WWE Suspends 10 Performers Over Drugs

[Ghost in the Machine]

WWE Suspends 10 Performers Over Drugs
Published: 8/31/07, 9:06 AM EDT
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - World Wrestling Entertainment has suspended 10 of its wrestlers for violations of a policy that tests for steroids and other drugs, the company said Thursday.

Stamford-based WWE says it issued suspension notices based on independent information from the prosecutor's office in Albany County, N.Y., which has been investigating illegal steroid sales.

Neither the WWE nor the Albany County district attorney's office would comment on the suspended wrestlers' identities Thursday. No criminal charges were filed, they said.

Under a WWE wellness policy instituted last year that requires tests for steroids and other drugs, a wrestler faces a 30-day suspension without pay for a first violation, a 60-day suspension for a second violation and firing for a third violation. Performers are tested at least four times per year.

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[underpants]

1. What, they wouldn't do more?

Sorry it was sitting there and I had to take a swipe at it

[MadHound]

2. This is from the WWE?

The same entertainment for that scripts its events? The same group that fakes pretty much everything? Damn:wow:

They must be afraid of the 'roid rage taking over and their performers not going by the script because of it.

[Greeby]

3. Actually according to this detailed list at Sports Illustrated

It was more Human Growth Hormone than it is roids. The wrestlers in question were getting prescription drugs from Signature Pharmacy, an illegal drug network that the New York DA has been investigating

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

[flvegan]

4. From that list, it's about 50/50

roids to hgh.

[AX10]

5. And snake oil sales"man" Vince McMahon had nothing to do with this...

NOT! The WWE is not real wrestling, it's a bunch of steroid junkies performing from scripts. Fake as an artificial Christmas Tree.

:nopity:

I wish the WWE would just pack up and close shop!