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and you told me, "hey,

come here, help me out. "

And you pulled down your pants and you're

like, "you have to inject this in me. "

And I hated it 'cause I was

totally against steroids.

And you were like, "come on,

just do it. You have to do it. "

You gotta help your big brother out,

man. So it was no decision at all.

Everybody else that was

doing well was on 'em.

CHRIS:
Shortly after

getting on the juice

Mad Dog quit college to

pursue an even bigger dream.

COMMENTATOR:

Oh, look at that now!

Here we go!

Mike Bell!

CHRIS:

I couldn't believe it.

That was my big brother

wrestling on T.V.

COMMENTATOR:
Right

hand by Bell. Oh, man!

CHRIS:
Mad Dog wanted

to be a superstar,

But he was what they call

a "jobber. "

That's the guy they pay

to get beat up

to make the other guys look

good. He didn't care, though.

He was gonna get himself a contract

and headline "Wrestlemania. "

COMMENTATOR:
Why did you

even come in the ring?

You should have

gone home, dummy.

CHRIS:
But he never

got the contract

And eventually

the W.W.E. stopped calling.

Why did you think

you didn't make it?

Probably mostly

my own fault.

I went from being a guy

who used steroids

to a guy who used

steroids and pot.

And I still needed

to escape reality

so I started taking ecstasy,

cocaine, acid, painkillers.

COMMENTATOR:
Mike Bell is where

he does not need to be now.

He's in the wrong corner

and he's paying the price.

CHRIS:

Mad Dog always told me

that he'd rather be dead

than average.

And when he thought

his dream was over

he couldn't cope

with the failure.

MIKE:
So I had a

bottle of liquid lead,

a bottle of NyQuil and four

boxes of sleeping pills.

I went down

to the river

down by

the railroad tracks,

parked my car,

took everything.

ROSEMARY:
And he tried

to walk into the-

He tried to walk

into the Hudson river.

CHRIS:
So did you take

all the sleeping pills?

- Everything.

- And the lead additive?

There's no way I should be

alive right now. There's no way.

CHRIS:

It's 10 years later

and despite everything

that happened

Mad Dog is still trying

to get that contract,

Trying to keep

the dream alive.

'Cause I've been

all over the world

from Singapore to Louisville,

and it doesn't matter-

You line 'em up,

I'll knock 'em down.

I can see why

you never made it.

CHRIS:
Mad Dog used to wrestle

in front of a television audience

of 10 million people

every week,

but tonight he's wrestling

at the Portuguese Men's Center

In front of 200 people

for about 50 bucks.

CHRIS:
And instead of

wrestling Bret the Hitman Hart

He's facing Midgeto

And he's getting

his ass kicked.

Come on, man,

come on.

CHRIS:
My baby brother Smelly

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