It's hitting the fan in WWE: 10 suspensions

Get ready for your push, Sandman, Tommy Dreamer, Stevie Richards, et al.

 

Oh it gets better, better, oh, so much better.

From Meltzer:

With or without today's suspensions, WWE and Vince McMahon are fucked.

 

TNA has been awfully quiet about all this. They could really promote themselves really hard as a clean alternative ... you know, if they didn't have Kurt Angle and Scott Steiner in prominent positions on the card.

 

The following two grafs in Meltzer's original story stood out:

 

I'm still sitting here thinking ... UMAGA?

Is there some kind of steroid that makes you incredibly, helplessly fat?

 

Umanga is fat? Then what the fuck do you call Viscera?

 

"Shamu"

 

And does Vince back up a Brinks truck in front of the Szatkowski household or comic book store and promise RVD another title push, simply to get another big name back?

Or is the herb enough to keep WWE away from him?

 

If they wanted him around, they would have treated him right in the first place. RVD has a weed issue, he's not one to censor himself in interviews with outside media and he wrestles a non-WWE style. I'm surprised he stuck around as long as he did, but given the insane pop he generated, he should have been a world champion for longer than a month (not counting the current ECW belt as a world title).

 

Because his scenar

Because his script actually makes sense.

 

From The Pro Wrestling Torch Web site....FYI:

Greta Van Susteren interviewed WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt tonight on her "On the Record" program on Fox News Channel.

McDevitt talked about meeting with investigators regarding Signature Pharmacy clients who were contracted WWE performers. McDevitt said they told Albany, N.Y. authorities that if they confimed the information, they would act on it. Once confirming the shipments, Vince McMahon acted on it. Van Susteren asked if the wrestlers would be suspended without pay. McDevitt said that's the case.

McDevitt said there may be two more suspensions tomorrow. He said they have to talk with the talents to confirm information first.

He said that talent has been told the will be publicly identified in the future. "It's a fair notice issue to us," he said, regarding why they aren't revealing names today of those suspended. "We do that in the belief that it will give greater transparency to the program and hopefully operate as a deterent to anybody who wishes to engage in this activity."

McDevitt said this is not just a WWE problem. He said Signature Pharmacy was sending drugs to policemen, firemen, and pro athletes. He said he heard the NFL would be coming out with an announcement in the next few days. He said, "What you're going to find is that the drug of choice, if you will, for any athlete who wants to avoid a drug testing policy is human growth hormone which there is no test for. And it's a problem all leagues have, it's a problem we have, it's a problem anybody has who is engaged in drug testing. There's no scientific method to detect when an athete takes human growth hormone."


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Sounds like more WWE B.S. and backpedaling.

Vince didn't learn his lesson years ago from the steroids trial.

 

Yeah, and with a sunken chest to boot! At least most of the fat guys had huge chests (Visera's notwithstanding).