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Do WWE really test their performers for PEDs. Beside synthetic pot, there have not been a wellness violation for 2-3 years. No failed tests = there are no testing?
I will answer your question with a question: If a man and a woman don’t use birth control and yet don’t have a baby for three years, does that mean that they aren’t having sex?
WWE wellness policy is IMHO a joke. We have "non-wrestlers" contract where there are no testing (like HHH, Vince McMahon). Who knows about part timers like The Rock? Since 2012 there have magically only been one wellness failure in WWE: Ricardo Rodriguez. It’s just like WWE stopped testing. Since PWinsider loves to defend WWE wellness policy and actually believe that for example NAME DELETED is 100% clean. Explain how Randy Orton can fail many times and not get fired and how no one fails any tests any more? Since PWinsider loves to defend WWE wellness policy and actually believe that for example NAME DELETED is 100% clean. Explain how Randy Orton can fail many times and not get fired and how no one fails any tests any more?
We don’t defend anything. Obviously, you have an axe to grind here but I will still answer your questions. Before I do, you need to remember that WWE put the policy in place voluntarily. As a US corporation, if they are lying in their public filings, which the Wellness Policy falls under, they fact action from the SEC. So you can make all of the accusations that you want, but they are just that, accusations.
1. A lot of people that have been helped by the policy would argue against you saying it’s a joke.
2. Yes, we do have non-wrestler contracts, as you mentioned.
3. Just because no one has failed doesn’t mean that they aren’t testing (in fact they are). There are two reasons that people could be passing. They could be clean, for one. Or, they could be using things to mask the tests. To blatantly accuse someone of being on PEDs, as you did, is irresponsible and it’s not something I will ever allow here on the site. There is no integrity in doing something like that. How would you like to be accused of something with nothing but someone’s hunch to back it up?
Orton did the program to remove one of his suspensions.
The bottom line is you have to be fair. You aren’t. You are making assumptions with no knowledge of fact. That doesn’t mean the program is perfect or guys aren’t beating the test, but our job is report fact, not innuendo.
I have to say Vince has a problem with changing with the times he did it back when Nitro took off. What's keeping him from doing it now? Do you think he's afraid to let Triple H take over for good since he's done an awesome job on NXT or is it just PRIDE?
Vince has his vision for what the business should be and to him, that is the most important thing. We have seen him walk away from things over the last decade plus that I think would have brought a lot of money into WWE because it was more important to him to present his vision of what Wrestling is. In fact, had Nitro not come along and forced him to change, I don’t think we would have ever gotten the Attitude Era. So thank you Eric Bischoff for you contribution. That isn’t to say that WWE should change everything, because that would be crazy. But there is no reason they shouldn’t do some fine tuning of the creative process. Every company should always be looking to improve.
Did the TNA announcing of Taz and Josh Matthews seem fairly listless to you? There really seemed to be little enthusiasm from them and I know they're both capable of better. I'm not asking for Don West clones, but Josh and whoever his new partner is really need to step it up.
Honestly, I can understand why they were that way. It’s just not the same calling matches in a studio. Live, at ringside, is the only way that bouts should be called in my opinion.
I think that the Hall of Fame should be reserved for those who have retired from the business, but a guy like the Rock continued to wrestle in a part time role following his induction. What do you think of inducting veterans who still wrestle part time, such as HHH, Jericho, RVD, etc? I would have no problem with this, as it would make their sparse wrestling appearances mean more, as well as give the guy who beats them the rub of beating a Hall of Famer.
I don’t have a problem with that. To me, it’s a worked Hall in a worked business. There are no hard and fast rules to follow.
Note from yesterday, a few readers sent word that the Taz-Mike Awesome match is available on ECW Unleashed Volume 1.
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