Brian Cage Admits To Steroid Use

Brian Cage has admitted to using steroids and performance-enhancing drugs in the past, while he is currently undergoing testosterone replacement therapy (TRT).

Cage stated on the Smooth Vega podcast:

"I'll even just throw in this too because I know people will all say this - I don’t care - I wanna be more open about this. Everybody goes, 'Oh! You just take steroids!' If you just did a one-shot cycle like I call it, like Captain America… guess what? Gyms wouldn’t exist and everyone would be on steroids. Do steroids work? Absolutely. Have I taken PEDs? Absolutely. I’ve never said I haven't. People try to judge me. I feel like that's a thing too. People try to call you out as if you would keep it a secret. (Have) PEDs got me to where I am? Absolutely not, and when people say, oh! I’m so gassed up - even my return. I've only been on TRT forever now. I'm 42 years old. TRT too has been phenomenal, has been a game-changer for so many people as far as - not in the athletic realm - but just in day-to-day practice.

"Why everyone looks better, moves better, feels better, everything, and that's why they lower the classification - I’m just going in right now - on the scheduled drug list. I feel like there’s a very taboo thing with PEDs where it’s ‘cheating,’ and people act like it gives you all this magical abilities, just overnight, without doing anything and I feel like they’re just looked at very wrong, and definitely misrepresented, and then also, people act like they’re so horrible for you, which again, there’s definitely health risks involved.

"I mean, there’s health risks with everything you do and take. But it’s funny how, ‘Oh, if you take a steroid, you’re gonna die. Oh, your heart’s gonna explode at 40’ or this, that, whatever the case… You ask somebody, ‘How many people do you personally know have ever died from any steroid?’ They probably aren’t gonna know anybody. ‘How many people do you know have died from alcohol? From cocaine? From this drug, from that drug, from this, from that? From freaking fast food?’ Copious amount. But again, since that’s ‘normal,’ that’s not looked at as bad as steroids and I feel like because there’s just this taboo and this, ‘You’re not supposed to do it and it’s cheating -’ I don’t know."

Brian Cage is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling and the former TNA World Champion has been a part of the promotion since 2020. Cage is currently featured on TV as part of the Don Callis Family teaming with a combination of other faction members, particularly Jake Doyle.

H/T Fightful