until the early 1990s any wrestler could walk into a doctor and they'd write you a prescription for steroids.

"Then there was a huge trial where WWE boss Vince McMahon was unfairly accused and rightly acquitted of distributing the drugs to his workers.

"This ushered in the era of wrestlers playing 'hide and seek'.

"If they can get away with things then they will. But now I think we're at the 11th hour.

"We can't have hide and seek being played any more.

"The WWE say they are drug testing, but if they are then it's not good enough. Because these guys have to stop dying."

Despite going on TV at the time to deny it, Hogan has since confessed he regularly used steroids between 1975 and 1991.

Hulk Hogan is a legend in the world of professional wrestling.  He left the organization only 12 months ago at the ripe old age of 53.

With more than 100 grapplers dying before the age of 50 in the last decade, he is begging others to face up to the crisis.

"It was part of my daily regimen. Did you take a shower? Yeah. Did you brush your teeth? Yeah. Did you take your steroids? Yeah.

"That was the deal. It was how I lived."

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