WWE Suspends 10 players for steroids

[Adam West]

What a surprise...and here I thought all along it was humanly possible to get as muscular as most of them are.

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slu...v=ap&type=lgns

[Earth 2 Chris]

McMahon should suspend himself them. I saw him shirtless on TV last night. That man is now inhumanly huge. But he still has a little neck. He looks like Bane or something.

Chris

[theantiquetiger]

Too bad there is no drug to help enhance their performance (as in acting), they could all use it.

[toys2cool]

yeah no surprise,the only surprise is that's only 10 out of 160.I thought it would've been 10 out of the 160 that did use it.As a trainer i could tell you it's almost impossible to get that big naturally

[BlackKnight]

So,... who's the 10 then ?

[Wee67]

Identities not released. convenient.

[BlackKnight]

I Know about 5 months ago,.. There was something in the news I had heard that Bobby Lashly , Edge, Benoit & a few others were suspected of a different kind of Steriod use,.. however with Edge & Lashly out on injuries,.. I wonder if they were involved.

[mitchedwards]

The story below has some possible suspend wrestlers.

I wonder f this is some work setup by mcmahon just to look honest.

IN the most decisive move of its kind in the history of the wrestling business, the WWE have suspended many of their biggest name wrestlers for breaking drug rules.

The action came after the 10 men - allegedly including former world champions Edge and Randy Orton, ECW champ John Morrison, Brit William Regal and rising star Mr Kennedy - were identified as clients of Signature Pharmacy in Orlando.

That company was busted by cops in February for the distribution of steroids and other prescription drugs to clients who had not been examined by a doctor.

It has now been established that their 'patient' list included the 10 grapplers.

Former stars Chris Benoit, Brian 'Crush' Adams' and Eddie Guerrero were also clients - all are now dead.

Chris murdered his wife and seven-year-old son in June before committing suicide with experts blaming decades of steroid and painkiller use for his mental decline. Eddie died from heart failure, also linked to years to abuse.

Vince McMahon's company released an official statement saying: "Based on independent information received from investigators from the Albany County, NY D.A.'s office, WWE has today, under the penalty provisions of its Wellness Policy, issued suspension notices to 10 of its performers for violations.

"It has been WWE's practice not to release the names of those who have been suspended, but notice has been sent to all WWE performers that names of anyone who is suspended under the Wellness Policy as of November 1 will be made public."

Despite the company's unwillingness to reveal names at this point they have been leaked.

Sports Illustrated, who helped police with original bust, list the 10 as Mr Kennedy, Chavo Guerrero, Gregory Helms, Randy Orton, John Morrison, Shoichi Funaki, Charlie Haas, Umaga, William Regal and Edge.

These stars all received drugs from Signature Pharmacy ordered on the Internet after the WWE brought in their Wellness Policy in February 2006, which constitutes an automatic failure.

Batista, King Booker, Santino Marella and Chris Masters have also been named by the US press as using the company. Their orders were probably placed before February 2006 though, so they will not be suspended.

Simon Dean and Sylvan Grenier, both recently let go, were also said to be clients.

That means almost TWENTY current and recent WWE superstars have used the firm to purchase steroids and other drugs without seeing a doctor.

WWE lawyer Jerry McDevitt said that two more suspensions are in the pipeline once the WWE have confirmed information from prosecutors.

He added that all suspensions are without pay and will last for either 30 or 60 days, depending on whether it is the wrestler’s first or second offence.


CLAIMED HE WAS CLEAN ... Kennedy

Ironically many of those banned have recently gone on the record to claim both they and the wrestling business were clean of steroids.

Just last week, when we questioned him over the large number of drug-related deaths in the industry, Kennedy told The Sun: "I'd say we did have problems, because I honestly don't think we have those problems any more.

"And if you look at the list of guys that have passed away, they are all from that era where there was a rock star type of party atmosphere in the business."

Kennedy then claimed he had taken steroids but stopped when the WWE instituted their Wellness Policy and testing programme.

He added: "I stopped taking them and I had the biggest push of my life.

"I didn't take any steroids and that's the thing, nowadays, in our business, you don't have to take that stuff in order to get a push."

According to Sports Illustrated between October 2006 and February 2007, Kennedy actually received the steroid testosterone, growth hormone somatropin and anastrozole, which is used to counter the physical side-effects of steroid use.

The suspension of the wrestlers is the biggest move yet to stamp out steroid abuse in the industry.

But top US wrestling writer Dave Meltzer took a sceptical tone over the WWE's actions, noting: "Congress will be holding hearings about performance enhancing drug usage in pro wrestling at the end of the month.

"That likely at least partially explains the rash of suspensions, because the government likely had knowledge of who was on the list and if WWE didn't discipline those people, they'd get raked over the coals publicly for it."

In a story with the headline 'WWE wrestlers are so screwed this time', he added: "Based on the Sports Illustrated dates, the entire Policy's credibility is shot in the sense there were detectable drugs purchased by talent through Internet doctors, a practice banned."

[kresge1]

You know the all take steroids.Are you kidding me.Mcmahon is trying to deflect the attention off of himself

[Hulk]

here's the list, some pretty big (currently speaking) names, and some dead or not on the roster

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/08/30/wrestlers/index.html

Eddie Guerrero (Dead)
Chavo Guerrero (who received them even after his Uncle's death)
Shane Helms
Randy Orton
John Hennigan, a/k/a Johnny Nitro, a.k.a. Johnny Morrison (current ECW Champion)
Ken Anderson, a/k/a Mr. Kennedy
Shoichi Funaki
Brian Adams, a/k/a Crush (Died August 13th, 2007, was not active in WWE for years, but was receiving them until late last year)
Charles Haas
Edward Fatu a/k/a Umaga (Current Intercontinental Champion)
Darren Matthews a/k/a Steven Regal, a/k/a William Regal (current Raw "General Manager")
Adam Copeland, a/k/a Edge (recent WWE champion)
Sylvain Grenier

[The Toyroom]

Yeah...I'm soooo glad I don't watch WWE anymore. At some point it changed (beginning with the famous roster split into Raw and Smackdown brands) and I was no longer interested in it, after having watched it regularly,fanatically and religiously for
about 25+ years. Hearing stuff like this always makes me sad...it's not the WWF I grew up with. Or maybe it is and I'm the one that grew out of it?

[Evel KMego]

The number of WWE wrestlers taking steroids is obviously much larger, these are just the ones that got caught in this investigation. Mcmahon had to do something to avoid legal troubles. If this gets bigger, you'll have Monday Night Diva wrestling!

[MegoSteve]

What's odd to me is that, supposedly, Signature Pharmacy sold to a number of professional athletes in baseball and football. Why'd they go after the pro wrestlers first?

I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop and baseball and football players to be named. Then we'll see some action.

[batmanmc]

its too bad these guys must take teh steriods to get size when youw restler and hour a day and travel 5 or so sleep 8 you have time to go to a gym everyday and do it the right way. mike

[Customslab]

i would say pretty much 50% of people who make their living at sports .....use